2013

2013 Quanta Factories Audit, China: Apple Addresses Labor Violations

 Apple Inc has worked with supplier Quanta over the past year to improve working conditions after a 2013 audit, published on Friday, uncovered a profusion of violations, including excessive overtime and…

IBM Holds On to Patent Position in 2013

New York-based IBM Corp., a technology company with a campus in the Research Triangle Park, was first on the list of the top U.S. patent recipients in 2013. This was…

Apple’s Holiday Commercial Shows the Warmer Side of Technology

A teenaged boy, quiet and seemingly bored with wide eyes glued to his iPhone’s screen, attends a family holiday party.  So it’s just another moody kid unwilling to participate in…

2013 Was the Year of Unstoppable Stocks

The stock market was unstoppable in 2013. A U.S. government shutdown, fear of a default, the threat of military action in Syria, big budget cuts, and a European country looking…

Happy New Year: 2014

It hardly seems believable that this year is at its close, that a promising new year is so quickly upon us. Aren’t we all eager for improvements sure to come,…

Review: Apple Mac Pro Small But Super Powerful

Apple quietly slipped a shiny, new computer onto store shelves last week, and it’s super fast and really small. Geared toward pros as an engineering marvel, the new Mac Pro…

Commentary: The Year that Was in Tech

Is it the beginning or the end? As 2013 hurtles to its conclusion, the debate on 2014 has just begun: Is the tech industry on the verge of a renaissance,…

Search Engine Trends May Indicate Smartphone Market Trends

Google’s Annual Zeitgeist is finally here, just before the year is out.  In this year’s global Top Trending searches, the iPhone 5s ranks third, and in Consumer Electronics the 5s…

Duolingo: Apple’s Choice for App of the Year

At Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches computer science, Luis von Ahn and student David Klionsky thought there should be a way to use smartphones to teach new languages. Sure,…

MLB.com At Bat’s Record-Breaking 2013: 10 Million Downloads, 1 Billion App Starts

Culminating a year when Apple named MLB.com At Bat the 10th highest grossing iOS app of all-time — out of more than 900,000 available apps — MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM)…

Apple Unveils New Macs, Software Ahead of Holidays

Apple unveiled new Macs ahead of the holiday shopping season and said its latest computer operating system, Mavericks, is available free of charge. The Cupertino, Calif. company made the announcement…

Apple’s Market Share will Peak at 22% in 2013 as Smartphones Dominate Global Handset Market, Says ABI Research

Smartphone shipments will account for 50% of all handset shipments by 2014 and become the largest handset segment in the world, according to the latest market forecasts by market intelligence…

Rumor: Apple May Launch iPhone 5S Earlier Than Expected

According to the Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times, Apple will begin trial production of the iPhone 5S, as it’s being called, in December. The initial production count will be between 50,000…

Newsweek Shutters Its Print Shop Doors; Going All Digital

My first career was as a computer typesetter. I can still remember my mentor telling my why it was such a great career. She told me that the world would…