For a certain breed of consumers, the arrival of Apple’s third-generation iPad is an occasion of monomaniacal focus and intense anticipation. Visions of how the shiny new gadget will revolutionize their lives fill their heads. …
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Pandora’s Sour Tune: No Profit For a Year, Tumbling Stock
Streaming music service Pandora lost almost one-quarter of its stock market value Wednesday after telling investors that it doesn’t expect to make money for at least another year. Pandora’s struggles illustrate the difficulty …
Real Winners with Apple’s New iPad: Kids Who Will Inherit Their Parents’ Old iPads
Apple Scores in Patent Fight Against Google and Motorola
Apple has won a key victory in a closely-watched intellectual property case after a federal judge ruled that Google must turn over information related to its Android mobile operating system and its $12.5 billion acquisition of …
U.S. Senator Calls for Apple, Google Mobile Privacy Probe
The drumbeat over digital privacy is getting louder. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, stepped into the fray over the weekend, calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Apple and Google over reports that …
Apple Wants to Upend the TV Business: Will Big Content Play Ball?
Nearly 50% of Americans Own Smartphones; Android, iPhone Dominate
Smartphone use is surging in the United States, powered by the massive success of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system. In fact, for the first time, smartphones now outnumber more basic mobile phones, according to …
Hot Market for iPads, and Not Just Apple’s New iPad 3
Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents
The escalating war between technology companies over intellectual property has had a number of unfortunate consequences, but perhaps none is sadder than the spectacle of an ailing Internet giant using the threat of patent …
Apple Fights for iPad Rights in Chinese Trademark Dispute
Apple’s escalating trademark dispute with a Chinese company over the rights to the term “iPad” reached a courtroom on Wednesday — and the result was a contentious four-hour hearing that was long on theatrics but short on …
Are Your iPhone Apps Taking Your Address Book Without Permission?
What started out as an inside-baseball squabble over the data that third-party applications pull from iPhones has turned into a federal case. Literally. Two lawmakers have sent Apple a letter demanding answers after news emerged …
Apple Threatened with iPad Shipment Ban in China Trademark Fight
Apple’s trademark dispute with a Chinese firm over the term “iPad” is getting knottier by the day for the U.S. technology giant. Proview Technology, which says it owns the trademark for “iPad” in China, plans to ask Chinese …
