Samsung appears to be beating Apple in the world of smart phones, but the Korean company does not stop here as it seems to be set on beating Apple at the laptop game, as well.

According to recent news, Samsung appears to be launching its new high-resolution laptop screen, which might set a new standard in laptop and notebook screen resolutions. The company is expected to announce its new product at Display Week.

The display that Samsung plans to advertise might beat Apple’s 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro as the Korea-based manufacturer’s product will be a 13.3-inch notebook display with a 3200 x 1800 pixel resolution and 276 pixels per inch.

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Apple is planning to offer various affordable plans for making its iPhone more convenient for Indian customers. Some of these offers include special discounts for trade-ins, installment plans, additional subsidies for students and 10 percent cash back for American Express credit card.

Students who plan to purchase an Apple Smartphone have the possibility to trade in their old Smartphone while upgrading to a new iPhone. They will get around 7,777 rupees, which mean around US $144. On the other hand, those young persons who are not students will receive only 7,000 rupees.

The Cupertino-based company plans to refund a maximum of 6,000 rupees to American Express customers who desire to purchase an iPhone 4, iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 before June 10. However, the American Express credit card must be issued by an Indian bank, and it must be used to purchase the handset on the recently introduced installment plans available via distributors Redington and Ingram Micro. Read More

During the first quarter of 2014, U.S. Apple Stores reached record sales per visitor. Apple’s official stores within the United States took in $57.60 per visitor setting a new record.

According to the mobile analyst Horace Dediu, Apple Stores continue to maintain a top place compared to the rest of the retail industry in what concerns the sales per customers. The company recorded high revenue per visitor reaching the limit of $57.60 during the first quarter. The number of visitors increased by 7 percent compared to the previous year.

In what concerns the average revenue per Apple Store, the average amount reached $13 million for the first quarter, which represents the highest number ever seen for a non-holiday quarter. These numbers were gathered after the average number of visitors per store hit 250,000 per quarter for the previous 12 months. Read More

The Cupertino-Based company is rumored to start smart watch production as time passes. Now, a pair of reports suggests that the company is testing 1.5 OLED displays for the wearable smart watch. In the same time, Foxconn appears to be contacted to build a trial batch of screens for the alleged smart device.

The well-known Japanese blog Macotakara discovered a publication that claims the fact that Apple is testing organic light emitting diode displays for its already-mentioned smart watch. Originally, the company planed to develop a 1.8-inch panel, but that was too big for a smart wristwatch. In addition, the company shifted to a smaller display screen and chose to develop a 1.5-inch display.

As rumors suggest, Apple is developing 1.5 OLED touch screens manufacturers by RiTdisplay of Taiwan that uses a one-glass solution touch sensors. Moreover, the new one-glass technology will allow the display component to be as thin as possible for the wearable device. The rumor also suggests that RITEK’s joint venture RitFast plans to supply the touch sensor technology for the watch. Read More

Rumors suggested the fact that Apple’s next generation iPad mini will be launched in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2013. In order to sustain these rumors, Apple’s CEO announced that the Fruit Company is preparing big things until this fall.

Now, the company is reportedly cutting its iPad mini display orders near to half as it encountered a decrease in demand for the tablet. This rumor is sustained by AU Optronics, the company that supplies panels for Apple’s iPad mini. The company reported the fact that it will only ship 2.5 million to 2.8 million units to manufacturers in the second quarter, down from 4 million units shipped in the first quarter.

Apparently, Apple is cutting down orders in anticipation of a slowdown in iPad mini shipments for the rest of the second quarter. This decline is due to a general lack of interest among consumers to buy new devices during the summer period. However, despite this sudden decline revealed by AU Optronics, Apple will still be shipping around 10 million units as the rest of 7 million panels will be supplied by another display manufacturer. Read More

The U.S Department of Defense announced on Friday the fact that they officially approved Apple iOS 6 running devices to access its secure government networks. Therefore, iPhones and iPads running on Apple’s latest version of the operating system receive now clearance for using its private networks.

This approval is a part of a military plan to allow employees the flexibility to use commercial products on secure government networks. The approval came two weeks after Samsung Galaxy, and Blackberry 10 handsets were given the clearance by the military arm.

In the past, the Department of Defense used Blackberry devices for their internal affairs. Now, with the latest change, military employees are able to use the latest Apple devices, along with Samsung Knox-compatible and Blackberry handsets running on the latest version of their operating system. Read More

After receiving approval from the FAA, the U.S. Air Force plans to save more than $50 million in ten years by employing 18,000 lightweight iPads instead of heavy paper flight manuals. This will lead to a $750,000 annual saving on fuel alone.

According the a spokesman for the Air Force Mobility Command, the military service will no longer have to print all those flight manuals for each aircraft pilot. In this way, they will save an amount of $5 million per year. Moreover, the whole amount of paper saved within the period of 10 year can easily reach the limit of 90 pounds per aircraft.

In the same time, the welcomed change regarding the replacement of the paper manuals with iPads can limit the need for each crewmember to carry a 30 to 40 pound paper file. As it was stated in previous press releases, airplane pilots accused severe back pains when carrying that amount of paper on each flight. Read More

The App Store In present, launched in July 2008 with just 500 apps. In present, it has 850,000 applications on the App Store, 350,000 of them being native to the iPad. As the company stated, the customers are now downloading more than 800 applications per second, at a rate of more than 2 billion apps per month.

In March, last year, Apple celebrated the fact that the company’s App Store recorded 25 billion downloads. At that moment, a woman who downloaded the “Where’s My Water” game was surprised with a $10,000 iTunes gift card.

According to recent news, Apple again has something seriously significant to celebrate, as the company officially announced that it hit the 50 billion app download mark, a figure that includes unique downloads, the re-downloads or updates, not being counted.

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The Cupertino-based Company plans to revolutionize the way in which payments are performed. A new patent application called “Payment Options Based on Location” was published at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and it describes an iPhone-driven e-wallet service, which is meant to simplify checking out at the store.

The system presents users options based on data such as location, current balance or applicable rewards cards. In this way, users will have a smart menus based on the context of a transaction. Within the application, Apple also suggests the fact that the existence of current physical wallets does not stop customers in find the best payment option for a particular situation.

The smart connected e-wallet system developed by Apple can recognize various shopping rewards and it will also recommend cards to customers based on their specific data. In the same time, the iPhone e-wallet concept can identify the user’s location and determine what store they are in. Read More

Research firm IDC has recorded worldwide smartphone shipments during the first quarter, and it notes the fact that Android and iOS combined accounted for 92.3 percent of all shipments.

In the same time, the research firm suggested the fact that Apple and Android shipments combined increased year over a year with approximately 59.1 percent, with a total of 199.5 million units shipped world wide during the first quarter of 2013.

Despite the fact that Apple has reported an incredible growth with iPhone as being its “largest ever first quarter volume”, the Fruit Company saw a decline among usage of iOS compared to the growth of the industry as a whole. In terms of shipment volumes, Apple announced that last month, it shipped a record of 37.4 million iPhones. However, this fact has allowed Android to maintain a top spot with Samsung and OS. Read More