Category Archives: Apple

Apple Acquires Indoor GPS Startup WifiSLAM For $20M

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

Apple has acquired WifiSLAM, a Silicon Valley-based startup that specializes in indoor GPS technology, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple has confirmed the acquisition but refused to elaborate on details, although The Wall Street Journal reports that WifiSLAM was … Continue reading →

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Forrester Research Claims Apple Will Influence Computing Equipment Market More Than IaaS

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

According to its Global Tech Outlook Market for 2012, Forrester Research predicts that Apple is poised to radically reconfigure the computing equipment market by serving as a disruptive force that outweighs the influence of other technology trends such as cloud … Continue reading →

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Quotes from Apple CEO Steve Jobs on iCloud and device synchronization at 2011 WWDC

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

The following text is a partial transcription of Steve Jobs’s June 6 keynote address at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), with a specific focus on Jobs’s remarks on the iCloud. Jobs introduced the vision for Apple’s iCloud product … Continue reading →

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Apple’s iCloud takes cloud computing beyond IaaS, PaaS and SaaS trinity

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Contemporary discussions about cloud computing typically revolve around the concepts of Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) constitutes the paradigmatic example of IaaS whereas Microsoft Azure … Continue reading →

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