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Daily Update for December 5, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 5th, 2011)

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 ...

Apple reportedly considering Prineville, Oregon for data center

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 5th, 2011)

Apple may follow in the footsteps of Facebook and build a 31-megawatt data center in Prineville, Oregon. The Cupertino company is considering the 160-acre property because of Oregon's low energy cost. The state also has a favorable tax break that could save Apple millions in property ...

Apple to build a solar farm next to North Carolina data center

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 26th, 2011)

Apple is reportedly building a solar farm to provide energy for its North Carolina data center. An erosion permit granted by Catawba County, North Carolina gives Apple permission to transform 171 acres of vacant land across from the data center into a solar farm. The area will be resloped and ...

Northlake, North Carolina Apple Store to open this month

by Mike Schramm (Aug 8th, 2011)

According to a writer at a local Charlotte, North Carolina blog, a source inside the upcoming Apple Store in the Northlake area says it could open as soon as August 25 or 26. This store won't be far from Apple's big North Carolina data center. Last May, we heard that it was moving from a ...

Apple's North Carolina data center now visible on Google Earth

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 1st, 2011)

Apple's humongous data center in North Carolina is now visible on Google Earth and Google Maps satellite view. You can see the entire building and two roads leading in and out of the compound. Oddly, there is no space for on-site employee parking, at least not yet. An eagle-eyed reader picked ...

Apple setting up another data center in Silicon Valley

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2011)

We haven't even officially been told what's up with the data center in North Carolina, but apparently Apple wants more -- the company is also setting up another new data center much closer to home in Silicon Valley. The 11,000 square-foot setup is smaller than the big complex in North Carolina, ...

Apple has the "least green" data centers

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 21st, 2011)

Apple has come in last place among a list of tech companies in the latest Greenpeace tech report How Dirty is Your Data? [PDF]. While Apple has made some pretty big strides over the last few years in trying to eliminate environmentally unfriendly chemicals from its products, Apple placed last in ...

Apple hires Microsoft Data Center manager

by Mike Schramm (Apr 14th, 2011)

You can add even more kindling to the rumor fire burning around Apple's new data center in North Carolina. AllThingsD reports that the company picked up Kevin Timmons as a new employee; he's been working as Microsoft's Manager of Data Center services since 2009. Microsoft confirmed that he left ...

Don't hold your breath for an Apple video streaming service

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 12th, 2011)

Flickr image by tpholland I'm pretty convinced every time an analyst opens his or her mouth about Apple and we post it, a kitten is eaten by a bear somewhere*. This week's "Wacky Analyst Random Rumormongering" comes from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek who claims that Apple is about to launch ...

Will 10.7 add a "safe deposit box" to your Mac?

by Josh Helfferich (Feb 21st, 2011)

It seems as though Apple is hard at work on new features for OS X 10.7 Lion this summer, and the latest possible addition to the OS is something that would solve a huge problem plaguing the tech world today -- insecurity with remote file storage. According to this find by Patently Apple, we may see ...

Answered questions about Apple's North Carolina data center

by Dave Caolo (Dec 17th, 2010)

Much conjecture has come of the Death Star that Apple is building in North Carolina. Some suspect it will power a future streaming version of iTunes or a major update to MobileMe. The folks at Data Center Knowledge have combined the rumors with their own knowledge about these things into a single, ...

Apple's Director of Global Data Center Operations passes away at 41

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 30th, 2010)

We regret to report that Olivier Sanche, Apple's Director of Global Data Center Operations, passed away on Thanksgiving from a heart attack at the young age of 41. As DataCenterKnowledge notes, Sanche was "a thought leader in data center energy efficiency, and used his expertise to streamline ...

iOS 4.3 could come in December, add subscriptions

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 24th, 2010)

It's only been a few days since iOS 4.2 landed on our iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, and already, speculation has begun that version 4.3 could arrive within just a few weeks. The only major new feature that is expected to debut is app subscriptions, which would allow recurring charges. This ...

Apple may double the size of its North Carolina data center

by Chris Rawson (Oct 25th, 2010)

We still don't know what it's for, and it hasn't even officially opened yet, but multiple sources are claiming that Apple is already planning on doubling the size of its North Carolina data center. A local realtor informed Data Center Knowledge that "site work is being performed," which seems to ...

Location of Apple's North Carolina facility revealed

by Dave Caolo (Jul 7th, 2009)

We've been following this story for a while. Apple is planning to open a massive data center in North Carolina (NC). Recently, NC offered a nice tax incentive and that sealed the deal. This week, the AP is reporting that Apple's data center will live in Maiden, NC, just 30 miles away from Google's ...