The production of the iPad screen has been cut because of the demand for the iPad mini. This news could add to concern about Apple’s shares. There has also been increased competition from Samsung with its Galaxy and Microsoft’s Surface.
Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post used copyrighted photos that belonged to Daniel Morel that he took of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, Distract Judge Alison Nathan ruled. AFP argued that once the pictures were on Twitter that they were freely available, the judge said that Twitter’s terms of service do not give a license to publish the images without Morel’s permission. The judge ruling partially granted morel’s summary judgement motion but limited damages he could recover.
Microsoft’s tablet sold half the estimated amount. MSFT is quarterly earning are less than previously expected due to weak sells of company’s tablet and personal-computers. The new tablet, Surface Pro, is going on sell this month.
Anonymous defaced MIT’s Web site just hours after MIT pledged to investigate its role into the suicide death of Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide on Friday. He was arrested in 2011 and accused of stealing over 4 million documents from MIT and Jstor. He faced $4 million in fines and 50 years in prison. Anonymous hacked two MIT websites shortly after MIT President L. Rafael Reif issued a statement promising to look into MIT’s involvement. Anonymous is calling for a reform of computer crime laws.
During an interview in China Schiller said ?every product that Apple creates, we consider using only the best technology available. This includes the production pipeline, the Retina display, the unibody design, to provide the best product to the market.? This does not mean that there will not be lower priced smartphones only that Apple will not make a smart phone with worse materials or construction in order to lower the price.
The demand for the tablets is not enough to warrant the heavy investment in consumer education. They also did not hit the price point they had hoped to attain. Samsung does offer it Ativ Smart PC with Windows 8 here in the States through AT&T retail stores. Samsung has not yet completely ruled out the US for Windows RT.