Wed, 29 February 2012
Apple Invites Select Members of Press to (More Than) Likely iPad 3 Event on Wednesday 7 March
CNBC Botches Apple Event Prediction
CNBC Gives Dalrymple Hat Tip for Getting It Right Where They Got It Wrong
CNET: No Physical Home Button Pictured in Invitation Art for Next Week’s Event
Alleged Photo of iPad 3 Shell Indicates Ever-So-Slightly-Thicker Device
Engadget: Radio Shack Discounts iPad 2 by 20 to 50-Dollars
TUAW: Invitations to Next Week’s Apple Event Hit During Google Chairman’s Speech at Mobile World Congress
9 to 5 Mac Expects New Apple TV Along with New iPad Next Week
iOS Location Loophole Could Give Apps Access to Photo Library Without Asking Permission
ATF Ditching BlackBerry for iThings and Other Things
Samsung Exec: “Honestly, we’re not doing very well in the tablet market.”
WALL-E Director Dedicates Upcoming Disney Sci-Fi Pic “John Carter” to Steve Jobs
Atari Holds Developer Contest to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Pong |
Tue, 28 February 2012
Report: Best Buy Deleting Some iPad 2 Models from Inventory Systems
Apple Insider: Rumor Has iPad 3 Priced 80-Dollars Higher than iPad 2
Barclays Analysts Ups Apple Target from 545-Dollars to 590 Thanks to Addition of China Telecom for iPhone
IDC: High iPhone Subsidies Locking Device Out of Some Markets
Sprint on the Hook for 15.5-Billion-Dollars Worth of iPhones Over the Next Four Years
Apple Encourages Developers to Certify Apps Through Developer ID Program
Apple Releases WiFi Update for Late 2009 and Later iMacs Running Lion
Bloomberg: No One Follows Apple Down Road to Expanded Supply Chain Inspection
German Judge Says Motorola Mobility Cannot Black Sale of iThings as Patent Fight Continues
Proview Adds Fraud Claims to iPad Trademark Case Against Apple in the States
AT&T Appealing 850-Dollar Data-Throttling Decision |
Mon, 27 February 2012
Electronista: UPS Manifest Seems to Show Some Sort of New Apple Product Shipping to the States by Next Friday
Best Buy Offers 50-Dollar Discount on iPad 2
TUAW: Apple Kills Push Email in Germany After Patent Suit Loss Against Motorola
Bloomberg: Apple Buys Chomp (Confirmed) for 50-Million Dollars (Unconfirmed)
Adobe Photoshop Touch iPad App Goes Live in the App Store for 10-Dollars
GigaOm: Intucell Technology Gives AT&T “Living” Data Networks
iPhone Owners Wins 850-Dollars in Small Claims Court After AT&T Throttles Data at 1.5GB on an Unlimited Plan
The Guitar Collection: George Harrison - Virtual iPad Tour of the Quiet One’s Guitars in App Store for 10-Dollars
NYPD Busts Store Full of Counterfeit iPhones, iPads, and iPods on W 28th
Authorities in China Confiscate 681 Fake iPhone Personal Gas Stoves
Plastic Surgeon Heralds Arrival of “FaceTime Facelifts” |
Fri, 24 February 2012
Apple (Sort of) Addresses Cash Pile, Promises Mind Blowing Products at 2012 Shareholders’ Meeting
Mobile-PCs for a Post-PC World: NPD Says Apple’s No. 1 Worldwide If You Combine iPads and Notebooks; Number Five in Notebooks Alone
Barclays Lowers Amazon Kindle Fire Sales Expectations for CY2012
CNET: Sources Say Google Music Missing Early User and Revenue Expectations
With No iPhone, T-Mobile USA Loses 706-Thousand Customers in 4Q CY2011
Proview v. Apple: Chinese Judge Allows iPad Sales to COntinue in Shanghai
Proview v. Apple: Monitor-Maker Brings Its Case to the States
Apple Releases EFI Firmware Updates for MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs and Mac minis Made in 2011
Reports: Apple Buys App Search-Service Provider Chomp |
Thu, 23 February 2012
Hong Kong-Based NGO Says Foxconn is Pulling the Wool Over FLA’s Eyes
Former Wintek Employees Call on Apple Customers to Sign SumOfUs.org Petition for Worker Rights for Apple Supply Chain
