Apple
Summary
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL; previously Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools; the Safari internet browser; and iOS, a mobile operating system.
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Decline and Fall of the Google Empire: Revisited
Google built an internet empire built on search advertising. But now that empire is maturing and its founders are backing mobile operating systems, social networking and cloud computing solutions as ways to write Google into the future of the internet. Will they succeed?
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Peter Kirwan's Long View: National newspapers and the lost revenue that might never come back
National newspapers' advertising income has been on a steady decline for years - but it is possible that the spend will return if and when the economy returns to growth? Peter Kirwan asks whether that is optimism or wishful thinking.
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Media pricing and the 'insanity' of giving away content for free
How are you going increase your profits this year? Keep on cost cutting and remove all the dead wood from the business? Increase the volume and quite simply sell more stuff, whether it's subscriptions, adverts or newspapers? Maybe you should just stop giving away expensive content for nothing.
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Great technology — however cool — isn’t always enough
On the surface, Plastic Logic had it all. When the British company first emerged 12 years ago, it looked as if it could become a technology giant: after all, it was spun out of one of the world’s great universities, staffed by amazing engineers, and owned a killer product — electronic displays that could be printed on plastic as thin as a credit card.
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Best Buy offers the iPhone 4 for $49.99 as rumors heat up about this fall's launch of the iPhone 5
I have to admit that I like my new phone plan: each year my wife and I get new iPhones and we then pass down the old iPhones to the kids. Everyone seems happy with the plan, especially AT&T, who keep up locked in. But how does Apple, and the retailers, break through the cost of a new iPhone and encourage new customers to take the plunge?.
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Pottermore adds Kobo as a Harry Potter e-book partner
Pottermore has partnered with Kobo to make the Harry Potter e-books available on Kobo devices.
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Hard Numbers
888,000 downloads of “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” the January 6 This American Life episode based on Mike Daisey’s one-man play that chronicled his travels to the Foxconn factory in China where Apple products are manufactured 750,000 typical number of downloads for a TAL episode 73,000 Google searches for. . .
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Apps Rush: London 2012 Official Join In App, Schemer, Facebook Pages Manager, Score! Classic Goals and more
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG for short) has launched its first app: an official guide to joining in this summer's sporting celebrations. That means event listings, the route of the Olympic torch relays, maps and updates during the Games. It's iPhone at the moment, but I'd suspect Android and maybe other platforms will be following shortly.
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Android over 50% of smartphone sales as Nokia and RIM feel strain
Samsung and Apple dominate sector but analysts say that turmoil could follow in UK as 22m people prepare to get a new mobile device in the coming 12 months.
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WatchESPN app now works for Comcast customers; ESPN denies talks with Apple to bring WatchESPN to the Apple TV; Comcast turns on Skype in Boston & Seattle
The cable sports giant, ESPN, updated its WatchESPN universal iOS app last week to include the fact that Comcast cable customers can now utilize the app.
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For LA Times Magazine, the future is not digital, it is oblivion; iPad edition has been dead since October
The Tribune Company strikes again. Yesterday it was learned that the company will be shutting down LA Times Magazine, the once weekly, then monthly, now nothingly Sunday magazine. MediaBistro's FishbowlLA reported the news, which comes as no surprise to those who downloaded the.
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The future of video journalism: What will audiences be watching?
Still from 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera en:Dziga Vertov [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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The morning lowdown 5-16-12
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning… ESPN: No talks yet about Apple TV authentication (paidContent) GM says Facebook ads don’t pay off (.
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