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Motion 5.0.3: Release notes

Motion 5.0.3 is an update to Motion 5. This update is recommended for all users of Motion 5.

Compressor 4: Version 4.0.3 release notes

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Final Cut Pro X: Version 10.0.4 release notes

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Global Electronics Contract Manufacturing Revenue

Moment of Reckoning: Apple/Foxconn Investigation Changes Nature of $360 Billion Electronics Contract Manufacturing Business

Dateline City:  EL SEGUNDO, Calif. For the footwear and apparel industry, the moment of reckoning came in the 1990s, when companies including Nike faced damaging revelations over their use of sweatshop manufacturing—an event that led to the creation of the … Continue reading

Gartner: Tablet sales to double this year. The iPad still rules

Expects market to grow to nearly 119 million units in 2012, with Apple taking 61% When it comes to tablet computers, a market Apple (AAPL) dominated in 2010 and 2011, Gartner expects more of the same for the foreseeable future. … Continue reading

If an iPhone wannabe lands on Easter, does it make a splash?

With the world’s mobile phone market at stake, what were Nokia and Microsoft thinking?  The Lumia 900 launch party in New York’s Times Square On Monday morning, the day after the U.S. launch of the Lumia 900 — the device … Continue reading

Apple analyst raises estimated EPS 39%, downgrades stock

Predicts the carriers will “stunt the pace of phone upgrades” in 2012, starting this quarter BTIG’s Walter Piecyk sent his clients some deeply mixed signals Monday, two weeks before Apple (AAPL) is scheduled to report its second fiscal quarter earnings. … Continue reading

Apple & Foxconn take a radio reporter on an iPad factory tour

The re-burnishing of Apple’s corporate image continues Photo: Rob Schmitz/Marketplace Rob Schmitz gets his reward this week. The China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace — whose reporting exposed the lies in Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of … Continue reading

Apple CEO’s earnings: The New York Times gets it wrong

What part of “over 10 years” don’t its editors understand?  Click to enlarge. Source: The New York Times The New York Times had a lot of fun with Tim Cooks’ compensation package Sunday. It led an article about excessive CEO … Continue reading

‘You come for the product, you stay for the ecosystem’

The latest comScore data suggest that half of iPhone buyers are repeat customers Source: Asymco.com Here’s a lesson from Asymco‘s Horace Dediu in how to add color and value to raw data. First he did what comScore should have done … Continue reading