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When Apple Inc set up its customer service plan for theiPhone, it seems to have had the best intentions of humanity in mind — any phone under warranty can get serviced because it’s the phone that’s tied to the warranty, not the owner. So you don’t have to show up in person at an Apple store to get [...]
Want to earn stuff by watching TV? A free app for that debuted Wednesday. When you tap the screen, Viggle’s software for iPhones and iPads listens to what’s on, recognizes what you’re watching and gives you credit at roughly two points per minute. It even works for shows you’ve saved on a digital video recorder. [...]
Tablet computers using Google’s Android softwarenarrowed the lead of Apple’s iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter, growing 2-1/2 fold from 10.7 million a year earlier, the research firm said. “Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple [...]
AT&T Inc posted a $6.7 billion quarterly loss as it was weighed down by a hefty break-up fee for its failed T-Mobile USAmerger and other big charges on top of costly subsidies for smartphones such as Apple Inc’s popular iPhone. While the No. 2 U.S. wireless provider beat analysts’ expectations for subscriber additions, the growth came [...]
A group of 1,000 young people consider the world’s greatest innovator to be Thomas Edison, whose crowning left the late Steve Jobs in second place. Edison, the creator of the light bulb and phonograph, among many other inventions, earned the top title among 52 percent of those polled by Lemelson-MIT, a program that tries to honor inventors [...]
Another patent application has surfaced showing Apple’s interest in changing the way people entertain themselves in their living rooms. It may not be the much-anticipated Apple TV set, but it does provide a hint or two about a control system for such a device. Chronicled by Apple Insider this morning, the patent filing details plans for a [...]
The Macworld expo isn’t what it once was, but you wouldn’t know it from the excitement of both vendors and Mac faithful attending this year’s show. The show started today at Moscone Center North here, and though Macworld no longer attracts the big crowds and big-name vendors it once did, I saw plenty of enthusiastic vendors and [...]
A day after a report detailed harsh working conditions at one of Apple’s component suppliers in China, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company cares about every worker in its supply chain and that any suggestion to the contrary was “patently false and offensive.” Yesterday, The New York Times published an exhaustive report that profiled hazardous factory conditions linked [...]
As the former vice president of retail at Apple, Ron Johnson partnered with Steve Jobs to plan the first Apple store. Now the CEO of J.C. Penney, Johnson reveals why Apple stores work. Writing about his efforts in fashioning the Apple store in a Harvard Business Review guest post, Johnson explained that a store has to [...]
Apple is seeking to ramp up its cloud leadership as the company puts a greater emphasis on how customers store and access their data. The company is looking to recruit executives with backgrounds in Web-based software, according to a Wall Street Journal report tonight. One prominent Internet entrepreneur has already been approached and recruiters have been briefed [...]