Apple

∞ Analyst misses the boat on bearish iPad forecast

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Fortune: Apple (AAPL) shares fell sharply in early trading Monday following a widely reported note to clients from J.P. Morgan’s Gokul Hariharan to the effect that multiple supply chain vendors in Asia have registered a 25% cut in fourth-quarter iPad … Continued

∞ Apple buys more memory from Japan to offset Samsung risk

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DigiTimes: Apple has increased its purchases of DRAM and NAND flash from Japan, according to industry sources, adding that Toshiba and Elpida Memory are being pinpointed as beneficiaries of the increased procurement. It’s a defensive move by Apple to reduce … Continued

∞ Mass AG plans to investigate iTunes complaints

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Threatpost: Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office would be inquiring into long-standing complaints about fraudulent purchases that leverage Apple’s popular online music store. In a lunchtime address to business and technology leaders in Massachusetts, Coakley … Continued

∞ Apple stock closes at all-time high

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New York Times: At the end of regular trading Monday, Apple shares closed at $411.63, up 2.78 percent, with a new record-high market valuation of $381.62 billion. It is now clearly the most valuable company on the stock market, displacing … Continued

∞ Hate Windows 8 already? Grow up, loser

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Mat Honan, for Gizmodo: If you’re not intrigued by Windows 8 and Metro, if you can’t recognize that it’s a big leap forward, if you’re not excited about what it means for you, personally then you don’t really care about … Continued

∞ MacBook Pro, Mac mini, Thunderbolt fixes abound

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In the last 24 hours Apple has posted two separate EFI firmware updates for Thunderbolt-equipped Macs and a software update that provides support for the new Apple Thunderbolt Display. All are available for download from Apple’s Support Downloads Web page. … Continued

∞ China a top priority for Apple

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John Paczkowski: Apple’s decision to make China top priority in its global expansion is proving increasingly prescient. The company’s four Chinese outlets are already among the most heavily trafficked Apple stores in the world. And they generate blockbuster sales and … Continued

∞ Apple: iTunes U tops 600 million downloads

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In researching my recent story, iTunes U: Educating the world, Apple provided me with some updated figures for its free education portal on iTunes. According to Apple, iTunes U has had more than 600 million downloads since it first launched … Continued

∞ iTunes U: Educating the world

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Apple’s iTunes software is used by millions of consumers to purchase music, videos and apps for their devices, but the software is also used by higher education institutions to educate people from around the world. iTunes U is a collection … Continued

∞ U2's Bono on Steve Jobs

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I’m proud to know him; he’s a poetic fellow, an artist and a businessman. Just because he’s been extremely busy, that doesn’t mean that he and his wife, Laurene, have not been thinking about these things. You don’t have to … Continued

∞ An Apple television

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Patrick Moorhead for TechPinions: My assumption is that Apple will find a business model the content providers will find advantageous or tempting enough to cross the cable and satellite companies. If not, then you would expect them to declare war … Continued

∞ Apple environmental policies under scrutiny, again

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ZDNet: Mind you, there is one word in that previous paragraph that really caught my attention, “suspected.” It leads me to wonder whether these organizations can really say with authority that the manufacturing organizations and sites that it is targeting … Continued

∞ Apple VP Eddy Cue gets a promotion

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AllThingsD: Here’s new Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first org chart move: He has given media boss Eddy Cue a promotion, pushing him up from vice president, iTunes to senior vice president, Internet Software and Services. Eddy Cue previously took over … Continued

∞ Steve Jobs as a family man

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Lisen’s Blog – An Angle of PrismWork: While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era,  I won’t be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. … Continued

∞ Refurbished iPad 2s show up in online Apple Store

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MacRumors: Apple has just begun offering refurbished iPad 2 units in its online store, opening the way for modest price savings on available models. Discounts currently come in at only $50 off of pricing for brand-new units, and no low-end units are … Continued

∞ The Shrine of Apple

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Shrine of Apple: Our mission is to showcase the entire spectrum of products that Apple have sold to the public since 1976 – every product Apple Inc has ever produced, in the highest quality and definition possible. Every desktop, every … Continued