Gizmodo:
If you had any doubts about the scale of frankenstorm Sandy, check out NASA’s latest image to see its size compared to the entire planet. It was taken by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite this morning, October 28 at 9:02AM EDT.
Hoping everyone on the east coast of both the USA and Canada stay safe during this incredible storm.
The Guardian:
It is one of the world’s largest hedge funds, with $121bn under management, but its name is virtually unknown in financial circles. Braeburn Capital is not operated from the top floor of a Manhattan skyscraper or a plush Mayfair townhouse. It is located in a quiet suburb of Nevada’s capital, Reno, and it belongs to Apple.Much of Apple’s money is trapped overseas, sheltered from the US taxman, who would demand a 35% cut were the money to be repatriated. But it can be invested at home. Apple’s financial reports show it holds $21bn of US government debt – a vast sum for a single private investor. Foreign governments like investing in US securities, but Apple owns more than the $19bn held by Malaysia, and just $4bn less than Spain.
“Problem”? We should all have such problems.
Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently “divvy up” your screen into exact portions.
This looks cool. Watch the video to see how it can be used.
Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the company’s new Palo Alto retail store during its grand opening on Saturday.
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George Canellis sent in this picture from the Microsoft Store at the Walt Whitman Mall. Even though nobody showed up, Microsoft employees were only letting a few people in at a time.
I’m typing this with gritted teeth. My 24 hours with the half-baked Surface have been a frustrating challenge, a mix of love and hate. I want want want this to work, but one problem after another have led me to come to the conclusion – a temporary one at least – that this thing just isn’t ready to ship.
Why do I get the feeling this will be happening quite a bit.
He can’t.
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Wired:
The Nexus is particularly important to Google because it is the company’s flagship smartphone…Google, and every other tech company, desperately wants to keep these sorts of details secret for competitive reasons until they’re ready to announce them.But, on the night of Sept. 20, Google wasn’t fighting the internet. It was up against a bartender, and Brian Katz, global investigations and intelligence manager at Google (according to his LinkedIn profile — “Google does not discuss the actions of its security team,” a representative says) was headed to the 500 Club.
Sounds ridiculously familiar. Google can’t help but copy Apple, can they?
Don’t lie – half of you are trying to figure out ways to scare your kids with this trick.
Much respect granny.
Rachel Weber for Gamesindustry.biz:
Neil Young has departed from his role as CEO of DeNA’s ngmoco, and will be replaced by Clive Downie. Co-founder and CCO Bob Stevenson has also stepped down.
Both Young and Stevenson are co-founders at Ngmoco. The casual game publisher was a breakout star of the App Store and acquired long-time Apple developer Freeverse, which also made a splash in the App Store. In August, Freeverse co-founders Ian and Colin Lynch Smith left the company, which suffered layoffs shortly thereafter.
Ngmoco is owned by Japanese mobile software publisher DeNA.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has a good rundown of what analysts are saying after Apple’s Q4 earnings report.
Love ’em or hate ’em, analysts’ reports have a direct bearing on Apple’s stock performance and the perception of how the company is doing with Wall Street investors, so it’s worth paying attention to.
John Biggs for TechCrunch:
In the great, wide world of journalism, games journalism is a weird animal. Those who “practice” – and practice it well – face a barrage of PR perks, free trips, and angry houses. Access is given and taken away by marketing folks on a whim. There are a few great news sources (Polygon is one as is Rock, Paper, Shotgun), a few silly ones, and a few horrible ones. But on the whole, not many folks think much about the business of writing about games. Yet, if we’re culturally current, we consume quite a bit of games writing and, sadly, that writing is often compromised by the broken PR system. This came to a head, sadly, when Rab Florence, a writer with Eurogamer, resigned after calling out the industry, including presenter and journalist Geoff Keighley (see him here), a writer who posed himself next to a pile of Doritos and a garish Xbox display.
I don’t really disagree with anything Biggs has written here, but there’s a delicious irony in TechCrunch, of all publications, calling out games journalists for shitty ethics.
Arnold Kim for MacRumors:
As instructed by a UK court, Apple has posted a small link in the footer of Apple.com/uk. The notice acknowledges the judgement that Samsung had not infringed on the iPad design with their Galaxy Tab.
When the judge ruled that Apple hadn’t infringed on Apple’s patents, he noted that Samsung designs are “not as cool” as Apple’s. Apple decided to quote his exact words in its statement.
Amazon.com Inc. posted a loss of $274 million, or 60 cents per share, in the July-September period. That’s down from earnings of $63 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier.
And this is what happens when you sell your shit at cost.
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.0 percent compared to 40.3 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue. The Company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 58 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 14.0 million iPads during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.9 million Macs during the quarter, a 1 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods, a 19 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
Simple and to the point.
Carroll Shelby represents everything that is a muscle car. I want this.
Jon Russell for the Next Web:
Opera released its inaugural mobile advertising report in July and, three months down the line, the Norwegian browser maker is back with new insight. The Q3 2012 installment of the ‘State of Mobile Advertising’ report again finds Apple’s iOS to be the highest yielding platform on its advertising network, with Android slumping below RIM’s BlackBerry OS.
The thing that caught my eye was that Android wasn’t even as effective as Blackberry as an ad platform. I guess a lot of Android users have turned to ad blocking software.
Hosted by actor Kevin Bacon, TURN IT UP! includes interviews and performances with Les Paul, Slash, Robby Krieger (the Doors), Paul Stanley (KISS), Carl Verheyen (Supertramp), Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Albert Lee, Steve Lukather (Toto), and the legendary B.B. King–plus many more.
You can help get this movie released by supporting it on Indiegogo. One of the many perks is getting a guitar lesson from Robby Krieger, guitarist for The Doors. There are a lot of other cool things you can get with your contribution too.
I know the husband and wife team that put this movie together and was actually around for some of the shooting. This is a great project to support.
Well, there you go.
I’ll admit, I hate many of the fonts I see. It’s an important decision that escapes a lot of people.
Steve Ballmer talking to BBC News:
“Is it fair to say we’re going to do more hardware? Obviously we are… Where we see important opportunities to set a new standard, yeah we’ll dive in.”
Great, just what we need.
A new Surface ad shows a guy jumping into a pool with his guitar. I’d throw every Surface ever made into the water before I harmed a single guitar.
Pocket, the popular “save for later” service already available for iOS and other mobile platforms and the Web, now has its own official Mac client. The company announced the release of Pocket for Mac on Thursday.
With Pocket, you can save articles, videos and other content from the Web. You can also connect with apps that support Pocket like Flipboard, Twitter, Pulse and Zite. The data is accessible anywhere you have Pocket installed – your iPhone, iPad, Web browser or, now, your Mac.
Pocket for Mac includes offline access to saved content, instant syncing across all devices, keyboard shortcuts, viewing of streaming video, organizing, sharing and searching features.
Feral Interactive announced Thursday plans to release F1 2012 for the Mac “later this year.” F1 2012 puts players in the cockpit of a high-speed Formula One race car; it’s the official game of the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship.
Being the official FIA game, F1 2012 features all the teams, drivers and racing circuits found in the actual races, including tracks at Monaco and Monza and new spots like Marina Bay in Singapore and the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
The game features a Career Mode, Season Challenge, Quick Race and Champions Mode, each with different challenges. It also supports split-screen, LAN multiplayer and online multiplayer if you’d prefer to race other humans instead of the computer.