Mon, 31 December 2012
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Fri, 28 December 2012
Flurry Analytics: 17.4 Million New Portable Devices Activated Worldwide on Christmas Day
Distimo: App Store Downloads Up 87% on Christmas Day; App Store Revenues Up 70%
Buzzfeed: First Tweets from iPads Rule Tablets on Christmas Day
RW Baird Analyst Says Holiday Sales of Surface RT Seemed Weak at Best Buy and Staples
Fortune Runs Pictures of Packed Apple Store and Practically Empty Microsoft and Sony Stores from one Mall on Christmas Eve
Microsoft Announces Six New Retail Locations to Start 2013
Sesame Workshop Publishes “Best Practices Guide for Children’s App Development”
Apple Device Thefts Leas to First Rise in Overall Crime in Two-Decades in NYC
Apple Wins Patent for Creating Curved Glass without the Use of Chemicals
Apple Announces Lucky Bag Promotion for Japan for 2 January
Samsung Suing Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement Related to Notification Center for iOS |
Wed, 26 December 2012
Today we talk with Taz Goldstein about his new book Hand Held Hollywood's Filmmaking with the iPad and iPhone |
Mon, 24 December 2012
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech: Sales of iPhone Top 50% Market Share in the States Heading Into the Holidays
Distimo: The Real App Money is Still in iOS
The Mac Observer: Change to App Store in China Blocks Government Censors
Apple Sees Second Fine Over AppleCare in Italy; Irons Out AppleCare Issues with Italian Antitrust Authority
Apple Seed 10.8.3 beta Two-Days After Previous 10.8.3 beta
NASA Releases Free iBookstore Title - Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries
The Wall Street Journal Hits Apple Newsstand
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Fri, 21 December 2012
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Wells Fargo Analyst: Investors Fail to Appreciate the Role and Strength of Apple Customer Service
Munster Sees Notable Siri Improvement from iOS 5 to iOS 6
Apple Puts “Most Favored Nation” Clause with Publishers on 5-Year Hiatus in EU as Part of EC Settlement
The Verge: EC Set to Charge Samsung with Breach of Antitrust Rules
Apple Appealing Judge Koh Ruling Against Samsung Product Injunctions
Motorola Loses Proximity Sensor Patent Case Against iPhone with USITC
Gradiente Owns iPhone Trademark in Brazil; Starts Selling Android-Powered iPhone |
Thu, 20 December 2012
CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at http://www.crashplan.com/ USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple 915 Pinch-to-Zoom Patent Groups Including Apple, RIM, and Samsung Buy Kodak Patents for $525-Million Focus Taiwan: Secret Source Says Hon Hai Testing Apple Television, Not Likely to Ship in 2013 Piper Jaffray Names Apple Its Top Internet-Sector Pick for 2013; Reiterates Overweight Rating and $900 Target IDC: Apple the Top Smartphone Supplier for Japan University of Western Sydney to Deploy 11,000 iPads for Faculty and Students in 2013 FTC: New COPPA Rules Place Policing Kids’ Data Collection on App Developers, Not App Stores Tim Cook Takes Third-Place on Time Person-of-the-Year List for 2012 |
Wed, 19 December 2012
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Raymond James Analyst Things iPad May Be Bigger in Big Business Than We Realize
Penguin Settles in eBook Price-Fixing Case with US DoJ
