Take, for example, his claim that it is the No. 1 portable game player in the world Apple (AAPL) may in fact be selling more hand-held game devices than Sony and Nintendo combined, as Steve Jobs claimed on Wednesday, but journalists trying to fact-check that statement can be forgiven their skepticism. Part of the...
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10 things Apple can do to rescue its experiment in social networking Apple (AAPL) announced Friday that less than 48 hours after its launch more than 1 million people had signed up for Ping, its new social network for music. That's not necessarily a good thing, given how many of those people are complaining...
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Steve Jobs' new social network for music is already filled with cheesy come-ons The iTunes account holder who calls himself Claude Damm had a busy morning Friday. In the space of an hour, he visited more than four dozen celebrity profiles on Ping -- the newest feature on Apple's (AAPL) 10-year-old iTunes store --...
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Many will try, few will survive, says an Asian manufacturer working on several of them Two new tablet computers based on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system -- one from Samsung, the other by Toshiba -- were introduced at a trade show in Berlin this week, part of a wave of knockoff designs inspired by...
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Steve Jobs' latest iteration of the set-top box gets mixed-positive reviews on Wall Street Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster: We see the new Apple TV as a meaningful change in Apple's efforts in the digital living room. The addition of new content, such as Netflix, in combination with the $99 price (down from $229), will...
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Steve Jobs loves to rattle off nice round numbers, and he just delivered a ton of them Here, in descending order, are the ones we heard at Apple's (AAPL) fall product review Wednesday. Assume each was preceded with a "more than" or "over" unless otherwise indicated. 11.7 billion songs downloaded from iTunes 6.5 billion...
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This is the spot for our live coverage of Apple's (AAPL) Sept. 1 music event. In sum, Steve Jobs delivered on most of the rumored new products and services. The headlines: A new $99 Apple TV that streams (rather than downloads) $4.99 movie rentals and 99-cent TV rentals from ABC and Fox. A new...
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Once again, Steve Jobs has managed to stir up a frenzy of anticipation For an event that is ostensibly about music and the iPod -- the only part of Apple's (AAPL) expanding product portfolio that is actually shrinking -- the press conference scheduled for 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) Wednesday is getting more...
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Is this Steve Jobs' revenge on the bloggers who nearly ruined his Facetime demo in June? Apple (AAPL) announced Wednesday that it will, for the first time in recent memory, broadcast its Sept. 1 special event over the Internet as it happens. In the past, Apple has provided streaming videos of keynotes and other...
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It's Amazon vs. Apple, according to the latest reports, with Netflix in the middle Tuesday was busy day as two of the biggest names in online retail -- Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) -- jockeyed for position in the fast-evolving market for Internet-based television. Both have been actively courting the major studios, including NBC...
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