Apple Hong Kong instates iPhone lottery to combat rowdy scalpers Faced with an influx of grey marketers and incidents of repeated violence over sales of the iPhone 4S in Hong Kong, Apple has turned to a safer, more secure system for divvying out new stock of the handset to customers each day. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 20
Amazon "defined and dominated" low-end tablet market with 6 million Kindle Fires While Amazon isn't selling half as many Kindle Fires as iPads, investment bank Stifel Nicolaus said Monday that first quarter shipments of the new tablet rose to 6 million, placing the Fire's ramp-up on par with that of the original iPad while carving out a strong-hold on the low end of the market this past holiday season. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 126
Apple puts some new hires on fake projects until they can be trusted Apple's penchant for secrecy sometimes sees new engineers tasked with working on decoy products for a lengthy period of time while management vets their trustworthiness. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 47
Former Apple exec and Palm chief Jon Rubinstein leaves HP Hewlett-Packard on Friday confirmed that Jon Rubinstein, who came to the company through its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm, has left the company. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 53
Apple to offer employees $500 off a new Mac, $250 off iPads - report [u] Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook reportedly informed employees this week that later this year they will be able to buy an iPad with a $250 discount, while Macs will be available for $500 off. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 42
Massive holiday quarter pushes iPhone sales past Android in US Apple's share of smartphones sold in the U.S. doubled in the fourth quarter of 2011, pushing iPhone sales just past the myriad of devices that run Google's Android platform. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 73
Apple earns record $13B on sales of 37M iPhones, 15M iPads and 5.2M Macs Apple announced Tuesday the best quarter in its corporate history where earnings rose more than 117% to $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share, on record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 90
Steve Jobs's widow attending tonight's US State of the Union address Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, will be in attendance as an official guest at tonight's State of the Union address by U.S. President Barack Obama. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 66
Amazon expected to cut Kindle Fire orders in half as new iPad looms Orders for Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet will reportedly be cut in half to 3 million units in the first quarter of 2012, with slower post-holiday sales and the anticipated launch of Apple's third-generation iPad. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 53
Rumor: Apple to hold 'iPad 3' & iOS 5.1 event in early February A new rumor suggests Apple is planning to hold an earlier-than-expected special event in early February to introduce its third-generation iPad running iOS 5.1. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 67
Apple jumps 9 spots to become 8th most valuable brand in the world Apple was ranked the eighth most valuable brand of the world in 2011, with an estimated total value of $33.49 billion, making it bigger than Disney, Mercedes-Benz and Budweiser. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 128
ARM CEO not impressed by Intel's 'Medfield' chips for smartphones, tablets The chief executive of ARM, which supplies the reference designs for Apple's custom chips found in the iPhone and iPad, has said he doesn't view Intel's newly unveiled smartphone and tablet chips as competitive. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 89
Thousands line up in China ahead of Friday launch of Apple's iPhone 4S Hours before the iPhone 4S is set to go on sale in China, massive lines with thousands of people have formed outside of Apple's heavily trafficked retail stores. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 53
Comcast launches live TV on iPad, Amazon optimizes Kindle store for iPad Comcast on Tuesday began to roll out its new "AnyPlay" functionality for iPad, allowing subscribers to stream live TV to Apple's tablet. Also, Amazon launched a new Kindle storefront designed to take advantage of the touchscreen interface of the iPad. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 29
CES: Acer announces new cloud service, copies Apple's iCloud presentation In promoting its new AcerCloud service, Acer chose to mimic not only Apple's iCloud, but also directly lifted a slide Apple used to introduce iCloud in a keynote presentation last year. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 84
China Unicom customers can get Apple's iPhone 4S free with contract Apple's carrier partner in China is offering an aggressive promotion in which customers can get a brand new iPhone 4S for free if they sign a multi-year service contract. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 40
Apple trying to stop sale of Steve Jobs action figure Apple's legal team has set its sights on preventing a new lifelike figurine, designed to look like late Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, from being sold for $99. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 72
AT&T expands 4G LTE to 11 new markets including NYC, San Francisco, L.A. AT&T announced on Thursday that it has expanded its high-speed 4G long-term evolution network to 11 new cities, including the New York metropolitan area, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 43
iPad App Store hits 3 billion downloads, represents 19% of Apple's iOS devices There have been 3 billion downloads of App Store applications designed specifically for Apple's iPad, representing 19 percent of all iOS App Store downloads, a new study has found. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 6
Atari's legal threats prompt Apple to pull some games from iOS App Store Game maker Atari has reportedly set its sights on applications in Apple's iOS App Store that it believes are illegal knock-offs of its own classic titles. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 30
Hidden Stanford archive houses largest collection of historical Apple materials When Apple's financial hardships forced the company to abandon plans for its own corporate museum back in the late 1990s, the company elected to turn over its trove of materials to Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archives, which now retains the largest collection of such historic data in the world. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 29
Amazon says 2011 was best holiday yet for Kindle family, still won't reveal sales Amazon once again on Thursday touted the success of its Kindle lineup, including the new Kindle Fire, but declined to get into specifics on sales figures. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 42
Christmas Day activation numbers suggest iOS topped Android by 1.6M New data from a variety of sources suggests the combination of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch was enough for iOS activations to top Google Android on Christmas Day by more than 1.6 million units. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 80
Apple to launch iPhone 4S in mainland China before Jan. 23 Apple has met all of the requirements for the iPhone 4S to launch in mainland China, and the handset will reportedly debut before the Chinese New Year in late January. Katie Marsal 14 years ago 6
