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Month: December 2012

Apple’s MacBook Air, iPad helped kill the netbook

Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:42 pmThursday, December 27, 201215 Comments

Netbooks were supposed to be the future of portable computing…

U.S. retail sales down 3.5% in week before Christmas, online shopping up 40.4% YOY as Apple iPad, iPhone led retail shopping

Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:44 pm4 Comments

U.S. retail sales fell 2.5 percent last week from a year earlier…

Chinese court hits Apple with $165,000 fine in iBookstore copyright dispute

Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:10 pm11 Comments

A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan…

Apple in 2012: The world’s most valuable public company

Thursday, December 27, 2012 1:01 pmThursday, December 27, 20126 Comments

Apple had quite the year, refreshing the majority of their product lines…

Apple iPad dominates U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic with 87% share in December

Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:35 pm11 Comments

This Christmas season has a high likelihood of being the biggest ever when it comes to iPad sales…

Conditions at Apple suppliers’ factories in China improving

Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:52 amThursday, December 27, 201213 Comments

Apple, the electronics industry’s behemoth, in the last year has tripled its corporate social responsibility staff..

Apple patent app describes storing rotational wind energy via heat in new on-demand electricity generator

Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:26 amTuesday, January 8, 201332 Comments

In a new patent application published by the US Patent Office this morning…

ForeSee Online Holiday Customer Satisfaction Study: Apple Store Online drops to four-year low

Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:48 amThursday, December 27, 201216 Comments

Internet-retail giant Amazon remains at the head of the class…

Apple and Intel secretly building Bluetooth smartwatch that connects to your iOS devices, say sources

Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:16 amThursday, December 27, 201244 Comments

Apple and Intel are jointly building a Bluetooth-equipped smart wristwatch…

Apple’s Tim Cook made $4.175 million in 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:56 amThursday, December 27, 201210 Comments

Consumer electronics giant Apple today filed documents with the SEC…

Sharp’s sale of Nanjing plant to Hon Hai on hold, says source

Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:46 amThursday, December 27, 20122 Comments

Sharp Corp’s plan to sell its Nanjing plant in China to Taiwan’s Hon Hai…

Apple to move Mac mini production line to U.S., sources say

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 11:02 pm43 Comments

Apple is reportedly set to move its Mac mini production lines back to the US with Foxconn…

Report: Apple dumps Samsung for Unimicron in ARM flip-chip business

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 6:01 pm30 Comments

Apple has dumped Samsung’s SEMCO for its important flip-chip chip scale package…

U.S. stocks fall as retailers slump ahead of fiscal cliff deadline

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 5:32 pm2 Comments

U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lower for a third day…

Gotcha! Apple leverages Samsung’s EU antitrust problems, recent statement in U.S. ITC investigation

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 5:00 pm15 Comments

Apple’s notice informs the ITC of Samsung’s “remarkable about-face [last] week”…

Samsung, Google could be fined billions over abusive efforts to ban Apple sales in Europe

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:41 pmWednesday, December 26, 201214 Comments

Samsung and Google could face fines running to billions…

Apple preps annual Lucky Bag sale for Japan retail stores

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 3:31 pmWednesday, December 26, 20126 Comments

Apple’s 2013 Lucky Bag sale for Japan…

Apple patent reveals new process for creating high-quality curved glass

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 3:03 pm6 Comments

Apple’s patented process hinges on a alignment system that’s configured…

Analysts’ amnesia sets up a 2013 value for Apple investors

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 2:02 pmWednesday, December 26, 20125 Comments

Apple entered 2012 as a stock that simply couldn’t rise fast enough…

After Steve: Apple’s 2012 reviewed

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:32 pm6 Comments

This year was the first full year that Apple operated without its iconic co-founder…

Apple at $800: Why it will ‘blow the doors off’ in 2013

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:05 pm15 Comments

Apple has been knocked down over the past three months…

Apple down, stocks add to losses as ‘fiscal cliff’ looms; extremely weak U.S. holiday shopping reported

