Archive | October 18th, 2011
Google announces Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Google a few hours ago announced the official arrival of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and its next flagship Android phone – the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The device sports a whopping 4.65-inch Super AMOLED screen. Further, it supports 4G and 1080p video capture, sports a 5 megapixel camera, and comes in 16GB and 32GB models. […]
Continue reading...Motorola’s MotoACTV looks a lot like the iPod Nano
18. October 2011
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Motorola on Tuesday announced the MotoACTV, a new “smart watch” powered by Android and aimed at serious exercisers. The watch plays music, tells time (of course) and can wirelessly upload a user’s fitness data to the web as it can track the distance, speed, and pace of runners. There are also optional headsets with built-in heart rate […]
Continue reading...Tim Cook says “sky is the limit” for Apple in China
18. October 2011
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63% of Apple’s revenue this past quarter came from sales abroad, and leading Apple’s international charge is China, a region Apple is devoting more and more resources towards with each passing month. During Apple’s earnings conference call earlier today, CEO Tim Cook took some time to discuss how important a cog China plays in Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Apple’s releases Q4 2011 earnings – $28.27 billion in revenue on record iPad and Mac sales
18. October 2011
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Wall St. analysts would be well-advised to take their Apple earnings estimates and just tack on a little bit extra. Without fail, Apple over the past few years has demolished Wall St. expectations and this quarter was just as impressive though Apple did fail for the first time in a long time to meet Wall […]
Continue reading...Apple working on iPad Mini – but is that a reference to the screen size or its price?
18. October 2011
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Steve Jobs famously said that tablets with 7-inch screens stood no shot in the marketplace and would effectively be dead on arrival. Customers, Steve Jobs claimed, wanted their tablets a bit bigger – and so far it’s hard to argue as a plethora of smaller screened tablets have failed to gain even a modicum of […]
Continue reading...When Dropbox told Steve Jobs that they weren’t for sale
18. October 2011
Apple this week delivered its latest attempt at giving users the ability to seamlessly share documents and media across a multitude of devices with the roll-out of iCloud. But before Apple developed iCloud in-house, it sought to acquire Dropbox – which you might recognize as the highly regarded web based file hosting and digital storage […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 is the last product Steve Jobs was intimately involved in
18. October 2011
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The iPhone 4S is flying off the shelves faster than Apple can manufacture them. A quick perusal of Sprint’s website shows that they’re already sold out of the 16 and 32GB models while all iPhone 4S models on Verizon’s website now show a shipping date of October 28th. Clearly, the iPhone 4S is an immediate […]
Continue reading...Apple’s A6 manufacturing will remain a Samsung job
18. October 2011
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Despite Apple and Samsung’s massive legal dispute which now spans 4 continents and over 10 countries, Apple’s upcoming A6 chip – which will probably debut with the iPad 3 – will likely come from Samsung. Over the past few months, a number of reports have claimed that Apple was moving its processor production away from […]
Continue reading...Stephen Wolfram reflects back on Steve Jobs
18. October 2011
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You may not have heard of Stephen Wolfram but rest assured that he’s a brilliant guy. Born in Britain to Jewish refugees, Wolfram is the man behind Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and, more recently, Wolfram Alpha. Not too long ago Wofram penned a truly informative look back at his relationship with Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...Samsung COO Lee Jae-yong attended Steve Jobs’ memorial event
18. October 2011
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This past weekend, we highlighted a memorial service held for Steve Jobs at Stanford University’s Memorial Church. Amidst the large number of high-profile guests was Samsung president and COO Lee Jae-yong – who also happens to be the son of Samsung’s CEO. This is particularly noteworthy given a) Apple and Samsung’s ongoing legal strife and b) […]
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18. October 2011
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