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NOAA drops BlackBerry, embraces iPhone and iPad

Steven Sande — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000

The Loop is reporting that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking RIM BlackBerry devices off of the list of officially supported mobile devices. What's taking the place of the trusty old BlackBerry? iPhones and iPads runn...

AAPL passes 10 percent of all of NASDAQ value as analysts target half a trillion dollar valuation

Christian Zibreg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:44:32 +0000

Apple’s blockbuster holiday quarter sent shares to an all-time high of $431 a share, which is enough to close in on a market valuation of $400 billion. However, that was last month. Today, AAPL briefly passed a record $460 billion market cap with new historical stock price high at $493.97 a share. Exxon Mobil Corporation’s [...]

Steve Jobs’ 1991 FBI file has been released

Steven Sande — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Have a bit of time? Want to learn more about Steve Jobs' life than you were able to dredge up reading the Walter Isaacson biography? All you have to do is read the 191-page 1991 FBI background investigation of Jobs that was done when he was being con...

Steve Jobs’ 1991 FBI file has been released

Steven Sande — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Steve Jobs’ 1991 FBI file has been released

Steven Sande — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Steve Jobs’ 1991 FBI file has been released

Steven Sande — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Google Promises To Honor Motorola’s Licencing Standards After Acquisition (This Includes Fees Imposed On Apple)

Cult of Android — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:58 +0000

Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate MMI is asking Apple to pay in order to lift the [...]

Google Promises To Honor Motorola’s Licencing Standards After Acquisition (This Includes Fees Imposed On Apple)

Cult of Android — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:58 +0000

Steve Jobs’ FBI file reveals he’d been considered for a Bush 1 White House ‘sensitive position’ in 1991

Christian Zibreg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:35 +0000

Federal Bureau of Investigation has posted on its website an interesting and exhaustive file on Apple’s Cofounder and late CEO Steve Jobs. According to Gawker, which first spotted the file, the 191-page document reveals that Jobs was considered for a “sensitive position” in the Bush I White House back in 1991. It also contains results [...]

Logitech takes a page from the Magic Mouse playbook for its new touch mouse M600

Christian Zibreg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:56:53 +0000

We are so in love with Logitech’s new touch-sensitive Touch Mouse M600 that it would most likely be a replacement if we broke our mouse. Akin to Apple’s Magic Mouse and Microsoft’s Explorer Touch Mouse, the M660 is all about gestures and touch. It also looks great with its sleek design and smooth curvature. Moreover, just like Apple’s mouse, the M600 lets [...]

What’s the point of those Apple price targets?

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:45 +0000

Like the tortoise in Achilles' footrace, they may be perpetually unreachable goals

"There's scant evidence that the stock market itself has paid much if any attention to analysts' price targets in recent years," writes Needham's Charlie Wolf in a note to clients Thursday that raises his own Apple (AAPL) target $80 to $620.

He's got a point. the average target among the two-dozen analysts we sampled on October 19, the day after Apple's MORE

High-res Sharp panel spotted, is it for iPad 3?

Christian Zibreg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:02:04 +0000

iPad 3 parts are supposedly cropping up all over China. Following yesterday’s spy shots of a purported iPad 3 enclosure (here and here), Japanese blog Macotakara today published the above photo allegedly depicting a high-resolution panel manufactured by Sharp. According to the blog, the part was obtained by parts reseller Eye Lab Factory, which means [...]

Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:02:06 +0000

It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android?

From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge.

It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) letter to the IEEE -- the nonprofit organization that sets technical standards for everything from AC/DC converters to Wi-Fi networks -- to sink in.

Early reports praised the company for joining Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) MORE

Apple shows interest in European patent laws

Mike Schramm — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Apple has delivered a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute asking for basic principles for that region of the world on patents and their licensing, according to the Wall Street Journal. The letter asks for consistency across ...

Amazon’s back just in time for summer with their ‘can’t read an expensive iPad in the Sun’ ads

Jake Smith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:01:55 +0000

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