Bryan Chaffin

AirPlay was introduced as standard by Apple during its September 1st media event. It was a minor bullet point during a presentation of many major new products and services, but iSuppli called AirPlay, “one of the most significant announcements of all.” The technology allows users to stream music from iTunes to any AirPlay-enabled speakers, docks,…

In the charts below you can see Apple’s stock beginning the day almost US$17 down, more than a 5% decline, while HP’s stock climbed by more than $0.40, more than a 1% gain. It seems that investors see the hiring of Mr. Cook as a big win for HP and a big loss for Apple.…

To put some numbers to that concept, The Pew center found that from June 2009 through June of 2010, 15.1% of all technology stories in the mainstream press were primarily about Apple. That’s greater than one in every seven stories. About Apple. One is seven (1 in 6.67 to be a little more precise). The…

“Emulating Apple is not part of our strategy,” Mr. Bradley said, according to a CNet report from the event. He said that HP needs to be able to offer custom solutions to Enterprise customers. To this end, his company intends to use WebOS in its own smartphones, tablets, and even printers. Kind of like Apple…

Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal, will be stepping down from his position once Comcast has finalized its purchase of 51% of the media company. Mr. Zucker, who has often been critical of Apple and argued at one time that Apple should have to pay media companies a portion of iPod hardware sales, told employees…

The Apple Peel 520 is a case with a transceiver, a SIM card slot, and a battery built into it. When coupled with software on your iPod touch, it allows users to send and receive SMS text messages and make phone calls. In China, the device sells for about $78, according to Bloomberg, while Go…

Above and beyond the issue of all these Finnish boys who may be peeing in their pants in the depths of the harsh Finnish winter, Mr. Vanjoki was addressing the question of why Nokia doesn’t adopt Google’s Android OS to replace its own Symbian OS in an interview with The Financial Times. Nokia, which is…

The Kindle doesn’t include backlighting, using a display technology called E-Ink that doesn’t require (or offer) backlighting. The iPad, however, has higher resolution display that features backlighting, which some consider harder to read in situations with bright lighting, such as outsider during daylight. Kindle dominated the dedicated e-reader market with its Kindle, with few devices…

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“Kindle is the best-selling product on Amazon.com for two years running and our new generation Kindles are continuing that momentum,” Steven Kessel, senior vice president, Amazon Kindle, said in a statement. The Kindle is Amazon’s own ebook reader, a dedicated device for reading ebooks, newspapers, and magazines. Many see the Kindle as being in competition…

“The happy client from the United States ordered a ten minute show with Brees Kelly but was satiated enough to hang up after just over five minutes,” the company said in a statement. FaceTime is the video call platform Apple announced with iPhone 4 that allows users to speak face-to-face with the iPhone 4’s front-facing…