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Analyst: Apple so far unaffected by PC price collapse
Apple has so far avoided the "permanent and structural" collapse of overall PC average selling prices and subsequent decline in revenue, according to TBR analyst Ezra Gottheil. The trend is explained by the ongoing economic recession and the gaining popularity of low-priced...
Elecom ASP-P200S iPod dock
Elecom's ASP-P200S iPod dock is a 2.1 sound system, with the subwoofer placed on a vertical hinge so the dock can be more easily carried. The remote tucks into a crevice for the same reason. Using a set of three adapters, the P200S supports all fourth- and fifth-gen iPods, including...
Apple halts sales of iPhone 4s, iPhone 5c in India to raise ASP
Apple is no longer selling two models of iPhone in India, removing both the iPhone 4s and the iPhone 5c from sale in the country from official channels, as well as the regional Apple website. The move, which will leave the iPhone 5s as the entry-level device in the iOS range for the lucrative market,...
Analysts: Apple Watch likely a hit, but will take time to mature
Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, while calling the Apple Watch "light years ahead of any other smartwatch on the market," nevertheless advised both clients and market watchers to expect "conservative" initial sales of the device in its first year. Like the iPod, which took three years to become...
Scientists develop antibacterial stainless steel
Scientists who concern themselves with materials from the University of Birmingham claim to have found a way to add silver particles to stainless steel in order to make it antibacterial, PhysOrg reported. The process is called Active Screen Plasma and may result in hardware...
Elecom unveils new iPod dock
Japanese manufacturer Elecom today announced the ASP-P200S, an iPod stereo dock with 2.1 channels. The P200S features a subwoofer, which can be rotated vertically over the docking port to make the product easier to store and carry. Three adapters are included to support all...
UBS: Apple sold more iPhones in fiscal Q1, but fewer high-end ones
Analyst Steven Milunovich of UBS has cited market research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) in a note to investors that contains both good and bad news: he believes Apple will beat last year's record of iPhone sales in the December quarter (Apple's fiscal first quarter) by a slim margin,...
Report: HP leads PC shipments, Mac sales down
Gartner Research on Wednesday released a report detailing PC shipments for the first quarter in the U.S. and abroad. HP took the lead in the domestic market, pushing Dell out of the top spot, while Mac sales showed a slight decline of 1.1 percent compared with the first quarter...
Analyst cuts iPod sales, sees buyers upgrading
Shaw Wu of the Kaufman Brothers has updated estimates of Apple's December quarter, Rating Apple stock a buy with a favorable risk-reward balance. Wu's estimates have seen little movement, with a more conservative approach on iPods, but assuming a higher average sales price...
Piper: AT&T iPhone costs suggest greater profit
Earlier estimates for the ASP (average selling price) of the iPhone 3G were too low, write analysts with Piper Jaffray. Following the announcement of AT&T's new iPhone plans, under which people can buy unsubsidized iPhones for $599 and $699, Piper admits that its earlier prediction...
Mac sales to offset slow iPods in FYQ4
Research firm Merill Lynch today lowered its estimate for Apple's iPod sales for the September quarter while increasing its estimation of Macs sold, joining two other industry analyst firms which modified their views on Apple yesterday. "We are tweaking our Apple model to reflect slightly higher Mac...
aspWrite 1.0 Beta: HTML/ASP text editor
Hiddenfield Software has released aspWrite 1.0 Beta, a text editor targeted at web developers working in Activer Server Pages (ASP), HTML and Javascript. Features include syntax coloring, auto-indent of lines, and pre-process files on open to remove LF characters and convert tabs to spaces.
MetroShop adds ASP enhancements
Ecommercesoft will introduce MetroShop ASP during WWDC in San Jose, Calif., next week. MetroShop ASP enables ASPs to broaden the scope of their business services by providing their customers with the ability to create instant e-commerce Web sites. It is the latest in a series of scalable e-business...
Goldman Sachs downgraded AAPL forecast leads to drop in share value
The stock market has reacted in line with a downgraded forecast on Apple shares from investment bank Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs reduced its target price on Apple shares, cutting it from $136 to $124 on the back of a predicted further softening of iPhone demand, among other factors. Immediately following...
Reports: China phone market down, even as Apple ups SE orders
A pair of new reports illustrate the complexity of guessing Apple's relative health going forward: while forecasters at Stern Agee CRT believe that the entire Chinese smartphone market will continue to sag to an overall 15 percent drop across 2016, demand for the four-inch iPhone SE -- which is also...
Analysis: Signs of hope among the bad news from Apple
What do you do when you have a lot of (relatively) bad news to tell stock analysts and investors? What Steve Jobs would have done, and exactly what Apple CEO Tim Cook did: "Ac-cent-u-ate the positive" (to borrow the title of a hit song from 1944). In truth, there is genuinely some good as well as bad...
Cook: New iPhone SE will bring in customers at expense of ASP
Apple is drawing a "huge number" of Android users over to iOS, the company has revealed during its investor conference call about its latest quarterly results. During the call, CEO Tim Cook noted the number of Android switchers buying Android devices in the first half of this year is the highest of any...
Rumor Roundup: giant iPhone 7, iPhone SE sales, Milk Music dead?
Once again, Rumor Roundup will boldly go where speculators, pundits, analysts, and other types of fabulists have gone before, and try to separate out the wheat from the chaff among the various rumors. This week, we have claims that Samsung is calling it quits on its own Milk Music service (which, interestingly,...
Rumor Roundup: March 21, 'iPhone SE,' iPhone 7, iPad Air Pro?, more
Another week goes by, and rumors evolve, like clouds parting to hopefully reveal a clear day. We've been following the evolution of the rumors in order to show how scraps of information are gathered (and many discarded) in order to eventually piece together what may be enough credible information to...
