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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 ...

Steve Jobs conceived of "statement HQ" for Apple in 1983

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 14th, 2011)

The mothership campus Steve Jobs envisions for Cupertino is not the first statement headquarters he has pursued. Back in 1983, Jobs eyed Coyote Valley, San Jose for a world-class campus. Former San Jose mayor Tom McEnery tells the story of a meeting he had with a young Steve Jobs. Jobs saw the ...

Lawsuit pending over iPhone 3G's iOS 4 performance issues

by Chris Rawson (Nov 3rd, 2010)

By now it's no secret that the iPhone 3G's performance suffered tremendously following the iOS 4 update. Soon after widespread reports of stuttering, freezing, and crashing, Apple said it would "look into" the problem. A month went by with no relief for iPhone 3G performance issues, but Steve Jobs ...

Steve and the Governator mark transplant bill signing

by Michael Rose (Oct 6th, 2010)

In a ceremony commemorating California's SB 1395, the world's most well-known liver transplant recipient and the world's only former killer future robot turned politician posed for photos. Jobs and Schwarzenegger were at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford, CA to mark the signing ...

Apple's Shanghai shirt: "Made for China"

by Mike Schramm (Jul 9th, 2010)

We've heard great things already about the brand new Apple Store in Shanghai, but this one's interesting: on the back of employees' t-shirts there (which are red, apparently, rather than the usual black found in North America), Apple has printed "Designed in California, Made for China" in ...

Police launch probe into lost iPhone sale

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2010)

It sure seemed like this whole "lost iPhone" saga might be over, but maybe things are just getting interesting: CNET is reporting that Silicon Valley police have launched a probe into the sale of the prototype iPhone left at a bar in Redwood City to Gizmodo.com. Apple has reportedly spoken to police ...

SnapTax allows you to do your taxes on your iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2010)

It's a new year, which means that in a few months, taxes will come due yet again. So why not get a head start on them with your iPhone -- there is, it turns out, an app for that. TurboTax has an app coming out called SnapTax that promises to make taxes easy. All you do is take a picture of your W2 ...

Dear Barrister TUAW: Psystar, matters of fact, and appellate cases

by Lauren Hirsch (Nov 15th, 2009)

Dear Auntie Barrister TUAW, I've been following your coverage of the Psystar case and I'm a little confused by the discussion on your last post. I've always thought the original case to be one of fact and an appellate case one of law. This, to me, would mean that in the appellate process they ...

This just in: California 'cool car' law may hose your iPhone reception

by Steven Sande (Oct 13th, 2009)

Whenever I visit California, I'm always amazed with the number of state laws that have been enacted for one reason or another. For example, you're warned about alcohol's effect on pregnant women (duh!) when you go into bars and restaurants, and many buildings have mandated warning signs outside ...