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No iPhone 4S Cases Until Tomorrow?
Earlier today, BGR reported that Apple will release iPhone 4 Cases today, three days ahead of the previously-announced Friday launch date. But according to The Loop, the early release will actually occur tomorrow.

The speculation of iOS coming early seems to be solid, it's just the day that's off. If I were sitting waiting for iPhone 4 Cases to hit, I'd be ready tomorrow.

Potential support for the notion of a release tomorrow comes from a MacRumors reader who just asked an Apple chat representative about the release and was informed that it will indeed be tomorrow.
While Apple's sales staff is usually not kept up to date on the company's product and software release plans, it is possible that Apple has provided the information about the upcoming free update in order to assist its customers. Not all chat support representative are offering the same information, however, as one representative we just asked claimed that the release is coming on Friday as originally scheduled.

Regardless, BGR's report claimed a release time of 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific today, the company's usual time for iOS releases, so we should know in less than half an hour whether iPhone 4 Cases is coming today.
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28/06/2012
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Court filings show Steve Jobs told Google to stop

Following reports earlier today that U.S. District Judge Lucy H Koh would allow a lawsuit claiming Apple, Google and five other companies entered “no-poach” agreements, court documents made public today show in 2007 former Apple CEO Steve Jobs asked Google’s Eric Schmidt to “stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer.” Reuters reported:Designer iPhone 4 Cases|Designer iPhone 4S Cases|Designer iPhone 4 Case|Designer iPhone 4S Case

The email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple, Google and five other tech companies. The proposed class action, brought by five software engineers, accuses the companies of conspiring to keep employee compensation low by eliminating competition for skilled labor. 

According to excerpts of the documents posted by Reuters, Jobs wrote the following in an email to Schmidt after someone at Google tried to recruit an Apple engineer:Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

“I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this.” 

Schmidt apparently responded by forwarding the email to someone else at Google, requesting they fulfill Jobs’ request. Google’s staffing director responded to the email claiming the Google employee that attempted to contact the Apple engineer would be fired:

[The employee] “will be terminated within the hour…Please extend my apologies as appropriate to Steve Jobs”

The court case will continue, but Reuters noted the Judge handling the civil lawsuit said it could potentially become several classic actions.

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Mac Superbundle deal. Parallels 7 + nine Mac Apps:

Nova offers its MacSuperbundle Winter Deal for $49. We are picky about our bundles, but Parallels alone makes this one worth noting.  There are some solid extras here as well.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases

Valued at over $470 if purchased separately, the nine software titles and exciting bonus app in the new 2012 Mac SuperBundle are available for just $49, an 89% savings, and offer innovative solutions no Mac user should be without. Nova’s biggest bundle to date and best consumer deal yet features the award-winning and #1 selling virtualization software Parallels Desktop® 7 for Mac, (a $79.99 value alone), and includes essential Mac maintenance tools and organizational apps, plus audio, video and digital creativity software and much more. The Mac SuperBundle launches on January 25th, 2012 and will be available for 14 days only.

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Flux–The powerful yet easy HTML5 design app that lets you create websites from scratch.

Little Snapper–From websites to desktop windows, it creates pixel perfect screenshots every time.

iStat Menus 3–The advanced Mac OS X system monitor that shows what’s actually happening inside your Mac.

iStopmotion Home–Easily turns a Mac into an animation film studio so anyone can tell their story – frame by fun frame!

SyncMate Expert–Syncs important data, like contacts, to-do lists and more, among your Macs, PCs and mobile devices.

Fantashow for Mac–The digital slideshow builder that lets anyone achieve professional-looking movies in minutes!

Video Converter for Mac–Converts video and audio files into playable formats on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch, MP3
players and more.

CuteClips 3–Makes it easy to see your clipboard history with all-in-one multiple clipboard management.

Chronicle (Bonus App)-Versatile financial tracking software that helps you pay your bills on time, every time!

The full release is below:

Avanquest Software (Paris:AVQ – News), is proud to announce the release of the Mac® SuperBundle™ Winter 2012
software suite.

Valued at over $470 if purchased separately, the nine software titles and exciting bonus app in the new 2012 Mac
SuperBundle are available for just $49, an 89% savings, and offer innovative solutions no Mac user should be without. Nova’s
biggest bundle to date and best consumer deal yet features the award-winning and #1 selling virtualization software Parallels
Desktop® 7 for Mac, (a $79.99 value alone), and includes essential Mac maintenance tools and organizational apps, plus audio,
video and digital creativity software and much more. The Mac SuperBundle launches on January 25th, 2012 and will be
available for 14 days only.

“Our Winter 2012 Mac SuperBundle offers an incredible value for all levels of Mac users and includes 10 innovative
applications ranging from the award-winning #1 Mac utility Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac to versatile creativity software that
can turn a Mac into an animation studio,” said Barry Evleth, Product Marketing Director at Nova Development. “Whether an
experienced Mac user or a newcomer, this bundle of innovative software offers customers 10 different and powerful ways to
share, sync, create and more.”

