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The Criterion Collection, film distribution company specializing in "gathering the greatest films from around the world" and releasing them in the highest quality, has debuted 46 of its 680 films on iTunes. Criterion is offering a very small selection of films from their collection... but it is a start. They seem to be beginning with 46 films, including such hallmarks of cinema as Ingmar...

Apple Retail Store managers are participating in "union awareness" training after a part-time San Francisco retail store employee attempted to start a union of Apple Store employees, according to CNET. This course is intended to provide managers with a practical understanding of how unions affect the workplace, how and why employees organize, and the legal do's and don'ts of dealing with...

In 1995, before Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he sat down with Bob Cringely for an hour-long interview during the making of the Triumph of the Nerds TV series. Roughly 10 minutes of the interview was used in the show, but the rest of the historic interview was lost during shipping. After Steve Jobs passed away in October, Triumph of the Nerds director Paul Sen decided to try and find a copy of ...

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As revealed in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple has awarded Eddy Cue an additional 100,000 shares of company stock in the form of restricted stock units. The stock units were issued on November 2nd and will vest in September 2014 (25,000 shares) and September 2016 (75,000 shares) if Cue remains employed by Apple at those milestone dates. At Apple's present...

Winamp by Nullsoft, now owned by AOL, was a major media player back in the MP3 sharing heyday -- and is still the preferred media player for a large number of Windows users. Last week, the Winamp team launched Winamp for Mac Sync Beta, the first Winamp application for the Mac. Winamp was rumored to be coming to Mac as far back as 2001, but the software was never released. The main focus...

Apple yesterday pushed out a pre-release version of Safari 5.1.2 to Mac developers. The update addresses several issues related to the viewing of PDFs located within frames on websites while also asking developers to test plug-in interaction and printing. From the seed notes:Inline PDF Support Safari 5.1.2 fixes issues where PDFs in frames were not displayed in the browser. Please test...

Batman: Arkham Asylum has arrived on the Mac, two years after it was released on consoles and the PC. Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum - Gotham's psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Gamers will move in the shadows, instigate fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham...

Back in June, Swedish retail news site Market.se reported that Apple was making plans to open its first retail stores in Sweden, with Stockholm understandably being the company's first target city. As noted by Allt om Mac [Google translation], Apple is now moving closer to opening its first Swedish stores with its registration of a new business by the name of "Apple Retail Sweden AB" to...

Last month, following the death of Steve Jobs, Computerworld published a transcript of a lengthy 1995 interview with Steve Jobs conducted as part of an oral history program for the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation. The complete, unabridged video of that 75-minute interview has now been posted, offering an interesting look at Jobs before his return to Apple. In the...

Artist Rendition We've heard a couple of reports that Apple will finally unveiling their newly renovated 5th Avenue Apple NYC store on Friday, November 4th. Apple began work on the $6.6 million renovation back in June. Since then, the 5th Avenue Store has been surrounded by barriers and the store has remained open as the construction has continued. The redesign involves replacing the...

The New York Times publishes a touching eulogy written by Steve Jobs' sister Mona Simpson: None of us knows for certain how long we’ll be here. On Steve’s better days, even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his friends at Apple to finish them. Some boat builders in the Netherlands have a gorgeous stainless steel hull ready to be covered with the finishing...

Readers have sent in a number of festive Apple-themed pumpkins, including two that emulate Jonathan Mak's interpretation of the Apple logo and another pumpkin interpretation of Albert Watson's famous photograph that now graces the cover of Steve Jobs' biography. By Sbrocket By Raymond Tsai By Kepa By Bill Rennie ...

Apple yesterday released Aperture 3.2.1, bringing several bug fixes to the company's professional-level photo editing and management application.What's New in Aperture 3.2.1 - Resolves an issue that could cause Aperture to quit unexpectedly at launch on Macs with Core Duo processors - Addresses problems that could cause the Crop tool to switch to the incorrect orientation or resize...

Photo by IrishEyes/Flickr ITWire claims to have the truth about how Steve Jobs had no license plate on his Mercedes. This lack of license plate has drawn a lot of speculation over the years, but no clear answer had been pinned down. ITWire spoke with Jon Callas, who had worked in security roles at Apple. He explained how Jobs got away with it:Steve (or someone close to him) spotted a...

Apple today released iPhoto 9.2.1, a minor update to address an issue that could cause the application to crash when used with a specific 3ivx plug-in.What's New in iPhoto 9.2.1 - Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly on Macs with the 3ivxVideoCodec plug-in installedThe update weighs in at 357.18 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or OS X 10.7.2 or...

Version 2.0 of popular image editing application Pixelmator goes live tomorrow on the Mac App Store. The app was one of the early success stories on the Mac App Store, generating more than $1 million in revenue in the first 20 days. The new version of Pixelmator includes support for a number of Lion features, including Full Screen, Auto Save, and Versions. It also includes an advanced...

Walter Isaacson continued his promotional tour of his Steve Jobs biography yesterday, appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. In the seven minute interview, Isaacson "talks about becoming emotionally invested in his subject throughout the course of writing Steve Jobs' biography." It was Isaacson's fifth appearance on The Daily...