Apple
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I almost can afford a Share of Apple Stock
Apple stock continues to fall amongst speculation of another bad quarter from the Cupertino Company. Shareholders continued a sell off, which had the stock see a low of $398.11 during trading today. Investors have been watching related companies and chip makers tied to apple products and are seeing revenues from these companies missing their [...]
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Microsoft Surface Pro Loses 40+ Gigs to OS
Set to release on February 4th, the new Microsoft Surface Pro has what some might call a slight flaw. The Windows 8 tablet device storage is gobbled up by around 41GB of out of the box OS and seems to leave little storage for day-to-day use. The device which has many excited about native applications [...]
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Opposite World: Apple Revenues Up Stock Down Microsoft Profits Down Stock Goes Up
In what seems pretty unexplainable, investors are having some pretty interesting reactions to the latest numbers being released by tech companies. Apple has once again posted record earnings, though they didn’t quite meet analyst expectations, the company is still sitting pretty on a hefty sum of cash. Apple today had one of its worst single [...]
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Apple Sinks below $500 on iPhone Slowdown
2013 hasn’t been too good to Apple the company that ended 2012 as the most valuable company in history. Apple has had a number of high profile issues that has been impacting its stock and overall value. Trading on the stock today saw it take a dip to $485.92 finally ending the day at $506.09. [...]
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End of the World Eve Good Time to Look Back
As we end this day 12-20-2012, we must reflect on the accomplishments of the human race over the last year. Whether it was the final installment of the Twilight movies, or the rise in popularity of Honey Boo Boo and Gangnam Style, 2012 has left the human race with a legacy that no civilization, alien [...]
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RIM Continues Pre-Launch Announcements with Blackberry 10 Preview
RIM has opened the doors to its newest and most anticipated OS Blackberry 10 to select partners to preview and test the platform and select handsets. This preview is one of the final steps to lead up to the public launch of the product to the public on January 30th. The preview has a lot [...]
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Droves of People finally return home as Google releases Maps App on iOS
Google has finally released its Google maps app for iOS devices just in time to bring people otherwise lost, home for the holidays. The Maps fiasco of 2012 can come to an end, and the people can rejoice now that they are no longer forced to be lost at the hands of Apple Maps in [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 94
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Apple Brings Some Manufacturing back to the USA
Today CEO of Apple, Tim Cook announced that Apple will be bringing some of its manufacturing and production back to the US. Currently Apple products are designed in the US but have not been manufactured in the US since the 90’s Details were light but what is known is that Apple will be making a [...]
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Public Outcry over AT&T blocking Facetime over Cellular Feature has Impact
AT&T seems to be slowly opening up Facetime over Cellular for users of iOS devices. With the release of iOS6, Apple integrated the feature into iPhone products allowing users to utilize Facetime on cellular networks and taking off the Wi-Fi only restriction. AT&T chose to initially only allow users of its then new “shared data” [...]
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Android and Samsung lead Smartphone Market Nokia Sliding Fast
Gartner has released its latest findings for mobile and smartphone sales see (press release) below. The report shows that Android leads the pack in operating systems; Samsung leads in smartphone sales, and shows Apple and Samsung dominating the market with a combined 46.5% of the entire smartphone market share. The findings, though not too surprising [...]
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Blackberry adds Voice over W-Fi to its Smartphones
RIM today announced a new feature that has been added to its BBM (Blackberry Messenger) service. The new feature, which adds voice calling over Wi-Fi provides users the ability to make voice calls for free to other messenger users see (press release) below. With the success of iMessage in Apple iOS devices, it would seem [...]
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Blackberry 10 Finally gets a Launch Date but is it too Late for RIM?
In a press release today (see PR below), the once giant mobile player Research in Motion announced a launch date of January 30th, 2013 for its new Blackerry 10 OS and mobile devices. The company, which has eluded a launch date for some time and has seen droves of users migrate to other platforms, needs [...]
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Apple sets new iPad Sales Records
After many were reporting a dismal showing at launch, Apple has seemed to redeem itself in weekend sales of the new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad. The Cupertino Company has reported via a press release (see below) that it has set a new weekend sales record with three million iPads sold in three days. [...]
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Do Mini Lines Mean iPad Mini Pricing Not Mini Enough?
Keeping to the mini theme for the iPad Mini launch, lines were kept to a minimum, while mini corn dogs were handed out to those who waited in line, and “mini me” himself Verne Troyer driving a Mini Cooper was spotted in an apparent mini marketing stunt by Apple. Ok I’m kidding, obviously Apple didn’t [...]
