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Reports that Apple will announce the iPhone5 on September 12 - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep30
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:52:20
Publish Date: 2012-08-23 19:42:59
Description: Leon and Garry talk about issues including: Reports that Apple will announce the iPhone5 on September 12 Analysts predicting that the iPhone5 should sell 250 million units over its lifetime, for a total of $144 billion in revenue. To put that in perspective, $50 billion is how much revenue Apple made from all the iPhones sold so far in the US On the back of that speculation, Apple becoming the most valuable company ever. Apple has hit a market capitalization of over $620 billion, breaking the record of $618.9 billion set by Microsoft back in 1999. Almost everything getting wrapped up in the epic Apple v. Samsung patent trial except for the jury’s job. Both sides officially finished making their case on Friday, and with the exception of some jury instruction, the next step is for the jury to start weighing a decision. But there’s one more thing: the chiefs of Apple and Samsung are going to try to talk out their differences via phone one last time. Motorola filing another complaint against Apple with the International Trade Commission (ITC). It accuses Apple of infringing on seven Motorola patents for mobile phone features like Siri, location reminders, phone and video player, and email notifications. Infringing products include the iPod touch, the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and the new iPad, as well as Macs like the Mac Pro, iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Pro , and MacBook Air. Twitter dropping the hammer on developers who have built businesses on top of the platform. They have limited the API calls which will keep any given app from growing too large without explicit arrangement with Twitter. Facebook getting defriended by investors who have sold out after the lock up period. Facebook's beleaguered stock has lost more than half of its value since its initial public offering three months ago. A US judge rejecting Facebook’s settlement offer in a class-action privacy lawsuit over the use of users’ names and faces in “Sponsored Stories” advertisements Facebook overtaking Yahoo as the Internet’s most popular site for viewing video, although YouTube is still way out in front Chinese web firm Cubic Network suing Facebook for nicking the idea and name behind its Timeline feature, after being prompted to do so by some friendly US lawyers Dell's PC business continuing to struggle in the second quarter: the company just reported that consumer revenues have fallen to $2.6 billion, a 22 percent decrease compared to the same period last year McDonald's testing PayPal's mobile payment services in France, in a move that could see Paypal as the mobile payment platform of choice at one of the world's largest fast food chains Hewlett-Packard reshuffling its Personal Systems Group to launch a new business unit aimed at getting HP back in the tablet race Anonymous claiming to have be shutting down UK government websites in protest of the treatment of Julian Assange One million UK Netflix users
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