The sudden pullout — and subsequent return — of Apple from the EPEAT certification program it helped create increasingly appears to have been a dispute over the status that have been given to the Retina MacBook Pro if it were submitted, as the two 15-models with the high-resolution display may have been threatened with a lower-than-top ranking, a first for the company. The Retina models now appear on the EPEAT website with Gold rankings.
How is that possible?
A northern California jury directed Research in Motion Ltd to pay $147.2 million in patent litigation over a remote management system for wireless devices, according to an attorney for the plaintiff, Mformation Technologies Inc.
Just what they needed.
From Know Your Mobile: Apple will announce the iPhone 5 on August 7, Know Your Mobile can exclusively reveal. Nope.
Apple has responded to news broke earlier today about a Russian hacker that was able to circumvent the company’s in-app purchasing system. […]
Disillusioned with repeated delays to RIM’s next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system and the company’s ebbing smartphone market share in the U.S., some are throwing up their hands and turning away from the platform.
That could be the final nail.
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I just can’t put my finger on it.
If you look at the chart below from Nielsen, you’ll see that Android has 51.8 percent of the smartphone market share and Apple has 34.3 percent. […]
The Apple tax, as it is commonly called, is the belief that Macs cost more than PCs. I won’t ruin it for you, but Harry Marks nailed it.
Pixelmator 2.1 Cherry is already fully Retina-ready, including all of the user interface elements as well as the image editing engine itself. And, what can I say—Pixelmator on the new MacBook Pro with Retina display (we’ve got a few of those around the office) looks totally incredible.
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Salvador Rodriguez for the LA Times:
The company tweeted from its @BlackBerry account “Fill in the blank: BlackBerry helps me ________.” However, many of the people who responded didn’t find BlackBerry too helpful.“Realize how thankful I am for my #iPhone,” said one user, in one of the tamest yet worst responses RIM could have received. Not to be outdone, though, another user said the same about Android.
It’s not surprising that nobody at RIM saw this coming.
Apple’s new $1 billion data center — one of the highest-profile new data centers in the world — has put the town of Maiden, North Carolina (population: just over 3,000) on the tech map. But it almost didn’t get built.
Maiden took a chance and it worked.
Americans’ confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993.
Can’t say I blame them.
David Gewirtz:
For example, to connect to my corporate servers, I need a specialized VPN client that only runs on Windows. I can’t open a path to my servers unless I have a Windows computer, which means even if I took my iPad, I’d still need a laptop to open a gateway to do company work. A full Windows 8 Surface would be nice to carry and would eliminate needing to carry the laptop.
Some funny stuff like:
HP dropped -12.7 percent, Dell dropped -9.5 percent, Acer -14.1 percent and Toshiba -19.5 percent in the U.S. market for the second quarter of 2012.
Apple was up 4.3 percent.
Note that the numbers include “desk-based PCs and mobile PCs, including mini-notebooks but not media tablets such as the iPad.” So they included everything that would make the PC companies look as good as possible. Imagine if they included the iPad in Apple’s numbers.
I think that says it all.
Of course this model isn’t new either, we typically just call it a “paywall”. But a paywall in its basic form is ineffectual for what I want, because then it becomes a massive hurdle to gain new readers (since all my content would be hidden out of the public eye) — I don’t want that.
This is a bold move by Ben. It will be very interesting to see how it works out for him.
“We’re taking this issue very seriously,” he said. “I wish we had more to share at this time but I’ll be sure to share what comes down the line from the engineers relating to solutions or any workarounds they can find.”
Good for them for acknowledging the issue.
In your face!
We’re happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We’ve also introduced a new iOS Dev Center so you can quickly access the tools and resources you need to build great social apps for iOS.
There are lots of changes and goodies in here, including iOS 6 integration.
This time with some ZZ Top. […]
Then, at last, psychologists came to the music lover’s aid. They declared that he had a full-blown disability in the form of a psychological dependence on Black Sabbath.
Rock on brother!
Tapbots released a public alpha today.
It would have been better if it was a Heineken commercial, but there’s no denying the brilliance of this one. […]
Mat Honan:
Microsoft’s biggest consumer success over the past decade has been Xbox. It needs to replicate that success, and the only way it can be assured of doing that, at least in the short term, is to screw its hardware partners.
I couldn’t agree more. For better or worse, Microsoft needs to go for it.
Scoople surveys its users with questions in its iPhone app. The latest questions, about the app approval process, had some interesting results including almost half think malware will be a significant issue. I don’t think it will myself.
Anthony Kay:
As an independent writer or blogger, credibility and trust are everything. Without these, you have nothing.
I couldn’t agree more. Anthony has a fascinating story of how some blogs lost credibility for him because of recommendations they made.
Apple on Tuesday responded to concerns that it asked to have its products removed from EPEAT, the U.S. government’s list of environmentally friendly products. […]
After months of keeping this very exciting project top secret, we are very happy to finally tell you about the new children’s voices for Proloquo2Go. As a first in the industry, AssistiveWare and Acapela Group have developed two authentic British children’s voices: Harry and Rosie.Up until now, children with communication difficulties could only speak with an adult Text to Speech (TTS) voice or artificially emulated children’s TTS voices that sounded robotic and not genuine.
I met with the CEO of AssistiveWare in San Francisco when I was there in June and saw the app in action. It was truly amazing to see what this company is doing to help people communicate more efficiently using their app and an iPad.
They’ve posted a few videos of the children’s voices for the U.K. on their Web site. Children’s voices for the U.S. market are in the works too.
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