Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Monday: Apple
Discussing HDTV Features With Television Executives: A Monday report in The Wall
Street Journal said Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is on the move, making plans for its
HDTV release for 2012. Senior vice president Eddy Cue is among the executives
meeting with media companies to discuss the new televisions features , as well
as how it will recognize users through their other devices, like the iPhone and
iPad. According to sources familiar with the meetings, while Apple remained
vague on specific apps and other features, it has hinted at what the Apple HDTV
will do. First, the device will be controlled by voice and commands, not unlike
Microsoft s (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Kinect. Like the Apple TV set-top box, users will be
able to stream shows and movies from their handheld devices directly to the TV.
They also will be able to use their devices as remote controls. One new
potential feature is the ability to use iCloud as a DVR recording service. Whats
unclear, though, is whether digitally recorded television shows will only be
accessible on the TV, or if users can access their DVR content from mobile
devices. Siri-Controlled Wristwatch iPod in the Works: Slowly but surely, Apples
products are starting to make the present feel like a 1970s science-fiction TV
show. Not necessarily Star Trek , but at least Space: 1999 . The limitless
information accessible through the iPhone and iPad all consumed through a
shimmering, touchscreen interface certainly helps make the effect. According to
a Monday report in The New York Times , Apple is working on yet another tool
straight out of yesterdays pulps. Apple is said to be working on a curved-glass
iPod that would wrap around the wrist and be operated using voice commands
through Siri, the voice recognition assistant in the current iPhone. The article
said Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) also is working on new devices that you wear on your
clothes or body that would let you communicate with your Android smartphone.
Google apparently has hired away staff from Apple and Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) to help
work on the technology. RIM Worth Less Than Apple App Store: These are dark
times for Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ). As of Monday morning, shares in
the smartphone maker were trading around $13, placing the companys market cap at
below $6.9 billion. As noted by writer Brian Hall, the Apple App Stores
estimated value is $7.08 billion . Just one facet of Apples mobile business is
worth more than RIMs entire operation now. As of this writing, Anthony John
Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on
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