The Mac® SuperBundle™ Winter 2012 Includes:

All titles in the bundle are Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatible. The Mac SuperBundle Winter 2012 package will be available
starting on January 25th for $49. To purchase the Mac SuperBundle, please visit www.macsuperbundle.com.

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01/02/2012
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T-Mobile to offer unlocked iPhone users additional

T-Mobile will begin offering more than 1 million unlocked iPhone customers additional support starting Jan. 30, according to a report from TMO News who obtained internal documents. The documents said the new support offerings would include, “common procedures, information about feature and specifications and other basic device questions.”Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

The carrier is also updating the iPhone website within its Community so it fits in with the rest of the T-Mobile supported device pages and “Integrated Scope of Support” for representatives. Earlier this month, we had a chance to talk with T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray regarding the failed AT&T merger and the carrier’s plans to hit the switch on 1900 MHz HSPA+ spectrum in a number of cities in the Eastern U.S.Gucci iPhone 4 cases|Gucci iPhone 4S cases|Gucci iPhone 4 case|Gucci iPhone 4S case

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Bill Gates sent special letter to Jobs before his

In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Bill Gates sat down to talk, among other things, about his relationship with Steve Jobs. Gates recalled his often up and down relationship with Jobs changing somewhat after the launch of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007: “Steve and I did an event together, and he couldn’t have been nicer…I got a fair bit of time with him in his last year.” When Gates ultimately learned of Steve’s medical condition, he wrote him a letter:Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases

“I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built. I wrote about his kids, whom I had got to know…There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness.” 

After Jobs’ passing, Gates said he received a phone call from Laurene Powell, Jobs’ wife, who told Gates Walter Isaacson’s biography did not accurately depict the mutual respect between the two:Burberry iPhone 4 Cases|Burberry iPhone 4S Cases|Hermes iPhone 4 Cases|Hermes iPhone 4S Cases

“She said: ‘Look, this biography really doesn’t paint a picture of the mutual respect you had.’ And she said he’d appreciated my letter and kept it by his bed.”

Gates also talked about Jobs’ work in general, calling him an “incredible genius,” but also noting many times Jobs’ would say critical things about him:

“Steve was an incredible genius who contributed immensely to the field I was in. We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did. And then we were competitors. The personal computers I worked on had a vastly higher [market] share than Apple until really the last five or six years, where Steve’s very good work on the Mac and on iPhones and iPads did extremely well. It’s quite an achievement, and we enjoyed each [other’s work]….He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me. If you took the more harsh examples, you could get quite a litany. 

Gates also recently sat down for an interview with Yahoo!  and ABC News to discuss his relationship with Jobs and their last meeting. Get the full story here.

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Former Apple Retail head Ron Johnson talks remakin

Ron Johnson, Apple’s former head of retail, pioneered the concept of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar a decade ago. As you know, he is also yet another established Cupertino executive to use experience at Apple and tap his peers in an effort to transform an industry and rethink a company. Another one: The iPod Godfather Tony Fadell whose intelligent thermostat made quite a stir among the technophiles. Not everyone succeeds, as evident in the case of former Apple hardware chief Jon Rubinstein, who just left Hewlett-Packard following a series of missteps with webOS and Palm.

Due to take over CEO post at the American mid-range department store chain on Feb. 1, Johnson on Wednesday shed more light on a new strategy for an ailing JC Penney, and boy, does it draw from everything he learned during the Apple gig. He conveniently kicked off his presentation with a slide adorned by an Apple logo, which was immediately followed by another “What Were You Thinking?” slide.

Johnson then launched into an appraisal of Apple, likening the iPhone maker to a prime model of lasting brand experiences. Johnson, who left Target for Apple in 2000, recalled that at the time: “There wasn’t one positive believer who thought an Apple retail store could work.”  He then put up a slide depicting the Grand Central outlet, a massive new Apple store built inside New York City’s landmark Grand Central Terminal.

Reiterating how he built Apple Stores on experiences, not commissions, the executive noted:Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

It’s not about buying. It’s about enriching someone’s life. [...] The magic of the store that makes everyone want to come is all the stuff you get beyond the transaction, ’cause at Apple, the relationship doesn’t end when you buy. That’s where it begins. And we’re going to do that at JC Penney.

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The decision to leave Apple for JC Penney was “the best decision I’ve made yet,” and the toughest part was breaking it to Steve Jobs. Johnson recalled Apple’s then CEO simply looked up at him and asked, “Are you serious?” According to asummary of his talk provided by ifoApplestore, which specializes in Apple retail, and this QuickTime webcast provided by JC Penney, the incoming CEO said that despite the wide availability of Apple’s products these days, “People like to come to the Apple stores.”

