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20 Oct 2010 22:31

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Tech: Macbook Air porn: Don’t look too hard kid, you might go blind

  • If nothing else, Apple’s updated MacBook Air models are easy on the eyes. So we’re just going to link you to Boing Boing, which has some very sexy photos of these new computers. It’s like reading an issue of Penthouse (RIP Bob Guccione), except with computers. source
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18 Oct 2010 20:05

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Biz, Tech: Apple’s 3Q earnings report overloaded with (mostly) good news

  • 91% increase in iPhone sales from a year ago (wow)
  • $20
    billion     Apple’s quarterly revenues, which happens to be a new record for them, by the way
  • $4
    billion     Apple’s quarterly profits, which is also a record for them – and up 70 percent (!); freaking show-offs
  • +28% increase in Mac sales year-over-year; not bad considering their light recent publicity
  • +28% increase in iPad sales from last quarter; pretty good but not particularly spectacular
  • -11% decline in year-over-year iPod sales, which admittedly was kind of expected source
  • » Investors somehow not impressed: Wait, what? Well, here’s why: They expected the increase in Apple’s iPad sales to be much higher, so as a result, Apple’s stock went down five percent in after-hours trading. You bastards can’t ever be impressed, can you?
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18 Oct 2010 10:37

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Tech: Apple: The iPad isn’t technically a PC, but if it were …

  • 10.6% Apple’s share of the PC market in the third quarter – enough for third place on growing Mac sales
  • 25% Apple’s share of the PC market in the third quarter – IF the iPad were included; they’d be in first source
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14 Oct 2010 10:06

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Tech: Harbinger? AT&T, Verizon to start selling iPads at the same time

  • at&t They’ll begin selling Apple’s iPad, including the 3G version, starting October 28th.
  • verizon Strangely enough, so will Verizon, but they’ll bundle it with MiFi, which is pretty genius. source
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13 Oct 2010 10:54

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Biz, Tech: Don’t own any Apple stock? Start kicking yourself now, loser

  • $300.20 Apple’s opening stock price this morning, which is the first time it’s been above $300
  • 43% the stock’s increase this year alone; guess that iPad pushed it over the edge or something source
  • » And it gets better: In the time that Steve Jobs has been behind the wheel – since 1997 – the stock has increased immensely. It’s 30 times bigger than it was just seven years ago, when everyone was first going gaga over the third-generation iPod.
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10 Oct 2010 21:36

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Tech: Do Apple’s iPhone 4 design flaws extend to the glass?

  • So yeah, another iPhone mini-crisis: So, these cases are designed to protect your iPhone from the elements, but they may actually have the opposite effect. Why? Well, if through normal use, something gets under the case, as has been known to happen, it could cause scratches to the case. Bad enough, but factor in the iPhone 4’s glass back, and you have possible breakage. They reportedly had to take a bunch of cases out of the Apple Store as a preemptive measure. Jesus, can Apple get a break here? source
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09 Oct 2010 19:02

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Tech: News flash: Tech sites use SCARE LANGUAGE to draw hits

  • lame Let’s say you’re a member of the tech press and you need a story on something. TIME TO DIG IN THE APPLE/VERIZON WELL AGAIN! WHOO! At this point, it’s totally cliche and you shouldn’t believe a word that they write.
  • lamer Now let’s say you want to stand out. PC Magazine went the “Rumored Verizon iPhone Crippled on CDMA… For Now” route. Why? Verizon can’t do voice and data at the same time. So it’s crippled. SCARE PHRASES. source
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24 Sep 2010 15:48

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Tech: NBC’s Jeff Zucker contradicts himself on Apple TV and Netflix

  • wednesday NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker is worried about “devaluing” his network’s content, so he doesn’t want to allow 99-cent rentals on the refreshed Apple TV.
  • friday NBC announces a deal to put many of their popular shows on Netflix’s streaming service, which Apple TV includes. Oh, and that Zucker’s out. source
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23 Sep 2010 10:35

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U.S.: Who’s richer, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg? Click and find out!

  • $6.9 billion the value of Mark Zuckerberg’s portfolio, according to Forbes
  • $6.1 billion the value of Steve Jobs; note that this is mostly on paper source
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11 Sep 2010 14:01

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Tech: Android making dramatic inroads in smartphone share

  • 3.9% Android’s worldwide market share at the end of 2009
  • 17.7% Android’s projected market share by late 2010 source
  • » And it gets better: Slowly but surely, Android is gunning for the 900-pound gorilla in the market, RIM. In the most recent quarter, Android had sold 27 percent of all smartphones in the past six months, topping iPhone’s 23 percent share and closing in on BlackBerry’s 33 percent share. Of course, as nobody ever notes in any of these articles – ever – Google offers up their OS for free and sells it on a variety of models sold by numerous companies. To compare, Apple sells two iPhone models for high margins. Of course Google’s going to own the market.
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