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Ever wonder how the world’s most popular brand and fruit stack up against each other? In 2009 Apple created $32 billion worth of iPads. The fruit market saw an almost identical cash flow from sales of apples. The similarities don’t stop here, as shown in a nifty infographic by Mbaonline.com. Mbaonline ai... |
15 January 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Israeli news outlets are confirming that Anobit has been acquired by Apple, as previously rumored by the technology media. Anobit is a NAND Flash designer whose technology is key to improving storage in Apple’s iPhones and iPads, as well as Macs. Globes reports that the Cupertino, California-based Apple itself... |
11 January 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Timothy D. Cook, the man whom Apple’s leadership chose to put in the CEO seat after Steve Jobs’ resignation, is reportedly leaving a distinct mark on the company already, doing things that the late visionary never did.People familiar with Apple internally say Mr. Cook has attended to administrative affair... |
2 November 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Samsung has set the stage for a close battle with rival Apple Inc. in the fourth quarter of 2011, reports IHS iSuppli. The Korean electronics vendor has managed to take the no. 1 spot in the global smartphone market for the first time ever.IHS iSuppli Mobile & Wireless Communications research reveals that Q3 2011 saw... |
31 October 2011
10:28 GMT |
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The latest research from Strategy Analytics says that Apple has fallen to the fifth spot in the list of top handset vendors, as global handset shipments grew 14 percent annually to reach 390 million units in the third quarter of 2011.Causing Apple to fall to the #5 spot among the world’s leading handset vendors... |
28 October 2011
08:40 GMT |
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A new analysis from marketing intelligence firm IHS iSuppli says that “no matter how successfully Jobs seeded Apple with his genius, his spark may prove irreplaceable over the long term.”Not that IHS has produced a particularly original theory, but their extensive report does make an informative read.For ... |
25 October 2011
08:52 GMT |
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Yahoo! has lost its chief of Global Data Center Infrastructure, Scott Noteboom, to Apple Inc. sources say. Noteboom will likely oversee Apple's servers as the Cupertino giant prepares to expand iCloud and various iTunes offerings.Mr. Noteboom is now a "distinguished gentleman" at Apple, according to his LinkedIn... |
24 October 2011
07:20 GMT |
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There are many stories about where Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer) got its name, including one related to Sir. Isaac Newton’s falling apple which fueled his theories about gravity. That’s not it, though.According to Steve Jobs’ recount during one of his interviews with Walter Isaacson, the auth... |
21 October 2011
08:02 GMT |
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Figures dished out by market research firm NPD and analyzed by Piper Jaffray analysts suggest Apple is on track to post new record sales of iPhones, iPads, and Macs today.Apple announced last month that the company would disclose its earnings for fiscal quarter 4 of 2011 today, October 18.As usual, Cupertino will pro... |
18 October 2011
05:25 GMT |
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Tim Cook has confirmed to Apple employees that the planned celebration in memory of the late Steve Jobs will be held next Wednesday, on October 19th, on the Infinite Loop campus.Apple’s newly-instated CEO, Tim Cook took it upon himself to inform all employees that the outdoor amphitheater on the Infinite ... |
11 October 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Apple has announced that pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped one million in a single day, beating the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 (held by iPhone 4).“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of ... |
10 October 2011
09:35 GMT |
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According to a statement provided by Steve Jobs’ family, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple died peacefully on the evening of October 5, 2011. His loved ones were around him when he passed away, according to reports. Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, and three children.A statement from Steve Jobs'... |
6 October 2011
05:42 GMT |
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VIA subsidiary S3 Graphics, soon to be engulfed by HTC, has filed two new lawsuits against Apple Inc. with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and with a Delaware court, citing patent infringement.It is pouring with patent suits targeting Apple as of late, and the most recent ones come from S3 Graphics, an Am... |
26 September 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Apple may not be a perfect company, but as far as consumer satisfaction is concerned, it’s very close. The Mac maker has nabbed the first spot in the American Customer Satisfaction Index for the eighth year in a row, ACSI announced today.ACSI says that the situation in the electronics market has evolved a lot o... |
20 September 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Single Touch Systems Inc., a provider of media solutions for mobile devices, today announced that on September 8th, 2011, the company issued a “Letter of Notification” to Apple Inc. regarding Single Touch’s issued patents directed to streaming and routing media.Single Touch Systems touts itself as a... |
13 September 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Droplets Inc., a Texas based Software Company whose clients includes IBM, Borland and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, is suing Apple Inc. over patent infringement relating to how it delivers interactive links to applications.The patent infringement lawsuit targets not only Apple, but Google, Facebook and Yahoo, according to... |
12 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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The autobiography of Ronald G. Wayne, one of the three people who founded Apple, is now available on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iBooks and on your computer with iTunes.Titled ‘Adventures of an Apple Founder’, the book describes the journey of Apple’s less known co-founder, Ron Wayne.Wayne... |
7 September 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Hagens Berman, a consumer rights class-action law firm, today announced it has filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that Apple Inc. and five of the top U.S. publishers illegally fix prices of e-books.In addition to Apple, other parties ta... |
12 August 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Wall Street saw an interesting turn of events yesterday when the company that makes iPods and Macs overtook Exxon Mobil in market capitalization to become the most valuable company on Earth.At one point in yesterday’s trading, Apple’s market capitalization reached $341.5 billion - a tad higher than the oi... |
10 August 2011
03:57 GMT |
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A patent application signed Apple Inc. reveals a potential method of cutting out the Apple logo in various products, if not the actual method used by the Mac maker. The application (ID number 20110183580), filed January 25, 2010 with the U.S Patent and Trademark office, explains that various techniques have been emp... |
28 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review a May 12 ruling by an ITC administrative law judge that Kodak did not infringe Apple's patents.
