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July 1, 2012 Posted By:
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Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1, and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15. The retreat comes five years after the introduction of the iPhone, the device which thwarted Flash’s mobile ambitions,...
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June 30, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple is granted two preliminary injunctions in one week; opponents are apoplectic
FORTUNE -- Google (GOOG) made no public comment Friday after Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple (AAPL) a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- a touchscreen cellphone whose hardware and software were jointly developed by Google and Samsung engineers.
It was the second ban on an Android-based Samsung device in...
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June 29, 2012 Posted By:
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Bob Mansfield is the second key executive to leave since Steve Jobs died
FORTUNE -- One of the concerns after Steve Jobs died was whether Apple's (AAPL) institutional values -- as embodied by his hand-picked executive team -- would survive his passing.
The team lost a key member when Ron Johnson, who built the Apple Stores, departed in November run J.C. Penney....
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June 29, 2012 Posted By:
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1,600 questions -- 800 in a quiet room, 800 in a noisy street
FORTUNE -- Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster is nothing if not methodical. When customers queue up for a new Apple (AAPL) product, he's the analyst who goes to the line and counts heads. When programmers gather at an Apple developers conference, he'll stop three or four dozen to ask...
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June 29, 2012 Posted By:
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Strange fluctuations in the last days of the company's third fiscal quarter
FORTUNE -- With Apple's (AAPL) 2012 Q3 set to close on Saturday, analysts are making some last-minute adjustments. Two caught our eye because they moved in opposite directions.
Pacific Crest's Andy Hargreaves on Friday raised his 12-month price target to $690 from $630 on the strength of what he estimates...
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June 29, 2012 Posted By:
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In a survey of 1,000 customers, 21% said they wouldn't leave the platform for any price
FORTUNE -- According to Goldman Sachs' Bill Shope, Wall Street tends to view Apple (AAPL) as a hardware company that is only as valuable as its next hit product -- as if its famously loyal iPhone and iPad customers or its unusually sticky iOS software...
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June 28, 2012 Posted By:
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The battle to become the dominant one-click entertainment shopping mall begins
FORTUNE -- The consensus among analysts the day after Google's (GOOG) jam-packed I/O keynote is that Apple (AAPL) doesn't have much to fear from the hardware unveiled on Wednesday. The $299 Nexus Q mimics Apple TV but at three times the cost. The $199 Nexus 7 tablet is aimed at Amazon's...
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June 28, 2012 Posted By:
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CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2012—Apple® today announced that Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will retire and the role will be transitioned to Dan Riccio, Apple’s vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering, over several months. The entire hardware engineering team will continue to report to Mansfield until his departure.
“Bob has been an instrumental part of our...
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June 28, 2012 Posted By:
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Google is launching Chrome for iOS today. Many pundits assumed that Google was holding back Chrome from iOS because it couldn’t use its own rendering engine, however, Google just told us that Chrome will actually use the same rendering engine that Apple makes available to every other third-party developer on iOS.
Apple famously only makes a sandboxed, slower...
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June 28, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple Hardware Test version 3A222 misidentifies the following graphics cards on a Mac Pro (Mid 2012):
The ATI Radeon HD 5770 is identified at an ATI HD Radeon 5870
The ATI Radeon HD 5870 is identified at an ATI HD Radeon 5770...
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