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Join Us Live At 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific For Apple's iPhone Announcement
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We, like most of the Internet, are waiting for Apple’s annual iPhone launch event where we expect to meet the new LTE iPhone 5, a new dock connector, and, if the rumors are true, a few new iPods. The scene you see above is a scrum of TV journalists and...
Patent office tentatively invalidates Apple's rubber-banding patent used in Samsung trial
www.fosspatents.com
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has good news for Samsung, and Samsung has already shared it with Judge Koh in a late-night filing. In a non-final Office action the USPTO has declared all 20 claims of Apple's rubber-banding patent (U.S. Patent No, 7,469,381 invalid, including claim 19, which Apple...
Is Windows Phone 8 popping up on a WP7 App?
www.engadget.com
The "I'm a WP7" app is now showing records of both Windows Phone 8 Apollo (build 8.0.9662.0) and Windows 8 Desktop Jupiter (6.2.8288.0) emulators. It seems to tie in with rumors that software testing for the mobile OS was ramped up on March 30th in anticipation for release later...
Apple Store down in anticipation of iPad Mini event
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The store will likely go back online after Apple is done unveiling its new products. [Read more]...
Samsung Galaxy Note II to land 'by mid-November' on all major US carriers
www.engadget.com
We'd say the wait is nearly over, but that wouldn't be telling the whole truth. Inching ever closer to a hard launch date, Samsung's Galaxy Note II is now poised to hit stateside on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and US Cellular "by mid-November." If you're seeking anything more specific...
3 things any company can learn from Apple
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Yes, Apple is special. And no, not every company should emulate it. But here are key elements in its playbook other companies absolutely should adopt. FORTUNE -- The latest installment of Applemania debuts this Wednesday, when Apple is expect to unveil another wonders of consumer gadgetry. The Apple-obsessed world expects...
Samsung's Galaxy S III steals smartphone crown from iPhone
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The best-selling smartphone in the world is no longer an iPhone. New data released on Thursday by market research firm Strategy Analytics finds that Samsung’s (005930) Galaxy S III was the world’s top-selling smartphone model in the third quarter this year, displacing Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone for the first time in...
What's Behind the Drop in Kindle Fire Shipments?
allthingsd.com
Once hailed as the first true rival to the iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Fire no longer seems to be much of a threat to Apple’s tablet. The Fire had no impact on Apple’s March quarter iPad sales. Indeed, during the company’s second-quarter earnings call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer said Apple is selling...
Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps
arstechnica.com
Mike Demarais posted this to Twitter during the first few minutes that Google Fiber went live in his Kansas City home. Mike Demarais After months of fanfare and anticipation, gigabit home Internet service Google Fiber finally went live on Tuesday in Kansas City. The search giant is offering 1 Gbps...
India tipped to overtake the US to become the world’s biggest Facebook market by 2015
thenextweb.com
It has just seen Brazil overtake it to become Facebook’s largest overseas market, but India is being tipped to overtake the US and the Latin American country to become the planet’s largest collection of Facebook users by 2015. India currently has 57 million registered Facebook members, putting it some distance...
Apple's Market Capitalization Hits $500 Billion, Stock Up 34% in 2012
www.macrumors.com
Apple's stock has hit yet another psychological milestone today, pressing through to reach $500 billion in market capitalization. Apple passed the milestone in after-hours trading yesterday, but has just now passed it in regular trading as the trading day opens. At the end of January, we noted that Apple had...
Earth stands still to watch Mars landing
www.theverge.com
Tonight in Time Square, no less than a thousand people stood with the relatively monotonous din of the New York City streets around them, peering at a video monitor high above. As the sticky August night drew to a close and early morning arrived, the crowd swelled, and anticipation...
IDC: Android and iOS now accounting for more than 80% of smartphone shipments
thenextweb.com
Android and Apple’s iOS continue to dominate the global smartphone industry, according to new data from research firm IDC, which concludes that the two platforms combined accounted for 82 percent of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2012. The report, which follows the firm’s breakdown of the industry by...
iPhone orders 'significantly' reduced as Apple begins prepping for next-gen model
www.appleinsider.com
Apple has begun drawing down build plans for its current iPhone models, as sales begin to ease in anticipation of a new sixth-generation model expected to launch later this year....
In Facebook IPO, Frenzy, Skepticism
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Facebook's coming IPO has set off a frenzy of anticipation among investors desperate to get their hands on the stock. The social network raised its price range to $34 to $38 a share, resulting in a target valuation of up to $104 billion....
The Apple Store Is Down!
www.businessinsider.com
The Apple online store is down in anticipation of today's huge iPhone 5 event. The "We'll be back." sign is currently flashing in multiple different languages. After Tim Cook's keynote speech today the store will be updated with new Apple goodies. Don't Miss: GET STOKED: It's iPhone 5 Day! Please follow...
