Bryan Chaffin

Valve is a large game publisher with titles like Half-Life, Portal, Counter Strike, and Team Fortress in its portfolio. The company also developed the Steam gaming platform that offers an App Store-like way of buying, managing, and playing a variety of games for Mac and Windows. So, when Tim Cook is reported to be visiting…

In the brokerage firm’s Q1 survey, some 4.9 percent of respondents said they intended to buy a Kindle Fire tablet. In the Q2 survey, which was just conducted, that number had declined to 4.5 percent. This matches the analyst’s supply checks, which indicated a 10 percent month-over-month decline in component orders in February, and a…

Shot from Foxconn Tour Video – Full Video Below In a written report, Mr. Schmitz said about his tour that, “The first misconception I had about Foxconn’s Longhua facility in the city of Shenzhen was that I’ve always called it a ‘factory’—technically, it is. But after you enter the gates and walk around, you quickly…

“From our sinkhole data, we have estimated that the number of computers infected with this threat in the last 24 hours is in the region of 270,000, down from 380,000,” Symantec said in its report. Flashback is the biggest malware epidemic to hit the Mac platform, ever. It relies on a vulnerability in Java, a…

What’s that? The number of the Beast?! You betcha. Throw some goats, crank up some Gorgoroth, and party like Apple’s worth more than Microsoft was in its heyday! Kvitrafn, of Gorgorth Photo Credit: Peter Beste (altered with permission) If it happens, that is. There’s certainly no guarantee that it will. First, the numbers: Apple is…

The group, which regularly campaigns for conservative issues, including pro-fossil fuel policies and anti-green energy efforts, pink slime, voter ID requirements, protesting the Occupy movement, and most especially complaining about Al Gore and his role as a board member of Apple Inc., said that green energy companies are failing and that Apple shouldn’t be bailing…

Apple’s new market cap is $590.8 billion. That marks the twelfth record closing high for Apple since the beginning of March, and the 37th in 2012. All told, shares of AAPL have risen 56.5 percent since it closed at $405 at the end of 2011, a tremendous increase for the world’s most valuable corporation. Price…

The agency pricing model allows publishers to set the retail price for their ebooks and pay the seller, Apple in this case, a cut. Apple’s take with its iBooks ebook store is 30 percent, while publishers keep 70 percent. Before the iPad and this deal with the major publishers, retailers like Barnes & Noble and…

Steve Wozniak & Ashton Kutcher Source for Mr. Kutcher: Wikimedia Ashton Kutcher is a star of both movies (The Butterfly Effect, Dude, Where’s My Car?) and hit TV shows (That ’70s Show and Two and Half Men). It was announced earlier this week that Mr. Kutcher would play the title role in an independent movie…

Another way to put that, though, is that it took Jeff Bezos, online retailing magnate, to look at why and how Apple has been so successful with its iPad, and then use those lessons to figure out how to compete with the device.Jeff Bezos & a literal presentation of the metaphorical lightbulb going off…Original image…

The scam message many of us have received: Sample SMS Text Scam Message We are showing the URL so that our readers can be warned simply to stay away from the site. We, on the other hand, were foolish and looked at the site for you: Oh look! We’re just in time! Only five minutes…

Mr. Bezos announced on Thursday that he found the F1 rocket motors that powered the Apollo 11 mission to the moon on the ocean’s floor, some 14,000 below the surface. The dot.com billionaire mounted a private expedition, using no public funding, in order to find the engines, which were left in the ocean after propelling…

Understanding the Fight The battle between the tech giants is an interesting one. On the one hand, Nokia, RIM, and Apple have all proposed different solutions for the 4FF standard in Europe. This standard is also referred to as a nano-SIM card, as it is for a smaller SIM card that will give smartphone makers…

Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs Credit for Walter Isaacson Photo: JD Lasica “In the months since my biography of Jobs came out, countless commentators have tried to draw management lessons from it,” Mr. Isaacson wrote. “Some of those readers have been insightful, but I think that many of them (especially those with no experience in…

According to AllThingsD, which found the ad, RIM is working on bringing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion to Apple’s mobile platform. Such a move would mark a departure for RIM, which built its empire with a proprietary model similar to that employed by Apple for iPhones and iPads. It should be noted that a departure is precisely…

iPhoto for iPhone and iPad Jim Dalrymple noted that Apple specified it was counting users, as opposed to downloads, which means that downloads to multiple devices by one user weren’t counted. iPhoto is Apple’s photo management and editing solution. It was originally developed for the Mac as part of the original iLife suite, and it’s…

“That’s a substantial improvement over previous results,” Apple added, “but we can do better. We will continue to share our progress by reporting this data on a monthly basis.” Workers assemble and perform quality control checks on MacBook Pro display enclosures at an Apple supplier facility in Shanghai. Source: Apple Apple has been under fire…

The markets are mixed during Wednesday’s trading session, but shares in Apple Inc. continued to push for new highs through most of the trading day. As of this writing, AAPL was trading at US$609.07, a gain of $3.11 (+0.51 percent), on moderate volume.  If the stock manages to close higher, it will represent the 16th…

Steve Wozniak Steve Wozniak cofounded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, and today serves as Chief Scientist for Fusion-io. CloudCon Expo & Conference is an annual conference aimed at IT professionals working on or interested in cloud computing technologies. According to the show’s organizers, attendees of The Woz’s keynote will have the opportunity to, “ask…

“Using a thermal imaging camera,” the magazine wrote, “Consumer Reports engineers recorded temperatures as high as 116 degrees Fahrenheit on the front and rear of the new iPad while playing Infinity Blade II.” “That’s within one degree of the 117-degree average temperature recorded at Furnace Creek Station in Death Valley, CA in July, Consumer Reports…

AAPL chart for Tuesday, March 20th Source: Yahoo! Finance A rally in the last two hours of trading propelled Apple to yet-another-record close of US$605.96 per share, a gain of $4.86 (+0.81 percent), on what has become moderate volume of 28.9 million shares trading hands. The new close gives Apple a market capitalization of $565…