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Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban
AppleInsider —
... Published: 04:00 PM EST Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing California's Proposition 8, a measure intended to ban the rights of gay Californians to legally marry, and has contributed $100,000 to defeat the measure. Both companies have a history of remaining politically neutral, but have chosen to take sides on this issue because it relates directly to the civil rights and opportunities of their employees. In its Hot News feed, the company stated, "Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among ...
Apple goes political with California’s Prop 8
CrunchGear —
In an attempt to stay non-partisan, here is Apple’s official statement on California’s Proposition 8 that aims to eliminate rights of same-sex couples to marry.
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual ...
Apple divulga publicamente seu favorecimento a casamentos gays na Califórnia
MacMagazine —
... A Apple publicou hoje em sua página Hot News uma declaração pública de oposição à “Proposição 8”, com relação à proibição de casamentos gays na Califórnia (Estados Unidos). Além disso, fará uma doação de US$100 mil à campanha ...
TED Conferences app
textually.org —
TED conferences are now available under a Creative Commons license on iPhones thanks to a dedicated TED app.
You can watch and listen to the latest videos and audio published by TED, search their vast collection of content on your iPhone, bookmark your favorite talks to share with others or enjoy later.
The TED app is this week's App Store Pick of the Week. ...
Article: Editorial: On What to Expect From iPhone 3G S Reviews, And Why
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... they… now are banned from attending Apple keynotes going forward,” a claim that we have not been able to verify. We twice offered Gizmodo the opportunity to comment—once before our story, once after hearing from these sources—but it hasn’t. To be clear, Apple’s practice of giving certain people advance access to its products is done for a specific reason: it has selected writers who it believes will say positive things about the products, and then will feature their quotes on its Hot News page and in its keynotes. (We pointed out the ...
Love is the Thing Recorded on an iPhone
GeekBrief.TV —
The 88 is a band opening for the B-52s as they tour the East Cost. While driving to a show, one of the guys found an iPhone App called FourTrack. They bought it and recorded a song called Love is the Thing entirely on the phone using the iPhone’s mic. This video shows how they did it.
Credit: Apple.com Hot News
Backstage: Problems With Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Join The (Sizable?) Minority
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... (warning: NSFW, funny language) for apparent fanboyism, saying: “I realize you’re having a big, beardy lemon party about all these homeopathically non-obvious new features, but come on. Don’t wag your finger at people like me for pointing out [something] that shipped empirically broken.” Yet this doesn’t seem like the standard case of media drooling just to get featured on Apple’s “Hot News” page. Of iLounge’s editors, most are having no problems whatsoever with Snow Leopard. And yet some of us are having such profound, awful problems that we can’t rely on the stability of ...
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