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Is It Getting Easier or Harder to NOT Buy Apple Products?

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple’s success in the technology industry has been well-documented. During the fourth quarter, the company generated a $13.1 billion profit – a massive sum that makes it the world’s largest technology firm. Apple’s success has been built on the iPhone and iPad and surprisingly, Macs are starting to gain real traction among corporate users. Apple is officially a company that can deliver outstanding products and services to every customer, and those customers are buying its devices because of it.

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Tim Cook talks financials at Apple’s shareholders meeting

, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple's annual shareholders meeting was held today, and present were many shareholders who were concerned about Apple's decline in stock prices since September. Apple's stock price is down 35% since its $702.10 peak in September. Its stock price is currently sitting at $443.77. This drop in stock price took out a total of $240 billion in shareholder wealth, and shareholders want to know what Apple plans on doing to change things around. Read The Full Story

Apple grabs 20% of consumer electronics revenues in 2012

, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

While consumer electronics revenues have been going down for the past few years, some companies are seeing in increase in market share when it comes to total revenues for consumer technology devices. Apple accounted for 20% of consumer electronics revenues in 2012, which is a roughly 3% boost from 2011. Samsung also saw a boost to 9.3% from 7% in 2011. Read The Full Story

Apple targeted by Java zero-day bug [UPDATE]

, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Last week, Facebook was attacked by a zero-day Java exploit. While the social network said that no personal data was stolen, it's never too comforting when companies and services get hacked. This week, however, Apple was the target this time around, saying that a "small number" Mac computers have been infected. Read The Full Story

Microsoft secretly increases the price of Mac Office

, Feb 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Microsoft recently increased the price of its Office Product for the Mac OS. Office for Mac Home and Students now costs $140, which is about a 17% increase from its original $120 price. Office for Mac Home and Business now costs $220, which is a 10% hike from its original $200 price-tag. Microsoft didn't release a statement about why it increased the prices, but at the same time not a lot of people noticed. Read The Full Story

Apple’s Jony Ive nabs legendary gold Blue Peter badge

, Feb 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

The CBBC's Blue Peter program is the world's longest running television program made specifically for children, run after 54 years as a magazine / entertainment show for learning and engaging with kids. This show has this week prepared an award for none other than Apple's Sir Johnathan Ive, here sending the designer off with the show's "highest accolade." Though those of you outside the UK may never have heard of this show (thumbs down to you), this award has stricken Ive (born in Chingford, London) as "absolutely incredible." Read The Full Story

Skype Video Messaging for Mac, Android, iOS, limited to 20

, Feb 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the video chat program Skype has begun to roll out updates to Mac, Android, and iOS devices that will allow video messaging in addition to live-talk. This update is, incidentally, not ready for Microsoft products today even though Skype is owned by Microsoft. This means Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 will have to wait a bit longer to be able to leave short video recordings for their Skype buddies. Read The Full Story

The Apple Shop name change: computer giant it isn’t

, Feb 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Today an announcement has been made that the cider and apple-related food and goods store "The Apple Shop", located in Norwich, England, will be changing its name after several years of calls by Apple computers users looking for technical support. And yes, today is indeed a slow news day, if you were wondering. The owner of this institution Geoff Fisher has spoken with the BBC saying that he's making the name change after 20 years with the same name of his own accord - and he's not mad about it. On the contrary, he's actually been quite amused, for the most part. Read The Full Story

State of the Union includes “making Macs in America” mention

, Feb 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

This year's State of the Union address included no less than a shout out by President Obama to Apple for bringing manufacturing jobs back to the USA. In addition to speaking about several other big companies that will be doing similar things in the near future, Obama noted the positive influence Apple's move will have on the United States. Apple CEO Tim Cook sat in the First Lady's box for the speech, a traditional area in which guests mentioned in the address are invited to sit. Read The Full Story

Cook assures Apple wont “spin cycles” on proxy fight

, Feb 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week we're hearing quite a bit about a stockholder issue with Apple surrounding a lawsuit headed by David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital - and today Tim Cook has fired back. In a talk at this year's Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Tim Cook spoke about how Apple's biggest shareholder Greenlight Capital is suing the company, saying Apple should be dishing out more money to investors than they already do, saying that Preferred Stocks would be a good idea for the company. Cook spoke up today saying that the issue is being "considered" by Apple, but that in the end, it's all a bit of a waste of time. Read The Full Story

EA’s Origin gaming distribution service arrives on Mac

, Feb 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

Macs weren't very well known for being gaming machines just a few years ago, but things have changed drastically. More and more developers are bringing their games to OS X, and Valve's Steam gaming service has been available for Mac for quite some time now. This time around, EA's own Origin service is ready for Mac gamers. Read The Full Story

Gartner: Apple just as Enterprise friendly as Microsoft by 2014

, Feb 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week Gartner has released a report in which they predict Apple to be as accepted by Enterprise IT by the year 2014 as Microsoft is here in 2013. That's may appear to be a mighty large feat for those unaware of the inroads Apple's taken over the past few years into this space that's traditionally be dominated by Microsoft, but the truth of the matter is as Gartner says - it's certainly looking like Apple's presence in the business world is about to get much more visible if (and perhaps when) it reaches past Microsoft. Read The Full Story
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