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Apple adds 3D Maps Flyover coverage to Paris and surrounding areas

by Yoni Heisler (May 9th, 2013)

Over the past few months, Apple has consistently, and yet silently, continued to increase the number of areas which receive the 3D Flyover treatment in its homegrown Maps app. Now, the French-language site iGeneration is reporting that Apple has added 3D Flyover support for Paris, France. The ...

Estimated $1.3 million worth of product stolen from Paris Apple store on New Years Eve

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 2nd, 2013)

Perhaps the biggest heist from an Apple Store yet took place in Paris on New Year's Eve. At around 9 PM local time, four masked thieves broke into the Apple Store located near the Paris Opera and stole a lot of Apple goods, according to police. While the police declined to say how much was ...

Daily Update for May 22, 2012

by Steven Sande (May 22nd, 2012)

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 ...

New Paris Apple Store to open on Friday

by Michael Grothaus (May 22nd, 2012)

Apple will open its eleventh Apple retail store in France this Friday. The store will be located in the Centre commercial Les Quatre Temps at 15 Parvis de la Défense in Paris. The Les Quatre Temps store will be the third Apple Store in the country's capital. While Apple usually chooses ...

Samsung files French patent complaint against Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 13th, 2011)

Samsung and Apple continue to fight a heated legal battle overseas. In the latest skirmish, Samsung filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in France. The complaint claims Apple violates three UMTS patents held by the Korean company. UMTS is a 3G technology used on GSM-based cellular ...

Three more Apple Stores open their doors this Saturday

by Steven Sande (Aug 23rd, 2011)

Last weekend, Apple opened three new Apple Stores. Apple plans on opening three more stores this Saturday, well on the way to opening a total of 30 new retail outlets between July and September. According to ifoAppleStore, two new stores will open in the U.S. and one in France. The "Natural ...

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, ...

Paris and Palo Alto getting new Apple Stores

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2011)

ifoAppleStore has news of two new stores opening up soon. First up, Paris is getting another new store (in addition to the Opera store opened there recently) in the Carré Sénart shopping and entertainment complex, about 30 miles south of downtown. The area is reportedly quite built up ...

DeNA and Rovio Mobile chat from LeWeb '10 in Paris

by Mike Schramm (Dec 9th, 2010)

Stuart Dredge over at MobileEntertainment is reporting live this week from Paris' LeWeb 2010 conference, and quite a few iPhone publishers and developers are in attendance and talking about Apple's platform and beyond. Of the most interest to us are probably the statements by Japanese publishers ...

Walt Mossberg travels to Paris with iPad instead of laptop

by Steven Sande (Sep 23rd, 2010)

Walt Mossberg, personal technology journalist for the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital, posted a column yesterday about using an iPad on a "working vacation" to Paris. Mossberg decided to forgo his usual laptop on a 10-day trip to Paris, relying instead on his iPad, a smartphone, and a ...

Mac OS X beta was released ten years ago yesterday

by Mike Schramm (Sep 14th, 2010)

Happy (belated) birthday today to Mac OS X. Yes, the OS itself actually released to the public on March 24, 2001 (which means its actual "birthday," in my mind, isn't until next March), but Macworld points out that, on September 13, 2000, Steve gave us the very first peek at the foundation of modern ...

Apple Store openings

by Dave Caolo (Jul 7th, 2010)

Several new Apple Stores either opened or are set to open this weekend. Here's a look at what's going on. In Shanghai, China, the curtains have been removed from the huge glass structure that sits atop the city's new flagship store. Flickr user Lesh51 has posted some great shots of the removal ...

Steve Jobs stops by Paris Opera store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 7th, 2010)

I have my doubts about what's going on here, but I'll let you judge the veracity of this one for yourself. The above video is supposedly a short clip of none other than Steve Jobs walking through the newly opened Paris Opera Apple Store during this past weekend on July 3rd. A commenter on 9to5Mac ...

New Apple Stores for Paris, Shanghai

by Dave Caolo (Jun 11th, 2010)

Two new Apple Stores are nearing completion, and they both look fantastic. The first one is in Shanghai, China. Much like the famed 5th Avenue Store in New York City, this location is underground and topped by a mass of glass. It sits at the base of two skyscrapers, both 1,000 feet tall, and is ...