Yearly Archives: 2012

Some exciting new things at Apple

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9to5Mac:

Perhaps most enticing, Cook tells all to report to Town Hall tomorrow either in person or via AppleWeb at 10AM PT to discuss ‘some exciting new things going on at Apple’.

Apple’s sales set new tech record

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CNNMoney: The Cupertino, Calif.-based company said its fiscal first quarter profit rose to $13 billion, or $13.87 per share, more than double the profit Apple booked a year earlier. It was one of the most profitable quarters ever for any … Continued

Buying a used DSLR lens

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The Verge: There’s definitely a huge market for used lenses in great condition, at bargain prices. This guide will hopefully arm you with the knowledge and just the right amount of paranoia to separate the gems from the dogs. In … Continued

Inside Apple’s secret packaging room

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NetworkWorld: Adam Lashinsky’s upcoming book, Inside Apple, provides an intriguing look into the inner workings at Apple while examining the management and product development strategies they’ve implemented to create numerous game-changing devices. Now it’s no secret that Apple sweats every … Continued

Dasient acquired by Twitter

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Dasient Blog: The Dasient team is excited to announce that we have been acquired by Twitter! Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter. Dasient has been focused on solving … Continued

Verizon’s “Good news, bad news” quarter

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Bloomberg:

Verizon Communications Inc, the second-largest U.S. phone company, reported a fourth-quarter loss after booking a pension charge and having higher subsidy costs for rising iPhone sales.While iPhone sales more than doubled from the third quarter to 4.3 million units, total smartphone sales fell short, signaling waning demand for handsets that run on Google Inc.’s Android operating system.

Because of the subsidies the carriers pay to Apple, higher sales of the iPhone mean more upfront costs but, in theory, more profits long term.

Gartner: Apple was top semiconductor customer in 2011

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IT research company Gartner claims that Apple was the top semiconductor customer in 2011. Gartner’s calculation is “Design Total Available Market,” or Design TAM, an index it says “represents the total silicon content in all products designed by a certain … Continued

Yojimbo updated for Mac and iPad

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Bare Bones Software has updated Yojimbo, its information organizer. Both Mac and iPad versions have been updated, to 3.0.3 and 1.0.4 respectively. Bare Bones describes the update as a maintenance release which fixes “specific reported issues.” You can download the … Continued

Americans can be forced to decrypt laptops, judge rules

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Declan McCullagh for CNet: American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered … Continued

Why Apple should follow Michelin

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Jean-Louis Gassée’s Monday Note: What’s the use of offering more than 500,000 wares if customers can’t find their way through the gigantic bazaar? …the iPhone has sold in ever larger numbers (we’ll soon see if the December quarter number crossed … Continued

AT&T, T-Mobile file for spectrum transfer approval

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Greg Bensinger for the Wall Street Journal: T-Mobile USA and AT&T filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission for approval of the transfer of $1 billion in wireless airwaves AT&T promised as a result of the failure of its … Continued

350,000 textbooks downloaded from Apple’s iBooks in three days

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AllThingsD: Within days of its debut, Apple’s iBooks textbook store had already racked up a significant number of downloads. According to Global Equities Research, which monitors Apple’s iBook sales via a proprietary tracking system it doesn’t much care to discuss, … Continued

Bloom County now available in iBooks

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Mobile Nations: Birkley (sic) Breathed’s Bloom County was my two favorite comic strips growing up, and now it’s starting to become available in iBooks. From Bill the Cat’s run for president to Milo’s skewering of Senator Bedfellow to Oliver’s landing … Continued

Ringtone interrupts, violist plays along

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Remember the story from earlier this month of the “iPhone that stopped the “New York Philharmonic”? It has happened again but with much more amusing results. Slovakian musician Lukáš Kmit was play a solo on his viola in a synagogue … Continued

New CEO: RIM needs better focus

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Peter Kafka for AllThingsD: Research In Motion isn’t broken, so no need to break it up. But it needs better internal focus, and better external focus, too. That’s the takeaway from new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, who told analysts this … Continued

Universal Audio’s Apollo [Sponsor]

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Meet Apollo, the first professional, high-resolution computer audio interface that delivers the sound, feel, and flow of analog recording. This 18 x 24 FireWire/Thunderbolt – ready interface combines genuine UA analog design with class-leading 24-bit/192 kHz sound quality and onboard Realtime UAD Processing.

RIM co-CEOs to step down

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New York Times:

Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who made the BlackBerry a leading business tool but then presided over its precipitous decline, said they would step down on Monday as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of Research in Motion.

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BBEdit

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Many thanks to Bare Bones Software for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed.

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How Kodak squandered every digital opportunity it had

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Mashable: Kodak has finally formalized what had been expected for years — it’s gone bankrupt. In the past 15 years, digital technology changed photography dramatically, and Kodak, a former heavyweight in the analog film business, got left behind. In fact, … Continued

Star Wars Uncut

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Star Wars Uncut: In 2009, Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. SWU has been … Continued

China’s challenge to the iPad raises a red flag

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Reuters: China Communist Party members can now carry tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc iPad will ruin their street cred. Enter RedPad Number … Continued

The Milky Way and storms over Africa

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International Space Station: This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station…The complete pass is over southern Africa to the ocean, focusing on the lightning flashes from local storms and the Milky Way … Continued

Remembering Etta James

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The “Matriarch of the Blues”, Etta James, died on Friday morning. She toured with Little Richard while still a minor and had her first hit at 15. She was a six time Grammy winner and one of the few artists … Continued