Apple may forgive $439 million loan to bankrupted sapphire supplier

We took the time a couple of years ago to visit GT Crystal Systems, a subsidiary of GT Advanced Technologies, to find out how sapphire displays were made. It’s been a long time since we’ve even entertained the thought of an iPhone (or

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The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 038

Sometimes you just have to schedule a podcast a few hours before a major news event, and as a result you’ve got to scramble to come up with some valid-sounding speculation about just how useful a Facebook Phone could really be. It’s not like we haven’t tossed this notion around before, but doing it on the air, off-the-cuff, imbues our lives with a certain energy, a certain je ne sais quoi, if you will. Or even if you won’t. Whatever; we have a good time riffing. You’ll listen and like it! Ahem. All that, plus some chat on just how big a copycat LG’s ...

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