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iPad 3 set to launch in early March
After a few weeks of conflicting reports, it now seems we have a firm timeline as tot he release date of the iPad 3. All Things D reports that Apple is planning on holding a special iPad event in early March and will release the iPad 3 soon thereafter. Sources say the company has chosen [...]
Continue reading...Canadian broadcast companies have Apple iTV prototypes in their labs – Rumor
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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Color us skeptical, but The Globe and Mail reports: Canada’s largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, a product that has the potential to revolutionize TV viewing by turning conventional televisions [...]
Continue reading...Best Buy survey references 42-inch Apple HDTV
Monday, February 6, 2012
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In an effort to obtain customer feedback about potential new products, Best Buy sent out a survey to customers wherein the retailing giant makes reference to a 42-inch Apple HDTV. The big box wants to know how you feel about it based on some proposed promotional verbiage which boasts that “Apple finally reinvents what a [...]
Continue reading...Apple will announce the iPhone 5 at WWDC 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Relaying a report from Daiwa Securities in the Commercial Times, Digitimes reports that Apple will unveil its next-gen iPhone at WWDC 2012, scheduled for June 2012. The iPhone 5 will continue to utilize glass to glass (G/G) touch panel technology which will benefit current touch panel suppliers TPK Holding and Wintek, the paper quoted the [...]
Continue reading...China Telecom might land the iPhone 4S very soon
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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China Daily reports that China Telecom, the third largest carrier in China behind China Mobile and China Unicom, may begin carrying the iPhone 4S as early as February. The move would ramp up the pressure on the company’s domestic rivals in the fight to win more subscribers to the third-generation (3G) network service. In a [...]
Continue reading...Apple HDTV will include a 42-inch OLED with facial recognition – Crazy Rumor
Friday, January 27, 2012
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Citing a high-ranking source at a major electronics retailer, Technobuffalo reports that Apple’s rumored HDTV will likely see the light of day by April, or May at the absolute latest. As for the TV itself, it’s rumored to be a 42-inch OLED described as being ‘gorgeous’ and ‘very thin’. While we don’t know if the [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 with 4-inch screen set to begin production – Rumor
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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The Apple blogosphere is still aflutter with Apple’s outstanding earnings results from the December quarter, but a new iPhone rumor managed to sneak into the news stream today courtesy of Seth Weintraub. Citing a reliable source at Foxconn, Weintraub writes that iPhone 5 production is set to begin and that sample devices are already making [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s Finder team balked at incorporating Dropbox functionality into OS X
Monday, January 23, 2012
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Apple’s iCloud offering doesn’t represent the company’s first foray into the world of cloud computing, but it certainly is their most successful effort to date given that it was preceded by MobileMe. A few months back we reported on how Apple reportedly made a $800 million offer to acquire Dropbox, an offer which Dropbox refused [...]
Continue reading...iPad 3 will be sold alongside a soon-to-be cheaper iPad 2
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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A few weeks ago, Jason Horwitz of iLounge wrote that Apple, in conjunction with the release of the iPad 3, will continue selling the iPad 2, albeit at a lower pricepoint. Specifically, Horwitz anticipates the iPad 3 will debut at the same buy-in price we’ve come to expect ($499) while the iPad 2 will drop [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s education event to focus on Textbook authoring tools – Report
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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With Apple’s education-oriented special media event just two days a way, a number of outlets are fleshing out some details as to what Apple has in store. The short of it is that we can expect a significant announcement regarding digital textbooks, and indeed, it was noted in Steve Jobs’ biography that the textbook industry [...]
Continue reading...iPad 3 to include quad-core A6 and 4G LTE support
Monday, January 16, 2012
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Much like CES 2011, CES this year was replete with a large selection of tablet devices keen on stealing away marketshare from the iPad. But not one to rest on their laurels, Apple is already gearing up to release its next-gen iPad, with the latest rumors pointing to a release sometime in early April. Feature [...]
Continue reading...Analyst sees iPhone 5 with larger screen and 4G connectivity as huge growth driver for Apple in 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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According to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, Apple’s biggest growth driver in 2012 will be the iPhone 5, a product that doesn’t officially exist yet, but one that Wu claims will feature 4G LTE technology along with “a sleeker, thinner form factor, and a slightly larger screen.” Now 4G smartphones are already plentiful in the [...]
Continue reading...Apple planning to expand “store within a store” concept to Target
Monday, January 9, 2012
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One of the reasons behind Apple’s push into retail was the shoddy manner in which computer shops would routinely display Apple’s products, if at all. Macs were often relegated to the backshelves and were manned by employees not usually able to articulate the benefits of purchasing a Mac. In creating their own retail environment, Apple [...]
Continue reading...iOS 5.1 beta hints at quad-core iPhones and iPads
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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9to5Mac did some deep digging into the iOS 5.1 beta and found references to quad-core chips that, we imagine, will eventually – and hopefully soon – make their way into the iPhone and iPad. The references to quad-core iPhone and iPad chips come by way of a hidden panel that describes cores that are supported [...]
Continue reading...More iPad 3 details emerge: Front facing HD camera and more
Friday, January 6, 2012
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Android based smartphones have certainly done an admirable job catching up to the iPhone, and even surpassing it with respect to total marketshare. But Android based tablets, on the other hand, continue to struggle mightily as Apple’s iPad continues its tablet domination. As it stands now, the biggest threat to the iPad is the Amazon [...]
Continue reading...Apple reportedly testing 42 and 50-inch HDTVs in its research labs
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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With CES just around the corner, the market will soon be filled with the latest in HDTV technology from the likes of Samsung, LG and a host of others. But per usual, the one company keeping its hand close to its vest is Apple. Indeed, rumors of Apple making the leap into the TV business [...]
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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