On Monday, reports came out that Google’s smartphone software/operating system called Android has been outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter. Although this sounds like a big blow to Apple, especially since it was beaten by 7% it isn’t a true battle. The Android is only an operating system and is used in about [...]
I have a very good question for everyone today: Who is buying the Apple iPad? Apparently 1 million people have already bought the iPad and it has only been out for 1 month. This is a much faster pace than the original Apple iPhone had when it was first introduced. What makes these figures even more [...]
On Thursday, Apple CEO and one of the most admired and respected executives in the world, Steve Jobs took time to write an open letter to software maker Adobe Systems Inc. The issue revolves one of Adobe’s software products, Flash which everyone uses on their computers to watch videos, play certain games and view a [...]
For a little while now there has been a lot of talk about which company will end up acquiring Palm, makers of those Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) that were so popular before the rise of the smartphone. The two main companies that were being talked about as possible buyers were Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC and [...]
On Monday, the internet news sites and tech sites were filled with a story about the possible leaking of the next generation iPhone. This story was initially reported by a well known tech site called Gizmodo. However, before the day was over news sites like CNN to business sites like Forbes all had reports about [...]
On Thursday, Apple announced plans for a software update for the iPhone, iPod and new iPad. Earlier in the week, I posted an article containing a wish list of what I hoped this update would include (click here to read it). Some of the things I hoped would be included, have been, like multitasking (although [...]
Apple announced that they will be releasing an update to the iPhone software, called OS 4.0. For iPhone owners, there are several improvements that are on the list of hopeful inclusions by Apple. Some have already been attempted, but with patchy results, like reducing the amount of dropped calls the phones make and increasing the [...]
Apple has announced that child labour and other labour violations have been committed by its suppliers in Asia and possibly other parts of the world in the production of their products. They launched an internal audit to look in to these types of violations that their suppliers commit. They use the results and make them [...]
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled their much hyped tablet called iPad. There was so much hype and anticipation for this announcement that it was almost impossible to meet it, let alone exceed it. Before I get in to my thoughts on this new iPad I want to voice my displeasure with something surrounding the announcement itself. [...]
Amazon.com announced Wednesday that it would give more money to small, independent authors and publishers that use the Kindle Digital Text Platform and sell their books through the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. They agreed to pay authors almost twice as much, up to $6.15 for a book that sells $8.99, not too bad. There are terms [...]
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