Take a sales junket, sprinkle in some fairy dust from a rock concert, then add a few images of, say, the late Steve Jobs making one of his patented Apple (AAPL) turtlenecked stage appearances from days of old — and that’s sort of what Salesforce.com’s (CRM) Dreamforce conference looks like. “It’s like a music festival for geeks,” according to one online promo for this week’s gathering in San Francisco. Running from Tuesday through Friday, the
In one corner — Apple (AAPL) Pay, the high-tech payment method launched last year. In the other corner — Android Pay, a competing high-tech payment method just now being officially rolled out by rival Google (GOOGL). Android Pay is integrated into smartphones running Google’s mobile operating system just as Apple Pay is built into iPhones, so popularity will depend in part on which companies’ phones sell the most long-term. It’s too early to tell
It’s the million-dollar question in the tech industry: Will Apple (AAPL) reveal its first-day pre-orders for the iPhone 6S on Monday or will we hear crickets from the company? Apple offered pre-orders for two of the last three iPhone launches: last year’s iPhone 6 and 2012’s iPhone 5. In both cases, Apple disclosed first-day pre-orders on the Monday after the weekend launch. Last year, Apple announced 4 million pre-orders of the iPhone 6 and 6