WhatsApp, the massively popular smartphone messaging app owned by Facebook Inc., is now available in a familiar place…
Month: May 2016
‘Disney Infinity’ shuts down, Disney takes $147 million write-down
Disney may be enjoying a renaissance as the popular cross-media publisher of everything from Star Wars to…
Should Apple buy Netflix for $53 billion?
With the recent cratering of Apple’s stock price, armchair financial pundits are speculating…
Apple shares hit ex-dividend as Cupertino Colossus preps to distribute $2.9 billion to shareholders
On May 12, Apple will pay shareholders of record a quarterly dividend of $0.57 per share, but investors…
Why isn’t Apple’s Siri where ‘Viv’ is by now?
A full third of the original Siri team left Apple to create a brand new intelligent assistant, Viv…
UBS: Apple must jump into ‘bots’ like Facebook, Microsoft
Apple needs to jump into ‘bot’ platform development or its app-based software ecosystem…
Analyst: Enough with the ‘doom and gloom,’ Apple stock is an exceptional value
In our view, the ‘gloom and doom’ sentiment engulfing the Apple story has reached extreme levels…
Watch Neil Patrick Harris rehearsing a thank you speech with Siri in Apple’s new iPhone 6s TV ad
Apple’s latest iPhone 6s TV ad, “Thank You Speech” has debuted on U.S. network and cable broadcast television..
Apple granted a waterproofing patent for liquid contact sensors
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 65 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today…
How to use one Mac in multiple rooms
I want to buy one iMac and use it in three different adjacent rooms…
FileMaker 15 released, platform enables custom app development with greater mobility, automation, performance and security
Today FileMaker, Inc. announced the latest release of its highly successful custom app platform, FileMaker 15…
Apple hit with $2.8 billion patent lawsuit over FaceTime and iMessage
VoIP-Pal announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Apple in a U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada…
Tim Cook’s talk is cheap: Apple is much different now than it was under Steve Jobs
Actions speak louder than words…
Canalys: Apple continues to lead the worldwide PC market
Worldwide PC shipments (desktops, notebooks, two-in-ones and tablets) totaled 101 million units in Q1 2016…
$50 price cut spurs 250% jump in Apple Watch purchases
Average daily Apple Watch sales rose 250% sequentially, according to new metric…
Why ‘shrinking’ iPhone sales means bad news for Android phone peddlers
It’s particularly interesting that Apple CEO Cook sees coming up with ‘great products that people desire’ and tempting ‘Android switchers’ as separate tasks. That’s because they are…
Apple Music Connect: Ping redux
Apple Music Connect is going to be one of a long line of Apple software and services that is rolled out and ignored…
Apple Watch health and fitness labs, inspired by Steve Jobs, still operating overtime
You might have thought that the health & fitness labs Apple created to help develop the Apple Watch…
Canadian banks, including ‘the Big Five,’ sign on for major Apple Pay expansion
CIBC and RBC are supporting MasterCard, VISA and American Express credit cards as well as debit cards, while ATB…
Bad news for Fragmandroid: FCC and FTC launch inquiry over mobile security updates
The FTC said it had ordered eight companies to explain the process for issuing security updates…
The real reason why Apple made the Apple Watch
I recently spent time with Apple executives involved with the Apple Watch…
IDC: Apple’s App Store captured 58% of direct revenue in 2015, an increase of 36% year over year
Apple is expected to continue outperforming Google Play in terms of revenue generation…
iPhone SE is Apple’s Trojan Horse
It seemed like an eternity for Apple to move to an iPhone display form factor larger than 4-inches, but then it finally happened…
Former Facebook workers: We routinely suppressed conservative news
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network…
After failed takeover talks with Apple, Imagination Technologies sells stake to state-owned Chinese company
Tsinghua Unigroup International has purchased a stake in Imagination Technologies…
Bernstein: Apple buybacks matter more than CEO Cook’s media appearances
Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi this morning weighs in on Apple CEO Tim Cook’s appearance a week ago on Jim Cramer…
Apple alum and billionaire NBA owner Robert Pera’s plan to revolutionize home WiFi
Though he received his start at Apple Inc., Ubiquiti Networks Inc. founder and Chief Executive Robert Pera…
Claimed design sketch of iPhone 7 shows identical height and width to iPhone 6s
A claimed design sketch of the iPhone 7 shows identical dimensions to the iPhone 6s…
Apple preps iPhone SE launch in Brazil; entry-level 16GB model costs $766
The 4-inch phone, Apple’s cheapest device to date, should be available in Brazil as of this month at US$766 for the entry model with 16GB…
Meet Viv, the next-gen AI assistant, from the creators of Siri
Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple’s iconic digital assistant…
Apple destroyed my will to collect music
I decided enough was enough. I was going to figure out how to use iTunes and Apple Music if it killed me. It almost did…
Inventor of the cellphone says this is the next big thing
Marty Cooper, who built the first handheld cell phone, says his invention has a glaring flaw…
Should you disable Touch ID for your own security?
A court recently required a convicted felon, immediately following her sentencing, to unlock a phone with her fingerprint…
Why Apple Pay beats chip cards
Many merchants and retail workers are watching their lives play in slow motion when they process credit cards…
Apple’s Swift programming language drives enterprise mobile rethink
SAP SE on Friday shared more details with CIO Journal on its Apple Inc. partnership aimed at creating…
Radiohead blackball Spotify as new album hits Apple Music
Thom Yorke just got his own back on Spotify. The Radiohead star has famously had some strong words to say about the Swedish streaming service…
Audio-Technica’s ATH-M50x headphones live up to the hype; something of an ‘anti-Beats’
All of the ranges — lows, mids and highs — sound crisp and clear…
Can Tim Cook and company raise the shroud over Apple shares?
The fact that Apple closed out last week at the lowest point it has since June of 2014 is not news to any long-suffering shareholder…
iPhone sales surge 56% in India as Apple eats into Samsung’s high-end share
Indians aged 25 or younger have shown interest in buying the best products available…
One of the least expensive Lightning cables is also the fastest
One of the fastest Lightning cables is also the cheapest and Apple MFi Certified…
Podcasts surge, but producers fear Apple isn’t listening
Podcasting is an industry now, one that Apple essentially gave life to and still dominates, but…
Tune out the negativity: Apple will rise again soon
Apple Inc. defines the times we live in…
