American Airlines gives flight attendants a Galaxy Note

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A more personalized inflight experience will become a reality later this year as American Airlines flight attendants begin using the sleek, new Samsung Galaxy Note® as part of American’s innovative tablet program designed to put invaluable customer data at their fingertips.

So American hates its flight attendants then?

[Via BGR]

Retina strategy

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Josh Centers has some interesting thoughts on Apple’s strategy for Retina displays and which products we should expect to see them in.

NFC disappointment

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This is where Apple’s market dominance becomes so important. The truth is that NFC won’t take off without Apple — at least not nearly as quickly as it would with Apple. So the critics’ “disappointment” is in fact just a sad realization that the elusive NFC promise is at least one more year away from being kept. In the meantime, Apple keeps solving real problems it knows it can solve right now.

Smart article from Matt Drance.

iPhone and robotics

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Om Malik:

It is hard to imagine that it has only been five years since the smartphone revolution started in earnest. The sensor driven modern marvels are not only redefining how we interact with the world, but they are also having unintended consequences. Like helping make cheaper robots.

Something I never really considered before.

Office for Mac 2011 Retina display support

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We’re happy to announce that Office for Mac 2011 (version 14.2.4) now supports Retina display for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Text everywhere is incredibly crisp and all key areas of the interface are now sharper than ever. We hope you enjoy this fantastic software experience!

iOS 6

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Apple released iOS 6 this today. You can plug your iPhone into iTunes and click “Check for Update” or go to Settings > General > Software Update on your iPhone.

OS X 10.8.2

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You can download it from the Mac App Store.

Review: iPhone 5

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When Apple concluded its iPhone 5 event in San Francisco last week, I walked past the hands on area where Apple had devices for press to use, and went to meet with Apple executives to get an iPhone 5 of my own. […]

AT&T faces FaceTime FCC complaint

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A coalition of liberal advocacy groups has announced plans to challenge AT&T’s policy of blocking FaceTime video chat over its cellular network. AT&T has insisted that the policy does not raise network neutrality concerns, characterizing the uproar over the policy … Continued

AT&T comes through

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Eric Slivka:

Later that evening, I checked my AT&T online account and to my surprise saw that I was eligible for full subsidy on the iPhone 5: $299. I then canceled my Verizon pre-order and resigned myself to camping out this Friday to buy my iPhone 5 on AT&T because pre-order shipping estimates had long since moved out to 2-3 weeks. AT&T did call back on Saturday to confirm with me that due to my status as a valued customer I was eligible for full subsidy, and I thanked them while sharing just how close they’d come to losing me as a customer.

Lots of bad stories around about how AT&T is handling the pricing of iPhone 5 upgrades today, but there’s a good one too.

German government urges people to stop using IE

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The German government urged the public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer following discovery of yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers.

If you had any friends that cared about you, they’ve been urging you to do this for years.

Universal Audio’s Thunderbolt Option Card

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The Thunderbolt Option Card for the Apollo audio interface provides greater UAD plug-in instances, improved performance at higher sample rates, and reduced UAD plug-in latency versus Apollo’s standard FireWire connection.

A great option for those that picked up an Apollo interface.

Pixelmator 2.1.1 and a new healing tool

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Now you can easily remove image imperfections or just about any image element you want, so your pictures look their absolute best.

That’s what I love about the Pixelmator guys. They keep making amazing software with features that everyone can use, not just the pros. Check out the video on their site to see the healing tool in action.

Not only is Pixelmator 2.1.1 out today, but they are also sponsoring The Loop this week.

Samsung users want an iPhone 5

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A trivial question posted on Samsung Mobile’s official Facebook page has produced a ton of unexpected answers favoring Apple’s new iPhone 5.

“It doesn’t take a genius.”

Google’s open is… confusing

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So, let me get this straight. Android is open and freely available until it’s not… and the Open Handset Alliance is even more open, unless you try to use something else — then you get threatened… but openly.

I think that’s it.

Minimal WordPress themes

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Tina Roth Eisenberg put together a list of minimal themes for Wordpress at Swissmiss. Definitely worth a look if you’re pondering a new design.

CSS3 menus and navigation

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I love all that can be done with CSS3. At some point your readers just have to update their browsers.

Canada’s broadband caps ‘almost a human rights violation’

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There’s no love lost between Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Canada’s big Internet providers: “It’s almost a human rights violation what they’re charging for internet access in Canada,” Sarandos said during the Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment conference in Los Angeles Wednesday.

You said it, brother!