, the
is likely to find greater appeal among the non-techie regular users while the more tech-savvy audience may find more value from a laptop. Pogue opines that while the iPad may not be the best platform for ”
“, it makes content consumption ”
” easier. Pogue claims that the iPad exceeded advertised battery life by playing videos for over 12 hours in his test.
concurs with Pogue on the iPad's excellent battery life. Mossberg claims that (more…)

In the quarter ending December 26, 2009, Apple posted
$15.68 billion
in revenue; a 32% growth year-over-year and the highest that the company has ever recorded. The net profit during this quarter grew 49.5% YoY to
$3.38 billion
. Gross margin was 40.9% up during the same time period. The company sold
8.7 million iPhones
(8% fall) in this quarter.
There has been a significant change in the accounting process of iPhones this quarter. You (more…)

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” – Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet.
We haven’t heard this first hand, but we’ve heard it multiple times second and third hand from completely independent sources. Senior Apple execs and friends of Jobs are telling people that he’s about as excited about the upcoming Apple Tablet as he’s ever been.
Coming from the man who has created so much, that’s (more…)

That doesn't seem to have happened. Verizon's attacks apparently have not been able to cause any dent in iPhone sales during the holiday shopping season as the recent report from
shows. On the contrary, the
recorded its largest monthly gain in market share since the device was introduced in 2007.
The iPhone OS recorded a 20% gain in December to reach 0.43% of all Operating Systems used to surf the web. Among the mobile operating systems (more…)

Halloween is just around the corner and Reko Rivera (left, below) and John Savio (right, below) are ready with the best Apple iPhone costumes we’ve seen.

Rivera and Bobby Hartman spawned this idea in 2007 by creating a wearable iPhone costume using a real 37 inch LCD TV and an iPod . The iPod looped videos of recorded iPhone screens.

Fast forward to 2009, and the costume uses an actual iPhone to generate (more…)

Apple ’s fourth-quarter profits rose more than 46 percent to 1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share on revenues of $9.87 billion as compared to net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share on revenues of $7.9 billion, in the year-ago quarter.
For the full year, Apple ’s revenues grew by 12 percent and net income grew by 18 percent.
Apple sold 3.05 million Macs during the quarter. It was a 17 percent unit increase over (more…)

In spite of the recent strides taken in the field of 3G, Skype has really not been able to build a stronghold in the mobile VoIP market. This is because, the network carriers have imposed stringent restrictions to check the proliferation of the mobile VoIP services.That is the reason why in spite of having launched an awesome iPhone app back in March this year, Skype has only had limited proliferation.According to John Silverman, CEO of Skype:
“The (more…)

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is a technique of detecting a watcher’s
bandwidth and CPU capabilities in real time and then adjusting the
quality of a video stream.
. The show starts at 9 p.m. PT.
If you visit Akamai's site, you will notice that there are several live video feeds including NASA TV.
According to Gannes, Apple has kept the event quiet as it doesn’t want to overwhelm the AT&T network.
Apple 's move to use HTTP for adaptive (more…)