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Apple dominates booming tablet market
Apple continues to dominate the tablet market with its second generation iPad having a huge impact on sales figures across EMEA. Shipment figures across EMEA released by IDC show that Q2 exceeded f...20 Sep 2011
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Cook will not rock the Apple boat
Tim Cook the new CEO of Apple has moved swiftly to reassure resellers and staff that the vendor will not change direction following the decision by Steve Jobs to step down. Jobs made his shock ann...26 Aug 2011
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Apple has to prepare for a future without Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has got a lot of things right in his time at Apple (and a couple of things wrong) but it's measure of how successful he - and his company - has become, especially since his return in 199...25 Aug 2011
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Steve Jobs calls it time as Apple boss
Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple admitting that he could no longer meet his duties because of his health. Jobs has been battling pancreatic cancer and underwent a liver transplant in 2009. H...25 Aug 2011
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If HP wants to be the new IBM, does Google want to be the new Apple?
So I go away for two weeks and all hell breaks loose. First, Google decides to buy Motorola's mobile phone operation, then HP says it's getting out of the PC business and discontinuing WebOS produc...21 Aug 2011
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Dell chief counts Apple out of mobile OS race. Really, Michael?
Has Michael Dell seriouslyruled Apple out of the running? Clearly nobody has told Apple, but if comments made by the eponymous Dell boss on the firm's second quarter conference call are to be taken...18 Aug 2011
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Google spurned offer to join Microsoft and Apple in bid for "bogus patents"
To many people out there, the name Brad Smith might not be too familiar. He'sMicrosoft's general counsel and most of the time anyone would have come across his name in the past would probably have ...04 Aug 2011
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Fake reseller presents an interesting conundrum for Apple
As China continues to advance its global economic power, we've all become familiar with the Chinese capacity to deliver uncannily accurate knock-off products, particularly when it comes to desirabl...20 Jul 2011
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Apple may not be a computer company anymore but it's doing very nicely
In January 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company was dropping the word "Computer" from its name to become "Apple Inc". As he pointed out at the time, only on...20 Jul 2011
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Apple reports huge increase in Q3 revenue and profit
Apple third quarter revenue increased by 82% and net profit rose by 125% as the company sold more than 20m iPhones, 9.25m iPads and 3.95m Macs in the three months ending 25 June 2011. Revenue reach...19 Jul 2011
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Apple Microsoft alliance beats Google to Nortel patents
Google's $900m stalking horse bid for the last remaining patent assets of Nortel has been soundly trumped by an unlikely consortium led by Apple and Microsoft. The alliance, which collectively blew...01 Jul 2011
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RIM to cull staff in face of Android, Apple assault
RIM is to embark on a drastic cost-cutting drive that will see undisclosed numbers of redundancies across the firm, and the "reallocation of resources to areas that offer highest growth opport...17 Jun 2011
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Ovum to Apple: You took your time with iCloud, didn't you?
Apple took its time with iCloud, didn't it, says Ovum analyst Mark Little. Good, he says, it's all the better for it. But don't cock things up by using MobileMe. It its current state, it's a donkey...07 Jun 2011
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Apple moves to counter Mac Defender scam
Apple is reacting to one of the first major Mac targeted viruses, warning customers over the scam and looking to roll out a security update in the next day or so. The vendor has not traditionally b...26 May 2011
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Apple overtakes Microsoft on revenue and profit
A landmark of sorts was reached this month when Apple overtook Microsoft in terms of revenue and profits in the respective companies' most recent quarterly financial results. The difference in the ...29 Apr 2011
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Apple predicts small Japan hit, puts iPhone shortage behind it
Apple has become the latest vendor to predict some material impact on future sales and earnings arising from the 11 March earthquake in Japan. Speaking on Apple's Q2 2011 earnings call yesterday, C...21 Apr 2011
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Linguists in war of words over Apple App store trademark claim
Do you ever get the feeling some companies just have too much money for their own good? And that maybe they could be using it to better purpose than lining lawyers' pockets? Microsoft and Apple are...29 Mar 2011
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Apple faces exodus of customers over 'gay conversion' app
Apple's app store has been very successful - the recently launched Mac app store has also been doing very nicely thank you - but the company has found itself in a number of compromising positions o...18 Mar 2011
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Apple makes right call with delayed Japanese iPad 2 launch
There are moments when real life is bigger than a technology launch and so perhaps it is a wise decision of Apple to delay the iPad 2 launch in Japan. The vendor has announced that it will indefin...16 Mar 2011
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Blackberry wilts as Apple blooms for enterprise users
The popularity of Research in Motion's Blackberry smartphones declined in the fourth quarter of 2010 as enterprise employees chose Apple products as their preferred devices, according to a survey b...11 Mar 2011