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Nielsen: 58% of American teens 13-17 now own smartphones

Android captured 58.6% of recent U.S. purchases; the iPhone got 33% FORTUNE — According to a Nielsen survey released Monday, American teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 are getting smartphones at a faster rate than any other age … Continue reading

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Apple Almost Single-Handedly Drives Corporate PC Market Growth

Apple is pretty much single-handedly driving the growth of worldwide PC sales to companies and government, according to new data from Forrester Research. In an otherwise dismal outlook found in the research firm’s Global Tech Market Outlook 2012 to 2013 report, … Continue reading

How many iPhone 5s can Apple sell in eight days?

Given what it means for Q4′s results, surprisingly few analysts have ventured a guess FORTUNE — It’s now conventional wisdom on and off Wall Street that Apple (AAPL) on Wednesday will unveil a re-designed iPhone with a larger (4 inch … Continue reading

Apple’s reinvention, filtered through its favorite blogger

How John Gruber’s choice of topics reflects Cupertino’s shift from Macs to iPhones FORTUNE — Most of the commentary on the Web about the profile of Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in Bloomberg Businessweek (“Meet Apple’s favorite blogger”) focused on the … Continue reading

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Amazon Doesn’t Want To Be More Like Apple, It Wants To Be More Like Amazon.com

With the introduction of the $499 8.9-inch Kindle HD with LTE, Amazon now has a device with the same price tag as the new iPad. Of course, the devices are very different when it comes to capacity, connectivity and screen … Continue reading

Will the new iPhone be China Mobile compatible?

That’s the 655-million-user question FORTUNE — The Wall Street Journal, quoting the usual unnamed “people familiar with the matter,” reported Friday that the new iPhone that Apple (AAPL) is expected to unveil next week will work on the fastest wireless … Continue reading

Component leaks for the Iphone 5 shows possible EMI shielding reports ExploreGate.com

(AppleNews247.Com, September 08, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA – iPhone 5 photos have revealed that the new iPhone to be released soon will have next-gen sensors and display shielding. Although the news comes only as rumours and speculations as the … Continue reading

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Preparation For Apple’s iPhone Event Is Underway

If you’ve been paying attention at all, you know that the next iPhone is right around the corner. Apple has sent out invites to a September 12 event — that’s on Wednesday, by the way — just as we’ve long … Continue reading

Apple could buy 60 Pandoras

So why would it bother to roll its own Internet radio service? FORTUNE — Once Apple (AAPL) approached the music publishers about licensing their content for an Internet radio service like Pandora’s (P) — one that would stream music customized … Continue reading

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Siri, Why Are You Having Trouble Connecting?

It would appear that Siri is down. We’ve tested five iPhone 4S models, all of which are running iOS 5.1. One of the iPhones in the TechCrunch office is running iOS 6, and Siri seems to be working fine on … Continue reading