Hardware

When a new Apple hardware product is in the pipeline the various companies that produce accessories for it try and get products out to the market as quickly as possible. Sometimes they could be just second guessing what the new … Continue reading →

I had the opportunity to spend this morning with the Chronicle‘s Jeff Young, live-tweeting from the Apple Education announcement event. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, today’s announcement included: It was, for a small number of non-hardware …

FOSS Patents blogger Florian Mueller says one of the patents is “essential to Apple’s litigation strategy” and that’s US Patent No 7,663,607, the broadest touchscreen hardware patent Apple has. It used it to get Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 briefly outlawed … Continue reading →

Apple disclosed its list of its suppliers responsible for 97 percent of its procurement expenditures worldwide. Some examples are Intel Corp., Broadcom Corp., Amphenol Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. The transparency may be a sign of changes coming to the … Continue reading →

Apple offers a range personal computers … Lenovo Group Limited (LNVGY), Adobe Systems Incorporated , Intl. Business Machines Corp. , Intel Corporation , Super Micro Computer, Inc. , and Nokia Corporation . Stock Price Performance: During …

While its rivals are still trying to build a tablet computer that can do what the iPad does, Apple has already moved past the hardware and is focusing on ways to use the device. This has always been the genius … Continue reading →

There was an Apple II in my third-grade classroom. We used it to play Oregon Trail. Then it died. Therein lies the problem with iPads in high school: devices break. When Apple announced digital textbooks for primary schools via iBooks … Continue reading →

Perhaps if Apple introduces large-scale academic pricing agreements with schools for hardware, then it will increase the rate of institutions adopting the practice and change in learning methods. If educators become enthusiastic about creating …

New York – Apple on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad … but until recently, there hasn’t been any hardware suitable to display the books. PCs are too expensive and cumbersome to be good e-book machines for students.

Since Intel’s fortunes are in some ways just as linked to the PC as Microsoft’s, that’s a grim view. Chipzilla also supplies processors to the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) Mac lines, but the hard drive shortages should dampen that market … Continue reading →