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Today’s the day that your cost-free tweeting about red signals comes to end, as Virgin Media begins charging for its WiFi service on the London Underground.
Virgin Media, Vodafone, EE, T-Mobile and Orange customers can stay connected for free; everyone else pays for the privilege using daily, weekly or monthly rates.
“As soon as we closed down the earlier Mac beta, we had always planned from that moment to develop a native Mac client that would actually be able to serve the needs of Mac players. We knew it was going to take some time, but we wanted to do it right.”
Great news for Mac gamers who have envied their PC counterparts since 2009, when League of Legends first broke on the scene. League of Legends is a popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA). Riot Games, the game’s developer, now counts 12 million LoL players a day.
First, the good news. The legal shield for jailbreaking and rooting your phone remains up – it’ll protect us at least through 2015. The shield for unlocking your phone is down, but carriers probably aren’t going to start suing customers en masse, RIAA-style. And the Copyright Office’s decision, contrary to what some sensational headlines have said, doesn’t necessarily make unlocking illegal.
Mitch Stoltz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) explains how legal protection has expired for U.S. citizens who unlock their own phones without their carrier’s permission; what it means going forward and how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) affects American consumers.
Following iOS 6.1’s release to the general public on Monday, Apple said that iOS 6 is now shipping on more than 300 million devices worldwide. That includes iPhones, iPod touches and iPads. Apple’s has shipped 500 million iOS devices in total, which would indicate that more than half of all iOS devices – about 60 percent – are running iOS 6.
A recent report in the Economist penned by Glenn Fleishman says that according to Google’s own data, the same percentage of the 600 million Android devices ever made – about 360 million units – run operating system releases prior to version 4.0. Fleishman says it’s a security risk, because Google is unable to serve those older devices with patches and system updates, often by design from their manufacturers or the system carriers they’re operating through.
During Apple’s previous quarterly call in October, Cook told analysts that iOS 6 had been downloaded to more than 200 million devices, and called it “the fastest software upgrade rate in history, that we’re aware of.” In a statement, Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller echoed Cook’s comments, saying that iOS 6 “may be the most popular new version of an OS in history.”
Jim and I have previously brought you news about our friend Corey Tamas’ fundraising efforts for his band Dragonfly’s album, “Amplification.” Now it’s available for download through bandcamp.com. Twelve Canadian dollars gets you 14 tracks of, as the artists describe it, “hard rock and heavy metal songs with eastern influences woven through.”
The Ohio Players frontman Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner died Saturday in his hometown near Dayton, Ohio, according to his Facebook page. He was 69. No cause of death was announced.
The Ohio Players helped define the sound of 70s funk and were hugely influential to generations of artists. “Fire” and “Love Rollercoaster” are their two best known tracks, the latter famously covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the 1990s.
Apple updated its Apple TV software on Monday adding a number of new features.
Among the changes in the latest software update is support for Bluetooth keyboards, something many users have been asking for with the Apple TV. The update also added the “Up Next” feature found in iTunes and the ability to browse and play all purchased music.
One major feature added to Apple TV is iTunes in the Cloud. This was previously available to users that purchased iTunes Match.
You can download the update on your Apple TV by going to Settings > General > Update Software.
Apple customers in Britain have begun to seek compensation after the search giant bypassed security settings on their iPhones and Mac computers, allowing it to track their browsing habits.
Don’t be evil Google. Also funny that the American press isn’t all over this — if it was Apple being sued, it would be front page news everywhere.
Count Acer as being disillusioned with Windows 8, but seeing a future in Chrome. President Jim Wong says that Windows 8 “is still not successful,” while touting the benefits of Chrome notebooks, which he says already account for between 5 percent and 10 percent of Acer’s U.S. sales.
At 5 to 10 percent of Acer’s US sales, Chrome notebooks aren’t creating a tectonic change in the laptop market, but it’s interesting to see people getting used to the idea of a notebook running purely in the cloud.
Google officials say changes in the [Electronic Communications Privacy Act] are needed to prevent law enforcement from obtaining certain e-mails and other content without search warrants, and to give documents stored on cloud services the same legal protections as paper documents stored in a desk drawer. Cloud services, which didn’t exist when the privacy law was passed, let users store and process data on remote servers via the Internet.
Good for Google for trying to hold together the tattered remains of the Fourth Amendment.
An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that’s now required.
H.265 is also known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). It improves video quality and doubles the data compression ratio compared to H.264 (the standard heavily leveraged in Apple’s QuickTime video technology). It scales up to 8192 x 4320 resolution, making it suitable for use with Ultra High Definition (UHD) signals.
Barnes & Noble plans to close about twenty retail stores a year over the next ten years, the company’s retail CEO Marshall Klipper told the Wall Street Journal.
Up until 2009, Barnes & Noble was expanding at a rate of about 30 stores a year. Looks like more and more people are buying books from Amazon (and, presumably, e-books).
Android is going from strength to strength. Around 600m of the nearly 2 billion smartphones ever sold use Google’s mobile operating system, estimates Horace Dediu, the boss of Asymco, a mobile-analysis firm. How odd, then, that nearly two-fifths of those that remain in active use, both old and new, rely on outdated versions of it.
Glenn Fleishman explains one of the biggest flaws of Android – how cheap handsets, fast development and loose controls by Google adds up to hundreds of millions of handsets running outdated and unpatched versions of Android operating systems.
iTunes 11 introduced some interface changes that longtime users, myself included, found very jarring. Kirk McElhearn has updated his “Take Control of iTunes” e-book with new content about iTunes 11.
The deal complements AT&T’s existing holdings in the B block, the company said in a press release. The new spectrum will help the company deploy 4G LTE services and meet mobile broadband demand from smartphones and tablets, it added.
I stopped by the Izotope booth today and got a demo of all the latest plugins, including Ozone 5, the company’s mastering system. New versions of Ozone 5 and Nectar, Izotope’s vocal suite are available as AAX native plug-ins from their Web site.
Looking back, it’s clear how uninviting and offensive that language is to many people, not just women. It’s not something we’re proud of. We are sorry about the message that was conveyed then. We don’t support or condone sexism at Klout, and our culture today has matured from what it was then.
This is now
We’ve come a long way since that spring. Today, we are over 65 Kloutlaws, 20 percent of whom are women…
Kudos to Klout for owning the problem, accepting responsibility and moving on.
Every year I walk away from NAMM with a product I felt was the best at the show — I saw that today. It’s called the Sound Control 6 from DiabloFX.
Digital stompboxes that model effects are great for guitar players, but many guitarists would rather use their traditional analog gear. Sound Control allows you to use your analog pedals, but you can also make presets and activate them wirelessly with the foot switch.
Basically, you put up to 6 analog pedals in Sound Control and connect them to the unit. Each preset (a total of four) has an on and off switch for each pedal connected. On Preset “A” you want an Overdrive and Chorus pedal, you flip the switch for those. From that point on when you stomp on preset “A” your pedal choice will be activated. You choose your pedals like that for each of the presets and you’re done.
This is a very cool piece of hardware and something I have to get.
Back in the 70s and 80s, Atari Inc. created dozens of coin-op games that were designed to hook players in, take their money, and by the end, have them beg to play one more time.
Nolan Bushnell described these games as “Easy To Learn, Tough To Master,” and they were the genesis of the today’s casual and mobile game market.
With Atari’s impending bankruptcy and sale, it’s time they looked back at some of their little known coin-ops that could be translated into hit mobile and downloadable games. Who knows, some of these could be hits for the company’s next owner!
