While it will be six months or longer before Microsoft releases Windows 8 and its companion products, the company has been putting out a lot of information about its plans lately. One big Windows 8 mystery to date is Windows for...Windows RT Versus The iPad In Business [Feature]
While it will be six months or longer before Microsoft releases Windows 8 and its companion products, the company has been putting out a lot of information about its plans lately. One big Windows 8 mystery to date is Windows for...Apple blowout: Sales of $39.2 billion on 35 million iPhones
Having fallen nearly 13% since April 10, the stock popped 7.44% on the news
FORTUNE -- After losing more than $70 billion in market value in two weeks, Apple (AAPL) capped one of the strangest earnings walkups in memory by handily beating all but the most optimistic estimates, reporting record March quarter earnings of $12.30 per share...
Can Tuesday’s earnings report reverse Apple’s 2-week slide?
Wall Street expects record results. The independent analysts are calling for a blowout
FORTUNE -- Savvy Apple (AAPL) investors know that the company's share price often gets dragged down in advance of its quarterly earnings report -- only to spring back even higher when Apple delivers its usual earnings surprise. (See Cocking the Apple slingshot.)
But the...
Can Tuesday’s earnings report reverse Apple’s 2-week slide?
Wall Street expects record results. The independent analysts are calling for a blowout
FORTUNE -- Savvy Apple (AAPL) investors know that the company's share price often gets dragged down in advance of its quarterly earnings reports -- only to spring back even higher when Apple delivers its usual earnings surprises. (See Cocking the Apple slingshot.)
But the...
Video: South Koreans going crazy for the new iPad
iPad fever spreads around the world
FORTUNE -- Continuing its most aggressive rollout of an iOS device to date, Apple (AAPL) on Friday launched its new iPad in a dozen more countries, starting with South Korea.
Judging from the video below, the event in Seoul followed the usual over-the-top script, from the line sitters who show up...
How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter?
Estimates range from 4.3 to 4.85 million. The best analysts' consensus: 4.64 million
FORTUNE -- Compared with Apple's (AAPL) iOS devices -- the iPhone and the iPad -- the Mac is a turtle. Slow and steady has characterized its growth rate since the launch of the iPhone -- an average of 26% year over year for...
How many iPads (new and old) did Apple sell last quarter?
The estimates range from 9 to 15.6 million. The best analysts' consensus: 11 million
FORTUNE -- Anybody who tells you they know how many iPads Apple (AAPL) sold in the quarter that ended March 31 is either lying or privy to inside information.
This increasingly important data point -- the iPad accounted for 20% of Apple's revenue...
Where in the U.S. is the new iPad? Rich, coastal states
Online advertising network Chitika has tracked where new iPads are being activated and has surfaced some interesting demographic data as to where these early third-generation iPad adopters live within in Apple's largest market, the U.S. The short answer is: mostly coastal states. 
Which is the fastest iPhone carrier in your neighborhood?
A new app makes it easy (and fun!) to compare download speeds, but can it be trusted?
According to the snapshot at right, AT&T's (T) cellular service in Park Slope Brooklyn is nearly 5 times faster than Verizon's (VZ) and more than 7 times faster than Sprint's (S).
At least that's the reading I get on my...
Analyst: ‘The entire cellphone and computing ecosystem will be shaken to the ground’
ACI Research's Edward Zabitsky, who famously advised clients to short Apple when it was selling for $450 a share, has seen the future and it is Microsoft's Windows 8
We know what Ed Zabitzky thinks of Apple (AAPL). In a note issued in January, when the stock was selling for $450 a share, the CEO of ACI...
Gartner: Tablet sales to double this year. The iPad still rules
Expects market to grow to nearly 119 million units in 2012, with Apple taking 61%
When it comes to tablet computers, a market Apple (AAPL) dominated in 2010 and 2011, Gartner expects more of the same for the foreseeable future.
In a report issued Tuesday, the research firm projected tablet sales to end users to reach 118.9...
Apple & Foxconn take a radio reporter on an iPad factory tour
The re-burnishing of Apple's corporate image continues
Rob Schmitz gets his reward this week.
The China correspondent for American Public Media's Marketplace -- whose reporting exposed the lies in Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs and who joined Ira Glass last month in Daisey's public humiliation on This American Life -- was given...
