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Analyst: Apple Has Moved Beyond U.S.-Centric Story
Apple’s March quarter results show that the company has progressed beyond being a U.S.-centric story, according to Sterne Agee analyst…
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Sprint Sells 1.5 Million iPhones in Q1, 44% to New Customers
Struggling U.S. carrier Sprint saw the smartphone side of its business bolstered in the past quarter by strong iPhone sales,…
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Analyst: Apple TV, LTE iPhone are Coming
Following Apple’s second fiscal quarter earnings report, Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley expects the company will release an LTE-compatible version…
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John Browett Starts as Apple’s New Retail SVP
John Browett, discovered in January to be Apple’s new Senior Vice President of Retail, has officially started work with the company, as…
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Reader Discussion: Apple Q3 Sales Estimates
With Apple’s second fiscal quarter earnings report behind us, TMO forum members already sharing their predictions for the company’s third…
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Apple Offers 150 WWDC 2012 Student Scholarships
Even though tickets are already sold out for Apple’s 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference, there’s still a chance for 150 student…
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Apple’s WWDC 2012 Sells Out in Less than Two Hours
Apple announced the dates for its 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference and kicked off ticket sales Wednesday morning, and sold out…
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Apple Opens Design Awards Nominations for WWDC 2012
Along with the announcement that the annual Worldwide Developers Conference will happen in June, Apple also opened nominations for the…
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WWDC 2012 Tickets: What You Need to Know
Apple finally announced its 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference on Wednesday, and with that announcement came a few changes to how…
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iTunes: Using Home Sharing to Sync Content
It’s a confusing media-buying world out there. You purchase a song, and you want your wife to have it, too—but…
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Apple Announces WWDC 2012: June 11-15
Apple will be hosting its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15 at the…
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Chinese Government: Proview Owns Rights to Apple iPad Trademark
A Chinese government official told reporters on Tuesday that in the view of his government, Proview Technology (or Shenzhen Proview)…
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Cook: Apple Hates Litigation But Others Need to ‘Invent Their Own Stuff’
Apple’s leadership “hates litigation” and would be open to a fair settlement in the ongoing patent wars between Apple and…
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Fortune 500 Companies Moving to iPad Hits 94%
Interest in Apple’s iPad is growing in the enterprise market with 94 percent of the Fortune 500 companies either testing…
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Apple’s CEO: No Convergence of iPad and MacBooks
At today’s Financial Results Conference Call, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was asked about a possible convergence of MacBooks and the…
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Apple’s Q2 Cash Balance Tops $110 Billion
Apple’s cash on hand continues to rise with the company reporting that it had over US$110 billion in the bank…
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Apple: Total iOS Device Sales Top 365 Million
Apple has sold over 365 million iOS devices since the first iPhone launched in 2007. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer shared…
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iCloud Now Has Over 125 Million Members
Apple’s iCloud online service now has over 125 million members, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said during the company’s second quarter results call…
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TMO Live Coverage: Apple’s Q2 2012 Earnings Report
Apple’s second fiscal quarter earnings report is under way, and The Mac Observer is covering the event live. Hop on…
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Apple Posts Blowout Record March Quarter Earnings [Update]
Apple announced earnings for the March quarter on Tuesday, posting yet another record quarter that most analysts are likely to…
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Sweet-Sounding News from Musikmesse 2012
At last month’s Musikmesse 2012, some 30,000 products from all areas of music production and performance technology were on display…
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Apple Stock Continues Sell-Off Ahead of Earnings
Shares in Apple continued a multiday retreat ahead of the company’s Q2 earnings report scheduled for after the market close…
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Google Launches Cloud Storage Service Google Drive
Following yesterday’s online storage announcements from Microsoft and Dropbox, Google’s highly-anticipated Google Drive launched today. The cloud storage service offers users 5 GB of free…
