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Robber steals iPhone, leaves his Samsung in its place
A man smashed a case in a Springfield wireless store and escaped with several iPhones, but the scheme was foiled by one glaring oversight: The robber, police say, left his own Samsung Galaxy at the scene of the crime.
LOL.
Microsoft slashes prices on Surface
It’s dropping the prices on the Surface RT tablets by $150. So, I guess having Office on a tablet wasn’t as big as Microsoft thought.
Microsoft realigns
In an email to employees Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explained how the company is realigning. It damn near put me to sleep.
Storing data to last up to 1 million years
A team of researchers at the University of Southampton have demonstrated a way to record and retrieve as much as 360 terabytes of digital data onto a single disk of quartz glass in a way that can withstand temperatures of up to 1000 C and should keep the data stable and readable for up to a million years.
BlackBerry set to cut more jobs
As part of its restructuring, the company is planning to cut more jobs across middle management in the sales and support divisions, say people familiar with the matter, on top of the 5,000 layoffs last fiscal year.
Part of the latest cuts included Richard Piasentin, the company’s vice president for sales in the U.S., who was fired last month, these people said.
At some point there will be no more fat to cut from the company. I doubt it’s the sales teams fault—It sounds more like people just don’t want the product.
Apple’s ebook trial
Adam Engst takes a look at the Apple’s ebook trial and answers some of the questions everyone has asked over the past few months.
Verizon could owe Apple $14 billion
Because of slower-than-expected sales, Verizon now must double its iPhone sales of last year. If it falls short, the company could be on the hook for as much as $14 billion, Moffett Research said in a report released this week.
That’s an incredible amount of money to pay because you didn’t sell as many iPhones as expected. However, I don’t know of any other carrier in the world that hasn’t met sales expectations.
Lumia 1020
BGR had some time with the new Nokia Lumia.
Google kills Latitude
Google Latitude will be retired on August 9th, 2013. Products being retired include Google Latitude in Google Maps for Android, Latitude for iPhone, the Latitude API, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude.
Zombies and assholes
Sascha Segan:
So you see the self-serving nature of this study: Adeven is trying to boost its business by making app developers worry they won’t make any money without Adeven. In the meantime, the company promotes a half-blind idea of what Apple’s App Store is. That’s why I’m not actually linking to the study here.
When are the mainstream media going to get off their asses and realize that the “research” from these companies are designed to help those companies sell their products. Nothing else. The BBC, CNBC and the others are just assholes for falling for this type of marketing.
Learn the guitar solo for “Sunshine of Your Love”
Alex Vollmer is an incredible guitarist and he put out the first in a series of lessons on how to play some of the greatest guitar solos ever written. The first is for Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love.”
Line 6 Pod HD500X
I haven’t had a chance to try this one out yet, but I really like the Pod family of products. This is on the high-end of the product spectrum, so it’ll most likely be a hot item.
djay 2 for iPad and iPhone coming soon
I’ve seen the new version in action and it’s really good.
Start your mix with drums
I always start with the drums—kick, snare and move my way through the kit.
Using responsive images
Great article if you’re looking at responsive design and images.
Apple found guilty of ebook price fixing
A federal court in New York has come down hard on Apple in a closely watched case over ebook pricing. In a ruling issued Tuesday morning, US District Judge Denise Cote ruled that the company “brilliantly” organized a conspiracy to raise prices and thwart competition.
In a 160-page ruling, Cote points to phone calls, emails and the words of Apple founder Steve Jobs to conclude that the company orchestrated an illegal “scheme” in which five major publishers changed their pricing practices. The court said that the prime target of the conspiracy was Amazon, whose Kindle tablet competes with Apple’s iPad, and whose pricing practices infuriated publishers.
Apple ends “App Store” lawsuit against Amazon
“We no longer see a need to pursue our case,” Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. “With more than 900,000 apps and 50 billion downloads, customers know where they can purchase their favorite apps.”
Respect your customer
James Stratford bought a Blu-ray movie and was met with advertisements when he put it in the machine. He brings up a good point—we pay for the damn movie, don’t advertise to us or at least let us skip it.
iOS 7 dynamics
Rene Ritchie:
It’s not pixels painted so much anymore as particles placed, and not areas touched so much as directly manipulated.
Rene’s right in saying that there’s a lot going on with iOS 7 beyond the design. The way the operating system interacts with things around it is amazing.
BlackBerry CEO asks for patience
BlackBerry has been asking for patience for years now.
Universal Audio adds Flex Routing to Apollo, releases Millennia EQ, Pultec Passive EQ plug-In collection
More great releases from Universal Audio. This is why I love this company.
Universal Audio’s latest UAD Software v7.1 provides some extremely useable enhancements to the Apollo Audio Interface. Key among them is Flex Routing, which enhances your workflow with new features such as headphone bus routing, selectable pre/post Aux sends, and the ability to freely route any console input to hardware outputs.
Revered for its startling realism and transparent musicality, the Millennia NSEQ-2 has quickly become a go-to parametric EQ for many of the world’s leading studios and mastering houses. Its unique Twin Topology design and pure Class A transformerless circuitry offers a less-is-more approach to the audio chain, yielding a powerful, sonically neutral, analog EQ that brims with spectacular clarity.
Pultec Passive EQ Plug-In Collection
Building on a decade of the world’s most intensive modeling research, UA has recreated the famed Pultec EQ experience – one that’s nearly indistinguishable from the original analog hardware.
Pro Tools Keyboard Shortcuts
Every shortcut you ever wanted.
“Welcome To The Jungle” isolated guitar
Slash is such a great guitarist.
Samsung Galaxy S3 bursts into flames
I have to agree with Philip Elmer-Dewitt here; where are all the articles claiming Samsung is doomed? That’s what would happen if it was Apple.
What Gmail knows about you
When Google hands over e-mail records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and e-mail addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The feds can then mine that information for patterns that might be useful in a law-enforcement investigation.
There is no such thing as privacy on the Internet.
A beer fridge that will only open with a Canadian passport
That’s one way to protect your beer.
Antialiasing 101
Paul Lewis takes a look at antialiasing, what it means for developers and how it looks to users.
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Clickbait
I love this new site. It takes some of the stupidest articles from the media and makes fun of them.