If a new consumer survey’s right, Apple’s in for a bumper first quarter: ChangeWave Research questioned 4,000 likely smartphone buyers and found that over half said they planned to buy an iPhone in the next three …
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Yup, the iPad 4 Rumors Have Begun
iPad 3 rumors? Old and boring. The rumor mill is already moving on to talk of the iPad 4, which is apparently coming this October, six months after the supposed launch of its predecessor.
The source of this rumor, as expected, …
Chinese Company Selling Eerily Realistic Steve Jobs Action Figure
How long should you wait to cash in on the likeness of a universally beloved and recently deceased innovator? Just a few months, apparently, because Chinese company In Icons is looking to ship a disturbingly ultra-realistic …
Apple Reportedly Holding Media Event in New York Later This Month
Apple will apparently be holding an event in New York later this month, according to All Things D. New iPad?! The 4G-enabled iPhone?! New laptops???! An Apple TV set?!!!
Nope, says TechCrunch. The event will reportedly be …
Four Industries Apple Can Disrupt in the Near Future
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Apple Spoofs ‘Ghostbusters’ in Cheesy Internal Ad from 1984
If Bill Murray doesn’t want to make another Ghostbusters movie, maybe Hollywood can get Steve Wozniak to play Peter Venkman. The Apple co-founder can be seen in this video labeled “Blue Busters,” a reference to Apple’s then rival IBM.
Displayed at the company’s 1984 International Sales Meeting, it shows Apple employees in full …
Report: Apple to Launch Televisions by Q3 2012
Shortly before his death, Steve Jobs reportedly said that he’d “finally cracked” the idea of how to do Apple TV properly, only increasing the anticipation — and potential disappointment — for the product. Can anything measure …
Legal ‘Spire’ Hack Puts Siri on Jailbroken iOS 5 Devices
Forget all those illicit, convoluted hacks that let you kind-of-sort-of put Siri on your iPhone or iPod Touch — how about one that not only works, but does so without violating copyright law?
It’s called Spire, and it still …
The Battle for Smartphone Intenders
Ben Bajarin is the director of consumer-technology analysis and research at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Report: New iPhone 4 Siri Hack May Not Break the Law
Some Apple blogs are reporting that copyright infringement is no longer required to install Siri on an iPhone 4. It’s a dubious claim, but even if it was true, it doesn’t bring us any closer to a practical, working hack.
iOS …
Apple Reportedly Buying Up 8-inch Touchscreens to Build Smaller iPads
In October 2010, the late Steve Jobs made an unexpected appearance on an Apple earnings call, telling analysts and reporters how his company’s iPhone had blown BlackBerry phones out of the water, how he thought Android wasn’t …
How Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android Left BlackBerry in the Dust
In short: innovation, execution, and a near-maniacal focus on the user experience. With the dramatic rise of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices, it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago BlackBerry was the …
