Apple has won three design patents from the US Patent & Trademark Office. They involve a power supply, the iPod shuffle and the MacBook Air
Patent number D11,415 is for the ornamental design of a power supply. Patent number D611,470 is for the ornamental design of an electronic device (the Apple remote). Patent number D611,469 is for the ornamental design of another electronic device (the MacBook Air).
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According to Broadpoint analyst Brian Marshall, the sale of applications, e-books, newspapers and magazines for the iPad is predicted to equal nearly 30% of the revenue Apple will earn from selling the hardware by the end of 2011.
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Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner has issued a behind-the-scenes report on the patent suits Apple filed last week against HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker. As noted by “Fortune” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/09/apple-talks-tough-to-handset-makers/?source=yahoo_quote), Reiner told clients:
Read MoreRecently I pondered (http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/is_closer_integration_between_the_mac_os_x_and_iphone_os_in_the_future) whether closer integration between Mac OS X proper and the iPhone OS was coming. Regarding that convergence, I would like to see Apple either license or get into the business of helping a lot of different companies upgrade their interfaces.
Like what? Home phones, office phone systems, auto information displays and controls, ATM machines, home information and security systems, etc. I could go on, but you get the idea.
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Using recent figures from the NPD research firm (http://www.npd.com) Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting a continued upward swing in Mac sales in the months ahead.
“We expect the strong year-over-year growth in NPD data that we saw in January to continue in the month of February,” he wrote in a note on Monday — as noted by “TheStreet.com” (http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10697430/1/apple-dell-h-p-poised-for-pc-rebound.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA). “We believe this represents a buying opportunity ahead of NPD data for the month of February on March 15.”
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