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Month: October 2013
OS X Mavericks, RSS and Notification Center
Mavericks Notification Center does not natively handle RSS feeds, but…
J.D. Power jumps the shark: Ranks Samsung tablets better than iPad entirely due to cost
J.D. Power and Associates released a new study on tablet customer satisfaction…
Apple’s yellow iPhone 5c is a lemon
The most popular color for the iPhone 5c is blue…
Apple’s increasing cultural influence illustrates ‘Obama crash’
Apple’s increasing visibility on the personal computing desktop…
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling ‘open’ source by any means necessary
Six years ago, in November 2007, the Android Open Source Project…
Apple and planned obsolescence or lack thereof
The thing is, it is actually true that there’s planned obsolescence, but…
The Quantum Leap in retail: In fiscal 2013 there were 395 million visits to Apple Retail Stores
Except for seasonal peaks, the visitors per store per quarter has been…
A day in the life of Piper Jaffray’s Apple analyst Gene Munster
Gene Munster is known in some circles as the “Apple Oracle”…
Macworld reviews Pages 5.0 for Mac: Apple writes a new chapter for its word processing application
Pages 5.0 is not an upgrade, it is a brand new application…
New U.S. FAA rules to allow wider use of iPads, iPhones in flight (except for phone calls)
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration…
Apple’s 2013 R&D spending up 32 percent vs. last year, 87 percent over 2011
Whatever Apple is working on, it’s clearly requiring additional money…
Claim forms sent to ‘Apple Class Members’ for iPad 3G unlimited data lawsuit
On Wednesday, the forms were distributed via email to customers who ordered a 3G-enabled iPad…
Apple’s capital expenditures to rise to $11 billion for fiscal 2014
Apple Inc. plans to increase spending on manufacturing equipment…
Strangely, Apple abandons OS X Mavericks trademark in Canada
With absolutely no explanation or reasoning…
Amid supply constraints, most plentiful ‘Space Gray’ iPhone 5s, blue iPhone 5c were most popular colors in U.S.
According to new color preference data…
U.S. NSA secretly infiltrated Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications…
Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air benchmarks are insane
From a performance standpoint the iPad Air is a great upgrade to the iPad (4th Generation)…
An Apple – China Mobile deal may be imminent, but it isn’t driven by 4G
My sources tell me that China Mobile’s 4G network…
Dell stinks: Pissed-off Dell Windows PC craptop sufferers complain of strong cat pee stench
Dell laptop users have been subjected to very unpleasant ‘cat urine’ odor…
Job postings suggest Apple Maps may get public transit directions next
The Maps Public Transit Engineering Manager and Maps Public Transit C++ Software Engineer job…
Bloomberg News reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: Hands-down the best tablet on the market
I’ve been using the iPad Air for a week now and it’s hands-down the best tablet on the market…
Avril Lavigne’s new self-titled album, one of the best pop records of the year, now streaming on Apple’s iTunes Radio
Yes, that’s right. You heard me…
Like the 64-bit iPad Air? Apple to expand to adjacent technologies in 2014
At the company’s earnings call on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
CNET reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: The best full-size tablet, Editors’ Choice
With this, the fifth generation of the iPad line…
Why Apple will buy beleaguered BlackBerry or something
BlackBerry was once the most popular smartphone maker in the world…
AnandTech reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: In a completely different league
I haven’t come across anyone in the ARM camp that can compete with what Apple has built here…
iPad Air’s Apple A7 chip identical to the iPhone’s, but with higher clock speed
For the first time since the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S shared the A5 SoC…
Intel set to abandon moribund TV project, sell assets to Verizon, sources say
Intel’s efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close…
USA Today’s Baig reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: Best of breed, superior to each and every rival
This latest full-size Apple tablet is the most tempting iPad yet…
I hit Apple’s EPS dead on for 2nd quarter in a row; here are my initial December quarter estimates
I projected Apple’s (AAPL) September quarter’s EPS would be…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer mysteriously buys 114-year-old funeral home
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is building a mystery…
Mossberg reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: ‘The best tablet I’ve ever reviewed’
Apple has sold 170 million iPads in just 3½ years…
Fox News reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: Best in class
Until now, size wasn’t the deciding factor between the full-size Apple iPad and the iPad mini…
The Independent reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air: Super-light and most powerful
This is the super-light iPad…
Apple will continue to ignore Android market share stats all the way to the bank
Android can have the Hee Haw demographic. Apple doesn’t want it or need it…
Apple sets foundation to build upon for the next decade plus
Some Apple employees are starting to grumble that, under Mr Cook…
Apple rumors that never came true
Everybody loves to read about the latest Apple rumors…
OS X 10.9 Mavericks: 10 cool features Apple forgot to mention
Apple’s latest desktop operating system, OS X Mavericks…
Why does Apple CEO Tim Cook keep talking about new Apple products?
Why all this talk of new products?
Apple opens new East Coast U.S. AppleCare center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Apple has opened up a secondary dedicated AppleCare repairs warehouse…
Steve Jobs’ childhood home, where Apple was born, finally added to list of historic Los Altos properties
Steve Jobs built the first 100 Apple 1 computers at the Crist Drive home…