Mainichi Daily News:
The iPhone captured the largest share of mobile phones shipments in Japan for the first time in the October-December quarter, accounting for 26.6 percent, due to the popularity of the iPhone 4S smartphone model, research firm IDC Japan said Thursday.
Thanks to Daring Fireball.
Apple says the iPad goes on sale on Friday starting at 8AM. it’s being released in the US and nine other countries simultaneously.
I don’t know what would happen if you drink it, but I’d give it a go.
A new Kickstarter project hopes to build ‘digital Bolex cameras’ that resemble 16mm movie cameras but record digital video in high-quality RAW format.
Copyright troll Righthaven, which tried to sue people who used content from newspapers on their blogs or Web sites, has been told by a judge to forfeit all its copyrights.
Rick Fillion talks about getting his NeXTcube working.
A Goldman Sachs executive is leaving, but not before he very publicly, very viciously gives the investment bank a piece of his mind.
Matt Alexander:
Producing a weblog – whether you choose to contribute substantive content of your own or not – is not a matter of competition, but of self-expression.
I agree with Matt. I encourage all new writers to have a voice of their own, not just follow the crowd. I follow people, not companies.
Like most things, the old give way to the new. A good list of podcasts that are taking over.
Bobby Solomon tests Nike’s newest lifestyle product, which the company describes like this:
Nike+ FuelBand tracks your activity through a sport-tested accelerometer, then translates every move into NikeFuel. Nike+ FuelBand tracks running, walking, dancing, basketball – and dozens of everyday activities.
MacUpdate started its spring Mac software bundle today. The bundle features 11 Mac apps worth $378 for $49.99. Apps in the bundle include VMware Fusion 4, Drive Genius 3, PDFpen 5.
I’ve linked to articles defending Instapaper, so it’s only fair to get the other side of the story.
Parth Dhebar:
Turns out, after a round of layoffs which took place earlier this year, Apple’s recent acquisition, Anobit, has started to recruit workers. Anobit dismissed dozens of employees in sales, marketing, and sales and administration right after the acquisition and closing its enterprise server activity. Now, Anobit is focused on the development of storage-efficiency chips for Apple’s products.
Fred Wilson:
Yahoo! thinks they can bully Internet newcomers with their bogus patents. And that’s a line they should not have crossed. Because other companies have bogus patents too. And they’ve opened themselves up to be sued back. Frankly I’d like to see it happen just to show them how stupid they are.
Telling it like it is.
Rian van der Merwe:
My loyalty comes from the fact that I’m unable to separate Instapaper from its creator, Marco Arment.
And it works really well.
Lucas Mearian:
In November 2010, researchers gave Apple iPads to 115 University of Chicago internal medicine residents. The residents were able to access electronic patient records, the hospital’s paging system to order tests, and medical publications for reference information.
AppleInsider: “Proview clearly made that arrangement so they wouldn’t have to give the money to their creditors in” mainland China, [Apple spokesperson Carolyn] Wu said. “Because they still owe a lot of people a lot of money, they are now … Continued
New York Times:
After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered sets of reference books that were once sold door to door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in American homes will be discontinued, the company is expected to announce on Wednesday.In a nod to the realities of the digital age — and, in particular, the competition from the hugely popular Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools, company executives said.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica was probably the first “adult” books I ever read as a kid. They opened the world up to a fat little kid in Nova Scotia.
Wired Science:
Are you too far south or in too bright of a city to catch the spectacular auroras that have been streaking across the sky lately?Not to worry. The Canadian Space Agency’s AuroraMAX Camera — located in the City of Yellowknife, near the Arctic Circle — can fulfill all your Northern-Light-viewing needs every night from now until late May.The AuroraMAX camera, run in collaboration with the University of Calgary and Astronomy North, will turn on automatically when darkness falls (around 7:30 MDT tonight) and provides spectacular, full-sky views of the Northern Lights. Peak aurora activity is expected in the hours just before and after midnight (Mountain Time).
Canadians are such nice people.
Kyle Baxter:
I have no doubt that Apple is working on a small iPad, but that’s a separate question of whether they will actually release it. Let’s think through it.
That’s always important to remember. Apple experiments with a lot of different products, but that doesn’t mean they’ll ever get released. Having said that, Kyle has some interesting points.
You thought I was joking, right. No, it’s true. The most backward tablet in the world just got worse. The only thing they forgot was a stylus — maybe they can get some from Samsung.
What the hell are these guys thinking?
The FTC has subpoenaed Apple as part of an antitrust investigation into Google.
As we look around the web, we see so many examples of designers who have brilliantly used color in web design projects to make the page or various page elements really pop. Even in some cases when we see designers opting for more minimal designs, using bold splashes of color can really take the look to fantastic new heights in very simple ways.
And I thought I was being bold with The Loop’s purple.
The US, EU and Japan have filed a trade complaint against China for its handling of rare earth minerals, which it has almost monopoly control of.
iOS and Android game markets are dominated not by the same old publishers who dominate PC and console sales, but by a new crop of companies.
Ben Brooks brings up some good points about this “via” and “hat tip” debate.
Om Malik:
It is my belief that in modern times, no success goes unpunished. Infographics, too, were “punished” for their success.
Agreed.
On Sunday, HH Sheikh Mohammed tweeted the launch of the iPad “Minister e-briefcase” for UAE Cabinet members.
Every government should do this.
Apple soon changed the codename to “BHA.” Upon learning that it stood for “Butt-Head Astronomer,” Sagan filed a lawsuit for defamation of character, and lost. I can just see Steve giggling as he changed the codename. Update: As many of … Continued
Going forward, better than one-in-five companies (22%) say they’ll be purchasing tablets for their employees during 2nd Quarter 2012, and the percentage reporting they’ll buy Apple iPads has jumped to the highest level of corporate iPad demand ever seen in a ChangeWave survey.A total of 84% of companies planning to buy tablets next quarter now say they’ll purchase iPads – a 7-pt leap since the previous survey.