Category: Apple Inc.

Apple Inc (AAPL) has a stock price that seemingly is going through the roof.  With it closing at a record high close of $429.11 USD yesterday at the final bell, the stock is breaking records again this morning reaching $430.41 USD at 8:25am this morning ET.  With an impending announcement of this morning at 10:00am ET and reporting of the quarterly profits coming up next week, the only thing that might slow down the upward onslaught would be a poor…

Adam Lashinsky’s book about Apple Inc and its inner workings is due out next week.   The book, which purports to tell how things works at apple is the latest book about the company and second to be published since the death of CEO Steve Jobs.   While most books written about Apple have focused on Steve himself, this one focuses on how Apple handles its people, secrecy and security within the company. The 272 page book is “a golden ticket to…

Apple has posted the latest version of the next implementation of Mac OS X 10.7.3 to it7s developers pages.   Build 11D46 primarily focuses on issues related to external services including Windows File Sharing, Directory Services, and Smart Cards.  The upgrade also has a hefty file size and nearly 997mb in size.  With this release, it is expected that the next gold master release will be forth coming shortly and then consumer version of 10.7.3 implemented to the App Store with…

On January 19th, 2012, Apple Inc. is scheduled to have an education related announcement in the heart of New York City. While many in the world are speculating that apple is trying to “destroy the textbook industry”, We suspect that they are just following up on several lines of thought. First, Texas was the first in the nation to embrace to totally digital textbook idea. It currently saves the state 2 billion USD per year in text book costs. If…

According to a survey run by IDG recently, iPad use by professionals in the work place is at a very high level.   This phenomena is not just a U.S. trend, it is a major global trend.  The lowest rate of usage of the iPad for communications is in Europe where only 80% of professionals use it.   However, in the US, this rate is 93% and in Asia and the middle east, that number reaches more than 97%. According to one…

According to MacPrime.ch, there are now plans to open an Apple Store in Basel, Switzerland sometime around the middle of 2013.  As of yet, the plans are unconfirmed by Apple, Inc, however, a blueprint of the store shows that they will be opening a bi-level store with approximately 7500 square feet. Source: ifoAppleStore.com

For those who have been waiting for the next edition of their iPad, it appears that your wait is nearly over.  Bloomberg is claiming that the iPad will be released in March, complete with high definition screen as well as LTE networking capability.   This speculation could be due to the Apple Event which is scheduled for next week, however,  it is highly unlikely that Apple is ready to deliver on such an advanced model of the iPad so soon. The…

The Beijing Apple store has had a major debacle in its opening of sales of the new iPhone 4S there.  The store was supposed to open at 7:00 am but as the time reached 7:15, the crowds of people who had amassed waiting for the sales to begin, began chanting and hurling eggs at the store.  Swat teams were called in to control the crowd and the sale of the iPhone there halted. In most other cities, tickets were given…

As predicted here by our staff, Apple has scheduled an education related event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.  The event which will be held at 10:00 am on the 19th of January will outline Apple’s Education initiative.  While many have said this event will feature the iPad 3 prominently, we are expecting it to take more of the Standford and MITx education initiatives in hand and show how those initiatives will integrate with iTunes. As stated in…

A report in CIO states that Enterprise level corporations will likely put about $19 billion USD into purchases from Apple, Inc. this year according to the research firm Forrester Research.  This is nearly 20% of the corporate market and will likely increase to a total of $28 Billion USD in 2013. Most of the purchases will be for iPads and Macs according to the report. The iPad has made major inroads into many enterprise level corporations including the airlines and…

Kodak, one the verge of being bankrupt, has filed a lawsuit against Apple and HTC suggesting that the companies have infringed on patents held the Kodak.   The patents concerned in the release from Kodak stated that Apple and HTC both infringed on: U.S. Patent No. 7,210,161 – “Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Camera to a Service Provider Using a Network Configuration File” U.S. Patent No. 7,742,084 – “Network Configuration File for Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Still Camera”…

Have you ever wondered what would happened if you dropped your ipad?  What if it was dropped out of an airplane?  Well, the guys at G-Form already did that one and had to go one better.  Using a weather balloon, they took an iPad to 100,000 feet insulated with their G-From Extreme Edge Case.  Amazingly, the iPad drops to earth and survives.  Dont believe it?  Check it out for yourself!:

Since reaching a low of $354.23 USD on the day that Steve Jobs died, Apple, Inc’s Stock (AAPL) price has been on a steady climb.   The stock closed at $422.40 at the market close and was trading just down from that at $422.28 USD in the after hours market.  With Apple expected to announce their 4th Qtr results on the 24th of this month, it is expected that the stock will continue this upward trend baring some unforeseen change in…

A clip on you tube fromt he Santa Clara Valley Historical Association has a snippet of Steve Jobs talking about what it took for he and Woz to start Apple.  The expression that stands out in the clip that is most striking is the bit about “we had literally nothing to lose.”  The video is embedded below and the part with Steve Jobs begins at 1:52 int he clip.   It is a very telling emotion about how he felt about…

There are currently several rumors floating around about a supposed event which Apple will be holding near the end of January.  Speculation is ripe that the even will be help in New York, site of the recently opened grand central station Apple Store.  Many sites are speculating on whether this is the release of the iPad 3 or an event scheduled to introduce a new iTV product, yet we have been doing a bit of research on this and have…

During the fourth Quarter 2011, Verizon sold a total of 4.2 million units of the latest rendition of iPhone.   This number was more than double the number of units sold by Verizon during the third quarter.   While this is good news for both Apple and Verizon, the news has not particularly been good for the stock where their price is currently at $39.21o USD or down 1.309% for the day. The stock had over 2 million share trade today but…

Apple announced today that they will be rolling out their latest version of the iPhone series, the iPhone 4S, to another 21 countries including China on the 13th of January, 2012.  The countries included in this roll out are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,…

January 2012 Our persispacious reader may have noticed that this column is a little late. Chalk that up to health issues, including bouts with a rather violent gastroenteritis over Christmas, ongoing sciatica that make standing up and sitting down difficult, and a nasty cold. The joys of getting old. Ah, but what’s a little pain? It never hurt anyone. The top line: brevity shall be the order of the month. Corporate pain seems the lot of once stalwarts Kodak, Sony,…

When a 20 year old Vista, California man decided to burglerize several homes in his local area, he forgot one basic fact: Find my iPad will get you.  One Patrick Krewson has robbed one home of  of children’s gifts and another man’s home of several items including his iPad.  When the owner of the iPad let  police know the location it was broadcasting from, they proceeded to go to the location, finding Krewson, the childrens gifts, several other missing items…

A former Apple Genius Bar employee, Chad Ramey has laid out he entire experience with being an Apple Employee bare to the world in a public letter to Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook.   In the letter, he says that he hated to “abandon his passion” just to please management’s requirement to push the numbers of customers through the system quickly, while not really listening to or servicing their real needs.  The letter is a good insight into what has happened…