Apple Grabs the Top Three Spots in Top 5 Smartphones in US: NPD Reports

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Not so surprisingly, Apple’s iPhone 4S grabbed the top spot in the best-selling mobile phone handsets in 4th quarter in US in a report by NPD group.  The second spot was held by Apple iPhone 4.  surprisingly Apple’s iPhone 3GS , the phone Apple launched years ago, took the third spot. In the 4th quarter, the [...]

Apple Posts Record Profit With Sales of 37M iPhones, 15.4M iPads, and 5.2M macs

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Apple announced that it posted a record revenue/profit in its 2012 first quarter financial results. In the Apple’s quarter without Steve Jobs, thanks to its awesome line of products and the holiday season, Apple did extremely well. Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac drove Apple’s growth this quarter. Apple sold a whopping 37.04 million iPhones in [...]

Steve Jobs’ Influence on Jonathan Rothberg, the Man Behind the $1000 Genome

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ust a decade ago, sequencing a human genome was a monumental international effort costing more than $2 billion. Just after a decade the cost of sequencing a human genome is about to drop to just $1000. Thanks to one man’s personal motivation has made that sci-fi fantasy to reality. Jonathan Rothesberg’s Life Technologies launched his [...]

Five Years Ago Our “Smart” Lives Changed With the Reinvention of the Phone. Happy Anniversary iPhone

We came to know of it exactly five years ago. Hate it or love it. Now we can not part our ways with it. As of today Jan 9, it has been five years since we knew its existence for sure. After much speculation, Apple introduced iPhone to the world on 9. Jan. 2007 at [...]

Apple Planning non-iPad and non-iTV Event This Month at NY: AllThingsD Report

AllThingsD, the ever reliable on “All things Apple” news, is reporting that Apple is planning a special event this month at New York City. AllThingsD’s reliable sources also report that the NY special event is going to be a non-iPad, non-Apple TV event. As a way of ruling out NY to launch a big product [...]

Appy Christmas: 242 Million App Downloads and 6.8 Million Device Activations

Christmas Day Sees 242 Million iOS and Android App Downloads: Flurry Analytics

Flurry Analytics, the mobile app analytics company that  offers solution to monitor how consumers interact with apps  in real-time, found that the number of downloaded apps on 2011 Christmas Day was close to quarter billion.  And the Christmas day also saw 6.8  iOS  and  Android device activations. With high tech gifts being unwrapped and explored, [...]

Apple’s New iPhone 4S Ad: Santa Loves Siri

According to the latest ad for iPhone 4S, Santa will struggle without Apple’s Siri. In the new ad for iPhone 4S Santa uses iPhone 4S’ Siri to get direction, be in touch with Ms. Clause, check the weather, and check his 3.7 billion appointments for the holidays.

Steve Jobs, SAP and WSJ

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Wondering what is the connection between Steve Jobs, Stanford, SAP and WSJ? There is an interesting connection among the four, other than the simply visible connection of technology and publishing. Do you know where was Steve Jobs’ company Next Inc. located? It was at 3475 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, CA. The address was from [...]

Mac App Store Hits 100 Million App Downloads

Mac App Store Hits 100 Million Downloads

Apple announced that more than 100 million apps have been downloaded from its Mac App Store. Apple brought its successfull App store to Macs at the beginning of this year, 6th January 2011 to be exact. On the first day of launch Mac App Store downloads hit a million. And now in less than one [...]

Google Fails Again; This Time With Google Currents Launch

Google Currents For iPhone Does Not Work At All

Google launched Google Currents with much fanfare, but completely failed to come up with a product that works. Yes, it does not work, just like Gmail app that GOogle released a few weeks back. Google came up with Google Currents to take on Flipboard and Pulse for reading news socially. At least that was Google’s [...]