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Mac OS Ken: 04.23.2012
April 23, 2012 05:30 - 9 minutes - 5.73 MBDr. Web and Symantec Peg Current Flashback Infection at 650,000 Macs Six U.S. Regional Carriers Start iPhone 4/4S Sales and Service Sterne Agee Analyst Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Expectations for Apple’s 2Q FY2012 IHS iSuppli: Apple to Consume One-Quarter of 2012’s NAND Flash Production Apple Launches Pages for iPhone and iPad in Business Check out the iPhone in Business Page at Check out the iPad in Business Page at EU Competition Commissioner Says Apple Has Made Sett...
Mac OS Ken: 04.20.2012
April 20, 2012 08:00 - 11 minutes - 6.95 MBVerizon: 3.2 Million of the 6.3 Million Smartphones Sold Last Quarter Were iPhones Canaccord Genuity Analyst Ups Apple Target to $740 Citigroup and Piper Jaffray Analysts See Support for Fall Release for Next iPhone Apple Says 4G iPad Should Be Called 4G in Australia Even If It Can’t Run on 4G Networks in Australia Samsung Accuses Apple of Violating Eight of Its Patents in New Countersuit Filing Judge Green Lights Anti-Poaching Antitrust Case Against Apple and Other Tech Giants Kaspersk...
Mac OS Ken: 04.19.2012
April 19, 2012 08:29 - 14 minutes - 8.65 MBGoldman Sachs Reiterates “Buy” Rating on Apple Shares; Ups Apple Target to $750 Barclays Capital Analyst Suggests Apple Investors Stay in the Shares Apple Lawyer Says Company Wants to Defend Against DoJ Collusion Charges in Court Symantec: Flashback Infection Down to 140,000 Macs (Though They’d Expected a Drop to 99,000 by Now) Greenpeace Stages “Clean Our Cloud” Demonstration at Apple European HQ in Ireland Apple Issues Minor Update for Configurator Utility Apple Seeds Third Builds of ...
Mac OS Ken: 04.18.2012
April 18, 2012 07:51 - 14 minutes - 8.3 MBApple and Samsung to Meet for Court Directed Settlement Talks Security Expert: Java Updates Won’t Keep Macs Safe from SabPub Variants Apple Hires United-Continental CFO as New VP of Sales Shaw Wu Thinks a 7.85-Inch iPad would Decimate the Competition (Though He Doesn’t Know That We’ll See One Soon) New Siri-Focused iPhone 4S Ads Running with Samuel L. Jackson and Zoey Deschanel Apple Awarded Patent for Look and Feel of iTunes Store Apple Opening Second Store in Rome This Saturday at 10A...
Mac OS Ken: 04.17.2012
April 17, 2012 07:37 - 13 minutes - 7.6 MBApple Launching New iPad in 12 More Countries This Friday, Nine More the Following Friday Apple Heads to Australian Court to Hash Out iPad 4G Marketing Down Under Rumor Has Apple Outing 7.85-Inch iPad in 3Q CY2012 More Malware: Two SabPub Variants Discovered TMO: Kaspersky Spots LuckyCat Trojan Apple Agrees to Environmental Audit of Chinese Printed Circuit Board Supplier with Beijing-Based Organization Apple Adding Several New Features to Next Final Cut Pro X Update Apple Kills Free Tr...
Mac OS Ken: 04.16.2012
April 16, 2012 09:39 - 10 minutes - 6.02 MBPiper Jaffray Analyst Expects More iPhone Sales Than the Street for 2Q FY2012, Fewer iPads and Macs Report: Some White iPhone 4s Replaced with 4Ses Due to Replacement Unit Shortages Apple Issues Flashback Removal Tool Specifically for Macs Running Lion Macworld: Kaspersky Labs Puts Its Flashback Removal Tool Back Into Distribution as Norton Adds a Tool of Its Own TUAW: Apple Seeds Third beta of OS X 10.7.4 to Developers Apple Loses Second Push Email Cases Against Motorola Mobility in Ger...
