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John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 3:41 pm PT
Apple is reportedly working on another new iPhone–a smaller device designed to compete with the proliferation of cheaper smartphones running Android. Sources who’ve seen a prototype of this iPhone…Nano tell Bloomberg that it’s about one-third smaller than the iPhone 4 and that Apple is considering selling it for about $200, off contract thanks to a Universal SIM–if it decides to release it at all.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 31, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT
PayPal has hired Sarah Brody, a seven-year veteran of Apple, to the position of VP of Global design.
Kara Swisher in News on September 2, 2010 at 3:05 am PT
Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping.
Essentially, it is a vertical version–in this case for music–of Facebook.
But, except for Apple borrowing the blue color scheme from the powerful social networking site, Facebook is nowhere on Ping.
So, Jobs explained why.
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Eric Bellman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm PT
Indian companies, long dependent on hand-me-down technology from developed nations, are becoming cutting-edge innovators as they target one of the world’s last untapped markets: the poor.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 16, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT
Walt Mossberg reviews Apple’s free iTunes 9 update, which has two outstanding features: Home Sharing and an easier way to organize your library.
John Paczkowski in News on September 14, 2009 at 1:15 pm PT
Apple’s September quarter is shaping up to be a good one, if the latest metrics from NPD as reported by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster are any indication. According to the research outfit, Mac sales for July and August are up seven percent year-over-year.
Beth Callaghan in Social on September 12, 2009 at 12:20 pm PT
While the highlight of the week was undoubtedly Apple’s Rock and Roll event on Wednesday featuring Steve Jobs 2.0, that was only the anodized aluminum, candy-colored, video-shooting cherry on top of another week of tech sector reporting from All Things Digital.
John Paczkowski in News on September 10, 2009 at 5:10 am PT
After nearly a year out of the public eye, Apple CEO Steve Jobs returned to it yesterday at the company’s annual music event. It was his first public appearance at an Apple gathering since Oct. 14, 2008, when he uncrated the company’s new unibody MacBooks, and it far overshadowed the new products he was about to announce. In fact, it could be argued that public confirmation of Jobs’s health since his return to the company was truly the most significant announcement of the day.
John Paczkowski in News on September 8, 2009 at 8:15 am PT
Apple’s iPhone continues to be AT&T’s marquee handset, though the data-guzzling “Hummer of cellphones,” as the New York Times has dubbed it, has inspired widespread customer dissatisfaction with the carrier’s network. Indeed, according to Piper Jaffray, the iPhone 3G and 3GS are AT&T’s top-selling phones.
John Paczkowski in Social on September 8, 2009 at 6:37 am PT
When Steve Jobs described the iPhone at
D5 as “the best iPod we’ve ever made,” he set the bar high for future iterations of the iconic device. Now, in the run-up to tomorrow’s invitation-only Apple event, the question is: Will Apple reach the bar? And with what? The answer, if the latest rumors prove true, depends on your feelings about iPods with cameras.