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Apple building third campus in Santa Clara

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2012)

Apple is expanding by leaps and bounds and is outgrowing its current Cupertino campus. To handle the overflow, Apple is beginning construction on a new two-building campus in Santa Clara, California. According to a report in the Mercury News, the new six-story office buildings will be located ...

Daily Update for October 4, 2012

by Steven Sande (Oct 4th, 2012)

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 ...

Original Mac factory fails to become a historic site

by Dave Caolo (Oct 4th, 2012)

The city of Freemont, Calif., has been trying to get the factory that assembled the first Macs recognized as a national historic site. Unfortunately, the effort has failed. The reason? It's too young. According to Mercury News, the city council noted that, at just 30 years old, the factory is ...

Apple, Samsung bickering over where to sit in court

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 27th, 2012)

The bickering between Samsung and Apple just won't stop. The latest report from AllThingsD suggests Samsung is even arguing over where it will sit and what the two companies will be called during the trial. Striving to get every advantage it can, Samsung is asking the court to call both ...

Third Street Promenade 2 Apple Store taking shape in California

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 22nd, 2012)

Apple is building several new stores in the US, and one upcoming retail location that is starting to come together is the Third Street Promenade store in Santa Monica, California. According to ifoAppleStore, this is the second retail location on that street. It is located about 1,000 feet down ...

Apple Store rendering shows another glass box in California

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Anyone who has visited the Stanford Shopping Center cant miss the black sheeting that covers Apple's upcoming retail store, says a Palo Alto Online report. The new store will occupy two vacant storefronts and eventually will replace a mini-store that's located nearby. Residents can see the ...

Company sues Apple, others over claim of patent on 3G

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2012)

This is one of the weirder claims in the already strange area of patent claims going on around cellphone technology lately. A company based in New Jersey named Golden Bridge Technologies has come forward saying that it owns patents on some technologies that were eventually used to create the 3G ...

Judge throws out Proview lawsuit against Apple in California

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 9th, 2012)

A California judge threw out Proview's iPad trademark lawsuit against Apple in the US, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. This dismissal is inconsequential to the trademark case which is making its way through the Chinese court system. Apple asked for and was granted the ...

Apple Store in Pasadena reopening this weekend

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2012)

I just got notice from Apple that the store in the Old Pasadena retail district is re-opening this weekend, after an almost yearlong expansion project. The company even opened a temporary store a little bit down the street from the location, as it worked to expand the main store, adding a second ...

Future Texas Apple Store to feature a glass roof

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 6th, 2011)

Apple likes glass. Its iPhone 4/4S is encased in glass, its proposed office building will be largely faced with glass and its retail stores are increasingly constructed with glass. The latest example is the future Highland Village Retail Store in Houston, Texas. Texas resident Tracy Evans ...

Apple expands in-store pickup to all of California

by Steven Sande (Nov 3rd, 2011)

Apple appears to be expanding the retail pickup option that began in three San Francisco Apple Stores. With the program, orders made in the online Apple Store can be picked up in a retail store by customers, making it easy to purchase a configure-to-order (CTO) device and still get the ...

Expanded California Apple Store to open Saturday

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 20th, 2011)

Apple is poised to expand its presence in California by re-opening the Victoria Gardens Store in Rancho Cucamonga this weekend. The Victoria Gardens store originally opened in October 2004 and was impressive for its time. It had 3,000 square feet of retail space and was packed full of G5 ...

October 16th is "Steve Jobs Day" in California, private memorial planned

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 15th, 2011)

California Governor Jerry Brown tweeted Friday night that tomorrow, Sunday October 16th, will be "Steve Jobs Day" in the state. The honor comes just eleven days after the Apple co-founder died due to complications from pancreatic cancer. October 16 is also the date when Apple will hold an ...

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 ...

Second Glendale, California Apple Store to open Saturday

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 27th, 2011)

The second Apple store in Glendale, California will open at 10AM this Saturday -- and it's only 600 feet away from the entrance of the first Glendale store. That makes the two Glendale store the closes Apple stores in the chain, according to ifoAppleStore. Apple's first Glendale store was the ...