Mac OS Ken: 04.13.2012
April 13, 2012 07:53 - 17 minutes - 10.2 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at Apple Calls DoJ Charges in eBook Suit “Simply Not True” Australian Financial Site Says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission May Join in eBook Suits Apple Issues Java Update That Removes Most Common Flashback Variants Kaspersky Suspends Distribution of Flashback Removal Tool After It Also Removes Some User Settings Apple Prompting iOS Device Owners to Provide Security Questions and Answers C...
Mac OS Ken: 04.12.2012
April 12, 2012 08:01 - 16 minutes - 9.36 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at US DoJ Brings Suit Against Apple and FIve Publishers for Alleged Collusion in eBook Pricing Three Publishers Settle with the DoJ 16 States Sue Apple and Publishers (Two of Which Have Already Settled with the States) DoJ Says Apple Proposed “Illegally Dividing” Digital Content Worlds with Amazon Apple Investors Apparently Unfazed by News of DoJ Suit Shaw Wu Ups iPad Sales Expectations and Apple Price ...
Mac OS Ken: 04.11.2012
April 11, 2012 06:04 - 14 minutes - 8.46 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at Apple Insider: 15-Inch MacBook Pro Stock Constrained at Third-Party Resellers Ahead of Likely Refresh Gartner: Apple to Control at Least 45-Percent of Tablet Sales Through at Least 2016 Consumer Federation of America Calls on DoJ to Go After Apple and Publishers for Collusive Behavior Around Ebook Pricing Reuters Reports Says DoJ Could Launch Case Against Apple on Ebook Price-Fixing as Early as Today ...
Mac OS Ken: 04.10.2012
April 10, 2012 06:00 - 15 minutes - 9.18 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at Forbes: One Analyst Puts Apple Shares at $1650 While Another Targets $270 BTIG Research Analyst Downgrades Apple from “Buy” to “Neutral” on iPhone Concerns and Expectation of No Apple Television in 2012 Topeka Capital Analyst Sees Unibody, 4G/LTE iPhone with 4-Inch Screen Launching This Fall HR Exec at Foxconn Factory Says Next iPhone to Hit Around October All Things D: Who Launches a Phone When the P...
Mac OS Ken: 04.09.2012
April 09, 2012 05:18 - 18 minutes - 10.7 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at Flashback Malware Infects Over Half-a-Million Macs Worldwide Apple Issues Java Updates to Combat Flashback Malware Apple Sets Q2FY2012 Earnings Call for 24 April at 5PM EDT/2PM PDT Piper Jaffray and Topeka Capital Set Apple Targets Between $910 and $1,001 Jefferies and Co Analyst Ups Apple Target to $800 Based - in Part - on Belief in Apple Television Nielsen: Tablet and Smartphone-Owning TV Watchers ...
Mac OS Ken: 03.30.2012
March 30, 2012 09:08 - 12 minutes - 7.34 MBThe Fair Labor Association Posts Report on Foxconn Audit Read the full FLA Report on the Foxconn Audit at Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Foxconn Plant Nielsen: iPhone Sales Draw Close to Android Sales for First Part of 2012 Bloomberg/Businessweek: Sources Say Apple and Samsung Execs Recently Discussed Settlement Options “Antennagate” Settlement Website is Up and Running Get More Info on the “Antennagate” Settlement at http://iPhone4Settlement.com Second Suit Brought Against Apple for False...
Mac OS Ken: 03.29.2012
March 29, 2012 06:00 - 14 minutes - 8.23 MBApple CEO Meets with Chinese Vice Premier Barclay’s Capital Analyst Thinks Cook Trip to China May Indicate Talks for iPhone/China Mobile Deal Fortune: Proview, Workers’ Rights, and Retail Expansion Possible Points of Tim Cook’s Trip to China Barclay’s Analyst Jazzed by iPhone Dominance on Flickr CNBC Survey: 50-Percent of Households in US Own at Least One Apple Product Authorities in Sweden and UK Express Concerns Over Possibly Misleading “Wifi + 4G” Marketing Denmark Consumer Ombudsman...
