AppleInsider Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

US Pentagon grants security clearance to iPad, iPhone

by Steven Sande (May 17th, 2013)

Earlier this month TUAW reported that iOS 6 had obtained FIPS 140-2 certification, "opening the door to more government use." It didn't take long for that door to swing wide open, as the Pentagon has now officially approved iPhones and iPads running a version of iOS 6 for use on secure government ...

Apple publishes development job postings in Florida

by Steven Sande (Apr 16th, 2013)

Apple is beginning to recruit engineers in the Orlando, Fla., area for the designing, building and testing of custom chips, according to a post today on AppleInsider. The job postings included seven positions focused on development and testing of processor hardware, as well as others for ...

Construction begins on Reno iCloud facility

by Steven Sande (Mar 27th, 2013)

Apple's iCloud service is expanding rapidly, and the company is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure to support it. Recent stories have pointed to the massive photovoltaic array powering the Maiden, NC, data center, and last October Apple broke ground for a data center near ...

AT&T hints at best-ever iPhone sales in holiday 2012 quarter

by Steven Sande (Jan 8th, 2013)

Today AT&T announced that it sold 10 million smartphones during the fourth quarter of 2012, beating the 2011 record of 9.4 million units. Based on knowledge of what percentage of those sales numbers have been iPhones in previous quarters, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is forecasting that ...

New OS X 10.9 appears in server logs

by Mike Schramm (Nov 6th, 2012)

You should take this with the requisite grain of salt, because it's not all that groundbreaking. AppleInsider notes that several references to Apple computers running OS X 10.9 have appeared on its server logs, suggesting that someone visited the site while using an unreleased version of ...

A purported close-up image of Apple's upcoming "spaceship" campus

by Steven Sande (Sep 7th, 2012)

Apple is reportedly scheduled to start construction of the new "spaceship" campus in Cupertino, Calif., later this year, and now AppleInsider has received a leaked architectural rendering purportedly detailing the curved glass and facade of the new structure. The structure was the focus of a ...

Watch out, Apple -- that Samsung in your mirror may be closer than you think

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2012)

The iPhone 4S is currently the king of the hill when it comes to smartphone sales in the U.S., but Samsung is coming on strong as the second place manufacturer for U.S. mobile carriers according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. AppleInsider posted the analyst's report that ...

Next-gen iPads squeezing air freight shipments from China

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2012)

Rumors have been going around for the past two weeks noting that the next generation iPads are on their way to the U.S. from Chinese plants under strict security. Now Mac Rumors is reporting that shipping representatives for other firms are finding that they can't ship their products, as air ...

Wait times for build-to-order iMacs improves

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 9th, 2011)

AppleInsider, who first reported last week that the wait time for build-to-order iMacs with 2 TB hard drives had leaped to 5 to 7 weeks, came back today with another report saying those times have dropped to 2 to 4 weeks. If you're looking to gift someone with a 2 TB iMac, you probably want to ...

iMac CTO shipping times slip due to shortage of 2 TB hard drives

by Steven Sande (Dec 2nd, 2011)

Hoping for a configure-to-order iMac with a 2 TB hard drive underneath the Christmas tree this year? AppleInsider is reporting that shipping times for iMacs with the 2 TB hard drives have jumped from 1 to 3 days up to a whopping 5 to 7 weeks. While ordering an iMac with a 1 TB drive or an SSD ...

Apple may freeze new Mac releases until Lion ships

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 16th, 2011)

Apple is rumored to be halting any new Mac releases until Lion ships in July, according to a report heard by AppleInsider. Sources for that site say that Apple management is so excited about the improvements and user experience Lion offers, they don't want to ship any new Macs until Lion is ...

Apple re-working iPad 2 inventory shipments strategy

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2011)

Apple is apparently trying to slow down the iPad 2 madness. A new report from AppleInsider claims that the company has instituted a new policy with iPad 2 shipments, requiring stores to keep received iPad 2 units in store for up to a day before actually releasing them for sale. That actually ...

New Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool a part of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

by Steven Sande (Mar 16th, 2011)

When Mac OS X 10.7 Lion leaps onto our Macs later this year, Apple's support specialists will have a new tool to use to troubleshoot those pesky Wi-Fi problems. AppleInsider reports that a new Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool can be found in Lion's /System/Library/CoreServices folder, along with a number ...

Rumor: Apple talking with CDMA carriers in India

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 13th, 2010)

Adding to the already bloated CDMA iPhone rumor mill, The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Apple is in talks with Reliance Communications Ltd and Tata Teliservices Ltd to bring the much-talked-about CDMA equipped iPhone to India. Apparently, talks with Tata Teleservices Ltd have been going ...

Apple patent application reveals tiny audio jacks

by Dave Caolo (Sep 23rd, 2010)

Apple's developers have been shrinking the iPod with nearly every update, yet they aren't done. This week, AppleInsider has discovered a patent application that reveals even smaller audio jacks that could be used in future, tinier iPods. To understand how, we must discuss pogo pins and cantilever ...