NYT: Apple and Proview Face Off in Chinese Court, Receive No Ruling from Court
Barclays Analyst Pumped for Second iPhone Carrier in China and the Approach of Mountain Lion
iPodNN: Japan Gets Access to iTunes in the Cloud; iTunes Match Still Missing
MacNN: iTunes Match for iTunes Japan Should Hit in Second-Half of 2012; Other iTunes Features Added This Week
Apple Sells Beatles Ringtones Through iTunes on iThings
Apple to Open Amsterdam Store at 10am on Saturday 3 March
TUAW: Apple Encouraging MobileMe Users to Make the Migration to iCloud Ahead of June Deadline
California AG: Major App Store Operators to Require Privacy Policies for Personal-Data-Skimming Apps
Business Insider: CA AG Solution Good for the One-Percent Losing Sleep Over AddressBookGate |
Wed, 22 February 2012
NPD and Piper Jaffray Look at Current-Quarter Mac Sales |
Tue, 21 February 2012
China Telecom to Start Sales of iPhone 4S on 9 March
Oppenheimer And Company Raises Apple 12-Month Price-Target to 570-Dollars on iPhone and iPad Strength
FLA CEO Says Organization Has Uncovered “Tons of Issues” at Foxconn Plant in Shenzhen
ABC’s Nightline to Feature a Look Inside Foxconn Tonight
Foxconn Raises Salaries for Factory Workers in China by 16-25%
WSJ: Google Sneaks Past Default Privacy Setting on Safari to Leave Cookies
Microsoft Says Google Cheating Privacy Setting on IE9
Members of Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus Ask FTC for Information on Google/Safari Issue
Apple Wins Ruling Against Motorola Mobility in Germany for Violating Slide-to-Unlock Patent on Android-Based Smartphones
ITC Says Apple Does Not Violate HTC Patents Covering Power Management and Phone Number Directories
Apple Settles AntennaGate Suits in the States
Text in Code Makes Messages Look Like a Mountain Lion-Only Feature After beta
Apple Launches Contest Counting Up to 25-Billion Apps
Apple Launches “Start Developing iOS Apps Today” App Development Overview |
Fri, 17 February 2012
Apple Announces OS X Mountain Lion Release for Late Summer 2012; Releases Developer Preview
Wired Says Apple Will Do One Big OS X Update a Year from Now On
Apple Makes Messages App for Mac Available as a Public beta
Apple Posts Teaser Video of Mountain Lion OS
NYT Looks at iCloud Integration of iOS and OS X Devices
Reports Say Some Early Intel-Based Macs Won’t Make the Jump to Mountain Lion
Apple Releases betas of Safari 5.2 and Xcode 4.4 to Developers
Apple Updates Xcode to Version 4.3
WSJ Interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes ARM-Based Mac Seem Possible (Not Necessarily Probable)
All Things D Posts Papers Online That Seem to Show Apple Buying “iPad” Term from Proview
Hong Kong Court Ruled in Apple’s Favor on Proview/iPad Case Last July
Apple Adds Screenshots and Promo Codes for iBookstore Publishers
SumOfUs Upset Over FLA President’s Comments Commending Foxconn and Apple |
Thu, 16 February 2012
Twitter Says Its iOS App Uploads User Address Book Info if They Use the “Find Friends” Feature; Stores Info for Up to 18-Months
Congress Seeks Answers Around “Address Book-gate” as Apple Promises Fix in Future iOS Update
Reports: Apple Has Amazon China Pull iPad from Its Site
Authorities Tell Proview Execs That an iPad Export Ban is Unlikely
Apple Seeks Permission from Bankruptcy Judge to Sue Kodak
FLA President Pleasantly Surprised by First Look Inside Foxconn Factory
AdAge: Apple Drops iAd Commitment to 100-Thousand-Dollars
Gartner Says iPhone Sales to Decline This Quarter Versus Last Quarter (and the Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow) |
Wed, 15 February 2012
WSJ: Apple Is Testing 8-Inch Tablet Screens
Fortune: No Reason to Expect 8-Inch iPad
Daring Fireball: No Reason to Expect an 8-Inch iPad
