Apple narrowly eclipses Microsoft to regain status as most valuable company in US

After a brisk day of trading, Apple regained its spot as the U.S.'s most valuable company by market value, hitting a cap of $914.86 billion at close.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 20

MacBook Air & iPad Pro competitor Surface Book 2 gets quiet update

Microsoft has given its Surface Book 2 line of hybrid tablets a refresh, quietly updating the 13.5-inch model of the tablet-notebook devices with an optional eighth-generation quad-core Intel i5 processor, while at the same time cutting the price of the existing base configuration by $200.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 13

Podcast

New iPads, iMacs, and AirPods, plus what to expect on Apple's March 25 event on the AppleInsider Podcast

Victor Marks 7 years ago 2

'Star Wars' set the stage for Apple's streaming video service two decades ago

As we wait for Apple to announce its new streaming video service, AppleInsider takes a look back to when it was the company's QuickTime software that brought "Star Wars" to the web audience — and forever changed how we watched video online.

William Gallagher 7 years ago 8

Microsoft offers SDK to iOS developers enabling Xbox Live features on iPhone

Following on from Wednesday's demonstration of 'Project xCloud," Microsoft has announced it will be opening up Xbox Live to other platforms, including iOS, with developers able to take advantage of the gaming platform's major features in iPhone and iPad games.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 1

Microsoft offers preview of 'Project xCloud' service to stream Xbox games to iPhones and iPads

Microsoft has demonstrated 'Project xCloud,' an in-development cloud-based gaming service that streams gameplay to consumer devices including iPhones and iPads instead of being rendered locally, a service that is expected to enter public testing later this year.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 12

Apple in 2019 and the future of iPhone

Over the past two decades, Apple has proven capable of taking its existing technologies and creating new computing forms that retain its influence over the most commercially successful and strategically important markets. That winning strategy of the past also appears to be the best suited for the future of iPhone.

Daniel Eran Dilger 7 years ago 26

Apple in 2019: surviving iPhone challenges like the 1990s Microsoft

As Apple begins a new year of operations, a media narrative is unfolding that Apple must ditch its reliance on premium hardware— and particularly iPhone— to desperately scramble its way into Services for the scraps left behind Netflix in a world of commodity devices. But the reality is actually a lot less dramatic for Apple, which has already proven an unusual ability to deftly adapt to changes in the industry. Compare its position today with that of Microsoft twenty years ago.

Daniel Eran Dilger 7 years ago 39

Microsoft's Xbox Live coming to third-party iPhone and iPad games

Microsoft's Xbox Live online platform — originally limited to its namesake consoles — should soon come to a variety of third-party games on other hardware, including iPhones and iPads.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 0

Microsoft is the Official Laptop sponsor of Super Bowl LIII — with a tablet

Microsoft's latest Super Bowl campaign calls the Surface a laptop, but the company shifts definitions of what it is when it suits them. It's always been very careful to compare its tablets against Apple's laptops whenever possible, for instance, but that's gone now Microsoft has seemingly decided the NFL audience is more likely to buy a laptop.

William Gallagher 7 years ago 31

Fulfilling a WWDC promise, Microsoft Office 365 arrives on the Mac App Store

Now you can download Microsoft Word, Excel and most of the rest of the suite from Apple's Mac App Store, and sign up for a subscription with an in-app purchase.

William Gallagher 7 years ago 8

Tim Cook spotted eating with Brazil's Bolsonaro, Microsoft's Nadella & others at Davos

Attending this week's World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down for dinner with a high-profile collection of fellow guests, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and the newly-elected far-right President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 2

Microsoft suggests shift to iPhone as Windows 10 Mobile end of support date announced

Microsoft is recommending users of Windows 10 Mobile devices migrate to other platforms, including iOS, after the software giant confirmed the end of support for the mobile operating system by the end of 2019.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 30

Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand for Mac to OneDrive for Business users

Microsoft has started to roll out Files On-Demand for Mac, a function of Office 2019 that allows users to see all of their files held in OneDrive storage from the Mac desktop, with documents downloaded from the cloud only when they are required.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 7

Bent iPad Pros, an exploded iPhone XS Max, and Apple Music spreads to Alexa — Apple's December 2018 in review

Looking back at the last month of 2018, Apple revealed how its technology was literally saving lives. However, it also had to contend with lawsuits and a new PR misstep with its iPad Pro.

William Gallagher 7 years ago 2

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