South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it has not considered acquiring Research In Motion or licensing the embattled BlackBerry phone maker’s new mobile operating system.
I don’t know, buying RIM and using the software in its devices might be a good idea for Samsung, especially if it loses the lawsuit that Apple brought against it.
Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider:
Only 16 percent of viewers observing Samsung’s TV commercials realized it was a Samsung product, according to an internal report the company commissioned, and which has been submitted as evidence in its trial with Apple.
According to macProVideo.com’s Founder and CEO, Martin Sitter, “Until now, macProVideo.com has been the place ‘Where Mac Users Learn.’ With the acquisition of AskVideo.com, we have purchased a great brand with over 8 years of experience in online training. AskVideo will become our primary portal for bringing our trademarked NonLinear Educating System™ to the larger world of Windows PC users.”
Huge news in the video training market. I’ve been a user of MacProVideo for years. Good luck to Martin and the gang.
My latest Techpinions column:
Samsung contends that Apple doesn’t own the right to putting a receiver on an icon to indicate that it’s used for making a phone call. Samsung fans also argue that Apple can’t patent a rectangle. These arguments don’t get to the heart of the matter, which is the blatant copying of everything Apple is doing.
Ed Bott:
When Microsoft shipped its Release Preview of Windows 8 in June, it announced that the default browser, Internet Explorer 10, would have the Do Not Track (DNT) signal enabled by default. That action unleashed a heated debate in the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).To the advertising and analytics companies that make up the tracking industry, this issue is an existential one. If the default browser in the world’s most popular operating system is set to disallow tracking, the effect would be profoundly disruptive to companies that live and die by their ability to follow users around the web.
Kudos to Microsoft for doing the right thing.
After Apple introduced evidence that clearly shows how Samsung purposely copied its iPhone, Samsung released the following statement:
“Samsung benchmarks many peer companies,” she said. “In fact, these are typical competitive analyses routinely undertaken by many companies in many industries – including Apple. Samsung stands by its culture of continuous improvement and innovation. We are very proud of the product innovations driven by our more than 50,000 designers and engineers around the world who have made Samsung’s products the products of choice.”
It’s doesn’t say, but I’m guessing the Samsung rep didn’t say that with a straight face.
Another great release from the Pixelmator Team.
Pixelmator 2.1 is a major update introducing several new features and improvements, including the following:* Retina-Ready: Both Pixelmator’s friendly user interface and its powerful image editing engine are now optimized for the Retina display. * iCloud: Built right into the app and keeps your Pixelmator work up to date across all your Macs. * Effects Browser: The best and the most fun way to browse: instantly preview and quickly apply special effects or add color adjustments to images. * New Effects: Use the new Vintage, Miniaturize, Black and White, Rain, and Snow effects. * Alignment Guides: Quickly position, align, and evenly distribute objects in your Pixelmator compositions with pinpoint accuracy. * OS X Mountain Lion Support: Pixelmator takes full advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
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 Wall Street Journal looks at the case the feds have against Gibson and why they settled.
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.
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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).
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.
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.
It’s been a long time since I’ve read such complete and utter shit.
A brutal assessment.
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.
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.
Consider the wall of apps in this photo of the company’s new shop-in-a-shop in Italy’s Centro Sicilia, which appears to feature not only the iOS icon for Apple’s mobile Safari browser, but the icon for the company’s iOS App Store — three instances of it.
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.
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.
I like it. […]
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.
We’ve already learned that Apple is seeking more than $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, but newly-released court filings have revealed exactly how much Apple feels it is owed on a per device basis.
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
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. […]
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.
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.
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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.
Google’s Matt Cutts on the myths and realities of enabling two-factor authentication.