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Apple’s spaceship style campus delayed until 2016
Well it turns out that Steve Jobs vision for Apple’s new campus is on hold until 2016, a few years later than the company initially anticipated. The iPhone maker included the new timetable in an updated proposal it submitted to the city on Nov. 14. While Apple, the world’s largest company by market value, had wanted to […]
Continue reading...Gene Munster predicts Apple HDTV in 2013 – This old song and dance again?
20. November 2012
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Like clockwork, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is out with some more predictions of an Apple HDTV, a prediction he’s been recycling for what may very well be 4 years now. Here’s how Munster anticipates Apple’s 2013 playing out: Munster’s revised thinking on the Apple TV release was buried in a note on his product […]
Continue reading...T-Mobile admits lack of iPhone causes customer churn, but still not keen on carrying it
20. November 2012
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T-Mobile continues to lose customers and the head honchos there aren’t shy about admitting that its largely due to the fact that they don’t carry the iPhone. During the Morgan Stanley 12th Annual Technology, Media & Telecoms Conference in Barcelona, Spain, T-Mobile USA COO Jim Alling explained, “Make no mistake about it: We would love to carry […]
Continue reading...Apple looking to add language support for Siri
20. November 2012
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A new job posting on Apple indicates that everyone’s favorite purveyor of fruit based products is looking to add some language chops to Siri’s arsenal. Specifically, the job listing is for a 6-month internship in Cupertino and is specifically designed for folks looking to help deliver Siri to other parts of the world. The languages […]
Continue reading...Children aged 6-12 want Apple products this holiday season more than anything else
20. November 2012
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It’s gonna be a grand quarter for Apple as we enter the busiest shopping season of the year. A new survey conducted by Nielsen reveals that US consumers aged 6-12 want Apple products more than anything else. Approximately half the children surveyed expressed interest in the full-sized iPad (up from 44% last year), and 36 […]
Continue reading...Another Apple dividend to drop on Thursday
15. November 2012
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For the second time this year, Apple will pay out a $2.5 billion dividend to investors. Breaking it down, that amounts to $2.65 per each individual share. This of course is also in addition to a $10 billion buy back plan where Apple will purchase back shares on the open market. AppleInsider reports: Over the […]
Continue reading...Samsung denies 20% hike for iOS processors
15. November 2012
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The Street reports: After reports earlier in the week that the South Korean technology giant was raising application processor (AP) prices on Apple by as much as 20%, a Samsung Electronics official denied the reports to The Hankyoreh, a Seoul-based newspaper.
Continue reading...The incredible development of “Paper” for the iPad
14. November 2012
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Great story from Fast Company: What vaulted FiftyThree over a hot pile of math was a major insight gleaned from two dead German scientists named Paul Kubelka and Franz Munk. In 1931, they published a paper called Ein Beitrag zur Optik der Farbanstriche, or “a contribution to the optics of paints,” which showed that this color-space […]
Continue reading...Makeshift iPhone keyboard using the accelerometer
14. November 2012
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Cool stuff via the Metro.
Continue reading...Test Messages on the decline thanks to iMessage
13. November 2012
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TUAW reports: A report from independent analyst Chetan Sharma suggests text messaging is on the decline in the US. Results from his report published on Monday show that the number of text messages sent each month by wireless customers has fallen. In the third quarter of 2012, mobile phone owners in the US sent 678 texts per […]
Continue reading...Apple more than doubles Tiffany when it comes to sales per square foot
13. November 2012
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Apple’s line of retail stores yield an average of $6,050 in sales per square foot. In second place, lagging waay way behind is Tiffany & Co. whose stores net $3,017 in sales per square foot. As for average sales measured on a store by store basis, it makes sense that huge warehouse shopping centers like […]
Continue reading...Nokia to launch Maps app for iOS
13. November 2012
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And so the Mapping landscape gets a bit more crowded. To further extend its location services, Nokia is launching a maps application for iOS under the HERE brand. Based on HTML5, it will include offline capabilities, voice-guided walk navigation, and public transport directions. The application is scheduled to be available for free download from Apple’s […]
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23. November 2012
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