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iPads in Restaurants Get a Clean Slate with CTA Products ‘Cloth Addiction’

(AppleNews247.Com, January 15, 2012 ) Wesley Chapel, FL – Tablet use in restaurants is the hot new trend and customers are really enjoying it. The problem however is that the touch screens can get dirty quickly and frequently. US Foods … Continue reading

How NOT to bet on Apple’s quarterly earnings report

Buying puts or calls just before the numbers come out is a fool’s game Click to enlarge. Source: Kim Klaiman via Seeking Alpha Apple (AAPL) is a company that tends to surprise Wall Street every time it reports its quarterly … Continue reading

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ITC Sides With Motorola In Key Apple Patent Suit

Back in fall 2010, Apple filed suit against Motorola alleging that the company was violating several of its patents with its flagship line of Droid smartphones, all of which run Android. The case was filed with the US International Trade … Continue reading

iPad sales estimates for Q1 range from 11.7 to 19.5 million

The Street’s consensus: 13.5 million. The indies are 10% more bullish Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports; Apple 2.0 Everybody we’ve heard from expects Apple (AAPL) to report record iPad sales for the quarter that ended Dec. 31. And why … Continue reading

Snapshot of the computer market, with and without iPad

If tablets are computers, Apple’s share of the global market now dwarfs its competitors Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore came away from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas unimpressed with what Apple’s (AAPL) … Continue reading

Overwhelmed by crushing demand, Apple halts Friday’s iPhone 4S launch in China

SWAT teams move in after fights break out among rival gangs of scalpers Video via M.I.C. Gadget There may be no graceful way to launch a new iPhone in a country of 1.3 billion that has caught what one analyst … Continue reading

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Bloomberg: iPad 3 To Have Quad-Core CPU, LTE, High-Def Screen

You’ve just got to love the timing. First, Apple announces their education-focused media event smack dab in the middle of CES. Now, just as CES is winding down, Bloomberg has “three people familiar with the product” spilling purported details on … Continue reading

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Apple Releases List Of Its Suppliers, Discloses Labor Violations

Apple has, for the very first time, released a report of its suppliers. There are 156 suppliers listed in the PDF the company published (available here), including big names like Sony, Intel, Samsung and Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai … Continue reading

Apple factory inspections turn up scores of labor violations

An addendum discloses for the first time the names of 156 Apple suppliers From Apple’s Supplier Responsibility Progress Report Apple’s (AAPL) second annual “supplier responsibility” report is sure to be closely read by both critics and competitors. For one thing … Continue reading