Apple today announced that its $100 billion pile of money is to be used, not for buying Twitter, Facebook or even Google, but to initiate a stock buy back and to offer dividends to existing share owners.
Apple has just announced that it is hosting a special press conference tomorrow that is entirely dedicated to the announcement of the outcome of their cash balance discussions. Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will be hosting the special conference call today, March 19th, at 6AM PDT (9AM EDT), which will be live streamed here.
Security research firm Intego, which specializes in Mac-related software, has stumbled upon a new variant of the Imuler trojan horse targeting Mac OS X users.
User interface designer Lukas Mathis decided he wanted to know what the new iPad's Retina display looked like up close and personal so he did what any self respecting geek would do. He went out, got an iPad and then shoved it under the nearest microscope he could find. The result is some handy comparison shots between Apple's new tablet and the one it has replaced, the iPad 2.
It has been a very busy Friday in tech, Apple has just seeded a revised Developer Preview to its upcoming Mountain Lion OS for Mac.
Today's the day that many avid iPad fans have been waiting for, and scores of consumers turned out for the overnight queue preceding the worldwide launch this morning.
The nine day wait which Apple imposed upon us at the media event in San Francisco is finally over, with buyers all over the world taking deliveries of their iPad pre-orders, as well as Apple Stores serving customer after customer as the new iPad flies off the shelves. We will need to wait a while until the sales numbers are released so we can see just how successful the new iPad is in the early stages of availability, but all experts predict that the third-generation iPad will break all records.
In amongst all the talk of new iPads and Samsung Galaxy S III's, another product trending in the blogsosphere of late is Apple's MacBook range.
The gadget loving world is currently suffering from a dire case of we need the new iPad syndrome, and will only be cured when the doors finally open and pre-orders finally start to hit our floor mats. For most of the countries around the world that are set to get the new iPad on the first launch day, it is only a few hours to wait until we can hand over our plastic friends to the good people at Apple and let them charge away. However, if you happen to be Australian, then the chances are you may already have collected the new iPad and are currently salivating over the beautiful Retina display.
Apple's new iPad device will not be supporting FaceTime over 4G - at least not initially - despite being faster than Wi-Fi in many cases.