What is the next industry Apple can disrupt? Banking!
gigaom.com
While anticipation grows for a possible Apple television launch at some point, the company may want to think about diversifying into banking. A new survey of 5,092 respondents in the U.K. and the U.S. from marketing and research consultancy KAE found that one in 10 people would consider banking with Apple, and...
California Theatre Decorated In Anticipation of Apple's Media Event
www.macrumors.com
Techie Buzz posts a gallery of photos from the California Theatre in San Jose where Apple will be hosting their Media Event. The choice of the California Theatre is a bit unusual for Apple. According to Mercury News, Apple last used this venue to introduce new iPod products back...
Roccat unveils Savu hybrid gaming mouse ready for CeBIT
www.engadget.com
In the increasingly complex world of gaming mice, we'd be happy with one that doesn't scrape the paint from the top of our desk. Still, if your ambitions are a little loftier, Roccat's unveiled the Savu gaming mouse in anticipation for its big day out at CeBIT. Named after...
Everything that Apple announced today at WWDC
thenextweb.com
Today at the WWDC event Apple released a slew of announcements, covering a wide range of products. This post is a compendium of what they released, and promised to release today. For convenice, the order of this post mirrors the order of Apple’s event. The event was packed, as always,...
Asus Transformer AIO is equal parts PC and tablet
www.theverge.com
It would seem there's no stopping Asus' shapeshfting aspirations: at its press conference in Computex, the company announced the Transformer all-in-one, a desktop PC equipped with an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, a discrete graphics card, and 10-finger multitouch support in anticipation of Microsoft's Windows 8. Mustn't forget that "transformer"...
This blogpost will cause lasting damage to children's brains | Dean Burnett
www.guardian.co.uk
Susan Greenfield has warned of the danger to children presented by the internet, video games and online porn, but that's nothing compared with the threat posed by this blogpostBaroness Susan Greenfield has yet again been warning of the dangers posed to children by some form of electronic media, this time...
Japan’s smartphone revolution continues, with shipments tipped to grow 55% in 2012
thenextweb.com
The growth of Japan’s smartphone market is set to continue at pace, after research firm IDC predicted that smartphone shipments to the country will increase by 55 percent this year. The figures — via Tokyo Times – estimate that the country will bring in 31.13 million devices in 2012, with...
Acer Iconia A510 Olympic Tab to launch in UK next month
www.engadget.com
Acer has been known to celebrate the Olympic Games with special-edition tech, so we weren't exactly surprised when the company launched a festive version of the Iconia Tab A510 this April in anticipation of the Summer Games in London. Now that the event is just two months away, the...
OH, PLEASE, NO: This Guy Wants To Bet His Daughter's College Fund On The Facebook IPO
www.businessinsider.com
With the Facebook IPO only days away from pricing, anticipation is building. And some otherwise smart people are going insane. Shayndi Rice and Joe Light of the Wall Street Journal are tracking a few people who are hoping to get in on the action. One of them, who runs a...
Apple Stock Sinks as Profits and Products Are Questioned
www.nytimes.com
Shares have dropped 20 percent since their September peak. Some investors may be selling in anticipation of higher capital gains taxes....
Vodafone nano-SIMs in stock ahead of tomorrow's iPhone launch
9to5mac.com
We told you that nano-SIMs were arriving at carriers last week ahead of this week’s iPhone launch when the first one was spotted at T-Mobile partners in Europe. Today iFun reports that Vodafone Germany too has its SIM cards in stock and ready to ship in the next 24...
Foursquare teases a giant mobile app remake, mayors quiver in anticipation
www.engadget.com
Foursquare has been steadily adding to its mobile app since its check-in service took off. A major remake hasn't been in the cards, however, until now. The company is teasing a major update this week that will reflect Foursquare's shift from simply broadcasting your coffee shop invasions to recommending...
Me.ga Hackers: We're Real Pirates & We'll Sell Dotcom's Domain To Universal
torrentfreak.com
On January 20, 2013 Kim Dotcom is set to launch the successor to Megaupload, along with a promise for it to be bigger and better than before. In anticipation of opposition, Dotcom previously revealed that the site would use encryption to boost the site’s safe harbor protections. Furthermore, it would...
Microsoft SkyDrive impressions: a look at features and functionality
www.engadget.com
You may remember a certain, somewhat anticipated cloud service finally coming in to land in recent days. That wasn't the only news in nebular computing last week, however: perhaps in anticipation of Google's long-rumored Drive service, Microsoft made some updates to the Windows Phone app for its own offering,...
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