Mon, 30 April 2012
Court-Directed Settlement Talks Between Apple and Samsung Set for May 21-22
Reuters: Anonymous Sources Say Apple Talking Streaming Movie Deal with EPIX
Macworld UK Sees Booming Sales for (Jailbreakable) 2nd-Gen Apple TV on eBay
Electronista: A Look at NYT Article “How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes”
CNET: Apple Rebuts NYT Story
Read NYT’s “How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes” at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
The Next Web: Cancelled WWDC Tickets May Have Been Overzealous Attempt to Stop Scalpers
People Behind Jailbreakcon Announce WWDC Alternative Called “Indie Developer Lab”
Find Info on Indie Developer Lab - June 11-14 - at http://indiedevlab.com
Apple Kills Chomp App for Android and Removes Android Filter from Chomp.com
Irish PM Visits Apple Europe Headquarters in Cork
CEO of Ferrari Meets with CEO of Apple and Execs from Google
SlashGear: Samsung Says It was Not Behind the “Wake Up” Stunt in Australia
“Choose Your Own Adventure” Books Land in the iBookstore |
Fri, 27 April 2012
NPD Says iPad Replacing iPod as Apple Gateway Drug
Market Trackers Track Apple and Samsung Battle for Smartphone Supremacy
Samsung Tongues Apple with Fake Protests in Australia
Softbank Says iPhone 4S Largely Responsible for 65-Percent Increase in Profits in FY2011
Apple Among 14 Companies Sued for Alleged Patent Violation by Potter Voice Technologies
Former Apple Retail Exec Poaches Former Apple Underling to Work at JCP
Apple Offers Up to 150 WWDC Scholarships
Check Out Apple’s WWDC Scholarship Page at https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/scholarships/
Craigslist Poster: I’ll Change My Name to Yours for Your Ticket to WWDC
Apple Opening Off-Campus Cafeteria for Employees Only
Sir Jonathan Ive Wins Favorite British Innovator 2012 Title in IPO of UK Contest |
Thu, 26 April 2012
Business Insider Figures iPhone Alone More Profitable Than ExxonMobil
Business Insider: Apple Profit Now Bigger Than Google Revenue
Fortune: Indie-Analysts Take Top Eight Spots for Apple 2Q FY2012 Estimates
Fortune: A Raft on Analysts up Apple Targets
Apple Earnings Report Leads Shares to Close Back Above $600 on Wednesday
Sprint Sells 1.5 Million iPhones in Most Recent Quarter, 660,000 to New Customers
Sprint CEO Says Carrier Will Keep Unlimited Data for Next iPhone Even If It’s a 4G/LTE Device
HTC Sees Profits Drop Over 70-Percent, Says iPhone 4S Largely to Blame
Apple Sets WWDC Dates for June 11-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco
WWDC Sells Out in Two Early Morning Hours
The Mysterious Misfire of WWDCAlerts.com
Developers from Big Nerd Ranch and Panic See WWDC Tickets Cancelled for Unknown Reasons
Nominations Open for Apple Design Awards at https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/awards/
Kaspersky Founder and CEO Says Apple is Years Behind Microsoft in Terms of Security
Microsoft Puts Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 Back Up for Download |
Wed, 25 April 2012
Apple Reports Best Second Fiscal Quarter in Its History
Apple’s 2Q FY2012 Earnings Call is Available as a Podcast on iTunes
AT&T: 4.3 Million of 5.5 Million Smartphones Sold Last Quarter Were iPhones
T-Mobile Offers $200 Bounty for iPhones to New 4G Smartphone Customers
Judge Says Samsung Violated Court Orders in U.S. Case Against Apple
Apple Loses Preliminary Ruling Against Motorola Mobility in USITC Case
Chinese Government Official Says Proview Owns the iPad Trademark, Not Apple
Forrester: Tablets to Displace Traditional PCs as Primary Computing Device by 2016
Macmillan USA Subsidiary Tor Books Announces Plans to Drop DRM from Its eBooks in Early July |
Tue, 24 April 2012
KGI Analyst Says Apple Will Use In-Cell Touch Panels to Slim Down Next iPhone
GigaOm Says In-Cell Touch Panels Would Let Apple Increase Battery Size for Next iPhone Rather Than Reduce Phone Size
China Times Hears Talk (Again) of a Budget iPhone
