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Analysts scramble to fine tune Apple estimates — updated

A whole lot of changes one week before the company reports its fiscal Q3 earnings FORTUNE — A flurry of analysts notes crossed our desk this morning, most of them adjusting their estimates in advance of Apple’s (AAPL) third quarter … Continue reading

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An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn’t make it this far. Everyone else, brace yourselves. You may want small … Continue reading

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“Leaked” iPhone 5 Front Casing Shows Centered FaceTime Camera

Another day, another leak. On Friday we saw what was reported to be an iPhone 5 prototype unit, and today an entirely different version of the “iPhone 5″ casing has found its way on to the interwebs. Oddly enough, this … Continue reading

Android as a lawsuit magnet

Not just patent trolls, but companies with a combined worth of over $1 trillion have filed IP suits FORTUNE — FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller used the discovery Friday that Fujifilm has filed a patent infringement suit against Google (GOOG) subsidiary … Continue reading

Romney, with iPad and iPhone

In half of the photos from his day off, the candidate is plugged into iOS devices FORTUNE — On Saturday, Buzz Feed Politics published a collection of 12 AP pool photos from the day of rest Mitt Romney spent at … Continue reading

How did the new MacBook Pros get Gold-level green ratings?

They may not stick. A recycling coalition says the notebooks flunk two key tests FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) may have thought it put the EPEAT kerfuffle behind it with the release of Bob Mansfield’s mea culpa letter Friday. (See Stop … Continue reading

Launch of New Network Funding Website Simplifies the Loan Process

  Network Funding (AppleNews247.Com, July 14, 2012 ) Annapolis, Maryland— Now is one of the best times in recent history to think about purchasing a home, with interest rates lower than they’ve been in many years, and Network Funding has … Continue reading

Report: Steve Jobs’ widow has bought a house in Sun Valley

Meanwhile, the Jobs’ family home in Palo Alto is undergoing major renovations FORTUNE — Laurene Powell Jobs has been busy. According to Thurday’s New York Post, the richest woman in Silicon Valley (estimate wealth: $9 billion) purchased a house within … Continue reading

Mac set to outgrow the Windows market for 25th quarter in a row

PC sales have stalled, but most analysts believe Mac unit sales grew 12% to 14% last quarter FORTUNE — According to Gartner and IDC, the worldwide personal computer market — including both Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PCs and Apple (AAPL) Macs … Continue reading

Stop the presses! Apple admits it made a mistake.

Retiring hardware chief signs the mea culpa. Puts 39 products back on EPEAT green registry FORTUNE — “We’ve recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were disappointed to learn that we had removed our products from the EPEAT rating … Continue reading