Archive | December, 2010
Apple expands Motorola lawsuit to include 12 additional patents
There’s so much patent litigation involving Apple these days it’s really hard to keep up and devote sufficient attention to each particular lawsuit. Matters are only compounded when each case seemingly involves an endless number of patents at issue. And if things are already a bit tricky, why not make em’ even trickier? That clearly […]
Continue reading...MarketWatch names Steve Jobs CEO of the decade
8. December 2010
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MarketWatch today announced that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is their CEO of the decade. An obvious choice, sure, but do you really want to trust a publication that thinks it’s a smart move to ask the dope otherwise known as Rob Enderle for his opinion? Adds Enderle: “[Jobs] is not somebody [who] any one of us would […]
Continue reading...Mobile marketshare broken down by geographic region [Photo]
8. December 2010
An interesting graph courtesy of Pingdom breaks down the mobile OS marketshare across geographic regions. While it appears that Nokia’s Symbian OS still reigns supreme in Africa, Asia, and South America. the iPhone seems to have North America, Europe, and Australia on lockdown. Note, though, that this graph doesn’t purport to accurately reflect actual OS marketshare, […]
Continue reading...EA VP thinks Apple has it in them to take on the big console boys like Nintendo and Sony
8. December 2010
Never a company enthusiastic about gaming, the success of the iTunes App Store has thrust Apple into the forefront of mobile gaming. Oddly enough, for some young users, Apple is essentially and solely a gaming type of company. While Apple is obviously much more than that, the popularity of gaming on the iPhone, iPod, and […]
Continue reading...Yet another analyst bumps up Apple stock target to $400 on tremendous iPad growth
8. December 2010
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Caris & Company analyst Robert Cihra last week issued a note to investors wherein he raised his stock target on Apple shares to $400 from a previous target of $375. Citing stunning iPad growth, Cihra writes that Apple essentially created its own growth through innovation while its competitors continue to wander around, lost “in a […]
Continue reading...RIM acquires TAT in efforts to improve Blackberry UI experience
8. December 2010
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After a number of failed, okay okay – lackluster, attempts to compete with the iPhone (Storm 1&2 anyone?), RIM is finally waking up and realizing that a capable email device is decidedly not enough to compete with the big boys. Sure, RIM still dominates the business market, but the iPhone is slowly but surely creeping […]
Continue reading...Android will be put to the test once the iPhone 4 hits Verizon
7. December 2010
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In his latest note to investors, stalwart Apple analyst Gene Munster writes that once the iPhone hits Verizon as is expected in early 2011, Android will be put to the test for the first time.
Continue reading...Mophie juice pack plus for the iPhone 4 more than doubles battery life
7. December 2010
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Apple has made tremendous strikes in increasing the battery life on the iPhone, but with so many websites to visit and so many apps to play, you can never have enough juice when you’re out on the town. Sure, you can limit your phone usage Windows Phone 7 style, but why take all the fun […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs promises MobileMe will “get a lot better in 2011”
7. December 2010
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Now that “Find my iPhone” is a free feature for iOS users, forking over $99 a year for Apple’s MobileMe service is harder a sell than ever before. In the latest email from Steve Jobs, however, the Apple CEO promises that the service will, in fact, get a lot better in 2011. One MacRumors user emailed Jobs […]
Continue reading...Renowned architect Norman Foster tapped to design new Apple campus
7. December 2010
In late November, Apple purchaseda 98-acre lot of land from Hewlett Packard, effectively doubling the size of their Cupertino campus. And now it appears that Apple is planning on employing famed British architect Norman Foster to design a new campus on its recently purchased lot of land, according to a recent report in the Spanish business […]
Continue reading...Microsoft is a better stock buy than Apple? Puhleeze
7. December 2010
I thought Motley Fool was supposed to be a source of good investment advice, but if this article from Chris Baines is any indication, MF readers might as well divest immediately and either put their money under their mattresses or invest in magic beans. Baines attempts, quite unsuccessfully, to articulate why Microsoft is a better […]
Continue reading...iPhone accounts for 23% of business smartphones
7. December 2010
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While many people may think of the iPhone as a cool little gadget good for playing games and browsing the web, Apple’s smartphoen is quietly making serious inroads into corporate America and threatening RIM’s longtime stranglehold in the business market. According to recent data compiled by ComScore, the iPhone now accounts for 22.7% of business […]
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8. December 2010
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