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August 6, 2012 Posted By:
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Slowly but surely, it seems as though Apple’s mobile OS is being stripped of search giant Google’s influence. Apple’s redesigned Maps application — due to make its debut in iOS 6 — no longer makes use of Google’s map data, and that trend continues with another recently spotted change.
The latest beta version of iOS 6 (that’s beta number 4,...
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August 6, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple is famous for its slick ads highlighting its latest gadgets (though it does have occasional misfires). Now the company has released its first iAd customer video, essentially selling its mobile advertising program to brands and advertisers.
Since its launch, much of the publicity around iAd has been mixed or negative, with reports that pricing...
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August 6, 2012 Posted By:
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We’re just commencing Week Two of the Samsung v. Apple trial in San Jose, and Judge Lucy Koh opened the day with a joke, saying that there had been a false hope in her heart this weekend that the two would settle. But these two electronics giants are still ready to battle it out, and have brought Justin Denison, Samsung’s...
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August 6, 2012 Posted By:
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The tablet market is still relatively young, with penetration in the fast-forward U.S. market only reaching 47% by 2013, but we are already starting to see some usage patterns emerging, according to comScore. In a survey of 6,000 tablet owners in the U.S., the researchers have found the Kindle Fire has more female than male users while...
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August 5, 2012 Posted By:
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Just before their weekend break, the jury got a peek at Samsung's internal documents
FORTUNE -- The tech reporters covering the Apple v. Samsung trial last week feasted on the testimony of two senior Apple (AAPL) vice presidents and the carefully selected secrets they revealed from inside One Infinite Loop.
But it was Apple's grilling of its final witness Friday -- Samsung's chief strategy...
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August 4, 2012 Posted By:
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Meet the mysterious "tactical data center" that just popped up on Apple's server farm
FORTUNE -- The news that Apple (AAPL) was building a smaller, insect-shaped data center next to its big Maiden, N.C., server farm was broken -- of all places -- in the Hickory Daily Record, a 16,000-circulation paper owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
But it was Wired -- hiring the...
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August 3, 2012 Posted By:
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Why a seasoned lawyer might disrespect the judge in a multibillion dollar patent trial
FORTUNE -- Even a veteran court reporter like Alison Frankel was surprised when Samsung's lead attorney, John Quinn, approached judge Lucy Koh just before opening arguments in the high-stakes Apple v. Samsung patent infringement trial and threw the legal equivalent of a hissy fit in a last-ditch effort...
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August 3, 2012 Posted By:
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One reporter got his jaw split in half. Another enlisted an army of Twitter followers.
FORTUNE -- According to NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Apple (AAPL) gadgets -- iPhones, iPads, iPods -- now represent four out of 10 thefts in New York City. The cops call it "Apple picking."
What should you do when your iOS device disappears? In the past week,...
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August 2, 2012 Posted By:
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After Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire tablet last autumn, a lot of observers thought it could prove to be the competition to Apple’s iPad that other Android tablets had so far failed to deliver. Some numbers out from IDC today, however, show that as Amazon continues to sell the device in the U.S. alone, that has failed...
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August 2, 2012 Posted By:
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"Fundamental fairness requires that the jury decide the case based on all the evidence."
FORTUNE -- Two funny things about the e-mail to the press of excluded evidence that got John Quinn, Samsung's lead lawyer, in such hot water with the judge -- and prompted Apple (AAPL) Wednesday to file for sanctions:
1) Although Quinn, who had literally begged judge Lucy Koh to...
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