Microsoft to open first retail stores in California and Arizona
Microsoft announced yesterday that it’s retail initiative to roll out a number of Microsoft Retail Stores will begin in Scottsdale, Arizona and Mission Viejo, California sometime this fall. The...
View ArticleA look back at un-released Apple prototypes [Photo]
A new book from designer Harmut Esslinger of Frog Design gives us a small glimpse into Apple’s design process via photos and stories of Apple prototypes that never made it to market. Frog Design, in...
View ArticleApple plans to attend CES 2010, Jobs invited to deliver keynote
After months of speculation, it appears that Apple will officially be in attendance at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a move made possible by Apple’s announcement last January that it...
View ArticlePhoto of Steve Jobs leaving Apple Campus
TMZ published a photo yesterday of Steve Jobs leaving Apple headquarters. Gizmodo thinks that he’s walking with famed Apple designer Jonathan Ive, but we’re not so sure about that. In any event, this...
View ArticleRyan Block disputes WSJ article re: Apple attending CES
Yesterday, Ben Charny of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Apple would make an official appearance at CES 2010, with the basis of his scoop being a conversation from a journalist dinner he attended...
View ArticleFoxconn suicide raises issue of Chinese counterfeits
It’s been about a week since a Foxconn employee committed suicide after losing a fourth generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for. Since then, a number of issues have been raised about...
View ArticleRob Enderle was bullish on MSFT stock hours before Microsoft reported its...
Last week, Microsoft reported disappointing earnings, missed 4Q analyst estimates, and saw their profits fall by a staggering 29%. A few hours earlier, everyone’s favorite “analyst”, Rob Enderle,...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft and Steve Ballmer just don’t get it
At a Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated, yet again, that he still doesn’t get, or perhaps is unwilling to admit, why people are ditching PC’s and...
View ArticleApple issues iTunes update to address iPhone SMS security flaw
At the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas this past week, researchers Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller revealed that they could remotely take over any iPhone with a simple text...
View ArticleApple not planning to offer “iTunes for e-books”
With rumors of an Apple tablet picking up momentum by the week, many have been quick to proclaim that the as of yet unreleased tablet will be a Kindle killer, with some speculation focusing on whether...
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