Verizon Makes Mobile Privacy an Option

In a notice available on the Verizon website, the company outlined two new uses of customers’ information. The first use will be in marketing and other business reports. The second use will be to provide information that is more relevant to individual customers. Verizon stated that these new uses “will not share any information that…

iTunes Match Still Waiting in the Wings

iTunes Match Apple is scheduled to launch iCloud on Wednesday, as well as iOS 5, both of which are being pushed out ahead of the iPhone 4S launch on Friday. iCloud is the name of Apple’s wide-ranging cloud service that includes many services. One of those services allows users to access their iTunes purchases from…

Goldman Sachs Bumps AAPL Target to $520 on Strong Sales

“Apple’s momentum appears even more resistant to macroeconomic pressures than we previously realized,” Mr. Shope said, according to Barrons. “Wwe believe the stock has significant upside from current levels — even after recent outperformance.”Apple has managed to continually grow its iPhone and iPad user base, and Mac sales continue to rise even as the over…

Parallels Desktop 7 Roars with Lion

Each successive version of Parallels Desktop pushes the technology to the limit, speeds up the virtual machines, and adds new features. Version 7 continues that tradition and also exploits some of Lion’s new features. It’s a must-have upgrade. Parallels Desktop is an application that exploits the ability of the Intel CPUs to simultaneously run additional…

Apple Seeks “Product Security Managers”

The job could be one of the most high stress positions at Apple. According to the description, “The candidate will be responsible for overseeing the protection of, and managing risks to, Apple’s unreleased products and related intellectual property. The individual will collaborate with other security managers by contributing to, and managing execution of, strategic initiatives…

The Amazing Resilience of Apple Stock

“This was it,” thought APPL speculators looking to cash in on the inevitable carnage.  Everyone knew that Steve Jobs would leave Apple and that it was just a matter of waiting for the when. Easy money could be had in shorting Apple and holding on for the ride, as the stock would inevitably tumble down…

Report Claims Apple Working On “Clearly Different” Mac

Using an English nickname, “danbo” wrote (via Google Translate) that, “Though this source does not told in detail, this new Mac line seems to be clearly different products from current ones, so new product name could be given.” In other words, even the source doesn’t know how the alleged new device will be different, and…

iAd Chief Leaves Apple for VC Firm

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…

Particle Debris (wk. ending 8/12) Analyzing the Shifting Sands

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…

Amazon Releases Browser-Based Kindle Cloud Reader

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…

Apple Stock Recovers in “Interesting Times”

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…

iCloud Goes Live (as Beta - for Developers)

iCloud Beta iCloud is part semi-backup solution, part file sharing-to-yourself service, and part iTunes distribution system, and that’s just for starters. The company uses iCloud to make iTunes purchases (Music, Apps, iBooks, and TV Shows for now) available to all of your devices, and it will be at the heart of iTunes Match, Apple’s service…

Nuforce NE-700X Earphones Provide Solid Sound

The NE-700X earphones from Nuforce have a solid, well balanced sound and they present with a very sophisticated look that should particularly appeal to adults. The color is called Aqua Silver. NE-700X EarphonesThe stereo earphones work all versions of the iPhone except the first generation and with any other device that supports 3.5mm stereo in…

Analyst Bumps Tablet Estimates, Sees Apple with 63% Share

The Numbers Mr. Um raised estimates for Apple’s iPad shipments to 37.9 million in 2011, up from 32.3 million. For 2012, he’s now modeling for 53 million iPads, up from 46.9 million. He believes the company will maintain ~63% market share for both years, meaning that he now sees 60 million tablets of all brands…

Mozilla Announces Smartphone OS to Compete with iOS, Android

In other words, Mozilla wants to free us from the tyranny of not only proprietary smartphone OSes like Android and Windows Phone, but whole widget devices like Apple’s iOS ecosystem, too. The group thinks it can accomplish this mission with an open source OS and Web apps. In a blog post announcing the project, the…

Apple: Lion Launches Wednesday July 20

Lion will replace Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, as the company’s newest operating system for the Mac, and includes several features that started life as iOS elements on the iPad. The OS includes new multi-touch gestures for navigation,  an iPad homescreen-like Launchpad for organizing apps, and full screen view for individual apps.Apple to…

ITC Finds Kodak Did Not Infringe on Apple Patents

The case was part of a back-and-forth battle between Apple and Kodak relating to digital cameras in Apple’s iPhones. Kodak has been quite successful in using ITC complaints and lawsuits in forcing companies to pay licensing royalties for some key patents that Kodak owns. Today’s ruling concerned counter claims that Apple had filed in response…

Amazon Cloud Player Gets Unlimited Storage, iPad Web Support

Amazon’s Cloud Player now has an unlimited storage optionIn early May Amazon quietly and unofficially added Web browser support for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, although users were presented with warnings saying that their device wasn’t compatible with the service.Amazon’s unlimited storage deal requires users to sign up for additional storage such as the…

ITC Tosses Kodak Split Ruling in Apple Patent Infringement

ITC sends Kodak case back to the judgeKodak has been claiming Apple and RIM are infringing on its patents by offering an on-screen preview for photos taken with the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphone products. The ITC judge overseeing the case ruled earlier this year that the patents were invalid, Kodak appealed the decision, and now…

AmpliTube iRig Puts a Recording Studio in Your Pocket

I’ve been playing bass guitar since I was 12, and while I’ve always loved the playing music side of playing music, I’ve never been much on the lugging-equipment-around aspect. I deplored it so much, in fact, that I quit the wedding band business for a time, only coming back when the band agreed to hire…

Book Review: My New iPad 2

 Title: My New iPad 2 – A Users Guide Author: Wallace Wang Date of Publication: May 2011 Publisher: No Starch PressSoft Cover Print: U.S.$24.99, includes free Ebookebook US$19.95  I’m always pleased to review a book when I discover in the “About the Author” section that in addition to writing Mac books, the author is also a…

Particle Debris (Wk. ending 6/24) Heroic Thinking

Nowadays, things are different. Apple is a fantastically successful company, loved by its customers. Apple is making a lot of money from iPhones and iPads. Apple cannot do anything wrong. So why is the Mac’s market share still a paltry 8.5 percent in the U.S. and 4 percent world wide? If Apple is such a…

“Happy” Apple COO Tim Cook Spotted Inside China Mobile

According to a translation of the blog post by English-language Chinese gadget site M.I.C. Gadget, the reporter wrote, ““This morning, around 10, Apple COO Tim Cook is spotted in the lobby of China Mobile’s HQ, accompanied by 7-8 people. Probably Cook is talking with executives from China Mobile to discuss bilateral cooperation for the iPhone.…

CNBC Titans Offers Unauthorized Biography of Steve Jobs

In its description of the series, CNBC said, “CNBC Titans profiles remarkable people who made careers turning the ‘unthinkable’ into reality and companies that grew from humble roots to worldwide recognition.” This season kicks off with Steve Jobs, but it also includes looks at Jack Welch, Proctor & Gamble, Herb Kelleher, Quincy Jones, Milton S.…

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