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Ford Motor (F) developed its in-car "Sync" media and electronics package jointly with Microsoft (MSFT) years ago. it was really quite revolutionary for vehicles as that cost as low as $20,000 to have full factory iPod syncing and portable music player syncing abilities combined with voice navigation abilities. Sure, BMWs and other luxury cars have this, but Ford introduced it to the everyday car. It now wants to go a step further.

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AT&T, Inc. (T) has been getting itself into a wad about recent commercials from larger competitor Verizon Wireless. In those ads, Verizon touts its advanced 3G wireless coverage over AT&T's tepid 3G coverage as a way to battle the ubiquitous popularity of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone that no carrier seems to be able an unseat as the phone to exclusively sell.

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Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone has been selling like gangbusters in the U.S. since its debut in June 2007, but that kind of fever -- and the fever U.S. consumers felt at every iPhone launch in the U.S. -- seemed tepid by comparison when China Unicom unleashed the iPhone for sale last week.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), the consumer electronics manufacturer with unmatched style, was just accused of being a lame monopolist. Why? For ensuring the operating system software it makes only runs on personal computers it manufactures itself. Oh, the horror!

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Apple accused of being monopolist, sued over new Snow Leopard software originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will be employing another "me too" move this year as it opens retail locations near existing Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) retail stores. This is apparently meant to be a second act to the "laptop hunter" ads the software giant has been running that tout the affordability of Windows-powered laptops above Apple's more expensive MacBook laptops. But retail stores? What gives?

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Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is just under a week into the launch of its groundbreaking Pre smartphone, and so far the wireless handset is a great seller for exclusive partner Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S). Former Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) executive Jon Rubinstein, who was brought in to reinvigorate Palm and who is largely credited with the Pre, will now take over the Palm CEO spot from longtime CEO Ed Colligan.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) released some new software and hardware products a few days ago, and at the same time lowered the price on the standard iPhone to $99 with a two-year contract with AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T). Considering that the very first iPhone was released at the $599 price point with that same two-year contract almost exactly two years ago, one has to wonder how Apple has lowered the subsidy-priced iPhone in the U.S. to such a low level while retaining decent product margins.

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Apple's (AAPL) timely product price cuts shouldn't affect margins originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Now that Apple, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) biggest day of 2009 is officially over, co-founder and CEO-on-leave Steve Jobs did not make an appearance. Although he's scheduled to come back to his day-to-day duties at Apple at the end of this month, some thought he may pay a visit to Apple's worldwide developer's conference to kick off a new iPhone or any other iDevice. It didn't happen, and Apple hasn't even told the world if plans for Jobs to return in a little over two weeks are still on track.

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Although yesterday was a big day for Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) -- a new iPhone and lower pricing all being announced -- there were some other interesting developments as well. Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system will gain built-in support for Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Exchange server environment. In other words, some folks using Mac PCs in a business environment will no longer need the Microsoft's Office (which includes Outlook) package.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) could sell twice as many iPhones if it decided to dump partner AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) as the only exclusive provider of the iPhone, according to some Bernstein Research analysts. Would Apple dare do that? Since Apple and AT&T joined exclusive forces almost two years ago, Verizon Wireless has emerged as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. -- and none of its 87+ million subscribers has an iPhone. Mighty tempting, Apple.

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When Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the Apple TV years ago and subsequently upgraded the device and pushed it as as the link to the iTunes stores for the living room, consumers and tech enthusiasts were generally favorable and many believed it would be a hit product for Apple.

This hasn't happened -- although the Apple TV continues to sell in decent numbers. The iTunes store has one of the largest libraries of music, movies and TV shows available, but consumers apparently are not that interested in piping that content into their living rooms. That, or the Apple TV is just to expensive at over $200.

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Microsoft beating Apple in consumer living rooms originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 25 May 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When the Napster brand woke up the music industry using illegal downloading almost a decade ago by allowing digital music swapping across the internet, a completely new cottage industry was born. Pretty shortly, Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) came long with its iPod and iTunes product and made the business model work for legally downloading music. On that note, Apple has the lion's share of music downloading business at this time, although many a competitor has cropped up in the last five years.