On May 12, 2011, the administrative law judge (ALJ) issued his final ID, finding no violation by Kodak with respect to any of the asserted claims... |
19 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Technology research firm Gartner has issued the preliminary results that paint a picture of the current state of the PC market ranking Apple 3rd behind pack-leaders Hewlett Packard (HP) and Dell.
The note issued by Gartner this week reveals that worldwide PC shipments have surpassed 85.2 million units in the secon... |
14 July 2011
12:31 GMT |
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the addition of Apple Inc. as a member of its board of directors. Insight from Apple on platform development will ensure a smooth growth trajectory of Bluetooth v. 4.0, the organization said.Bluetooth is a wireless technology and currently the global standard f... |
23 June 2011
07:38 GMT |
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Apple alongside a handful of high-profile companies in the tech industry is facing legal action from Joseph R. Saveri of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, on behalf of Siddharth Hariharan, a former software engineer at Lucasfilm and founder and CEO of InEarth, over antit... |
6 May 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Embroiled in a war over smartphone market-share supremacy, Apple and Google have very different views of how to approach consumers. Yet, both seem to succeed.But for how long, and who will lose in the long run, asks Fortune in a conversation with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who has previously weighed in on Appl... |
8 March 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Apple has become Fortune’s “Most-Admired” company for the fourth year in a row, with the business magazine noting that ”The company’s blistering pace of new product releases has continued to set the bar high for tech companies across the board.”
Fortune acknowledges that its #1 ... |
7 March 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Sponsored by the Central Laborer’s Pension Fund in Jacksonville, Ill., a shareholder resolution calls on Apple’s board to adopt and disclose a written CEO “succession planning policy.”
Apple’s chief executive officer, Steve Jobs, is on medical leave of absence, the second one in just ... |
21 February 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Via its PR section, Apple is officially announcing the FY 11 First Quarter Results Conference Call set to air Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 2:00 p.m. PST/5:00 p.m. EST through its QuickTime multimedia software.In December, 2010, Softpedia reported that Apple had confirmed plans to hold a conference call in mid-January, ... |
14 January 2011
09:07 GMT |
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The Apple Store Leader Program, "a 24-month immersion in every aspect of managing and operating an Apple Retail Store," is ready to take new recruits, Apple has announced.
“Apple is looking for natural leaders who are creative, smart, dynamic, interesting, authentic, and driven,” the company states. &l... |
30 December 2010
04:23 GMT |
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Apple and several third-party application vendors have been hit with lawsuits over disclosing customer information, such as age, gender and whereabouts, without the latter’s consent, reports said this week.
One suit, brought by KamberLaw on behalf of a California resident, alleges that the companies cited ar... |
29 December 2010
03:04 GMT |
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According to a survey of 4800 US and European consumers conducted by Strategy Analytics’ Tablet and Touchscreen Strategies service, two-thirds of potential iPad buyers expect to pay less than $500 or a maximum of 500 Euros.
