Microsoft’s losing war against the iPad
Microsoft is attempting to galvanize its remaining troops in its attempt to create a little relevance for itself in the iPad industry, introducing a range of marketing products to help them remind any customers who care to listen that its Slate PCs could be contenders in the tablet space too. Even while the iPad 2.0...
iOS — Apple’s big mean revenue machine
Back at the turn of the last decade, industry naysayers and critics said Apple could never make it back to being a ten billion dollar company. They were so wrong as most of Apple’s earnings now come from products which didn’t exist back then — 65 percent of the cash comes from iOS device sales. “iOS...
This movie was shot on an iPhone
Recall our story last week that a leading South Korean film director had shot a movie entirely with his iPhone? Well, the movie’s called “Paranmanjang” (Korean for “ups and downs”) and just up above you can see the trailer, after the jum...
iPhone 5, what to expect
COMPUTERWORLD: There’s so much focus on the iPad 2.0 right now, which we now know will likely be faster, slimmer, lighter, host cameras and boast better graphics with a better screen than the existing model, but what do we know about the iPhone 5? What features we can look forward to in the next-gen Apple...
Tennessee school demands iPads for students
In future an iPad may be a requirement for children going to school, and in Tennessee for some students it already is. Webb School, a private school in Knoxville, TN is requiring all fourth through 12th grade students to have an iPad for classes next year. “To be able to use that technology whenever they...
iPad 2.0 boasts 2,048-x-1,536 display — report
In case you’re still wondering if the iPad 2.0 will have a higher-res screen then here’s the latest claims, this time emanating from our old pals at Digitimes. There a report this morning tells us that “sources” from inside AAPL’s component supply chain are saying the next-gen iPad will host a resolution of 2,048 x...
BT ships an iPad app
Swoon at the presentation skills for the talking heads from one of the UK’s biggest corporations. Oh, and use this app to easily find your way to BT’s high range of Openzone/BT FON Wo-Fi hotspots. It is a free app. You need to be a BT broa...
Apple-holic’s shocking AAPL stats and fiscal facts
COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s 91-day quarter yields some impressive numbers — take them apart a little and you get the kind of stats you can reel off at a dinner party without being seen as too utterly crushing a bore, for example, did you know there’s one iPhone being sold for every two people being born into...
Guardian adopts new fee-based subscription model for iPhone
Following news of Apple’s dictat to publishers that they cannot offer content for free to existing subscribers via iPhone apps, the UK’s Guardian newspaper has moved to a subscription basis for its app. “Since launching in December 2009, the app has seen over 200,000 downloads, received one of the highest App Store ratings for any...
Fortune 100 goes iPad crazy as AAPL’s $3.9b component deal hurts competition
Apple’s iPad is seeing wide deployment in the big Fortune 100 companies, and Android tablets are ‘bizarre’, just two quiet take aways from last night’s record-breaking financial call. “Today, over 80% of the Fortune 100 are already deploying or piloting iPad, up from 65% in the [previous] quarter,” said CFO Peter Oppenheimer. “Some recent examples...
Now your iPhone is your train ticket
UK rail passengers can now use their iPhones as train tickets thanks to a new app from Heathrow Express, which has launched the first app to enable people to receive train tickets directly to their iPhone in the UK, the first such app to be launched here. Richard Robinson, Heathrow Express managing director stated: “Developing...
Bloggers v Analysts in Apple FY2011 Q1 prediction face-off
Apple 2.0 has published its quarterly poll of analyst expectations for Apple’s Q1 FY2011 results, the collection includes both amateur and employed financial analyst predictions. Apple 2.0 will publish the score card later in the quarterly amateurs versus pros tournament. Meanwhile, Apple stock fell slightly on the US pre-market this morning, though Frankfurt is seeing...