Settlement Leads EU to Drop Antitrust Probes Against Apple, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan Over Alleged eBook Price-Fixing
Samsung Drops Injunction Applications Against Apple in European Courts; Continues Patent Infringement Cases
iSuppli Sees Samsung Widening Smartphone Sales Lead on Apple and Taking Worldwide Cellphone Sales Lead from Nokia
Apple Seeds New betas of iOS 6.1, Xcode 4.6 and Apple TV Software to Developers
Apple Returns Ability to Gift Apps from iOS Devices
Apple Offers Free Next-Day Shipping for U.S. Orders Through Its Online Store
Latest Wifi Plus Cellular iPads Move Closer to Release in China |
Tue, 18 December 2012
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley Thinks Apple is Taking iThings to Twice-a-Year Updates
Asymco’s Dediu Could See the Sculley Scenario
Canaccord Genuity Lowers Apple Target to $750; Maintains Buy Rating on Apple Shares
Morgan Stanley Analyst Still Incredibly Positive on Apple
Sterne Agee, ISI and Topeka Capital Analysts All Say Apple Investors Should Chill After Strong Start for iPhone 5 in China
Barrons Presents Dueling Thoughts on Apple Future
Judge Koh Denies Apple the Samsung Sales Ban it Sought; Denies Samsung a New Trial
Google Says New Maps App for iOS Downloaded Over 10-Million Times in First 48-Hours of Availability |
Mon, 17 December 2012
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Lack of Lines for iPhone 5 Launch in China Freaks Peter Misek Out
Citi Cuts Price Target and Rating on Apple Shares Due to Supply Chain Changes
Misek Hears of Supply Chain Changes Too (Though That Does Not Worry Him)
UBS Analyst Lowers Apple Target on Supply Chain Chatter, Concern over iPhone 5 in China
Apple Says It Sold Over 2-Million iPhone 5s in First Three-Days in China
Munster: Reservation System One Reason for Lack of iPhone 5 Lines in China
Fortune: Chinese and Taiwanese iPhone 5 Carriers Had Lines
R.W. Baird Analyst: 2-Million iPhone 5s for China Opening-Weekend Strong Compared to Initial iPhone 5 Opening Weekend
Walmart Selling iPhone 5 for $127 (with 2-Year Verizon, Sprint or AT&T Contract)
All Things D: $127 Walmart iPhone 5 Kind of Hard to Track Down
Walmart Selling 16GB Wi-Fi-Only Third Gen iPad for $399
AT&T Offers $100 Off of Cellular iPad or iPad mini with Two-Year Data Contract
Apple Offers Early Gift Through 12-Days of Christmas App |
Fri, 14 December 2012
Munster: Interest in Buying iPhone 5 Sees Significant Rise Post-Launch
Fortune: Survey Shows Interest in Buying Surface RT Sees Significant Decline Post-Launch
NPD DisplaySearch: iPad mini Seems to Be Outselling iPad This Holiday Season
Google Maps App is Back in iOS App Store
Slate: The Google Maps App is a Win for Apple
Apple Returns Duplicate Track Finder in Minor iTunes 11.0.1 Update
Apple Adds New SMS Trojan to Malware Blacklist for OS X
Apple Rolls Out More Detailed System Status Page for Services, Stores and iCloud at http://apple.com/support/systemstatus
Apple Loses Patent Infringement Case to Patent Troll Backed by Nokia and Sony
Apple Offers Free 2-3 Day Shipping Through Its Online Store |
Thu, 13 December 2012
Shaw Wu Raises Sales Expectations for iPhone and Lowers Them for iPad NPD DisplaySearch: Apple Grabs 84% of Mobile PC Market in 2Q 2012 (If We Count iPads as PCs) Goldman Sachs Analyst Thinks Intel Building A-Series Processors for Apple Would Be a Ba Idea for Intel Apple Insider: Movies Lighting Up for Majority of Recently Opened iTunes Stores Business Insider Challenges Google Chairman’s Assertion that Android is “Pretty Clearly” Winning Over iOS Doctor Web Finds New Trojan Targeting OS X Users WSJ Hits with Non-Story Story About an Apple Television Australian Police: Google Maps Might Kill You Too! |
