A Ray of Light for the New York Times

In 2014.
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iPhone 5 Will Spike Apple Shares, and You Know It

Another analyst weighs in on the recent volatility in Apple shares and sees no cause for alarm.
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Apple TV on the Outside, Same Old TV on the Inside

Another analyst guess about what an Apple TV could look like: A really big, really cool iPad that sells for $1,500. But about the programming …
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AOL Has Some Pretty Sweet Patents, Too, Tim Armstrong Tells Wall Street

“Beachfront property in East Hampton.”
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News Byte

Mobile Wallet Venture Isis Beefs Up With More Bank Cards

Isis, the mobile payments joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today that it is adding Chase, Barclaycard and Capital One cards to the Isis Mobile Wallet. Last July, Isis announced relationships with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express to allow account holders to pay using wireless phones with NFC “one-tap” payment capabilities. The Isis Mobile Wallet app, which will go head to head with other mobile payment solutions like Google Wallet, will first launch in Salt Lake City and Austin midyear.

So Maybe the Kindle Fire Wasn’t Quite That Hot

But still pretty hot! A Barclays analyst tamps down sales estimates, but says Amazon is in no danger of losing the No. 2 spot in the tablet race.
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Time to Stoke Those Kindle Fire Sales Estimates

Some 5.5 million in Q4, says Barclays. By the way: Has anyone seen one of these in the wild?
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Kindle Fire Won’t Cool Off iPad Sales

Will Apple’s December quarter still bring an all-time record for iPad sales?
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Further Delays for RIM’s QNX Smartphones?

First quarter of 2012 looking like a bit of a long shot.
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If YouTube Is Doing $1.6 Billion a Year, Why Does It Need Hollywood?

A new guesstimate gives Google’s video site a staggering 80 percent of the Web’s video revenue. So if that’s true, why chase “channels”?
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It's Business Time for Apple's iPad

FaceTime: Apple’s Killer App?