Posts tagged: Apple

Google Enters the E-Book Fray to Battle With Apple and Amazon

By admin, May 4, 2010 4:30 pm
Google, whose Book Search site is shown in this photo from the Frankfurt Book Fair, will this summer enter the exploding e-book market, setting the search giant up as a formidable player doing battle with Apple and Amazon in the digital publishing world.

Google has promised to enter the exploding e-book market for some time, and as of this summer, that promise, in the form of Google Editions, will become reality -- and sets Google up as a formidable player doing battle with Apple and Amazon in the digital publishing world.

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Google Enters the E-Book Fray to Battle With Apple and Amazon originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 04 May 2010 17:30:00.

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What’s the Legal Value of That Lost — or Stolen — iPhone, Anyway?

By admin, April 30, 2010 7:00 am
 If the 4G iPhone prototype purchased by Gizmodo.com is determined to be stolen property, what, exactly, is the worth of that property? Here, three 3G iPhones.

There are plenty of legal ambiguities surrounding Gizmodo.com's purchase of an iPhone prototype misplaced by an Apple employee. Here's a fresh one: If the phone is determined to be stolen property, what, exactly, is the worth of that property?

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What's the Legal Value of That Lost -- or Stolen -- iPhone, Anyway? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:00:00.

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Steve Jobs to Adobe: How Do I Hate Flash? Let Me Count the Ways

By admin, April 29, 2010 12:00 pm

Steve Jobs and Adobe Systems entered another round of battle Thursday, with the Apple founder and CEO throwing repeated punches in an open letter explaining why Adobe's Flash will never make it onto the iPhone, iPad and iPod.

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Steve Jobs to Adobe: How Do I Hate Flash? Let Me Count the Ways originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:00:00.

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Apple’s Siri Purchase Heats Up the Race Toward a Voice-Activated Future

By admin, April 29, 2010 8:27 am

With Siri's innovative voice-command technology, smartphone users only have to speak their desires, and the required searches and tasks get done -- without all that cumbersome tapping on tiny keyboards. So it's no surprise that Apple bought the startup.

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Apple's Siri Purchase Heats Up the Race Toward a Voice-Activated Future originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:27:00.

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Was Police Search of Gizmodo Blogger’s Home Illegal?

By admin, April 27, 2010 5:10 pm

A police investigation into how the tech blog Gizmodo obtained a secret iPhone prototype pits conflicting legal principles against one another, and even law experts are divided as to which, ultimately, will win out.

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Was Police Search of Gizmodo Blogger's Home Illegal? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:10:00.

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Daily Blogwatch: What Should Apple Do with All That Cash?

By admin, April 23, 2010 7:30 am
Is GS a buy?

Among Friday's best online stories for investors: a defense of John Paulson, strategies for earnings season, and is GS a buy now?

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Daily Blogwatch: What Should Apple Do with All That Cash? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:30:00.

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Gawker Owner: Gizmodo’s iPhone Scoop Didn’t Make Me Money

By admin, April 22, 2010 5:30 pm
Gizmodo bought the next-generation version of this iPhone for $5,000, scoring it a major scoop -- but, Gawker owner Nick Denton insists, no money.

The story of how Gizmodo got its hands on the device, thanks to the carelessness of an Apple employee and the commercial instincts of an anonymous middleman, has brought Gawker millions of page views -- but no money, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton claims.

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Gawker Owner: Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop Didn't Make Me Money originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:30:00.

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If Apple Didn’t Plan the ‘Lost iPhone’ Leak, It Should Have

By admin, April 22, 2010 9:04 am
If Apple Didn't Plan the 'Lost 4G iPhone' Leak, It Should Have

The amount buzz created by the story of the lost next-gen iPhone that was found at a bar and sold to tech website Gizmodo is worth an incalculable amount of PR. And some analysts openly wonder if it that's what the whole episode is about.

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If Apple Didn't Plan the 'Lost iPhone' Leak, It Should Have originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:04:00.

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Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over ‘Lost’ iPhone Story

By admin, April 20, 2010 5:00 pm
Gawker Media reunited an Apple engineer with his next-generation iPhone, but did it break the law in the process?

Gawker Media says the top-secret iPhone prototype it bought from an anonymous seller was lost, not stolen. But the law might not agree -- and if it doesn't, the company could face serious legal consequences.

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Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over 'Lost' iPhone Story originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:00.

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Sony Ericsson Earnings: Troubled Phonemaker Posts Profit

By admin, April 16, 2010 7:56 am
Sony Ericsson Earnings: Troubled Phonemaker Posts Profit with Xperia X10 and Vivaz smartphones

Sony Ericsson, the "lost" handset company, which has been bleeding market share for the past several years, said its unit sales dropped another 28% in the first quarter, but net income hit $29 million, quite a turnaround from the same quarter last year, when it lost $398 million.

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Sony Ericsson Earnings: Troubled Phonemaker Posts Profit originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:56:00.

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