All Posts Tagged With: "apple"

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Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad and iPhone Radiology App for Mobile Diagnoses Approved by FDA

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first diagnostic radiology application to use when viewing medical images. The app is designed to make diagnoses using Apple’s iPad and iPhone. This announcement by the FDA was made earlier this week, and gave the green light for Mobile MIM, which is the [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 2: The Latest Rumors

It seems ever since the iPad was released last year there has been much anticipation of what Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)would do to make improvements for its next version. Rumors about the Apple iPad 2 are a buzzing and it is expected that Apple will be announcing the exact details sometime in February. If you haven’t [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Gives Away $10,000

The anticipation finally came to an end as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reached yet another milestone. Over 10 billion apps have now been downloaded from the companies App store. You may be wondering how excited was the winner? Well, caught off guard, the lucky recipient hung up on Apple, thinking the call was a prank when [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Revealed Verizon iPhone Voice Plans

The release for the Verizon iPhone, and the plans that go with it, have not been easy to find. On Wednesday, Apple briefly released details on their website about the Verizon’s iPhone plans. On their website, they stated that for new Verizon iPhone customers, voice plans will start at $39.99 per month, and an additional [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) TVs Stream More Netflix Movies Than iPads

According to a Netflix earnings release, they claim that more hours of streaming video have been watched on Apple TVs than on Apple’s iPads. This announcement may seem surprising because Apple has sold over 15 million iPads, and Apple TVs that are able to play Netflix videos has only just recently sold one million units. [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Currently the Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in the World

Nokia claims that the last quarter they reported for their Devices & Services division brought in $9.7 billion, and they predict that their Q4 sales were at around $11.4 to $11.7 billion. However, that includes more than just their smartphone sales. They also include their handheld mobile computers, regular mobile phones, tablets, and other devices. [...]
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Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 2 May Have a High-Res Display

Ever since the announcement of the Apple iPad 2, consumers have been speculating at the claims on the resolution of the new display on the iPad 2. This second generation iPad has had back and forth claims on whether or not it will have a high resolution display. The most recent claim was reported on [...]
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Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Magic Mouse May Include Multi-Touch Display

Apple’s new “Magic Mouse” was finally revealed this week as a patent application that was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office called a “Computer Input Device Including a Display Device.” This new Magic Mouse was discovered by Apple Insider, and it shows a mouse that also has a display on top of [...]
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Is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad and Playboy Partnership A Possible Go?

Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner announced this week that the entire catalog of the adult content magazine will be made available through Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad beginning in January. This announcement may signal the end of Apple’s ban on adult-type content from its IOS App store. However, Hefner did not specify how the catalog will make [...]
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Who Will Win Big With Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is excited and so are customers that purchase from their App store, at least those that are purchasing today in hopes of cashing in big. The App store is approaching the ten billion mark on downloads and the lucky person who downloads the ten billionth App is going to be a very [...]
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Jobs Takes $1.00 Salary From Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in 2010

Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. Chief, (NASDAQ: AAPL) did not steer away from the salary he has taken every year since he rejoined Apple in 1997. In 2010 just like every other year, his annual salary was exactly $1.00. Don’t be fooled though, Jobs earned plenty in 2010, as he currently owns 5.5 million shares of [...]
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Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Presence Being Felt AT CES and The Company Isn’t Even Participating

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is being reported as being the biggest buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show currently taking place in Vegas, and the company isn’t even there. It seems no one can stop talking about the new Verizon iPhone which will be launched in a news conference next week. Even though there was plenty else [...]
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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Samsung May Be Partnering For Google-Powered Web TV

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Samsung are reportedly in negations and if the two companies connect consumer could soon have another option when it comes to TV choices. Samsung is the largest producer in the world of flat screen televisions and they are hoping to get even bigger by pairing up with Google to make a [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raises Their Q1 iPhone Target to 21 Million Units

Apple’s iPhones have been selling with huge popularity around the world ever since they were released. From the big holiday sales that they sold at the end of 2010, Apple decided to make some adjustments on their target goals for the first quarter in 2011. Projected future sales are expected to be just as steady, [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes Will Have Competition with Sony’s New Music Streaming Service

