We’ve heard how Steve Jobs threatened a “thermonuclear war” to destroy the Android platform, which he considered a “stolen product”. Yet, the Steve P. Jobs Trust, managed by Job’s own wife, is making very good money from the sale of each Android flavored Motorola DROID branded phone. How ironic! The sale of Pixar to the Walt Disney Company on January...
In America these days owning a patent is like holding a lottery ticket. Take Intercarrier Communications, from Texas, for example. These guys “boast” of an intellectual property portfolio consisting of one patent for something that they didn’t even invent, but ICC is taking a number of major corporations to court including Apple. The particular patent was granted in 2006 for...
These days we’re focusing onto the financial results of the major companies in the IT & communication industry, and here’s some more info. Apple has just posted its report for Q3 of the year, and things are looking good. The revenue was $36 billion and the net profit stood at $8.2 billion, both of those looking very favorably if compared...
AT&T released its third quarter earnings on Wednesday morning, revealing that it activated 4.7 million units of the Apple iPhone in Q3, this being 77% of all smartphones activated by AT&T in the quarter. AT&T did also a bit of bragging, revealing that it sold 1.3 million units of the new Apple iPhone 5 in the quarter, which is twice...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is ending its contract with the Canadian based manufacturer of BlackBerry devices. The results are very bitter for RIM, and a cause for a big smile (grin?) for Apple, because the 17,600 ICE employees will be using the Apple iPhone instead of a BlackBerry device, since it “can no longer meet the...
Judge Lucy Koh, who presided over the epic Apple-Samsung patent suit, refused to grant Apple the right to seal its financial records, and ordered Apple to reveal these for the Court to see if the company can justify the large $1.05 billion verdict that it was awarded by the jury. Judge Koh made it clear that if Apple is going...
Recently users would report that some pictures taken with the Apple iPhone 5 were exhibiting a purple tint or halo in the corner. They were getting this discoloration when the light source for a given photo was outside the viewfinder. Apple however argued that the purple tinting was normal for such situations and in addition, this Sunday they also issued...
The popular display analyzing company DisplayMate has decided to put the iPhone 5 (4-inch IPS LCD ) through its various highly scientific tests and pit it against the Galaxy S III (4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD ). They have “thrown” even the iPhone 4S 3.5-inch display into the “pot”. DisplayMate tested many characteristics of the displays, such as screen reflections, brightness...
Many sensitive Apple enthusiasts could easily feel quite insulted by the new commercial ad of Samsung Galaxy S4 that portrays iPhone fans as sheep as they stand in line. However we’d like to ask people to put their sensitivities to one side and judge the ad purely on comedic terms. You can see the commercial in a video that we’ve...
The launch of the Apple iPhone 5 only took place a few days ago, and we witnessed the craze around it, didn’t we! Unfortunately, reports about various problems with the new device have started coming and accumulating to form a most “ugly” mountain of complaints. An increasingly widespread problem seems to be mainly affecting the black iPhone 5 and is...
