A bidder has won an hour-long coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook to the tune of $610,000.
The auction was organized by CharityBuzz and the proceeds of the auction will go to the RFK Center for Justice and human Rights.
The bidder, along with a companion if he or she gets invited by the winning bidder, will have a 30-minute to 1-hour coffee date with Cook at Apple’s Cupertino, California campus talking about anything.
The bidder has a year to come up with a time that is mutually agreed upon …

The most criticized point of the iPhone 5 is related to iOS 6 and replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps that have proven to bring many errors, too simple, too few features. There were also some big leaks in the application.
Naturally Apple has to pull to provide a similar experience with Google Maps that have reached a very high level of detail over a period of time, lasting longer. The Cupertino based company started to build a team increasingly larger and already the first positive results …

Apple CEO Tim Cook just apologized to the whole world and mostly Apple fans and customers for the failures of the newly unveiled iOS 6 maps.
However, more than apologizing for iOS 6 maps, Tim Cook went a step further and recommended other maps services like the very Google Maps Apple shunned with their new maps service.
The apology and recommendation comes as Tim Cook is being closely watched as the successor to the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
Jobs resigned as Apple CEO on August last year …

It does not happen too often that Apple recognizes a defeat, especially in an open letter to recommend competing products as temporary alternatives to their iOS 6 maps services.
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, has released an open letter in which he publicly apologize for the failure with the iOS 6 Maps application, recognizing that it was not up to the promised standards. He continues his message recommending alternatives to Apple customers until Maps will be brought to an acceptable quality level. Among …

Despite giving the chief executive officers, Tim Cook of Apple and Kwan Oh Hyun of Samsung, time to settle things off court in a personal chat, it’s not surprising the presiding judge on both companies’ patent infringement cases against each other received a somewhat expected result: moving forward to the jury’s verdict.
US District Judge Lucy Koh had ordered the two CEOs of both companies to try and talk things over outside of court, and she felt “pathologically optimistic” …

APPLE CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Kwan Oh Hyun reportedly talked to each other personally in an attempt to resolve both companies’ legal skirmishes about patent infringements in an out of court settlement.
Yesterday, Bloomberg said an unnamed source reported that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung will hold an allegedly private phone call to try and fix their mobile patents dispute ahead of a decision from a US jury. US District Judge Lucy Koh who oversees their case will be the first to hear …

Like a superstar athlete people are used to seeing have stellar performance all the time, a solid second calendar quarter for Apple was not enough and left people wanting more.
Apple has just reported its performance for the fiscal third quarter of 2012 but even though the numbers from the iPhone-maker are solid, the company still declined in the market after it missed estimates on Wall Street.
At the crux of the matter is a cool down of demand for the iPhone. Peter Oppenheimer, chief financial …

Tim Cook has announced that the Apple App Store now has over 30 billion downloads, a mark that places the closest competition next to nil.
The Apple CEO gave a keynote at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco earlier this week, where he revealed the thumping 30 billion downloads milestone, which is 16 billion more than last year’s mark announced at the WWDC 2011.
After a comedy routine from voice-based virtual assistant Siri to open the program, Cook …

Tim Cook Apple CEO says he isn't trying to be like Steve Jobs (Image: kazwoo215 (CC) via Flickr)

At the “D: All Things Digital” conference held in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Apple CEO Tim Cook clarified his position with regards to following the footsteps of the famous Steve Jobs.
Cook pointed out that there are some things he did differently during his term, which include better examination of Chinese manufacturing operations and expanding humanitarian efforts. He also …

Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Image: Valery Marchive (LeMagIT), via Wikimedia Commons / CC)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is the highest earning chief executive in the US after receiving more than $1 million daily for helming the company last year.
The Wall Street Journal published a list of highest earning CEOs in the US, which shows Cook sitting on his perch atop counterparts.
The report says he earned $378 million in 2011 from a combination of salary and stock, but mostly from the latter as he has …