Mac OS Ken: 03.28.2012
March 28, 2012 07:23 - 14 minutes - 8.35 MBSprint Says iPhone Deal Not Contingent on 4G/LTE Coverage Apple Says New iPad Charges Past 100-Percent Intentionally Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Upset with Apple Over Application of “4G” Label to iPad Down Under Apple Agrees to Refund Cost of 4G iPads for Australian Consumers Who Did Not Realize It Was Not Compatible with 4G in Australia Apple Adds $124.99 and $174.99 Price Tiers to iOS App Store Options Apple Hiring Data Center Project Construction Manager for “Next G...
Mac OS Ken: 03.27.2012
March 27, 2012 08:45 - 11 minutes - 6.59 MBTim Cook Pops Over to China, Visits an Apple Store and Meets with Chinese Officials Apple CEO Cook Meets with Mayor of Beijing and Other Chinese Government Officials Apple Invites 25-Billionth iOS App Downloader from Qingdao to Beijing Apple Store to Retrieve Prize New iPad Receives China Compulsory Certification from China Quality Certification Center; Still Faces Proview Trademark Hurdle The Telegraph: New iPad Reignites Chinese Grey Market Business Insider: Prices for New iPad Crash o...
Mac OS Ken: 03.26.2012
March 26, 2012 06:39 - 10 minutes - 6.16 MBiMore Hears Rumors of 4G/LTE iPhone with 3.5-Inch Screen in the Fall Consumer Intelligence Research Partners Survey: Best Buy Sells Nearly as Many iPhones in the U.S. as Apple China Unicom Says iPhone Performance Has Been Better-Than-Expected Over the Last Three Years Apple Reportedly Rejecting Some Apps That Want to Access iOS Devices’ UDID Report Has Nokia Paying to Make Lumia 900 the Free Phone for AT&T Employees Forbes Highlights the High Priced Market for Zero-Day Exploits Samsung ...
Mac OS Ken: 03.23.2012
March 23, 2012 09:09 - 15 minutes - 9.24 MBPCWorld: New iPad Incredibly Slow to Charge During Use Video Diagnostics Firm DiplayMate Says New iPad Keeps Charging After Battery Level Reads 100-Percent Business Insider: Some Original Smart Covers Not Working with New iPad (Though Apple Will Apparently Swap Out the Covers) Apple Insider: Targus Replacing Slim Cases with New iPad Magnet Issues URL Spoofing Vulnerability Found in Safari for iOS U.S. Representatives Quiz 34 Companies (Including Apple) Over Data Collection and Usage Thro...
Mac OS Ken: 03.22.2012
March 22, 2012 07:11 - 16 minutes - 9.75 MBSprint CEO Sees iPhone Customers as More Valuable Than Others Long-Term Barclays Capital: Apple Currently Testing Parts for 4G/LTE iPhone to Be Launched in September WSJ: Owners of New 4G/LTE iPads Burning Through Data Plans at Breakneck Speeds Industry Analyst Says Only One-in-Ten Tablets Uses Cellular Connectivity UBS: Roughly Half of New iPads Sold Will Be Wifi Plus 4G/LTE Apple Insider: Apple Support Thread Sports Complaints of Wifi Trouble with New iPad Have you had unexplained or ...
Mac OS Ken: 03.21.2012
March 21, 2012 08:52 - 13 minutes - 8.11 MBMunster, Moskowitz and Wu Stoked Over New iPad’s 3-Million Unit Weekend In-Stat: Apple Likely to Overtake Intel and No. 1 Mobile Processor Maker by the End of 2012 Wait Times Shrink for New iPad Orders Tests by Dutch Site Show New iPad Runs Up to 9-Degrees Fahrenheit Hotter Than iPad 2 Apple Says New iPad Operates Within Accepted Thermal Specifications Consumer Reports Sees Hotter Temps in Its New iPad Tests; Doesn’t Seem to Mind Apple Says Worker Hours Improving in the Supply Chain Jud...
