The new lawsuit, filed by an investor from Pennsylvania in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks to block Apple from moving forward with a February 27 shareholder vote on two proxy proposals.
One of the proposals is the same measure Einhorn targeted that would eliminate from the company charter Apple’s ability to issue preferred stock.
I can’t wait for some new Sabbath.
I met the guy that’s building these during NAMM and I like what he’s doing. Go take a look at his ideas and support the project.
Apple is gearing up for a special media event next month related to its television initiative that may deliver the tools developers will need to prepare applications for a formal relaunch of the company’s Apple TV product, analysts for Jefferies Equity Research said Wednesday.
Nope.
Bryan Chaffin:
Apple saw almost as many visitors to its retail stores as Disney sees at its theme parks around the world.
Wow. There are some other great comparisons in the chart too.
Update: Bryan updated the article to show that Apple actually had 370 million for the year, not 120 million.
Pauline France at Fender.com:
There are tons of guitar riffs out there, but only a few have become deeply ingrained and ubiquitous in pop culture. Our Top 10 Instantly Recognizable Guitar Riffs all have something in common: They’re the ones you can’t wait to learn how to play; the ones you catch yourself humming; the ones that are revered worldwide by musicians and non-musicians alike.
There are so many riffs to chose from — Pauline picked some good ones.
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 1.75 billion units in 2012, a 1.7 percent decline from 2011 sales, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphones continued to drive overall mobile phone sales, and the fourth quarter of 2012 saw record smartphone sales of 207.7 million units, up 38.3 percent from the same period last year.
Apple’s number three in overall phone sales, not just smartphone sales, according to Gartner’s figures. Samsung leads with 22.7 percent marketshare – a figure Gartner attributes to Samsung’s strong placement not only in the Android market, where it is far and away the market leader, but also with less expensive feature phones. Nokia trails in second place with 18.0 percent, the lowest it’s ever been, according to Gartner, with demand diminishing 53.6 percent year over year. Apple comes in third at 9.2 percent, with 43.5 million units sold – a 22.7 percent year over year increase.
Apple on Wednesday said it had updated its portable computers — both the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air product lines were updated.
According to Apple, the 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina now costs $1,499 for 128GB of flash, and $1,699 for a faster model with a 2.6 GHz processor and 256GB of flash.
The 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro now comes with a 2.4 GHz quad-core processor on the lower end model. The high-end model has a 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and 16GB of memory.
The MacBook Air with 256GB of flash has a lower price of $1,399.
All of the new MacBook Pros are available today. If you bought a MacBook in the last 14 calendar days, you can exchange it for one of the new models.
The batteries that your mobile devices contain are miracles of engineering. They hold amounts of energy that their predecessors couldn’t come close to equaling. Properly using this potential can help your mobile batteries last longer on the road. Here are our tips for obtaining optimum battery performance.
Some good suggestions here for making sure you get the best life you can out of your mobile electronics.
Co.Exist:
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is the dollar store version of the famed Golden Gate Bridge. Before the Bay Bridge closes down this summer for final touches on the new, safer eastern span, the bridge is getting gussied up by artist Leo Villareal, who is individually programming 25,000 white LED lights to generate an endless series of sparkling patterns across the structure.“Bay Lights”…will be the world’s largest light sculpture upon its completion in March.
The utilitarian Bay Bridge is the ugly stepchild of San Francisco bridges, always coming up short in comparison to the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. Hopefully this project isn’t just putting lipstick on a pig.
Speaking at our D: Dive Into Media conference on Tuesday, HBO’s Eric Kessler said “effective today we will be enabling AirPlay” for HBO Go.
HBO still say they’re coming to Apple TV.
First Alicia Keys is named creative director of BlackBerry, now Justin Timberlake is the creative director for Bud Lite Platinum.
I’d be pissed if I was a real creative director.
Eric Slivka posted the transcript on MacRumors. Definitely worth reading.
While not a main talking point of the interview, [Samsung Executive Vice President David] Eun told All Things D’s Kara Swisher that he saw the seemingly endless legal struggle as “a loss” for innovation in the fast-moving tech industry.
Translation:
We are very upset that Apple is focused on the lawsuits and not releasing more amazing products that we can blatantly steal.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during his speech at the Goldman Sachs event that Apple has paid its developers more than $8 billion. That’s $1 billion more than the $7 billion the company announced it paid to developers in early January.
That’s a staggering number when you think about it. An addition $1 billion in a little more than a month.
