Study finds nearly 30% of consumers want Verizon iPhone
August 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
August 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Tech execs behaving badly
August 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Apple, IT employment, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and where there’s lots of money to be made, there’s usually corruption and stupidity. This week’s tech industry money shenanigans and missteps: An Apple exec’s been accused of accepting kickbacks.
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Tags: Apple, CEO, Hewlett-Packard, iphone, ipod, kickbacks, Mark Hurd, Paul Shin Devine
Apple profits soar despite, well, everything
July 21, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Apple, Budgets and spending, Gadgets, Hardware, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Software, cash flow, cell phone, iPhone, operating systems, smartphones
The financial juggernaut that is Apple continues unabated by minor blips like the iPhone 4 antennae and fears that the iPad’s phenomenal popularity might eat away at Mac sales.
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Tags: Apple, earnings, iPad, iphone, ipod, macs, third quater
Apple: Free cases and engineer slumber parties
July 20, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, iPhone, smartphones
Apple’s got a couple of strategies for contending with its iPhone antennae debacle: First, give phone owners a free case that’ll almost fix the problem. Second, stage a lock-in for Apple antennae engineers until the problem’s actually fixed.
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Tags: antennae, Apple, bumper, case, cots, engineers, iphone, sleepover, slumber party
Apple sells nearly 28,000 new iPhones per hour
June 28, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, User behavior, adoption, cell phone, iPhone, smartphones
The feeding frenzy that starts whenever Apple launches a new product — or just a new version of an old product — is rather stunning and highly lucrative for anyone with Apple interests.
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Tags: Apple, Consumer Reports, iphone, sales
Does the iPhone’s OS4 need a user guide?
June 23, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Apple, Communication, Gadgets, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Software, cell phone, iPhone, mobile technology, operating systems, smartphones
iPad sales top 3 million
June 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, adoption
All those naysayers out there who predicted the iPad would flounder won’t be happy to hear the latest sales tallies for the new Apple tablet.
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Tags: iPad, iphone, sales, Steve Jobs
iPhone4 is a sellout
June 17, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Gadgets, Hardware, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, adoption, cell phone, mobile technology
While there may have been a few glitches in the ordering system, they didn’t seem to phase fans of the iPhone4, who bought all the units Apple and AT&T had ready for delivery on June 24.
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Tags: Apple, AT&T, availability, iphone, pre-order
iPhone gets a pair and cancer research gets a share
June 10, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Gadgets, Hardware, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, cell phone, mobile technology, smartphones
Mixing sophomoric humor and technology to make money and do something good for the world might just be the perfect marketing storm.
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Tags: case, iphone, marketing, phoneballs, testicular cancer
The iPhone meets the Jetsons
June 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Web 2.0, adoption, cell phone, smartphones
Meet George Jetson, er, Steve Jobs, who wants to video chat with you the way his 60s cartoon hero could.
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Tags: Apple, George Jetson, iphone, OS4, Steve Jobs
