Yearly Archives: 2012

Apple beats out Samsung as the top smartphone maker

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NPD’s research also revealed that the lion’s share of smartphone-market growth is concentrated in the top two brands. In fact Samsung’s and Apple’s combined smartphone unit sales rose 43 percent between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012, as unit sales for other brands fell 16 percent.According to NPD, the top five smartphone brands, and their market shares, in Q2 were as follows:* Apple: 31 percent * Samsung: 24 percent * HTC: 15 percent * Motorola: 12 percent * LG: 6 percent

The Gibson Assault

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The Wall Street Journal looks at the case the feds have against Gibson and why they settled.

Mars Curiosity made with PowerPC chip

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Sebastian Anthony for ExtremeTech:

In Curiosity’s case, the CPU is a PowerPC 750 (PowerPC G3 in Mac nomenclature) clocked at around 200MHz — which might seem slow, but it’s still hundreds of times faster than, say, the Apollo Guidance Computer used in the first Moon landings.

Amplified 19: I’m In a Mood

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Jim Dalrymple and Dan Benjamin talk about Apple’s motivations for suing Samsung, Mat Honan’s hacked life and Amazon and Apple’s security flaws (and remedies), the new Apple iPad advertisement, exotic wood, and more.Sponsored by Flixel, Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME8 for 10% off), and Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off).

Samsung phones before and after the iPhone

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Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin has a nice article showing us what Samsung’s phones looked like before and after the iPhone was released. Surely the most hardened Apple critic can have no doubt how badly they were ripped off.

HP expects almost $9 billion Q3 loss

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The company will take an $8 billion charge in the third quarter related to that $14 billion merger, and including the massive writeoff, HP expects to report a loss of as much as $4.49 per share, or approximately $8.85 billion.

Bullshit

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It’s been a long time since I’ve read such complete and utter shit.

Verizon’s new 20GB shared data plan

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Verizon Wireless Tuesday revealed that there are five additional data tiers over and above the six tiers announced with its Share Everything plans earlier this summer.

Dumb and Dumber: Samsung meet RIM

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I would love to be in a strategy meeting with these two companies. Sit back with a keg of Heineken and just watch them fumble their way through a day of meetings.

Actually, you better make that two kegs.

Conan: Samsung Denies Apple’s Charges Of Copying

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Samsung’s Vice President of Electronics has released a video defending his company. C’mon, the Galaxy phone bears no similarity whatsoever to the iPhone. Absolutely none at all!

Just go watch the video. I actually laughed out loud. Great job Conan and team.

Samsung shoots itself in the foot… again

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John Paczkowski and Ina Fried:

In short, the document makes the case that the Galaxy (identified as the “S1″ in this document) would be better if it behaved more like the iPhone and featured a similar user interface.

Apple just must love going to court against Samsung.

Twitter’s future platform

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David Chartier:

Twitter can get the consistency it wants and the revenue it needs by changing the direction of its platform, but there is more than one way to adjust a ship’s course. There’s still time to try less turbulent tactics.

Full Metal Jacket Diary for iPad

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Matthew Modine:

“In 1985, Stanley Kubrick encouraged me to take photos and keep a journal while playing the lead role of Pvt. Joker on the set of FULL METAL JACKET. In 2005, I published a limited edition book of my photos and diary. This app is based on that book; enriched and reimagined as an interactive, audiovisual experience. I hope you enjoy it!”

I was a big fan of Full Metal Jacket when it was released. Great movie. The app includes:

Modine’s complete diary text from his out-of-print, award-winning, metal-bound book Five chapters chronicling the filmmaking process – Private Life, Vietnam, Boot Camp, On Leave, and Boot Camp Redux A nearly four hour audio experience with Modine’s own absorbing narration, produced with immersive sound effects and original music Over 400 high-res photos and personal documents scanned from original negatives and source material Detailed information on photos including dates, locations, and all-new remembrances written by Modine Three bonus galleries featuring select photo restoration comparisons Interactive “favorites” gallery designed to simulate Matthew’s original contact sheets used in > compiling his book Store your favorite photos and audio clips for later reference Share your favorite photos with your friends via Twitter Links to related articles, videos, content

Apple’s motivation for suing Samsung

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Reading the press from the Apple vs Samsung trial lead me to believe that most people don’t understand Apple’s motives for suing Samsung. This lawsuit isn’t about getting compensation for products that were released in 2007 or even 2011, it’s about protecting the products that will be released in 2013 and 2015 and beyond. […]

Samsung corruption and lies

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Mic Wright on his trip to Korea to meet Samsung in 2007:

We were told early in the trip that mentioning Cupertino, Steve Jobs or the iPhone was a no-no. So, showing the due deference you can expect from the British press, we asked every executive wheeled out to lecture us what they thought about the iPhone and how Samsung intended to counter it.

I love that the Brits enjoy causing shit.

iPhone caused ‘crisis of design’ at Samsung

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It’s a memo that Samsung didn’t want admitted into the trial, and until now had kept it out. But this morning, when Samsung legal counsel John Quinn mentioned the “crisis of design” moment in a question to Samsung strategist Justin Denison, all bets were off, and the memo was in.

“Influential figures outside the company come across the iPhone, and they point out that ‘Samsung is dozing off.’ All this time we’ve been paying all our attention to Nokia, and concentrated our efforts on things like Folder, Bar, Slide,” Shin wrote. “Yet when our UX is compared to the unexpected competitor Apple’s iPhone, the difference is truly that of Heaven and Earth. It’s a crisis of design.”

Oopsie.

[Via DF]

Acer begs Microsoft to rethink Surface tablet

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Acer CEO JT Wang:

“We have said think it over. Think twice,” Wang is quoted as saying. “It will create a huge negative impact for the ecosystem and other brands may take a negative reaction. It is not something you are good at so please think twice.”

There’s trouble in them there hills.

Apple, Google bid for Kodak patents

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Eastman Kodak, which is planning to auction 1,100 digital patents, received two bids from investor groups including Apple Inc and Google Inc of between $150 million and $250 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.