- Apple Supplier Pegatron Posts 22% Jump in Earnings
Pegatron, the manufacturer of the Apple iPhone 5c and iPad mini, posted a 22% jump in earnings today, reports the WSJ. The increase is attributed to the company’s growing role as a supplier for Apple.
Apple has increasingly sought out production partners beyond its primary manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, in an effort to secure production capacity for an expanding range of products. Taiwan-based Pegatron has been the main beneficiary, but Apple has also begun to work with some other manufacturers, as reported previously in The Wall Street Journal.
At an investor conference on Monday, Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng said, “While PCs will still be around, mobile devices are a faster growing sector, and we want an even balance between the different parts of our business.”
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - iTunes Store and App Store Prices Could Increase Up to 20% in the U.K.
iTunes Store and App Store prices could increase up to 20% in the U.K. due to a new law set to be implemented in this year’s finance bill, reports The Guardian.
Chancellor George Osborne is aiming to close a tax loophole that allowed companies to charge online customers VAT at low foreign rates. At the moment, web firms such as Apple and Amazon are selling digital downloads through countries like Luxembourg, where the tax rate is as low as 3%, instead of paying the U.K.’s 20% rate.
The budget document reads:
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Apple Looks to Automate iPhone Battery Production
Apple is planning to have the batteries for its iPhone manufactured on automated production lines starting this year, according to a DigiTimes report. The move will reduce the company’s manpower demand and other vendors are expected to follow suit.
It has already automated production lines for its Mac Pro and iMac, notes the report:
Apple has already automated its Mac Pro and iMac production lines. Other than materials and final assembly, manpower is not required for the rest of the manufacturing
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Apple in Talks With Comcast About Streaming Television Service?
Apple is in talks with Comcast about a streaming television service, reports the WSJ. The service would use the Apple TV set-top box and get priority service on Comcast’s network to bypass net congestion, according to sources.
The discussions between the world’s most valuable company and the nation’s largest cable provider are still in early stages and many hurdles remain. But the deal, if sealed, would mark a new level of cooperation and integration between a technology company and a cable provider to modernize TV viewing. Apple’s intention is to allow users to stream live and on-demand TV programming and digital-video recordings stored in the “cloud,” effectively taking the place of a traditional cable set-top box.
Apple has been pursing various avenues to enter TV; however, media companies and cable companies are hesitant to let Apple into their market. The company is not yet close to an agreement with Comcast who would need to make major network investments to meet Apple’s desired service quality.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Google Releases New Photowall for Chromecast App
Google has released a new Photowall for Chromecast app on the App Store.
Photowall for Chromecast is a new Chrome Experiment that lets people collaborate with images on the TV – using phones or tablets. Anyone can take a picture and send it to a Photowall to instantly see it on the big screen.
When you’re finished, a YouTube video of your Photowall is automatically generated.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Aria Tweak Enhances the iOS Music App With Queuing, Grids, Endless Playing, More
Aria is a new tweak that enhances the iOS Music app with queuing, grids, endless playing, and other improvements.
Aria aims to improve the user experience of the Apple’s Music app bringing some of the most wanted features, bug and annoyances fixing.
Highlights:
– Queuing: just hold down a song to get three options: play now, next, last.
– Grids: Albums and Artists can be shown as a grid.
– Now Playing view: can be customized to show an Apple’s Remote like appearance.
– Endless playing: when the current playing album (or queue) ends, shuffled playing starts
– Lyrics view: darker with a bigger font
– More: round volume knob, pink tint replacement, faster repeat mode selection, …
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Just Touch Your iPhone to Each Wall and the RoomScan App Will Draw a Floorplan [Video]
RoomScan is an app that lets you draw floor plans by just touching each wall with your iPhone.
The free version of RoomScan lets you scan walls to get the dimensions of a room; whereas, the pro version lets you add doors as you walk around and connect rooms together to create a floor plan.
Features:
• The floor plan appears in seconds, with approximate wall lengths and floor area.
• RoomScan can draw floor plans of L-shaped and complex rooms just as easily as small rectangular rooms.
• Measurements are estimated to the nearest 10cm (or half a foot if using feet).
