Description: Steven P. Jobs never cared much for selling Apple products to big businesses. A funny thing happened, though, in the last few years. Big companies started buying Apple products — a lot of them — for their employees. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Nov 15, 2011 While corporate technology buyers say Apple does not try to… Read more »
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Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes 8 Years Too Late: Tech
Description: Google Inc. is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc., the largest seller of songs on the Web. Source: businessweek.com Date: Nov 16, 2011 The service, scheduled to be unveiled at a Google event in Los Angeles today, will let users store songs online… Read more »
Speech Smack-Down: Siri vs. Android Voice Actions
Description: Apple’s Siri personal assistant app on the iPhone 4S can do even more than Google’s Voice Actions and provides intelligence that Android doesn’t yet match Source: www.businessweek.com/ Date: Oct 18, 2011 Apple (AAPL) reported on Monday, Oct. 17, that it has sold 4 million iPhone 4S handsets in the debut weekend of the new… Read more »
Apple’s Lower Prices Are All Part of the Plan
Description: Something unexpected has happened at Apple, once known as the tech industry’s high-price leader. Over the last several years it began beating rivals on price. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Oct 23, 2011 People who wanted the latest Apple smartphone, the iPhone 4S, were able to get one the day it went on sale if they… Read more »
QR codes are suddenly everywhere
Description: Instead of custom packaging, the company puts a sticker on each bag of coffee bearing a blocky QR code that, when scanned, links the customer to more information about the bag of coffee than ever could have been printed on the package in the first place. Source: theglobeandmail.com Date: Sept 26, 2011 The people… Read more »
Did The iPhone’s ‘Find My Friends’ Already Out A Cheating Wife?
Description: Welcome to iCheers, where everybody knows your whereabouts. Both Apple and Foursquare are offering new tools for iOS5 that will let us know where our friends are at all times. Source: Forbes.com Date: Oct 17, 2011 Late Saturday night, “ThomasMetz” posted to MacRumors (via 9to5Mac) about how he turned his wife’s iPhone into a… Read more »
A fond farewell to Steve Jobs
Description: New York Times technology columnist comments on how when Steve Jobs died, the country lost not one but four of its greatest minds. Source: CBSNEWS.com Date: Oct 9, 2011 Questions for discussion: Can Apple be just as successful in the next five years with out Steve Jobs as the past five years with Steve… Read more »
New iPhone Conceals Sheer Magic
Description: What’s in a name? A lot, apparently. Apple’s new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S. But what people really wanted was the iPhone 5. Source: NYtimes.com Date: Oct 11, 2011 The rumors online had predicted the second coming — or, rather, the fifth coming. It would be wedge-shaped! It would be completely transparent! It… Read more »
Superior apps sought for Windows Phone 7
Description: When it comes to supplying the coolest smartphones on the planet, Microsoft has long been an also-ran. So last fall, the software giant fired up a fresh strategy to close the gap on Apple‘s iPhones, Research In Motion‘s BlackBerrys and Google‘s Android models. Source: USAtoday.com Date: March 14, 2011 Microsoft’s goal is for Windows… Read more »
Business schools test drive the iPad
Description: The main benefit of the iPad is portability and convenience, he says. “This is something I can easily pack, which doesn’t apply to textbooks.” It also helps with organisation. “I have stacks of material that fill up my entire small desk . . . I’m not even halfway through [the programme] and I’m drowning in text books.” Source:… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
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