Our Best Guess About Why Apple Decided To Release The iPhone 5C (AAPL)
It turns out Apple still can surprise people. At today’s big iPhone event, it announced that the iPhone 5C would cost $ 99 with a two-year contract, or $ 549 without a carrier contract. Most people were expecting the iPhone 5C to be a low-cost phone to expand Apple’s market share. Some people dreamt of a $ 200 off-contract phone, but most realists warned that it would be $ 400-$ 500. We didn’t see anyone predict $ 550 off-contract. At that price, it won’t expand Apple’s addressable market. So, yeah, surprise! At $ 55o, the iPhone 5C is a bit ... → Read More
Silicon Alley Insider - Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Social media management and marketing platform MarketMeSuite has landed a new strategic investment of $ 1.25 million from Talus Holdings, a media technology holding company. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup says the new funding is earmarked for adding new functionality to its platform, marketing, and customer service and support as MarketMeSuite seeks to speed up its growth and increase its paid customer base. This latest round brings the total MarketMeSuite has raised over the past 13 months to $ 2.25 million. In August 2012, MarketMeSuite received $ 1.1 million in a round led by Boston-area VC Jeffrey McCormick, founder of Saturn ... 
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. Yahoo Partners With Viacom For Yahoo Screen Mobile Video Viewing App (Yahoo)Yahoo announced the launch of a new mobile video app Yahoo Screen. The app will act as a hub for smartphone and tablet users to watch Yahoo content as well as view third-party partner content. Yahoo recently partnered with Viacom for over 1,000 hours of content. The app will feature easy swipe functionality with the goal to recreate the sensation of TV channel surfing for mobile ... 
Apple announced two new iPhone models today, the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Both devices go on sale September 20. The iPhone 5S will start at $ 199 and the iPhone 5C will start at $ 99. But let’s get to the important stuff. What’s so great about these new iPhones and what can they do? Let’s break down the most important features. This is the iPhone 5S. It comes in three colors. It has a new home button with a fingerprint sensor. You place your finger on the sensor to unlock your iPhone 5S. You don’t need to enter ... 
After months of rumors, Apple today confirmed that the new iPhone 5S will include a fingerprint scanner. You can use your fingerprint to unlock your phone simply by placing your finger on top of the home button. You can also use your fingerprint with the iTunes store instead of entering a password every time you want to make a purchase. Is trusting Apple with your fingerprint safe? What could go wrong? We turned to security expert Shuman Ghosemajumder, a former Google security guru who is now working at buzzy, stealthy security startup Shape Security to find out. Ghosemajumder said the ... 
Besides the cheaper (but not that cheap) iPhone 5C and fingerprint-scanning iPhone 5S, Apple made another huge announcement today. NEW RINGTONES. “You may miss a call due to dancing,” said Apple SVP Craig Federighi. Debatable, but take a listen and judge the new ringtones for yourself below: <div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Follow Us: On YouTube Join the conversation about this story » Tech
The “c” in the iPhone 5c title doesn’t stand for “cheap”. It stands for “clueless”. As in, we were all clueless in our speculation on Apple’s motivations for creating this device. (Okay, it actually seems to stand for “color”, but humor me.) After sitting through Apple’s unveiling today and more importantly, watching the product videos, it seems decidedly more clear to me why Apple actually made the iPhone 5c. I think it comes down to the star of those videos: Jony Ive. I’ve seen a lot of Jony Ive videos in my day. And to my eye, it sure seems ... 
Looks like Apple isn’t all that eager to attack the Chinese market after all. Its new iPhone 5C will cost $ 549 off-contract in the U.S. In China, after taxes, the final bill will be $ 735, according to Tech In Asia. That puts the iPhone in the high-end of the smartphone market, which is where it already plays. Apple will continue to sell the iPhone 4 for ~$ 422 in China. But, it’s going to be a three year old phone competing against newer, and still cheaper models from local companies. Apple is getting smoked in China, but apparently ... 
Cisco entered the flash storage market on Tuesday by acquiring Whiptail Technologies for $ 450 million. Whiptail, founded in 2008 and based in Whippany, New Jersey, makes storage systems based on flash memory chips, the same storage tech used in smartphones and thumb drives. Flash storage is growing in popularity because it’s faster than traditional disk drive storage systems. It isn’t surprising that Cisco would want to own its own flash storage tech. Cisco makes a popular data center server known as the Unified Compute System (UCS). UCS combines servers with networking, storage and “virtualization” software that allows many operating ... 