Wed, 12 December 2012
Strategy Analytics: Apple Devices Now Account for 27% of LTE Devices Worldwide
iPhone 5 Tops Time List of Best Gadgets of 2012; 15” MBP with Retina Display Lands at Sixth
9 to 5 Mac: Suddenly Every Store Has a $150 iPhone 5 (Kind of)
FTC Displeased with States of Mobile Application Stores and Privacy Safeguards for Children
Morgan Stanley Analyst: Apple Television Set Could Be a $13 Billion Opportunity for Apple (If They Actually Build a TV Set)
Apple Opening Stores in China, Hong Kong, Australia and Sweden This Weekend
Apple Launches 12-Days of Christmas App in UK, Canadian, and European iTunes Stores
Microsoft Expanding Surface RT Availability to Staples and BestBuy.com Today and Best Buy Store This Sunday
Apple Adds Driving Directions to Find My iPhone for iOS 6 Devices |
Tue, 11 December 2012
Most Agree That App Tiles on Apple TV Were Technical Glitch, Not Early Leak
Speculative-Fiction Writer Peter Misek Drops Apple Price target to $800
Topeka Capital Analyst Sees Surge in Apple Supply Chain as Good News for Apple
Credit Suisse Thinks TSMC Will Start Producing A-Series Processors for Apple by Mid-2013
Apple Insider: Some Pre-Ordered 27-Inch iMacs Shipping Earlier Than Originally Estimated
China Unicom: Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 Hit 300,000
Fortune: Numbers Making Black Friday Shopping Sales on Kindle Fire Almost Non-Existent Appear to Have Been Heavily Skewed
Goldman Sachs Analysts: Tablets to Drive Smartphone Choices (Which is Good News for Apple)
Wired: Police Urge Motorists to Steer Clear of Apple Maps as Directions Leave Drivers Stranded in the Desert
The Register: Faulty Australian iOS Map Data Came from Australia, Not Apple |
Mon, 10 December 2012
In Apple TV: Potential for Appy Holidays
9 to 5 Mac: Bluetooth Keyboard Pairing Coming in Next Apple TV Software Update
Bill Palmer at Beatweek Thinks Apple will Go Full-on Television Rather Than Stick with the Hobby Puck
Maynard Um Thinks Apple will Go Full-on Television Rather Than Stick with the Hobby Puck
iPhone 5 Listed as In-Stock for a Number of Apple Online Stores
Friday: BestBuy Offers $25 Gift Card to People Who Buy an iPhone 5 (with a 2-Year Contract)
Sunday: BestBuy Offers $50 Off the Price of an iPhone 5 (with a 2-Year Contract)
NTT DoCoMo Sees First Monthly Subscriber Drop in Over 5-Years; Blames Lack of iPhone 5
Crowds Small and Riddled with Scalpers at iPad mini Launches in China
New Orders for 27-Inch iMac Slip to Shipping in January
Fortune: Made-in-USA Mac Likely to be the Mac Pro
Bloomberg: Secret Sources Say Apple and Google to File Joint Bid for Eastman Kodak Patents |
Fri, 7 December 2012
Apple CEO Calls TV “an Area of Intense Interest” for Apple
The Pros and Cons of Made-in-America Macs
Early Thursday: T-Mobile USA and Apple Enter Deal to Sell an Apple Something in 2013
Later Thursday: T-Mobile Getting iPhone in 2013; Dropping Subsidies for Smartphones in 2013 (Though It May Not Look That Way to iPhone Buyers)
RBC Analyst Sees Apple/T-Mobile iPhone Tie-Up Adding 4-5 Million Additional iPhone Sales in First Year of Deal
Shipping Times for iPad mini Drop to One-Week in the U.S.
