Category Archives: Apple

Apple presses pause on high-def music, says Neil Young

By doris | Published: February 3, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Laguna Niguel, California (CNN) — Apple’s ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young. Apple consulted with the influential musician, along with many others in the music industry, for a project to develop electronics and distribution channels [...]

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Apple factory inspections turn up scores of labor violations

By doris | Published: January 15, 2012

Full Story at Tech.Fortune.cnn.com Apple’s (AAPL) sixth annual “supplier responsibility” report is sure to be closely read by both critics and competitors. For one thing an addendum to the report lists for the first time the names of Apple’s major subcontractors — 156 companies, many in the Far East, representing 97% of the company’s supply [...]

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Apple ‘special event’ coming Jan. 19

By doris | Published: January 12, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com In that super stealthy way that Apple does things, we received an email this morning to an “invitation-only education event” next week. It’ll happen at 10 a.m. ET, Thursday Jan. 19 at the Guggenheim Musem in New York City. The rest is shrouded in secret, but eBookNewser thinks this may signal [...]

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Survey: More than half of those looking for a new smartphone will make it an iPhone

By doris | Published: January 10, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com If the results of a new survey are anything to go by, Apple looks like it’s in for a good year as far as sales of its iPhone go. ChangeWave Research’s survey of 4,000 consumers in the US and Canada found that among those considering purchasing a new smartphone in the [...]

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Android Market catching up to Apple in app numbers

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Choices are becoming more abundant in the Android Market, which has just hit 400,000 apps in the first flush of the new year. Distimo, a Netherlands-based company that tracks app store data, posted a blog entry that shows it reaching that milestone over New Year’s weekend, with free apps as the [...]

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Rumors of new iPads heat up as 2012 arrives

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — You may have just unwrapped your new iPad 2, but rumors are already swirling about the iPad 3. The always-fertile field of Apple rumors is once again blossoming furiously, as tech observers pore over the most minute tidbits of information to speculate on the future of the market-leading Apple [...]

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Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels. “It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital,” Creative Strategies president and principal [...]

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Santa, text me: Globally, just about everyone is

By doris | Published: December 21, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com That Apple commercial showing Santa asking the iPhone’s Siri for guidance? — not far off the mark. A new study shows 75 percent of cellphone users around the globe use their phones for text messaging, in wealthy countries as well as poor ones. “Texting is widespread in both wealthy nations and [...]

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Steve Jobs, G+ and iPad 2 in Google’s 2011 top searches

By doris | Published: December 16, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com In the past year, Google users around the world got more excited about tech topics Google+, “Battlefield 3″ and Steve Jobs than almost anything else, according to their billions of queries. In the Google top 10 list of 2011′s fastest rising search terms overall, the mythical iPhone 5 also appeared, along [...]

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Apple Store openings shrouded in secrecy

By doris | Published: December 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When Apple pulls the veil off of its newest store on Friday, New Yorkers will get their first glimpse at the classical architecture-meets-computers retail space inside Grand Central Terminal. Behind a temporary black facade, which has teased commuters for weeks with “arriving soon” messages, Apple has been negotiating aggressively [...]

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Apple loses ‘iPad’ trademark in China

By doris | Published: December 6, 2011

Full Story at ZDNet.com Apple prides itself on its brand value. But in China, the technology giant may be forced to sell their iPad tablets under a new moniker. The world’s largest technology company lost an ongoing court battle to use their iPad trademark, after claiming that a Chinese company was infringing on the name [...]

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Apple offering Black Friday discounts on iPads, iPods, Macs

By doris | Published: November 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you’ve been weighing buying a new Mac or iPad but are holding out for one of Apple’s rare discounts, Black Friday is your chance. As it’s done in recent years, Apple is holding a “one-day shopping event” for the day after Thanksgiving. A page on Apple’s site invites [...]

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