Apple explains why it yanked devices from enviro registry

Apple competent criticism nowadays for pulling its product from a green-electronics certification registry -- simply because the town of San Francisco vowed to prevent shopping for the company's desktops and laptops for that terribly reason.(Credit: Apple)

According to The Loop, Apple said it uses rigorous environmental standards to live its devices, several of that aren't employed by the certification registry. This registry is termed EPEAT and was created by the U.S. government's Environmental Protection Agency and several other device makers (including Apple). EPEAT lists product certified to be recyclable and energy economical.

Here's what Apple's spokesperson Kristin Huguet told The Loop: 

 Apple takes a comprehensive approach to measuring our environmental impact and every one of our product meet the strictest energy potency standards backed by the US government, Energy Star five.2. we tend to additionally lead the business by reporting every product's greenhouse gas emissions on our web site, and Apple product are superior in different necessary environmental areas not measured by EPEAT, like removal of toxic materials.

Apple contains a comprehensive section of its net website dedicated to showing the scale of its carbon footprint, together with different environmental data like its toxin output, carbon emissions, and the way abundant it recycles annually. for example, the corporate shows that in 2011, it estimated it absolutely was to blame for twenty three.1 million metric heaps of greenhouse gas emissions.

EPEAT, however, focuses on hardware recycling instead of measuring toxins and carbon emissions. Recycling may be a massive deal within the laptop world as a result of such a lot of elements are noxious and infrequently find yourself in landfills. so as to induce EPEAT certified, firms have to be compelled to create product that recyclers will simply disassemble and separate dangerous elements, like batteries.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the most recent MacBook professional was "nearly not possible to completely disassemble" as a result of the battery was glued to the case and also the show was glued to the rear. This style basically renders the pc not possible to completely recycle.

Although Apple competent questions on yanking its product from the EPEAT registry, it failed to entirely address the explanation why it set to drag its devices. CNET contacted Apple for extra data and we'll update this report once we hear back

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Retinafied 13-inch MacBook professional not a given, however screens on faucet

Displays that might be used on a 13-inch MacBook professional Retina are slated to start production this quarter, however "business plans" for Apple aren't definite nevertheless, an analyst told CNET.

Retina-class thirteen.3-inch displays with a pixel density of two,560-by-1,600 are slated for production this quarter (Q3), said Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch.

But when this might end in a Retina-endowed 13-inch version of the MacBook professional is unclear at the instant, in step with Shim.

Production of the thirteen.3-inch Retina-class show is a couple of quarter behind the Retina screen employed in the fifteen.4-inch MacBook professional. The PPI (pixels per inch) on the 13-inch show is 227, denser than the 220 PPI of this fifteen.4-inch Retina.

Taipei-based Digitimes, that routinely reports chatter from Asia-based suppliers, saidTuesday that Apple is asking its producing partners to start supplying parts for a replacement 13-inch MacBook professional model within the third quarter.

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Galaxy Tab does not copy Apple styles, U.K. court rules

Galaxy Tab does not copy Apple styles, U.K. court rules

Score one for Samsung Electronics.

After many legal defeats leading to a product ban, Samsung finally got a court to facet with it. the corporate said that the High Court of England and Wales dominated that its Galaxy Tab failed to infringe upon Apple's pill styles, and located fifty totally different recognizable traits.

The victory could be a live of relief once some rough weeks within which a U.S. choose ordered a ban on the Galaxy Nexus, leading to Google pulling it from the Google Play store before putting it keep a copy Saturday. Samsung has filed an attractiveness and also the ban has briefly lifted.

The moves are a part of a broader legal skirmish between the 2 largest smartphone manufacturers within the world, and a part of Apple's legal campaign against Android and any company supporting the operating system. Apple and Samsung have lawsuits filed in several courts round the world, and are probing for a ban or call therefore devastating that each corporations are forced to sit down down and calculate a resolution. So far, either side have solely seen minor victories.

Apple declined to inquire into the ruling, however reiterated its claims concerning the similarities between its merchandise and Samsung's lineup.

"This reasonably blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said over and over before, we'd like to safeguard Apple's intellectual property when corporations steal our concepts," said an Apple representative.

Today's ruling affects 3 versions of the Samsung tablet: the Galaxy Tab ten.1, Galaxy Tab eight.9, and Galaxy Tab seven.7. variations the court cited were the thickness of the devices, front and rear surface styles, and lack of physical buttons.

Samsung said it had requested this voluntary trial to induce prior Apple's claims that Samsung's tablets copy the iPad and its style. Samsung said it welcomed today's ruling.

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Apple offers developers fully-baked Mountain Lion

Apple offers developers fully-baked Mountain Lion

Apple's next major unharness of OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion, is in its final testing stages.

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Apple these days gave developers constant version of the software which will be released to customers later this month.

