iPads have definitely found their place in business, and now it is beginning to make it into the government. Already seeing an adoption by some consumer airplane companies, now the Air Force is planning to deploy a reported 18,000 iPads to pilots and this plan will save a supposed $50 million over the next 10 years due to lower weight on flights when using…
Earlier I talked about how AT&T totaled a crazy 4.8 million iPhone activations, beating out Verizon’s 4 million iPhone activations last quarter. Sprint, the 3rd place carrier in the US, had a total of 1.5 million activations. This doesn’t seem like much, and in comparison, it wasn’t. However, all three of these combined to amount to 10.3 million, which…
The day after Apple announces how many iPhones it has sold, AT&T has some more information for us. According to the big blue carrier, AT&T has activated 4.8 million iPhones in the last quarter, making up a crazy 80% of its total 6 million smartphone activations. This in comparison to Verizon was more iPhones, but less total smartphones. Verizon only…
Just after hearing about Reeder for iPad going free, and that development of the application will indeed continue after Google Reader’s July 1st shutdown, we get some news about Feedly. Feedly, as many may know, is another RSS aggregating service that works sorta kinda like Google Reader. Well, post-Google’s Reader shutdown announcement, Feedly reports that…
So, remember when I said something along the lines of it being unlikely for Apple to do something with its money, “such as a buyout?” Well, I now stand corrected. Apple has just acquired WifiSLAM. What is WifiSLAM? I know, I had never heard of it either, but after looking into it, I am increasingly interested. What this company does is map indoor locations….
If you aren’t sure what Shazam is, you may as well have been living under a rock the past few years. It is a service that, at the touch of a button, can quickly identify a song or TV show you are listening to/watching. However, it has also begun expanding the service to television commercials, allowing advertisers to tell watchers to “Shazam” the commercial…
Just when you were beginning to miss the court cases, they are back. That’s right, more Apple vs. Samsung news for you, this one having to do with the $1.05 billion trial that happened in the United States. According to a new ruling from Judge Koh, $450 million of the damages awarded to Apple will be retried, as per the following quote from the…
The Wall Street Journal has some interesting news today, from Leap Wireless, the company behind Cricket. According to the report, $100 million worth of iPhones is what the company is now stuck with because the devices have not been sold. A problem could have been what the device was priced at. Starting at $399 for the 8GB iPhone 4, it’s now obvious that…
Apple is definitely known for having money, but one thing few tend to notice is how much it spends on lobbying in the U.S. capital, Washington D.C. Year-over-year (from 2011-2012) Apple actually decreased its lobbying budget, cutting down 13%. Google on the other hand, who, by looking at the chart above, was the runaway leader in “most spent”,…
In case you were wondering whatever happened to the “IPHONE” in Brazil, there is some new news today on that subject. If I could take your attention away from the jailbreak today, I’ll tell you what’s going on. According to a report out of, where else, Brazil, Gradiente has had the IPHONE trademark for quite sometime. This is a problem for…
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