Bert Rutjens 's blog

Despite the fact that Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is based off of Google’s Android operating system, sources within the supply chain claim Google plans to become the Fire’s biggest competitor with the release of a low-margin own-brand tablet early next year.

Verizon’s revelation that it sold 4.2 million iPhones in the December quarter has prompted one analyst to suggest that Apple may have sold as many as 35 million iPhones during the period.

The success of Apple’s iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network has resulted in a short-term impact of as much as 6 percent to the carrier’s gross margins as it waits to recoup its subsidies for the best-selling handset.

The success of Apple’s iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network has resulted in a short-term impact of as much as 6 percent to the carrier’s gross margins as it waits to recoup its subsidies for the best-selling handset.

A new report has rung an early death knell for once-mighty photography pioneer Eastman Kodak, claiming that the company is preparing a bankruptcy protection filing in case it is unable to sell off its digital imaging patents.

The pioneering TV studio that effectively invented the reality TV genre with MTV’s “The Real World” series has switched from Apple’s beleaguered Final Cut Pro video editing software, instead choosing a workflow produced by rival Avid.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple an original iPhone patent for editing lists using touch gestures that allow for a seamless smartphone experience, as well as inventions regarding use of the handset as a portable hard drive and a filing for the company’s now defunct Bluetooth headset.

Apple isn’t scheduled to report its holiday quarterly sales until January 24, but Verizon Wireless has just noted that it has sold 4.2 million iPhones in the last three months of 2011, double its previous quarterly figure.

After an almost five month worldwide search to find a chief for its iAd division, Apple has reportedly poached a high level Adobe executive to take over the position that has been without a permanent replacement since the departure of Andy Miller last year.

There have been 3 billion downloads of App Store applications designed specifically for Apple’s iPad, representing 19 percent of all iOS App Store downloads, a new study has found.