Rumor Has It: Apple Said to Already Eye iPhone 5S New speculation is already circulating thatApple is planning a trial production of an “iPhone 5S” — just as the paint is barely dry on new updates of the iPhone and iPad. According to a report from Digitimes — a Taiwanese technology website that has a mixed track record when it comes to making accurate Apple predictions — the iPhone maker will begin producing a new version of its smartphone in December, and increase the volume of production in the first quarter of 2013.Full story 
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Rumor Has It: Apple Said to Already Eye iPhone 5S

New speculation is already circulating thatApple is planning a trial production of an “iPhone 5S” — just as the paint is barely dry on new updates of the iPhone and iPad.

According to a report from Digitimes — a Taiwanese technology website that has a mixed track record when it comes to making accurate Apple predictions — the iPhone maker will begin producing a new version of its smartphone in December, and increase the volume of production in the first quarter of 2013.

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Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet/PC When Steve Ballmer took the stage at Microsoft’s mysterious press event in Hollywood, the bloggers in the audience gasped, but they didn’t start to applaud until they saw just what the Surface tablet/PC hybrid he announced could do. After a long prologue about Microsoft’s legacy of launching hardware — from the mouse to the XBOX — Ballmer debuted the tablet designed to work with Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system — “its own companion hardware innovation.” What really distinguishes Surface from Apple’s iPad is the fact that it has all the computing power of a PC, and with snap-in keyboards and a kick stand, it actually turns into a mini laptop. Full Story Photo:Bloomberg | Getty Images
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Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet/PC

When Steve Ballmer took the stage at Microsoft’s mysterious press event in Hollywood, the bloggers in the audience gasped, but they didn’t start to applaud until they saw just what the Surface tablet/PC hybrid he announced could do.

After a long prologue about Microsoft’s legacy of launching hardware — from the mouse to the XBOX — Ballmer debuted the tablet designed to work with Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system — “its own companion hardware innovation.”

What really distinguishes Surface from Apple’s iPad is the fact that it has all the computing power of a PC, and with snap-in keyboards and a kick stand, it actually turns into a mini laptop.

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Spotify’s Sean Parker and Daniel Ek on Music and Piracy Sean Parker transformed the music industry once with Napster, now he’s doing it again with Spotify, where he’s now a director. He and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at the D conference to talk about Spotify’s new music model. They’re not going after Apple’s business, they’re competing with piracy. And in the process they’re redefining how people find music — now through their friends— and how they buy it — in play lists, instead of singles and albums. Spotify has 18 million songs to Apple’s 31 million, but Ek says it has the most important ones — people listen to 80 percent of their music.  Full Story Photo: Jon Aslund
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Spotify’s Sean Parker and Daniel Ek on Music and Piracy

Sean Parker transformed the music industry once with Napster, now he’s doing it again with Spotify, where he’s now a director. He and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at the D conference to talk about Spotify’s new music model. They’re not going after Apple’s business, they’re competing with piracy. And in the process they’re redefining how people find music — now through their friends— and how they buy it — in play lists, instead of singles and albums.

Spotify has 18 million songs to Apple’s 31 million, but Ek says it has the most important ones — people listen to 80 percent of their music. 

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New Google Tablet Set to Defend the Android Market Google’s 7-inch Android tablet is real — it’s even being passed around inside the Googleplex. Google needs this tablet to defend Android. The arrival of Amazon’s Kindle Fire blew a hole in the ecosystem, with Amazon setting up its own app store and its own look and feel for Android itself. If this 7-inch tablet is a hit, Google can argue that developers should still build tablet apps to Google’s specs, not Amazon’s. Full Story Photo: Googleappscentral.com
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New Google Tablet Set to Defend the Android Market

Google’s 7-inch Android tablet is real — it’s even being passed around inside the Googleplex. Google needs this tablet to defend Android. The arrival of Amazon’s Kindle Fire blew a hole in the ecosystem, with Amazon setting up its own app store and its own look and feel for Android itself. If this 7-inch tablet is a hit, Google can argue that developers should still build tablet apps to Google’s specs, not Amazon’s.

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Steve Jobs and Mickey Drexler: A Tale of Two Retailers

Apple’s retail stores are a physical reminder that the brand is the world’s most profitable technology company. They are also part of Steve Jobs’ legacy. However, the stores’ success is also thanks in part to someone outside the company — J. Crew’s CEO Mickey Drexler. It wasn’t the first time the two collaborated. At the time of Jobs’ death in October, the pair had worked together for more than a decade, with each serving on each other’s board, sharing advice and insights.

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Cadillac Gives Buyers iPads GM’s Cadillac brand is launching the Cadillac User Experience (CUE), an in-vehicle system that uses touch and voice controls as way to access information and entertainment, in its latest release of the Cadillac XTS. As part of this launch, which is slated for later this spring, Cadillac is taking some steps to ensure consumers are comfortable with the technology. One way they are doing this is by giving every buyer of the Cadillac XTS Apple’s new iPad. Full Story Photo: Getty Images
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Cadillac Gives Buyers iPads

GM’s Cadillac brand is launching the Cadillac User Experience (CUE), an in-vehicle system that uses touch and voice controls as way to access information and entertainment, in its latest release of the Cadillac XTS. As part of this launch, which is slated for later this spring, Cadillac is taking some steps to ensure consumers are comfortable with the technology. One way they are doing this is by giving every buyer of the Cadillac XTS Apple’s new iPad.

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Ordering a Cheeseburger? There’s an iPad for That Classic American comfort food is going high tech at one California restaurant chain.  At its three locations, Stacked Restaurants offers customers the opportunity to craft their meals and then pay for them on iPads.  At Stacked, diners can choose to stack their burgers, pizzas, salads, and plates of macaroni and cheese with a range of toppings. Full Story
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Ordering a Cheeseburger? There’s an iPad for That

Classic American comfort food is going high tech at one California restaurant chain.  At its three locations, Stacked Restaurants offers customers the opportunity to craft their meals and then pay for them on iPads.  At Stacked, diners can choose to stack their burgers, pizzas, salads, and plates of macaroni and cheese with a range of toppings.

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Priceline Going Mobile? Priceline’s stock has shot up 57 percent this year but in order to keep investors coming back, the travel-booking site has to hit the ground running in its new battlefield — mobile bookings.  Whether it’s due to people being on the go, last-minute bookings or both — mobile is where it’s at. Full Story
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Priceline Going Mobile?

Priceline’s stock has shot up 57 percent this year but in order to keep investors coming back, the travel-booking site has to hit the ground running in its new battlefield — mobile bookings.  Whether it’s due to people being on the go, last-minute bookings or both — mobile is where it’s at.

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Apple Gets Rare Downgrade on Doubts It Can Keep Selling iPhone for $600 Apple received its first downgrade in nearly six months from Wall Street after an analyst doubted wireless carriers will keep offering giant iPhone subsidies, hurting profit margins for the tech juggernaut and world’s largest company. Read more
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Apple Gets Rare Downgrade on Doubts It Can Keep Selling iPhone for $600

Apple received its first downgrade in nearly six months from Wall Street after an analyst doubted wireless carriers will keep offering giant iPhone subsidies, hurting profit margins for the tech juggernaut and world’s largest company.

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