Tag: "Apple"

AirPort Utility Revamped with iOS Style Cues

By Jillian | January 31, 2012 | No comment yet

Apple Airport Utility It’s beginning to look a lot like iOS, everywhere you go… Christmas may be over but Apple delivered one little surprise gift with an update to their AirPort Utility. As described by Apple, the AirPort Utility 6.0 allows you to “set up and manage your Wi-Fi network and AirPort base stations, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule.” The newly upgraded interface bears a striking resemblance to the iOS counterpart and “starts off with a visual topography for the user’s network including the active status and whether or not updates are waiting.”

By Jillian | January 31, 2012 | 2 comments

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I am not so sure that this is the time that I’d like to become the new CEO for RIM, but Thorsten Heins was up to the job having been appointed last week to lead the struggling tech firm. Not that he was a choice from out of nowhere, Heins has been functioning as one of two Chief Operating Officers for the last few years and was in charge of hardware and software product engineering.

Unfortunately, it appears that RIM’s new strategy isn’t to innovate but rather to wait for the actual innovators to fail.

By Emily | January 31, 2012 | No comment yet

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Yesterday Apple appointed John Browett as Senior Vice President of Retail. Browett, who joins Apple after serving as CEO for Europe’s specialty electrical retailer Dixon’s Retail since 2007, will report directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. In April 2012 Browett will take charge of Apple’s retail strategy and Apple retail store expansion worldwide.

“Our retail stores are all about customer service, and John shares that commitment like no one else we’ve met,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We are thrilled to have him join our team and bring his incredible retail experience to Apple.”

By Jillian | January 31, 2012 | 1 comment

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Apple is well known for being one of the most secretive companies on the planet, so when somebody from the inside starts talking we are all ears trying to get the proverbial glimpse of something, anything. In his recent book, Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky has a lot to say.

One of the more interesting tidbits is the revelation that the interview to be an engineer at Apple is actually an ongoing process that continues even once you start drawing a paycheck. This insinuation was confirmed by a fellow engineer who said, “A friend of mine who’s a senior engineer at Apple, he works on — or did work on — fake products I’m sure for the first part of his career, and interviewed for 9 months. It’s intense.”

By Jillian | January 30, 2012 | 2 comments

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It’s finally here! The brilliant and creative mind behind ADR Studio has announced the second version of the never-released iWatch and version 2 is everything we could have hoped for (and more).

By Jillian | January 30, 2012 | No comment yet

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Enterprise Apple

Forrester Research’s annual Forrsights report was released last week identifying a new trend: consumerization. This shift in the way technology is being used could mean very good things for Apple in the corporate enterprise.

By Lory | January 28, 2012 | 1 comment

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The New York Times recently published an article entitled “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad.” The article is part of a new series, called “The iEconomy” that talks about Apple’s collaboration with the overseas market. Soon after it was published, the New York Times collaborated with Chinese-language business magazine Caixin. The responses to the article are worthy of headline news. However, they didn’t make it to the New York Times itself. The comments were published on the newspaper’s blog, The Lede to little fanfare.

By Sam | January 27, 2012 | 1 comment

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The interesting thing about news like this is that most people aren’t likely to be surprised that Apple is the largest smartphone vendor. The hype of the iPhone has proven solid in sales for years now, but it is still amazing to me that the company that sold my first computer (Apple II+) has really hit its stride in the mobile market.

The race for first place is still close and Apple has not claimed the lead by a large amount. The lead is only maintained by .4% over Samsung for the fourth quarter of 2011. In their latest report, Strategy Analytics has determined that Samsung is the overall leader for 2011.

Apple Patent Filing For a Possible Touchscreen TV Remote

By Jillian | January 27, 2012 | 1 comment

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Touchscreen Remote

Apple is hard at work filing patents with the most recent one being discovered by AppleInsider entitled “Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control.” The details of the patent filing indicate that the device would feature a touchscreen and endeavor to replace all of the confusing and overly-complicated, existing universal remote options most folks have sitting around at home.

By Jillian | January 27, 2012 | No comment yet

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MagSafe

A new patent application was discovered by AppleInsider that suggests Apple is focusing itself on MagSafe connectors once again. The application references a series of “coded magnets” that would be found in both the connector and the associated device.

By Jillian | January 26, 2012 | 2 comments

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Zynga

Who among us can say with any honesty that they haven’t ever been addicted to a Zynga app? Whether you are a Facebook gamer or have them loaded on your iOS or Android device, chances are good you’ve logged more than a few hours with at least one title. Heck, Zynga even makes apps for Google+, Yahoo and MySpace. How does the saying go? It’s hard to throw a rock, and not hit a Zynga game?

Nonetheless, it seems some people are of the opinion that Zynga’s success may be derived more from copying than creating. In fact, Nimblebit took aim at them by mocking their new Dream Heights app (given that it looks remarkably like their successful Tiny Towers app).

By Jillian | January 26, 2012 | 8 comments

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Ovum Ovum Research has released their annual developer survey with very surprising results: it appears Android may be aligning to overtake Apple as the platform of choice for developers during the next 12 months.

The report also suggested that almost all developers showed a preference to support both the iOS and Android platforms.

By Bill | January 24, 2012 | 1 comment

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Apple just released financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter and the company once again posted record sales numbers. Apple was able to grow sales of iOS products versus the same quarter a year ago. It once again posted record sales numbers with revenue totaling $46.33 billion and a net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion. This compares to Apple’s revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion for the same quarter in the previous year.

“We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”

By Juli | January 24, 2012 | No comment yet

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A report from research firm Gartner was released today, which calculates and summarizes the number of semiconductors purchased last year, by measuring the total silicon content in all products designed by Apple and its competitors.

According to the report, Apple was the world’s largest semiconductor buyer in 2011.

By Juli | January 23, 2012 | No comment yet

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The next time you take a trip with Virgin America, you may just get to fly on the Airbus A320 that’s been named in honor of Steve Jobs. The plane, number N845VA, is now emblazoned with the famous Jobs quote, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish,” on its side.

This phrase from Steve Jobs popped up in the commencement address that he gave to Stanford students in 2005, though it originally came from The Whole Earth Catalog in the 1970s. Read More »