Apple (AAPL) News – Page 41 of 54

Aug 9, 2012, 2:23 PM

Q&A: What it really takes to land a killer technology job

Software engineer Gayle Laakmann McDowell has worked for companies including Microsoft, Google and Apple, but she’s also known in the… Read More

Aug 9, 2012, 11:03 AM

Apple’s Siri turns one: Do iPhone users care?

One year ago today, Apple introduced Siri to the world. For some, Siri represented the future of how we might… Read More

Aug 7, 2012, 3:42 PM

Report says iPad users are more affluent than Kindle folk

Hey, Big Spender! Your iPad would probably like to spend some more time with you… According to a new report… Read More

Aug 5, 2012, 8:53 AM

The difference between Kindle Fire and Windows Phone and other comments of the week

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I think it’s interesting the types of adjectives journalists… Read More

Aug 3, 2012, 7:50 AM

How the iPad made Apple the top ‘PC’ vendor, and what it means for Windows

What is a “personal computer” in 2012? Do tablets count? Most of the major technology research firms say no. As reflected… Read More

Aug 2, 2012, 12:12 PM

Amazon’s Kindle Fire settles in at 5% of tablet market

Amazon shipped more than 1.2 million Kindle Fire tablets worldwide in the second quarter, up significantly from the first quarter,… Read More

Aug 2, 2012, 8:06 AM

Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface

Great minds think alike? A patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public just this morning —… Read More

Aug 1, 2012, 8:39 AM

Microsoft still lags in critical smartphone race with just 3.8% of U.S. subscribers

Microsoft still has a long, long way to go to regain any sort of foothold in the mobile industry. That’s… Read More

Aug 1, 2012, 8:30 AM

Amazon brings Instant Video service to iPad with new app

Amazon.com, looking to expand its presence in digital video, debuted a new iPad app this morning that brings its Instant Video… Read More

Jul 31, 2012, 12:05 PM

Amazon’s Cloud Player now offers cloud-based music transfer with ‘scan and match’

Amazon.com today is touting new offerings for its Cloud Player music service, including a new service called “scan and match”… Read More

Jul 28, 2012, 5:22 PM

Chart: Samsung tops Apple in smartphone shipments

Apple’s iPhone may be synonymous with the smartphone revolution. But Samsung still holds the lead in terms of worldwide shipments, showing… Read More

Jul 27, 2012, 11:53 PM

Apple and Twitter: How would an alliance alter the tech biz?

Well, here’s an interesting one for you to contemplate this weekend. The New York Times is reporting that Apple has… Read More

Jul 25, 2012, 9:08 AM

Apple unleashes Mountain Lion as we wait for Windows 8

Apple this morning released Mountain Lion, the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, as a $19.99 upgrade… Read More

Jul 24, 2012, 9:16 PM

Apps must be cross platform

Maybe there are a few Robert Scobles out there who still believe that a significant number of successful apps in… Read More

Jul 24, 2012, 3:16 PM

Apple TV outsells Xbox 360 in latest quarter, still a ‘hobby’

Apple sold 1.3 million Apple TV devices during the June quarter, an increase of 170 percent over the same quarter… Read More

Jul 24, 2012, 1:56 PM

Apple posts record iPad sales, profits miss Wall Street targets

Sales of Apple’s iPad topped 17 million units in the company’s most recent quarter, up more than 80 percent over… Read More

Jul 24, 2012, 5:42 AM

Survey: iOS beating Android for business apps, creating opportunity for Windows 8

App developers see the tide turning in Apple’s favor inside many companies, with iOS outpacing Android as the preferred mobile… Read More

Jul 17, 2012, 12:29 AM

Former Mac OS chief Bertrand Serlet joins Parallels board

Parallels, which makes desktop virtualization software for running Windows on Macs, has appointed Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s former senior vice president of… Read More

Jul 16, 2012, 4:07 PM

Ask Andru: How do I prepare my Mac for Mountain Lion?

Apple is set to release its next major operating system update, known os OS X Mountain Lion, later this month.… Read More

Jul 15, 2012, 6:06 PM

Report: Amazon.com works on a larger Kindle as Apple goes for a smaller iPad

Rumors have circulated for weeks that Amazon.com is working on a new tablet computer, a larger Kindle Fire that would… Read More

Jul 13, 2012, 1:14 PM

Apple admits mistake, gets back on green tech registry

A week after Apple pulled its products from the Environmental Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT, the tech and… Read More

Jul 13, 2012, 12:07 PM

Beyond online advertising into knowledge monetization

Each year, investors sink $2 million in U.S. Internet companies per every million dollars of total online advertising addressable opportunity:… Read More

Jul 11, 2012, 4:11 PM

Apple co-founder Wozniak gives Microsoft props for design

Has Steve Wozniak gone Team Microsoft? As the Huffington Post reports, the Apple co-founder said at an Entel technology press conference… Read More

Jul 10, 2012, 12:20 PM

Vancouver B.C. hotel dumps old landlines for iPhones

OPUS Vancouver became the first hotel in Canada earlier this year to put an iPad in every room. Now, the… Read More

Jul 10, 2012, 9:44 AM

Ballmer vows to challenge Apple, sidesteps phone question

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is bordering on obsessive when it comes to Apple these days, or at least that’s the… Read More

Jul 9, 2012, 4:53 PM

Mike Daisey to debut altered version of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

Mike Daisey’s fall from grace was well documented after This American Life retracted a story about the worker abuses that the playwright… Read More

Jun 27, 2012, 8:36 AM

Tablet Wars: Google set to join the fray, targeting Amazon

All eyes are on Google this morning as the company gets set for its keynote at the Google I/O developer… Read More

Jun 25, 2012, 4:41 PM

Android vs. iOS: Which one should app makers bet on?

If you could bet on just one mobile platform as an app developer, which would it be? That was my… Read More

Jun 22, 2012, 7:54 AM

Microsoft’s starting median pay beats out rivals at $91,500

It’s a good time to be a highly-skilled engineer looking for a job in tech. And one of the best… Read More

Jun 21, 2012, 2:27 PM

Size does matter: Apple reportedly working on ‘mini’ connector for next iPhone

In a “move that will surely send shocks through the iPhone accessory ecosystem,” TechCrunch reported today that Apple plans to switch… Read More