Mac OS Ken: 03.20.2012
March 20, 2012 08:38 - 11 minutes - 6.82 MBApple Sells Three-Million New iPads in First Three Days Apple CEO Cook Starts Day Calling New iPad Sales Record Breaking The Verge: Source Says Apple Fifth Avenue NYC Store Sold 18 iPads a Minute for First 12-Hours of Availability AT&T Trumpets Record First-Day for New iPad Sales; Gives No Numbers Apple Announces Dividend and Share Repurchase Plans Wired: CEO Cook Sees Little Support That Stock Splits Help Stocks TUAW: CEO Cook Says Apple Pipeline is Full of Stuff Fortune: A Slew of An...
Mac OS Ken: 03.19.2012
March 19, 2012 08:29 - 13 minutes - 7.66 MBApple to Talk Cash Hoard on Monday Morning Conference Call Hear the call live at 9AM EDT/6AM PDT or as a replay at UBS Analyst Ups Apple Target to 675-Dollars; Stoked About “iPhone 5” and New iPad Oppenheimer Analyst Ups Apple Target to 700-Dollars on Strength of New iPad and iPhone 4S USITC Upholds Ruling in Apple/Motorola Mobility in Moto’s Favor German Court Stays Push Notification Block in Motorola Mobility Case Against Apple German Judges Freezes Apple Case Against Samsung Over Sl...
Mac OS Ken: 03.16.2012
March 16, 2012 09:50 - 16 minutes - 9.44 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at Report: FaceTime Still Requires Wifi Connection on 4G/LTE iPad Harrods Opening Tech Department Today with Apple Shop Inside Reports Say a Number of New Apple TVs Delivered a Day Early Munster Reiterates “Overweight” Rating on Apple Shares; Raises Target to 718-Dollars on Strength of iPhone and iPad Apple Shares Hit 600-Dollars for the First Time Ever Strategy Analytics Study: Smartphone Owners say 4-...
Mac OS Ken: 03.15.2012
March 15, 2012 08:37 - 14 minutes - 8.47 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken12 at Official: New iPad to Launch at 8AM Local Time at Apple Stores Tomorrow; Available at Best Buy, Radio Shack, Sam’s Club, Target, and Walmart in the U.S. Macworld UK: Apple Changes New iPad Wording on Website to Point Out Where Device’s 4G/LTE Works Canaccord Genuity Analyst Ups Apple Target to 710-Dollars on iPad Strength and Competition Weakness Morgan Stanley Ups Apple Price Target to 720-Dollars Stre...
Mac OS Ken: 03.14.2012
March 14, 2012 08:45 - 14 minutes - 8.66 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at 9 to 5 Mac: Signage Indicates 8AM Launch for New iPad Apple Goes Preregistration-Only for Hong Kong iPad Launch Apple Reportedly Upgrading Its Website Images for HiDPI Screens and Retina Displays ChangeWave Research Survey: iPad Dominates Corporate Tablet Plans McGraw Hill Education Exec Expects School Sales to Rise for Reduced Price iPad 2 IDC: Strong Entry of Amazon Kindle Fire Contributes to Lost ...
Mac OS Ken: 03.13.2012
March 13, 2012 08:05 - 13 minutes - 7.87 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at Piper Jaffray Analyst Predicts One-Million iPads Will Be Sold This Coming Friday Speculation Has Apple Starting In-Store New iPad Sales at 8AM This Friday Wait Times for New iPads Ordered Through Apple Site Slip to 2-3 Weeks Report: HBO Working to Allow Previously-Owned Movies into iTunes in the Cloud Despite Exclusivity Windows DoJ Greenlight’s Rockstar Consortium Purchase of Nortel Patent Portfolio ...
