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Video: Is this what Apple's new maps will look like?
After 5 years with Google's maps, Apple is reportedly set to unveil its own
FORTUNE -- Big news in iOS mapping this week.
Mark Gurman, 9to5Mac's teen blogging phenom, reported Friday that Apple (AAPL) is prepared to replace the iPhone and iPad's Map app -- built on Google's (GOOG) back-end mapping data -- with something entirely its own.
Its unveiling, according to AllThingsD's John Paczkowski, will be one of the highlights of the WWDC keynote on June MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 12, 2012 8:01 AM ET -
How many iPhone app developers can Microsoft buy?
The secret to populating an unpopular smartphone platform: cash incentives
A nice piece of reporting by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield landed on the front page of the New York Times Business section Friday morning, two days before the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.
When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows Phone app store wasn't enough to get reluctant developers to write software for the new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 6, 2012 7:41 AM ETPosted in: Amazon Kindle, Angry Birds, Apple, Cheezburger, Foursquare, Fruit Ninjas, Google, Lumia 900, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, Windows Phone, YouTube -
Video: New iPad in Vietnam
An unauthorized preview, three days before Apple-sanctioned sales begin
Despite Apple's (AAPL) best efforts to keep a lid on the thing, a pair of Vietnamese bloggers managed to get their hands on a new iPad and post a 4-minute unboxing video on YouTube.
You need some fluency in Vietnamese to follow the commentary, but not to get the gist. The larger camera, the 4G designation and the LTE option in network settings MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 13, 2012 8:18 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Apple unveiling iPad 3 March 7?
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"They ask 'Why can't you be more like Apple?' So we should go bankrupt and fire our founders and bring in a moron? That's what we should do?"
-- RIM director Roger Martin (The Globe and Mail)* Rumors are flying fast and hard from multiple blogs that Apple (AAPL) will MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 14, 2012 3:30 AM ET -
Video: Grading the Apple analysts on a scale of A to F
Two ways of seeing how well (or badly) the pros and amateurs predict Apple's earnings
We've been trying for several years to find the best way to show how much better the so-called amateur analysts (some of whom have since gone pro) are at estimating Apple's (AAPL) quarterly revenue and earnings than the Wall Street professionals who do it for the big banks and brokerage firms.
Now Asymco's Horace Dediu, who is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 6, 2012 10:59 AM ET -
Heavenly Steve Jobs ad spawns hellish flame war
A Taiwanese impersonator brings out the worst in Apple's critics and fans
It's hard to say which is worse, the tasteless appropriation of Steve Jobs' trademark jeans and black turtleneck -- with added halo and angel wings -- to hawk a technology he famously dismissed as "shit," or the kinds of things people are saying to one another on YouTube, where the Taiwanese TV ad at the center of the storm MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 3, 2012 6:34 AM ETPosted in: Action Electronics, Advertising, Android, Apple, Google, Steve Jobs, Tablets, Taiwan, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Will Facebook file for IPO today?
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* If the flurry of recent reports prove correct, Facebook could file for an IPO later today, seeking to raise up to $5 billion. (CNNMoney)
* Amazon (AMZN) announced its latest earnings and while revenues climbed 35% to nearly $17.4 billion, the figure was at least a billion dollars less than MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 1, 2012 9:10 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Facebook, Howard Stringer, Jack Dorsey, Kazuo Hirai, Sony, The Pirate Bay, Twitter, YouTube -
Video: How to fit in at Apple
An ex-employee asks Inside Apple's author "What creates the perfect Kool-Aid drinker?"
On the first stop on his publicity tour -- at the headquarters of LinkedIn -- Adam Lashinsky met a former Apple (AAPL) employee who had read Lashinky's book and was in a position to comment on how accurately it portrays life Inside Apple.
We've posted the meat of their exchange in the YouTube clip below. Lashinsky's interrogator -- who worked MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 29, 2012 8:06 AM ETPosted in: Adam Lashinsky, AdamLashinsky, Apple, Dan Roth, Inside Apple, LinkedIn, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Why TVs are cheapest they've ever been
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* Thanks to oversupply and competitive pricing, TVs are the cheapest they've ever been. It's a situation that's causing major problems for retailers and manufacturers, including significantly lower profits, and in Sony's case, forcing the Japanese company to overhaul its TV operations. (The New York Times)
* Google+ gained 12 million users this month, bringing MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 28, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
60 iPhones sing Deck the Halls
Some of them are painfully out of tune, but it's for a good cause
Ignited, a high-tech advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles and New York, has come up with a clever holiday promotion. It will donate 5 cents (up to $2,500) to the Los Angeles Mission every time this YouTube video is viewed.
As of Friday morning, it had raised $1,282.55.
Ignited's clients include NBC, Sony and the NFL, but not MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 16, 2011 7:10 AM ET
