Microsoft retail stores coming to Arizona and California
Microsoft has announced that the first of their retail stores are going to be opened in Arizona and California.
The company has already leased places in Mission Viejo, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz.
Incidentally, the location in California already holds an Apple Store.
Microsoft said that they picked up these [...]
América Móvil to launch Apple iPhone 3GS in Mexico
Mexico would get the latest iPhone model 3GS today.
América Móvil would be launching this new smartphone model in the country.
The phone would also go on sale in other markets including Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia and the Dominican Republic later this year.
Apple iPhone 3GS [...]
Imagination Technologies gets more investments from Apple
Apple has further invested in U.K. chip company, Imagination Technologies.
Apple has now acquired another 2.2 million shares in the company for a total ownership of around 9.5%.
This latest investment was around 3.14 million pounds.
The company uses Imagination’s SGX GPU in their recently launched Apple iPhone 3GS smartphone device.
Sources say [...]
Jonathan Rubinstein is the new CEO of Palm
Palm has borrowed a lot from Apple in the last couple of months. Palm Pre is inspired by Apple iPhone and Palm webOS is inspired by Apple iPhone mobile platform.
They have now named Jonathan Rubinstein as their new CEO.
Jonathan Rubinstein was previously an Apple executive connected with [...]
Actus targets Apple and others with a patent lawsuit
Apple is target of yet another patent related lawsuit.
Actus has filed a lawsuit against Apple and several other companies claiming that they are infringing on their patented technologies.
The lawsuit was filed in May this year in the Eastern District of Texas.
In case of Apple, Actus [...]
North Carolina considering luring Apple to their state
North Carolina is considering giving massive tax breaks to iPod maker Apple if they decide to bring an East Coast computer server farm to the state.
This move would mean an investment of around USD 1 billion for the state of North Carolina.
Apple and the state officials of officially [...]
Amazon acquires developers of Stanza
US based online shopping giant Amazon has announced that they are acquiring the makers of Stanza which is the alternative to Kindle app on mobile platforms.
Developers Lexcycle spoke about this new development: “We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition. [...]
Apple is now in Fortune 100
Apple has made a reentry into the Fortune 100 group of companies.
Apple has appeared in this list for the first time since the return of Jobs to the company.
Incidentally, Job is currently on a medical leave though he is still said to be very well in charge on Apple.
Apple [...]
Apple, Dell, HP sued by The PACid Group
The PACid Group has filed a lawsuit against 19 companies including Apple, Atheros, Broadcom, Dell, Edimax, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Marvell, Realtek, and Toshiba.
The lawsuit claims that these companies infringe upon their patented technologies.
The patent involved in this lawsuit is U.S. patent No. 5,963,646, “Secure deterministic [...]
MacWorld Expo would arrive in February next year
MacWorld Expo organizers have announced that the next edition of this show would take place in February next year.
It would open on a Saturday as they prepare to host this event without Apple which recently announced their decision to no longer participate in MacWorld.
The organizers said [...]
