Hardware

Apple hardware engineering chief Mansfield retires – Australian PC World

The Apple executive in charge of hardware engineering for the iPhone, iPad and other Apple products is retiring from the company, Apple said Thursday. Bob Mansfield, who reports to CEO Tim Cook, will leave Apple in the next several months … Continue reading

Brain drain: Apple’s senior hardware chief retires rich – Fortune Tech

Cook, Jobs and Mansfield at the antennagate press conference. Photo: WSJ FORTUNE — One of the concerns after Steve Jobs died was whether Apple’s (AAPL) institutional values — as embodied by his hand-picked executive team — would survive his …

Apple’s senior engineer behind iPod, iPad and iPhone is retiring – New York Post

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, is retiring, the company said Thursday. A 13-year Apple veteran, Mansfield oversaw the engineering of every major piece of hardware Apple has debuted in the past …

Apple Says Riccio to Run Hardware as Bob Mansfield Retires – Businessweek

Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL), the world’s most valuable company, said Dan Riccio will take over as head of hardware engineering to succeed Bob Mansfield, who plans to retire in the coming months. Riccio is currently the vice president in charge … Continue reading

Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield retiring, Dan Riccio taking over position – 9TO5Mac

Apple just announced in a press release this evening that its Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield will be retiring. Apple’s current Vice President of iPad Hardware Engineering Dan Riccio will take over the position over …

Apple Wins Another Injunction, This Time Against Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus – Wired News

the latest version of Android (nicknamed Jelly Bean), and its first self-manufactured hardware product in the Nexus Q, Google’s week is ending on a sour note. Apple has reportedly won an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone …

Apple wins court order blocking U.S. sale of Samsung Galaxy Nexus – Los Angeles Times

“It’s no coincidence that Samsung’s latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging,” an Apple spokeswoman said in an email. “This kind of blatant … Continue reading

VLC Player 2.0.2 OS X Enhances Video Playback – Softpedia

… of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later. And there’s now support for the HiDPI mode “used on recent Apple products with so-called Retina Displays,” according to … Continue reading

The iPhone Turns 5. Here’s What It Wrought. – New York Times Blogs

The phone industry: Perhaps Steve Jobs’s most significant feat was somehow persuading AT&T to let Apple design the iPhone — both its software and hardware — without even letting the carrier touch it. That was a break from the old … Continue reading

Apple store sells inferior iPod, told to pay Rs 17.4K – Times of India

Apple said on Wednesday it has launched its iTunes online media store in 12 Asian territories including Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. NEW DELHI: An authorised store for Apple products, iWorld Business Solutions Pvt Ltd (iWorld), has been …