Apple expected to ship 6.5M iPads in first quarter, 40M in 2011
Shipments of the iPad, including the second-generation model to be announced by Apple today, are expected to be between 6 million and 6.5 million in the first quarter of 2011, on their way to 40 million for the calendar year. The numbers from DigiTimes on Wednesday show that Apple expects to significantly ramp up production [...]
Global CIO: iPad Versus Motorola Xoom: Apps Give Apple Huge Advantage
Last week, I wrote about how the massive gravitational attraction of Apple’s iPad tablet is sucking in huge numbers of enterprise applications that are giving Apple in aggregate an enormous advantage over future competitors from Android or RIM. Yes, those competitors are certainly working feverishly to persuade the makers of mainstream business apps to provide [...]
Apple’s Cook Slams New Tablets as ‘Vapor’
Strong sales of the iPad helped Apple deliver knock-out results for its first fiscal quarter – and may also raise the bar for the deluge of new tablets expected in this market in the coming months. In Apple’s earnings report on Tuesday, the company reported that it sold about 7.33 million iPads during the December [...]
AT&T iPad hackers’ chats were turned in by secret source
IDG News Service – The government’s case against two men charged with hacking into AT&T’s website to steal e-mail addresses from about 120,000 iPad users got a boost last year when a confidential source handed over 150 pages of chat logs between the two and other members of their hacking group. Excerpts from the logs, [...]
Apple iOS 4.3 Arrives with a Host of New Features
Apple has released the iOS 4.3 beta 8FS148b build for app developers of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Apart from the rotation lock feature reported earlier, iOS 4.3 also brings a slew of other changes across the operating system. Italian Blog iSpazio and MacStories blogs have compiled a list of more than 12 new features [...]
Apple’s iPhone most popular item on eBay in 2010
Apple’s iPhone beat out Barbie and the World Cup to take the coveted spot of most popular item on eBay’s Top Shopped 2010 list, while the iPad came in fifth. eBay compiles the annual list by analyzing sale and search data from the year to track top shopping trends. Over 1.63 million iPhone 4 related [...]
The Rise of Apps, iPad and Android
In 2010, the computer truly went mobile. Sure, users of Apple Inc.’s iPhone have had the Web in their hands since 2007. But this past year, smartphones plunged into the mainstream, giving millions of people the ability to browse the Internet, watch movies and stream music anywhere they could maintain a cellular or Wi-Fi connection—and [...]
Amazon’s Kindle sales to surpass 8M this year?
We knew that Amazon was making a killing with its $139 third-generation Kindles, but since the retailer doesn’t discuss Kindle sales numbers, it’s always been unclear just how well it’s doing. Now it looks like the Kindle is set to surpass 8 million units sold this year, 60 percent more than many analyst predictions, two [...]
Tablets, Cases Top No-Contract Tech Gifts
Cell phones seem like a great idea for the gadget lovers on your holiday gift list, until you stop to ponder the fine print: What sort of gift locks you into a two-year contract that forces you to fork out upwards of $60 each month? Of course, you can probably buy an unsubsidized model if [...]
Review: iOS4.2 software on iPad brings welcome features, unwelcome snags
Apple’s eagerly anticipated iOS 4.2 mobile software upgrade finally reaches the iPad today. The free upgrade addresses shortcomings in Apple’s otherwise prized tablet software and will feel familiar to iPhone 4 owners who can already exploit some of the latest stunts. (Today’s update also brings new capabilities to the iPhone and iPod Touch. ) As [...]
