omputer maker Apple has beaten analysts’ estimates thanks to record sales of Macintosh computers, sending the share nearly 3% higher in after-hours trading on Monday. The company, which is expected to unveil a tablet computing device at a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday
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[Best of the Web — Monday, 25 January 2010] We didn’t attack Google, China says: China has dismissed suggestions that…
[Best of the Web — Friday, 22 January 2010] Clinton speak out on China Internet attacks: In a high-profile speech…
Online retailer Amazon.com is opening its Kindle e-book reader to third-party application developers. The announcement comes less than a week before Apple is expected to announce a tablet device that will compete with Amazon in the e-book market
[Best of the Web — 20 January 2010] Bill Gates joins Twitter: Within hours of joining Twitter, former Microsoft CEO…
Fox News is claiming it has the inside scoop on what Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be announcing at a press conference scheduled for 27 January in San Francisco. Journalist Clayton Morris says a source at Apple has told him that the event will likely focus on the much-rumoured Apple tablet device, a new version of the iPhone operating system, and an up
[Best of the Web — Monday, 18 January 2010] Nokia, Apple step up war of words: The fight between Nokia…
Welcome to our new “Best of the Web” daily feature, in which we summarise the big tech stories from around the world. Videogames are big business. If you were in any doubt of that, consider that the Christmas season’s big blockbuster, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has just exceeded US$1bn in sales. It’s estimated that the game has sold more than 15m units since launch on 10 November 2009
Two titans of the tech world, Google and Apple, may soon be engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Or, more precisely, handset-to-handset…
Unveiling significant changes to its dominant search engine on Monday, Google said it would begin supplementing its search results with…