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Apple's Tablet Market Share Drops to 49%
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 5:26pm | 525Read More...There's good news and bad news for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) this week. First it was revealed that, if you combine shipments of both tablets and computers, iPads account for one out of every six PCs shipped during the fourth quarter. Better still, if Apple were to combine sales of the iPad (which came...
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Apple Could Spend Millions to Retain iPhone Trademark in Brazil
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 5:09pm | 386Read More...After spending $60 million to more or less repurchase the iPad trademark in China, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is in danger of losing the iPhone brand in Brazil. According to Reuters, Brazil's copyright regulator is set to "strip Apple Inc of the right to use its iPhone trademark in Latin America's...
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Apple and Netflix Team Up for Unofficial Product Placement
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 3:38pm | 545Read More...In 2010, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the Disney-owned (NYSE: DIS) ABC sparked some controversy when the first iPad became the focus of an episode of Modern Family. Word on the street is that Apple received the free promotion simply by providing the network with an iPad to use on the show. Now Apple...
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Apple "Trained" Investors to Raise Their Expectations
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 11:01am | 465Read More...One year ago, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the golden child on Wall Street. It was the stock you could not ignore. Every analyst in the world anticipated big gains from the company. Many of them believed that Apple's stock would rise to $1,000 per share; others expected Apple to become the world's...
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Microsoft to Ship One Million Surface Pro Units
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:08pm | 418Read More...Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is throwing its full support behind the next version of Surface by sending a large number of units to retail. According to DigiTimes, Microsoft will have an initial shipment volume of one million units when Surface Windows 8 Pro ships next week. In the report, DigiTimes...
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Rumor: NVIDIA Building iPhone and iPad Competitors
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 3:59pm | 424Read More...NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has already confirmed its plans to develop an Android-based handheld gaming device. Now the company is rumored to be interested in manufacturing smartphones and tablets for other corporations. According to DroidGamers (which translated a report by Russian tech site Mobile...
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Did Apple Accidentally Reveal its New iPad Strategy?
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 3:04pm | 600Read More...In 2012, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) created a vicious cycle when it decided to release the fourth-generation iPad roughly seven months after the third-generation model arrived at retail. The decision surprised many tech enthusiasts, but it was entirely necessary. Without the iPad 4, Apple would have...
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Steve Jobs Was Completely Wrong About the iPad
Friday, January 18, 2013 - 2:07pm | 534Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs did not hide his disgust for smaller tablets. Roughly a year before his passing, he told the world exactly what he thought of the seven-inch devices, which he believed would be "dead on arrival." Time Techland has archived the entire rant. Here is one of...
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Tesla's Model X Dashboard Looks Like a Giant iPad
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 4:34pm | 207Read More...Last week, several companies introduced a number of "table tablets" that are roughly double the size of a traditional 10-inch tablet. One of them, a concept from Panasonic (NYSE: PC), even featured an Ultra HD 4K display. Their intriguing creations were only marred by the simple fact that these...
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Is Apple's iPad, MacBook Air Behind the Death of the Netbook?
Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 12:17pm | 646Read More...Netbooks were supposed to be the future of portable computing. As smaller, thinner and lighter versions of traditional laptop computers, netbooks were designed to be an energy-friendly, cost-effective alternative to expensive PCs. Consumers were receptive to the idea but apprehensive of the price...
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iPhone 5 Sets Chinese Record, Sells Two Million Units
Monday, December 17, 2012 - 10:29am | 594Read More...Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited smartphone has defied expectations in China by selling more than two million units during its first weekend of availability. While the Chinese market has always been a promising sector for Apple, the Cupertino, California-based tech encountered a few challenges...
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Apple Exec Sells 35,000 Shares, Loses Faith in Company's Value?
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 2:00pm | 539Read More...Is this a sign of things to come for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) -- or a hint that another exec is planning to leave the Cupertino, California-based tech giant? According to TheNextWeb, Bob Mansfield, the Senior VP of Apple's Technologies group, has sold 35,000 of his shares in the company. His cash-out...
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Analyst: Google to Sell Nearly 10 Million Tablets in 2013
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 3:30pm | 738Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is expected to sell 9.6 million Nexus tablets next year. Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson had originally forecasted sales as high as 14.6 million in 2013. Wilson has reduced this figure because the Nexus 7 has not sold as quickly as he expected. However, it is very...
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Investors Come Back to Apple Amid iPhone Rumors and Speculation
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 4:46pm | 454Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is up more than six percent as investors return to the Mac maker. The company ran into some trouble this fall, dropping more than 16 percent since August. Investors have been unimpressed by the release of the iPhone 5, which sold five million units during its first weekend of...
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Apple Might Reboot iPad, iPhone in Six Months
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 11:43am | 509Read More...It's been a little more than two weeks since the iPad Mini and fourth-generation iPad were released. If the latest rumor is true, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will reboot them again very soon. According to DigiTimes, "Apple is expected to introduce its next-generation iPad and iPhone series around the...
















