The Apple Mac, Surprising Growth Driver, Surpassing iPad

Editor's Note: With Windows 8, Microsoft damaged its Windows brand and consumer confidence in Microsoft products and Windows PCs--giving increasing opportunity on the high-end to Apple and on the low-end to Google's Chrome OS computers--


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Apple’s Surprising Growth Driver: the Mac - WSJ - WSJ: "During a quarter marked by frenzied demand for the latest iPhones, Apple Inc. logged its biggest sales gains with a product heading into middle-age: the Mac. On the 30th anniversary of the first Macintosh, a 21% jump in unit sales helped Apple’s computer line leapfrog the sagging iPad to become the company’s second biggest-selling product line in revenue terms, just behind the iPhone. The Mac line generated revenue of $6.625 billion in the quarter, more than iPad revenue of $5.316 billion. Demand for Macs rose amid falling sales of Windows PCs, giving Apple more than 6% of the global PC market, according to the research firm IDC. That percentage is Apple’s highest market share since 1995, when Microsoft Corp. established its dominance over the computer market with Windows 95. The Mac gained market share in 33 of the last 34 quarters, lifting its share from 2.1% in 2006, according to IDC...."


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The Mac Is Trouncing The iPad—
ReadWrite
The Wall Street Journal just declared that Apple's "surprising growth driver" is none other than the humble (and seemingly post-PC passé) Mac. While it's true that the Mac is driving growth, it's anything but surprising. See also: Apple iPad Sales Continue To ...

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New York Times
Apple Pay Runs Afoul of MCX, a Group With a Rival Product
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Apple Pay competitor confirms email breach - USA TODAY
Blocking Apple Pay Is A Terrible Strategy For CurrentC Merchants - Forbes


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Facebook to Spend Billions on Future
New York Times
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Facebook shares down 11% on warning of rising costs - USA TODAY
Facebook warns of increased spending, shares fall - Reuters
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The complete guide to Google Fit
CNET
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Google takes another step into your living room with its Nexus Player
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Stripe Hires Top Google Ops Exec Claire Johnson to Lead Business Operations
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Apple SIM Included With iPad for Customer Convenience, but iPhone Not Likely to Join In
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Quickoffice Replaces Office on Smartphones and Tablets

Who cares about Microsoft Office anymore? -- if you need it on your iPhone or iPad (or Android tablet or smartphone) just get the FREE Google Quickoffice -- 

Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all, bringing Microsoft Office editing to the mobile masses - The Next Web: "As we’ve said before, however, Windows Phone and BlackBerry users are out of luck. Google is simply not interested in supporting either platform. Meanwhile, you can bet it will continue to improve Quickoffice for Android and iOS."

Quickoffice for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store: "This free app from Google lets you create and edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your iPhone and iPad. Once you sign in with your Google Account, work can be saved in Google Drive, which gives you up to 15GB of free storage and lets you access your files from any mobile device or computer. "

Download Quickoffice for Android: http://goo.gl/Y5TQxz 

Dell drops Windows RT, only Microsoft remains selling the OS - Neowin: "That leaves Microsoft as the only current Windows RT hardware maker, as it continues to sell the Surface RT tablet and will launch Surface 2 on October 22nd."

T-Mobile US will no longer stock BlackBerry in stores | Reuters: "T-Mobile US Inc, the No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider, plans to stop carrying BlackBerry Ltd smartphones in its stores and instead ship the devices directly, according to an executive for the company."

Google same-day delivery makes public debut

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Microsoft And Oracle Say: Come To Azure Cloud

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Bygones are bygones, as former database rivals Microsoft and Oracle link arms to ... At the same time, the rise of Amazon Web Services showed what had been ...

Apple Maps app directs drivers to runway at Alaska airport; 2 drivers ...

Washington Post
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A glitch in the Apple Maps app on newer iPhones and iPads guides people up to a runway at a major Alaska airport instead of sending ...

Washington Post

Microsoft sails past Oracle in bringing Java SE to the cloud

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While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focuses his attention on the America's Cup sailing race, Oracle is rushing to keep up in another race, the one to get its Java SE ...

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Google, at 15, perfects search for the next big thing

USA TODAY
While much-older tech rivals Apple and Microsoft fend off questions about their innovation chops,Google is as inventive and financially stout as ever. Google ...

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Apple's IOS 7 Is a Potent Upgrade: Rich Jaroslovsky

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Amazon's Ad Business Makes Twitter's IPO Look Puny

Wired
Twitter hasn't publicly revealed its revenue, and Amazon doesn't specifically break ... After all, Google and Facebook — not to mention Yahoo, Microsoft, Barry ...

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Amazon adds power, 'Mayday' button to new Kindle

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Amazon upped the ante in the tablet wars Wednesday, unveiling upgraded Kindles ... version that competes with smaller devices like Apple's iPad mini, and an 8.9 inch ... Amazon calls a Fire OS operating system, which builds on Google's Android ... The news came just two days afterMicrosoft announced upgrades to its ...

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Google Wants 90% Of Office Users

More on the Google move to capture Office users--a task made easier with the disastrous Windows 8--

Google Wants To Grab 90% Of Office Users From Microsoft - Forbes: "In 2012, though, Google made several improvements to ramp up its enterprise offerings. In addition to its Compute Engine, which competes directly with Microsoft Azure, Google also introduced Drive, which enables Google App users to store almost any type of document “in the cloud”. Google also recently began charging companies to use Google Apps. With these improvements, Singh now believes that Google can dominate the enterprise market – and effectively steal Office users away from Microsoft. He says, “We know the gaps between our features and theirs. We’re improving them week by week. We’re going to get to the 90 percent.”"


