China Mobile announced on Wednesday that it is in “active talks” with Apple to offer the iPhone on its network. The carrier’s chairman Xi Guohua refused to detail where the two companies currently stand, but emphasized that both sides are willing to cooperate.
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In the past few days, Apple has been said to equip a number of its Mac solutions, including the next-gen MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac, with Retina-quality screens. According to CNET, such panels are already in production, and they are up to $100 more expensive than their non-Retina counterparts. What remains to be seen, however, is whether Apple will pass that price difference along to consumers or if it will be able to maintain its current price points by cutting costs in other areas.
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Apple’s CEO-in-waiting Scott Forstall earned $38.7 million at the stock exchange on May 2. Fortune reports that Forstall is going to sell 95% of his company shares. Today he still has 250,000 shares which won’t be disclosed until 2013. He also plans to sell the great idea of iPadToasterFridge to Tim Cook. The senior president of IOS software encashed about 64,000 of Apple’s stocks the same day.
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Apple will likely ask Samsung to supply it with flexible OLED screens, The Korea Times reports. Samsung is now seeing a vast number of orders to the panels, which will supposedly go into volume production in the second half of this year. Although the company didn’t disclose any names, speculation immediately jumped to Apple, following a bunch of earlier reports.
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A new word in computer technologies is a usage of diamonds for computer memory. It was reported that Johns Hopkins University engineers were working on changing that would allow improving the storage capacity and elongating the period of data storage of the current memory media. The changes are planned to touch an inexpensive GST alloy for phase-change memory. GST consists of antimony, germanium, and tellurium but a new alloy is announced to be 100 times faster than the current. The study’s lead author and a doctoral student at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Ming Xu stated that a phase-change memory with a new alloy could be 100,000 times more rewritten, and they were planning to replace the computer hard drives within five years.
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As revealed by NetworkWorld, Apple lodged a motion via a California court on May 1st claiming that Samsung had spoiled a significant amount of evidence. According to the company, Samsung failed to preserve necessary documents for the discovery process in the ongoing patent combat between the two tech giants. Apple thus accuses its opponent of blatantly neglecting is duty to preserve relevant evidence.
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