Eric Slivka
Eric is the Editor-in-Chief of MacRumors and has been writing for the site since 2008.
An avid swimmer and former biophysicist, Eric has been using Apple products for over 35 years and has been interviewed for pieces by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, CNBC, and other publications.
Eric's current primary role involves day-to-day oversight of the editorial operations at MacRumors, but he also contributes occasional news and review articles while handling various other duties related to the site's operation.
An avid swimmer and former biophysicist, Eric has been using Apple products for over 35 years and has been interviewed for pieces by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, CNBC, and other publications.
Eric's current primary role involves day-to-day oversight of the editorial operations at MacRumors, but he also contributes occasional news and review articles while handling various other duties related to the site's operation.
Eric Slivka's Articles
Apple Shareholder Meeting Notes: Directors Reelected, No Change in Jobs' Plans
Dow Jones Newswires (via CNN Money) provides a recap of Apple's annual shareholder meeting held today on the company's campus in Cupertino, the first such meeting without Steve Jobs present since his return to the company in 1997. At the meeting, shareholders voted to reelect the entire Board of Directors and voted down four proposals made by shareholders but opposed by the Board of Directors. Sha...
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Apple Details Recent Enhancements to MobileMe
Apple today posted a MobileMe news article referring to a new new support document detailing recent enhancements to MobileMe. Mail
- Compose window address selector shows all email addresses for contacts, not just home and work addresses.
- Newly added email addresses to Contacts appear in the compose window selector without having to logout and login.
- Improved printing of HTML formatted...
Apple TV 2.3.1 Update Released
Apple last night pushed a minor update for the Apple TV, bringing the system to version 2.3.1. Apple has not yet updated their support page listing changes for each update, although they may only do so for major releases, as the page does not contain an entry for the minor Apple TV 2.0.1 update from last March.
User reports have not noted any obvious major changes to the software, although...
Apple and China Unicom Bringing iPhone to China in May 2009?
ChinaTechNews.com reports that Apple and China Unicom have reportedly struck a deal to bring the iPhone to China. According to their sources, the iPhone will make its appearance in May of this year at the earliest. Foreign media are quoting representatives from Ovum, a British consultancy, as saying that China Unicom and Apple will achieve cooperation soon and if everything goes smoothly, the 3G...
Apple and EMI Music Launch 'iTunes Pass' Short-Term Subscriptions
EMI Music announced today that they have launched the first 'iTunes Pass', providing automatic downloads of all releases from a given artist within a specific time period. The first artist available under this program is Depeche Mode, with the current iTunes Pass [iTunes] available at a cost of $18.99 and good through June 16th, 2009. The first iTunes Pass debuts today in conjunction with Depeche ...
Cha-Ching Coming Soon to iPhone
TUAW provides a sneak peak at Cha-Ching, an upcoming iPhone version of the popular money management software for Mac. Just like the Mac version, Cha-Ching mobile allows you to create multiple account and manage your budget, schedule payments, and add payees. Probably the most amazing feature is the ability to sync all of the data from the Mac version of Cha-Ching wirelessly to your iPhone/iPod...
iPhone on Verizon Rumor Revived
ITExaminer.com revives rumors that an announcement regarding the iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless will be made in the near future. While the deal is so secret that Apple will not even hint that it is happening, the outfit had been trying to find EVDO and CDMA Engineers for months in their online Iphone job postings. While EVDO could cover a wide range of 3G skills, it is more likely that Apple...
Best Buy Offering iPhone Discounts of as Much as $100 to 'Reward Zone' Members
Best Buy this week is offering significant discounts on the iPhone to current members of its Reward Zone loyalty points program. Regular Reward Zone members can save $50, bringing the price to $149 for the 8 GB model or $249 for the 16 GB models. Premier Silver members can save $100, bringing the price down to $99/$199. The offers are good on new iPhones, not refurbished ones as currently...
'AppStore Secrets' : Price Drops, Usage and Ad-Supported Models
Greg Yardley, co-founder and CEO of mobile analytics firm Pinch Media, recently gave a presentation at the New York iPhone Developers Meetup highlighting data gathered from over 30 million App Store downloads of applications utilizing Pinch Media's analytics libraries. The presentation, entitled 'AppStore Secrets', reveals a number of interesting of statistics and conclusions.
