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Motorola files a lawsuit against Apple claiming infringement of 6 patents. The lawsuit came with the full permission of Google who has been going after Apple in a proxy war to claim more of the pot of gold. The lawsuit filed today asks the courts for an injunction against the iPhone 4S and Apple’s iCloud service saying that they are infringing upon the following patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,710,987 on a “receiver having concealed external antenna” U.S. Patent No. 5,754,119…
Apple, Inc. (AAPL) soared to more than 455 USD yesterday, however today, it is trading down ad 446.50 as of 5:14pm EST. Apple’s stock price shot up more than 30 dollars a share immediately after first quarter profits for 2012 were announced on the 24th. The stock traded mostly flat on the day as several analysts projected that Apple stock will go through the $650 mark specified by Rob Cihra of Evercore Partners. Analyst comment from Wedbush Securities gave the…
The book that has created the most buzz lately is Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky. The book delves into the inner workings of Apple, Inc. and how they manage to maintain their competitive edge with their shroud of secrecy. Talked about over the past several weeks by many in the media, the long awaited book is now available in the iTunes Store To Download the book in iTunes, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/inside-apple/id444015286?mt=11
Opera Software ASA has posted an update for their Opera Browser. The update, version 11.61.1250 updates a bevy of issues in a number of realms within the software including: User interface Issues New web handlers tab in the Site Preferences dialog cut off, dialog not wide enough Crash when clicking “Use master password to protect saved passwords” checkbox Occasional crash when clicking a link or opening a new tab Opera crashes when closing a tab that has the Star Menu…
Apple, Inc. (AAPL) is continuing the trend set yesterday evening, with the stock at 453.00 at 7:17AM EST in pre-market trading or up 32.59 USD (7.75 percent) from yesterdays close. The record profits announced by Apple yesterday has been driving the climb and in spite of some issues in the supply chain, this upward trend is not likely to change for a while, or at least until the rest of the market digests the numbers. The tech sector as a…
Lim Thaye Chen has made his Virtual GS Programming book available in both PDF and iBook format on the Virtual GS website. The book is the first Apple ][ specific book to have been created with the new iBooks Author package introduced by Apple this month. You can download the book in it’s entirety for free from the Virtual GS website at: http://virtual-gs.appspot.com/web/Book.html
A great graphic on Gizmodo last evening shows the amount of cash Apple has on hand when stacked would soar to an altitude of 6,583 miles above the earth. That distance represents a distance more than 32 times that which the International Space Station orbits at. Source: Gizmodo
Apple, Inc. has released another update to the upcoming release of Mac OS X, 10.7.3. The Build 11D50 is a 997mb download and while there are still questions about what Apple has planned, the laast few builds have been fairly stable. To download the latest build, you will need a Developer account. The build can be downloaded at: http://developer.apple.com/
Readdle has released an update to the PDF document control software, PDF Expert. Version 3.2 of PDF Expert incorporates a number of enhancements to the package including: Document Search now looks far beyond the file name. It lets you find the needed documents faster and easier than ever before! New sorting panel lets you reorder the files based on Name, Date or Modified Date. Just scroll the document list to the very top to reveal it, pretty much like in…
Apple’s Conference Call with the media yesterday is now available online. The Phone Conference to announce the quarterly profits was held at 5pm EST 24 January and announced Apple’s record breaking quarter. To listen to the entire audio of the event, go to the quicktime page at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq112/
Apple had a slam dunk, in your face type of quarter in quarter 1, 2012. It’s profits were beyond that of any belief. The stock price jumped to over 455 USD a share at one point after profits were announced. The number of iPhone 4S’s sold were more than 4 million units beyond that of even the most optimistic analyst. It was a huge success, but there are cracks in the mirror. Supply is an issue for the iPhones, hard…
iBooks Author, the app which allows educators to produce their own textbooks, has pushed over 600,000 downloads in 5 days. It was previously thought that this number was under 90,000, however Apple announce in this morning’s conference call that this plus a total of 3 million iTunes U downloads is pushing the education initiative along mightily. The fact that iBooks Author only runs on Mac OS X Lion should also drive future Mac OS X sales or even machine sales…
After Apple announced their quarter one profits this morning and the stock price went through the roof. At press time, the price was at $451.51 USD in after hours trading, up more than $31.10 USD or 7.40 percent. With groups like RBC Capital posting a buy level at $525 USD a share, this is not much of a stretch at this point. The increase in share price makes Apple Inc. the number one company in the US as far as…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced their first quarter results in a conference call today posting sales of $46.33 Billion USD. They sold 37.04 billion iPhones or more than 4 billion more than anyone expected this number to be. iPads sales were strong but not quite at expectations at 15.4 $billion Units and 5.2 million Macs. This quarters sales puts the total number of iPhone units sold globally by Apple Inc over the of the products at 315 million units. Cash on…
According to a report by GigaOm, Apple has overtaken all of the other large hardware manufacturers to become the number one purchaser of semiconductors. The report states that Apple spend a total of $17.3 Billion USD last year on semiconductors. This change in the top rank has been spurred on by the iPhone and iPad’s popularity and demand. Source: GigaOm
Apple will be holding Conference Call at 5pm EST today to report the fiscal year 2012 first quarter profits. While many in the industry are expecting lower overall numbers, it seems that they are at the expecting high numbers at Apple. According to ColinW. Gillis at BGC Partners, “analyst expectations are around 33 million iPhones and 12 13 million iPads”. Others including Mark Moskowitz at JP Morgan is expecting that number on the iPhones to be about 28 Million.
Apple has lost an appeal to have Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned from The Netherlands. The dutch court tossed the appeal from Apple, giving the lower court the final say on the matter. This decision comes just days after Samsung lost a minor ruling in German courts. Source: Reuters
Fortune has released a new excerpt from the Inside Apple book written by Adam Lashinsky. The book discusses Apple from the employee and the secrecy and security aspect, goine into detail about how employees are treated, how they are paid, and what the policy at Apple is relating to product releases. The book even goes into the tit-for-tat type fights that erupt between employees and that dressing someone down is acceptable if it is in the interest of making a…
Apple has finally created a support website for the iTunes U. Introduced along with Apple’s Education Initiative last week in New York City, iTunes U is intended to give students of all ages materials which are downloadable to their iPads as well as instructurs the tools with which to reach the student easily and interactively. Lack of a real support structure has been hindering usage of the facility so far, however Apple eliminated that issue yesterday. You can check out…
Evi is an app for the iPhone which it’s developers, True Knowledge, as well as several high profile Apple and Mac related websites were claiming was a good replacement for Siri. However, the reality is much cloudier than that. After 516 ratings, the average is 1.5 stars with most people complaining that the app can7t even connect to the Evi servers to perform the required tasks. Apple also had issues that were very similar when they first released Siri, however,…
