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“We expect there to be no transition issues as Cook had been running daily operations as interim-CEO,” Mr. Um said. “From a longer-term perspective, we believe Apple’s strategy is well laid out and believe Cook and the managemet team will continue to execute.”While Mr. Jobs is giving up his role as CEO, he isn’t leaving…

According to Foss Patents, the injunction applies to countries in Europe where patent EP 2059868 is considered valid. The injunction doesn’t, however, include Samsung’s Galaxy-branded tablet products, only the company’s smartphones.EU: No Galaxy S, Galaxy S II or Ace smartphone for youApple and Samsung have been locked in a legal battle over mobile device patent…

Noted patent commentator Florian Mueller first spotted the evidence, which was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in response to a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by Apple Inc in July. Apple is asserting that several of Samsung’s Android devices infringe on a design patent that Apple owns…

Details of China Telecom’s negotiations aren’t available, and that’s by design. “We have a confidential agreement with Apple and can’t tell you anything as of now,” the company chairman said, according to World News Australia.The iPhone may soon be available on more networks in ChinaAdding China’s third largest cell service provider would give the already…

Apple’s iPhone 4 held 29% of the June smartphone marketRIM’s BlackBerry dropped down to only 11 percent of the market, and Microsoft’s mobile Windows platforms, along with the HP’s crumbling webOS, each made up less than five percent of the market.Android’s market growth has the potential to grow even more, especially now that Google is…

iOS 5 to include early earthquake warning support in JapanUsers will be able to choose whether or not they want to enable the feature, according to 9 to 5 Mac, just like other iOS features such as Location Services.Apple said iOS 5 will ship this fall, but hasn’t announced an actual release date yet. The…

The net result of this is, I think, a big gain for Microsoft and HP’s webOS software and a handsome headache for Google. I fully expect that by next summer, Android will be found only on Motorola phones, and its market share will take a continued beating from iOS 5 and iPhone 5. At least,…

Former Apple Vice President Andy Miller Mr. Miller joined Apple when the Mac and iPhone maker bought Quattro Wireless, which he founded. Apple then used the intellectual property and personnel acquired from Quattro to build and launch iAd, Apple’s first foray into the world of advertising. iAd delivers ads exclusively to Apple’s iOS devices, including…

The deal Apple signed is a ten year agreement for some 24,000 square feet of space in Grand Central Terminal (sometimes referred to as Grand Central Station) for an Apple Store. It will be one of the largest stores in Apple’s fleet of retail locations, situated in one of the most high-traffic locations in the…

Steve Jobs official bio ships in November“I turned most of the book in this past June. It’s now all done and edited,” Mr. Isaacson told Fortune. “The March 2012 date (or whatever date it was) was never a deeply-considered pubdate. Like the original cover design, it came about because the publisher wanted to put something…

1. First, let’s look at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. According to Wikipedia, each side of the Pentagon is 921 ft (281 m) long. A circle circumscribed on the outside of a pentagon whose sides are 921 ft long has a radius of 783 ft. So a circle that would circumscribe the Pentagon has a…

The issue is with side by side photos of the two devices that Apple submitted in its filing. While the court document filed by Apple (and posted to Scribd) includes many and more photos of the two devices, it’s the image below, taken directly from that document, that has caused an uproar in the blogosphere.…

The Steve Jobs bio has a new coverWhile Barnes & Noble may be ready to start selling the book just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, Amazon and Apple’s own iBookstore are still showing a March 6, 2012 release date.The biography was written by renowned author Walter Isaacson and comes with the cooperation of Mr.…

If you missed this link when I wrote about restoring iLife after a Lion reinstall, here’s the link again to Apple’s rather extensive Knowledge Base article: “OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery.” You’ll want to bookmark that one. We all have plenty of experience with the consumerization of digital technologies that threaten a business model…

Samsung plans to fight EU Galaxy Tab injunctionA German court ruled in favor of Apple to bar sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in all EU countries except The Netherlands, which means shoppers won’t be able to find the iPad competitor on store shelves until Samsung can get the court to reverse its ruling.…

The situation erupted in April of 2010, two months before Apple went on to unveil the iPhone 4 at its 2010 World Wide Developers Conference. An Apple engineer had the device at a bar in Redwood City, CA, where it was then lost and found, or stolen, as the case may be, by someone the…

I briefly alluded to this dilemma in a prior column, where I noted that “power users” were especially concerned about Lion’s hide-and seek (such as making the home Library folder invisible): “In Lion, more than in any previous OS version, the priority is given to consumer users. The burden is now on technically-skilled users to…

Amazon points to the iPad optimization on its Kindle Cloud Reader web page. This enables Amazon to bypass Apple’s iOS restrictions that had forced it to remove the link to the Kindle Store from the Kindle app for iOS. In the press release accompanying the announcement, Amazon even said: “Without even leaving the app, customers…

Are we surprised over this? In a word: No. Was there any logic to it all? Of course not. How, in an environment where S&P downgrades treasury bonds and the next day the market tanks with the only thing selling being treasury bonds can there be any logic? How, in a market where the Fed…

Quark CEO Raymond Schiavone told PlanetQuark that his company would continue to be based on Denver, CO, and that he believed operations at the company would continue as they had been. “This transition comes at an exciting time for our company and our customers. In the past few years we have made great strides in…

Each of these devices had their problems. Palm’s little pocket computers had plenty of applications available and could even edit Microsoft Office documents with the aid of DataViz’s Documents to Go software, but Palm devices were underpowered and had screens too small to do any real work. Windows CE, and later Windows Mobile devices were…