Tag: Mac
Is Apple Worth the Most?
Apple easily earned more than $128 billion in 2011. This includes sales of their best-selling iPhones, iPads and many computer products. Last year they sold more than 72 million iPhones. Together those phones could outweigh the most famous Parisian landmark, the Eiffel Tower. In fact, iPhones represent 40 percent of Apple’s sales.
The 3G Capable MacBook Pro Which Never Shipped
Apple’s numerous 3G-capable devices that are nowadays available in the market are iPad and the iPhone but there is no such product on their iPod or Mac lineup. Actually a 3G-capable Mac doesn’t even exist at the present but now it seems that Apple has brought it into consideration. Steve Jobs, CEO was asked in 2008 that [...]
S3 Graphics Patents Violated by Mac OS X but not iOS!
A decision on July 1st that has just been disclosed said that Apple has violated S3 Graphics Co. copyrights in its Mac OS X operating system, but not in the iOS platform. Bloomberg said that The U.S. International Trade Commission found that OS X violated two S3 patents related to graphics chips. The commission found [...]
Microsoft CEO Admits Very Small Sales of Windows Phone
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer this week boasted that sales of Windows PCs continue to vastly outperform the Mac, but also conceded that his company’s mobile phone business has not done much to improve its market share.
Skype Goes Down Around The World on All Platforms
Skype’s telephony service appears to be suffering a major outage all over the world and users are unable to use the services using their desktop clients and are also unable to access the Skype website.
Google Chrome First Birthday
A lot has happened for Google Chrome since last one year. To take stock of this past year, Celebration of a birthday cake, birthday balloons, and a few interesting factoids. Since September 2, 2008, to date :-
* 51 developer releases, 21 beta releases or updates, and 15 stable releases or updates
* Over 20,600 bugs filed (4367 of them were duplicates, 3505 have been fixed, which leaves a whole lot left to go!)
* 11 external committers and bug editors, 46 external code contributors
* 50 Chrome Experiments
* 26 posts on the Google Chrome blog
* 12 Chrome Shorts, a collection of short films about Google Chrome
* A sequel to the comic in Japanese

