Hardware 
Apple Net Doubles as IPhone Demand Boosts Pressure on Google – Businessweek
Apple’s report contrasted with those of companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., which are grappling with slower personal-computer sales in part because customers are choosing to buy smartphones and tablets like the iPad instead.
It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Apple Cult – Time
I happen to admire both Stallman and Raymond. I appreciate that they’d be miserable if they were forced to use Apple hardware and software rather than the free, freely-distributable applications which they helped create and popularize.
Forrester: Apple breaks Microsoft’s lock on enterprise workers – Infoworld
The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today. The result: An end … Continue reading
Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes – New York Times
But like G.E., Apple is in the hardware business, where innovation cycles are beholden to the limits of materials science and manufacturing. Apple’s physical world is far different from Google’s realm of Internet software, where writing a …
One in Five Workers Use Apple Products – PC Magazine
To quantify Apple’s presence in the enterprise, Forrester surveyed nearly 10,000 information workers who use a computer at work for at least an hour per day across 17 countries as well as 3,350 IT hardware decision-makers in North America and … Continue reading
Why Apple doesn’t build anything in the U.S. – 89.3 KPCC
In fact, it manufactured its computers in California, right in its own Cupertino back yard. As Minyanville points out, until 1992, Apple hardware was made in the USA. Now iPhones and iPads are made anywhere but. I know, 1992 seems … Continue reading
Abusive working conditions at Apple exposed – Canoe
Yet the consultant quoted in the Times said that Apple is less responsive to reports of poor safety conditions than other companies. “Companies like H.P. and Intel and Nike push their suppliers,” the consultant said. “But Apple wants to keep … Continue reading
Today Apple, Google, 5 Others Battle “No Poach” Conspiracy Case – TechCrunch
Today, a San Jose judge will hear a motion to dismiss a class action civil lawsuit in which former employees seek damages from defendants Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. The damning evidence against the defendants that …
Jeff Gelles: Obama in Arizona to applaud Intel as a tech leader in American manufacturing – Philadelphia Daily News
“Intel Inside,” around partnerships with companies that power their products with Intel microprocessors. But on Wednesday – a day after Apple’s announcement that it made a stunning $13 billion in profits in the last three months of 2011 – the … Continue reading
MP4Tools for Mac – CNet
It is a Mac OS X application used for the creation and editing of MP4 videos. It was primarily designed for processing videos files for use in hardware capable of playing MP4 or M4V videos, such as the iPhone, iPad, … Continue reading
