Category: Technology
Apple sets a new tech record with $46 Billion in sales
Apple sold a stunning 37 million iPhones last quarter, twice what it sold in the same period a year ago. IPad sales doubled to a record 15.4 million. Apple moved 5.2 million Macs, the first time Apple sold more than 5 million of its PCs in a quarter. The company also sold 15.4 million iPods [...]
SOPA Puts Hollywood vs Tech Titans
Members of Congress may be on vacation, but that hasn’t calmed critics who say an effort to stamp out online piracy would create an unprecedented threat to free speech on the Internet. Far from fading from memory, the Stop Online Piracy Act (along with a related Senate bill) has become a rallying point for Web [...]
Samsung buys Sony’s entire stake in LCD joint venture
Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy out Sony’s entire stake in their liquid crystal display (LCD) joint venture. The Korean electronics maker said it will pay Sony 1.08tn won ($939m; £600m) in cash for its stake. The move comes as Sony has been restructuring its TV business, which has been making a loss for the [...]
Wireless carriers agree to end ‘bill shock’
Those surprise overage charges on your wireless bill will soon be a thing of the past. The vast majority of America’s wireless carriers came to terms with the Federal Communications Commission on Monday, agreeing to alert consumers when they are approaching their monthly limits for voice, data and text messages, or when they are about [...]
RIM, Hewlett-Packard lead tech sell-off
H-P HPQ -4.53% sank more than 4%, the top decliner on the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -1.16% , which lost more than 100 points on new concerns over the financial crisis in Europe. The S&P 500 was down nearly 1%. Read Market Snapshot. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP -0.98% slipped by 1% to 2,642 [...]
Apple says iPhone 4S sales top 4 million
Apple Inc. said Monday morning that it sold more than 4 million units of the iPhone 4S in the three days since the device first went on sale Friday. In a statement, Apple (AAPL) said sales of its latest device more than doubled the opening weekend sales of its predecessor smartphone — the iPhone 4 [...]
Samsung targets iPhone 4S sales ban in France, Italy
Samsung Electronics said it will file patent-infringement claims in France and Italy to ban the sale of Apple’s new iPhone less than a day after it was unveiled, intensifying a legal battle between the two top brands. It will also file legal cases in other countries to stop the sale of the iPhone 4S after [...]
Apple unveils the iPhone 4S, adds Sprint as carrier
Apple unveiled the next step for its signature smartphone — the iPhone 4S — during a press event Tuesday at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. The device will feature a retina display and dual-core processor that makes the phone twice as fast as its predecessor. It launches Oct. 14 for AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, and starts [...]
Stakes High at Apple’s Tuesday Event
Everyone in the tech industry is patiently waiting for the main event next tuesday. Tim Cook will have a lot on his plate Tuesday when he takes the stage at the Town Hall auditorium on Apple’s (AAPL) Cupertino, Calif., campus. Leaving aside whether he can fill the shoes of Steve Jobs (he can’t), or whether [...]
Alibaba interested in Purchasing Yahoo
It appears that Yahoo’s buying process is going to be getting a new life after Jack Ma, the CEO of Chinese Internet conglomerate Alibaba Group, said late Friday that his company would be “interested” in buying all of struggling online media firm Yahoo. A spokesman for Alibaba confirmed that Ma made that comment in response [...]
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