One of my favorite apps gets updated with some bug fixes.
Feral Interactive has announced the forthcoming Mac release of LEGO Lord of the Rings, coming on February 21, 2013. It’ll cost $30 and will be available through download channels like the Mac App Store, Mac Game Store and directly from Feral’s Web site.
LEGO Lord of the Rings is the latest TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment game to get the Mac treatment from Feral, which has previously collaborated with the companies to bring forth Mac versions of LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman, LEGO Indiana Jones and others. The game follows the storyline depicted in the legendary books and movies, where Hobbit Frodo Baggins must carry the One Ring to Mordor to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom.
The game features Lord of the Rings-style minifigures, dialogue and settings inspired by the movies, including Rivendell, the Shire and Mordor. More than 80 playable characters are included, and the main story line is supplemented with side quests to keep players busy for hours on end. And like many other recent LEGO games, this one features cooperative multiplayer play that lets a second player drop in and out of gameplay at will, to help and join in the fun.
For all of the money in the video games business, it’s just incredible that none of these analysts, developers, executives, or stakeholders has bothered to own up to what the truth about these games failing actually could be. Nobody wants to state the obvious and take responsibility for all of these millions of dollars in development and promotion squandered. So many excuses, but nobody talking straight.
It could be that your game just fucking sucked.
Preach.
USAToday:
PepsiCo on Monday announced it is rolling out “a new way to do mornings” with Kickstart, a fruit-flavored Mountain Dew beverage.“Our consumers told us they are looking for an alternative to traditional morning beverages – one that tastes great, includes real fruit juice and has just the right amount of kick to help them start their days,” said Greg Lyons, Mountain Dew’s vice president of marketing.
Kickstart has far less caffeine than energy drinks — 92 milligrams for a 16-ounce can. By comparison, a 16-ounce cup of Starbucks coffee has 330 milligrams of caffeine.
Does anyone really want a “morning beverage” that tastes like “Mountain Dew and fruit juice” that has even less caffeine than their coffee?
Gadling:
Chinese New Year is the one time of year when everyone returns to their home villages to see family members and it’s been called the largest annual human migration in the world.Some Chinese who can’t get train or plane tickets find creative ways to get home for the holiday. China Daily reports that one adventurous soul took a scenic route home, using “48 buses, a ferry, a free ride and his own feet to carry him 660km to his home town.”
You think traveling around the US is hard at Thanksgiving? It’s a cakewalk compared to the insanity in China this time of year.
Test your browser. I got two different scores in Safari, although they were close. Chrome scored about nine points higher.
The update ” fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S.” Check software update on your iPhone.
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From the Nike Support Twitter account.
@mkoyerp Right now, we’re focused on iOS and web. We’re not working on an Android App.
— Nike Support (@NikeSupport) February 10, 2013
Rene Ritchie lines up the most popular Twitter apps and compares them.
Why do I think this will backfire.
Nicely done.
He added that the first class participating in the iMedEd Initiative scored an average of 23 percent higher on their national exams – taken at the end of the second year of medical school – than previous UC Irvine medical school classes, despite having similar incoming GPAs and MCAT scores.
That’s impressive.
Apple is providing a live stream of the event which takes place February 12 at 7:15 am PT / 10:15 am ET.
[Via TNW]
The New York Times posted a story on Monday about Samsung and its mobile phone business. Some sections seemed odd, so I thought I’d translate them for you.
“We get most of our ideas from the market,” said Kim Hyun-suk, an executive vice president at Samsung, in a conversation about the future of mobile devices and television. “The market is a driver, so we don’t intend to drive the market in a certain direction,” he said.
We copy Apple.
It polls consumers and buys third-party research reports, but it also embeds employees in countries to study trends or merely to find inspiration for ideas.
We have spies in Apple’s factories.
“The research process is unimaginable,” said Donghoon Chang, an executive vice president of Samsung who leads the company’s design efforts. “We go through all avenues to make sure we read the trends correctly.”
We have supply chain spies too.
Samsung says studying the market helps it build confidence for the wireless carriers that its mobile devices will sell well. That, in turn, persuades the carriers to aggressively sell Samsung phones and tablets.
We pay carriers to sell our phones.
Daniel Hesse, Sprint’s chief executive, called Samsung a “terrific partner” because of its willingness to work with the carriers on the creation of phones.
Yes, we receive monster checks from Samsung.
There. That’s better.