Research firm ChangeWave today released the results of a new survey of its audience of professionals and early-adopter consumers, showing that the iPad is quickly gaining ground on Amazon’s Kindle in the eReader market, despite its different feature …
Archive for November, 2010
Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011
One of the major new features deployed in iOS 4.2 last week was AirPlay, Apple’s solution for streaming video, audio, and photos from portable iOS devices to the new Apple TV for display on users’ televisions. Unfortunately, the feature’s debut came…
Apple ‘Smokes the Competition’ in Reliability Survey
Over the weekend, PC World published the results of its annual reliability survey, incorporating reports from 79,000 tech users to assess customer satisfaction with reliability and tech support for a wide variety of products. As in previous …
MacRumors: Apple ‘Smokes the Competition’ in Reliability Survey
Over the weekend, PC World published the results of its annual reliability survey, incorporating reports from 79,000 tech users to assess customer satisfaction with reliability and tech support for a wide variety of products. As in previous …
iPad Launches in 11 More Countries in Asia and Europe
While we noted yesterday that the iPad appeared set to launch in Scandinavia today, Apple’s new round of international launches for the popular tablet device has extended to a total of eleven countries scattered around the globe: Czech Republ…
Apple Reportedly Selects Camera Lens Supplier for Second-Generation iPad
Feeding rumors and expectations that Apple will include at least a front-facing camera in the next-generation iPad, DigiTimes reports that market rumors in the region are pegging Taiwanese firm Largan Pre…
Apple Stops PhotoFast’s MacBook Air SSD Replacement?
9to5Mac claims that Apple has asked Taiwanese company PhotoFast to stop sales of their SSD upgrade kits for the new MacBook Air.
Now, according to some sources close to the company, Apple phoned PhotoFast last week and had th…
Apple’s Black Friday Sale Deemed a Success by Analysts
Last Friday marked the traditional beginning of the holiday shopping season with Black Friday, and Apple’s discounts seem to have driven high traffic to its retail stores if a number of reports from resea…
Research Firms Trim PC Sales Forecasts in Face of iPad Strength
Research firm Gartner today announced that it is reducing its worldwide PC shipment estimates for 2010 and 2011 from earlier levels, citing increasing strength of media tablets such as the iPad. Gartner predicts that worldwide PC shipments w…
Apple ‘Lawyering Up’ as Patent Suits Grow
Bloomberg offers a look at Apple’s involvement in numerous patent lawsuits, noting that the company is the most-targeted technology company for such actions since 2008 and reporting that Apple is bringing…