Yearly Archives: 2012

Oopsie

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Arik Hesseldahl got to the bottom of rumors that Google bought ICOA Wireless:

But people within the company say that contrary to a press release posted on PR Web, Google has not bought ICOA, a Rhode Island-based player in public Wi-Fi Networks.

It fooled a lot of people this morning. Good job Arik.

Apple’s astonishing profits

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  • From October 2011 through September 2012, the combined net profit of Microsoft, Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon was $34.4 billion. Apple alone made $7 billion more.

  • In the same period, Dell, Asus, Intel, Acer, IBM, Lenovo and HP, i.e. virtually the entire PC industry, made $19.3 billion or less than half of Apple’s profit.

How’s that for some context.

Amazon has no profits, but lots of faith

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But what makes Amazon not just amazing but downright dangerous is that as a financial matter it has something even better than profits—the boundless faith of the investment community.

It’s truly amazing how the investment community treats Amazon differently than many other companies.

Ringer for iOS and Mac [Sponsor]

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Ringer for iOS and Mac. Effortless iPhone ringtones, text tones, and alert tones. Easily select just the right part of your song to turn into your ringtone. See the waveform for your media so you can quickly find the spot you are looking for. Control fade in and fade out. Choose the gap between rings. Auto volume balance keeps ringtones from being too loud or too quiet. Ringer on the Mac lets you use just about any media including video and automatically imports tones into iTunes, ready to sync to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

Apple I photos

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We’ve come a long way in a relatively short time.

New Jimi Hendrix album

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On March 5th, a collection of 12 previously unreleased recordings by Jimi Hendrix will see the light. People, Hell and Angels follows Hendrix in 1968 and 1969 as he works on material apart from the Jimi Hendrix Experience and suggests new, experimental directions.

I’ll definitely be buying this album.

Black Friday shopping from mobile devices

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The big kahuna in the mobile shopping landscape: the iPad. Apple’s tablet “generated more traffic than any other tablet or smartphone, reaching nearly 10 percent of online shopping,” according to IBM’s report. The next device in line was the iPhone, with 8.7% of shopping traffic, then all Android devices combined with 5.5% of traffic. The iPad’s 10% slice of mobile retail translates to a whopping 88.3% of tablet shopping traffic, with the Nook, Kindle and Samsung Galaxy tablets all eking out shares of 3% or less.

What is it people do with these other tablets and smartphones?

The human body is worth $160

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This helps to put things in perspective on how useless those Apple component cost breakdowns are by doing the same with your body.

Timeline 3D for iOS

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Thanks to Timeline 3D for sponsoring this weeks RSS feed on The Loop. Timeline 3D for iOS. The most simple way to make beautiful multimedia timelines.

iTunes through the ages

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Ars Technica:

While we’re waiting for Apple’s new ship date of “late November” to arrive, let’s take a look back at how iTunes has evolved in the last 12 years.

It’s interesting to see how much (and, in some ways, how little) iTunes has changed over the past 11+ years.

Tutorial: Tracking Rock drums

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This collection of video tutorials by the one and only Kenny Gioia takes you inside Kenny’s personal recording lair and shows you step by step how kenny sets up and records the foundation of any rock / pop tune, the drums. From set up to performance to editing, it’s all here, meticulously demonstrated by multi-platinum engineer and producer Kenny Gioia.

Kenny Gioia is far and away my favorite trainer when it comes to Pro Tools and music in general. He has a great way of teaching that I throughly enjoy.

Addicted to Bluegrass

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You have to give respect to talent in all music genres. These kids rock it out.

Willful stupidity

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Brian Hall takes on Henry Blodget, founder of Business Insider.

Fiona Apple cancels tour to care for her dying dog

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Dogster:

Many people might call in sick from work to care for a sick and dying dog. But what if your job was going around to cities and singing heartfelt, cathartic songs in front of thousands of heartfelt, cathartic fans? Would you just stop all that to go home and care for your sick and dying dog?

That’s exactly what Fiona Apple did.

She writes, “I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship. I am the woman who stays home and bakes Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend.”

Anyone who has loved and known the love of a great pet, especially a dog, completely understands Apple’s decision. You can always go back out on tour.

21 images that sum up the history of SciFi

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io9:

Every era in science fiction’s history has shown us a new vision of the strange and futuristic, and one image can spawn a million reflections in your mind’s eye.Here are 21 unforgettable pictures that showcase the whole history of science fiction.

They really do a very good job of capturing each SciFi era in a single image.

No iPhone without Samsung’s wireless patents

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The Korea Times:

The chief executive of Samsung Electronics has expressed confidence about the ongoing patent battle with Apple, saying that no smartpohone can exist without patents from Korea’s technology giants.

“The truth never lies. Without Samsung-owned wireless patents, it’s impossible for the Cupertino-based Apple to produce its handsets,” said Samsung’s mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun.

This is going to be a long battle.