Archive | September, 2011
Sprint will offer the iPhone 5 with unlimited data
It’s no secret that Sprint has struggled mightily without the iPhone. Over the past few years, consumers have flocked to AT&T in droves, and more recently to Verizon, to get their hands on the iPhone. Sprint, meanwhile, hasn’t yet had a premier smartphone to attract new customers to its own network. Remember the Palm Pre […]
Continue reading...German court upholds injunction of Samsung Galaxy tablets
9. September 2011
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In early August, a German court issued an injunction precluding the sale and marketing of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 on account of its design which Apple claims too closely resembles the iPad. While the initial injunction was effective throughout the EU, a subsequent ruling scaled it back to apply only to Germany as it was […]
Continue reading...Apple’s stock price under the reign of Steve Jobs
8. September 2011
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A picture is worth a million words, or perhaps in this case, a million bucks – many times over. With Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple since 1997 (though he wasn’t officially the CEO until a few years later), Apple reemerged as one of the most innovative and emulated technology companies in the world. Its […]
Continue reading...Apple claims Andy Rubin’s Android framework was inspired by his previous work at Apple
8. September 2011
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Let’s take a break from the ongoing dispute between Apple and Samsung dispute and turn our attention towards Apple’s litigation with HTC. If you recall, the International Trade Commission (ITC) looked at Apple’s first complaint against HTC and found it to be in violation of two of Apple’s patents. Following that, HTC filed a motion […]
Continue reading...Apple sues Samsung in Japan to prevent sales of Galaxy S smartphones and tablets
8. September 2011
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Apple’s international patent war against Samsung has extended to yet another front – Japan. Apple recently filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court looking to block the sale of Samsung’s line of Galaxy S smartphones and tablets.
Continue reading...Tim Cook announces new charitable matching program for Apple employees
8. September 2011
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Apple today announced a new program wherein the company will match any charitable donations employees make up to a ceiling of $10,000 per year per employee. The program was announced via an internal email from newly minted CEO Tim Cook. The matching program currently applies exclusively to full-time Apple employees in the US but it […]
Continue reading...Apple has a security team to fight against the proliferation of counterfeit iOS products
8. September 2011
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To a certain extent, the sheer number of Apple knockoff products is flattering. It reaffirms that people hold Apple products in high esteem and demonstrates that devices like the iPhone and iPad are in high enough demand as to create entire criminal syndicates dedicated to manufacturing and selling counterfeit versions of these devices. But that […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 production at Foxconn said to be at 150,000 units per day
8. September 2011
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Citing sources in the supply chain, DigiTimes is reporting that iPhone 5 production at Foxconn is ramping up and is now at a throughput of 150,000 units per day. “Lens maker Largan Precision, touch panel maker TPK Holding, reinforced glass supplier G-Tech Optoelectronics and battery vendors Simplo and Dynapack are all operating at full swing […]
Continue reading...Apple’s new campus is on old HP land where Woz used to work and designed the Apple I
8. September 2011
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Pending a vote this coming Fall which looks to be a sure thing, Apple’s proposed new spaceship-esque campus in Cupertino looks to be a sure thing. Large enough to house 12,000 employees, with a cafeteria capable of seating 3,000 people, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs boasted to Cupertino’s City Counsel that the structure, which Jobs […]
Continue reading...HTC files lawsuit against Apple with patents they recently acquired from Google
7. September 2011
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Apple’s ongoing legal disputes with a bevy of Android manufacturers took an interesting turn recently. Bloomberg is reporting that HTC on September 1 filed a lawsuit against Apple asserting patents that it recently acquired from, you guessed it, Google. The report notes that the patents in question were originally acquired by Google less than a […]
Continue reading...Report points to Next-gen iPod Touch with 3G connectivity
7. September 2011
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There’s been so much talk about the pending iPhone 5 release that we haven’t heard much of anything about Apple’s iPod line, which it traditionally updates every September. So in a brief reprieve from iPhone news, AppleNApps cites an anonymous source and claims that Apple’s next-gen iPod Touch will come with 3G capabilities a’la the […]
Continue reading...Is this a photo taken with the iPhone 5’s 8 megapixel camera?
7. September 2011
Behold! What you’re looking at below may very well be the first public photo ever taken with the iPhone 5’s 8-megapixel camera. Discovered by PocketNow, the photo claims to have been taken by an iPhone 4 but the rest of the EXIF data suggests otherwise. Although the image has been cropped to 2235×2291 (5.12 megapixels), […]
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9. September 2011
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