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Best Buy's Napster takes a value stab at Apple's iTunes originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 20 May 2009 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be looking at lowering pricing on some of its most popular Mac PCs after the first year-over-year decline in Mac shipments (3% drop) in the last six years. It's no surprise: the U.S. and much of the world are in a recession and cash conservation is king. Macs are among the most expensive PCs there are in many ways (regardless of style, design and software), and customers are backing off a bit.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been on a tear for years. The company, which markets, merchandises and sells its iPod, iPhone and Mac PCs as only it could do, also ranks at the top of customer service in the PC industry as well as being the hottest company in tech.

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Internet music leader Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has abandoned its one-size-fits-all pricing models for music downloads at the iTunes media store. The company, which announced the move in January, has gone to a three-tier pricing model for all its song downloads: 69 cents, 99 cents and the new $1.29.

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be planning a touch-screen netbook computer, according to several sources. Apple, which has had a ho-hum stance on the rapidly-growing netbook market in the past, may be close to deciding that it could indeed enter into the fray and probably take some sales away from the $500 or $600 netbook (and notebook) market.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has made one of the business world's most triumphant returns ever in the last 10 years. Company founder Steve Jobs has put the company into its most profitable and envious position ever, and it seems very little can go wrong for Apple in any sense. We'll count the company as being named to Fortune's "The World's 50 Most Admired Companies" list for 2009 among its huge list of accomplishments in the last half decade.

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With most Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone App Store applications gathering dust after a very short period of time, one has to wonder if the ultimate application store for the iPhone is all what it's cracked up to be. If most of the applications have very limited usefulness (one the novelty wears off), is the iPhone more than just an expensive applications platform with a mobile phone attached?

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Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is slicing $10 off the price of the 8GB Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 3G, cutting its price to $189.99 through January 3rd. In addition, the 16GB version of the iPhone will drop to $289.99 as well. Wow! A measly $10 off a new iPhone! Stop the presses!

Best Buy's Scott Moore indicated that "we thought this would be a way to help customers right now." What a generous gift, yes? Truth be told, it's Apple who dictates to its retailer partners the prices they can sell Apple goods. This is why you'll see almost the exact same price for any Apple product no matter where you purchase it.

But, if Best Buy thinks whacking $10 off the price of an already-overpriced piece of hardware is doing customers a favor, something's in the food in Richfield. And, a $30 "setup fee" for the iPhone? What kind of nonsense is that? At least this fee is being waived along with this huge price reduction. Since Best Buy gives a free "walking out working" setup to all the other cellphones it sells, why on earth is there a $30 fee to setup the iPhone -- which is heralded as one of the easiest phones to setup anyway?

It's no secret that Best Buy has been hurt by the holiday season retail sales slowdown -- it has said as much -- but I'm not sure this is any way to help that situation. That is, unless customers are expected to line up to save the cost of a single movie ticket to a device that locks them into more than $1,600 in calling and data plan contract fees over a 24-month period. What a mark that $10 will have, yes? If Apple and Best Buy really want to "help out" more customers, it sure needs to be more than a measly $10 pittance.

Best Buy whacks iPhone price by $10; gets rid of $30 setup fee also originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) continues to be on a roll. The electronics maker and master marketer is somehow selling its PCs at premium prices compared to the competition and taking market share at the same time, and it has successfully passed the torch from the iPod to the iPhone and has continued selling those devices like hotcakes.

What else is on tap for Apple to keep wowing its crowd, you ask? How about a MacIntosh operating system on a future Apple Mac that has a 3D desktop? The Cupertino, California, company filed information on a 3D interface that on the surface seems like a radical shift in the way most consumers and businesses interact with their computers. See the Patent and Trade Office image to the right -- look interesting?

The filing by Apple, which was actually set on record in June 2007, shows a regular PC desktop joined with a ceiling, walls and a floor -- each of which joins the regular desktop to form a 3D desktop. While Apple's filings did not list a new type of display -- this 3D desktop would work on a normal 2D computer monitor -- leave it to Apple to create a new type of display to correlate with a new way to interact with your computer should it transform this filing in the near future into a realizable product. If any company could convince customers that interacting with a new PC using 3D would be a paradigm shift in computer interaction, it would be Apple.

Apple patent filing reveals a 3D desktop in the future originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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