Research In Motion is not likely to launch the much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system software until March 2013, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserts in a research note. To date, the company has only said it expects to debut the first BB 10 devices in the calendar first quarter.
Not a single thing is going right at RIM.
Finnish developer Supercell says it’s making $350K a day from its two iOS games.
Better late than never – Sid Meier’s Railroads! is finally headed to the Mac.
The game Unmentionables gives Taboo a 21st century makeover and puts the real social back into social gaming.
Taiwan is asking Apple Inc. to blur a map image of its new $1.4 billion early warning radar station that can detect aircraft and missiles coming from as far as western China.
So Maps is good then.
Great news, I can’t wait to get mine.
OnAir in-flight mobile service is considered international roaming, and is billed appropriately. (First, your carrier has to have a roaming agreement with OnAir.) This AT&T page suggests OnAir calls are billed at $3.49 per minute, for example. Text messages are $0.50 each.
That should cut down on the needless yammering.
Facebook Inc is testing a feature that lets users of the social network create “wishlists” of home furnishings, clothing and other retail products, laying the groundwork for what some believe could be an eventual push into e-commerce.
Makes sense since so many people are on Facebook.
Barney Britton and Kelcey Smith for Digital Photography Review:
The most likely cause of the iPhone 5’s purple haze is probably lens flare and internal reflections in the camera lens assembly. All lenses are succeptable to lens flare to some degree, and as you can see from the images at the top of this page, the iPhone 4S isn’t immune either (ditto the iPhone 4 and competitive smartphones from other manufacturers).
It’s a shame that this even has to be said, but apparently many tech writers are so profoundly stupid, they don’t understand that.
The one and only Jimi Hendrix. […]
Rovio Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. announced today a new blockbuster entertainment franchise collaboration; Angry Birds Star Wars. Launching worldwide on November 8, the unique partnership will combine all the fun of the classic Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space with the characters, stories and settings of the epic space fantasy, Star Wars.
Looks to be a nice selection here.
No jailbreak required.
Anvil takes your site folder, gives it a .dev URL and makes it run for you. Works for any static HTML sites and Rack apps.
I thought this was pretty cool.
Committed is a great way to be alerted when someone pushes new code to the GitHub repositories you care about. Committed notifies you using OS X’s new Notification Center feature when someone pushes code.
Great new app from Justin Williams. I love that he’s using the Notification Center too — great detail.
Leave your laptop behind. Imagine having control over your computer from anywhere. Jump Desktop is a remote desktop application (RDP and VNC) that gets you to your computer from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and Android device. With over 4000 reviews, customers have declared it a 5 star app. It is super easy to setup, with automatic configuration you will be up and running in less than 5 minutes.
It is the easiest, the fastest and most secure way to get to your computer.
T-Mobile has begun stocking nano-SIMs designed to fit in the iPhone 5, according to this report.
A look at why Steve Jobs remains so relevant even a year after his death.
If this has happened in your pictures, Apple explains why.
Wired:
Watch as Oracle Team USA CEO Russell Coutts, a four-time America’s Cup winner, flips an AC45 in a practice race last summer. The AC45, named for its length, is 70 feet tall, 22.6 feet wide and weighs 3,086 pounds. Now consider that the boats racing in next year’s Cup finals are twice as big and have a top speed north of 30 knots.
The big cats are back on the Bay.
I’m not a fan of Larry Ellison but I think he deserves props for livening up the America’s Cup Series. As much as I loved the “old boats”, these new ones are like F1 race cars – hi-tech and dangerous. I’ve seen some of the racing on TV and the new “yachts” are amazing and the new rules are designed to make the racing a real live TV sporting event. I wish Ellison luck.
I laughed when I read that.
In my mother, one found a moral clarity that I think can only be compared to John Wayne, who unfriended people by shooting them dead.
A metal singer got drunk and made a video with his cat, and this is the result.
Nice.
A Maine state senatorial candidate’s World of Warcraft status has become a point of contention with the opposition party.
Stewart confuses the Maps app, a software application, with the mapping data that underlies it and the algorithms for driving directions that Apple put in place.
The New York Times should know better, but Glenn Fleishman sets them straight.
Foxconn officials on Saturday issued a statement denying a strike hit the company’s Zhengzhou iPhone plant on Friday, claiming instead that the factory was the site of two small altercations days earlier which had no impact on production.
As a thank you to our former MobileMe members who moved to iCloud, we have extended the complimentary storage upgrade they received until September 30, 2013. This extension applies to accounts moved to iCloud between October 12th, 2011 and August 1st, 2012.
Thanks Apple.
While there is certainly a ways to go, it is clear that the company is indeed moving quickly to address issues and improve coverage for the flagship 3D mapping and imagery features in the app.
Great news.
Vice:
Maritimers communicate with one another like young twins that invent gibberish language. For starters, Maritimers speak at a speed that can only be compared to an episode of Gilmore Girls cast with leprechauns on crank.Here are a few tips if you ever want to try and converse with someone from Tatamagouche.
I had tears in my eyes reading this. I love my home province but there’s no doubt – we talk funny sometimes.
If you’ve hung around The Loop’s Publisher long enough for him to have sucked back a few Heineken, you’ll have been lucky enough to hear some of these. And I’ll admit to talking way too fast at times, too.
Hat tip to the @beardsdaughter for the link!