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Google Apps Moving Onto Microsoft’s Turf

More and more are going Google--

Google Apps Moving Onto Microsoft’s Business Turf - NYTimes.com: ". . . . In a recent report, Gartner, the information technology research company, called Google “the only strong competitor” to Microsoft in cloud-based business productivity software, though it warned that “enterprise concerns may not be of paramount importance to the search giant.” Google is tight-lipped about how many people use Google Apps, saying only that in June more than five million businesses were using it, up from four million in late 2011. Almost all these companies are tiny, but in early December Google announced that even companies with fewer than 10 employees, which used to get Google Apps free, would have to pay. Google’s revenue from Apps, according to a former executive who asked not to be named in order to maintain good relations with Google, amounted to perhaps $1 billion of the $37.9 billion Google earned in 2011. Shaw Industries, a carpet maker in Dalton, Ga., with about 30,000 employees, switched to Google Apps this year for communication tools like e-mail and videoconferencing. Jim Nielsen, the company’s manager of enterprise technology, calculated that using Google instead of similar Microsoft products would cost, over seven years, about one-thirteenth Microsoft’s price. . . ."


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Microsoft Unveils New Office Suite

Microsoft Unveils New Office Suite
Wall Street Journal
By Nathalie Tadena Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) unveiled a customer preview of its new Office software suite, which is designed to work with touch-screen tablets and will be available as a cloud-based subscription service. "The new, modern Office will ...

Kinect Game Lets You Land NASA's New Rover on Mars
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By Adam Mann A new free Xbox game gives anyone the chance to steer through seven minutes of terror and attempt to safely land NASA's newest rover, the Mars Science Laboratory. MSL, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet the night of Aug.

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Apple tries to block iOS in-app purchase hack, fails
ZDNet
Summary: Apple is working hard to fight the hacking of its In-App Purchase program for iOS. So far though, the company's attempts have not deterred Russian developer Alexey Borodin who apparently wants Cupertino to fix the underlying problem rather ...

LinkedIn Rolls Out Revamped Homepage
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot LinkedIn is doing some summer cleaning, ridding its homepage of clutter and debuting a simpler façade. The business networking site is slowly rolling out its revamped homepage, which its hopes can provide a simpler user navigation ...

Apple's Mountain Lion may be out July 25, report says
Washington Post
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Sprint fires up new wireless data network, but lags Verizon and AT&T
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp. said Monday that it has turned on its new wireless data network, providing a much-needed boost to the carrier, whose data speeds lag those of its largest competitors. Sprint fired up the fourth-generation, or 4G, ...

Sprint to sell IdeaPad U310 Ultrabook for $800
Computerworld
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Study: Viewers turning to YouTube as news source
San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK—A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism on ...

Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 3
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Apple today released iOS 6 beta 3, which includes some new Maps settings and Mail icons, among other things. As noted by MacRumors, the release comes about three weeks after the last beta version. In the brief release notes, ...

NBC Buys Microsoft's Share of MSNBC.com
Businessweek
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Nokia halves price of Lumia 900 as Windows Phone struggles persist
Apple Insider
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Fifth moon discovery reminds us how little we know about Pluto (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Orbiting at outskirts of the solar system some three billion miles from Earth, Pluto remains shrouded in mystery. By Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries / July 16, 2012 This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons ...

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A year after Space Shuttle's final flight, workers still struggle (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
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Christian Science Monitor

Images of Purported White iPhone 5 Front Panel Emerge
Wired News
By Christina Bonnington Is this the front plate of a next-generation iPhone? We will never know for sure. Photo: Apple.pro A purported leaked image of the next iPhone's front panel emerged early Monday, possibly giving us a more complete view of what ...

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Samsung Galaxy S3 gets Strong 2300mAh Extended Battery from Mugen Power
San Francisco Chronicle
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'Rare' Skype Bug Sends IMs to Third-Party Contacts
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Skype today acknowledged a bug that is mistakenly sending contacts' instant messages to unknown third parties. "We are aware in rare circumstances IM's between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact," Skype said in ...

RIM To Pay $147 Million In Patent Infringement Case
CRN
By Kristin Bent, CRN A jury in Northern California has found Research In Motion guilty of infringing on patents from mobile device management vendor Mformation, a verdict that will slam the struggling BlackBerry maker with a $147.2 million fine.

Open access science debate shifts to EU after UK govt backing
Reuters
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No surprise: British ISP's block on Pirate Bay isn't curbing piracy
VentureBeat
Blocking torrent sharing website The Pirate Bay at the ISP-level isn't having a negative effect on piracy of digital media, according to a new report by the BBC. In April, the UK's high court ordered all internet service providers within the country to ...

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Symantec software update causing BSOD on some Windows XP PCs
TechSpot
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Raspberry Pi 5-megapixel camera add-on announced
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SlashGear

Facebook buys mobile gadget-focused Spool
AFP
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook added more mobile technology to its arsenal with the acquisition of Spool, a startup specializing in bookmarking and sharing content on smartphones or tablets. "The Spool team has deep expertise in mobile software development ...

AFP

Apple's EPEAT Fiasco
EBN
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Fiat 500L getting optional espresso maker
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How a smaller iPad could still have a 9.7-inch screen
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Apple could redesign the iPad so that it had a smaller footprint yet retain the 9.7-inch display that people love. It's all down to the bezel -- or lack thereof. Is this the smaller iPad that everyone is predicting? By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ...

ZDNet (blog)

STMicroelectronics Applauds CERN Success in Search for Elusive Higgs Particle
Reuters
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Soyuz rocket blasts off with three bound for space station
CNET
Launch of a Russian Soyuz crew ferry craft bound for the International Space Station kicks off a busy six weeks of activity in orbit, with multiple dockings, undockings and a pair of challenging spacewalks on tap. by William Harwood A Soyuz spacecraft ...

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