• For super-accurate instant floor plans, use RoomScan in conjunction with a laser measure. Just tap a wall on the finished floor plan and input your measurement. RoomScan intelligently combines its own measurements with yours to create a perfect plan.
• Add doors as you walk around the room – no need to “drag and drop” them on later (RoomScan Pro only).
• Rooms are automatically connected together to create a plan of the whole floor (RoomScan Pro only).
• Choose your own custom floor plan colours (RoomScan Pro only).
• Measurements are available in metric, feet & inches and East Asian units (? / ?? / ?).
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - You Can Now Pay With Your iPhone at a Majority of Wendy's Locations in the U.S.
You can now pay with your iPhone at a majority of Wendy’s locations in the United States, reports the AFP.
Wendy’s has been testing mobile payments over the past year and now says a majority of its 5800 locations and ready to accept payments.
“If they want to come in and give us business, we want to allow them to pay the way they want to pay,” Craig Bahner, chief marketing officer for Wendy’s, said in a phone interview.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - In Q4 the iPhone 5c 'Flop' Outsold BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Every Android Flagship
Apple’s iPhone 5c which has been described as a ‘flop’ outsold BlackBerry Windows Phone, and every Android flagship device in Q4, 2013, notes AppleInsider.
Data from multiple sources, compiled by Seeking Alpha’s J. M. Manness, indicates that in the winter quarter Apple sold 31.9 million iPhone 5s units, 12.8 million iPhone 5c units, and 6.4 million iPhone 4S units. That is a ratio of about 2.5:1 for iPhone 5s:iPhone 5c sales. Clearly the iPhone 5s is the preferred device; however, lets compare that to the competition.
The iPhone 5c over doubled BlackBerry’s total smartphone sales of 6 million for the quarter. It easily beat sales of 8.2 million Nokia Windows Phone devices which account for a nearly all Windows Phone sales globally.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Insane Tests Push New Mac Pro and Final Cut Pro X to Their Limits [Video]
FCP.co has performed a series of crazy tests pushing the new Mac Pro and Final Cut Pro X to their limits.
In the first test they added 4K connected clips one on top of each other at 1 frame intervals. They stopped at 1600 connected clips. The video below shows the results of the test with 1000 clips. Impressively, the Mac Pro played the first 50 frames before looking like it was dropping frames
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - A Few Details on the Rumored 12-Inch MacBook?
A new report claims to offer a few details on the rumored 12-inch MacBook that Apple is expected to release this year. The author correctly leaked information on the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro in the past.
According to the report, the MacBook Air will be updated soon but updates to the MacBook Pro won’t occur until September.
Apple is said to be working on new 12-inch notebook that does not have a fan assembly. It’s also said to feature a new trackpad design without a mechanical button.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Twitter is Removing 'Twitter #Music' From the App Store Today
Twitter has announced that it’s pulling the ‘Twitter #music’ app from the App Store later this afternoon.
Later this afternoon, we will be removing Twitter #music from the App Store. If you have the app, it will continue to work until April 18.
We continue to experiment with new ways to bring you great content based on the music activity we see every day on Twitter.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Apple Considers Release of iTunes Store for Android, Launch of Subscription Based Music Service
Apple is considering the release of an iTunes Store app for Android and the launch of a subscription based music streaming service, according to Billboard.
Apple has opened exploratory talks with senior label executives about the possibility of launching an on-demand streaming service that would rival Spotify and Beats Music, according to three people familiar with the talks. Apple is also thinking about adding an iTunes App for Android phones, the Google rival that has been growing faster than the iPhone, these sources said. The surprising discussions are part of a multi-pronged strategy to deal with the double-digit decline in U.S. download sales at Apple’s iTunes Music Store, the largest music retailer.
According to the report, Apple is now contemplating these options because U.S. digital album sales have started to drop. Album sales are down 13% for the week ended March 9 and track sales are down 11%.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Newsletter, App Store, YouTube - Virgin Mobile Discounts Off-Contract iPhone 5s to $385, iPhone 5c to $315
Virgin Mobile is now offering off-contract iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c devices at a discount.
The iPhone 5s has been discounted to $385 for the 16GB version, $455 for the 32GB version, and $525 for the 64GB version.
The iPhone 5c has been discounted to $315 for the 16GB version and $385 for the 32GB version.
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