Mountain Lion is that the followup to last year's Lion, and represents the eighth iteration of OS X. Apple 1st debuted the software in late-February with a preview unharness, and has since followed with some of beta versions that squashed bugs and introduced new options.

As a fast recap, Mountain Lion brings some of iOS options to Macs, together with the notes and reminders apps. It additionally adds many different things, like Twitter integration and Apple's Game Center and iMessage services. there is additionally a replacement security feature known as Gatekeeper, designed to fend off malware by controlling what applications will and can't be put in.

At its annual developers conference last month, Apple said it might unharness the software as a $19.99 update, further as providing it as a free upgrade for anyone who purchased a replacement Mac.

(via Macrumors)Apple has still not provided a firm unharness date for Mountain Lion. Last year the corporate offered a equally general unharness calendar, then shocked watchers by asserting a next-day unharness throughout its third-quarter earnings decision. the corporate may do constant at its upcoming earnings decision, that takes place Tuesday, July 24.

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Apple-friendly lawyers snag iPad3.com domain

A law firm that has worked with Apple now could be in possession of the iPad3.com domain.

Fusible yesterday reported that the Whois record for the domain name has modified, and now, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (KTS), a multinational law firm, owns it. KTS has represented Apple within the past, most notably serving to the corporate in its legal fight against Psystar, the Florida company that was selling computers running Mac OS X.

It's not clear what Apple needs with the iPad3.com domain. Apple buys a bunch of domain names associated with product it sells, and will nothing substantial with them. The purchases are designed solely to make sure that no different company will benefit of its intellectual property. Back in might, for instance, Apple took management of the iPhone5.com domain, when a maneuver within which whole protection agency Corporation Service Company initial took over the domain from an iPhone-focused forum web site. That web site currently has no content.Although the Whois record does not show Apple because the domain's owner, it's quite doable that the corporate can soon take it over. DomainWire reported last month thatApple filed a case with the globe Intellectual Property Organization to require management of the domain from its then-owner world Access from Isle of Man. It seems that no matter Apple and its attorneys did, it worked.

CNET has contacted Apple for inquire into the domain. we are going to update this story once we have additional data.

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Best Buy takes cue from Apple in new retail store design

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The Apple Store has become an academic case on what to try to to right within the retail sector. And it seems Best purchase has taken notice.

The retailer is testing out a brand new prototype that cuts down on floor house and uses a facilitate desk, run by Best Buy's Geek Squad, because the put concentration of the company's layout. The Geek Squad desk permits customers to raise queries and handle problems. per The Wall Street Journal, that took a tour, the desk closely resembles Apple's Genius Bar.

According to the Journal, that is not all Best purchase is mimicking. The prototypes are found out to permit customers to acquire merchandise in an exceedingly host of places throughout the shop, and build product displays slightly less congested and a lot of Apple-like, by using salespeople to share data and ultimately sell merchandise.

On the retail facet, Best purchase plans to shutter fifty of its underperforming U.S. stores, sparking issues that it should be on the decline.Best purchase is in desperate would like of some changes. once Brian Dunn resigned as CEOand founder Richard Schulze left the board, the corporate seems rudderless. there's currently speak of Schulze taking the corporate non-public in an exceedingly leveraged buyout.

Whether a brand new store style can facilitate Best purchase remains to be seen. The company's costs are, in several cases, higher on identical merchandise customers will notice on-line. what is worse for the corporate is that several customers merely attend Best purchase to ascertain a product and then purchase it on-line for a stronger value.

To make its stores a lot of engaging, the Journal says that Best purchase is reducing the number of house dedicated to televisions in its new layout and is increasing house for higher performers, like tablets and smartphones. Overall, Best Buy's prototype store is twenty p.c smaller than the standard locations, per the Journal.

Best purchase is rolling out its new style in sixty of its locations. talking to the Journal, Best purchase's interim CEO Mike Mikan referred to as the new style "Best Buy a pair of.0," adding that it's "catch-up, if you may, however there is rather more to come back."

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Hotel replacing guest phones with iPhones

There's getting ready to be a full ton additional Angry Birds played at the Opus hotel in Vancouver.

The hotel is within the method of swapping out its hotel area phones for iPhones, USA Todayreported these days.

The hotel hopes that its guests, significantly those from the U.S., can savvy to use them and revel in employing a Canadian phone that will not stick them with international roaming fees. this implies guests are going to be ready to take the iPhone from their rooms and use it as they'd their own whereas they are guests of the hotel.

It will come back preloaded with the numbers of the hotel's numerous departments and when the guest checks out, the iPhone's memory are going to be cleaned.

Apparently, this is not the primary time the hotel has embraced mobile technology. In March, the Opus became the primary hotel in Canada to supply an iPad two -- complete with an iPad Virtual Concierge -- in each area.

This comes when news of another hotel -- the U.K.'s Hotel Indigo -- replacing its complimentary Bibles with Kindles preloaded with the e-version of the great Book. What alternative tech gadgets ought to hotels embrace?

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