30 Oct, 2011
The New York Times is reporting that Apple will release a Siri-powered HDTV by 2013. Sources close to Apple confirm that the TV will represent the next major product category Apple is poised to tackle. “It’s the stuff of science fiction,” writes Nick Bilton of The New York Times. “You sit on your couch and [...]
24 Oct, 2011
The co-founder and CEO of Siri – the popular voice recognition technology that defines the new iPhone 4S – joins the growing list of top leaders to part ways with Apple this year. Dag Kittlaus is widely credited with developing the voice recognition technology that has quickly become the most talked about new feature of [...]
19 Oct, 2011
On Tuesday, Apple announced quarterly earnings for its 2011 fiscal fourth quarter, which ended September 25th. Incredibly, Apple fell short of analyst estimates. Analysts had predicted that Apple would report earnings of $7.39 per share on revenue on $29.69 billion. Instead, Apple earnings came in at $7.05 per diluted share on revenue of $28.3 billion. [...]
05 Oct, 2011
We are saddened to learn this Wednesday evening that legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died. The iconic creator of all things Apple – the iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes – passed away in California today at the age of 56. Fewer than six weeks ago, Jobs resigned as CEO of the company he [...]
28 Aug, 2011
On Wednesday evening, as word broke that Apple CEO Steve Jobs would be resigning from his position as head of the tech giant he co-founded in the late 1970′s, more than just shares of Apple sunk in after-hours trading. Also plummeting were the hearts of many advertisers who momentarily feared that Jobs’ ambitions in mobile [...]
12 Aug, 2011
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Apple has “conspired” with publishers HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster to wrongfully fix and escalate e-book prices. Likening Apple’s actions to a plot intended “to boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon.com to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing,” the lawsuit assuses Apple of unfair [...]
30 Aug, 2010
It was reported over the weekend that Apple’s App Store has reached 250,000 total apps, reaching yet another important milestone in its short existence. According to 148Apps.biz, who keeps a running tab on app store metrics, Apple’s U.S. App Store passed the quarter million mark on Friday, just two years and 49 days after it [...]
17 Aug, 2010
New reports have surfaced that Apple is preparing to launch the iPad 2. Possibly for a December 2010 roll out, Apple is now at work on a new tablet that, according to PC World, delivers a 7-inch touchscreen. PC World gleaned its insight from the Economic Daily News, a prominent Taiwanese newspaper that initially confirmed [...]
06 Aug, 2010
Sprucing up the App Store with new bells and whistles has been a high priority for Apple as of late. This week, Apple launched a new Genius recommendation tab for the iPad App Store, a helpful tool that will enable app lovers to filter through thousands of applications to find ones that are appropriately suited [...]
21 Jul, 2010
Apple has announced its 3rd quarter earnings. And, once again, the tech giant beat the street. On Tuesday after the close of trading on Wall Street, the Cupertino-based technology juggernaut blew consensus estimates out of the water (which had previously forecast 3Q earnings of $14.75 billion) with actual earnings totaling $15.74 billion. The company’s Q4 [...]