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Forecast of Apple’s decline stirs online ruckus

Posted by admin under Apple News on Friday Apr 27, 2012

San Francisco (dpa) – Apple Inc may have wowed investors and analysts with its latest earnings report, which sent the company’s stock surging by more than 10 per cent on Wednesday.

But the sale of more than 35 million iPhones and 12 million iPads did not impress Forrester Research chief executive George Colony. The boss of the highly regarded research company shrugged off Apple’s impressive performance with a contrarian prediction that the world’s most valuable enterprise is primed for a long decline within four years unless it finds a magical chief executive to step in to the shoes of Steve Jobs, the quixotic Apple co-founder who died last year.
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Apple quarterly results exceed expectations

Posted by admin under Apple News on Wednesday Apr 25, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO – Apple on Tuesday released quarterly sales and earnings results that both surpassed analysts’ expectations.

In its fiscal 2012 second quarter ending March 31, the company raked 39.2 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, an increase of nearly 59 percent from 24.7 billion dollars in the same period a year earlier.
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Apple’s new iPad goes on sale in South Korea

Posted by admin under iPad, iPad News on Friday Apr 20, 2012

SEOUL (AFP) – Hundreds of customers lined up Friday at Apple stores as the new iPad went on sale in tech-savvy South Korea, about one month after it made its international debut.

Four of Apple’s stores in Seoul opened early to sell the tablet computer, and there were also queues outside branches in the city of network providers KT and SK Telecom, the two distributors of iPhones and iPads.
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Hong Kong (dpa) – Border officials in southern China busted a ring believed to have smuggled electronic goods worth 79 million US dollars from Hong Kong, a news report said Friday.

The goods – mostly iPads, iPhones and iPods – were allegedly sold via the internet after being smuggled from Hong Kong, evading taxes of 20 per cent, the South China Morning Post reported.
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Heavy demand expected as iPad goes on sale

Posted by admin under iPad, iPad News on Friday Mar 16, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — The customary storefront crowds are expected to gather as Apple’s latest iPad goes on sale Friday. Long lines are likely even though customers could have ordered the new tablet computer ahead of time for first-day home delivery.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Xinhua) — Apple on Thursday released a software update to its latest iOS 5 mobile operating system in order to fix bugs that are blamed for affecting battery life of some iPhones.
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Insight: Dreaded “Brazil cost” may dim Foxconn’s iPad dreams

Posted by gracelim under iPad News on Sunday Oct 30, 2011

JUNDIAI, Brazil (Reuters) – The nondescript stretch of asphalt is an unlikely symbol of Brazil‘s attempt to lift its economy into a new high-tech era.

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Jobs had Google phones in crosshairs: biographer

Posted by gracelim under Apple News, Mobile News, Steve Jobs on Saturday Oct 22, 2011

Insights into Apple co-founder Steve Jobs‘s vendetta against Google and his criticisms of fellow high-tech titans spread quickly online ahead of the Monday release of his authorized biography.

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Apple celebrates life of Steve Jobs

Posted by admin under Apple News, iPad News, iPhone News, Steve Jobs on Thursday Oct 20, 2011

Steve Jobs was honored online and off as tributes poured into a memorial website set up by Apple for its late co-founder and shops closed temporarily as workers celebrated his life.

Doors were locked and curtains drawn at Apple Stores to allow retail store employees to tune into a private memorial being held in an amphitheater at the company’s headquarters in the northern California city of Cupertino. Shops reopened at noon, two hours after the event began.
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New EMA Research Shows BlackBerry on Sharp Decline

Posted by admin under Mobile News on Wednesday Oct 19, 2011

Recently released primary research from leading analyst firm, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), has determined that more than 30% of BlackBerry users in large enterprises (those with greater than 10,000 employees) expect to migrate to a different platform within the next year. This represents a significant reduction from the platforms current domination of the large enterprise market space with 52% of mobile device users in that demographic actively using a BlackBerry device as part of their job function.
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