Mac OS Ken: 03.12.2012
March 12, 2012 09:49 - 16 minutes - 9.47 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at With the First Round of Pre-Orders “Sold Out,” New iPad Delivery Times Slip Worldwide Apple Calls Response to New iPad “Off the Charts” ZDNet Says New iPad Battery Packs 70-Percent Greater Capacity Than Battery for iPad 2 Report: Virgin Mobile in Canada to Fire Up 4G/LTE in Time for Launch of New iPad Resale Prices on Used iPad 2s Drop Significantly in Wake of New iPad Announcement Apple Drastically R...
Mac OS Ken: 03.09.2012
March 09, 2012 10:20 - 14 minutes - 8.21 MBFortune: Financial Analysts Pleased with New iPad and New Apple TV Announcements Verizon Will Offer Personal Hotspot Feature at New iPad Launch, AT&T Will Not Apple Releases Configurator, a Mac App for Managing iOS Devices Across Organizations Mapping in iPhoto for iOS from OpenStreetMap, Not PlaceBase comScore: Android and iOS Gain at End of 2011 While the Rest of the Top-Five Smartphone Platforms Shrink Apple Not Allowed to Pursue Patent Lawsuits Against Kodak During Bankruptcy Engadg...
Mac OS Ken: 03.08.2012
March 08, 2012 11:02 - 18 minutes - 10.6 MBApple Intros "New iPad" with Retina Display, 4G/LTE, A5X-Chip with Quad-Core Graphics for March 16 Delivery Apple Adds 99-Dollar AppleCare+ Option to New iPad Purchases Apple Keeps 16GB iPad 2 Around for 399-Dollars (Wifi-Only) or 529-Dollars (Wifi-Plus 3G) Apple Drops Price of Refurbished iPad 2s Apple Issues Public Release of iOS 5.1 AT&T iPhone 4Ses on the HSDPA Network Now Show Phone as 4G Apple Updates iOS-Versions of iMovie and GarageBand and Introduces iPhoto for iOS Electronist...
Mac OS Ken: 03.07.2012
March 07, 2012 08:52 - 18 minutes - 10.5 MBApple Tweaks “Top Apps” User Interface on App Store on iPad New Catalog Category Spotted for iPad App Store ABC Family Launches Universal iOS App With Full Episodes of Network Shows Barclays Capital Raises Apple Target to 710-Dollars on Strength of iPad, iPhone, and Mac U.S. Company (Redacted) Warns Apple Against Using the Name iTV (But the Name is For Sale) Canaccord Genuity Analyst Says iPhone and iPad Influence Release Schedules for the Entire Mobile Market Dow Jones: Secret Sources ...
Mac OS Ken: 03.06.2012
March 06, 2012 09:54 - 14 minutes - 8.33 MBPhone Arena: Secret Source Says Next iPad to Be Called iPad 3 CNET: Secret Source Says Next iPad to Be Called iPad HD iMore: Secret Source Says iPad 3/HD to Have 4G/LTE Connectivity iLounge: Secret Source Says Apple Bringing Out Smart(er) Cover/Case for iPad 3/HD Apple Insider and MacRumors Hear Shipping Costs Are Up Significantly as Apple Takes Up Far-East to US Capacity Samsung Securities Reportedly Expects 7-Inch “iPad mini” Later This Year Study by The Business Journals Shows iPad i...
Mac OS Ken: 03.06.2012
March 06, 2012 09:54 - 14 minutes - 8.33 MBPhone Arena: Secret Source Says Next iPad to Be Called iPad 3 CNET: Secret Source Says Next iPad to Be Called iPad HD iMore: Secret Source Says iPad 3/HD to Have 4G/LTE Connectivity iLounge: Secret Source Says Apple Bringing Out Smart(er) Cover/Case for iPad 3/HD Apple Insider and MacRumors Hear Shipping Costs Are Up Significantly as Apple Takes Up Far-East to US Capacity Samsung Securities Reportedly Expects 7-Inch “iPad mini” Later This Year Study by The Business Journals Shows iPad i...
