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Battle of the billion dollar buybacks: Apple, Inc. vs Microsoft CorporationOver the past fifteen years, both Apple and Microsoft have invested in Apple, while Microsoft has also invested in itself. Here's a look at how those…
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Microsoft now giving away Surface RT tablets to boost Bing use in schoolsMicrosoft is looking to make a bigger splash in the education segment for both its hardware and search divisions, offering schools the ability to ear…
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The Apple Era begins as Microsoft, Google shift to a hardware centric modelThe formerly universal consensus that widely licensed software (like Windows) would always win out over integrated hardware products (like the Macint…
... was reinforced with the failure of every integrated hardware ... Zune was an embarrassing failure across its several generations. ... ended up a spectacular failure that maintained a brilliant ... . Google replicates Nexus smartphone failure with Nexus tablet fiasco ... -
After its disastrous Exynos 5 Octa, Samsung may have lost Apple's A7 contract to TSMCApple has long been expected to move its A-series chip production from Samsung to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. This wasn't expected to…
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Microsoft outs new Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 in latest pitch to tablet generationMicrosoft on Monday used a media event in Manhattan to show off the next wave of its Surface devices, doubling down on an effort to simulate Apple's …
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Microsoft signals it's committed to Surface hardware for the long haulThough Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars on its Surface tablets, the company made it clear on Monday that it has no intention of bac…
... is largely viewed as a failure after its first year. The ... largely been viewed as a failure against Apple's iPad. But ... -
Gene Munster's iPhone launch estimates off by 5M units for the second year in a rowIndustry observers had been snickering about a promise made by Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to "double down" on security, but a series of jaw-dro…
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How much $AAPL has Apple eaten with its $44 billion buyback appetite?Celebrity investor Carl Icahn made news when he bought over $1 billion of Apple stock earlier this year, but Icahn's investment pales in comparison t…
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What's left for the Macintosh in a Post-PC iOS World?Apple has sold Macintosh computers for just short of 30 years. Over just the last six, its personal computer business has been vastly overshadowed by…
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Google Web Designer chases market established by Apple's iAd ProducerThree years after Apple launched iAd Producer as a way to build interactive ads and other content using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS web standards, Goog…
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Obama, Sebelius compare Apple's iOS 7 launch to Healthcare.gov rollout issuesPresident Barack Obama on Tuesday compared the buggy rollout of the new Healthcare.gov website to Apple's iOS 7 release issues, echoing earlier senti…
... don't actively root for failure." Obama's remarks mirrored those ... the whole thing is a failure," noted the secretary. Tuesday's ... -
Data bites dogma: Apple's iOS ate up Android, Blackberry U.S. market share losses this summerMarket data is eating away at previously held notions in the mobile market. Blackberry's continued decline in U.S. smartphone market share over the s…
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Poor Windows 8, Surface RT performance means pay cut for BallmerMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his pay docked this year as a result of the disappointing performance of the company's Windows Division over the past…
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iPhone IP Wars: Apple & the thorny issues of patent protectionIn 2007 Apple introduced iPhone, emphasizing that virtually every significant aspect of its entirely new experience and industrial design was protect…
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Apple's 2011 MacBook Pro lineup suffering from sporadic GPU failuresOwners of early-2011 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros are reporting issues with the discrete AMD graphics processors in their notebooks, which in som…
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BlackBerry begins rolling out BBM for Apple's iPhoneBeleaguered device maker BlackBerry on Monday announced that its popular messaging platform --?BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM --?is now officially avai…
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$AAPL shares regain highs from early 2013; many Apple analysts' targets now underwaterApple's stock has returned to highs not seen since the beginning of the year, closing today above the price targets of a number of financial analysts…
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Apple earned more than Samsung, LG, Nokia, Huawei, Lenovo & Motorola's mobile shipments combinedWith sales of "just" 33.8 million iPhones, Apple earned more than Samsung's entire mobile unit (which includes PCs, netbooks and tablets) plus the mo…
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Apple's increasing cultural influence colors "Obama crash"Apple's increasing visibility on the PC desktop, and in national politics and global culture, has resulted in the Mac's multicolored "beach ball" wai…
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Apple's Siri may offer crowd-sourced answers to user queriesApple's Siri may soon get more of a human touch as the Cupertino company is investigating the viability of using crowd-sourced information to broaden…
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The curious case of IDC, Gartner & Strategy Analytics' PC, phone & tablet data on AppleEvery quarter, the tech world's market research firms release metrics on how many PCs, phones and tablets Apple reported selling and compare these to…
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Apple's iPhone 5s, 5c take 76% share of Japanese sales in October, including 61% on NTT DoCoMoApple's new iPhones are big in Japan, taking a 61 percent share of NTT DoCoMo smartphone sales and a 76 percent share of overall sales during the mon…
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Steve Ballmer boasts profitability, reveals personal living room push in Microsoft exit interviewWith Steve Ballmer's days left at Microsoft dwindling down, the outgoing CEO has participated in a new interview reflecting on his legacy, in which h…
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BlackBerry loses $4.4 billion in Q3, sells just 4.3 million devicesCanadian smartphone maker BlackBerry on Friday reported third-quarter losses of more than $4 billion as weak hardware demand continues to bedevil the…
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Editorial: 2013 was a terrible year for both Apple's competitors and its media criticsTech blogs and mainstream media reports in 2013 consistently presented Apple as beset by a series of unsolvable problems, from flagging sales and sli…
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Director Michael Bay's onstage meltdown steals the show at Samsung CES press eventWhile Samsung was hoping to drum up hype for its latest curved television sets, plans to have blockbuster director Michael Bay promote its products b…
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Apple releases third beta of iOS 7.1 with iCloud, audiobook fixesApple on Tuesday supplied developers with its third pre-release beta of iOS 7.1, a forthcoming update for its mobile operating system, with the lates…
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Owners of 2011 MacBook Pros report critical GPU failures, system crashesIt appears a number of early-2011 MacBook Pro models with discrete AMD GPUs are seeing issues with system crashes and hardware failures, with reports…
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Apple provides iOS 7.1 beta 4 to developersApple on Tuesday released the fourth beta of iOS version 7.1 to developers with a fix for a message sending bug, while other issues from previous ver…
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Apple says working on fix for random iOS 7 crashing issueApple on Wednesday confirmed it is working on a fix for an issue that causes devices running iOS 7 to randomly crash and reboot; a problem seen by ma…
... ' "blue screen of death" system failure, the iOS 7 problem has ...
