Archive | January, 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 […]
Continue reading...Apple hires Adobe exec Todd Teresi to take over iAd duties
8. January 2012
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Due to a variety of factors, Apple’s iAds program hasn’t proven as successful as Apple was initially hoping for. Thanks to Apple’s penchant for control and expensive buy-in rates, which have subsequently been lowered, advertisers haven’t exactly been flocking towards Apple’s implementation of mobile ads. The iAd business, introduced in 2010, has attempted to parlay Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Apple patents hint at Thunderbolt enabled iOS devices
8. January 2012
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Apple in March of 2011 introduced Thunderbolt, a new transfer technology developed jointly with Intel that first appeared in its early 2011 line of MacBook Pros. Putting all other transfer technologies to shame, Thunderbolt is capable of handling data trasfer at 10Gbps both up and down. Now part of Apple’s m.o is to slowly but […]
Continue reading...iOS 5.1 beta hints at quad-core iPhones and iPads
7. January 2012
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9to5Mac did some deep digging into the iOS 5.1 beta and found references to quad-core chips that, we imagine, will eventually – and hopefully soon – make their way into the iPhone and iPad. The references to quad-core iPhone and iPad chips come by way of a hidden panel that describes cores that are supported […]
Continue reading...Samsung reports record quarterly profit on strong mobile handset sales
7. January 2012
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Who says there’s no money in ripping off the IP of other companies? Bloomberg reported yesterday that Samsung reported record quarterly profits, thanks in no small part to its immensely popular line of Galaxy smartphones. And for the first time in company history, Samsung’s total number of mobile phone sales surpassed 300 million units. “The […]
Continue reading...More iPad 3 details emerge: Front facing HD camera and more
6. January 2012
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Android based smartphones have certainly done an admirable job catching up to the iPhone, and even surpassing it with respect to total marketshare. But Android based tablets, on the other hand, continue to struggle mightily as Apple’s iPad continues its tablet domination. As it stands now, the biggest threat to the iPad is the Amazon […]
Continue reading...Safari owns over 50% of mobile browser marketshare
6. January 2012
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Google views the smartphone market as nothing more than a numbers game. Getting Android handsets into as many hands as possible is their ultimate goal, and while they like to tout impressive numbers like 700,000 daily activations, the reality is that Android users are less likely to purchase apps than their iPhone counterparts and that […]
Continue reading...Apple issues legal threat to manufacturer of 12-inch Steve Jobs action figure
5. January 2012
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Chinese manufacturer In Icon recently created a 12-inch Steve Jobs action figure that looks incredibly similar to Jobs himself. With no detail overlooked, the figurine showcases Jobs in his iconic black turtleneck, Levi blue jeans, circular glasses, and New Balance sneakers. It also comes with two Apples (one of which has a bite taken out […]
Continue reading...Verizon sold 4.2 million iPhones during recent holiday quarter
5. January 2012
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Verizon CFO Fran Shammo told attendees at a Citigroup conference yesterday that the nation’s largest carrier sold 4.2 million iPhones during company’s fourth quarter, a figure which is more than double the number of phones they sold during the third quarter – 2 million to be exact. Clearly, the launch of the iPhone 4S together […]
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9. January 2012
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