Mac OS Ken: 03.05.2012
March 05, 2012 09:54 - 12 minutes - 7.49 MBArs Technica Sees Possible Retina Display iPad and Possible iOS 6 in its Browser Stats The Verge Sees Reason to Expect Apple TV Update Announcement This Wednesday Decorations Go Up on Yerba Buena Center for Wednesday Apple Event German Judge Tosses One Samsung and One Apple Case - Both Plan to Appeal USAF Mobility Command Buying 18,000 iPad 2s for Just Over 9-Million Dollars Vancouver, Washington City Council Sees Cost Savings Two-Months Into Paper-to-iPad Transition Southeast US Carrie...
Mac OS Ken: 03.02.2012
March 02, 2012 09:47 - 14 minutes - 8.15 MBMacRumors: Alleged iPad 3 Bezel Shows Place for Physical Home Button DigiTimes Says Apple to Intro 8GB iPad 2; 16GB and 32GB iPad 3 Only DigiTimes Sources Say 7.85-Inch Likely in 3Q CY2012 Piper Jaffray: Apple Television Would Be Awesome But Apple Won’t Make a Television Without a TV Content Sollution New York Post: Apple Trying for TV Service By Christmas While Content Companies Balk Apple Wins Mobile Phone Photo Organization Patent Case Against Motorola in Germany Pew: Majority of Cel...
Mac OS Ken: 03.01.2012
March 01, 2012 09:21 - 12 minutes - 7.32 MBShaw Wu Expects 4G/LTE Connectivity for Next iPad (and He Is Stoked) RBC Survey Shows Greater Interest in iPad if it Cost Less SkyBet Allows Gambling on Next iPad Features (Then Pulls Wager Page) eBay Says Tablet Trade-Ins 10-Times Higher in February 2012 Versus February 2011 Apple Insider: Apple Three Weeks Late Restocking Apple TV with Third-Party Resellers DigiTimes Says Apple to Ship Thinner, Lighter MacBook Pros Next Month DigiTimes Says Apple Eyeing 14-Inch MacBook Air to Target A...
Mac OS Ken: 02.29.2012
February 29, 2012 08:51 - 13 minutes - 7.8 MBApple Invites Select Members of Press to (More Than) Likely iPad 3 Event on Wednesday 7 March CNBC Botches Apple Event Prediction CNBC Gives Dalrymple Hat Tip for Getting It Right Where They Got It Wrong CNET: No Physical Home Button Pictured in Invitation Art for Next Week’s Event Alleged Photo of iPad 3 Shell Indicates Ever-So-Slightly-Thicker Device Engadget: Radio Shack Discounts iPad 2 by 20 to 50-Dollars TUAW: Invitations to Next Week’s Apple Event Hit During Google Chairman’s Spe...
Mac OS Ken: 02.28.2012
February 28, 2012 08:59 - 14 minutes - 8.27 MBReport: Best Buy Deleting Some iPad 2 Models from Inventory Systems Apple Insider: Rumor Has iPad 3 Priced 80-Dollars Higher than iPad 2 Barclays Analysts Ups Apple Target from 545-Dollars to 590 Thanks to Addition of China Telecom for iPhone IDC: High iPhone Subsidies Locking Device Out of Some Markets Sprint on the Hook for 15.5-Billion-Dollars Worth of iPhones Over the Next Four Years Apple Encourages Developers to Certify Apps Through Developer ID Program Apple Releases WiFi Update ...
Mac OS Ken: 02.27.2012
February 27, 2012 10:26 - 13 minutes - 7.56 MBElectronista: UPS Manifest Seems to Show Some Sort of New Apple Product Shipping to the States by Next Friday Best Buy Offers 50-Dollar Discount on iPad 2 TUAW: Apple Kills Push Email in Germany After Patent Suit Loss Against Motorola Bloomberg: Apple Buys Chomp (Confirmed) for 50-Million Dollars (Unconfirmed) Adobe Photoshop Touch iPad App Goes Live in the App Store for 10-Dollars GigaOm: Intucell Technology Gives AT&T “Living” Data Networks iPhone Owners Wins 850-Dollars in Small Clai...
