Jordan Kahn:
After launching its new Google Play All Access music streaming service earlier this month at Google I/O, Google’s head of Android Sundar Pichai just confirmed during his interview at the D11 conference that the service will be making its way to iOS. Sundar said the service would be available on iOS in the next few weeks.
This is going to get interesting.
Apple on Thursday announced the headliners for the annual iTunes Festival. The event takes place every September in London, England.
It’ll probably be the best movie made all year.
Todd Burton:
We have a gaggle of graphic designers focusing on all of the wrong things. In a world where more and more people are interested in the relationship between design and the internet, we’re teaching them to think that graphic design is nothing more than a style preference.
Love this article.
A Nova Scotia high school has created a curriculum where every subject — from physics to design technology to dance — centres on hockey.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. And we wonder why our kids are so far behind in the basic skills.
In addition to launching a new model of its iPod touch on Thursday, Apple told me this morning that it has sold more than 100 million units of the iPod touch since its introduction.
Apple on Thursday quietly updated its iPod line with a new iPod touch.
Porn could come to Google Glass as early as this week, with the first X-rated app set to be launched for those who have the £1,000 gadget.
Porn directors last week announced plans to use Google Glass eyewear for X-rated films to explore the ‘full potential’ of the technology.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
ShortsHD presents THE SHORT FILMS OF MATTHEW MODINE, a collection of short movies directed by the award-winning actor of Vision Quest, Full Metal Jacket, and The Dark Knight Rises. This retrospective follows Modine’s career as a short filmmaker over the last two decades beginning with his first short, WHEN I WAS A BOY, that he co-directed with Todd Field. Also included in this collection are SMOKING (written by David Sedaris), ECCE PIRATE (filmed during the making of Cutthroat Island), TO KILL AN AMERICAN, I THINK I THOUGHT, and the award-winning JESUS WAS A COMMIE, co-directed by Terence Ziegler. Each short includes an all-new video introduction by Modine.
This is a no-brainer. The collection is only $7.99 to pre-order through iTunes and it’s available next week. I ordered it.
Om Malik:
In the case of S4, when I used the device for the first time, I encountered three screens asking me to either sign-in or sign-up: Google, Samsung and AT&T. The phone is packed with Google Apps (good), Samsung Apps (meh!) and AT&T apps (why.)
In Dan’s absence – Jim is joined by Myke Hurley – to discuss Tim Cook at the D11 conference and WWDC Expectations.
Special guest Myke Hurley.
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Analog Camera – the fastest and easiest way to take, process and share photos.
Nice looking app.
It’s good to see Adobe communicating openly about what’s going on with Creative Cloud.
Apple takes the environment seriously and have for many years. Moves like this solidify their lead in the environmental space.
Watch for yourself.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is only a couple of weeks away and everyone is wondering what the company will unveil during the keynote address. As much as we all have long wish lists for what we would like to see, I think it’s important to balance those with realistic expectations for what’s likely to happen.
9to5Mac is at the event and is updating live. Of course, AllThingsD has a live blog as well. It starts at 9:00 pm ET.
Apparently the game is still coming.
How about that for a novel idea — design your blog so it’s better for the reader. There are a lot of great ideas and thoughts here. You don’t have to follow them all, but it’s a good read to get an understanding of what works for readers and publishers.
The Sweethome is the sister site of The Wirecutter, our electronics leaderboard. It’s a list of the best home gear, each item chosen mindfully and with many hours of research, interviews with the world’s most knowledgable experts and testers, all in service of backing up our own testing and opinions. It’s not a blog. We don’t do news and we don’t post multiple times a day–we just want to help you pick out great gear and get on with your life.
The Wirecutter is a great site and it looks like The Sweethome will follow in its footsteps.
Philip Elmer-Dewitt:
Spooner, a Canadian money manager and financial columnist, likened the burst of short selling to a “swarming,” a violent street crime where “an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once.”
I hate Wall St.
For the record, having food stuck in your beard is not a con.
Carrie Cousins looks at five characteristics of flat design.
Hiroko Tabuchi for The New York Times:
Although Sony sells hundreds of products as varied as batteries and head-mounted 3-D displays, it so happens that Sony’s most successful business is selling insurance. While it doesn’t run this business in the United States or Europe, Sony makes a lot of money writing life, auto and medical policies in Japan.
Its financial arm accounts for 63 percent of Sony’s total operating profit last year. Life insurance has been its biggest moneymaker over the last decade, earning the company 933 billion yen ($9.07 billion) in operating profit in the 10 years that ended in March.
I’m happy that Sony is making money in one portion of its business, but I find it really sad that the maker of the iconic Walkman is selling insurance.
The national treasury released a new plastic bank note in November 2011, and they have received hundreds of emails from residents who are convinced that the bills have an added fragrance.
’They all have a scent which I’d say smells like maple? Please advise if this is normal?’ wrote one concerned citizen.
Canadians are so cute.
Thanks to RemObjects for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS this week. Oxygene for Cocoa is a new and modern programming language and development tool chain for creating Mac and iOS apps.
It is not a bridge or an abstraction layer, but full-featured language for the Objective-C runtime, giving you direct access to all the great APIs of the platform and letting you create truly native (in every sense of the word) apps.
The language is based on Object Pascal (but this is not your daddy’s Pascal!), it is well-rounded and provides many advanced language features that will change the way you look at writing code.
And as if that was not enough: if you are so included, the same great language also lets you natively target Android/Java and .NET development, as well – time-proven and well established on those platforms for many years.
Find out more at remobjects.com/oxygene.
We posted about cat beards, so it only seems fair.
Beginning today game fans can pre-order the bundle through Sunday for US$19.99, which includes LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, DiRT 2, Battlestations Pacific, The Movies: Superstar Edition, Tropico 3: Gold Edition & Batman: Arkham Asylum. Those who pre-order this weekend will get a US$10 virtual coupon towards the purchase of any other Feral Interactive game from the Macgamestore which must be redemmed by the end of June.
Great looking games for $20.
This is not to scale. Microsoft has drawn a 10.1 inch tablet 36% larger than a 9.7 inch tablet (140×78 pixels vs 102×79). This is so far off you can visually see it’s wrong.
Come on Microsoft, stop being dicks.
I can’t wait to get this.