18Mar2012
Production for Slimmer 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros Reported
Production for the next-generation MacBook Pro has already begun with shipments to Apple kicking off in March, the sources noted. Monthly shipments will eventually climb to 900,000 units from the 100,000-150,000 units targeted initially, the sources said. The report is very similar to one issued by Digitimes several weeks ago, but the new report offers the explicit claim that production on the new models has indeed
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Google reportedly working on wireless home entertainment system
Google's Android unit is rumored to be developing a wireless home entertainment system that is capable of streaming music throughout the home, and if launched would be the first consumer electronics product designed and marketed under the Google brand. Citing sources familiar with the project, The Wall Street Journal reports that the internet search giant's Android mobile platform division has led a "multi-year effort" to develop the system, which is rumored to launch sometime this year. Thus
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HP’s webOS Reportedly Runs Significantly Faster on iPad 2 Than on TouchPad
HP’s startling disclosure yesterday that it is looking into a sale or spinoff of its PC business and is discontinuing its webOS-based hardware program has sent shock waves through the industry. One of the more curious aspects of the move is HP’s plans for webOS, the company’s mobile operating system that it obtained with last year’s $ 1.2 billion purchase of Palm and relaunched on new Pre smartphones and the TouchPad tablet just months ago. According to This is my
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China Mobile, Apple reportedly ink deal to sell iPhone 4 by end of Oct.
Apple is said to have landed the biggest prize in the mobile industry, partnering with China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the world, according to alleged company filings. Various sites this week relayed a report from Chinese-language ccidcom.com, which cited a company filing that allegedly revealed China Mobile has entered an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone 4 at the end of October. China Mobile is the largest mobile carrier in the world with 611 million wireless subscribers,
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Facebook reportedly working on an iPad app
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s rumors that Facebook would be launching an HTML5 App Store competitor and Facebook’s response that claims native apps and the web aren’t in direct competition, the New York Times reports that an official iPad app from the social network is in the works and should be coming soon. People “briefed on Facebook’s plans” told the NYT that the new app, which would be introduced in the “coming weeks” for free in the App Store, would feature
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Apple reportedly picks Toshiba as sole supplier of iPhone LCDs
According to a Japanese newspaper, Apple has dropped plans to invest in a production facility at Sharp and decided to use Toshiba as the sole manufacturer of liquid crystal displays for the iPhone. The Nikkan Kogyu Shimbun reported Wednesday that Apple has decided to go with Toshiba for orders of screens for the iPhone, as noted by MarketWatch. "Sharp was no longer a candidate for Apple's investment," the report claimed. Sharp denied the rumor in a statement Wednesday, asserting that the
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Apple Reportedly Sandbagging Performance of Home Screen Web Apps
Web apps saved to the home screen of iOS devices run less than half as fast as the same apps launched from the Safari browser and don’t have offline caching access, according to a report by the Register. The site said web apps opened from the home screen are not able to take advantage of iOS’ updated Nitro JavaScript engine in 4.3, offline caching and asynchronous mode for better-looking apps. While this could very well be a bug that is yet to be fixed, it raises conspiracy suspicions
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AT&T reportedly shipping iPad 2 with delivery as early as Monday
An iPad 2 customer on AT&T notes his order shipped today with free two day delivery, with an estimated arrival date of Monday. Apple's own online orders were reported to ship within "3 to 5 business days," resulting delivery between March 18-25. If AT&T's delivery report is correct, it appears it is poised to beat Apple's delivery dates by four days to almost two weeks. Delivery dates are often only estimates, and Apple has been known to ship deliveries earlier than the conservative
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Mac App Store Reportedly Set to Launch at Noon Eastern Time Tomorrow
According to The Loop, Apple is apparently planning to open the Mac App Store at noon Eastern Time tomorrow, bringing a variation of the company's integrated application purchasing system for iOS to the Mac OS X platform. The Mac App Store will officially launch on January 6, but nobody has been able to nail down a time when the service will be publicly available. According to my sources, the Mac App Store will be available at 12:00 pm (noon) ET on Thursday. That puts it at about 9:00 am PT
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Apple reportedly bidding for Nortel patent portfolio
"Final bids are due within weeks for blocks of patents owned by Canada's once mighty telecom giant Nortel Networks, including some that could change the balance of power among mobile operators," Alastair Sharp and Nadia Damouni report for Reuters. "The rare intellectual-property portfolio sale is part of bankrupt Nortel's auction of assets, most of which have already been sold," Sharp and Damouni report. "Sources expect the sale to draw wireless telecom newcomers Apple and Google, which want
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