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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…
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…
Vintage Computer festival East (VCF East) keynote speakers have been announced on the VCF website. VCF East is scheduled to happen May 5th and May 6th at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall New Jersey. Considered the smorgasbord of vintage computing, VCF covers the gamut of vintage computing platforms. It also is the only remaining event of the VCF Festivals after the downturn in the economy. The Saturday session will be headlined by the creator of the BASIC programming language,…
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,…
According to the DigiTimes site, two new versions of the next generation iPad are scheduled to make an appearance in January. While Apple has as usual, no comment about the rumors, this is not unusual for their stance. The funny part of this is that Samsung, Apple’s bitterest and most outspoken opponent in court, is the supposed supplier for much of the technology in the machine. Apple will supposedly release the new machines at iWorld on 26 January 2012. While…
There is another Phishing Scam striking users this holiday season. The latest scam poses as an official Apple email, complete with the official Apple looking email address and graphics. A couple things to note about the scam is that the page you are taken to is not an Apple page, so be sure to check the URL of the page if you click on a link in an email from any company or bank. This particular scam is really difficult…
According to the BGR website, there is a high probability that the latest version of the iPhone will be released in Late 2012. While the iPhone 4S was released as just an update to the iPhone 4, many of the features that were instituted into the 4S are only available on the 4S. However, some changes in design including the case are coming according to BGR. “We have also learned that Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic…
Apple Inc’s Italian division has been fined 900,000 Euros (1.2 Million USD) for failing to comply with Italian statutes regarding warranties on their products. Italian law requires manufacturers to provide a minimum of two years warranty on electronic products, yet Apple was only providing one year. They also were having customers sign contracts for the two year extension on the warranty, when only one year extension should have been required. The Italian Antitrust Authority has specified that Apple must notify…
Apple has purchased the Israeli Flash Chip manufacturere, Anobit, according to a report in the Hebrew daily, Calcalist(http://www.calcalist.co.il ). The purchase, falling in line with Apple’s current path of owning as much of the manufacturing as possible, was accomplished with a price tag of $500 Million USD. Anobit manufacturers a chip which speeds up flash memory and is already in most of Apple’s mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad. If rumors about the potential of this purchase are true,…
Apple’s new just in time for Christmas ad campaign has kicked off with a new made for TV ad. The ad, featuring that man in the red suit with the jolly laugh, seems to need Siri now to make his life complete. Of course, we all know what a practical joker Siri can be, but when she suggests Mrs Claus says to lay off the cookies, Santa takes the appropriate action and laughs it off as he eats his in-hand…
A story this morning mentioned that Apple will be producing their A5 iPhone CPU in a new factory in Texas. This would not normally raise any eyebrows outside of the fact that Samsung is the company running the factory. This would generally lead people to believe that Apple and Samsung had settled their differences. This, however, is not the case. The court cases are still on and the South Korean company is merely a supplier who has contracts with Apple…
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Inc. has said that a different thinking company like Apple could never have emerged in a group think country of Singapore. His recent interview with the BBC on BBC Radio exposes the ultimate question he has for Singapore: “Where are the creative people? Where are the great artists? Where are the great musicians? Where are the great writers?” Although education and infrastructure play a major role in the foundation of Singaporean society, The whole…
Apple Inc. has released an update for both the Lexmark printers and the Brother printers. This driver updates fix some of the compatibility issues that people were having with the printers under Mac OS X Lion 10.7. Brother Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#brother To Download the Brother Driver version 2.8, go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894 Lexmark Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#lexmark To Download the Lexmark Driver Version 2.7,…
In just under a year, Apple has reached 100 million downloads of Apps for the Mac, this according to a press release put out by Apple today. The Mac store which was started to support Mac OS X, has been growing in leaps and bounds and currently has thousands of apps and has reached this milestone in a very short time. They also announced that the iPhone App Store, which is the example upon which the Mac App Store is…
At 10:00 am EST, Apple made a move that will send shock waves through the world of computing forever. They opened their biggest and brightest store yet, right smack dab in the middle of Grand Central Station. Long, the center piece of the New York existence, Grand Central serves more than a million people every day. Even though MacWorld Expo 2002 in Tokyo boasted some of the highest numbers ever for an Apple based event, coming in at 198,000 attendees…
These videos somehow got overlooked by us when we were talking about new software this fall. The video editing system Final Cut Pro is a highly intricate piece of software that takes a good number hours of usage to master, yet now there is a shortcut of sorts now. Apple released a number of free videos about using the program this past year and they are available on the Apple website at: http://support.apple.com/videos/#finalcutpro While they are not a full support…
Apple’s stock went on an almost immediate nose dive this morning immediately following the Keynote speech by Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. The keynote had been expected to introduce the iPhone 5 and when it became apparent that this was not what was being introduced, Apple’s share price fell as far at 354.24. Apple also did nothing to help this free fall when it seemed to many users in the social media world…
