Blackberry sells its soul for $4.7 billion
* UPDATE - the Crackberry monster announced today it had made a deal with major Canadian investor Fairfax and others to sell itself off for $4.7 billion and to go private. Its shares initially fell on...
View ArticleQuestions posed over Apple iPhone sales
The Tame Apple press has been running a story about how Cupertino is not doomed after selling nine million iPhones over the weekend. Apple released the figures itself, and it was seized on as it...
View ArticleApple's new iPhones are fragile
The build quality of the two new Apple iPhones is lower than previous models, according to insurance company SquareTrade. SquareTrade offers a gadget protection plan so it is jolly interested to know...
View ArticleiFixit reports new iPhones fiddly to fix
Professional gadget-tinkerers at iFixit have put together a list of smartphones rated by how easy they are to repair. Apple's flagship new iPhones are by no means the worst on the list, but, as is...
View ArticleSamsung attacked in PR gold for Apple
Some pundits have been wading into Samsung for "copying Apple" by releasing a gold version of its Galaxy S IV right after Apple released and then quickly sold out of its gold iPhone 5S. "If recent...
View ArticleSteve Jobs killed iPhone patent in the EU
One of the highlights of Apple Messiah Steve Jobs' career was also one of his biggest blunders. The spiritual and temporal head of the cargo cult gave a keynote to Macworld in January 2007 which was...
View ArticleiOS7 makes Apple customers sick
Apple's latest OS is making some of its fanboys so sick that their mothers are having to give them a dose of Pepto-Bismol and send them to bed. While some trumpeted the wonderful world of fake zooms,...
View ArticleWindows Phone continues steady growth
Market share of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS is steadily increasing across Europe, nearing the double digit mark at 9.2 percent for the three months to August 2013, according to a report. In Germany,...
View ArticleMEPs put universal charger pressure on Apple
The European Parliament may force Apple's hand in adopting a universal charger standard.A Committee is behind plans to standardise mobile chargers across Europe. Many smartphones already use the same...
View ArticleQualcomm: Apple's 64-bit chip is two-bit gimmick
Top Qualcomm marketing executive Anand Chandrasekher has attacked Apple's iPhone 5S A7 processor as a "marketing gimmick". Although there may well be a use for 64-bit chips in mobile in the future,...
View ArticleAnalyst pre-hypes Apple vapourware
Disappointed that Apple has not released anything innovative for a while, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has started hyping up sales of Apple's vapourware. According to USAToday, Munster has...
View ArticleJobs' Mob rumoured to introduce new tablets on October 22
Apple will introduce its latest line-up of iPads on October 22. AllThingsD deep throats have claimed that Apple would be updating its tablets in time for holiday shopping. The new iPads will go up...
View ArticleObama risks trade war to defend Apple's patent trolling
The US government is encouraging patent troll actions against foreign companies while protecting its own from any counter attacks. It had been thought that President Barrack Obama would intervene to...
View ArticleApple's phones are cannibals
It appears that Apple's cunning plan to save its floundering bottom line by releasing two phones in the market at the same time has failed. Earlier Apple released a cheap and cheerful iPhone 5C and...
View ArticleiPhone 5S accelerometer stuffed-up by Bosch chip
Apple must be regretting choosing the Bosch Sensortech accelerometer for its iPhone 5S. A hardware bug is being reported on several sites claiming that on some games the chip creates a tilt to the...
View ArticleIt's official - Apple messed up iPhone 5 refresh
Verizon has confirmed that the launch of the iPhone 5C and 5S was a total mess. Communications Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said Apple Inc's iPhone 5C "undersold expectations" which is shorthand...
View ArticleApple could be ready to bosh Bosch
We’ve already reported that Apple had problems with the iPhone 5C because of “undersupply”.And we’ve mentioned that chips from Bosch come into that “undersupply” euphemism.Apple is now changing the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office is still king of the castle
It looks like hopes that open sauce, or cloud based alternatives might kill off Microsoft Office were completely unfounded. Beancounters at Forrester have been adding up the numbers and dividing by...
View ArticleApple growth is just so yesterday
The writing is on the wall for the flash in the pan cargo cult Apple. The outfit announced that it sold only 33.8 million iPhones in its September quarter, which would be good for any other company...
View ArticleIPad Air cheaper to make than iPad 3
Apple is notorious with its suppliers for screwing the last penny out of them. That was demonstrated recently by the Bosch debacle with the iPhone 5s.Now market research company IHS has revealed that...
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