03/09/2011
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Rumors are running rampant that Apple Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) are expanding their foundry ties-a possible blow for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
With little or no fanfare, Apple and TSMC have recently entered into a foundry relationship, sources said. As reported, TSMC will make the A5 [...]
02/24/2011
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple’s(AAPL) Verizon iPhone — the one you’ve been waiting for — will keep you waiting another year.
The iPhone 5, due out sometime this summer, will not be an LTE 4G phone, says Telecom Pragmatics analyst Sam Greenholtz, who has talked with people close to the matter.
“The next iPhone — [...]
02/15/2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
European phone operators said Internet companies such as Google Inc. shouldn’t be allowed to dominate content services and that platforms must be kept open for all companies.
Regulators are willing to step in for the sake of openness, Vodafone Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Colao said today at the Mobile World Congress in [...]
02/11/2011
Giga Om
No matter how closely the two match their hardware and software efforts, they can’t compete against Apple’s total, integrated package
Early Friday morning, Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership that will see Windows Phone 7 become the primary platform for Nokia’s high-end smartphones. It’s a bold move that will help solve Windows Phone 7′’s [...]
02/02/2011
Reuters
NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Wednesday that it would kick off online sales of the Verizon Wireless iPhone on Feb. 9, a day before the device hits its store shelves.
Apple’s web sales launch of the highly-anticipated phone will follow Verizon’s online sales of a limited number of iPhones [...]
02/02/2011
Bloomberg Television
Apple Inc. , the maker of the iPhone and iPad, probably agreed to buy almost $4 billion of displays from LG Display Co., Toshiba Mobile Display Co. and Sharp Corp. over two years, according to IHS Inc.’s ISuppli. Apple Inc., the maker of the iPhone and iPad, probably agreed to buy almost $4 billion [...]
12/15/2010
CNET News.com
Light Peak promises to move big chunks of data like full-length movies in seconds and is backed by heavyweights Intel, Sony, and Apple. But how will this be implemented in consumer products? I asked Jason Ziller, an Intel manager heading up Light Peak work at Intel.
Will MacBook Pros coming later this year use [...]
12/09/2010
CNET News.com
Apple has decided to use Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia’s graphics processors in at least some models of the popular laptops, sources have told CNET.
Future lower-end MacBooks are expected to use Intel’s graphics chip tech.
Intel’s newest processor, to [...]
12/06/2010
Computerworld
Computerworld – Apple will launch its Mac App Store next week, according to a blog that cited an “inside source” at the company.
In a Monday post, Appletell said that Apple, which had originally planned to open the Mac cousin to its popular App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch today, will instead [...]
11/19/2010
All Things Digital
Here’s an interesting bit of speculation from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, whose recent Qualcomm channel checks may reveal something about Apple’s next generation iPad. According to Blair, Apple is developing a “World iPad” based on one of Qualcomm’s multimode CDMA-GSM chips.
“Recent checks…suggest Apple is going to be ratcheting down production of [...]
