Apple has reported its first quarterly drop in profits in a decade, but said it will raise dividends for shareholders. Apple made a net profit of $9.5 billion in the first quarter of 2013, down from $11.6 billion last year. However, the results were better than many had expected, as strong iPhone and iPad sales [...]
Apple shares dropped below the $400 mark for the first time since December 2011 amid concerns over slowing sales. Apple shares fell as low as $398.11 in Wednesday trading, before ending the day down 5.5% at $402.80. The concerns were triggered after one of its suppliers, Cirrus Logic, which makes sound components for the iPhone [...]
Suzanne Nassie from Massachusetts says that an iPad she bought at Walmart turned out to be only a piece of plastic painted to look like a real tablet. Suzanne Nassie said she knew there was a problem the second she opened the shrink wrapped package. The fake so confusing the store even refused her a [...]
Tech giant Apple has lost its crown as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company after its shares continued to fall. Oil company Exxon Mobil has regained the top slot after Apple shares fell 2.4%, following a 12% drop on Thursday. Apple, which posted disappointing iPhone sales figures on Wednesday, has seen its shares fall [...]
Although the iPad Mini is still fresh off the Apple’s table and yet reports of a new generation iPad are already circulating on Japanese tech blog Macotakara. Rumor has it Apple plans to launch a fifth generation tablet in March 2013, in keeping with its yearly Spring releases of previous models. But with the recent [...]
Apple’s new iPad Mini has gone on sale around the world. While a few diehard fans queued for hours to be among the first to own the new smaller iPad, queues were tiny compared to previous launches. In Hong Kong, reports even claim that staff outnumbered the customers when the store opened. Experts say bad [...]
Apple fans are looking forwards with keen anticipation to the expected launch of the iPhone 5 tonight. But it is possible Apple might surprise us “one last thing” by the end of tonight’s presentation – an iPad Mini, a shrunken-down, pocket-friendly of the iconic tablet which ushered in the post-PC era. Now, a leak from [...]
Apple is believed to be launching an iPad Mini in October, and now fansite Apple.pro claims to have photographed the eight-inch evolution of the iPad. Apple is notoriously secretive on the run-up to new launches, but leaks from within the industry, including from suppliers and partners, have all but confirmed the device is on its [...]
A South Korean court has ruled that tech giants Apple and Samsung both infringed each other’s patents on mobile devices. The court imposed a limited ban on national sales of products by both companies covered by the ruling. It ruled that Apple had infringed two patents held by Samsung, while Samsung had violated one of [...]
The first pictures of the flex cable components for Apple’s iPad Mini and iPhone 5 incorporating the new smaller dock connector have emerged. The photograph, shared by French tech website nowhereelse.fr, shows two components, one of which is said to be similar to another apparently leaked picture of a part of the new iPhone. As [...]
Samsung has released a new tablet, the Galaxy Note 10.1. Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 launch comes midway through a patent trial involving the South Korean firm and Apple, in which each company has accused the other of copying its technology. The new Android tablet distinguishes itself from the iPad by featuring a stylus and a [...]
Google is unveiling an enhanced version of Voice Search to its iPhone app that could rival Apple’s inbuilt Siri software. Google announced on Wednesday that the new features will be added to its iOS app on iPhone and iPad (iOS version 4.2+) within the next few days. Voice Search on iOS will be able to [...]
Windows 8 will be released on October 26, Microsoft has revealed. The declaration was made at the firm’s annual sales meeting and was published on its blog shortly after. The firm has described the update as the most important redesign of its interface in more than a decade. The announcement was made a day before [...]
Apple has been ordered by a UK judge to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad, according to the Bloomberg news agency. It said the judge said one notice should remain on Apple’s website for at least six months, while other adverts should be placed in various newspapers and magazines. [...]
Microsoft has unveiled a touch-ready version of Office, the latest version of the company’s market-leading productivity software suite. In San Francisco, Steve Ballmer described Office 2013 as the firm’s “most ambitious release” to date. The software is primed for mobile devices, cloud computing, and social networking. Office is the globe’s most popular productivity application, with [...]
A Russian hacker has discovered an easy way to get in-app purchases on the iPhone and iPad for free. The process is potentially damaging for Apple’s iOS developers whose main revenue comes from the paid upgrades. Users just have to download security certificates from the hacker’s website and change a setting on your device’s wi-fi [...]
Scientists at the University of South Carolina have developed a T-shirt capable to store electrical power. The T-shirt could pave the way for clothes that are able to charge phones and other devices. Experts predict that new technologies including roll-up smartphones and laptops will be on the market soon. These developments would spur on the need for [...]
Apple has agreed to pay $60 million to Chinese firm Proview to settle a dispute involving rights to the “iPad” name, a court in China has said. Proview had claimed that it owned the rights to the iPad name in the Chinese market after registering it in 2000. However, Apple had insisted that it had [...]
A US court has banned sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the country while it decides on the firm’s patent dispute with Apple. Apple has claimed that Samsung infringed its design patent and copied the look of its popular device, the iPad. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is considered by most analysts as the [...]
Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld seems to be discovering his paternal side after welcoming Choupette the Siamese cat into his Paris home after he revealed last year that he could never imagine having children of his own. Over the past few months Karl Lagerfeld, 78, has invested time teaching his female feline the art of fine [...]
Apple has decided to stop using the phrase 4G in adverts for its latest iPad. The description proved controversial because 4G is not widely available in the UK and the iPad will not work with it when it is. The UK’s advertising watchdog and others around the world investigated Apple over use of the 4G [...]
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