On Wednesday, Sony launched their new streaming music subscription service that hopes to be able to give Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL)  iTunes some serious competition. Sony’s new digital music service is a different approach than Apple’s iTunes, but is still expected to give the iTunes store a run for their money. Sony’s new service is called [...]
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HP (NYSE: HPQ),Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) Take on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)iPad at the Consumer Electronics Show

This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, HP (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST), and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will all be competing against one another with their newest tablets. HP and Microsoft are PC partners, but in the war of tablets, they are now competitors with tablets of their own to battle against Apple’s iPad, and each [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Expects to Reach 1 Million Apple TV Sales Per Quarter

Even with the new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) TV “hobby” that is starting to take off, the sales of the $99 set top box are not quite enough to have much of an effect on Apple’s bottom line. Apple announced earlier this week that they were expecting to reach their one millionth sale of the Apple TV [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ) iPad Publication ‘Daily’ To Launch in January

The tablet-only News Corporation’s publication for the Apple iPad that is known as the Daily, is expected to launch in one month, on January 17, 2011. Last week, Peter Kafka of MediaMemo reported that he has been told by multiple sources that the new publication for the iPad, the Daily, will formally launch in January [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Defends Free Internet

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak is in support of free internet. Recently, he wrote an open letter to the United States Federal Communications Commission defending a free internet, which was then published in The Atlantic. Wozniak started his letter to the FCC with personal anecdotes from his life on how phone, cable, and DSL [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Adding to their iOS Development Team

This week, Apple added new job listings for a number of experts in navigation software to be hired as part of their iOS development team. The four new Apple job listings that were added are all identical positions located in Santa Clara Valley, California. The job listings call for “outstanding engineers to deliver the next [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Aims to Produce 6 Million Second Generation iPads Per Month

Apple has high hopes that their second generation iPad will be even more popular than the first internationally popular generation of the Apple iPad. Reportedly, the company is aiming at producing 6 million second generation iPads per month to keep up with the demands for the tablet. If this is in fact true, it would [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Stock Price Continues to Grow

David Einhorn, the hedge funds manager who predicted the end of Lehman Brothers, has looked at the price of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock and believes it is undervalued. He believes Apple will continue to grow in 2011. Apple has enormous cash reserves that were .estimated to be around $25.6 billion in the third quarter of [...]
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Bad News for Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Data System Operation

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) huge global data center at Maiden, North Carolina, is to open soon. However, Apple has been shaken by the death of Olivier Sanche 41, head of its global data center operations. Sanche died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving. An advocate for the environment, as is Apple and the center reflects his [...]
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tablet Sales Are Out of this World – Can They Compete With Apple? (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Samsung has recently confirmed its one millionth Galaxy tablet sale, just two months after its premier. It’s a pretty impressive feat considering that the tablet market already had several contenders in the running before, and that the market already has a fan favorite. Still it’s an impressive milestone for Samsung, especially since they had only [...]
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Will Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone Be Exclusive for Verizon (NYSE: VZ)?

Over the past few days there has been some talk that the iPhone, offered by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and currently available only on the AT&T network, will soon be made available to Verizon (NYSE: VZ) customers, as well. The speculation now includes that the iPhone may be sold exclusively by Verizon, a strategy that allowed [...]
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Puts Plan To Deliver A Mobile Development Platform On Hold

Sony Networked Application Platform (also referred to as SNAP), was Sony’s plan to leverage the open source community to give them an alternative to Apple’s iOS Cocoa Touch development frameworks. Starting out, Sony took the existing GNUstep libraries, which was an implementation of OpenStep (the basis for Apple’s Cocoa in the Mac OS X and [...]
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad Predicted To Lead Sales For 2011 Tablet Distribution

In a recent report by Barrons, analysts from Citigroup, FBR Capital Markets, and Gartner, show how sales of tablet PCs are predicted to sell in 2011. All of the figures varied widely, but they all agreed that the Apple iPad will lead in sales of tablet PCs. According to Citigroup’s estimates, 35 million tablet PCs [...]