KGI Analyst Spins Strange Yarn Around Macs in 2012
Intego Spots New Flashback Variant in the Wild
Microsoft Yanks Office for Mac 2011 Update After Bug Trouble with Outlook
All Things D: Apple Breaks Ground on New Oregon Data Center
Denver Broncos Ditch Weekly Printed Palybooks for iPads
Apple Holds 2Q FY2012 Earnings Call today at 2PM EDT/5PM PDT
Listen Live to the Apple Earnings Call at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq212 |
Mon, 23 April 2012
Dr. Web and Symantec Peg Current Flashback Infection at 650,000 Macs
Six U.S. Regional Carriers Start iPhone 4/4S Sales and Service
Sterne Agee Analyst Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Expectations for Apple’s 2Q FY2012
IHS iSuppli: Apple to Consume One-Quarter of 2012’s NAND Flash Production
Apple Launches Pages for iPhone and iPad in Business
Check out the iPhone in Business Page at http://apple.com/iphone/business
Check out the iPad in Business Page at http://apple.com/ipad/business
EU Competition Commissioner Says Apple Has Made Settlement Offer in eBook Price Fixing Case
Proview Attorney Says Settlement Talks Underway with Apple Over Ownership of Term “iPad” in China
Flatworld Interactives Sues Apple Over Alleged Patent Infringement Regarding Touchscreen Gestures
Apple Adding 500 Positions at European Headquarters
Bloomberg/Businessweek Wins D&AD “Yellow Pencil” for Steve Jobs Commemorative Issue |
Fri, 20 April 2012
Verizon: 3.2 Million of the 6.3 Million Smartphones Sold Last Quarter Were iPhones
Canaccord Genuity Analyst Ups Apple Target to $740
Citigroup and Piper Jaffray Analysts See Support for Fall Release for Next iPhone
Apple Says 4G iPad Should Be Called 4G in Australia Even If It Can’t Run on 4G Networks in Australia
Samsung Accuses Apple of Violating Eight of Its Patents in New Countersuit Filing
Judge Green Lights Anti-Poaching Antitrust Case Against Apple and Other Tech Giants
Kaspersky Labs Says Flashback Infections Down to 30,000 Macs
Apple Supplier Responsibility Report for March Shows Increased Compliance with Overtime Regulations
Microsoft and Best Buy Team Up for “Behind the Tiles” Windows Phone Parties
Valve CEO Says No One From His Company Met with Tim Cook Nor Anyone Else from Apple This Week |
Thu, 19 April 2012
Goldman Sachs Reiterates “Buy” Rating on Apple Shares; Ups Apple Target to $750
Barclays Capital Analyst Suggests Apple Investors Stay in the Shares
Apple Lawyer Says Company Wants to Defend Against DoJ Collusion Charges in Court
Symantec: Flashback Infection Down to 140,000 Macs (Though They’d Expected a Drop to 99,000 by Now)
Greenpeace Stages “Clean Our Cloud” Demonstration at Apple European HQ in Ireland
Apple Issues Minor Update for Configurator Utility
Apple Seeds Third Builds of Mountain Lion and Xcode 4.4 to Developers
Apple Reportedly Giving Snow Leopard to MobileMe Users to Start Them Moving Toward Lion and iCloud
Encyclopedia Britannica Launches Universal iOS App
Korean News Site Says Next iPhone Case Will Be Liquid Metal (Liquidmetal?) and Will Launch at WWDC
Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt Wonders Why We Believe in an Apple Television
Fast Company Profiles Steve Jobs’ “Wilderness Years”
Read the Fast Company Piece at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/165/steve-jobs-legacy-tapes
Time Puts Apple CEO Tim Cook on 2012 List of 100 Most Influential People in the World |
Wed, 18 April 2012
Apple and Samsung to Meet for Court Directed Settlement Talks
Security Expert: Java Updates Won’t Keep Macs Safe from SabPub Variants
Apple Hires United-Continental CFO as New VP of Sales
Shaw Wu Thinks a 7.85-Inch iPad would Decimate the Competition (Though He Doesn’t Know That We’ll See One Soon)
New Siri-Focused iPhone 4S Ads Running with Samuel L. Jackson and Zoey Deschanel
Apple Awarded Patent for Look and Feel of iTunes Store
Apple Opening Second Store in Rome This Saturday at 10AM Local Time
