It’s nearly impossible to figure out how many Kindle units Amazon sells during any selected period. The online retailer is notoriously vague about its product sales, and that’s certainly been the case with its recently-launched Kindle Fire. Amazon issued a press release last month saying that the retailer had sold more than one million Kindles [...]
Rumors of an Apple television in the works have been circulating with increasing frequency since the release of the Steve Jobs biography, wherein Jobs told Isaacson that he had “finally cracked” the secret to a fully-integrated TV set. Giving credence to the rumors, a recent US patent filing show that Apple has been exploring TV [...]
After releasing and then removing the app some hours later, it appears Apple is moving forward with refunds for the accidentally released ‘GameStore’ app used to test in-app purchases prior to the release of iOS 3. Don’t beat yourself down if you didn’t have the chance to grab the application before Apple removed it. The [...]
The vacant spot as the head of Apple’s mobile advertising division has finally been filled. Apple has convinced Adobe executive Todd Teresi to take on the position, according to Bloomberg. Teresi spent the last nine months as the Vice President and General Manager of Media Solutions at Adobe. Teresi served as the Chief Revenue Officer [...]
Apple plans to prepare iTV materials during the first quarter this year ahead of a third quarter launch, DigiTimes is reporting. The same website reported that Samsung began producing chips for the television back in November, leaving Sharp with the responsibility to produce the TVs. Digitimes’ sources additionally noted that Apple may announce the third [...]
Apple’s first media event of 2012 will focus on publishing and iBooks, according to several reports. Both AllThingsD and TechCrunch have confirmed with Apple sources that Apple will be holding an event sometime later this month – in the Big Apple. As reported yesterday, the New York City media event will feature Apple Senior Vice [...]
Flurry reported late last week that on Christmas day alone, 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated, a 353 percent increase over the average of the first 24 days of December. Today, the firm posted an even more impressive record breaking number, the number of applications downloaded during the final week of 2011. More [...]
Following the launch of its traditional ‘Lucky Bag’ shopping event in Japan, Apple plans to host a second Asian promotion on January 6 to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which many recognize as the Year of the Dragon. Customers throughout China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and the Philippines are eligible for the one day [...]
Apple will hold a media event in New York later this month, AllThingsD reported earlier today. The event will not be related to a new Apple TV or iPad tablet, according to the blog. Instead, the event is likely to focus on an advertising or publishing announcement. AllThingsD reported that Senior Vice President of Internet [...]
It appears as though one of Apple’s internal testing applications has turned up in the iOS App Store. A search for “gamestore” will reveal an application available for 99 cents. The internal app, which offers in app purchases, appears to be some sort of test application. The in app purchases, at the moment, do not [...]
While the Apple TV may not mean too much to Apple, hackers consider the device to be a major project. Steven Troughton-Smith is no stranger to this realm. The hacker is best known for getting Siri to work on devices besides the iPhone 4S. Now he’s turning his attention to the Apple TV. Troughten-Smith was [...]
Hopefully you didn’t grab the Sony Tablet S during the holiday rush, because Sony has just cut the slate’s price by $100. Beginning today, the 16GB Tablet S model starts at $399, undercutting the Apple iPad 2 by a significant amount. The 32GB model now starts at $499. Sony is additionally offering five free PlayStation [...]
Google has apparently pulled an application which represented itself as Siri, Apple’s revolutionary voice command software, from the Android Marketplace. Siri imitators have swarmed the Android marketplace since Apple launched their latest handset, the iPhone 4S. This particular app was taken down, however, because it represented itself as Siri, in violation of an Apple copyright. [...]
Apple British Designer in Chief Jonathan Ive, known to most as Jony, has been knighted in United Kingdom for his “services to design and enterprise”. Ive received the accolade as part of the annual New Years honors list for his ability to develop devices ranging from the original Macintosh computers to the more modern iPhones, [...]
Apple have been developing fuel-cell technology to power portable computers, such as the Macbook and iPhone according to two new patent applications submitted to the US Patent & Trademark Office. The two patents, entitled “Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable Computing Device” and “Fuel Cell System Coupled to a Portable Computing Device”, mark a [...]