“Two thirds of people who are thinking of buying an iPad in the next 12 months ... |
7 December 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Tomorrow is a day we’ll never forget, Apple claims via a message posted to the homepage of apple.com. The announcement will be iTunes-related, the company confirms. The web site shows four clocks for four different time zones indicating when the announcement will go live.“Tomorrow is just another day. Tha... |
15 November 2010
11:12 GMT |
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Several major media outlets are reporting that former Apple executive Mark Papermaster has joined Cisco to work on "chips for switches," as noted by a Fox Business reporter via Twitter. Papermaster, also a former IBM employee, had been on Apple’s payroll for less than two years before reportedly getting sacked ... |
15 November 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Apple has released two nearly identical press releases announcing the opening of two new retail stores, one in Akron, Ohio, the other in Mishawaka, Indiana. Both retail establishments are to begin operations on Saturday, November 13, Apple confirmed.The Apple Store, Summit Mall is located at 3265 West Market Street, ... |
10 November 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Apple today confirmed a partnership with The Dentsu Group with the purpose of expanding Apple’s iAd mobile advertising network to Japan in early 2011. iAd is a feature built into iOS 4 which lets users stay within their current app while engaging with an ad.The report in question, which hit the wires just minut... |
10 November 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Following Motorola’s preemptive launch of a declaration judgment action against Apple earlier this month, the Mac maker has fired back, launching patent infringement lawsuits against the cell phone maker.As the licensing negotiations between the two failed to produce an agreement, PatentlyApple reports, Apple f... |
30 October 2010
12:51 GMT |
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Apple is training its retail staff to provide customers with a way to wirelessly check-in to retail stores, a service set to become available soon, via an update to the company’s Apple Store application for iOS devices.Macstories claims to have received word that Sunday night and early Monday morning saw Apple ... |
26 October 2010
05:38 GMT |
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Speculation that Apple may be on the verge of acquiring Facebook has emerged via an All Things D report by Peter Kafka, who believes that the company is in a good position to spend some of the $51 billion it has in the bank.The author points out to statements made by Apple’s CEO when pressed to answer questions... |
19 October 2010
10:21 GMT |
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The story of the 33 Chilean miners surviving the collapse of a mine for 69 days reached Steve Jobs’ ears who ordered to have an iPod touch sent to each and every one of the survivors as a gift from Apple, according to various sources.Following a herculean rescue operation that’s sure to go down as one of ... |
15 October 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Analysts quoted by China’s Guangzhou Daily say the people behind the Apple Peel 520 are likely to face a legal challenge, as the device interfaces with the iPod touch using Apple's proprietary 30-pin dock connector without a license. The Apple Peel 520 is a slide-on case that contains the necessary hardwar... |
14 October 2010
06:48 GMT |
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For the first time in decades, Apple’s computer market share has reached 10%, as the company gears up to unveil the next-generation Mac OS at a planned October 20 event in Cupertino, California. The company’s shares also reached an all time high, rising above the $300 mark per share on Wednesday morning.A... |
14 October 2010
03:04 GMT |
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has approved a patent application filed by Apple filed in 2008 which prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages, according to a report.TechCrunch points out to Apple’s patent application filed years ago, noting that it bears the official... |
13 October 2010
05:07 GMT |
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The CEOs of Microsoft and Adobe reportedly met to talk about a possible merger to combat Apple. An Adobe spokesperson said that the two companies do meet from time to time, but declined to confirm whether Apple was the topic of their last discussion.eWeek picked up on a piece by The New York Times which spreads the w... |
9 October 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Apple is believed to plan the hiring of TechCrunch editor Greg Kumparak, as one person who knows the blogger from videos on the web claims to have spotted him near Apple’s campus talking to three Apple reps in a manner that indicated that “Apple was trying to court him for a job.”Gawker reports that... |
6 October 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Apple is now known to have patented an ambidextrous mouse capable of sensing which hand the user is working it with, via specialized sensors. The yet-theoretical input device resembles the Magic Mouse in that it lacks buttons.The patent abstract explains, that “The ambidextrous mouse is configured for both left... |
6 October 2010
08:26 GMT |
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Apple has not one, but four iAd trademark applications filed with the US Patent & Trademark Office which published Apple's latest trademark application for "iAd" under applications 85139086, 85139109, 85139119 and 85139138, reports Patently Apple.The US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's said trade... |
1 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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A report by American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) notes that customer satisfaction has improved for major household appliances, while recording all-time highs for personal computers and big- ticket consumer electronics.According to the report (PDF) released today by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, rec... |
21 September 2010
09:52 GMT |
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In the past 12 hours, a company dealing with facial recognition has made multiple headlines for reportedly being acquired by Apple Inc. The details of the deal have not been disclosed officially but “rock-solid” sources cited by TechCrunch say Apple paid around $29 million to take over the entire sharehol... |
21 September 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Apple has filed a patent application for an 'accessory transceiver', which would effectively turn the media player into a cell phone.PatentlyApple, a web site focusing exclusively on Apple’s inventions, has recently found a truckload of Apple patent applications (27, to be precise) published by the U.... |
20 September 2010
08:07 GMT |
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It wasn’t long before application developers started praising Apple for its decision to relax the terms and conditions surrounding iOS development, but now we have an example of why Apple was half-hearted to ease up on those restrictions.Historically, Apple did not wish to have programmers coding by their own r... |
15 September 2010
07:10 GMT |
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