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:32 pmWednesday, December 26, 201229 Comments

Stocks added to their gains to trade near session lows in thin trading Wednesday…

Analyst: Apple’s iPad the most popular tablet at retail stores at end of Christmas shopping season

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:00 pmWednesday, December 26, 20129 Comments

Apple‘s iPad ‘was the most popular device…

Apple’s iPad mini wins because it’s expensive

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 11:20 amWednesday, December 26, 201225 Comments

Look at the iPad mini. People are willing to pay for something of quality…

Steve Jobs’ estate pays up to free impounded mega yacht

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 9:37 amWednesday, December 26, 201231 Comments

Steve Jobs’s superyacht Venus was free to leave Amsterdam port…

2013: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 9:01 amWednesday, December 26, 20128 Comments

Apple must prove it can play defense in 2013, but look to the living room for where Apple will go on the offense…

Tim Cook, 5 things you might not know (with video)

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 8:39 amWednesday, December 26, 20128 Comments

Tim Cook is managing Apple for breakthroughs…

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from MacDailyNews!

Monday, December 24, 2012 10:14 pm67 Comments

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

European Commission says Samsung’s pursuit of Apple was abusive

Monday, December 24, 2012 2:00 pmMonday, December 24, 201226 Comments

Samsung’s pursuit of injunctions against Apple in the courts of various European countries is abusive…

Google’s monetization of Android – or lack thereof

Monday, December 24, 2012 12:42 pmMonday, December 24, 201243 Comments

Android cannot be half as good or as important as Google claims…

Apple plans massive expansion of iPad mini production for 2013

Monday, December 24, 2012 11:06 amMonday, December 24, 201219 Comments

The dramatic increase is directly due to…

David Kirkpatrick: Apple enthusiasm not diminished; John Sculley: Tim Cook has done a terrific job (with video)

Monday, December 24, 2012 10:56 amMonday, December 24, 201216 Comments

David Kirkpatrick, author of ‘The Facebook Effect,’ and John Sculley…

China to crack down on ‘malicious’ trademark registrations following Apple ‘iPad’ debacle

Monday, December 24, 2012 9:36 am11 Comments

China plans to change the law to crackdown on ‘malicious’ trademark registrations…

iPad (5th gen.) due March 2013; Apple preps iPad mini with Retina display, says source

Monday, December 24, 2012 8:42 amMonday, December 24, 201221 Comments

iPad (5th gen.) is to be released in March 2013…

Why analysts and the media were wrong about Apple’s iPhone 5 in China

Sunday, December 23, 2012 1:23 pm37 Comments

On Dec. 14, Apple’s stock dropped about 4% on reports that Chinese consumers…

Why Apple needs a really expensive iPhone

Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:44 pm69 Comments

Apple doesn’t need a cheaper iPhone…

Apple changes Lightning spec after almost killing Kickstarter ‘POP’ portable charging station

Saturday, December 22, 2012 12:42 pm28 Comments

Apple will now allow its Lightning adapter to coexist with the older 30-pin adapter…

Apple debuts new Christmas-themed TV ad for iPad, iPad mini, and FaceTime (with video)

Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:12 amSaturday, December 22, 2012107 Comments

Apple last night debuted a new television advertisement…

Samsung hit with EU antitrust complaint over Apple injunctions

Friday, December 21, 2012 11:19 pm16 Comments

Samsung Electronics Co. was sent an antitrust complaint from the European Union…

Samsung sues Apple in South Korea over iOS Notifications feature

Friday, December 21, 2012 4:30 pm31 Comments

Samsung Electronics has brought a lawsuit against Apple in a court in South Korea…

Wall Street Journal capitulates, deploys Apple’s In-App Subscriptions in new app version

Friday, December 21, 2012 3:33 pmFriday, December 21, 201216 Comments

The Wall Street Journal has updated its main iOS app to support…

Beleaguered RIM shares plummet 20% on news of new fee structure for services

Friday, December 21, 2012 2:31 pm11 Comments

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd dropped 20 percent on Friday…

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