Awhile back it was reported that the iTunes Store is one of the biggest media companies in the world. The iTunes Store generated $ 8.5 billion in revenue last year, which is more than many of America’s top media companies combined.
Apple has been the tech industry’s pioneer for abandoning physical media, and iTunes is a testament to the success of digital downloads. According to [Read More...]
Cars are a fairly boring topic for me, but I just sat through this 15-minute documentary by Audi completely enthralled by the amount of dedication the Slots Mods team poured into making an iPad-controlled slot car race track utopia for Audi.
Basically, Audi asked Slot Mods to make an iPad-controlled slot car race track that would give people the experience of driving an Audi from their iPad. You can control the speed of the car from the iPad and a [Read More...]
Apple is racing to hire former Texas Instruments employees in Israel in an effort to staff a planned R&D center. Not wanting to be outdone, Intel has decided to ramp up their efforts to hire the same former Texas Instruments employees before Apple can grab them first.
A new report claims that Intel is offering the employees “healthy compensation packages” above the standard salary rates in an effort to keep the employees [Read More...]
In the race to the top of the smartphone market, it’s only Apple and Google now.
There are two fighters left in the battle for market share dominance in the mobile space: Apple and Google. Android powers Samsung’s flagship handsets, and the Korean company continues to crush Apple in terms of sheer volume of units sold. Without Android, Samsung wouldn’t be near as successful.
But Apple is showing incredible growth, especially in [Read More...]
There’s never been a better time to get fit, thanks to the wealth of fitness tracker options available to work with your iPhone. That’s not strictly true — first, it’s always a good time to get fit. And second, the more choices there are for fitness trackers, the more opportunity there is for procratination.
Still, the Striiv is a welcome addition.
The Striiv Play is a little clip-on Bluetooth dongle, just like the new FitBits. It [Read More...]
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More evidence Amazon’s $ 199 Kindle Fire tablet is Apple’s first serious rival in a tablet war so far strewn with the corpses of the iPad’s Android-based victims. In the first skirmish between the two tablets, the Kindle Fire is outselling the 16GB iPad on Best Buy’s website. At the website, the Kindle Fire sits atop the 16GB Apple tablet when consumers search for [Read More...]
For months, Facebook has denied working on a branded smartphone of its own. But that hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from spinning. And perhaps now we now know why – there’s more truth behind those rejected rumors than Facebook wants us to know about. As reported this morning by our friends at All Things Digital, the social networking giant is now collaborating with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC to build an Android-powered device delivering deep integration of its [Read More...]
Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “finally cracked” the television set, sparking more rumors that his team in Cupertino are on the cusp of launching a revolutionary new television that will change home entertainment for ever. Apple won’t be the first to attempt this, however. Sony’s CEO Sir Howard Stringer says he is competing against Steve Jobs to change the traditional television set for ever. In a [Read More...]
Patently Apple is reporting the Canadian Intellectual Property Office published Apple’s official notice of abandonment of the “POD” trademark. This comes after seven long years of litigation attempting to secure “POD” as an Apple trademark. In the wake of the iPod’s popularity Apple fought to keep third party manufacturers from cannibalizing the “POD” trademark. Also, it prevented competitors from branding their products with the Pod monicker. Hence, [Read More...]
