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Apple prepping London stores for 2012 Olympics

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 10th, 2012)

TUAW has learned that Apple has quietly begun making preparations for the "onslaught of journalists" that are set to arrive in London for the 2012 Olympics, which are less than four months away. A high-level Apple retail employee here in London told me today that the company is planning to ...

Regent Street Apple Store sees record crowd

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 14th, 2011)

Protect Your Bubble, a UK insurance firm, today conducted a survey of the line of people waiting to buy an iPhone 4S outside London's Regent Street Apple Store. The survey, which was conducted for no other reason than so Protect Your Bubble could get a little free brand recognition on the back ...

London's Covent Garden Apple Store hit by burglars

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 10th, 2011)

In what is the most high-profile Apple Store robbery to date, a gang of thugs carried out a smash-and-grab raid on London's Covent Garden Apple Store. The store, which opened fourteen months ago, is Apple's second flagship store. It was built in a remodeled 19th century building and features a ...

Daily Update for Sept. 2, 2011

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 2nd, 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, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

Apple's London store faces stumbling block over sunlight restriction

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 2nd, 2011)

A battle is brewing over a future development that could house London's newest Apple Store. The City of London owns a plot of land at 100 Cheapside and is looking to sell the property to US developer Hines. Hines has plans to build a 10-story development with both office space (87,000 square ...

Apple reacts to London riots

by Chris Rawson (Aug 9th, 2011)

The ongoing London riots, now in their fourth day, have already caused significant damage across the city. Apple, a tempting target for thieves and vandals during the best of times, has reacted as any prudent and sufficiently cautious high-end retailer should during such a time. The Apple Store ...

First jailbreak convention MyGreatFest planned for September in London

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 8th, 2011)

The most ardent jailbreaking fans among you might want to book flights to the UK, as the WWDC of jailbreaking events is hitting London in September. MyGreatFest is a convention that plans to attract jailbreakers from all over the world. There they can attend jailbreaking presentations, Q&A ...

London Apple fans can watch the WWDC keynote and drink beer

by Steven Sande (Jun 3rd, 2011)

That's it. I'm moving to London. The London Mac User Group is meeting up at the Wood Marylebone NW1 Pub at 17:45 BST on Monday to watch the WWDC keynote, which sounds like a wonderful idea to me. What could be better than quaffing a pint or two, listening to "one more thing" from Steve Jobs, ...

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. ...

Lonely Planet launches audio walking tours in London

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2011)

This is a cool new feature in travel apps that I'd like to see a lot more of: Lonely Planet has released some walking audio tours as apps on the App Store. Unfortunately, all of the tours so far are just based in London, but the apps will walk you around some of London's most interesting areas, ...

XMG Studio attacks EA for Christmas app promotion at Mobile Games Forum

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2011)

While we're in San Francisco at Macworld this week, there's also a Mobile Games Forum going on in London, and one of the discussions over there got a little heated when the talk turned to EA's big Christmas sale on the App Store. Mobile developers have said before that EA's big push down on even ...

Apple announces dates for iTunes Festival London 2011

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 10th, 2011)

Apple has announced dates for this year's iTunes Festival London. Like last year, the festival will run every night in July. Sixty artists will be performing over thirty-one days at Camden's Roundhouse in London. Three of the confirmed bands are Linkin Park, Duran Duran and Rumer. As in years ...

Band streams concert live via iOS app

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2010)

A band named Everything, Everything is streaming a concert live today from London, and they're sharing that content on the App Store. NME says that the Manchester band has released a free app for iOS that will not only stream the show live, but will eventually have an archive of the show available, ...

London newspaper City A.M. coming to the iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 28th, 2010)

If you aren't a Londoner, this news probably won't excite you that much. However, if you make the daily commute on the tube like the five million rest of us (well, 4,999,999. I work from home), a regular part of your morning is browsing though the City A.M. newspaper -- a staple of daily London ...

Found Footage: Apple Store Covent Garden opening in iPhone 4 HD

by Steven Sande (Aug 8th, 2010)

The Apple Store Covent Garden opened in London this weekend to great crowds and fanfare, and of course we've been inundated with photos, video, and personal stories about the opening. We'd love to thank all of you for your input, as we all love Apple Store openings as much as anyone! Mike ...