An article from Larry Rulison at the Albany Times Union says that Deloitte is searching for a major semiconductor facility for an unnamed company and believes it is TSMC who would use it build components for Apple (known as Project Azalea).
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Product placement is a common thing for TV shows these days, but count on Steve Jobs to get an Apple product into a show before the device is even launched, and for the episode to practically be built around said device.
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As a result, Mr. Kliegerman is seeking a judgement which bars Apple from selling locked iPhones, plus an order for the company to offer unlock codes to all current owners.
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What I think is unlikely an area for Apple to get into is video games, as some argued a couple of years ago.
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Johnston, who is looking for a new phone, tried out an iPhone at the Apple store.
While the launch of the Galaxy S4 provided Samsung with a significant amount of media coverage (rivalling the free airtime that is normally reserved for an Apple launch), that cannot be counted on during the next three months.
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Today, Apple TV is an expensive novelty that few have found a need for in their homes.
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My contention here is that the iPhone 5 represents not so much a turning point for Apple, but an inflection point, in its competition with Google for our love and attention.
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Mophie, a California firm that makes protective covers and battery chargers for iPhones and iPod touches, is an official Apple retail partner.
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In the filing, United States Patent Application 20100207721, Apple is asking for a patent on several methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device.
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Apple has also added an application called Address Book that is essentially a central repository for all your contacts.
However, most businesses cannot grow their earnings at such high rates of return (26.3%) for a decade, especially when they are beginning at an earnings base in the billions, as is Apple.
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And while history has shown us what competition will do to margins in an increasingly commoditized hardware category, this is a new type of cycle where margins have held up for Apple despite competition.
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The other three Samsung was found to be violating were about the look and feel of the hardware itself, something that other manufacturers might not fear (for example, my Sony Ericsson Experia, with a folding keyboard, is most unlikely to fall foul of an Apple look and form patent).
"Apple has recognized that learning for students is not a one-way street, " Jed Macosko, an associate professor at Wake Forest University, said in a statement.
As I said previously, the Siri voice command is likely to create an entirely new set of standards for smartphones because Apple has created the awareness and a set of expectations around the incorporation of voice commands and how they work.
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