It’s the gift-giving season and it’s likely some of you are thinking of giving someone or even yourself a mobile media tablet such as Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab or Barnes & Noble’s NookColor. You may or may not be inspired by the fact that a growing number of bankers, executives, doctors and other professionals [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
The Apple/ Google Android Mobile Horse Race
Recent reports about Apple and Google mobile market shares might seem a bit contradictory, but the gist of them is fairly simple: both companies are winning in the mobile space. According to a recent report from Canalys, Apple has taken the U.S. smartphone share lead for Q3 2010 with just over 26% marketshare — edging [...]
Verizon and AT&T to Carry Apple iPad: What It Means
So, you thought that AT&T already sold the Apple iPad, did you? You can’t be faulted for that, considering that the 3G models of the popular mobile media tablet uses an optional AT&T data plan. However, AT&T will not actually be selling iPads until Oct 28th — the same day that their wireless competitor Verizon [...]
Why Apple's New FaceTime Video Chat is Game-Changing
Apple, Inc., loves to be a game-changer, and the new Apple iPhone 4, announced yesterday, will be one both for some of the hardware aspects as well as for the video chatting feature, FaceTime. In fact, FaceTime might have even more of a social impact than people realize, given that it’s intended to be an [...]
ABCs of Apple iPhone 4 and iOS 4: 25 Details and Features
If you’ve been off the planet for the past month or so, you can be forgiven for not knowing there’s a new iPhone, and much of its feature set was confirmed today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote address for WWDC in San Francisco. This 4th-generation iPhone is packed with new features — [...]
Google AdMob Beats Apple iAd to iPad Advertising SDK
Google’s newly acquired AdMob has beaten Apple’s iAd to market with an SDK that allows iPhone OS mobile apps developers to specifically target the iPad. AdMob’s iPad SDK was released on Jun 2nd, whereas iAd SDK is not expected to be announced until Monday’s WWDC 2010 keynote address by Steve Jobs. AdMob’s SDK supports two [...]
Apple's WWDC Kicks Off Monday Jun 7th
There’s all kinds of speculation as to why AT&T is changing iPhone/ iPad data plan pricing, though maybe Monday’s Apple WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs will shed light on it all. AT&T is giving some concession to keep the old unlimited iPad data plan — but the offered reason that very few people are using [...]
Reviewing Apple's Increased Mobile Device Market Share
Since the launch of both the WiFi-only and 3G models of the iPad, Apple has sold about 2M units in less than 2 months, and they’re sold out at many of their Apple retail stores – proving that there is a market for tablet devices and thus a need for more apps. But will these [...]
AT&T: iPhone Tethering, iPad 3G Data Plan Changes
The Apple iPad is now available in nine more markets, not including the USA. Both the WiFi-only and 3G models are available, in all three memory sizes (16GB, 32GB, 64GB). This is great news for non-U.S. consumers who have been waiting for these devices. Meanwhile the USA seems to be sold out of them. Unfortunately, [...]
Apple's iPhone Manufacturer to Increase Wages
Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures Apple’s iPhone has had over a dozen suicides either on its premises or from the homes of workers. The why of this is still being investigated, but so far it’s chalked up to high-pressure, low wages. As a result of this, Silicon Valley Watcher’s Tom Foremski asks whether it’s [...]