Some Chinese brand Lightning headphones require Bluetooth, for a truly wild reason
An engineer with extensive experience of working with Bluetooth found himself bamboozled when told that he needed to enable a…
An engineer with extensive experience of working with Bluetooth found himself bamboozled when told that he needed to enable a…
New York City is suing Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok for allegedly harming children’s mental health. The state of New…
I know, the idea that iPhones will replace DSLRs seems pretty crazy today. But already a little less crazy than…
Michael Hawley – whose many achievements included helping Steve Jobs write his famous ‘stay hungry, stay foolish’ commencement speech –…
The tech world is having to respond to the coronavirus outbreak in a bunch of ways, with a mix of…
Discussions about the role of social networks in the wake of the deadly mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and…
Apple has today launched its Back to School deals for students. Similar to last year, Apple will bundle a free pair…
Earlier this week, I wrote about the surprisingly good Motorola Moto G (2nd Gen) phone I was testing at our publisher’s…
Because Apple won’t report official Apple Watch sales numbers, we have to rely on analyst estimates to get an understanding…
[UPDATE: Video embedded below.] Tim Cook featured at StartupFest this morning, in an interview with Neelie Kroes discussing Apple’s influence in startups…
Your Nest smart thermostat should get a little smarter at some point over the next week as the company rolls…
The White House shared earlier this year that Apple is a participant in President Obama’s ConnectED education program focused on…
It’s 30 years today since Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for what would become the World Wide Web. The inventor…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9TIspgTbLM] CBS posted an excellent interview of David Kelley this evening. Kelley discusses Steve Jobs at 3:00 and then again at 7:40,…
Thinkspace, an organization created by sixteen-year-old James Anderson, seeks to “inspire the next generation of app developers” through dedicated coding…
Update: New MacBooks and Mac minis, not Mac Pros (yet). Full story here. We have been expecting new MacBook Airs…
While Apple has publicly acknowledged that they are tracking a summer release window for their upcoming Mac OS X Lion…
OK, this one comes from way back when in March this year. It’s a film produced by students at ACU explaining the many possible educational and social uses for the iPhone.
All incoming ACU freshmen for 2008 will receive an iPhone or iPod touch. The video’s interesting, though the use of the word “iPhone” does get a little annoying at times.
Another day, another tale or two: The 3G iPhone will be thinner and cheaper, confirms Cult of Mac; one analyst doesn’t believe the 3G iPhone subsidy chatter; Apple has officially launched its Back to School promotion in the US, offering a free iPod touch or iPod nano to students; a batch of new universities join iTunes U; Radiohead catalogue hits iTunes; Firefox to grab 20 per cent or more of the browser market next month. Read on…
Apple’s Mac sales shot up 50 per cent year-on-year in April, driving a 46 per cent spike in revenue, according to the NPD Group.
NPD also revealed that – far from slowing down – iPod sales also jumped 15 per cent that month. And Lehman Brothers analyst Ben Reitzes reckons new Mac laptops – equipped with MacBook Air-type touch technology – are on the way. (And maybe more).
Shaw Wu of American Technology Research has chimed in with his predictions for next week’s special Apple event on September 9 – warning it could be "underwhelming".
"We continue to believe that MacBook Pro and MacBook are due for refreshes with more radical redesigns, but won’t likely be unveiled at this event as the focus appears to be on its non-Mac businesses," he also observed.
Not so underwhelming to matter a great deal – at least, not to Wu, who chose to maintain his Buy rating and 6-12 month price target of $220. We considered rewriting this release with our own special slant, but figured you may want it straight – here’s what Wu writes…
We’ve spoken about Apple’s continuing gains in the education sector, and as its Macs grow more popular the company’s educational teams are also pushing forward the message that its mobile devices – the iPod touch and the iPhone – could play a critical part in the future digital classroom.
It’s no great stretch of the imagination – companies like Studywiz and others have been creating, developing and selling solutions to educators that bridge the gap between classroom and home on the back of the iPod for years now – and the feedback from schools and administrators is that making education interesting, relevant and fun actually generates results.
Despite economic challenges and investor jitters at Apple’s proposed lower-than-anticipated profit margins, current weakness in the stock is a buying opportunity, said American Technology Research analyst, Shaw Wu.
"We continue to see Apple as the best play on digital media in the home and a large beneficiary of the shift to mobile computing," Wu wrote.
Wu also thinks the recession’s bite will be felt first among value-conscious consumers, rather than the slightly higher income customers who form Apple’s base. "In two of its three big franchises, Mac and iPhone, penetration is very low and starting in the higher-income demographics. The disturbance in the macroeconomic environment is within lower-income demographics and financial institutions with exposure and impact to overall liquidity.
Good morning and welcome to Monday, after a pretty quiet weekend on the Apple news front: today’s highlights led by BSkyB taking a shot at iTunes while the US Army has adopted a video surveillance system – based on Macs.
Read on too for some small Mobile Me improvements, the iPhone’s on its way to the United Arab Emirates, Teens love their iPhones (and don’t really ever buy a Zune – who does?), Sirius brings satellite radio to the iPhone and some analysts think Apple’s trading close to its maximum now (we don’t agree, BTW). Read on…