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Google tries to skirt the rules and avoid an antitrust investigation of the...
19 June 1023 - If you follow the comings and going in the smartphone market you know that Google recently announced that it had acquired privately held online mapping firm Waze. Despite the fact that...
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Apple is REALLY trying to prevent your iPhone from being exploited to build...
27 June 2013 - And tracking continues. In 2011, Apple advised that iPhone and iPad apps should stop logging the unique identifiers of users’ devices, a practice that can be exploited to build up...
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The decline of E-Empires, Microsoft, anti-trust, Yahoo, Marissa Mayer,...
Ibn Khaldun 29 August 2013 – Paul Krugman had an excellent piece in The New York Times. Here is the piece in its entirety: The Decline of E-Empires By Paul Krugman 27 August 2013 © Copyright The...
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IDC report shows competition amongst smartphone global players pushes launch...
4 December 2013 – A recent IDC report shows competition amongst smartphone global players has pushed the launch of greater numbers of low-priced smartphones … except in North America. Smartphone...
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Apple vs. Samsung! The free cash flow “Clash of the Titans”!
10 December 2013 – Over the weekend I started prepping for the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the “Mother of All Mobile Events”, held in Barcelona, Spain, where EAM Capital now has an office. Paris...
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Apple’s health-tracking device is coming: a patent filing points the way. And...
Upping the ante for privacy intrusion and discoverable information By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. 3 February 2014 – As widely reported in the press, Apple is planning to make a push into...
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“Follow the money” : illustrating the socioeconomic divide with iOS and Android
5 April 2014 - Android has a huge market share advantage over iOS these days, but it hasn’t had as much success at following the money. iOS continues to win over many app developers and...
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For Apple, the next stage of smartphone competition unfolds
13 July 2014 - The iCloud was Steve Jobs’ last big bet, a way to tie users into an expanding family of devices and services. Apple has yet to deliver fully on the promise but it is getting there....
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Apple is preparing to launch a voicemail service that will use Siri to...
3 August 2015 – iPhone users may soon find that Siri doesn’t just talk to them, but also to people trying to call them. According to Business Insider, Apple employees are “testing a voicemail...
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Siri won’t answer some questions if you’re not subscribed to Apple Music
30 October 2015 - A Tweet from Tom Conrad has highlighted an issue with Apple’s Siri digital assistant. When asked certain questions about music, Siri refuses to answer unless you subscribe to...
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Donald, listen: the iPhone will not be made in the U.S. Not ever.
“Is this not my best skeptical look? I mean, I am the greatest at skepticism!!” By: Gregory P. Bufithis, CEO 26 January 2016 - That Donald Trump’s skill is leveraging fact-free rhetoric for political...
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This should be good: Google to take “Apple-like” control over Nexus phones
3 February 2016 – According to a report in one of our favorite reads The Information, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wants the company to take greater control over development of their Nexus smartphones....
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Apple patent filing points to a keyboard with no keys
12 April 2016 – Interesting piece on Digital Trends (best way to keep up on “stuff”) this week: Apple’s patent, titled “Configurable Force-Sensitive Input Structure for Electronic Devices,” was...
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What we (think) we know about the new iPhone launching tomorrow, 7 September
Eric De Grasse Chief Technology Officer 6 September 2016 – The year’s iPhones (and maybe Apple Watches) will be announced tomorrow, Wednesday, 7 September. Small deal: dropping the headphone socket....
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Apple explores the idea of killing headphone jack on the MacBook Pro
16 September 2016 – Less than two weeks after Apple unveiled its headphone jack-less iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the company is already exploring the idea of doing the same on its flagship computing...
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The iPhone 7 product cycle: here is the problem when you use 2 chips
25 October 2016 – For years, Apple has had its modem chips supplied solely by Qualcomm. This isn’t a unique method of procuring components for Apple, which has generally preferred to stick with one...
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Future iPhones could fold in half
4 November 2016 – Apple has just received a patent, titled “electronic devices with carbon nanotube printing circuits,” that suggests future iPhones may be foldable — at least to some degree....
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The built-in microphone and speakers of an iPhone can be used for far more...
Eric De Grasse Chief Technology Officer 21 November 2016 – I was at a MIT Media Lab workshop last week and learned a very funky thing: controlling an app via sonar, generated by the phone’s original...
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Apple publishes its first artificial intelligence research paper, with...
By: Gregory P. Bufithis 28 December 2016 – When Apple said it would publish its artificial intelligence research, it raised at least a couple of big questions. When would we see the first paper?...
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