Mac OS Ken: 02.24.2012
February 24, 2012 10:12 - 14 minutes - 8.35 MBApple (Sort of) Addresses Cash Pile, Promises Mind Blowing Products at 2012 Shareholders’ Meeting Mobile-PCs for a Post-PC World: NPD Says Apple’s No. 1 Worldwide If You Combine iPads and Notebooks; Number Five in Notebooks Alone Barclays Lowers Amazon Kindle Fire Sales Expectations for CY2012 CNET: Sources Say Google Music Missing Early User and Revenue Expectations With No iPhone, T-Mobile USA Loses 706-Thousand Customers in 4Q CY2011 Proview v. Apple: Chinese Judge Allows iPad Sales t...
Mac OS Ken: 02.23.2012
February 23, 2012 10:04 - 12 minutes - 7.49 MBHong Kong-Based NGO Says Foxconn is Pulling the Wool Over FLA’s Eyes Former Wintek Employees Call on Apple Customers to Sign SumOfUs.org Petition for Worker Rights for Apple Supply Chain NYT: Apple and Proview Face Off in Chinese Court, Receive No Ruling from Court Barclays Analyst Pumped for Second iPhone Carrier in China and the Approach of Mountain Lion iPodNN: Japan Gets Access to iTunes in the Cloud; iTunes Match Still Missing MacNN: iTunes Match for iTunes Japan Should Hit in Secon...
Mac OS Ken: 02.22.2012
February 22, 2012 12:01 - 12 minutes - 7.14 MBNPD and Piper Jaffray Look at Current-Quarter Mac SalesApple Pushes Sandboxing Deadline for Mac App Store Apps to 1 JuneReport: Apple to Allow Independent Environmental Reviews of Some Factories in the Supply Chain in ChinaApple’s Facilities Report - Environmental update 2012 Outlines Plans for Renewable Energy at NC Data CenterApple Confirms Plans for Pineville, Oregon Data CenterThe Daily: Microsoft Office for iPad Close to App Store Submission (and They Say They’ve Seen it)Microsoft Says P...
Mac OS Ken: 02.21.2012
February 21, 2012 08:27 - 15 minutes - 8.75 MBChina Telecom to Start Sales of iPhone 4S on 9 March Oppenheimer And Company Raises Apple 12-Month Price-Target to 570-Dollars on iPhone and iPad Strength FLA CEO Says Organization Has Uncovered “Tons of Issues” at Foxconn Plant in Shenzhen ABC’s Nightline to Feature a Look Inside Foxconn Tonight Foxconn Raises Salaries for Factory Workers in China by 16-25% WSJ: Google Sneaks Past Default Privacy Setting on Safari to Leave Cookies Microsoft Says Google Cheating Privacy Setting on IE9 ...
Mac OS Ken: 02.17.2012
February 17, 2012 09:28 - 14 minutes - 8.48 MBApple Announces OS X Mountain Lion Release for Late Summer 2012; Releases Developer Preview Wired Says Apple Will Do One Big OS X Update a Year from Now On Apple Makes Messages App for Mac Available as a Public beta Apple Posts Teaser Video of Mountain Lion OS NYT Looks at iCloud Integration of iOS and OS X Devices Reports Say Some Early Intel-Based Macs Won’t Make the Jump to Mountain Lion Apple Releases betas of Safari 5.2 and Xcode 4.4 to Developers Apple Updates Xcode to Version 4....
Mac OS Ken: 02.16.2012
February 16, 2012 10:10 - 12 minutes - 7.28 MBTwitter Says Its iOS App Uploads User Address Book Info if They Use the “Find Friends” Feature; Stores Info for Up to 18-Months Congress Seeks Answers Around “Address Book-gate” as Apple Promises Fix in Future iOS Update Reports: Apple Has Amazon China Pull iPad from Its Site Authorities Tell Proview Execs That an iPad Export Ban is Unlikely Apple Seeks Permission from Bankruptcy Judge to Sue Kodak FLA President Pleasantly Surprised by First Look Inside Foxconn Factory AdAge: Apple Drop...
