Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}

Apple’s Retail Secret… »

WSJ reports why Apple retail stores have been so successful in selling products throughout the world…

Apple employees are trained to demonstrate products and solve customer problems rather than push sales.

Apple settles Patent dispute with Nokia… »

Apple would make a one-time payment to settle the dispute, also on-going royalties to be paid by Apple to Nokia for the term of the agreement.  The specific terms of the contract would remain confidential.

“We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees,” said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Nokia. “This settlement demonstrates Nokia’s industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market.”

Apple Now Selling Unlocked iPhone 4 in the U.S. »

$649 for 16GB and $749 for 32 GB. Not bad considering cost of unlocked iPhones in other countries…

Factory Unlocked iPhones Coming to U.S this Wednesday… »

Apple is expected to sell the unsubsidized factory unlocked iPhone 4 for $599 (16 GB model) and $699 (32 GB model.

Before running to the Apple Store just remember guys the next iPhone is expected in a few months…

Is Apple Backing away from Web Apps? »

Martin Bryant wonders whether Apple would offer Web Apps on iCloud or would they make this Apple specific…

On the iCloud page detailing contacts, calendar and mail, there’s only mention of access via Apple devices. So, what’s happening?

Nook Simple Touch vs Kindle 3!!! »

A nice review by Marco Arment for users confused on which e-book reader to buy…

iMassage… »

Macrumors on iMassage by Apple in iOS 5…

If it sounds like BBM, RIM’s BlackBerry Messaging service, that’s because, well, it sounds a lot like BBM actually — and increases device lock-in as well. Users of iPads and iPod touch devices will get built-in text and picture messaging, unlimited and free, which is nice for parents who don’t want to splurge on an iPhone for little Timmy, but still want him to be able to keep in touch with friends.

Walt tells Adobe CEO that Flash Sucks… »

During the All Things Digital D9 conference, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen got a slap across his face by Walt Mossberg…

Mossberg: What’s the deal between you and Steve Jobs? He was here last year, and he had a chance to expand on what he had previously written about [Flash], and summarized, he said “Well, I think our duty is to pick technologies in the ascendancy. We feel like Flash is not on the ascendency, we think HTML 5 is, so that’s who we decided to go with for iOS Devices. What’s your respons eto that?

Narayen: There are a lot of misperceptions out there. When it first broke, people talked about the fact that they thought it was a technology issue, and I think it’s become fairly clear over the last year that it’s not about the technology: it’s about a business model issue. It’s about control of a platform. It’s the control of the app store that’s really at issue here. The value proposition Flash has is that we allow people to author programs once and get them to as many devices as possible. We’ve done that with Android. We will have 130 million phone devices that will have Flash on them by the end of the year…

Mossberg: And I have yet to test a single one where Flash works really well. I’m sorry. They struggle on those Android devices.

Catch the full interview here…

JP Morgan –> iPad competitors in a fix… »

This was expected…

The report, which was issued on Wednesday, said companies building products to compete with the iPad have slowed production by as much as 10 percent since this time last March. At that time, the report said,  competing tablet companies created 81 million tablets; this year the number has fallen to 73 million.

Shaquille O’Neal retires… »

Four-time NBA champion retires by announcing it on twitter…