Greenpeace Slams Apple and Others for Powering Data Centers with Dirty Energy
All Things D Questions Accuracy of Greenpeace Report
NYC Apple Stores to Host Filmmaker Talks in Conjunction with Tribeca Film Festival
Check Out the Apple Store Tribeca Film Festival Events Schedule at http://www.apple.com/retail/tribeca/
Jony Ive on Short List of UK IPO British Visionary Innovators |
Tue, 17 April 2012
Apple Launching New iPad in 12 More Countries This Friday, Nine More the Following Friday
Apple Heads to Australian Court to Hash Out iPad 4G Marketing Down Under
Rumor Has Apple Outing 7.85-Inch iPad in 3Q CY2012
More Malware: Two SabPub Variants Discovered
TMO: Kaspersky Spots LuckyCat Trojan
Apple Agrees to Environmental Audit of Chinese Printed Circuit Board Supplier with Beijing-Based Organization
Apple Adding Several New Features to Next Final Cut Pro X Update
Apple Kills Free Trials of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Aperture
Apple Updates Cards iOS App with New Designs for Mother’s Day, Get Well and Other Categories as Wall as Performance Fixes
Apple Issues Minor Update for iBooks
IFO Apple Store: A Look at a New Apple “Store-in-a-Store” in a Walmart
WSJ: French Designer Confirms That “Revolutionary” Product for Apple is Actually Yacht for the Jobs Family |
Mon, 16 April 2012
Piper Jaffray Analyst Expects More iPhone Sales Than the Street for 2Q FY2012, Fewer iPads and Macs
Report: Some White iPhone 4s Replaced with 4Ses Due to Replacement Unit Shortages
Apple Issues Flashback Removal Tool Specifically for Macs Running Lion
Macworld: Kaspersky Labs Puts Its Flashback Removal Tool Back Into Distribution as Norton Adds a Tool of Its Own
TUAW: Apple Seeds Third beta of OS X 10.7.4 to Developers
Apple Loses Second Push Email Cases Against Motorola Mobility in Germany
Apple Insider: Tim Cook Reportedly Visits Valve HQ
CNET: Cook Visit to Valve Could Be About New Hardware for Valve
Instagram Adds 10-Million New Users After Addition of Android App and Purchase by Facebook
French Designer Phillipe Starck Says He’s Working on a Revolutionary Product for Apple
Apple Says Starck Not Working on Anything for Apple, While All Things D says He Might Be Working on a Yacht for the Jobs Family
Apple Treat Employees to Cirque di Soleil’s “Totem” |
Fri, 13 April 2012
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Apple Calls DoJ Charges in eBook Suit “Simply Not True”
Australian Financial Site Says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission May Join in eBook Suits
Apple Issues Java Update That Removes Most Common Flashback Variants
Kaspersky Suspends Distribution of Flashback Removal Tool After It Also Removes Some User Settings
Apple Prompting iOS Device Owners to Provide Security Questions and Answers
Credit Suisse Ups Apple Target to $750 on iPhone Strength and Device Synergy
Barclays Survey Says 80-Percent of CIOs Who Plan to Support Tablets Plan to Support iPads
Research Firm Chipworks Finds Shrunken A5 Processors in 3rd-Gen Apple TV and New Models of iPad 2
Gartner and IDC Show Apple in Third-Place for U.S. Computer Vendors in 1Q CY2012 at or Above a 10-Percent Market Share
TUAW: Apple Offering Discounts on Hardware to Publishers of iBooks
Apple, RIM and Samsung Sued by Likely Patent Troll “Touchscreen Gestures” Over - You Guessed It - Touchscreen Gestures
Apple (Finally) Allowed to Intervene on Behalf of Developers in Lodsys Suits
American Public Media’s MarketPlace Posts Video Tour of a Foxconn iPad Factory at http://marketplace.org
App Developer Fiftythree Says Paper Crosses Million-and-a-Half Download Mark in First Two Weeks
Prototype Mac with “Twiggy” Floppy Drive on Auction on eBay for $100,000 Starting Bid |
Thu, 12 April 2012
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US DoJ Brings Suit Against Apple and FIve Publishers for Alleged Collusion in eBook Pricing
Three Publishers Settle with the DoJ
16 States Sue Apple and Publishers (Two of Which Have Already Settled with the States)