Mac OS Ken: 02.15.2012
February 15, 2012 09:55 - 21 minutes - 10 MBWSJ: Apple Is Testing 8-Inch Tablet Screens Fortune: No Reason to Expect 8-Inch iPad Daring Fireball: No Reason to Expect an 8-Inch iPad NYT: Confiscation of iPads in China Escalates as Proview Complaints Increase Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: Proview Seeks to Block Export of iPad from China as Trademark Complaints Continue Apple Sees Significant Delays in Time Capsule Shipping Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: Pegatron Says It Hasn’t Heard Anything About Inspections of Working Conditions at Factories ...
Mac OS Ken: 02.14.2012
February 14, 2012 09:10 - 12 minutes - 7.15 MBApple Shares Close Above 500-Dollars NPD Says Spending on Apple Accounts for Close to One-Fifth of Tech Spending in the States Harris Interactive Poll Puts Apple at Top of US Companies in Terms of Image/Reputation WSJ Says Next iPad to Support 4G/LTE Connectivity Through AT&T and Verizon AT&T Doubles Device Upgrade Fee From 18-Dollars to 36-Dollars Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Apple Suppliers Report: Apple Issues “Them or Us” Ultimatum to Pegatron Over Asustek Ultrabook ...
Mac OS Ken: 02.13.2012
February 13, 2012 08:30 - 12 minutes - 7.21 MBApple Replaces MacBook White with EDU-Only 13-Inch MacBook Air Apple Insider: Secret Sources Say Style of MacBook Pro to Morph Into Style of MacBook Air Shaw Wu: Now’s a Sensible Time for Apple to Pay a Dividend Mizuho Securities Starts Apple Coverage with 635-Dollar Target; Dividend or Stock Buyback Expectation Electronista: Dwindling Stock at 3rd-Party Resellers Points to New Apple TV Set-Top Box German Court Rules Against Motorola Mobility in Patent Case Against Apple Apple Files Sui...
Mac OS Ken: 02.10.2012
February 10, 2012 10:11 - 17 minutes - 10.3 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at http://vmware.com/mac All Things D Says Apple Will Hold Event for Next iPad in the First Week of March The Loop Says “Yep” to All Things D iPad Event Story Your Daily Mac Puts Release of iOS 5.1 on 9 March (and Maybe Next iPad as Well) Game Developers Conference 5 March Through 9 March at Moscone Center; May Be Disrupted (Again) by iPad Event Microsoft Details Plans for Windows on ARM Germany Says Chan...
Mac OS Ken: 02.09.2012
February 09, 2012 09:05 - 19 minutes - 11.5 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at Sprint Sells 1.8-Million iPhones in 4QCY2011; Takes Huge Hit to Bottom Line on Subsidies CNN Money: The High Cost to Carriers of Carrying iPhone T-Mobile USA Giving Away Phones and Tablets as Part of “Valentine’s Day Sale” (Three Days Before Valentine’s Day) Priceonomics: iPhone Best Smartphone Value Over Time Path Apologizes and Purges Uploaded User Address Book Info Hipster App Also Sends Address Bo...
Mac OS Ken: 02.08.2012
February 08, 2012 09:37 - 20 minutes - 9.48 MBSponsor Message: Get 10-Percent Off of VMWare Fusion 4 with Coupon Code macosken10 at IDC: Apple Wins 4Q2011 in Smartphone Sales While Samsung (Narrowly) Wins the Year Morgan Keegan Analyst: Cellphone/Mobile Computing Space Would Have Shrunk Without Apple in 4QCY2011 Bernstein Analyst Says Apple Shares Are Super-Safe Thanks to Customer Lock-In Siri Now Accounts For Roughly One-Fourth of Searches on Wolfram Alpha Siri May Be an iPhone 4S-Exclusive Thanks to Tech Built Into Apple’s A5 Pr...