Analyzing the Analyst: Brian Marshall

Mr. Marshall was one of those who actually got to handle an iPad after the introduction, and that experience can go a long way towards building insight and wisdom about the product. In sense, once you’ve handled the iPad, you’ve been “Ived.” As in Jonathan. Scott Forstall also explained the experience in the video Mr.…

Analyst Praise Couldn't Prop Up AAPL, Stock Drops 4%

Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank said the device could create a “fourth leg” in Apple’s product lines, and Charlie Wolf of Needham & Co. said the device should be a success out of the gate. Despite these endorsements, however, shares in Apple fell Thursday to close at US$199.29, a loss of $8.594 (-4.13%), on heavy…

Mea Culpa - What WERE Those Glass Pics?

So what were those pictures of, anyway? We think we have an answer. Or, more accurately, TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid does. Check out the video below.Apple’s mystery glass: In-store displaysNice to know the glass was of something being used, even if it wasn’t the iPad. That’s, OK, though, because we know you had as much fun…

USPS Mobile, Stick It and More

The book and the movie are very different, but the basic premise is the same: after some devastating apocalypse pockets of people try to rebuild. In what’s left of the midwestern United States an army led by a mad copy machine salesman turn general harasses the populace. A drifter, cold, hungry, and desperate stumbles on…

Apple Scores pan-European iTunes Licensing Deal

PRS for Music managing director Broadcast, Online & Recorded Media, Andrew Shaw commented, “In our view the deal demonstrates that PRS for Music provides a compelling pan-European offering and leads the market in enabling digital music growth, whilst delivering vital royalties to our members.”The deal apparently also creates a licensing framework for performance rights from…

Analyst: AAPL Accounting Changes Cloud Guidance

“Given the change in accounting, the key questionis how conservative this guidance is given the difficulty of using historical outperformance to judge future potential performance,” Mr. Um said.Apple previously used subscription accounting to report iPhone and Apple TV sales, which spread the per-unit revenue out over 24 months to account for major software upgrades. The…

Apple Aluminum Keyboard Update 1.1 Improves Battery Life

The installer will update the USB version of the keyboard to 0.69 and the Bluetooth version to 321. You can check to see if your Apple Aluminum Keyboard already has the new firmware installed by doing this: Make sure your keyboard is connected to your Mac. Choose Apple menu > About this Mac Click More…

Apple Goes to Bat for AT&T During Q1 Earnings Report

Apple COO Tim Cook replied “AT&T is a great partner.”He added ” I think it is important to remember they had more mobile broadband usage than any other carrier in the world. And in the vast majority of locations we think that iPhone customers are having a great experience from the research that we have…

Four Years of Apple Unit & Revenue Graphs Illustrate Growth

Apple announced Monday revenues of more than $15 billion for the December quarter, the company’s first fiscal quarter of 2010. while traditionally the biggest quarter of the year (as illustrated in the graph below), Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted in a statement that, “If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now…

RedLaser

How can you not love an iPhone app that costs less than $2 but can save you a lot more than that every time you use it? That app is called RedLaser and it uses your iPhone camera to scan barcodes and get you prices for the item from Google Product Search and TheFind.  Here’s…

Lightning Lessons From The Ground

I should start by stating that my home and office setup is not entirely common. My office is a completely separate building, with separate power and cable (TV/Internet) feeds from the pole on the street. Between the house and office the previous owner then buried two Category 5e (Ethernet) and two coaxial (cable TV) cables.…

TMO Opens 2010 Editors Choice Awards Submissions

Award winners will receive notification during the expo, and will also be highlighted in our Editors Choice Awards round up. Our 2009 Award winners included products from Cultured Code, FileMaker, SmileOnMyMac, Google, Roxio, Softpress, The Omni Group, HP, and Ambrosia Software.”I am so pleased with how well our TMO 2009 Editors Choice awards were received…

Dropped Calls? Femtocells Can Fix It. If Only...

This scenario is not the stuff of SciFi or a drug induced daydream, it’s a real possibility. In fact we are so close to that possibility that spitting in the right wind could bring this dream to fruition, or not. The technology that can bring that scene to life is called femtocell, technology that’s been…

TMO Interviews Netflix

TMO: Mr. Swasey, Nick Wingfield of the Wall Street Journal and Daniel Sorid writing for Wired painted a rather austere picture of the resources and competitive posture of Netflix. What are your thoughts? SS: Well, the Wall Street Journal article was posted about 7 months ago. Up until then, and since that time, we’ve been…

Wintek Factory Strike Ends, Back to Business As Usual

Wintek has been claiming that the strike didn’t impact production despite reports that some machinery was damaged during the multi-day incident.Some reports claimed workers were striking because they had been told promised bonuses had been cancelled, but others said factory workers were reacting to a government investigation that found no wrong doing on the part…

Amazon Opens Kindle for Developers

The Kindle developer program will include the Kindle Development Kit, or KDK, developer support, sample code, documentation, and a software-based Kindle simulator for Mac, windows and Linux. Amazon will support free, one-time purchase and monthly subscription options for active content.Until now, the Kindle was off limits to developers, but that could be changing thanks to…

More Tablet Glass Photos: Scale Backs Up 10" Speculation

We considered this relevant because the shape of the glass if very suggestive of an iPhone, and several readers commented that the lack of scale in the image made it difficult to understood how large the glass is in the photo we first published January 11th. We received two new photos today, the first of…

Site Offers $10K Bounty for Tablet Photo, Gets C&D from Apple

The site offered four bounties in its stunt, US$10,000 for “bona fide pictures” of the device, $20,000 for “video of one in action,” $50,000 for “video of Steve Jobs holding one,” and $100,000 to “let us play with one for an hour.” “We’ve had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple’s impending…

Close Call, Flashlight, Alarm Clock Free and More

I use to want to do stuff like that, and I’m still fascinated by the internal goings on in tech, but I just don’t have the time to tinker. I want my gadgets to work. End of story. When they don’t work, I want them fixed. I can and have tinkered to fix my stuff…

Psystar Officially Files Notice of Appeal in Apple Lawsuit

The appeal involves a copyright infringement suit Apple brought against Psystar to stop the Florida company from selling generic Psystar PCs installed with Mac OS X. Apple claimed that Psystar had to violate Apple’s copyrights on Mac OS X in order to trick Mac OS X into thinking the PCs were Apple-built Macs, a claim…

Kodak Sues Apple, RIM Over Digital Camera Tech

“Our primary interest is not to disrupt the availability of any product but to obtain fair compensation for the use of our technology,” said Kodak Chief Intellectual Property Officer, and Vice President, Laura G. Quatela.Despite Ms. Quatela’s comments, Kodak is looking to for the ITC to block the import of iPhone and BlackBerry models that…