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The issue is with side by side photos of the two devices that Apple submitted in its filing. While the court document filed by Apple (and posted to Scribd) includes many and more photos of the two devices, it’s the image below, taken directly from that document, that has caused an uproar in the blogosphere.…

The Steve Jobs bio has a new coverWhile Barnes & Noble may be ready to start selling the book just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, Amazon and Apple’s own iBookstore are still showing a March 6, 2012 release date.The biography was written by renowned author Walter Isaacson and comes with the cooperation of Mr.…

If you missed this link when I wrote about restoring iLife after a Lion reinstall, here’s the link again to Apple’s rather extensive Knowledge Base article: “OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery.” You’ll want to bookmark that one. We all have plenty of experience with the consumerization of digital technologies that threaten a business model…

Samsung plans to fight EU Galaxy Tab injunctionA German court ruled in favor of Apple to bar sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in all EU countries except The Netherlands, which means shoppers won’t be able to find the iPad competitor on store shelves until Samsung can get the court to reverse its ruling.…

The situation erupted in April of 2010, two months before Apple went on to unveil the iPhone 4 at its 2010 World Wide Developers Conference. An Apple engineer had the device at a bar in Redwood City, CA, where it was then lost and found, or stolen, as the case may be, by someone the…

I briefly alluded to this dilemma in a prior column, where I noted that “power users” were especially concerned about Lion’s hide-and seek (such as making the home Library folder invisible): “In Lion, more than in any previous OS version, the priority is given to consumer users. The burden is now on technically-skilled users to…

Amazon points to the iPad optimization on its Kindle Cloud Reader web page. This enables Amazon to bypass Apple’s iOS restrictions that had forced it to remove the link to the Kindle Store from the Kindle app for iOS. In the press release accompanying the announcement, Amazon even said: “Without even leaving the app, customers…

Are we surprised over this? In a word: No. Was there any logic to it all? Of course not. How, in an environment where S&P downgrades treasury bonds and the next day the market tanks with the only thing selling being treasury bonds can there be any logic? How, in a market where the Fed…

Quark CEO Raymond Schiavone told PlanetQuark that his company would continue to be based on Denver, CO, and that he believed operations at the company would continue as they had been. “This transition comes at an exciting time for our company and our customers. In the past few years we have made great strides in…

Each of these devices had their problems. Palm’s little pocket computers had plenty of applications available and could even edit Microsoft Office documents with the aid of DataViz’s Documents to Go software, but Palm devices were underpowered and had screens too small to do any real work. Windows CE, and later Windows Mobile devices were…

However, that lack of familiarity shouldn’t hamper the upcoming launch of Apple’s iCloud service, nor the growth of similar services. AppleInsider quoted Stephen Baker, vice-president of industry analysis for NPD, as saying: “Whether they understand the terminology or not, consumers are actually pretty savvy in their use of cloud-based applications. They might not always recognize…

Pretty scary right? Being an AAPL watcher, and a lover of roller coasters, seeing the stock whipsaw nearly 14.75 points, from a low of $353.02 to a high of $367.77 today can be both exhilarating and panic inducing, but in my opinion, it doesn’t mean a thing.All too often we get caught up in the heat…

Apple’s Big Ol’ iPhone Money Bags It looks like we’re going to have to retrain ourselves in thinking about how much Apple makes in the phone business. While I was stunned when Apple was shown to be taking in half of the profits of the entire cellphone business, I now find myself forced to be…

Apple Story is one of many defendants in Apple’s lawsuit Image courtesy of BirdAbroad As part of its success, Apple has been contending with a variety of fake Apple Stores in China, including stores that not only looked an Apple-designed, built, and owned store, but also outfitted its employees in T-shirts with Apple logos on…

It’s always interesting to see the current browser share statistics. The second chart is of the most interest to me: there are two declining browsers and two advancing browsers. Here’s the ars technical summary for July, 2011. Personally, I was not happy with Chrome’s installer leaving unwanted remnants when I tested it awhile back, and…

The iPad now makes up 12 percent of Apple’s share value, up from 9.6 percent. iTunes and the App Store account for 5 percent, up from 3.4 percent, and the Mac now accounts for almost 12 percent of the company’s stock value. The ever popular iPhone holds about half of Apple’s stock value.iPad brings in…

In a blog post, David Drummond, Google’s Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, claimed that his company was a victim of bullying tactics in which Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle were all conspiring to “strangle” Google’s Android platform through the use of “bogus” patents and a broken patent system that no longer encouraged innovation. This…

France is still looking into Apple’s iPhone location trackingApple found itself in the middle of a privacy-related controversy earlier this year when reports that the iPhone was logging user’s locations and storing the database on their computers. In some cases, the databases contained up to a year’s worth of location information that tracked iPhone owner’s…

Executive Recruiting(Image courtesy of iStockPhoto)  Ron Johnson, Apple’s current senior vice president for retail, announced in June that he had accepted a gig to be CEO of venerable retailer J.C. Penney. Mr. Johnson joined the board of the department store chain on August 1st, and will officially take the CEO title on November 1st, though…

In light of the current legal proceedings by Apple Inc. against Samsung Electronics Australia, Samsung regrets to announce it will be postponing its media launch event, scheduled for 11th August 2011, for the Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1.Samsung will announce a new date for the GALAXY Tab 10.1 media launch event as soon as practicable.Apple and…

Apple found itself in the middle of a privacy-related controversy earlier this year when reports that the iPhone was logging user’s locations and storing the database on their computers. In some cases, the databases contained up to a year’s worth of location information that tracked iPhone owner’s movements.South Korea fines Apple for iPhone location tracking…

Technology development is not just a matter of R&D, trial and error and learning curve. It’s also a function of how the current level of technology is able to implement cultural, technical norms. Here’s what I mean.When Apple was first developing the Lisa and the Macintosh, the Xerox Star (technically the Xerox 8010 Information System)…

Samsung still plans to sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 in AustraliaApple and Samsung have been locked in a legal battle over patent infringement claims for several months. Both companies have alleged that the other’s mobile devices use patented technologies without proper licensing, have filed lawsuits against each other in the U.S. and other countries.In a statement…