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A rare look inside Foxconn

A rare look inside Foxconn

Few places are as big and secretive at the same time as Foxconn, the place where much of the western world’s tech magic is born. On the list of “huge and airtight”, there’s the Pentagon, Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, and then Foxconn. It’s where 70% of all iPhones are made, which is why there was excitement when this story from TheNextWeb came across the wire. The video is acutely devoid of anything groundbreaking, but it’s still worth what might be the only look you’ll ever get inside the transplanted heartbeat of world technology. Related articles Watch this: a brief look at Foxconn’s iPhone…

iPhone photography and the world around

iPhone photography and the world around

The Apple iPhone 4s is just not another pretty face with sleek design and glorious interface. The iPhone is designed with what could be the best camera to be installed in a phone on the market! This 8 megapixel camera phone comes with a tremendous amount of features to make every picture that much better. Whether you are a shutter bug, or just someone who wants a camera for life on the go, the iPhone 4s has stepped it up from prior models with a higher dynamic of color range, larger f/2.4 aperture, inferred filter, multiple focal points, intergraded editing software and all powered by Apple’s mighty…

Facebook pages app review

Facebook pages app review

It’s about time! Finally there is an iPhone app for Facebook page administrators to be “on-the-go” and still be up to date with their fans. As a community manager, my business associates and I feel this app will be a great addition to our methods of managing our client’s pages. With social media comes a feeling of instant gratification. I think with social media, there should be timeliness with the response on a post that fans want to see. Everyone has immediate access to what you post and everything that they post, they want an immediate response on. For a community manager it allows for your…

Trending: Apple’s worldwide developers conference

Trending: Apple’s worldwide developers conference

I don’t know about anyone else, but I think Apple has a huge “underground” stronghold on social media – and they don’t pay a damn thing for it. Apple for some reason or another has an unparalleled ever surrounding hype about itself that just attracts everyone in the technology era. Especially now with the Worldwide Developers Conference coming up the second week in June, I am seeing an increasingly steady trend of Apple product rumors. As a social media marketer, it is unbelievable to me that Apple is able to have users do it on their own for them. That is part of why Apple is as successful…

What’s the marketing potential from Apple’s recent patent for iPhone 3D camera technology?

What’s the marketing potential from Apple’s recent patent for iPhone 3D camera technology?

We have been hearing rumors about the iPhone 5 since long before the 4S was launched. One of the most recent rumors to surround the heavily anticipated smartphone is arguably more intriguing than them all. According to Patently Apple, the tech giant has patented a new technology that could give its popular mobile device three dimensional appeal. The site, which as the name implies, keeps up with all things related to Apple and its patenting initiatives, reported that the company recently patented a new technology that could introduce 3D camera technology into devices running its iOS operating…

First glimpse of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs

First glimpse of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs

There were those who were skeptical about whether Ashton Kutcher had the right look to be able to play a young Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic title “Jobs: Get Inspired” about the Apple co-founder. In the latest images captured by TMZ, the actor/investor dons the trademark black turtleneck and jeans that Jobs wore to public events for 20 years. What do you think? Is he going to pull it off? Can the man who has played many dumb characters over the years such as Jesse Montgomery III in “Dude, Where’s My Car” and Micheal Kelso in “That ’70s Show” play one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time? Related…

Second time is (hopefully) a charm with HP putting Windows 8 on new tablet line

Second time is (hopefully) a charm with HP putting Windows 8 on new tablet line

HP has not had much luck in their early attempts at penetrating the tablet market after launching and subsequently canning their WebOS TouchPad in less than 2 months. They’re hoping that luck will change and they are officially making Windows 8 their operating system of choice after rumors surrounding the partnership were leaked last month. It will be comparable to the iPad but with minor improvements such as a thinner body and longer battery life to try to succeed where Android tablets have failed: cracking the full-size tablet market that Apple completely dominates. Rumors of a smaller iPad…

Would a 7-inch iPad kill the Kindle Fire

Would a 7-inch iPad kill the Kindle Fire

It was supposed to be the iPad killer and in many ways it was. Well, it didn’t kill the iPad, but it took a small chunk out of its dominance during the Christmas rush of 2011. Apple may want to return the favor if rumors are true about a 7-inch iPad with retina display. Rumors are rumors but when Apple is involved, they tend to make news. If it’s true in whole or in part (and there’s no reason why Apple wouldn’t want to attack the market before next Christmas) then it could mean that the one place where Android devices (and particularly the Amazon Kindle Fire) still has playing room may be torn down by the Apple…

A smart, huge company should buy Yahoo immediately

A smart, huge company should buy Yahoo immediately

There is value in Yahoo. It’s real and tangible. While conventional wisdom would look at the trends and the follies of the beleaguered tech firm as a sign that they would be a bad investment, there’s another perspective that knows that now is the best time to buy. I know. I’ve been there. No, I’ve never worked for a huge tech firm. I have, however, been a part of a company with loads of potential but other challenges that made us ripe for acquisition at a bargain-bin price and the results were incredible for everyone involved. Today’s Yahoo has seen a string of CEO and board follies that make AOL leadership…

iPad is to "tablet" as Starbucks is to "coffee shop"

iPad is to "tablet" as Starbucks is to "coffee shop"

When a product becomes synonymous with the general term for the item itself, it can own the market. To paraphrase Ra’s Al Ghul from Batman Begins, “If you make yourself more than just a tablet, if you devote your circuits to an ideal and if they can’t stop you, you become something else entirely – a legend.” Such is the case with the Apple iPad as it now accounts for 94.64% of all tablet web traffic. It accounted for 2/3rds of the tablets sold in 2011 despite a surge by the Kindle Fire around Christmas. Just like Starbucks, people often interchange the word “iPad” with “tablet” when discussing the mobile…

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Apple's Q2 earnings show business as usual despite quarterly drop

It might be the most beautiful drop of $7 billion in earnings, ever. Apple’s Q2 earnings report showed a sharp downturn compared to last quarter, but investors aren’t worried. It’s not that the company performed poorly. It’s that last quarter was the stuff of legends and the decline was expected, possibly even necessary. When compared to the all-important year-over-year statistics, Apple is up $11.6 billion. iPhone dominated the revenue-generation for the company again, accounting for 58%. iPad followed at 17%. As this graphic shows, it’s business as usual in Cupertino. From: Ft Lauderdale…

Netbook sales down 34% year over year. Can we call them dead, yet?

Netbook sales down 34% year over year. Can we call them dead, yet?

Less-useful than a laptop, less-awesome than a tablet, the netbook market has suffered the most in the past two years with the rise of the iPad (and other tablets, of course, but really let’s just blame Apple). Keyboards were the last real argument for the netbook over a tablet and most tablets have keyboard attachments that work just fine. With a 34% drop in Q1 2012 versus Q1 2011 marking the 6th consecutive drop for the waning product, can we call them dead, yet? In a press release by Canalys that was punctuated by the announcement that HP regained the top spot in PC sales over Apple by 40,000 units thanks…

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