The Texas-headquartered retailer wants to remake its outdated retail strategy, so they hired Ron Johnson to take the reigns. He’s facing an uphill struggle, though, as JC Penney’s share is down to 5 percent, matching Apple’s retail share a decade ago. The Apple Retail store as we know it has become a retailing phenomenon, with many calling Apple America’s greatest retailer.Coach iPhone 4 Case|Coach iPhone 4S Case

Department stores nowadays are not that crowded, because the sales concept is broken and the experience plagued with countless, often meaningless promotions. “Steve would have called this insanity,” Johnson said concerning the 590 mail promotions JC Penney amassed last year. Contrast this to Apple’s carefully chosen promotions, ran sparingly. “At some point, you as a brand look desperate,” he warned.Coach iPhone 4 Cases |Coach iPhone 4S Cases 

Founded in Wyoming in 1902 by James Cash Penney and William Henry McManus, JC Penney today runs 1,107 department stores in all U.S. states and Puerto Rico and operates catalog sales merchant offices nationwide in many small markets.

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Apple publishes anti-trust decision over AppleCare

We told you in December that Apple was being fined $1.2 million by Italian anti-trust authorities for “misleading consumers” with AppleCare warranties. At the time, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato claimed Apple was failing to properly inform consumers of a two-year guarantee mandatory by Italian Consumer Code and European Union law. In response, Apple placed a prominent link on its Italian online store today that translates to “Communication to protect consumers” and links to a PDF of the antitrust decision by L’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato. A full translation from the PDF is available after the break.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases

“The company Apple Sales International, finally, within 90 days, need to adapt the sales package of services AppleCare Protection Plan, by inserting the indication on the existence and the two-year guarantee of compliance and indicating the correct length of service with respect to maturity the legal guarantee of conformity.”

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Apple is being asked to alter the terms of its AppleCare Protection Plans to clarify the existence of the two-year mandatory guarantee and provide “wide and comprehensive information to consumers, relative to the two-year guarantee of compliance” on its website. Reports shortly after the fine was imposed claimed Apple planned to appeal the decision. There is no mention of the appeal on Apple’s website or within the PDF (below).

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01/02/2012
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Tim Cook responds to claims of factory worker mist

This morning, The New York Times published a lengthy report with details about the harsh conditions of working in the factories of an Apple parts supplier or Apple product manufacturer. The report includes this chilling opening:Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of iPad cases a day.

The report also recalls a scenario in which a factory had to call the parents of a young worker to inform them of their son’s admission to the hospital. Horrid points of excessive overtime are included, in addition to a gruesome quote from a former Foxconn executive: “Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost.” On top of all of that, the report shares word from former Apple executives, such as this quote: “We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has not been shy on the emailing as of late, sent out a lengthy letter to all of his employees that is a direct response to these recent reports of factory worker mistreatment. Cook’s opening:Burberry iPad 2 Cases|Swarovski Crystal Cases|Swarovski Crystal iPhone 4 Cases|Best iPhone 4S Case

As a company and as individuals, we are defined by our values. Unfortunately some people are questioning Apple’s values today, and I’d like to address this with you directly. We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern. Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It’s not who we are. For the many hundreds of you who are based at our suppliers’ manufacturing sites around the world, or spend long stretches working there away from your families, I know you are as outraged by this as I am. For the people who aren’t as close to the supply chain, you have a right to know the facts.

Some key points from the email:

  • “Every year we inspect more factories, raising the bar for our partners and going deeper into the supply chain. As we reported earlier this month, we’ve made a great deal of progress and improved conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers. We know of no one in our industry doing as much as we are, in as many places, touching as many people.”
  • “We are focused on educating workers about their rights, so they are empowered to speak up when they see unsafe conditions or unfair treatment. As you know, more than a million people have been trained by our program.”
  • “We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues. What we will not do — and never have done — is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word. You can follow our progress at apple.com/supplierresponsibility.”
  • Team,

    As a company and as individuals, we are defined by our values. Unfortunately some people are questioning Apple’s values today, and I’d like to address this with you directly. We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern. Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It’s not who we are.

    For the many hundreds of you who are based at our suppliers’ manufacturing sites around the world, or spend long stretches working there away from your families, I know you are as outraged by this as I am. For the people who aren’t as close to the supply chain, you have a right to know the facts.

    Every year we inspect more factories, raising the bar for our partners and going deeper into the supply chain. As we reported earlier this month, we’ve made a great deal of progress and improved conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers. We know of no one in our industry doing as much as we are, in as many places, touching as many people.

    At the same time, no one has been more up front about the challenges we face. We are attacking problems aggressively with the help of the world’s foremost authorities on safety, the environment, and fair labor. It would be easy to look for problems in fewer places and report prettier results, but those would not be the actions of a leader.

    Earlier this month we opened our supply chain for independent evaluations by the Fair Labor Association. Apple was in a unique position to lead the industry by taking this step, and we did it without hesitation. This will lead to more frequent and more transparent reporting on our supply chain, which we welcome. These are the kinds of actions our customers expect from Apple, and we will take more of them in the future.

    We are focused on educating workers about their rights, so they are empowered to speak up when they see unsafe conditions or unfair treatment. As you know, more than a million people have been trained by our program.

    We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues. What we will not do — and never have done — is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word. You can follow our progress at apple.com/supplierresponsibility.

    To those within Apple who are tackling these issues every day, you have our thanks and admiration. Your work is significant and it is changing people’s lives. We are all proud to work alongside you.

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