Yet another patent shows future of the iPhone is RFID, more
We all know now that your iPhone
Breaking: Foxconn suicides, many more attempts today
Yet more workers have jumped to their deaths at the Foxconn factory today, with a series of Twitter posts allegedly claiming another unhappy worker has climbed the roof to make a jump.
Despite investigations by Apple, HP and Dell and serious efforts on behalf of Foxconn management to mitigate the depressed and suicidal state of many of the company
Google's anti-Apple jibes last week, they're just 'good fun' — Google
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We know him as the great critic, the man who lambasted Apple last week for being the new dictator of mobile, but he
If Gates is the rise, Ballmer is the fall of Microsoft
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Computerworld: Apple makes iPhone dev deal — with Microsoft?
In a set of claims so outlandish they could be true, Global Equities Research analyst, Trip Chowdhry, claims 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010. We
Apple's iPhone nano patent revealed
Apple has a patent for an phone-capable iPod nano, a much smaller version of the full-size iPhone, Patently Apple reports.
A patent ostensibly for the iPod nano includes an element which notes, “the device includes processors, transmitters, receivers, and antennas for supporting RF, and more particularly GSM, DCS and/or PCS wireless communications in the range of about 850 to about 1900 MHz.” In other words, it
The Microsoft-Apple Deal – Macworld Boston 1997
A little perspective.
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Oh, and then there is this:
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AAPL blows past MSFT in market cap (Updated)
As predicted early this morning, today was the day that Apple passed Microsoft in market cap for the first time since the early 90s. At the time of this writing, AAPL is worth over $1 billion more than MSFT and growing. We’ll see later today if they can keep this lead and close out the day ahead.
Update: AAPL closed the day at a market capitalization of $222.07B. Microsoft closed at $219.18B. Apple is now worth almost $3 billion more than Microsoft.
It has been 13 years this picture was taken and Microsoft ‘saved Apple’ Video below.
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iPhone 4 goes on sale in early June, report claims
Apple will launch the new iPhone next month, reports BGR.
In what could be the shortest report for one of the biggest news items ever, it reads:
Computerworld: iPad Xmas? Apple's iPad seizes netbook hearts
Yet more evidence that iPad is taking huge big Pacman-sized bites out of the netbook market comes in a recent survey suggesting the Apple product has already had a huge impact on consumers purchasing plans — with millions of iPads flying out of Apple’s hands. And now it looks like 78 percent of consumers who were struggling with the decision to buy an iPad or a Netbook are going for the iPad, read more.
iPad production hits 2.5 million per month, report
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WWDC 2010: Gene Munster utters 'non-event' warning
Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, tells clients the upcoming WWDC 2010 event next month seems set to be a bit of a non-event, at least, a non-event for Apple
UPDATED: Apple, Dell issue statements on iPhone factory suicides
Apple has issued a public statement on the spate of tragic worker suicides at the Chinese manufacturing plant of its iPod/iPhone production partner, Foxconn.
Company spokesman, Steve Dowling, told Bloomberg:
Feds looking at Apple's role in the Music industry
Ruh Ro! As if Apple didn’t have enough problems with the Feds, it looks like the US Justice Department is investigating Apple’s sway in the Music industry, according to the New York Times.
The Justice Department is examining Apple
GoogleTV and iPad share the same graphics processor
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Desperate measures: Microsoft reorgs mobile division as Apple, Google smack firm down
Heads may roll at Microsoft as the company moves to reorganise teams handling its games and mobile phone offerings in response to the damage the company has suffered at the hands of Apple and Google.
The division — which accrued $1.67 billion in sales in the first quarter, mainly on back of Xbox and games, includes Microsoft’s Xbox videogame business and Windows Phone.
The move also follows the (still unconfirmed) departure of long-time Microsoft boss, J Allard, the man behind the Xbox.
AAPL is now within striking distance of MSFT
Though largely a symbolic milestone, Apple is now within 2% of Microsoft in market capitalization. With WWDC announcements coming soon, Apple’s stock price could see some wild swings this month and has fluctuated more than the 2% gap a few times in the past month.
Shortly after Apple passed Dell, Steve Jobs sent the following email to employees:
“Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.”
Computerworld: Google opens up on AdSense splits as Apple war gets personal
Google today at last revealed the revenue splits it applies on AdSense. This new spirit of openness in admitting its existing ads revenue split with AdSense publishers is interesting — but with Apple’s iAds ready to pounce this summer, is Google simply playing a spoiler to its new arch-rival? Read it here.
Apple confirms Steve Jobs WWDC 2010 keynote for June 7
Watch out Android, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is preparign Apple’s response, and we suspect things could get pretty personal….
Apple today confirmed its Jobsian keynote plan, issuing the following release:
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Apple v Adobe: Developers abandon Flash as clients demand iPhone support
Developers are abandoning Flash because clients want their sites to run on Apple
Computerworld: On future Macs, iPad, MacBook Air and iPhone
Will Apple’s future Macs run iPhone apps in simulation mode? Will the MacBook Air be reborn an iPad Pro? Can Google match Apple’s hardware charms? Read on.
iPads selling out across US Apple stores, Gene Munster proclaims
Apple is fresh out of 3G iPads across the US and has limited stocks of the WiFi-only models, Piper Jaffray reports this morning.
Analyst Gene Munster called 50 Apple retail stores to get a
Google's open video codec faces patent proof battles
Google is hoping its video codec will launch an
Apple not so interested in Google's VP8 video codec
Apple’s Steve Jobs has no intention picking up on Google’s attempt at a royalty-free video codec, VP8.
In his latest email response, the Apple CEO simply sent a customer asking about his thoughts on the codec a link to a critical report on the video codec.
Among other things, this report pointed to the many H.264 similarites in the codec, lending some substance to notions that patent litigation may change the royalty free status of Google’s codec. Most video developers also note the codec isn’t really ready for prime time.
“On2 VP8 offers significant gains in compression performance in a bitstream that is less compute intensive to decode than either its predecessor (VP7) or other competing technologies such as H.264,” some say — but critics continue to term the standard as incomplete.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently warned: “All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other ‘open source’ codecs