IDC Sees Apple Maintaining Over a 50 Percent Share of Tablet Space Until at Least 2016
Detwiler Fenton: Lack of Retail Exposure is Killing Microsoft Surface Sales
China Unicom iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Double in Three-Days to 200k
Target Cuts $20 Off iPhone 5 Price Through December 15
Vista Repair Hacker Kristen Paget Hired by Apple
Judge Koh to Decide Final Points in Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Case in Individual Rulings Over the Next Few Months
Samsung Attorney: Global Peace Talks Are in Apple's Court |
Thu, 6 December 2012
China Mobile President Says Technology and Business Have Kept iPhone Off of His Carrier (So Far)
Apple Translates "Start Developing iOS Apps Today" Into Chinese
Canalys: 25 Developers Made Half of Mobile App Revenue in First 20 Days of November
Mossberg Says “Find Duplicates” Feature Returning to iTunes 11 Soon
iPodNN: iTunes, App Store and Mac App Store See Sporadic Access Issues Worldwide on Wednesday
9 to 5 Mac: Russian iTunes Store Accidentally Directs Users to Porn and Escort Sites
Apple Adds App-Enabled Accessories Section to Its Online Store
RadioShack Cuts $20 Off iPhone 5 Price Through December 15
Apple Seeds New Build of OS X 10.8.3 beta to Developers
MacNN: Work Underway on Austin, Texas Expansion for Apple
Apple Looking to Double Maiden, NC Fuel Cell Project |
Wed, 5 December 2012
Shaw Wu Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Sales Estimates for the Current Quarter Electronista: Apple Raises iPhone 5 Purchase Cap in the States from 2-Per-Customer to 10-Per-Customer Barclays Capital Analyst Makes Case (Again) for Low-Cost iPhone for Developing Markets NPD Says Black Friday Consumer Electronics Sales Off 5.6% (Though They Don’t Count iPads, Kindles, Surfaces, Smartphones or Video Games) Apple Updates iWork Titles for iOS and OS X Dockster Trojan Targets Macs Through Site Dedicated to Dalai Lama Cult of Mac: Home Brewing Your Own Internal Fusion Drive for New 21.5-Inch iMac is Impossible Coupons.com Adds Passbook Integration to Its iOS App RE/MAX Signs with Vizibility to Put 4,500 Agents Business Cards in iOS Passbook Urban Airship Buys iOS Passbook-centric Startup Tello |
Tue, 4 December 2012
China Unicom Sees 100,000 Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 on First Day of Availability Apple Launching iPhone 5 in 50 New Countries Before End of 2012 Wait Times for iPhone 5 Drop to 2-to-4 Business Days on Apple Site Canaccord Genuity Sees Sales on 47.5 Million iPhones in the December Quarter Yahoo!: iPhone 5 Second Most Searched Term in U.S. in 2012 Yahoo!: Amazon Kindle Most Searched for Gadget in UK in 2012; Third Overall Apple Launches iTunes Store in Russia, Turkey, India, South Africa and 52 Other Countries iMore: Apple Now Sells Music in 118 Countries and Movies in 66 Countries Some Off-the-Shelf iMacs Sporting “Assembled in USA” Inscription Apple Seeds iOS 6.1 beta 3 to Developers Judge Lucy Koh Says All But Financial Details of Settlement Between Apple and HTC Should Be Made Public News Corp. Pulls the Plug on The Daily Ashton Kutcher/Steve Jobs Bio-Pic to Premier at 2013 Sundance Film Festival |
Mon, 3 December 2012
Apple to Start Sales of New New iPad and iPad mini on 7 December; iPhone 5 on 14 December Mixed Reaction from Analysts to iPad/iPhone China Announcement comScore MobileLens: Apple Takes Second in Cellphone Sales in the States for First Time Ever iFixIt Busts Open a New 21.5-Inch iMac and Finds a 3-Out-of-10 Repairability Rating Shipping Time for 27-Inch iMac Jumps from 2-3 Weeks to 3-4 Weeks in First 24-Hours of Pre-Orders 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Allowing Third-Party Retailers to Sell $15 to $500 Adjustable Price iTunes Gift Cards RBC Capital Analyst Considers Possible Processor Partners for Apple Besides Samsung Other RBC Capital Analyst Says Apple Talking with Intel About Producing Chips for iThings Apple Says It Did Not Know of Samsung Jury Foreman’s Seagate Lawsuit Until After the Trial CNET: BTIG Research Expects an iRadio Service from Apple in First Half of 2013 Tim Cook Interview to Air on NBC’s Rock Center This Thursday 6 December Babycenter.com Sees a Rise in Apple Related Baby Names in 2012 |