Despite initial mediocre reviews of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, Apple had an astonishing fourth quarter and year in general. With over 37 million iPhone sales in the fourth quarter, Apple has also regained the number one spot in brand listing according to General Sentiments. Apple and Google have been switching spots this year, but Apple closed the year off strong. According to Bloomberg.com, Apple Inc. (APPL) shares climbed 6.2 percent to $446.66 and their strong 2011 fourth quarter netted $13.1 billion in profits. This is the highest record profit since Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)...
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Apple doesn't need to be at shows like MacWorld and Davos (the World Economic Forum) but they play an integral role. Obviously MacWorld is a mac-themed show - but at Davos, Apple who isn't a participant is making a splash. All because of the iPad. Apparently the iPad is everywhere. The forum itself has an official iOS application, and the President of Russia, Dmiti A. Medvedev pulled one out during the Q&A session. He was trying to show his affinity for technology. Good job Mr. President....do you have a copy of SignMyPad? At MacWorld Apple...
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Du, the official telecom provider in the United Arab Emirates, tweeted over the weekend that FaceTime will not be available for customers. Though the iPhone has not yet officially launched in the UAE, Du decided to inform customers that FaceTime will be disabled. There are local restrictions on the VoIP technology that block these kind of communications. According to The Next Web, it seems that Apple pulled FaceTime, because they assumed that it wouldn't fly with the local regulations. Apple realized their mistake, and reached out to the local telecoms to fix the issue, but the telecoms declined the...
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As we enter the last month of the 3rd quarter for 2010, the estimates for Apple's earnings are already coming out. Apple could possibly sell about 3.8 million Macs for this quarter alone. That would be a 23 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Wall Street analysts have estimated that Apple would sell 3.7 million Macs for this quarter. If Apple does indeed hit this mark, it would crush the record it set for the quarter ending in June of this year when they sold 3.47 million Macs. Here is the kicker to all of it. ...
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Microsoft has their hand in everything don't they? Well just don't touch my storm trooper cookie jar! Yahoo! and Microsoft's multi-year deal kicked off with Yahoo! swapping out their own search engine technology for Microsoft's Bing in the US and Canada on Tuesday. Later this year Yahoo! will transition to Microsoft's adCenter. After a takeover attempt in 2009 that went bad, Microsoft and Yahoo! struck a deal that would let Microsoft power Yahoo!'s searches and in exchange Yahoo! would be Microsoft's exclusive partner for advertising revenue. This is Microsoft's attempt to break into Googles share...
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Do you remember the 1988 classic Big, you know that movie where Tom Hanks is actually a 12 year old boy who becomes a grown-up because he wishes to become big. Well in that movie Tom Hanks's character, Josh Baskin, gets a job at the MacMillan Toy Company; there he pitches an idea for an interactive comic book. Essentially the kid, who is reading the comic, chose what happens next and decides the outcome of the story. Apple has filed a patent for an application called "Automatically Generating a Book Describing a User's Videogame Performance". The user creates a character and...
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The story of the iPhone 4 began back in April. Gizmodo was able to get their hands on a prototype of the phone. We immediately fell in love with the new device, and even though we could only see the hardware that was enough because it was just so pretty. There was nothing that could keep us from wanting this phone. We flooded Apple and AT&T's servers to pre-order the phone, on launch day we stood in line for hours to obtain our device, and when we finally got our phones boy were we happy. Or were we, soon after launch many customers started to complain...
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Today’s Tech Tip Tool Thursday is all about how to make an image of your hard drive. Why should you consider doing that? You should do this if you have a certain set of applications you always want to use and you have them set up a specific way. Make sure that this is what you would consider to be your most ideal or perfect setup without anything extra. This will allow you to simply wipe your hard drive in the future and put it back to exactly the way it is right now. If you are working on a specific...
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We all know BMW is good at making luxury cars, and they are usually the first to implement new technology into their vehicles. You might have to pay through the nose to get any options on a BMW, but such is the price for being the first to have something. Well the folks at Bayerische Motoren Werke AG have been hard at work to bring you another first in the automotive world.
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