Wall Street Agrees: Apple's iMessage Will Kill Blackberry
08/06/2011 |
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Shares of Research in Motion fell to a four-year low Tuesday as observers weighed-in on the impact of Apple’s iMessage, the just-announced iOS 5 instant-messaging app that could steal (yet again) RIM’s thunder. Yesterday, shares of the Canadian-based handset maker fell 3 percent, dropping below $37 for the first time since 2007 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Wall Street’s similar lack of confidence followed Apple’s Monday...
Apple's iMessage Is Going To Try To Kill BlackBerry And SMS
Photo by Trippography - http://flic.kr/p/7bHVNFFirst, Apple kills the PC, then it attacks a weakened BlackBerry, and finished up sticking it to its carrier partners. Not bad for one day’s work in Silicon Valley.After pronouncing the start of a “Post-PC Era,” Apple officials anno...
Apple Heads Off Squatters Hoping To Profit On WWDC Announcements With Domain Buying Spree
Photo by anotherkindofdrew - http://flic.kr/p/6wMUnqLike cowboys hoping to brand its herd of cattle before rustlers move in, Apple has registered dozens of domains to protect products unveiled at this week’s WWDC. Among the at least 50 domains snapped up by the tech giant are .com addresse...
Android's Going To Help Apple's iMessage Kill Off SMS With Own Messaging Platform
Is This Texting's Future? (Photo by khalid almasoud - http://flic.kr/p/2kGYhS)In the wake of Apple’s iMessage, Android is reportedly working on its own free messaging service. Could 2011 be the year that SMS starts to wither and die? Texting, originally known as Short Message System w...
What Is Steve Jobs Announcing Monday? Here's The Scoop About iCloud & Time Capsules [Exclusive]
Apple has already revealed that Steve Jobs will talk about iCloud, iOS 5 and OS X Lion during his WWDC keynote on Monday morning.In addition, it’s rumored that Apple’s wireless Time Capsule backup/router will get a big update.Here’s how iCloud and the new Time Capsule will work,...
Xcode 4 With Hot New Integrated Design Environment Goes Gold Master
Apple has finally released the Gold Master version of Xcode 4 after releasing it earlier today and then pulling it suddenly reverting back to the sixth beta preview that was previously released. Why this happened isn’t known and I don’t expect Apple to explain it.However, now it is ba...
NFL teams may replace playbooks with iPads
A few NFL teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, might soon be joining the 21st century by adopting of iPads to replace their paper playbooks and game-day printouts. This could help keep some teams from using over 5,000 pieces of paper per game! Not only would this help save some trees but think of...
Apple Prepares Its Retail Stores for New 'EasyTheft' System
Following reports that Apple is set to introduce a new self-checkout system in its retail stores using its Apple Store app for iOS, the Cupertino company has begun preparing stores with EasyPay signs that inform customers they can pay for certain products by themselves. The new system has been ...
Could iOS5 Eliminate the Need for iTunes Sync? Could iCloud Include Facebook-Style Apps? [Speculation]
In an unprecedented move, last Tuesday Apple outlined what they would be announcing at next week’s WWDC keynote. This, in combination with plenty of plausible rumors floating round the blogosphere, leaves little left to speculate about. But I’m going to have a go anyway. I think the m...
Convert Any Document Into an eBook Viewable in iBooks [How To]
Now that Apple has made iBooks available on all iOS devices users can read their purchased eBooks on a number of different devices. But what if you have a couple large RTF, DOC, TXT, or LIT files of your own that youwant to view in iBooks you’re out of luck. In this tutorial we’re goi...
Apple Begins Countdown to 25 billion App Downloads
The App Store has been around for nearly 4 years, and it is approaching 25 billion downloads. (That’s 25,000,000,000!) To celebrate, Apple is doing a countdown and giving away a US$10,000 (or equivalent) iTunes gift card to the person who downloads the 25 billionth app. As of today, nearly...
