About Author: Jake Root

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Jake Root is the Senior Editor at AGRS Tech News. Jake Root was born on a snowy, very cold December day...Read More

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  • A lifelong leader, and an idol for the entire tech industry, Apple’s site has just revealed that Steven Paul Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, Inc, has died at the age of 56, mere months after announcing he was stepping down as CEO of the company, and giving the reins over to Tim Cook. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” Apple said in a brief statement. AllThingsD has posted a memo CEO Tim Cook has sent to all employees, announcing they will be holding an internal celebration, in honor (seen after the break). AGRS and it’s employees send out our condolences to his family. We will continue...

    Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has died at 56

    Posted on October 5, 2011 | View Comments
    A lifelong leader, and an idol for the entire tech industry, Apple’s site has just revealed that Steven Paul Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, Inc, has died at the age of 56, mere months after announcing he was stepping down as CEO of the company, and giving the reins over to Tim Cook. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” Apple said in a brief statement. AllThingsD has posted a memo CEO Tim Cook has sent to all employees, announcing they will be holding an internal celebration, in honor (seen after the break). AGRS and it’s employees send out our condolences to his family. We will continue...

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  • Apple has taken the wraps off of it’s new iPhone, dubbed the 4S, today in Cupertino. They also announced some information regarding a new white color for the iPod Touch, new pricing for the iPod Nano, and a few other things, including a virtual person. Read on if you are legitimately interested in what Apple had to offer today.

    Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event roundup

    Posted on October 4, 2011 | View Comments
    Apple has taken the wraps off of it’s new iPhone, dubbed the 4S, today in Cupertino. They also announced some information regarding a new white color for the iPod Touch, new pricing for the iPod Nano, and a few other things, including a virtual person. Read on if you are legitimately interested in what Apple had to offer today.

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  • This probably doesn’t come as a surprise for me, including myself, but from recent news we’ve heard (aka a post on Engadget), some LTE equipment is being installed at Apple Stores, by AT&T. This comes after yesterday’s BGR find — where they found a property list file that has to do with LTE devices on iOS 5.  The equipment at the AT&T store supports the 700MHz and AWS bands,  bothof which are planning to be used by AT&T — if they get T-Mobile. Engadget was also told that the Apple store(s) in question are also trying to increase the number of floor salesman by 30%, for the apparent rush the everyone...

    LTE equipment being installed in Apple Stores, iPhone with LTE radio supposedly being tested

    Posted on August 16, 2011 | View Comments
    This probably doesn’t come as a surprise for me, including myself, but from recent news we’ve heard (aka a post on Engadget), some LTE equipment is being installed at Apple Stores, by AT&T. This comes after yesterday’s BGR find — where they found a property list file that has to do with LTE devices on iOS 5.  The equipment at the AT&T store supports the 700MHz and AWS bands,  bothof which are planning to be used by AT&T — if they get T-Mobile. Engadget was also told that the Apple store(s) in question are also trying to increase the number of floor salesman by 30%, for the apparent rush the everyone...

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  • Things are beginning to lighten up in the merger world, specifically for those two communication companies, AT&T and T-Mobile. The TIA is made up of some of the larger names in the tech industry such as Apple, Nokia, Intel, and Microsoft. TIA’s President Grant Seiffert said the following about the merger: “Combining the infrastructure and resources of AT&T and T-Mobile would help create a reliable, high-speed mobile broadband network and encourage a virtuous cycle of investment and innovation in America’s business sector, meet growing consumer demand for these services, and address the looming spectrum crisis. The potential benefits of the merger should be given substantial weight in the FCC’s review...

    Telecommunications Industry Association approves of AT&T/T-Mobile merger

    Posted on August 12, 2011 | View Comments
    Things are beginning to lighten up in the merger world, specifically for those two communication companies, AT&T and T-Mobile. The TIA is made up of some of the larger names in the tech industry such as Apple, Nokia, Intel, and Microsoft. TIA’s President Grant Seiffert said the following about the merger: “Combining the infrastructure and resources of AT&T and T-Mobile would help create a reliable, high-speed mobile broadband network and encourage a virtuous cycle of investment and innovation in America’s business sector, meet growing consumer demand for these services, and address the looming spectrum crisis. The potential benefits of the merger should be given substantial weight in the FCC’s review...

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  • The war against the companies rage on, and in this week’s episode, we have Apple and Samsung and Germany. The country has decided in a hearing that, due to the design of the Tab 10.1, which is eerily similar to the iPad, all sales in the European Union will be halted for the tablet, except for the Netherlands. Samsung naturally responded to the hearing favoring against it (clearly), and will fight back at the ruling. This comes in light of Apple suing Samsung across the world for theft of intellectual property, in this case, the design of the Korean company’s 10.1 inch tablet. Apple hopes to block the sales of the tablet...

    Apple suit against Samsung in Germany wins out in favor of Apple, Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales halted in EU

    Posted on August 10, 2011 | View Comments
    The war against the companies rage on, and in this week’s episode, we have Apple and Samsung and Germany. The country has decided in a hearing that, due to the design of the Tab 10.1, which is eerily similar to the iPad, all sales in the European Union will be halted for the tablet, except for the Netherlands. Samsung naturally responded to the hearing favoring against it (clearly), and will fight back at the ruling. This comes in light of Apple suing Samsung across the world for theft of intellectual property, in this case, the design of the Korean company’s 10.1 inch tablet. Apple hopes to block the sales of the tablet...

