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Month: December 2015
Apple shares to close year with worst performance since 2008
Shares of Apple Inc, the largest U.S. company by market value, are set to finish the year…
Apple wants to let you make payments through Messages, Mail, Phone, and Calendar
Apple is not only looking at allowing people to send money over its text messaging service, but other services built into the iOS platform…
AT&T killing off two-year phone contracts on January 8th
AT&T has been making a push away from two-year contracts and subsidized device prices for smartphones…
Apple looks to close out 2015 on a losing note
On the last trading day of 2014, Apple opened at $112.82 per share and closed the holiday shortened trading session down…
With taps on the wrist, Apple Watch points to the future
here was never any doubt that I would buy an Apple Watch on the day it was released…
App showdown: Apple TV vs. Roku vs. Chromecast vs. Fire TV vs. Android TV
App selection should be one of the biggest factors in choosing a streaming media player…
How Apple beats the ‘tough compare’ of holiday iPhone sales
Brean Capital’s Ananda Baruah today pounds the table for shares of Apple, reiterating a Buy rating…
Shareholder resolution looks to force Apple to put more ‘people of color’ in high-profile positions
Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors…
Apple tops list as best tech stock for 2016
Among reasons Apple led the list were expectations of an iPhone 7 launch in September, growing momentum in the wearable category with Apple Watch…
ISIS uses satellite internet to recruit terrorists; companies could immediately cut off ISIS Internet access with ease
No terror organization uses the Internet as successfully when it comes to marketing itself…
Using the new Apple TV to emulate classic game consoles
Supporting most major 8- and 16-bit consoles, including the NES, SNES, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Game Boy, and Game Boy Advance…
Apple unlikely to offer iPhones with OLED screens before 2018
There’s more talk of Apple switching its iPhone displays from traditional LCD screens to flexible OLED panels…
How to make your Apple Watch battery last much longer
When the Apple Watch 2 arrives in 2016, it’s a pretty safe bet that longer battery life is going to be one of the key improvements…
Twitter hires Apple’s director of inclusion and diversity
Twitter Inc hired a former Apple Inc employee as its vice president of diversity and inclusion…
Apple’s rotten year on Wall Street and, look out, here comes Google in the market cap race!
Shares of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hit a fresh all-time high Tuesday, giving it a market capitalization of $541 billion…
Apple Watch: My best tech purchase of 2015 (and I’m as surprised as you are)
I not only buy lots of tech gadgets, I use them every day. New purchases are made with the expectation each will add value…
Apple 2015: The Force awakened, but the rebellion faces yet another Death Star
A not so long time ago, in a galaxy not so terribly far removed from this one, there was a disturbance in the Force…
Google Android’s VP of design says Apple’s iPhone interface is ‘heavy and burdensome’
Google’s Matias Duarte has a problem. In the next ten years he wants to replace the computer on your desk and the phone in your pocket…
Lawsuit seeks millions from Apple for slowing older iPhones with iOS 9 upgrade
The plaintiff asserts Apple engaged in deceptive trade practices and false advertisement by touting iOS 9 as compatible with legacy handsets…
New ‘iPhone 7’ leaks reveal 3 radical design changes
Following new leaks it appears 2016 could well produce Apple’s most radical new iPhone to date…
Apple to pay $348 million to settle Italy tax fraud case
Apple’s Italian subsidiary has agreed to pay €318m (£235m; $348m) following an investigation into tax fraud allegations…
How Apple’s iPad Pro measures up as a photographer’s tool
Photographers have been drawn to the iPad since the first model, hoping it can provide…
Verizon will now pay up to $650 per line, up to ten lines, if you switch to Verizon
You and your family could get up to $6,500 to switch over to Verizon…
Apple Watch could surprise to the upside
I believe the Street is estimating that Apple sold about 5.5 million Apple Watches in the December quarter…
2015: Apple’s year in beta
What we got in 2015 was an Apple that released more products than ever, all of which felt incomplete…
Apple’s 4-inch ‘iPhone 6c’ said to feature A9 processor, 2 GB RAM, and a larger battery
The ‘iPhone 6c’ is expected to feature a 1,642mAh battery, an increase from the 1,570mAh battery found in Apple’s iPhone 5s…
Apple Music and Apple Maps among top 10 U.S. smartphone apps
From videos to music to apps, digital was at the forefront of consumers’ and marketers’ minds this year…
Apple’s next-gen iPhone rumored to be ‘waterproof’
Using new compound materials to hide the next-gen iPhone’s antenna…
Drexel Hamilton analyst pegs Apple among top four 2016 stock picks
For Apple, on which he bestows a $200 price target, he calls it his ‘top mega-cap tech pick for 2016’…
Newly-minted Apple SVP Johny Srouji nets $9.6 million in Apple stock
In his first U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing as Apple’s SVP of Hardware Technologies, Johny Srouji revealed…
Adobe issues emergency patch for new Flash exploit
The vulnerabilities affect those using the plugin in Windows, Mac, and Linux….
Apple patent hints at major interface changes for OS X, iOS, tvOS
Apple has applied for a patent (number 20150370425) with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office…
Steve Jobs tried to recruit Kevin Lynch to Apple after Flash kerfuffle
Steve Jobs personally tried to recruit Kevin Lynch to Apple after the big Flash debate in 2010…
In 2016, Apple needs to focus on HomeKit, Apple Pay, and Maps
Apple has several weaknesses related to the core strength of its existing ecosystems that it needs to address over the coming year…
Will any U.S. presidential candidate give Silicon Valley what it wants most?
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is usually even-keeled when he is on stage or doing interviews…
CNN to air ‘Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine’ on January 3rd
If you’re going to waste your time, know going in that this is just another hit-piece…
Apple files to trademark Beats 2, 3, 4, and 5 Internet radio stations
All four trademark applications have the same logo that Apple uses for its Beats 1 radio station, and are listed under broadcasting and streaming music-related categories…
Apple continues to dominate smart device holiday sales
Christmas is traditionally the biggest day of the year for new smart-device activations and app downloads…
Amazon’s top home audio product this Christmas: A turntable for playing vinyl records
Touting its success this Christmas shopping season, Amazon revealed on Monday that its top selling home audio product…
The reasons why Apple’s shares have been dropping over the past few weeks
I remember a CFO of a large software company telling me that every quarter is the most important one ever to analysts…
The App-ocalypse: Can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?
It’s the apps. The iPhone and Android conquered the world because of the apps…
