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Daily Update for March 7, 2013

by Steven Sande (Mar 7th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple Store boosts revenues for entire shopping district

by Steven Sande (Mar 7th, 2013)

There's an old saying that "A rising tide lifts all boats," but nowhere has the truth of that saying been demonstrated more than in Berkeley, Calif., where the opening of the Fourth Street Apple Store in 2011 quadrupled sales tax revenues for the district in which the store is located. That ...

Apple's storefront design symmetry

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 31st, 2011)

Apple is known for its attention to detail, even in the smallest of things, and here's another example. ifoapplestore points to Apple's newly constructed 4th Street Store in Berkeley, California which is constructed to be symmetrical and aligned. The 76 centimeter stone tiles within the store ...

Ouch! Accident at Berkeley Apple Store construction site closes two businesses

by Chris Ward (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Two walls have partially collapsed at the construction site for Apple's new Berkeley store, forcing two neighboring businesses to temporarily close. There was "A very large bang" at about 9:50 AM on the morning of February 22, according to George Kiskaddon, a partner at the book store Builders ...

$1.7M Apple Store coming to Berkeley; residents sing with joy

by Steven Sande (Dec 8th, 2010)

The People's Republic of Berkeley is getting a new Apple Store. ifoAppleStore has all of the details and images of the 15 pound pack of Apple Store blueprints that were recently dropped off at the Berkeley, CA city planning department. The building permit application was filed on November 15th, and ...

UC Berkeley on iTunes

by Scott McNulty (Apr 24th, 2006)

Apple unleashed iTunes U to an unsuspecting world a few months ago with some success. You can now add UC Berkeley to the list of institutions that are using iTunes to deliver course podcasts to their students (and anyone else that visits itunes.berkeley.edu). Thanks, Ben. ...

Woz interviewed in Berkeley's Forefront magazine

by Fabienne Serriere (Jan 11th, 2006)

David Pescowitz, columnist and Boing Boing coeditor, conducted a great interview of Steve Wozniak in the Fall 2005 issue of Berkeley School of Engineering's Forefront magazine. The interview includes some nifty nuggets of Wozness including why Woz's Berkeley Engineering diploma is made out to Rocky ...