The Peter Principle is a principle articulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter…
Month: November 2012
Google brings more secure, sandboxed Flash plugin to Chrome for Mac
Nearly three months after delivering a more secure, modernized Flash plugin…
Nokia announces ‘HERE’ maps application for Apple’s iOS devices
Today Nokia introduced HERE, with which Nokia aims to inspire a new generation of…
Beleaguered RIM CEO confident of BlackBerry 10 success
Thorsten Heins, CEO of beleaguered RIM, says, “I don’t expect things to get much worse”…
Apple stops selling customer protection plan in Italy
Apple Inc has stopped selling a customer protection plan that raised concerns…
IT Enquirer reviews Adobe Illustrator CS6: The dark interface rises
When I started to review Illustrator I was charmed by the ability to draw in perspective…
SugarSync 2.0 beta takes on Dropbox with modern design and iDisk-like virtual drive
Cloud storage and file-syncing service SugarSync today announced the launch…
Final Cut Pro X: What’s still missing after the 10.0.6 update
Final Cut Pro X is my NLE of choice…
Apple gobbles up more office space in Cupertino and Santa Clara
Apple’s real-estate footprint grew by 31 percent in a single year…
As Apple’s iPad sales grow, PC replacement cycle slows
PC market growth has been decelerating for some time now and will continue…
U.S. wealthy dump assets amid ‘fiscal cliff’ worries
For many of the wealthy, 2012 is becoming a good year to sell…
Apple granted U.S. design patents for iBooks page-turning animation, iPad Smart Case
Among the multitude of patents Apple was awarded on Tuesday were two design…
Bill Gates backed Steve Ballmer in Sinofsky ouster
Gates supported the move by Ballmer…
Why Apple couldn’t make the iPad mini with a Retina display
It’s easy to say the iPad mini should have a Retina display, but…
Next year, Apple and Microsoft could make 600% more from Android than Google
Google’s mobile operating system Android may be winning the smartphone wars…
Apple Stores dominate retail with double the sales per sq. ft. of nearest rival, Tiffany & Co.
The retail industry is changing faster than ever these days, with most of the attention…
Watching Apple stock for signs of a bottom; huge buying opportunity looms
I would be watching AAPL very carefully over the next week or two…
Doug Kass: Buy Apple
Doug Kass may be popular as an Apple (AAPL) bear, but with the company’s stock in decline…
Marc Faber: Prepare for a massive market meltdown
he markets are going to go into meltdown soon so expect stocks to lose…
Windows head Steven Sinofsky out at Microsoft
Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company…
Apple gives in to employee perks; CEO Tim Cook pushes benefits long shunned by Steve Jobs
When it comes to keeping employees happy, Apple Inc. appears to be taking some inspiration from Google Inc…
Woz puts Los Gatos, California house on market for $4.5 million
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, a.k.a. Woz, former Los Gatos mansion…
Pure search engine DuckDuckGo sees usage soar
Gabriel Weinberg’s search engine DuckDuckGo does not track users…
Outlandish antivirus tech titan McAfee wanted for murder in Belize
One of the men credited with inventing antivirus software…
Beleaguered RIM to unveil BlackBerry 10 on January 30, 2013
Research In Motion Ltd. plans to showcase the first two of its BlackBerry 10 smartphones…
Apple’s stock price: No news is good news; good news is bad news
Apple went from being irrelevant to being too big without passing through…
Text messages decline for first time ever in Q3, thanks to Apple’s iMessage, Wi-Fi, and others
The amount of text messages sent during Q3 2012 showed the first decline ever…
Microsoft Windows RT and 8 sales: Signs point to a major flop
All signs point to the Surface with Windows RT selling slowly…
Jury bombshell could eliminate Apple’s $1.05 billion victory over Samsung
During the summer patent trial involving Apple and Samsung, jurors found…
Analyst: Apple shares ‘poised to rebound’
Apple’s fundamentals are intact…
HTC initiated settlement talks with Apple after being hit with several legal setbacks, says source
HTC Corp. will pay licensing fees to Apple Inc. as part of its settlement agreement…
Ballmer: Microsoft Surface sales ‘modest’
Sales of Microsoft’s new Surface tablet have been ‘modest,’ according to Monkey Boy Ballmer…
Analyst: HTC settlement worth up to $8 per phone for Apple; serve as model for future deals with Apple patent infringers
With HTC expected to ship up to 35 million smartphones in 2013…
Innovation is a fight: What Scott Forstall’s departure from Apple might mean
Executive rearrangements have been going on at Apple for years…
Convicted Apple patent infringer Samsung hikes chip fab prices on Apple
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest technology firm by revenue…
Study: iPads improve speed and ease of reading for people with moderate vision loss
People who have eye diseases that damage their central vision can regain the ability…
Scientists: Beleaguered RIM’s BlackBerry phone could cause allergic reaction
BlackBerry or iPhone? It’s been a battle for years, but Apple’s smartphone offering may be healthier…
Apple begins iPhone 5S, next-gen iPad, Apple ‘iTV’ pre-production for early 2013, sources say
Apple is up to something. This morning reports emanating from…
Jean-Louis Gassée: New all-glass Apple Store Palo Alto big, bold, elegant, impressive – and also unpleasantly, almost unbearably noisy
It has always struck me as odd that in Palo Alto, Apple’s heartland…
Apple shares up in premarket, U.S. ‘fiscal cliff’ remains a worry
U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday as upbeat economic data from China…
Apple and HTC settle global patent battle
HTC and Apple have reached a global settlement that includes…
What Apple can learn from Microsoft about TV
Apple’s current ‘hobby’ — also known as Apple TV — doesn’t tell us much…
