Computer processors keep on shrinking, which improves their power and reduces their energy needs and costs…
Month: November 2012
A pleasant retail surprise from Apple
With a population of nearly 200 million, there’s plenty of opportunity…
Apple ‘slingshot’ in full effect
Well, well. The ‘Slingshot’ is working overtime…
Orca: Inside team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown
A system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign…
Apple Maps turn-by-turn voice navigation goes live in Australia
Apple has finally rolled out iOS 6 Map’s turn-by-turn voice navigation to Australia…
Google’s Motorola says it wants binding arbitration to resolve Apple’s FRAND patent claims
“Last week I reported on what’s left of the Apple-Motorola FRAND dispute in Wisconsin after the trial was canceled. At this stage it all comes down to the question of whether the dismissal would be with or without prejudice. In the former case, Apple fears that its ability to raise certain FRAND defenses against the […]
8 reasons why Apple’s iPad mini launch should have failed
The process in which Apple’s lineup of iPad’s becomes a PC substitute is happening before our eyes…
First pre-orders of LTE iPad mini and 4th gen. iPad models arriving in U.S.
A number of U.S. customers who pre-ordered LTE models of the iPad mini and…
USA Today survey: 1 in 3 Windows PC users intend on switching to Apple Mac or iPad
One-third of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP users who are ready to buy a new personal computer say they intend to switch to an Apple product…
Steve Jobs vs. Sam Walton: A rare conversation with their biographers
I think I understood everything about Jobs except…
Apple staffers call Taiwanese filmmaker an ‘idiot,’ have police escort him off campus
A Taiwanese writer and director who flew to Hong Kong to confront Apple…
RUMOR: New iMac release date delayed until 2013
Apple’s iMac 2012 range could see its release date slipping into 2013…
Morgan Stanley: iPhone, iPad sales to surge to higher than expected levels over next two quarters
The iPhone 5 and new iPads will trigger a surge in sales for Apple this quarter…
3,600 new Apple iPad minis worth $1.5 million stolen from JFK Airport
A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security…
Euro zone falls into second recession since 2009
The debt crisis dragged the euro zone into its second recession since 2009…
The bear bites Apple
Apple Computer is in a bear market…
Kontra: Is Siri really Apple’s future?
Siri is a promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user…
Microsoft hit with lawsuit over Surface tablet’s lack of storage due to bloated Windows RT operating system
Microsoft’s 32 GB Surface has only 16 GB of free space…
Ballmer suggests more Microsoft-branded devices coming
Ballmer said Microsoft would look at more opportunities to build its own devices…
Beleaguered Microsoft has failed
“Microsoft is in deep trouble, their two main product lines are failing…
Texas Instruments to cut nearly 5% of its workforce
The Dallas company said it expects restructuring charges of $325 million…
If not for an obscure accounting rule, Apple would have beat Street in Q412 EPS
A great many negative articles regarding the future of Apple (AAPL) have been written…
Apple confirms first store in Rio de Janeiro; hiring for Istanbul location
Apple has confirmed the opening of a store brand in Brazil…
Google vs. Samsung
Samsung’s ascent can be precisely timed to their adoption of Android…
Logitech debuts Mac-based video surveillance software
Users can configure, control and view video from you Logitech Alert Security System directly from your Mac…
Analyst ups rating on Apple to ‘Strong Buy’
Apple Inc. (AAPL) may have pulled back substantially from its highs…
Barclays reiterates $800 target price on Apple Inc.
We seem to be in the midst of one of the most controversial periods in Apple’s stock in the last 10 years…
Analysts reiterate $750-$950 price targets on Apple stock
RBC Capital’s Amit Daryanani, reiterating an Outperform rating and a $750 price target…
Samsung: We did not raise chip fab prices on Apple
A Samsung Electronics official has denied reports…
U.S. stocks decline as budget debate concerns, Middle East tensions increase
U.S. stocks fell as concern about the budget debate in Washington and Middle East…
Investors don’t understand Apple’s math – a mistake
One place in today’s market that numbers are misleading are…
Is Apple’s iMessage killing texting after all?
This week carriers saw the first-ever decline in SMS text messaging…
Apple’s iPad mini and the cost of Retina display
Apple’s iPad mini is a conflicted product…
Gartner: Worldwide mobile phone sales shrank 3% in Q312; smartphone sales surged 47%
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units…
iTunes Match: One year in
On November 14, 2011, Apple released iTunes Match…
Apple wins in Microsoft’s vicious cycle of PC abuse
There’s hardly a peep of innovation at companies holding themselves hostage to the PC…
Survey: Apple’s iPad mini creates more demand than it cannibalizes
Few consumers are buying an iPad mini as an iPad replacement…
Boxee CEO: ‘I’m not sure people want everything on demand’
Boxee CEO Avner Ronen has been trying to reinvent TV for years now…
Samsung: Unlike HTC, we won’t settle with Apple
Samsung Electronics Co. does not intend to hold talks with Apple Inc…
Nokia buys Earthmine for 3-D capabilities in map war with Apple
Nokia Oyj, the struggling Finnish smartphone maker, is acquiring 3-D map-technology maker Earthmine…
Intel, Qualcomm may invest $378 million in Sharp, sources say
U.S.-based Intel Corp and Qualcomm Inc are in talks to jointly invest $378 million…
Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biography is a great lesson in economics
The Jobs biography is an amazingly useful economics lesson…
