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Apple Looking to Secure iPhone OS Booting and Installation

Apple is looking to strengthen the security of its iPhone OS by hiring “a talented and inspired manager to lead a team [...] responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats.&rdq...

3 November 2009
09:14 GMT

Apple 'Updating' Retail Store Staff, Equipment Ahead of Holiday Season

A report over at ifoAppleStore reveals that Apple has decided to make a few adjustments with its retail establishments and the employees in charge with selling its products. Staffers will not be differentiated by the color of their T-shirt anymore, while the EasyPay portable computers they carry around with them will...

28 October 2009
05:47 GMT

Apple Is Training Support Staff on Snow Leopard

Reliable sources have informed the people at macenstein of ongoing Snow Leopard training sessions for Apple’s Support staff. The respective sources also tell the site that Apple is most likely launching the software this week, on the 28th, as previously rumored. Citing “reliable sources out west,” m...

24 August 2009
06:14 GMT

Apple Hiring 'At-Home' Tech Support Personnel

A document seen by the people at Cult of Mac reveals that Apple is planning to hire about 450 “At Home” technical support staff in various cities across the U.S. Apple's new-gen staff will do the work of technical support right from the comfort of their own “ergonomically fitted chair” &n...

18 May 2009
04:21 GMT

Apple Lays Off 1,600 Staffers, SEC Filings Show [Updated]

According to recent SEC filings, Apple's retail locations had 14,000 full-time employees at the end of Q2 2009. The figures show a 1,600 drop from the previous quarter, with the average revenue per store declining by 17%, falling to $5.9 million from $7.1 million in 2008. Nevertheless, Apple's revenue grew ...

27 April 2009
03:22 GMT

Prison Staff Unencrypted Information Lost

British prisoners are not the only ones affected by personal information loss. The News of the World tabloid claims that prison workers are in the same situation of having their personal data in the open, technically at anyone's disposal, once a portable hard-drive disk got lost. Names, birthday dates, ins...

8 September 2008
04:35 GMT

Apple Wants iPhone Hacker

As of late, Apple's Job Opportunities page features an opening spot for iPhone hackers. That's right. If you are knowledgeable in "OS security and UNIX internals" and are familiar with "reverse engineering and security communities," you're the man for the job.Following reports saying that a jailbreakin...

28 July 2008
04:53 GMT

Apple Instructs Staff What to Say About iPhone 3G

Apple has started handing out an internal iPhone 3G Frequently Asked Questions document to its Apple Retail Store staffers worldwide to inform them of what they should tell customers about the new device. AppleInsider has revealed that Apple is still struggling with the activation procedures but that useful informati...

26 June 2008
18:11 GMT

Apple 'Stealing' Other Companies' Employees

Apple has started a somewhat aggressive initiative to nab good working citizens from other companies using enticement cards saying "You're amazing. We should talk." Existing Apple Store employees are encouraged to hand these cards to whomever they bump into that seems appropriate for a position at the Apple Reta...

6 June 2008
05:44 GMT

Apple Retail Store Staff Adopts New Uniforms, Slogans

Starting today, the Apple Retail Store staff is getting new uniforms, while three job titles have been renamed. The Mac Genius is "Genius", Mac Specialists are now simply called "Specialists", and Business Consultants are now dubbed "Business Partners," bearing a dark-blue shirt that says "Business" on it, "to provid...

5 May 2008
03:56 GMT

Confirmed: AMD Will Start Slashing Jobs

Despite the fact that AMD dismissed the layoff rumors presented by us last month, industry sources have now confirmed that the chip manufacturer is gearing up to shed some more jobs until April 15. According to the sources, AMD informed its key partners that the company will enter a staff restructuring process that w...

3 April 2008
06:03 GMT

Yahoo Senior Vice President Quits

The metaphor of rats leaving a sinking ship does not cover the quality of the people that have put Yahoo! behind, but it is very good for explaining the mass exodus from the Sunnyvale-based company. Joining the long and stunning list is Tim Cadogan, Senior Vice President of Search, Listings and Display Marketplaces.A...

3 March 2008
05:08 GMT

Defense Ministry Tracks Officials Through GPS Cellphones

Japan's Defense Ministry thought of GPS enabled mobile phones to be the greatest solution for locating its staff. They frequently need to know exactly where their senior bureaucrats and senior Self-Defense Forces officers are even in their free time, for taking care of emergencies.The intention has all chances o...

1 November 2007
11:58 GMT


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