All Entries Tagged With: "Apple"
Apple and Foxconn Improve Working Conditions
Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn are rumored to be sharing the expense of bettering work conditions for employees in Foxconn’s Chinese factories. Foxconn recently held a ceremony for its new Chinese headquarters, based in Shanghai, where a spokesman for the company said that improving factory conditions was ‘a competitive strength, not a cost.’ Foxconn [...]
Apple Plans $799 Macbook Air
Apple is allegedly planning a $799 MacBook Air to shake up the ultrabook market. At that price, any new MacBook Air would be 200 bucks cheaper than the current Core i5 entry-level model. The rumors come from DigiTimes and claim the details were revealed by sources in Apple’s supply chain. Co-incidentally, Intel’s PC Group general [...]
Ivy Bridge Apple MacBook Upgrades
Intel released details of six quad-core mobile CPUs as part of the Ivy Bridge launch. That lot should enable Apple to completely overhaul its MacBook Pro range. The new 22nm, 3D ‘tri-gate’ transistor architecture was released Monday along with details of the Ivy Bridge roadmap, such as a 45W TDP quad-core chip that should slot [...]
IGZO technology and smart TV
Intel recently declared that they expected high-resolution displays to start appearing in notebooks late this year. Sharp has now announced that they have commenced mass production of the first displays to make use of Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) semiconductors, which enable manufacturers to use smaller thin-film transistors with increased pixel transparency, which may mean [...]
iPhone sales numbers for Q1
Apple is responsible for 85% of world’s smartphones sales. The numbers are high and climbing. Fortune magazine has assembled some two dozen Wall Street analysts’s forecasts on 1st quarter of 2012 iPhone sales. Their estimates ranged between 26 mil and 33 million units sold between January 1st and March 31st. The best conservative estimate then [...]
Infinity 700 vs iPad 3
iPad Site released an interesting comparison of new iPad 3 and Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 700. Infinity 700 isn’t released yet, but specs are known, so let’s take a closer look at this new android flagship and compare it to recently released new iPad 3. First major difference between the two is under the hood, [...]
100m iPad 3 Sales in 2012
It hasn’t been a month since release of the new iPad 3 and sales figures indicate that iPad 3 tablets sold thus far take up 10% of total iPad ownership. In first four days iPad 3 sold over 3 million units. As you can see in the figure above, the new iPad has been increasing [...]
iPhone 5 rumours
Apple has traditionally released its newest iPhones in fall. Rumour is iPhone 5 will be available in June. What will the new generation iPhone 5 feature? New docking interface is expected, quad-core processor will be nice. With 5 million Samsung Galaxy Note units sold and other phablets popping up, rumours suggest that perhaps even iPhone [...]
MacBook paired with Siri
Next line of MacBook Pro will be thinned down a bit. Great news await all that have MacBook Pro this summer. Apple has secured another patent describing capability of iPhone to connect to your Mac via Voice command. Siri has been incredibly popular among iPhone users and net has been buzzing with suggestions that Siri [...]
Google Making Plenty Out Of iOS
Google offers its Android OS to smartphone and tablet manufacturers free of charge, which turns out to be shrewd business sense. Google will rake in $2.5 billion from ads and the 30% cut from app sales through Goole Play (formerly Android Market) in 2012. Android devices themselves brought in less than $550 million from launch [...]
