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Apple is most valuable global brand

Apple is most valuable global brand

Posted by | Oct 12, 2011 | |

Apple is the most valuable global brand, beating Coca-Cola, according to the European Brand Institute (http://www.eurobrand.cc) latest eurobrand report.

The Eurobrand 2011 report lists the top 10 most valuable brands (in descending order) as Apple, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Google, IBM, McDonalds, AT&T, P&G, Pepsico and Philip Morris. All these companies are US-based.

Apple has a brand value of 69.7 billion euros ($96 billion) in the study of more than 3,000 companies in 24 countries. Apple also overtook Google in brand value in a separate report in May by WPP Plc’s Millward Brown unit.

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iPhone/iPod touch/iPad apps for Oct. 11

iPhone/iPod touch/iPad apps for Oct. 11

Posted by | Oct 11, 2011 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

StudioWolff and 3rd Cloud has announced Chords + Lyrics 1.0, which allows musicians to collect and manage their chords and lyrics, and to edit them. The US$3.99 app can even can transpose your chords on the fly with a single tap.

Fjapps has released Date to Date app for iOS. The free app lets you calculate the difference in days between two dates.

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AppDelete optimized for Lion, 64-bit performance

AppDelete optimized for Lion, 64-bit performance

Posted by | Oct 11, 2011 | |

Reggie Ashworth has updated AppDelete (http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete), an application deleting app for Mac OS X, to version 3.2.2. It’s been optimized for Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) and offers 64-bit performance.

Via drag ‘n drop, AppDelete will delete any chosen app with all of its associated items that belong to that application. You’ll no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually.

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Greg’s Bite: Sprint and ClearWire — Apple takeover targets?

Greg’s Bite: Sprint and ClearWire — Apple takeover targets?

Posted by | Oct 9, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

Apple finally condescended to grant Sprint the iPhone in a deal that rocked Wall Street. Sprint is betting the farm that selling the iPhone will pull the third string US carrier out of the dumps and back into the big time. Apple and Sprint both seem to be quite confidant that simply having iPhones available for its customer base will turn the company around.

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Greg’s Bite: The Cellular Game, Spectrum and Money

Greg’s Bite: The Cellular Game, Spectrum and Money

Posted by | Oct 7, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

Apple has clearly revolutionized the cellular phone industry since the iPhone 1 was launched. In the past, the cellular carriers had all the power and the hardware manufacturers like Motorola, Nokia and RIM simply sold handsets to them and got the best deal they could. Cell phones were manufactured to please the networks first and then the customer who would use them. Exclusives on certain handset models were common.

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