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Huge crowds greet Berlin Apple Store

by Steven Sande (May 6th, 2013)

Judging from the huge crowds that attended the opening of the new Apple Store Kurfürstendamm in Berlin on Friday, the German capital was starving for an Apple Store of its own. The Berlin store is the 11th Apple Store in Germany, but the first in Berlin. The video below shows the controlled ...

Daily Update for May 6, 2013

by Steven Sande (May 6th, 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 (requires ...

Apple places product displays outside future Berlin Apple Store

by Matt Tinsley (May 1st, 2013)

German site Apfelpage reports that Apple has installed new display cabinets outside of its new, yet-to-be-opened Berlin store. The displays currently promote the iPhone 5, with mock, over-sized iPhones not uncommon to other Apple retail stores. It's understood that the move will attract customers ...

Berlin Apple Store opens May 3

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2013)

Residents of Germany's capital city, Berlin, will have their very own Apple Store to visit starting next Friday. On May 3, 2013, the Apple Store Kurfürstendamm Berlin will open at 5 PM local time. If past is prelude, early arrivals at the opening can expect clapping and cheering employees, ...

Daily Update for April 17, 2013

by Steven Sande (Apr 17th, 2013)

Scaffolding comes down from first Berlin Apple store

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2013)

Next month, Apple will open its first store in Berlin, and in a sign that the completion of the store is progressing as scheduled, today the exterior construction scaffolding has started to come down. AppleInsider got its hands on some of the pictures of the store sans scaffolding and from the ...

Daily iPhone App: Jool turns the world of endless runners upside down

by Mike Schramm (Mar 6th, 2013)

Jool (stylized as JOOL on the App Store) is one of the most inventive games I've seen in a long while. It's an endless running game, which in itself is not inventive. And unfortunately, the game isn't all that intriguing -- you basically just run as a character horizontally along the screen, ...

What can you say to Siri in iOS 6: the international edition

by Erica Sadun (Sep 16th, 2012)

Last year, Steve Sande and I put together a "What can you say to Siri" post that proved to be hugely popular. We'd been working on "Talking to Siri: Learning the Language of Apple's Intelligent Assistant", which we initially self-pubbed as an e-book, and then later moved to QUE publishing. This ...

Ski helmet charges iPods, iPhone and other mobile devices

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 6th, 2012)

A team of German researchers is working on technology that could let you ski all day without worrying about your smartphone battery, says a report in GlobalPost. Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, TEXSYS and the Technical University in Berlin have created a solar helmet that ...

Job listing points to future Berlin Apple Store

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 22nd, 2011)

Last January we heard that Apple intents to build a new Apple Store in the Kurfürstendamm section of Berlin, several job listings have appeared on Apple's German jobs site. As noted by ifoAppleStore, the listings don't outright confirm the future Berlin location, but construction at an ...

Time Out offering free iPhone city travel guides until May 2

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 28th, 2011)

Time Out is offering a selection of its popular city guides for iPhone for free until May 2. Cities the guides cover include Melborne, London, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Sydney and Zagreb. Each guide allows you to navigate a city's tourist spots, nightlife and restaurants easily. ...

Apple's new Berlin store will open in upscale Kurfürstendamm

by Mike Schramm (Jan 15th, 2011)

Two different German Mac news sites report that Apple's latest store in Berlin will be placed in the Kurfürstendamm section of the city, an upscale shopping avenue that houses big fashion store name hotels and nice restaurants. That sounds about right for an Apple store. Both iFun and Macerkopf ...

Driverless taxi gets called with an iPad

by Mike Schramm (Oct 18th, 2010)

This is just wild! A group of researchers in Berlin have been working on "autonomous cars" for a while. Those, of course, are cars that drive themselves, and as you can see above, this one uses a variety of equipment to monitor the road and environment. It then drives by itself according to all of ...

Lonely Planet giving away free iPhone guides in honor of Eyjafjallajökull messing with Europe

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 19th, 2010)

Did Eyjafjallajökull mess your week up? The answer is probably "no" if you're asking who Eyjafjallajökull is. For those of us who did have our week interrupted by that big exploding volcano in Iceland, Lonely Planet is offering thirteen of its City Guides for free in the App Store (and ...

mycitymate: European City Notes for iPod

by Fabienne Serriere (Jan 23rd, 2006)

Here's a neat little tidbit for you iPod users out there who may be travelling to Europe in the near future. On mycitymate.com you can download a guide for select destinations including Berlin, London, Rome, and more. I downloaded and copied the Berlin guide (free with registration) to my iPod nano. ...