Apple and Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC have settled all of their outstanding patent disputes, they said. The settlement includes a 10-year agreement under which the companies will license current and future patents from each other, they ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is “extremely sorry” to customers for inaccuracies in its new mapping software included in iOS 6, and has pointed users to competing services in an open letter to customers released Friday. With many users ...
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Apple today announced a Sept. 12 event in San Francisco to unveil its newest iPhone. Invitations to the media and analysts went out Tuesday for the long-expected event next week, and hinted at the likely name for the iPhone refresh. ...
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Two of Apple’s top executives are leaving the company: Scott Forstall, who has overseen the iOS platform that runs the iPhone and iPad, will leave Apple next year, and John Browett, Senior Vice President of retail, is leaving sooner, ...
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Apple®today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone®5 in China,just three days after its launch on December 14.iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December,making it the fastest ...
Apple has agreed to pay$60 million for ownership of the iPad trademark in China,as part of a settlement with a little-known Chinese firm called Proview that had tried to ban sales of the tablet in the country,according to a local court. ...
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A former Apple executive has spoken about his twenty years at the company, and has given his perspective of what CEO Tim Cook is like to work for. David Sobotta was a sales executive at Apple from 1984 to 2004, and, though he ...
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Apple has been quietly improving its widely criticised iOS 6 Maps app, according to new reports. Apple Insider notes that the Brooklyn Bridge, which was previously distorted in Apple’s 3D Flyover mode, is now three dimensional and ...
Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft's Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, ...
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Apple's maps proved to be far inferior to Google's. The product's shoddiness prompted Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue a rare public apology and recommend that iPhone owners consider using Google maps through a mobile web browser or seek other ...
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GOOGLE Maps have found their way back to the iPhone, and the new alternative was already the top-ranking free app in Apple's iTunes store. The world's most popular online mapping system returned late yesterday with the release of the ...
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IDG News Service-Google has made its Maps app available on the Apple App Store,after Apple stumbled with its own maps application. The Google Maps app became available late Wednesday for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch."Starting today,we're ...
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IDG News Service-Foxconn Technology Group is considering expanding its existing manufacturing operations in the U.S.,in a move that could be linked with Apple's plan to bring back Mac manufacturing to the country. Foxconn made the ...
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Apple's planned investment of$100 million next year in a U.S.manufacturing facility is relatively small,but still important.Apple has the money,talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are ...
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Apple today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third ...
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