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Apple to re-locate flagship store in San Francisco

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2013)

Attendees of Macworld/iWorld and WWDC have always known that if they needed an Apple fix during their conference stay, they could walk over to the Apple Store at the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets. The SFGate blog is reporting that the company has submitted plans to open a new flagship store ...

San Francisco Apple Store to be expanded

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 1st, 2013)

Apple is planning to expand its retail store in San Francisco's Stonestown Galleria, says a report in ifoAppleStore. The Stonestown store is one of Apple's smallest retail stores with a storefront that measures 25 feet wide and a footprint that offers a measly 1,500 square feet of retail space ...

Daily Update for February 26, 2013

by Steven Sande (Feb 26th, 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 ...

Outbox seeks to bring postal mail to your iPad, iPhone and desktop

by Steven Sande (Feb 26th, 2013)

Starting today, people living in San Francisco have an opportunity to never handle another piece of "real" mail again. Outbox is an Austin, Texas-based company that has figured out a way to digitize all of that snail mail and present it to you in a virtual mailbox on your computer, iPad, or ...

eBay Now for iOS offers same-day product delivery in San Francisco

by Steven Sande (Aug 6th, 2012)

Just when you thought eBay was slowly fading away into obscurity as the online equivalent of a garage sale, the company has rolled out something new called eBay Now. eBay provides users in a beta program (signup form here) with an iOS app with which they can browse and purchase merchandise from ...

Daily Update for July 10, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jul 10th, 2012)

City of San Francisco stops buying Macs without EPEAT certification

by Steven Sande (Jul 10th, 2012)

Yesterday TUAW reported on Apple's withdrawal from the EPEAT green electronics registry, along with a note that federal, state, and local governments might balk at buying Macs as a result. The City of San Francisco, CA has announced that letters will be sent to all 50 city agencies over the next ...

IndieDevLab offers community space near Moscone if you didn't get a WWDC ticket

by Erica Sadun (Apr 26th, 2012)

WWDC sold out pretty quickly yesterday. So what do you do if you want to be part of the dev scene that week? IndieDevLab to the rescue. Monster Costume devs Kyle Kinkade and Nate True and JailbreakCon's Craig Fox quickly started organizing a way for iOS and OS X developers to gather together ...

Settlement may have been reached in missing iPhone 4S case

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 8th, 2012)

Remember that missing iPhone 4S that was allegedly lost at the Cava 22 lounge and tracked to a residence in San Francisco? The home was possibly searched illegally by Apple security and the home's owner, Sergio Calderon, threatened to sue. It appears the whole debacle may have been settled ...

Apple announces March 7 iPad 3 event

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 28th, 2012)

Apple sent out invites today for an event that'll take place at 10:00 am on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The event flyer shows a buttonless (or landscape) iPad and promises there will be something we really have to see and touch. We expect Apple ...

Macworld | iWorld attendance steady in 2012; many newbies in the crowd

by Steven Sande (Jan 31st, 2012)

Attendance at this year's Macworld | iWorld event was approximately the same as last year's Macworld Expo -- about 25,000 people -- according to IDG World Expo, the group that organizes the "ultimate fan event." A wrap-up news release from IDG World Expo noted that about 40 percent of the ...

Macworld transitions to Macworld|iWorld as conference begins next week

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2012)

Paul Kent, general manager of Macworld Expo, says that next week's renamed Macworld|iWorld show will be "the most interesting and certainly the most unique show that we've ever produced." The event begins next Thursday at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, and according to what Kent ...

Apple security chief John Theriault reportedly retiring

by Steven Sande (Nov 7th, 2011)

Apple's vice president of global security, John Theriault, has left the company. In the wake of the investigation into the whereabouts of a lost iPhone 4S prototype earlier this year in which Apple's security personnel allegedly impersonated San Francisco police officers, many believe that ...

Apple ship-to-store begins in San Francisco

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 26th, 2011)

One nice part about shopping online at Best Buy is the retailer's in-store pickup option. There's no searching the shelves for your item or waiting in a long checkout line. You order what you want online and stroll into the store a few hours later to pick it up. According to a report from ...

San Fran PD looking for security footage at lost iPhone bar

by Mike Schramm (Sep 26th, 2011)

CNET is reporting that the San Francisco Police Department is poking around local bar Cava 22, the same establishment where a prototype iPhone was supposed to have been lost a little while ago. The owner of the bar says that the SFPD came by asking for surveillance videotape of July 21 and 22 ...