Amazon Fire Phone is probably the biggest single invasion of user privacy ever…
Month: June 2014
Apple’s new 21.5-inch iMac too cheap?
To cut $200 from the price, Apple ‘decontented’ the cheapest 21.5-inch iMac
Apple HealthKit and HomeKit as major platform innovations
Apple becomes the center of a complex web of business relationships…
Apple fulfills Steve Jobs’ post-PC plan by minimizing the Mac’s importance
Apple fulfills Steve Jobs’ post-PC plan…
Apple and GT Advanced open second sapphire plant in Salem, Massachusetts
A second Apple synthetic Sapphire Plant has been revealed…
Finally! Apple’s iOS 8 exposes just about every manual camera control possible
ISO, shutter speed, focus, white balance, and exposure bias can be manually set…
Analyst: No impact to Apple iPhone from Amazon ‘Fire Phone’
With a long history in computing, we believe Apple is unique…
Apple invents iPhone camera lens actuator made of artificial muscle
Apple’s “artificial muscle camera lens actuator” filing…
Google, Microsoft look to catch up to Apple by incorporating ‘kill switches’ in next mobile OS versions
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will incorporate a ‘kill switch’ into the next versions…
Silicon Valley anticipates payoff from new GOP leader, expected McCarthy ascension
Tech’s early-stage investment in Rep. Kevin McCarthy could produce a prominent payoff…
Apple readies scratch-proof sapphire screens for next-gen 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones
Apple will be using sapphire crystal displays for both sizes…
Amazon launches shopping machine masquerading as a phone
Amazon’s Misfirephone…
With HomeKit and Honeywell’s Lyric, a Nest acquisition by Apple would have been foolish
Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest was interesting…
Amazon Fire Phone’s Firefly feature: Apple’s iPhone already has it
When Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced the new Fire Phone, he ‘forgot’ to mention…
With record repurchases, Apple leads share buyback binge
Apple’s buybacks reduced the company’s overall share count by 7% over the past 12 months…
Apple’s major marketing rethink: Hardly a surprise
We all know that things are different in the post-Steve Apple…
Latest OS X Yosemite developer beta offers early version of ‘dark mode’
Although the dark mode for OS X Yosemite that Apple previewed onstage…
iPhone 6 likely to sport barometer, air pressure sensors to measure altitude, weather
The information regarding the next-generation iPhone…
Amazon shows ‘Fire Phone’ with 4.7-inch ‘3-D’ display to court mobile shoppers
More than seven years after Apple introduced the iPhone…
Adobe releases new ‘Photoshop Mix’ app for Apple iPad
Adobe has a new Photoshop app for iPad out today…
Apple’s Beats headphones banned from World Cup
Neymar likes them Brazil-green…
MacBook: Apple must consider consolidating Air/Pro line this autumn
The MacBook Air has been available since Macworld 2008…
Apple TV software beta delivers iCloud Family Sharing and iCloud Photos features
The latest beta software for the Apple TV brings one of iOS 8′s headline features…
Elcomsoft forensic tool snags iCloud backups without an Apple ID; only works under certain conditions
Moscow-based Elcomsoft has developed a tool to collect iCloud backup files…
How to partition your Mac to test OS X Yosemite
Regardless of whether you’re using the Developer Preview…
Jimmy Lin posts photo of huge 5.5-inch iPhone 6
Jimmy Lin has done it again and shared a picture on his Weibo account…
Apple and Samsung ‘trying to find common ground,’ unnamed Korea Times source claims
Don’t believe everything you read in The Korea Times…
Korean investment firms sour on Samsung
Samsung Electronics’ profitability is expected to deteriorate in the second quarter of this year…
Apple: We are working on new materials, new areas
Materials we haven’t worked in before…
Apple Introduces new entry level 21.5-inch iMac; starts at $1099
Apple today introduced a new 21.5-inch iMac…
Frankel: The weird proviso in Apple’s e-books settlement
There’s a very unusual sentence near the beginning of the letter…
Analyst: Amazon smartphone no threat to Apple’s iPhone, but Android phone makers beware
A day before Amazon’s expected announcement of a new 3-D smartphone…
Google’s YouTube to block indie labels who don’t sign up for its upcoming subscription music service
Independent artists could disappear from YouTube ‘in a matter of days’ after Google…
Nuance, makers of software in Apple’s Siri, explores possible sale to Samsung
Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc…
The big ‘if’ in Apple’s e-book settlement
U.S Federal Puppet Denise Cote…
Apple offers discounts on Hachette books that Amazon won’t sell
Amazon doesn’t want to sell books from Hachette Book Group…
What is ‘below cost’ in e-book pricing?
In short, Apple was sued for working with publishers to get out of a nasty relationship with Amazon…
Apple releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2
Apple today released a new version of OS X Yosemite…
Apple seeds iOS 8 beta 2, new Apple TV Software beta to developers
The new release is available over-the-air in iOS 8’s Settings menu…
Apple’s iPhone 6 release date, rumors and price
Apple’s iPhone 6 is likely to make its debut in…
No, Apple won’t soon be delivering high resolution music
Apple won’t release high resolution downloads for purchase or even a lossless CD quality streaming…
Cable, satellite TV boxes become 2nd biggest energy users in many homes
In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep…
