U.S. smartphone adoption is expected to surge to 175 million devices by 2015, but even in a booming market, many mobile OS vendors have an uphill battle ahead, according to new data from the Yankee Group finds (http://www.yankeegroup.com). Apple, however, isn’t one of them.
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The 2011 Interbrand Best Global Brands listing ranks Apple as the eighth most valuable brand globally with an estimated total value of US$33.49 billion, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/PNIVB). Our favorite tech company is ahead of Disney and HP on the chart.
Ahead of Apple in the top 10 — with estimated total value — are, in descending order, Coca-Cola ($71.9 billion), IBM ($70 billion), Microsoft ($60 billion), Google ($55 billion), GE ($43 billion), McDonald’s ($36 billion) and Intel ($35 billion).
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Epson has announced the Epson WorkForce DS-30 portable color document scanner designed for business. Weighing less than 12 ounces, it’s a portable business document scanner with both one-touch scan-to-cloud capabilities and TWAIN interface.
Read MoreAccording to the latest research from Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytis.com), worldwide HTML5 phone sales will surge from 336 million units in 2011 to 1 billion units in 2013. Call it a belated victory for the late Steve Jobs, who much preferred HTML5 over Flash.
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“The MUG Event Calendar” is back at full strength this week, with an unusually wide variety of topics and presentations.
Apple Senior Systems Engineer Steve Zalot will present Aperture to a Pennsylvania group, while iCloud is on the horizon in North Carolina, OmniFocus is the topic in Oregon, and Photoshop workflows get the feature treatment in California. Other topics include Google+ for business, Motion, backing up data, Preview, cutting the TV cable and a whole lot more.
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