NYT: Confiscation of iPads in China Escalates as Proview Complaints Increase
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: Proview Seeks to Block Export of iPad from China as Trademark Complaints Continue
Apple Sees Significant Delays in Time Capsule Shipping
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: Pegatron Says It Hasn’t Heard Anything About Inspections of Working Conditions at Factories
JP Morgan Analyst: First Round of PC-Based Ultrabooks Not Likely to Meet With Success Enjoyed by MacBook Air
Barclays Capital Analyst Sees Six Potential Catalysts for Apple Shares
Jeffries and Company Analyst Says Apple Will Start Paying Dividend in Second-Half of 2012
Tim Cook Talks iPhones, Cash, Workers Rights and More at Goldman Sachs Conference
Hear the Tim Cook Presentation at Goldman Sachs Conference at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/conference/ |
Tue, 14 February 2012
Apple Shares Close Above 500-Dollars
NPD Says Spending on Apple Accounts for Close to One-Fifth of Tech Spending in the States
Harris Interactive Poll Puts Apple at Top of US Companies in Terms of Image/Reputation
WSJ Says Next iPad to Support 4G/LTE Connectivity Through AT&T and Verizon
AT&T Doubles Device Upgrade Fee From 18-Dollars to 36-Dollars
Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Apple Suppliers
Report: Apple Issues “Them or Us” Ultimatum to Pegatron Over Asustek Ultrabook
Reports Have Authorities in One City in Northern China Pulling iPads from Store Shelves as Trademark Battle Continues
EC Green-Lights Google Acquisition of Motorola Mobility
US DoJ Gives Its Approval for Motoroogle Deal
US DoJ Approves Purchase of Nortel Patents by Apple/Microsoft/RIM Combo
\Apple Streaming Tim Cook Presentation at Goldman Sachs Technology Conference Today at 12:30 PST/3:30 EST at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/conference/ |
Mon, 13 February 2012
Apple Replaces MacBook White with EDU-Only 13-Inch MacBook Air
Apple Insider: Secret Sources Say Style of MacBook Pro to Morph Into Style of MacBook Air
Shaw Wu: Now’s a Sensible Time for Apple to Pay a Dividend
Mizuho Securities Starts Apple Coverage with 635-Dollar Target; Dividend or Stock Buyback Expectation
Electronista: Dwindling Stock at 3rd-Party Resellers Points to New Apple TV Set-Top Box
German Court Rules Against Motorola Mobility in Patent Case Against Apple
Apple Files Suit in California Against Motorola Mobility Over Licensing Suit in Germany
Apple Files a New Suit in the States Against Samsung for Alleged Patent Infringement; Seeks to Block Galaxy Nexus Sales
Electronista: Internal USA Today Numbers Indicate Huge Disparity Between iOS and Android App Adoption |
Fri, 10 February 2012
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All Things D Says Apple Will Hold Event for Next iPad in the First Week of March
The Loop Says “Yep” to All Things D iPad Event Story
Your Daily Mac Puts Release of iOS 5.1 on 9 March (and Maybe Next iPad as Well)
Game Developers Conference 5 March Through 9 March at Moscone Center; May Be Disrupted (Again) by iPad Event
Microsoft Details Plans for Windows on ARM
Germany Says Changes to Saumsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N Enough to Avoid Violating Apple Intellectual Property Rights
NOAA Drops RIM’s BlackBerry for Apple’s iPhone
Analysts for Needham and Company and Canaccord Genuity Raise Price Targets on Apple
SumOfUs.org and Change.org Activists Deliver “Ethical iPhone” Petition to Apple Retail Locations
Report: Foxconn Hacked By Hackers Hacked-Off Over Worker Treatment
Kodak Getting Out of the Consumer Digital Camera Business by Mid-2012
FBI Releases Its Steve Jobs File |
Thu, 9 February 2012
Sponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac
Sprint Sells 1.8-Million iPhones in 4QCY2011; Takes Huge Hit to Bottom Line on Subsidies
CNN Money: The High Cost to Carriers of Carrying iPhone
T-Mobile USA Giving Away Phones and Tablets as Part of “Valentine’s Day Sale” (Three Days Before Valentine’s Day)
Priceonomics: iPhone Best Smartphone Value Over Time
Path Apologizes and Purges Uploaded User Address Book Info
Hipster App Also Sends Address Book Info to Company Servers Without User Knowledge
Hipster Apologizes; Plans to Hold a Privacy Summit
ZDNet Goes Chapter and Verse on iOS Apps and Data Collection
Apple Live-Streaming Paul McCartney Concert Tonight via iTunes and Apple TV
Amazon Makes Streaming Video Deal with Viacom
New EFI Firmware Updates Bring Lion Internet Recovery to MOst Macs Made Since 2010
MacRumors Says Apple Kills MacBook White for Educational Institutions
PCMag Awards Final Cut Pro X “Editors Choice” After Recent Update
Change.org and SumOfUs.org Plan Petition Deliveries at Apple Stores Around the World
Smart Audio Technologies Goes a-Trollin’ Against Apple, Creative Arts, and Philips Over Audio Playlist Patent
Virgin Australia Airline Sued for Not Having Flight CHarts on iPads Before iPad Was Released |
Wed, 8 February 2012
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IDC: Apple Wins 4Q2011 in Smartphone Sales While Samsung (Narrowly) Wins the Year
Morgan Keegan Analyst: Cellphone/Mobile Computing Space Would Have Shrunk Without Apple in 4QCY2011
Bernstein Analyst Says Apple Shares Are Super-Safe Thanks to Customer Lock-In
Siri Now Accounts For Roughly One-Fourth of Searches on Wolfram Alpha
Siri May Be an iPhone 4S-Exclusive Thanks to Tech Built Into Apple’s A5 Processor
Mac Sales Grow in the UK and France in 4QCY2011 While Most Other Computer Vendors See Sales Decline
Academic Paper Shows Apple Worked on Running Mac OS X on ARM Processors
Barclays Analyst: Apple Television Could Net the Company 5-Percent of the TV Space and 17-Billion-Dollars in Revenue
Apple Changes Some Icons in 10.7.3; Makes All Icons High-Resolution
Apple Wants High-Res Screenshots for Updated iOS Apps; Notifies Developers of App Sizes Over 20MB
Apple Warns iOS Developers Against Gaming App Store Rankings or Employing Companies That Do So
Bipartisan Group Says “App Economy” Employs Close to Half-a-Million People in the U.S.
Path iOS App Sends Content of Users’ Address Books to Path Servers Without User Consent or Knowledge
9 to 5 Mac: Apple Reportedly in Talks to Bring Store-in-a-Store Strategy to Sam’s Club
Early Indication Shows Sales Increasing for at Least One Restaurant Near Apple Grand Central Store
Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurant Testing iPad for Customer Orders and Entertainment |
Tue, 7 February 2012
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Analyst Plays “What If” with Content and the Fabled Apple Television
Best Buy Survey Quizzes Customers on Interest in 42-inch “Apple HDTV”
Best Buy Says Apple HDTV Survey was “Hypothetical”
Secret Sources Tell Globe and Mail that Bell and Rogers Talking Television Deals with Apple (And They Already Have the TVs)
Jeffries and Company Analyst Ups iPad Sales Expectations for 2012; Lowers Tablet Expectations
Deutsche Bank Analyst Sees iPad 3 Opening Wider Lead in Tablets for Apple
IDC Exec Says We Are Currently “PC-Plus” with Tablets, Not “Post-PC”
NPD Group: iPhones Take Top-Three Spots in US Smartphone Sales Over the Holidays While Android Still Tops with First-Time Smartphone Buyers
HTC Warns of Revenue Drop for Current Quarter; Blames Apple and Samsung
HTC CEO: Sacrificing Form and Battery-Life for 4G-Connectivity Was a Mistake
Haliburton Dropping RIM BlackBerry for iPhone |