Apple Q1: one billion active devices, Speedpass, iPhone ASP
Despite missing the analyst consensus targets for both revenue and iPhone sales in Q1, as reported earlier Apple set all-time records in almost all areas of its business; it just didn't grow as much as Wall Street had anticipated, and the news about next quarter is genuinely tough, with a significant...
Canaccord: Apple now taking 94 percent of smartphone profits
In the latest report from Canaccord Genuity, Apple is now taking 94 percent of profits in the smartphone sector, with archrival Samsung gaining only 11 percent of the profits (numbers add up to more than 100 due to accounting for losses by the other manufacturers). Although actual final sales to consumers...
Microsoft brings Visual Studio Code to Mac, Linux
Microsoft is bringing its Visual Studio suite to more platforms, the company announced at its Build conference keynote today. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight version of the long-standing code editing suite, with the new cross-platform version being made available in preview not only for Windows,...
IDC: iOS, Android control 96.3 percent of entire smartphone market
Based on shipment data, analyst firm IDC has determined that Apple and Samsung have effectively gained full control of the smartphone market, splitting 96.3 percent of all smartphones shipped -- up nearly a full percentage point from the same period last year. All Android phones combined account for...
Apple's Q1 certified as best quarter for any company ever
In addition to being the best quarter in the company's history, Apple's Q1 results also blew away quarterly revenue and profit figures for any company ever, according to credit rating analysts Standard & Poor's. Even more remarkably, CFO Luca Maestri noted repeatedly that fluctuations in major currencies...
SolidRun commences pre-orders for CuBoxTV XBMC media center
SolidRun has added another device to its CuBox range, one aimed for use as a streaming media set-top box. The CuBoxTV, measuring a compact 2-inches on each side and weighing 9.9 ounces, works as an XBMC streaming device straight out of the box with the use of a smartphone app, keyboard and mouse, infrared...
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Cirrus creates Lightning-headphone dev kit
Apple supplier Cirrus Logic has introduced a MFi-compliant new development kit for companies interested in using Cirrus' chips to create Lightning-based headphones, which -- regardless of whether rumors about Apple dropping the analog headphone jack in its iPhone this fall -- can offer advantages to music-loving iOS device users. The kit mentions some of the advantages of an all-digital headset or headphone connector, including higher-bitrate support, a more customizable experience, and support for power and data transfer into headphone hardware. Several companies already make Lightning headphones, and Apple has supported the concept since June 2014. http://bit.ly/29giiZj
Apple Store app offers Procreate Pocket
The Apple Store app for iPhone, which periodically rewards users with free app gifts, is now offering the iPhone "Pocket" version of drawing app Procreate for those who have the free Apple Store app until July 28. Users who have redeemed the offer by navigating to the "Stores" tab of the app and swiping past the "iPhone Upgrade Program" banner to the "Procreate" banner have noted that only the limited Pocket (iPhone) version of the app is available free, even if the Apple Store app is installed and the offer redeemed on an iPad. The Pocket version currently sells for $3 on the iOS App Store. [32.4MB]
Porsche adds CarPlay to 2017 Panamera
Porsche has added a fifth model of vehicle to its CarPlay-supported lineup, announcing that the 2017 Panamera -- which will arrive in the US in January -- will include Apple's infotainment technology, and be seen on a giant 12.3-inch touchscreen as part of an all-new Porsche Communication Management system. The luxury sedan starts at $99,900 for the 4S model, and scales up to the Panamera Turbo, which sells for $146,900. Other vehicles that currently support CarPlay include the 2016 911 and the 2017 models of Macan, 718 Boxster, and 718 Cayman. The company did not mention support for Google's corresponding Android Auto in its announcement. http://bit.ly/295ZQ94
Apple employees testing wheelchair features
New features included in the forthcoming watchOS 3 are being tested by Apple retail store employees, including a new activity-tracking feature that has been designed with wheelchair users in mind. The move is slightly unusual in that, while retail employees have previously been used to test pre-release versions of OS X and iOS, this marks the first time they've been included in the otherwise developer-only watchOS betas. The company is said to have gone to great lengths to modify the activity tracker for wheelchair users, including changing the "time to stand" notification to "time to roll" and including two wheelchair-centric workout apps. http://bit.ly/2955JDa
SanDisk reveals two 256GB microSDXC cards
SanDisk has introduced two 256GB microSDXC cards. Arriving in August for $150, the Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition card offers transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s for reading data. The Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card can read at a fast 100MB/s and write at up to 90MB/s, and will be shipping sometime in the fourth quarter for $200. http://bit.ly/294Q1If
Apple's third-quarter results due July 26
Apple has advised it will be issuing its third-quarter results on July 26, with a conference call to answer investor and analyst queries about the earnings set to take place later that day. The stream of the call will go live at 2pm PT (5pm ET) via Apple's investor site, with the results themselves expected to be released roughly 30 minutes before the call commences. Apple's guidance for the quarter put revenue at between $41 billion and $43 billion. http://apple.co/1oi1Pbm
Twitter stickers slowly roll out to users
Twitter has introduced "stickers," allowing users to add extra graphical elements to their photos before uploading them to the micro-blogging service. A library of hundreds of accessories, props, and emoji will be available to use as stickers, which can be resized, rotated, and placed anywhere on the photograph. Images with stickers will also become searchable with viewers able to select a sticker to see how others use the same graphic in their own posts. Twitter advises stickers will be rolling out to users over the next few weeks, and will work on both the mobile apps and through the browser. http://bit.ly/29bbwUE
