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Microsoft Dreams of the Day of Putting a Real Dent in Apple’s Huge Profits

Looking forward, Steve Guggenheimer, the corporate vice president and chief evangelist at Microsoft admitted that the truth of the matter is that globally Apple takes the most profit for smartphones. “We want to put a little dent in that.” Business … Continue reading

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Intel to mask billion-dollar mobile losses with new financial reporting structure

With its troubled mobile chip unit hemorrhaging cash — thanks in part to Apple’s domination of the smartphone and tablet markets — Intel this week announced that it would no longer report mobile earnings as a separate line item, instead … Continue reading

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Apple granted powerful UI patent that allows users to view maps, documents and images in a whole new way

”The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 36 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “In this particular report we cover a single patent that Apple has acquired from 3 … Continue reading

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Microsoft ditches ARM for Intel with new $499 Surface 3, its latest iPad competitor

After two generations of ARM-based tablets that ran a limited version of Windows, Microsoft has finally abandoned the low-power processors for Intel’s latest Atom chips, allowing the third-generation Surface to run full-fledged Windows 8.1.  Tuesday’s announcement of the $499 Surface … Continue reading

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Intel to sell remaining stake in Apple partner & mobile GPU maker Imagination Technologies

The Intel Foundation will sell its 4.9 percent stake in Imagination Technologies, the company whose PowerVR graphics processors are a key component of Apple’s iPhone and iPad, it was announced on Thursday. Once the sale is complete, the Intel Foundation … Continue reading

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After whipping Intel, Nvidia & AMD in mobile chips, sky’s the limit for Apple Inc’s silicon design team

While rumors have long claimed that Apple has plans to replace Intel’s x86 chips in Macs with its own custom ARM Application Processors, there are a series of more valuable opportunities available to Apple’s silicon design team, each of which … Continue reading

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Apple Inc. posts biggest quarterly earnings of any company ever

”Apple had a pretty good quarter,” Greg Kumparak reports for TechCrunch. “And by ‘pretty good,’ I mean it was the biggest quarter in history.” “And not just for Apple,” Kumparak reports. “For any company. Ever.” “Until today, Russia’s Gazprom (the … Continue reading

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After eating AMD & Nvidia’s mobile lunch, Apple Inc could next devour their desktop GPU business

While rumors have long claimed that Apple has plans to replace Intel’s x86 chips in Macs with its own custom ARM Application Processors, MacGPUs are among a series of potentially more valuable opportunities available to Apple’s silicon design team, and … Continue reading

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Samsung’s iPhone 5 Clones Failed to make a Dent against Apple

Two weeks ago a Korean press report noted that there was a notable controversy over the Samsung’s Galaxy Alpha line up of smartphones being too close to the iPhone 5’s metal framed design and that the Korean “netizens” were disappointed … Continue reading

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Apple’s Mac EFI found vulnerable to bootkit attack via rogue Thunderbolt devices

At next week’s Chaos Communication Congress in Germany, a researcher will demonstrate a method in which a malicious actor could use a specially-crafted Thunderbolt device to inject a bootkit — which could survive nearly any attempt to remove it — … Continue reading

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