Is the iPad cannibalizing the Mac? All indications — mainly increasing Mac sales atop skyrocketing iPad sales — have said “no,” but Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty thinks that could be changing.
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans for a limited-release Collector’s Edition of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm), the third expansion for the subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft.
The special Collector’s Edition package, which will only be available at retail stores, will include the following exclusive bonus items in addition to the game disc:
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Apple has won patents from the US Patent & Trademark Office for the screen display on the iPhone and iPod touch, a portable computer, the current iMac incarnation, the latching mechanism on Apple laptops, an audio interface and a cable connector assembly.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named one of the top 15 “CEO Overachievers” by “CNN Money” (http://macosg.me/2/q0). Those on the list led their companies to outperform the S&P last year — and collected the lowest pay for their efforts.
Though he gets some juicy stock options, Jobs only draws US$1 in salary per year. Yep, one smacker. Jobs is number one on the “CEO Overachiever” list.
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Sarah Rotman Epps, consumer product strategy analyst for Forrester Research, says the lack of viable tablet operating systems is one of the biggest reasons for the slow rollout of iPad competitors, according to a “Wireless Week” report (http://macosg.me/2/pz).
“iOS is unique in that it scales down to smartphones and up to tablets, but there’s no other OS that’s uniquely suited to tablets,” she says, adding that the latest release of Android, which makes it slightly more tablet-friendly, just came out for developers within the past few weeks.
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