Apple ‘s Senior Vice President of Retail – Rob Johnson who along with Steve Jobs pioneered the concept of Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar left Apple to join J. C. Penny as the CEO in November 2011.
Apple search for his replacement has finally ended as it has just announced that John Browett will be joining Apple as their new Senior Vice President of Retail. John Browett is currently the CEO of Dixons Retail.
Apple today announced that (more…)

If you’ve been in an Apple store, then you know all employees have iPod touches. But how exactly do employees use them to help customers? The
took a look at Apple ‘s retail software to find out.
Brian Chen, a blogger for New York Times, took a more personal look at the in-house retail software that Apple store employees have on their iPod Touches. Diego Aguirre, an Apple store employee in Palo Alto, California went through the process.
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While we’re less than a week out from Apple taking the wraps off the next version of the iPhone , new models–yes you read that right, models–of the company’s portable devices are already said to be in its inventory system.

Citing new information from frequent part leaking source “Mr. X,” 9to5mac reports that two new iPhones have appeared in the company’s inventory system alongside three (more…)

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AT&T has just joined that list, as 
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We now have evidence that cases for the rumored iPhone 5 redesign have already begun arriving at AT&T retail stores, as one reader has sent us alleged photos of iPhone 5 silicone sleeves that appear to have arrived at his AT&T store today. Like other cases for the rumored redesign of the iPhone 5, these cases appear to show a tapered design and the mute switch moved (more…)

We’ve heard several rumors that Sprint might offer Apple ‘s iPhone 5 on it’s network. 
Do not Speculate about Sprint Getting the iPhone .”, 
which was counter productive as it is being perceived by some as a positive indication that Sprint is finally getting the iPhone .
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If that’s not enough proof, then BeatWeek reports that Sprint is installing signal repeaters in Apple Retail stores.
According to the source, who resides in Austin, Texas: (more…)

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Engadget has just reported that they’ve received a photo, which reveals that AT&T has recently installed LTE network equipment in one of the Apple Retail stores.
Now we’ve received the image you see below, which shows some 4G LTE equipment that was recently installed in a major Apple store — by AT&T, according to our source. Making things somewhat more interesting is the equipment itself, one piece of which supports only the 700MHz and AWS (more…)

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However, couple of weeks back a job posting revealed that Apple UK is planning to
for the period of August 16th to October 29th, 2011, which had led to speculation that Apple may launch
in August.
reports that they’ve heard that Apple is also increasing staffing in U.S. Retail Stores too around the same time.
We’ve now learned that at least some U.S. Apple Retail stores are also recruiting former employees to return as part time employees (more…)

? Yeah, that was Apple ‘s way of giving the good old Compact Discs a farewell. The sans DVD MacBook Air, the
, the Snow Leopard USB stick all were subtle ways, Apple chose to tell the world that CD and DVDs are soon going to be obsolete. And then at
, Apple dropped a bomb,
wasn’t going to “ship”, instead it would be available as a download from the Mac App Store.
Apple has often chosen to completely ditch a platform or technology, like it (more…)

JailbreakMe 3.0 Released To Jailbreak iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad 1, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G On iOS 4.3.3 Using Mobile Safari
Swype – Popular Alternative Keyboard For Android Devices Unofficially Ported to iPhone , iPad & iPod Touch
JailbreakMe 3.0: Comex To Fix Issue Installing Some Packages & iPad Camera Connection Kit Issue
Install PDF Patcher 2 To Fix JailbreakMe 3.0 Vulnerability
Apple Retail Store Display iPad Jailbroken (more…)

to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their retail stores with interactive iPads replacing paper signs next to products.
into normal iPads with few gestures.
As reported earlier, since the home button of these display iPads didn’t work, it was assumed that it was not possible to use them as normal iPads. Weintraub went to a local Apple store to find out if the secret combination of gestures works. He reports:
Yep, it works. The button still (more…)