Bryan Chaffin

The U.S. Department of Defense is either losing or gaining religion—depending on your viewpoint—and is abandoning its BlackBerry-only, top-down smart device approach in favor of a “device-agnostic” approach that will include iOS and Android. The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it was rolling out its Commercial Mobile Device Implementation Plan, an effort to get the…

In a Vanity Fair article about Google's new headquarters, the civil engineer in charge of the effort used ideas and language Steve Jobs developed at Pixar and was implementing at Apple's own Spaceship HQ to describe the building's intent. Google Bay View Renderings Credit: NBBJ Googleplex Times Two Google is building a new built-to-order headquarters…

A federal court issued an injunction blocking a vote on an Apple shareholder proposal originally scheduled to take place on February 27th, according to Reuters. The proposal would have prevented Apple from issued preferred stocks without shareholder approval. Apple's management backed the shareholder proposal, arguing that it empowered the company's shareholders by giving them say…

 Arthur Levinson Art Levinson, chairman and former CEO of Genentech, and long-time board member and current chairman of Apple Inc., spoke on Tuesday about life at Apple in the 16 months since cofounder Steve Jobs died. This marks the first time that Mr. Levinson—who counted Steve Jobs as a friend, as well as a colleague—has…

Microsoft has quietly jacked up the price of Office for Mac 2011 by 17 percent for the Home & Student edition and 10 percent for the Home & Business edition. The move brings pricing for the Mac version in sync with the 2013 Windows version of the productivity suite, which udnerwent its own price increase…

Some SEC documents filed on Thursday suggest that hedge fund selling contributed—perhaps greatly—to the precipitous decline of $AAPL throughout the December quarter, and by extension the early part of 2013. That's not too surprising, but what's more interesting to me is that it's a demonstration of an idea that's been kicking around in my head…

It's been selling cider for 20 years, and Apple Inc. hasn't exerted an iota of pressure, but The Apple Shop in Hoveton England )as noted in the comments below) is changing its name. Why, you ask? Turns out an all-day flood of Apple customers looking for help with their iMacs and their iPads and their…

[Update: This article originally focused on Apple's quarterly foot traffic of 120 million people through its retail stores. It has been updated to focus on the 370 million people who visited an Apple Store in 2012. – Bryan] Apple CEO Tim Cook reminded us on Tuesday that 370 million people visited an Apple Store during…

Apple CEO Tim Cook's talk at Goldman Sachs on Tuesday morning didn't help his company's stock, which gave back some recent gains throughout the morning session. Mr. Cook talked about innovation, his company's efforts to return more money to its shareholders, and more, but investors were apparently unimpressed. As of this writing, shares of Apple…

Apple cofounder Steve “The Woz” Wozniak thinks that Apple has allowed itself to fall behind Android in some features. In other areas, Mr. Wozniak said that competitors have caught up to Apple, and he praised Samsung for making great devices. Steve Wozniak Source: Wikimedia Commons The Woz made the comments to Wirtschafts Woche, a German…

SAN FRANCISCO – Connected Data launched Transporter this week, the company's private data sharing and storage solution. The company first made waves with a Kickstarter effort in late 2012 to beta test Transporter, and the device is now available to the general public. Transporter essentially offers the kind of shared storage that cloud-based services like…

Actor Ashton Kutcher went method in his approach to playing Steve Jobs in the jOBS biopic that debuted at Sundance on Friday. He went so far as to put himself on the fruitarian diet—an all fruit diet that Mr. Jobs employed on and off throughout his life—and ended up having to spend time in the…

Apple's earning report didn't please regular session investors any more than it did Wednesday's after-hours traders, as they sent the stock plummeting 12.35 percent to US$450.50, a drop of $63.505 per share. Analysts spent the day digesting Apple's earning report and jockeying for position in amidst all the bearish sentiment. $AAPL Chart for January 24th,…

Shares of Apple Inc. were pummeled in after-hours trading Wednesday as investors expressed their displeasure over the company's December quarter results and conference call. Though Apple met estimates for sales and slightly beat estimates for earnings, the company's guidance for the March quarter was substantially below Wall Street's consensus expectations. Apple reported sales of $54.5…

The mind boggles. My mind does, at least. Peter Cohan has penned several pieces about Apple with which I disagreed over the years, but a new column for Forbes encourages Apple to fire Tim Cook as CEO and promote design guru Jony Ive in his place. His reason? Apple's falling profits. This is the actual…

Stop the hurt! For the love of all things rational and pretty, can someone please stop the hurt? It seems that everywhere I look today there's something stupid being written about Apple. I'm not saying the people doing the writing are (necessarily) stupid, but the nonsense being bandied about by pundits far and wide could…

Products made by Apple are one of the most preferred brands for the rich in China. A Chinese research firm recently conducted a survey of some 551 millionaires in the world's most populous nation and found that Apple was the #2 preferred brand for gifting among rich men and the #5 brand among rich women.…

The sound you heard on the roof today was the sky falling as as investors worried about all these reports of Apple cutting iPhone orders. In the process, shares of $AAPL fell to US$485.92, a loss of $15.83 (-3.15 percent), the first time the stock has been below $500 for almost a year. ZOMGTEHSKYSIFALLING! AAPL…

CES is over, and thank goodness. It's a lot of work, but it's an increasingly important show for Apple's ecosystem even though Apple isn't even there. Having had the weekend to think about this year's event, I thought I'd offer my view from 10,000 feet. Firstly, this was a good show for us at TMO.…

LAS VEGAS – German company ON.EARZ is getting ready to enter the U.S. headphone market with the help of a few names you might know, including AC/DC, Elvis Presley, and James Dean. The company will also be bringing its Swagg line to the States, and we checked out both on the show floor of CES…