Computerworld - Apple today said it had sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 smartphones during the opening three-day weekend of sales, a 25% increase over last year's launch of the iPhone 4S. "Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and ...
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IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, has resigned from his post and that a hunt is on for his replacement. AMD has appointed Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and ...
IDG News Service - Apple released on Sunday an update that fixes a problem where the iPhone 5 draws data from the carrier Verizon despite being connected to a Wi-Fi network. Apple's advisory said the scenario happens "under certain ...
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Apple will manufacture one of its Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. by the end of 2013, CEO Tim Cook told NBC and BusinessWeek in interviews made public today. Analysts saw the move as primarily a public relations ploy, a reaction to ...
Australian police are warning people not to rely on Apple's new mobile mapping application after several motorists ended up in a semi-arid national park where temperatures can reach 115 degrees F and there is no water supply. Police in ...
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iPhone 5 supplies continued to improve this week as Apple reduced the wait time for delivery to "2 weeks" on its online store. The status change comes a bit more than a week after Apple shortened the shipping delay to "2-3 weeks" from the ...
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Google on Monday said that iOS users had downloaded more than 10 million copies of its revamped Maps app in the first two days of availability. Google launched Maps late last Wednesday, returning the app to the iPhone after a three-month ...
Apple today said it has sold 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China since Friday, setting an opening weekend sales record for the country. The announcement was Apple's first to trumpet sales in the People's Republic of China (PRC), as ...
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"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." " -- Forbes magazine Those two companies are ...
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Apple has announced that two senior executives are to leave the company, as senior vice-president of iOS Scott Forstall (pictured) and senior vice-president of retail John Browett part ways with the technology giant. It is not yet clear ...
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The patent battle between Samsung and Apple moves to a federal court in California today. The technology firms have each accused the other of intellectual property infringement, which has led to several court battles around the world in ...
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The executive shuffle Apple announced late Monday is the kind of drama that we in the tech press usually only get from watching Game of Thrones. But as interesting as it is from an inside-baseball perspective, it's worth remembering that ...
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Apple's executive shake-up earlier this week is a sign that design is the "tip of the spear" for the company, but the reorganization won't disrupt the firm's product delivery and may produce some groundbreaking moves, analysts predicted ...
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Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
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Apple dropped out of the top five list in China's smartphone market for the third quarter, as local handset vendors saw their shipments surge from the sales of low-priced smartphone models, according to research firm Canalys. The maker of ...
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