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October 18, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple’s looking into some very intriguing things in a couple of new patent applications spotted by AppleInsider today, including sonar-style echolocation for passive proximity detection, and a text-to-speech engine that takes contextual cues about what it’s reading and adds personality to the computer-generated voices it employs. Both of these could result in big changes in the...
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October 18, 2012 Posted By:
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Verizon posted strong Q3 financial results earlier this morning, and pegged much of its success on its robust wireless business. Smartphones (as always) played a key role in driving Verizon’s wireless performance, but how exactly did the carrier’s smartphone sales break down this past quarter?
In total, Verizon Wireless saw 6.8 million smartphones sold and activated in Q3, with CFO...
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October 17, 2012 Posted By:
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We’re now hearing from a source close to Apple’s accessory manufacturing partner that the company plans to hold a conference in Shenzen, China for its Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad (MFI) program partners on November 7 and 8, similar to the one it held last year between December 7-9 when it expanded the MFI program to promote adoption...
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October 17, 2012 Posted By:
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San Jose isn't San Francisco. Not even close. But it makes a lot more sense.
FORTUNE -- Some reporters expressed surprise that Apple (AAPL) would choose to hold next week's special event -- the one widely expected to showcase a new, smaller iPad -- at San Jose's California Theater rather than the venues it's been using lately: The Yerba Buena Center...
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October 17, 2012 Posted By:
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It looks like Apple acquired Justin Timberlake-backed web apps company Particle last month — maker of social video service robo.to, and a design UI/UX and HTML5 web app consultancy whose clients include Google, Motorola, Sony and Zynga. CNET called the acquisition today, citing “sources with knowledge of the deal”. There’s no word on...
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October 17, 2012 Posted By:
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Q: How do you convince a great American company to bring that manufacturing back?
FORTUNE -- Toward the end of the second presidential debate, moderator Candy Crowley asked Mitt Romney and Barack Obama about Apple (AAPL).
"iPad, the Macs, the iPhones, they are all manufactured in China," she began. "One of the major reasons is labor is so much cheaper [there]. How do...
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October 17, 2012 Posted By:
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(AppleNews247.Com, October 17, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA- Former Home Secretary, Jack Straw, recently revealed that he suffered from depression. The condition, he said, was a result of both illness and political tension.
In an autobiography, Straw describes how he personally dealt with the difficulties of tinnitus while the Labour party was divided from infighting after...
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October 17, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple’s web traffic share among mobile devices is huge, according to new numbers from Chitika. The online ad network is seeing 43 percent of smartphone web usage coming through iPhones up to the 4S, plus another 3 percent from the iPhone 5 alone. By contrast, the Samsung Galaxy S III is driving 2 percent of mobile web traffic...
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October 16, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple was granted a number of patents today, including a couple that could have big implications for its range of mobile devices. One is an oldie but a goody, describing a Wii remote style 3D control mechanism that users sensors to determine its position in space, filed in 2006 (the same year as the Wii itself), and the other...
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October 16, 2012 Posted By:
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What you see here is a mock-up provided by an Shenzhen-based accessories manufacturer who is planning to build cases and hardware for the iPad Mini. Although they will most likely be wrong about the specifics, the mock-up is a fairly clean representation of what we should expect out of Cupertino later this month.
Mockups like these – and like the...
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