Archive | January 9th, 2012
Apple planning to expand “store within a store” concept to Target
One of the reasons behind Apple’s push into retail was the shoddy manner in which computer shops would routinely display Apple’s products, if at all. Macs were often relegated to the backshelves and were manned by employees not usually able to articulate the benefits of purchasing a Mac. In creating their own retail environment, Apple […]
Continue reading...AT&T rolls out 4G coverage to 11 new cities; Still lags behind Verizon
9. January 2012
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Walter Isaacson recounts in Steve Jobs’ biography how Jobs, on the same day he tendered his resignation to Apple’s board, “peppered” Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller about upcoming Apple products, “especially about what capacities the fourth-generation cellular networks might have and what needed to be in future phones.” It’s widely believed that one of the […]
Continue reading...Don’t fret, Sprint doesn’t throttle iPhone users
9. January 2012
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Coming to the iPhone party late, Sprint found itself unable to stop subscriber churn customers flocked to AT&T, and more recently, Verizon. Apple was subsequently able to leverage the popularity of the iPhone to extract some favorable terms from Sprint when the nation’s third largest carrier finally did agree to get into the iPhone game. […]
Continue reading...Acer decides to copy Apple’s iCloud slide
9. January 2012
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It’s the first day of CES and Acer is apparently taking a page out of Samsung’s strategy – you know, just copy everything Apple does. Acer has a new service dubbed AcerCloud which, like iCloud, will enable Acer owners to sync media content and documents between devices, including Android smartphones. Down the line, Acer will […]
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9. January 2012
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