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Red-Hot Kindle Fire Blazes its Way to Second Place in Media Tablet Market

Dateline City:  EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. Just two weeks after its introduction, Amazon’s Kindle Fire already is shaking up the market, with the device expected to surpass all other iPad rivals to take second place in the global media tablet business … Continue reading

About Apple’s incredible shrinking P/E ratio

In 2007 it was trading for nearly 50 times earnings. Today it’s 10. What happened?  Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco Perhaps the most succinct commentary on Leonid Kanopka’s naive claim that Apple (AAPL) is a “bubble ready to burst” (see “A few fries … Continue reading

ChangeWave poll finds 96% of users satisfied with iPhone 4S

Up from 93% with iPhone 4. What they like most: Siri. Least: Too short battery life. Source: ChangeWave Despite widely publicized reports of unexplained battery drainage, the satisfaction ratings on Apple’s (AAPL) latest iPhone continue to hover in what ChangeWave … Continue reading

Robin Williams’ impression of an iPhone in Paris

What if Siri had a French accent — and an attitude to match? If Apple (AAPL) ever opened up a Siri app store, a line of personality modules — like the haughty Parisian Robin Williams trotted out on The Ellen … Continue reading

FieldOne Systems Launches iPhone App

(AppleNews247.Com, December 01, 2011 ) Suffern, NY — FieldOne Systems, a leading provider of software solutions for field service businesses, announced the release of its new iPhone app for the FieldOne Mobile series. The iPhone app, like the Android version … Continue reading

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Robin Williams Blows Your Siri Impression Out Of The Water

If you’ve already seen this, watch it again. Here’s veteran comedian and Mrs. Doubtfire star Robin Williams on the Ellen Show talking about “the new future” and bringing up the technology du jour, Siri. I mean just the fact that … Continue reading

IHS: Investment in U.S. High-Voltage Transmission to Top $41 Billion Over the Next Decade

Dateline City:  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (December 1, 2011) – Investment in high-voltage transmission (greater than 345 kilovolts) in the United States is expected to top $41 billion over the next 10 years with more than 40 percent of it … Continue reading

IHS Refrigerant Management Experts to Discuss Industry Trends, Provide Best Practices for R-22 During December 8 Webcast

Dateline City:  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of information and analysis, today announced a free webcast titled Refrigerant Management for the 21st Century to be held on Thursday, December 8 at 2 p.m. EST. This webcast … Continue reading

Apple’s Grand Central store opening officially set for Dec. 9

A retail outlet well-placed to become one of the world’s busiest and most profitable Photo by Dean Kaufman More than four months after construction began last summer, Apple (AAPL) is finally set to unveil a new store — its fifth … Continue reading

ExtremeTech: Carrier IQ-gate is best reason to buy an iPhone

A cellphone eavesdropping scandal casts a shadow on Apple’s competitors Caught red-handed: Carrier IQ logging Eckhart’s keystrokes Have you heard that every text message, every e-mail, every phone number, every keystroke made on a Google (GOOG) Android phone may be … Continue reading