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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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Apple has a number of patents on wearable computing, but a new application spotted by AppleInsider blends some old and some new tech to provide a vision of what it might conceivably look like as a shipping product. The patent in question...
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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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Could this be the iWatch we've been hearing so much about?
FORTUNE -- Early Thursday morning, AppleInsider's Mikey Campbell came across a patent filed by Apple (AAPL) in August 2011 that sounds a lot like the touchscreen iWatch Apple is rumored to be building using Corning's (GLW) flexible Willow glass. It also looks a lot like the slap bracelets my kids used to...
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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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But not because of slowing iPhone 5 sales, as had been reported
FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) battered shares took another hit Wednesday -- down $8.84, nearly 2%, for the day -- after the Financial Times attributed a hiring freeze at the Foxconn factories that assemble many of Apple's products to a slowdown in iPhone 5 production.
The stock didn't recover, even after...
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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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David Einhorn takes his case for perpetual preferred stock to Apple shareholders
FORTUNE -- Having failed to persuade Apple's (AAPL) management of the virtues of unloading some of its excess cash through perpetual preferred shares, billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn renamed them "iPrefs" and took his case directly to the shareholders Thursday.
In an open conference call accompanied by more than...
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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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When talking about Apple’s rise from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world, people often credit the amazing string of products from the iMac to the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad. And rightfully so. But just as important was another piece of the puzzle that ensured said products would find mainstream appeal and acted as...
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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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February 21, 2013 Posted By:
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In this video report from CNN, documentary film director Malik Bendjelloul talks about how he used a $1.99 iPhone app to finish shooting his Oscar-nominated film, “Searching for Sugar Man.” The film tracks the rise to fame of the Detroit musician Rodriguez, who never made it big in the United States but became a legend in South Africa. Bendjelloul started...
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February 20, 2013 Posted By:
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For the first time, Apple has the world's No. 1 and No. 2 world's bestselling smartphones
FORTUNE -- Drilling a little deeper into sales data than the larger tech research firms, Strategy Analytics on Wednesday released the chart at right, which breaks smartphone sales down by model number.
The data show that Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5 overtook Samsung's Galaxy S3 by some...
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February 20, 2013 Posted By:
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The programming language Oracle inherited from Sun continues to plague Apple
FORTUNE -- "Java's not worth building in," Steve Jobs told the New York Times' John Markoff in 2007. "Nobody uses Java anymore. It's this big heavyweight ball and chain."
To Jobs' regret, Java did not disappear. The write-once-run-anywhere programming language that Sun Microsystems developed and Oracle (ORCL) inherited continues to drag...
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February 20, 2013 Posted By:
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For American viewers, it's better than a guest spot on Sesame Street or Mister Rogers
FORTUNE -- Not having grown up watching the world's longest-running children's program, the news Friday that Sir Jony Ive, designer of every Apple (AAPL) product since the Bondi blue iMac, had won a gold Blue Peter badge meant nothing to me. Having seen the clip above,...
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