DoJ Says Apple Proposed “Illegally Dividing” Digital Content Worlds with Amazon
Apple Investors Apparently Unfazed by News of DoJ Suit
Shaw Wu Ups iPad Sales Expectations and Apple Price Target
Apple Working on Flashback Fix for Snow Leopard and Lion
Symantec Says Number of Macs Infected with Flashback Down to 270,000 and Falling
Apple Issues Updates for Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor
Apple Changes Look of “We’ll Be Back Soon” Signage (and Drops the Word “Soon”)
Apple Changes Look of Sales Chat Window in Online Store; Adds Screen Sharing to Part of Brazilian Store |
Wed, 11 April 2012
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Apple Insider: 15-Inch MacBook Pro Stock Constrained at Third-Party Resellers Ahead of Likely Refresh
Gartner: Apple to Control at Least 45-Percent of Tablet Sales Through at Least 2016
Consumer Federation of America Calls on DoJ to Go After Apple and Publishers for Collusive Behavior Around Ebook Pricing
Reuters Reports Says DoJ Could Launch Case Against Apple on Ebook Price-Fixing as Early as Today
Apple Tries to Shut Down a Dr. Web Domain (for One Reason or Another)
Apple Lures Symantec SVP to Be Its Tax Man
Apple at $270 Guy Says Microsoft and Windows 8 Will Shake Cellphones and Computers to the Ground
Nokia and AT&T Find Connectivity Issue in Lumia 900; Offer Swap-Out Option and $100 Dollar Credit on AT&T Bill
Best Buy CEO Resigns
Best Buy Says CEO Resigned Ahead of Completion of Investigation Into Personal Misconduct
Tim Cook to Speak at Opening Night of D:10 |
Tue, 10 April 2012
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Forbes: One Analyst Puts Apple Shares at $1650 While Another Targets $270
BTIG Research Analyst Downgrades Apple from “Buy” to “Neutral” on iPhone Concerns and Expectation of No Apple Television in 2012
Topeka Capital Analyst Sees Unibody, 4G/LTE iPhone with 4-Inch Screen Launching This Fall
HR Exec at Foxconn Factory Says Next iPhone to Hit Around October
All Things D: Who Launches a Phone When the Phone Stores are Closed? Microsoft and Nokia!
Fortune: AT&T Stores Were Closed and AT&T Resellers Didn’t Have Nokia Lumia 900 on First Day of Products Launch
AdAge: AT&T Reportedly Spending $150-Million to Promote Nokia Lumia 900
AT&T Helping Off-Contract iPhone Owners Unlock Handsets for Use on Other Carriers
Mac Developer Outs Free Flashback Malware Checker
Facebook Buying Instagram for $1 Billion
Strength of Harry Potter eBook Sales Surprises Pottermore.com
NYC Pilot Program Will Replace 250 Outdoor Pay Phones with 32-Inch “Smart Screens” |
Mon, 9 April 2012
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Flashback Malware Infects Over Half-a-Million Macs Worldwide
Apple Issues Java Updates to Combat Flashback Malware
Apple Sets Q2FY2012 Earnings Call for 24 April at 5PM EDT/2PM PDT
Piper Jaffray and Topeka Capital Set Apple Targets Between $910 and $1,001
Jefferies and Co Analyst Ups Apple Target to $800 Based - in Part - on Belief in Apple Television
Nielsen: Tablet and Smartphone-Owning TV Watchers Using Tablets and Smartphones While Watching TV
Computerworld: New iPad Appears More Readily Available In-Store Than Online
John Gruber Talks 7.85-Inch iPad Possibility
Universal Movies Now Available to Re-Download Through iCloud
Report: Foxconn Employees Upset at Having Overtime Cut Back to 36-Hours Per Month
Apple Tops Nikkei List of Top Brands in Japan for First Time Ever
WSJ Report Says Apple and Two Publishers Resistant to eBook Settlement Terms from U.S. DoJ
Network World: Apple Apparently Settles with Guy Who’s House It Searched Last Summer
European Regulators Push nano-SIM Decision to End of May
Apple Updates iAd Producer to v2.1
Halifax Mac Store Closing Ahead of Apple Retail Arrival
Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs in First of at Least Two Bio Pics About Steve Jobs |
Mon, 2 April 2012
Talk to you on April 9th. |