Tag Archives : Apple

Samsung bought more mobile chips than any other company in 2012, according to new data from Gartner. Samsung and Apple  ordered $45.3 billion worth of semiconductors in 2012 which according to Gartner is  up $7.9 billion from 2012. Samsung was 8% of the chip market last year, while Apple was 7.2% of the market. They were followed by Hewlett-Packard (4.7% of the market), Dell (2.9%) and Sony (2.7%). [...]

Five ex-employees of Apple, Google, and Intel are suing those companies, accusing them of an illegal conspiracy to eliminate competition for each other’s employees and drive down wages.” according to the Telegraph. To solidify their case, the plaintiffs  have cited internal emails between these executives, including some from Steve Jobs to the heads of companies caught trying to hire [...]

Android phone makers such as  Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony will continue to bank on strong demand for 5-inch smartphones / phablet in 2013 according to Digitimes. Apple, Blackberry and Nokia have no plans for 5-inch smartphones this year according to unnamed industry sources. How big is the opportunity these companies are missing? Digitimes cites research suggesting 60.4 million smartphones with screens [...]

Apple released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers after releasing build 12D50 earlier this month on Jan. 8 with no known issues. Apple says that the new build includes significant changes to WiFi, developers have been asked to focus their testing on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. Apple’s latest release have touted a new “OS X Software Update Seed Configuration [...]

Apple Decreased iPhone 5 Components Orders Due to Weak Demand, Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 screens and other components due to weaker than expected demand, according to the Wall Street Journal. : Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said. The Cupertino, [...]

Apple will soon announce its iPad 5 according to the rumors which stemmed from Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White observations from this week’s CES in Las Vegas, U.S. White noted “Our checks at CES indicate Apple will release the iPad 5 and the second-generation iPad mini this March. The iPad 5 is expected to be lighter and thinner than the iPad 4 that was released in October, while [...]

A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Java 7 security making billions of computers susceptible to a serious flaw. The threat is serious enough that the US Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers, ZDNet informs. The zero-day flaw affects not only the Java 7 plug-in, but all versions of the java plugin for web browsers. [...]

Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets which were published by Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg earlier this week turned out to be incorrect based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller. Reuters issued an update Friday morning informing readers that it had withdrawn the story, which featured the headline “Apple exec dismisses cheaper [...]

Apple  today announced that nearly 20 billions apps were downloaded in 2012 from its App Store, bringing the total number of App Store downloads to 40 billion. “The App Store℠ has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone®, iPad® and [...]

Out of  123.3 million people in the U.S. using smartphones in November 2012, 53.7% people used Android according to a study by ComScore,  26.9% of them are using Samsung devices. Apple’s iPhones accounted for 35% of all smartphone subscribers, with overall mobile share of 26.9%. “Smartphone Platform Market Share 123.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (53 percent mobile market [...]