Notably, Pinch...
AT&T Again Selling $99 Refurbished iPhone 3G
AT&T is again offering refurbished iPhone 3Gs at $99 for the 8 GB model and $199 for the 16 GB models, a $100 discount from the non-refurbished price and a $50 discount from their standard refurbished price. All sales require a two-year contract.
According to AT&T's site, refurbished iPhones may come with minor cosmetic issues. Refurbished phones are previously owned devices that have been...
New iPod Touch Ad: 'More Fun'
Apple has begun airing a new iPod touch television commercial, entitled More Fun. The ad, which features the iPod touch as a gaming device, features brief clips of over a dozen games available in the App Store, with Franz Ferdinand's No You Girls [iTunes Store] serving as music accompaniment.
The new commercial, which is also available on Apple's iPod touch ad gallery, continues Apple's...
'Documents To Go' for iPhone Shown at Mobile World Congress
At this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, The iPhone Blog was able to get a hands-on demonstration of the upcoming iPhone version of Documents To Go from DataViz. Documents To Go, which currently provides editing capabilities for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to a variety of mobile platforms, is planned for release on the iPhone sometime in the second quarter of this year. ...
Android Market to Offer 24-Hour Return Policy on Apps
In the wake of recent announcements regarding upcoming mobile application stores on platforms other than the iPhone, additional details about these new stores are beginning to come to light.
Notably, Androinica reports that Google's Android Market is offering a 24-hour return policy on application purchases. App browsing is a breeze when all of the products are free to try, so how will that...
'South Park' Application Rejected From App Store
Boing Boing reports that an official South Park application, demoed and submitted to Apple in October, has been rejected for inclusion in the App Store. According to an e-mail received by Boing Boing from a member of the South Park team, the application was deemed by Apple to be "potentially offensive". "We first announced our iPhone App back in October, after we submitted the Application to...
17" Unibody MacBook Pro Orders Begin Arriving
Two MacRumors readers (123free, UFOGoldorak) have reported receiving their orders for the new 17" unibody MacBook Pro today. UFOGoldorak has also posted preliminary benchmarks for the 2.93 GHz model with 4 GB of RAM.
Image posted by MacRumors member '123free'
Originally planned for late January availability, Apple in early February informed customers of a delay that would result in...
AMBER Alert Coming Soon to iPhone
CNET reports on the upcoming release of AMBER Alert, a free iPhone application providing notifications of AMBER Alerts, which are issued throughout the United States by law enforcement agencies in response to confirmed reports of child abductions. According to the application's author, Jonathan Zdziarski, AMBER Alert will provide real-time notification of alerts, complete with photos and...
Smule Raises $3.9 Million in Venture Capital
MacDailyNews reports that Smule, creators of the popular iPhone applications Ocarina [App Store] and Zephyr [App Store], have raised $3.9 million in a round of venture capital financing led by Granite Ventures. Bessemer Venture Partners, the lead investor in Smule's first round, participated in this new round alongside existing investors Jeffrey C. Smith, co-founder and CEO of Smule, and Maples...
Nevada Casinos Watching for iPhone-Toting Card Counters
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Nevada Gaming Control Board has alerted the state's casinos to the existence of card-counting programs for the iPhone and iPod touch. Card counting is a strategy for card games mostly commonly applied to blackjack in which a player tracks the values of cards being played to determine when the cards remaining to be dealt are more likely to be in the...
MobileMe File Sharing Now Available
Apple has announced on their MobileMe news page that they have enabled file sharing via iDisk. We're pleased to announce that you can now use your MobileMe iDisk to share files with others simply and easily. Instead of attaching a large document to an email and hoping it's not too big to be received, you can place the file in your iDisk and use the new Share File command in the iDisk web app. It ...
Apple Releases Security Updates, Addresses Safari RSS Vulnerability
Apple today released several security-related updates through Software Update and Apple's Support Downloads site.
Security Update 2009-001 addresses a number of vulnerabilities detailed in the update's support document, notably including the Safari RSS vulnerability disclosed in mid-January. Multiple input validation issues exist in Safari's handling of feed: URLs. The issues allow execution of ...