Mon, 6 February 2012
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Citigroup Analyst Reiterates “Buy” Rating and 600-Dollar Price Target for Apple After Meeting with CEO and CFO
Canalys Says Smartphones Outsold PC/Tablets in 2011 (With Special Props to Apple)
MG Siegler: iPhone More Valuable Than All of Microsoft
Apple Expands Claims Against Samsung in Australia
Report: Google Poaches Apple Senior VP of Product Integrity for Secret Projects
Apple Updates iBooks Author with New EULA Clarifying Content Ownership
Apple Puts 10.7.3 Combo Update Through Software Update Utility to Eliminate Update Issues
Apple Issues Updated Security Update for Snow Leopard to Deal with Rosetta Issues
Apple Adds Genius Feature to Moves and TV Shows on Apple TV |
Fri, 3 February 2012
Lion Combo Update Recommended After 10.7.3 Causes Problems for Some
Get the Lion 10.7.3 Update (Client Combo) from Apple’s Site at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484
Apple Seeds Safari 5.1.4 beta to Developers
IDC Count Shows Apple as Third Largest Cellphone Maker for 4Q2011 and CY2011
UBS: Apple’s 9-Percent Cellphone Share Earns It 36-Percent of Cellphone Revenue
ComScore: Apple Fourth-Place Cellphone Maker in the States; Only Phone-Maker to Grow Market Share
SoftBank 4Q2011 Profit Cut in Half as It Overspends Promoting Against Rival iPhone Carrier
Apple Hires Former Xbox LIVE EMEA Exec to Market App Store in Europe
Avid Studio for iPad Shows Up in App Store
Obama Administration Officials Urge Transition to Digital Textbooks Over Next Five Years
USA Today Outlines Apple’s iBooks Textbooks Offerings
Daiwa Securities Expects Next iPhone Announcement at WWDC in June (I Do Not)
Macotakara Says Apple to Hold “Strange” Event This Month
Dalrymple Says Apple to Hold No Event This Month, Strange or Otherwise |
Thu, 2 February 2012
Apple Updates Lion, Lion Server, Server Admin Tools, and Remote Desktop Client
First Security Update of 2012 Included in Lion Update; Made Available for Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server
US Govt: Jailbreaking an iPhone Legal; Deemed “Fair Use”
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: Apple Succeeds in Business Without Really Trying
Apple Appeals iPad Trademark Decision in China
Apple Loses Bid to Block Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus from Sale in Germany\
Munster: Apple May Be Pricing Parts for a Television
Human Rights Group Urges Apple to Ensure the Next iPhone is Made Humanely
Amazon Plays Numbers-Without-Numbers with Kindle and Kindle Fire Sales |
Wed, 1 February 2012
Source in China Telecom Subsidiary Says iPhone 4S “Likely” to Hit Network in the Next Month or So
Morgan Stanley: Apple Could Sell 40-Million iPhones in China in 2013 If It Can Add China Telecom and China Mobile
Apple Online Store Institutes iPhone 4S Lottery System to Try to Stymie Scalpers
Apple Store Sites in Most Show iPhone 4S as “In Stock”
AT&T Activated 7.6-Million iPhones in the Holiday Quarter
Sprint Releases “Mobile Zone” App for Sprint iPhone Owners (Mostly)
Canalys: Apple Now Top Personal Computer Vendor on the Planet (If We Count Tablets as PCs)
Apple Hires CEO of UK Electronics-Seller Dixons as New Head of Retail
The Telegraph: A UK Take on the New King of Apple Retail
Sullied Reputation of Dixons Leads Some to Worry Over New Apple Retail Appointment
Apple Brings Many Requested Features to Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3 Update
Apple Updates Motion to Version 5.0.2
Apple Updates Compressor to Version 4.0.2
Siri Costars on a Recent Episode of The Big Bang Theory
The Flaming Lips Bring Erica Badu and Siri to New Track
Hear Siri and The Flaming Lips “Now I Understand” at http://snd.sc/Az027q |