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Apple Bumps Google as Most Valuable Brand

Tech and telecoms dominate the top brands

(Newser) - Apple has taken a bite out of Google. It's now the most valuable brand in the world, finally ending Google's four-year run at the top of Millward Brown's list of global brand value, reports Reuters . The study estimates Apple's brand to be worth $153 billion, almost...

Apple Fixes iPhone Tracking Problem

Now users can delete the data entirely

(Newser) - The uproar over the revelation that your iPhone is tracking you has led Apple to fix the problem. A software update released yesterday reduces the amount of location data stored on iPhones and iPads from a year to about a week. The iOS 4.3.3 software also allows users...

Apple&#39;s China Factories Treat Workers &#39;Like Machines&#39;
Apple's China Factories Treat Workers 'Like Machines'
investigation
May 1, 2011 5:36 PM CDT

Apple's China Factories Treat Workers 'Like Machines'

New report cites 'inhumane' treatment at Foxconn

(Newser) - Workers at the Foxconn factories in China that produce millions of Apple products per year are treated “inhumanely, like machines,” according to a new report. The investigation reveals the poor treatment the 500,000 workers endure as the factories work to meet Western demand for iPhones and iPads:...

Microsoft Profits Sink Below Apple's

Ipad puts Apple ahead of rival for first time since 1991

(Newser) - Apple's profits have outstripped Microsoft's for the first time since Extreme was topping the charts and Mark Zuckerberg was in second grade. Microsoft's revenue and profits were actually up last quarter, but Apple managed to move ahead for the first time in 20 years with a $6...

More People Want Androids Than iPhones
More People Want Androids Than iPhones
survey says
Apr 27, 2011 9:00 AM CDT

More People Want Androids Than iPhones

Google's operating system barely edges out Apple's

(Newser) - Is Apple losing its grip on smartphone buyers? Google's Android is already the most widely-used operating system , and a new survey shows it may also be the most wanted. In a poll of US cell phone consumers this year, Nielsen found that 31% planned to buy a new smartphone...

iPhones Grab Location Data When Tracker Function Is Off

Some call for a congressional inquiry

(Newser) - Not only do Apple's iPhones and iPads track your location in unencrypted, easily hackable files, but they continue to do so even if you turn off the location service function, reports the Wall Street Journal . Apple and Google had said that location tracking was done anonymously and could be...

Samsung Fires Back, Sues Apple

Files suit for smartphone, computer patent violations

(Newser) - After Apple launched a trademark lawsuit against Samsung, it’s the South Korean firm’s turn to sue. Samsung is suing Apple in Seoul, Tokyo, and Germany over patent violations, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Korean tech company says Apple—one of its leading buyers of chips and other...

Apple Ready to Launch Cloud Music Storage for iTunes: Reuters Report
Apple Will Unveil 
Cloud Music Storage
tech rumor mill
Apr 21, 2011 7:24 PM CDT

Apple Will Unveil Cloud Music Storage

Company to launch digital storage locker, maybe with blessing of labels

(Newser) - Looks like Apple will beat Google to the clouds when it comes to music. Insiders tell Reuters that the company is about to launch its version of an online storage service, similar to what Amazon rolled out last month : "Apple's plans will allow iTunes customers to store their...

Apple Earnings Nearly Double
 Apple Earnings Nearly Double 
Apr 20, 2011 4:42 PM CDT

Apple Earnings Nearly Double

Even if iPad sales didn't meet expectations

(Newser) - Apple today reported another exceptional quarter, nearly doubling its net income and far exceeding analyst estimates on the strength of the seemingly unstoppable iPhone. However, sales of Apple's big new product, the iPad tablet computer, came in below expectations. The second version of the tablet launched three weeks before...

Your Apple iPhone Is Tracking You

Researchers say hidden file stores data

(Newser) - This sounds a wee bit creepy: Two researchers say the latest iPhones and iPads are keeping track of your every move. They found a file on the devices that stores longitudes and lattitudes along with time stamps. "What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and...

iPhone 5 Coming in September
 iPhone 5 Coming in September 
Apr 20, 2011 7:55 AM CDT

iPhone 5 Coming in September

Rumored to have faster processor, bigger screen, better camera

(Newser) - The next generation of the iPhone is coming, but not until September, sources tell Reuters . News recently surfaced that Apple probably won't announce its newest phone in June as it normally does; now it looks like production of the new iPhone will begin in July or August and the...

Samsung Ripped Off iPhone, iPad: Apple Suit

Apple alleges competitor 'blatantly' copied iPhone, iPad

(Newser) - Samsung's Galaxy smartphone bears more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone, says Apple, and Steve Jobs and Co are slapping its rival with a lawsuit that claims "slavish" and "blatant copying" on Samsung's part. In addition, the Apple lawsuit alleges the Galaxy tablet is a...

Wait Is Over: White iPhone 4 Out Within Weeks

Glitches delayed gadget by 10 months

(Newser) - It was supposed to be here 10 months ago—but in the next few weeks Apple will finally release its white iPhone 4, insiders tell Bloomberg . Both AT&T and Verizon will offer the device. Causes for the delay included paint that peeled off when hot and problems with a...

Steve Jobs' Official Bio Due Next Year

iSteve: The Book of Jobs penned by former CNN exec Walter Isaacson

(Newser) - The rumors are true: The first authorized biography of Steve Jobs is on its way. iSteve: The Book of Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, is being written with Jobs' cooperation—unlike earlier books on the Apple CEO. Isaacson, an ex-exec at CNN and Time magazine and author of biographies of Benjamin...

It's Official: Verizon iPhone Drops Fewer Calls

AT&T users suffer 4.8% drop rate vs. 1.8% for Verizon

(Newser) - The marketing hype is apparently true: The Verizon iPhone drops way fewer calls than AT&T’s, an independent study finds. In a survey of 4,068 iPhone users, those on Verizon dropped calls at a 1.8% rate, while those on AT&T lost them 4.8% of the...

Amazon Beats Apple, Google to Cloud Music Service

Service allows people to upload their music to company servers

(Newser) - Amazon has launched a new service that allows people to store their music on the company's servers and play it on their computers or Android devices, reports CNET . The move is getting plenty of buzz because Amazon beat both Apple and Google in the development of a so-called cloud system,...

Latest Cable Battle: Beaming Straight to iPad

Time Warner draws networks' ire with live-TV app

(Newser) - A feud has erupted between Time Warner and cable networks after the cable provider released an iPad app for 32 live TV channels. Time Warner, which didn’t get permission from the networks, says it is “well within our rights” to transmit to any home device, provided it does...

Harry Reid & Co. Want to Kill Checkpoint-Dodging Apps

Apple, Google urged to stop selling apps that help drivers dodge police

(Newser) - Want to know if there's a checkpoint ahead targeting speeders or drunk drivers? There's an app for that—many, in fact—but Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, and Tom Udall say there shouldn't be. The four senators have written to Apple, Google, and BlackBerry, urging the companies to stop...

Apple Sues Amazon Over Its, Um, 'Appstore'

Says it violated its trademark

(Newser) - Got legal problems? Well, unless you're using an iPhone/iPad/iPod, there had better not be an "app" for that, at least not one sold in an "App Store." Apple has sued Amazon over the name of its new "Amazon Appstore," which sells Android applications, the LA ...

Apple App Seeks to 'Cure' Gays

Christian group spreads the word as online petition starts

(Newser) - Apple has approved an iPhone app specially designed to make gays straight. The app, created by and named after a Christian ministry group called "Exodus International," has received a 4 rating from Apple, indicating that the mega-retailer does not find the new addition objectionable, the Huffington Post reports....

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