Bryan Chaffin

The Mac, iPhone, and iPad maker announced a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share that will begin at some point in the September quarter, Apple’s 4th fiscal quarter. The company will also begin a $10 billion stock buyback program that will be executed over three years. That program will begin in fiscal 2013. Analysts who…

In many ways, comparing either the new iPad or Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Amazon’s Kindle Fire is an apples and oranges kind of thing. Both of the larger devices pack considerably more horsepower, a better screen, and all kinds of other specs, than the 7” Kindle Fire, while neither can touch the price of Amazon’s…

(IDG News noted that Judge Posner is normally an Appeals Court judge, but is handling the trial court case for the Northern District of Illinois). Apple sought the information in two motions. The Wall Street Journal reported that the first was designed to find out what value Google was placing on features in Motorola Mobility…

The two firms were already in the process of litigating ownership of the patent when that case was halted by Kodak’s bankruptcy proceedings. Apple is asking the bankruptcy judge to allow the case to resume in federal court, while Kodak wants to keep the decision in the hands of the bankruptcy court. Apple says that…

Proview Technology sold the rights to the trademark for “IPAD” to Apple in 2009, but has since claimed the deal didn’t include the rights to mainland China. Apple and Proview have since gone back and forth with a series of court actions and public relations moves in their effort to cast the other as the…

Regis McKenna with Steve Jobs in the 1980s Photo Published under Creative Commons Mr. McKenna was a local Silicon Valley public relations consultant tapped by a young Steve Jobs to help Apple in its early years. The two maintained a relationship through Steve Jobs’s career, Mr. McKenna is known to have played a role in…

Apple purchased the worldwide rights to the iPad trademark from Proview using a third company Apple set up to negotiate the deal under the name IP Application Development Limited. While Apple believes it purchased all rights to the name, Proview has argued in court that rights in mainland China were not part of the deal,…

First noted by MacRumors, the pricing sheet was posted (registration required) to Sina Weibo, a microblogging site (similar to Twitter) that is popular in China. It shows Apple’s current pricing for the iPad 2 in one column, with another column listing prices for the as-yet unannounced iPad 3. A Supposed iPad 2 & iPad 3…

The audio quality of the recording is quite low, but it’s well worth listening to if you want some insight on Apple’s new CEO. If you can’t listen, however, Philip Elmer-DeWitt and the team at Forbes put together a written transcript of the event. You’ll miss what we considered some of the emotional nuances (and…

The comments came when Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope asked Mr. Cook about its cash holdings, which stood at more than US$97 billion at the end of the December quarter. He said that Apple had been sparing in its use of that money and noted that there has been a lot of talk about an…

Mr. Misek argued that Apple has three main uses to which it can and will put its cash hoard to use. He said that Apple would continue to be “very aggressive” in capital spending, which includes expanding its retail presence, buying factory equipment (which Apple does with some of its OEM partners), and expanding its…

That score put Apple well ahead of number two Google’s score of 82.82—Google was number one in last year’s poll, and Harris Interactive stressed that Google’s score was still quite respectable. That serves to emphasize just how well Apple did in this year’s poll, as shown in the chart below. “Customer inclination towards strong leadership…

The report leaned on the name “iTV,” which was recently put forward by a Wall Street analyst as the name Apple would go with when it introduces the product later in 2012. Apple currently markets a settop box under the name Apple TV. Two sets of sources were intimated by the report. The first set…