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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 ...

Apple hiring new product security managers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 6th, 2011)

Last week, a CNET report kicked off the wild tale of a lost iPhone 5. This baffling story tracked the phone from a bar to an apartment in San Francisco. It even included a controversial search conducted by Apple security employees with the San Francisco police department. Though this is an ...

Apple loses another prototype iPhone - maybe not (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Aug 31st, 2011)

Update 2: SF Weekly kept digging, all the way to the man who claims "investigators" stormed his house and searched his stuff. SF Weekly obtained a phone number, one for a man who appeared on LinkedIn (before the page was pulled) as an Apple "senior investigator." When SF Weekly called the man, ...

Car-service app Uber heads for NYC market

by Mike Schramm (May 5th, 2011)

Uber is a service that connects an iOS app to a car booking network, so essentially you can use your iPhone to signal that you need a car, and then one shows up, complete with a driver ready to take you to your destination. We've seen taxis do this with Taxi Magic, but Uber is designed to not ...

Apple Store thieves descend from roof in San Francisco

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2011)

ifoAppleStore.com is reporting that thieves broke into the Chestnut Street Apple Store in San Francisco last night, apparently entering the store through the roof straight into the inventory area in back of the store, and making off with an undisclosed amount of Apple devices. Unfortunately, I ...

March 2 Apple event confirmed, revised iPad anticipated

by Michael Rose (Feb 23rd, 2011)

The word has gone forth -- invitations to Apple's upcoming product briefing, first reported by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, have begun to arrive in the mailboxes of Mac-centric press and pundits. All signs point to the introduction of the iPad 2 at the 10 AM (Pacific) event. Stay with TUAW ...

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 ...

Steve Jobs to meet with President Obama today

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 17th, 2011)

According to ABC News, President Obama's West Coast field trip is going to kick off in San Francisco with dinner. Not just any dinner, mind you. This happens to be dinner with the outgoing CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg (who built some sort of newfangled website) and our own Uncle ...