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Report: iPads Account for 66% of Mobile Shopping, 90% of Revenue
iPad users account for nearly two-thirds of all mobile online shopping sessions and nearly 90 percent of mobile shopping revenue,…
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8 Essential iPad Apps for the Educator
If you’re an educator of any kind, from grade school through the university level, you’ll find the iPad is a…
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Intel Expects 100 Thunderbolt Devices By Year’s End
Intel expects to have 100 Thunderbolt devices on the market by the end of 2012, with “hundreds” more by the…
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Apple Seeds Fourth OS X 10.7.4 Build, Lists No Known Issues
Apple late Monday released to developers the fourth and latest build of OS X 10.7.4, the latest incremental update to…
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Julie Kuehl Discusses Social Media on The Tech Lounge
The Mac Observer’s Julie Kuehl joined in on The Tech Lounge to talk about Facebook and other social media services,…
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Reader Discussion: Predicting Apple’s Q2 iPhone Sales Figures
Apple will be hosting its second fiscal quarter earnings report after the market closes this afternoon, and TMO forum members…
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Fitbit Intros Aria Wi-Fi Connected Scale
Fitbit expanded its health monitoring gear lineup on Monday with the introduction of its new Fitbit Aria scale. The scale…
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AT&T Q1 iPhone Activations Hit 4.3 Million
AT&T said it activated 4.3 million iPhones during its first fiscal quarter, topping Verizon’s 3.2 million activations. Compared to last…
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Apple to Report Q2 Earnings Today
Apple will be hosting its second fiscal quarter earnings report conference call Tuesday afternoon at 5PM eastern time. This will…
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Proview Thinks Apple iPad Settlement Is ‘Likely’
New comments from Proview Technology show that the company thinks it is “likely” to settle with Apple out of court…
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Microsoft Pulls Office for Mac 2011 SP2 Upgrade
Microsoft withdrew its Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 (SP2) update that was released on April 12. Users quickly…
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Apple, Pubs Face New Canadian Class Action Over E-Books
Apple and its publishing partners now face class-action lawsuits in Canada over the same e-book price fixing claims that have…
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FULL-DISKfighter Isn’t the Best Way to Slim Down Your Drive
FULL-DISKfighter is a new utility meant to slim down you Mac’s hard drive. David Winograd relates his experiences and technical…
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Mac in the Classroom: How a School got into App Development
As schools integrate emerging technology into the classroom, a challenge emerges to properly leverage the technology without sacrificing the educational…
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Windows 8 Enterprise License Now Penalizes iPad/Android Users
On the verge of launching its next operating system, Microsoft has modified its Windows 8 software licensing agreements to encourage enterprise partners…
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SanDisk Class4 16GB Micro SD Card & Adapter: $10.48
The Deal Brothers found us a deal on the SanDisk Class4 16GB Micro SD Card & Adapter for $10.48, including free…
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Microsoft Releases SkyDrive App for OS X, 7 GB Free Storage
Users looking for online storage and syncing that don’t want to go the Dropbox route can now check out Microsoft’s SkyDrive app,…
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LapDawg’s X-4 Laptop Table is Unique And Useful
LapDawg’s X-4 aluminum laptop table turns into a TV tray, a breakfast tray, or a laptop tray in moments, giving…
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Flatworld Sues Apple Claiming Touch-based Patent Infringement
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit from a company called Flatworld over claims that the iPhone, iPad and Mac…
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Dropbox Adds Option for Direct Shareable Links
Popular multi-platform file syncing service Dropbox introduced a new file sharing method Monday, allowing users to quickly share any file in their…
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Analyst: Apple will Kill 17-inch MacBook Pro this Year
Apple will discontinue the 17-inch MacBook Pro some time this year, leaving only the 15-inch and 13-inch models in the…
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Intel Launches New Ivy Bridge Processors for Desktop & Laptop Computers
Intel officially launched its new Ivy Bridge processor lineup on Sunday, opening up the possibility for iMac and MacBook Pro…
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Adobe Intros Creative Suite 6 with Cloud-based Push
Adobe unveiled its Creative Suite 6 applications on Monday, showing off what users can expect when the new versions of…
