Mac sales growth stalls -- here's why Apple doesn't care

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	Mac sales growth stalls -- here's why Apple doesn't care Apple's Mac has been punished by shifting consumer tastes just as has the overall PC industry, data from the company's earnings statements show. But in the end, Apple may not care. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8 What Phone Features Should Every Small Business Have? In this this informative eBook, USA TODAY small business columnist Steve Strauss explains in plain English why VoIP is such a good idea for small business and shows how the many powerful, affordable features available from 8x8 can make your business more efficient. Read Now. In this Issue Apple sold 35-38M iPhones last quarter, analysts say Facebook Home on iPhone? 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Read More Facebook Home on iPhone? Not a chance, say experts There is absolutely no way that Apple will surrender its iPhone interface to Facebook Home, analysts said today. Read More Apple keeps patching Java on OS X Snow Leopard after proposed drop-dead date Apple on Tuesday patched Java for the aged OS X Snow Leopard and tweaked Safari to give users more control over what websites they let run the vulnerability plagued Oracle software. Read More Microsoft exec talks mobile smack, trashes iOS as 'boring,' Android as 'a mess' Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android today, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Read More Kenneth van Wyk: Making safer iOS apps There still seem to be a lot of security flaws in iOS apps, but new tools could help fix that. Read More Netflix to dump Silverlight, Microsoft's stalled technology Netflix plans to abandon Microsoft's Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions. Read More Apple's lead over Samsung in future-purchase plan survey cut in half Apple's iPhone lost ground in the last three months to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey of consumers' future purchase plans, a market research firm said last week. Read More Motorola patent that got Apple's push mail banned in Germany could be invalid, court says A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, said on Friday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now Get social with OS X's Twitter integration Beginning in Mountain Lion, OS X features social media integration options with both Twitter and Facebook, letting you post to the services from the OS itself, as well as sync contacts. Read More Apple's Steve Jobs kills the netbook -- is the PC next? Still the bells; silence the critics; let the band play on: no, I'm not talking about the UK administration's dissociated reaction to the passing of some former Prime Minister, instead I'm discussing Apple, the iPad and the final extinction of netbooks, set to expire themselves in 2015, the analysts say Read More ITC rejects Motorola touchscreen patent complaint against Apple The U.S. International Trade Commission has found no evidence that Apple infringed on a Motorola Mobility patent covering a touchscreen function. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iWatch hits the big time: Changewave claims iPad level demand In the event Apple actually does introduce such a device, the iWatch seems set to deliver the same level of success as the iPad before it, that's the news coming out of the latest consumer research survey from Changewave which claims just under one-in-five consumers will be eager to snap one up. Read More Jonny Evans: Samsung admits paying students for 'fake Web reviews' -- did it attack Apple, too? A recently announced FTC investigation in Korea suggests those ever active pro-Android, pro-Samsung thread commentators may have an extra reason to extol their Galaxy above the iPhone -- in some cases there's a chance they're getting paid to post. Read More Jonny Evans: 'Apple is doomed' critics say as iPhone release 'delays' claimed Greetings and welcome to the new week of Apple rumor, speculation and negative spin -- and this promises to be a particularly interesting week as the company announces its financial results only to be pilloried by pundits whatever it might say. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple Siri spies on you: Secretly keeps data for years Tim Cook 'fesses to latest pomaceous scandal. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been forced to admit to the ACLU that it's been keeping your Siri queries for as long as two years. The revelations include assurances that the data are "anonymized," but that's not dulling critics' knives, which are very definitely out. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel a little queasy about that. Read More Jonny Evans: How Apple's iPhone has already changed the planet I've come across a pair of images which show how Apple's iPhone (and the smartphones that followed) have already transformed the way we experience the world -- the evidence is right before your eyes, take a look.. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple' results, the "experts" and where the puck is going Apple will report yet another profitable quarter later on today, anticipated at $9 billion plus -- more than Microsoft and Google made in their last quarter combined. So naturally, analysts and investors are "preparing for a disappointment", but should they be? Read More
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