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In spite of lower year-over-year iPad sales, Tim Cook says not to worry

iPad sales may be on the decline, albeit Apple CEO Tim Cook says not to worry. Per 9to5Mac and Macworld, Apple’s recent financial report noted “all-time record revenue from iPhone and Mac sales as well as record performance of the App Store,” while remaining silent on iPad sales. With year-on-year sales down 18%, and a […]

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Rumor: Apple beginning to court enterprise markets via dedicated sales team

Remember how Apple seemed like a second class citizen in the business and enterprise world? That might be about to change. According to Reuters, Apple is embarking on its most aggressive expansion yet onto corporate turf, hiring a dedicated sales force to talk with potential clients like Citigroup and working in concert with a dozen […]

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Apple apparently assembling team of speech-recognition experts to create neural network-powered Siri

It’s time to have a more meaningful chat with Siri. Per Wired, Apple is apparently assembling a team of A-list speech recognition researchers, including high-ranking employees from Nuance, to create an in-house Siri engine based on neural networking. The article states that Apple has created a group of software engineers and researchers from Nuance, the […]

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Intel, partners looking to manufacture 64-bit mobile processors

Never doubt the power of the mobile processor business. According to Forbes, at the ARM developers conference today, Intel partner Altera announced that the world’s largest semiconductor company will fabricate its ARM 64-bit chips starting next year. The announcement sent shockwaves through the technology industry as Intel is desperately trying to break ARM’s supremacy in […]

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Rumor: Apple hiring dozens of Israel-based former Texas Instruments chip engineers

Never doubt the power of hiring the best engineers you can find. Per The Next Web, Apple has reportedly hired a number of former Texas Instruments engineers living in Israel, with the new employees said to bolster the tech giant’s research and development resources in the region. Sources familiar with Apple’s developing Israel-based operations have […]