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  • Here we go again, sadly. The FCC has come out today and announced in a statement that Wireless Bureau chief Rick Kaplan plans to stop the 180 day review time on AT&T’s proposed purchase of Qualcomm’s 700MHz spectrum. This doesn’t mean the end of the deal, but this does have a great deal to do with the planned merger, as it “overlaps” some of AT&T’s plans. Qualcomm’s VP of Government Affairs, Dean Brenner reached out to Engadget with an official statement: “The FCC should approve the pending AT&T-Qualcomm spectrum sale now because of the clear benefits to the public from the sale that stand on their own and are totally unrelated to...

    FCC temporarily halts AT&T’s purchase of Qualcomm spectrum, speaks of T-Mobile merger

    Posted on August 9, 2011 | View Comments
    Here we go again, sadly. The FCC has come out today and announced in a statement that Wireless Bureau chief Rick Kaplan plans to stop the 180 day review time on AT&T’s proposed purchase of Qualcomm’s 700MHz spectrum. This doesn’t mean the end of the deal, but this does have a great deal to do with the planned merger, as it “overlaps” some of AT&T’s plans. Qualcomm’s VP of Government Affairs, Dean Brenner reached out to Engadget with an official statement: “The FCC should approve the pending AT&T-Qualcomm spectrum sale now because of the clear benefits to the public from the sale that stand on their own and are totally unrelated to...

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  • While normally, the UK seems like a great place, recent riots over the shooting of 29 year-old man by police have sparked some stores to relieve their main floors of product. This is seen in some Apple stores around the nation, the above being a good example. A statement from the store is as follows: “Above: Due To The Riots In England, The Apple Store In Liverpool One have moved all stock up stairs from the show floor.” Resellers are also getting into the action. This leads us to believe that this is an Apple mandated order and that all stores around London must remove their inventory from their ground...

    UK Apple stores removing inventory from main floors in face of riots

    Posted on August 9, 2011 | View Comments
    While normally, the UK seems like a great place, recent riots over the shooting of 29 year-old man by police have sparked some stores to relieve their main floors of product. This is seen in some Apple stores around the nation, the above being a good example. A statement from the store is as follows: “Above: Due To The Riots In England, The Apple Store In Liverpool One have moved all stock up stairs from the show floor.” Resellers are also getting into the action. This leads us to believe that this is an Apple mandated order and that all stores around London must remove their inventory from their ground...

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  • Not much is known quite yet, but one thing is: Apple’s manufactures have been slipping lately (and over the last few years), and if this is the final design for the next-gen iPhone, it certainly wouldn’t surprise us. Gizchina.com has slipped a few photos in the direction of the internet recently, and the new design matches up pretty well with what we’ve been seeing as the iPhone 5 case. While we won’t be suggesting that this is definitely the final design, it certainly does look quite a bit like final hardware. One thing I must note is that, looking at the above image, looking closely, you can almost make out...

    Is this the new iPhone 5?

    Posted on August 5, 2011 | View Comments
    Not much is known quite yet, but one thing is: Apple’s manufactures have been slipping lately (and over the last few years), and if this is the final design for the next-gen iPhone, it certainly wouldn’t surprise us. Gizchina.com has slipped a few photos in the direction of the internet recently, and the new design matches up pretty well with what we’ve been seeing as the iPhone 5 case. While we won’t be suggesting that this is definitely the final design, it certainly does look quite a bit like final hardware. One thing I must note is that, looking at the above image, looking closely, you can almost make out...

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  • The community at Facebook didn’t seem to think that having a Facebook application made just for the iPad was necessary, or so we thought. Apparently, they have gone back on their word that the iPad was not a mobile device suited for a mobile Facebook application, and actually not only developed an iPad application, but released it unknowingly in an update somewhat recently (like two days ago). According to Techcrunch’s MG Siegler, “All of this is possible apparently thanks to a seemingly tiny update Facebook pushed yesterday to their iPhone app. Version 3.4.4 seemed like a small version that restored the “Send” button for comments and chat among a few other little...

    Facebook iPad app found hidden inside iPhone app, available to jailbreakers

    Posted on July 26, 2011 | View Comments
    The community at Facebook didn’t seem to think that having a Facebook application made just for the iPad was necessary, or so we thought. Apparently, they have gone back on their word that the iPad was not a mobile device suited for a mobile Facebook application, and actually not only developed an iPad application, but released it unknowingly in an update somewhat recently (like two days ago). According to Techcrunch’s MG Siegler, “All of this is possible apparently thanks to a seemingly tiny update Facebook pushed yesterday to their iPhone app. Version 3.4.4 seemed like a small version that restored the “Send” button for comments and chat among a few other little...

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  • You may have purchased an iMac between May and July of 2011. You may have also equipped those iMac’s with a 1TB hard drive. If you did, you may be noticing some issues, possibly the fact that it failed. Apple understands your issues, and they have began a replacement program to get you a new hard drive. As long as you registered your Mac, Apple has been emailing you already about a replacement, but you may not have registered your Mac. If you are part of that group, follow the source link below to get to replacing it. Just throw in your serial number and it will check to see...

    Apple begins replacement program for iMacs with 1TB Seagate HDDs

    Posted on July 24, 2011 | View Comments
    You may have purchased an iMac between May and July of 2011. You may have also equipped those iMac’s with a 1TB hard drive. If you did, you may be noticing some issues, possibly the fact that it failed. Apple understands your issues, and they have began a replacement program to get you a new hard drive. As long as you registered your Mac, Apple has been emailing you already about a replacement, but you may not have registered your Mac. If you are part of that group, follow the source link below to get to replacing it. Just throw in your serial number and it will check to see...

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