Steve Jobs once called Flash the No. 1 reason his devices crash. What changed his mind? With a terse, five-paragraph statement issued Thursday morning, Apple (AAPL) reversed a five-month-old policy that had sparked an industry-wide debate, a government probe and tens of thousands of words of heated commentary -- including Steve Jobs' own April...
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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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A nice round number, just in time for Steve Jobs to trot out at next week's special event According to 148Apps.biz, Apple's (AAPL) U.S. App Store passed the quarter million milestone on Friday, two years and 49 days after it opened. As of Saturday morning, by this count (which doesn't include apps available only...
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A survey completed the day the iPhone 4 came out shows how much Apple has put at risk There's good news and bad news for Apple (AAPL) in the survey of more than 4,000 smartphone owners released Wednesday by ChangeWave Research. The good news is that in almost every category, the iPhone is blowing...
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Eight months after it wrapped up the "Get a Mac" series, Apple rolls out a worthy successor Here's one thing Apple (AAPL) does better than any of its competitors: advertise on television. Microsoft (MSFT) never quite recovered from the three-and-a-half-year drubbing it took at the hands of Justin Long and John Hodgman. Google (GOOG)...
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An online journal puts a star professor under a most unusual microscope This is what passes for investigative journalism at The Daily Beast, the news and opinion website founded in 2008 by former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown: a 1,900 word story attacking the credibility of one of the Internet's leading intellectuals written by...
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Pretty bad, say engineers who have measured the effect of the "death grip." But it's not fatal. It's been nearly a week since Steve Jobs famously told a new iPhone owner with reception issues to "stay tuned," but Apple (AAPL) still hasn't solved the new device's Death Grip problem -- its tendency to lose...
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Without necessarily buying the latest rumor, an analyst runs the numbers Suspending disbelief for a moment, Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner takes at face value Tuesday's Bloomberg story -- and the Wall Street Journal report that preceded it -- that Apple (AAPL) will be making an iPhone for Verizon (VZ) next year. In a report to...
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Apple has built a recurring revenue stream from a growing base of loyal users "Mission accomplished," writes Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster in a report to clients issued early Friday, the day after Apple's (AAPL) biggest product launch ever. "Apple has in three years built brand loyalty in the phone market that compels users to...
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Apple's iPad leads the way, but Android tablets are gaining fast, even before they exist There's lots to learn about where the next generation of third-party mobile apps are coming from in a survey published Wednesday by Appcelerator, maker of a popular Titanium cross-platform development tool that seems to have escaped the wrath of...
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