Archive | February, 2010
More on Microsoft’s organizational clusterfuck and their struggle to innovate
Last week, former Microsoft VP Dick Brass penned a fascinating op-ed for the New York Times where he described why a company like Microsoft, despite having a plethora of extremely smart engineers, has been unable to innovate in proportion to its talent level. Brass described an organizational structure within Microsoft that actually worked against innovation, […]
Continue reading...The first songs ever played on an iPod
10. February 2010
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Steve Jobs announced the first iPod on October 23, 2001. Though famously lampooned at first, the iPod went on to become Apple’s most iconic product. So on a slow news day, we thought we’d go back and look at the first songs ever played on an iPod in public. The first song demoed by Steve […]
Continue reading...AT&T partners with Alacatel-Lucent and Ericcson for planned LTE rollout
10. February 2010
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AT&T announced today its plans to partner up with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericcson as it moves forward with its plan to deploy a 4G LTE broadband network. The selection of the two suppliers paves the way for AT&T’s planned field trials of LTE technology later this year, with commercial deployment scheduled to begin in 2011. AT&T’s […]
Continue reading...Disney excited over iPad possibilities, calls device a game changer
10. February 2010
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During Disney’s earnings conference call yesterday, Disney CEO Bob Iger addressed a few questions about Apple’s forthcoming iPad and expressed his excitement over what he deemed to be a game-changing device. When asked about new digital business models and what type of content Disney is working on in light of the iPad, Iger responded: We […]
Continue reading...How to watch any video on your iPod or iPhone in portrait mode
10. February 2010
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If you watch a lot of video on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you might have noticed that some videos work in both portrait and landscape mode while others work only in landscape. If, for some reason, you want to keep your video options as open as possible at all times, there’s a handy workaround […]
Continue reading...Adobe: Over 7 million attempts to download Flash from iPhones and iPod Touches
9. February 2010
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Amidst all the grumbling back and forth over Apple’s decision not to support Flash on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad comes an interesting report courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle saying that in December alone, that were more than 7 million attempts to download Flash from Adobe’s website via iPhones and iPod Touches […]
Continue reading...Analysts: Apple’s iPhone contract with AT&T to extend into 2011
9. February 2010
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Despite a number of reports suggesting that the iPhone will be available on every major US carrier by the fall of 2010, two analysts are now going against the grain and stating that Apple’s choice of AT&T to handle 3G connectivity on the iPad suggests that Apple will extend its exclusive iPhone agreement with AT&T […]
Continue reading...iTunes music sales contract in face of variable pricing
9. February 2010
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When Steve Jobs and Apple first struck deals to sell music on iTunes, the music was shrouded in DRM and was only playable on the iPod, which at the time, was a Mac only device. At the time, the music labels were willing to get into bed with Apple because even if the venture proved […]
Continue reading...Apple releases Aperture 3
9. February 2010
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Apple today announced the release of Aperture 3, the latest update to its popular photo editing and management software. Some of the 200+ new features in the latest release include support for Faces and Places, which first made their debut in iPhoto ’09, along with a new feature called “Brushes” which allows users to “paint […]
Continue reading...The tweet that infuriated Steve Jobs
9. February 2010
For as much of a public showman as Steve Jobs is, he is a notoriously private person, and his obsession with privacy clearly seeps into the culture at Apple where unannounced products are never talked about and product leaks are handled with utmost severity. The latest and greatest product to emerge from Cupertino is the […]
Continue reading...Amazon appears ready to upgrade the Kindle in a major way to take on the iPad
8. February 2010
Last week, Amazon purchased a company specializing in touchscreen technology called Touchco in an apparent attempt to spruce up the Kindle in light of Apple’s recently announced iPad. Now, it seems that Amazon has its eyes set on revamping the entire Kindle experience from the ground up. The New York Times reports on a slew of […]
Continue reading...Alleged photos of next-gen iPhone front panel reveal larger form factor
8. February 2010
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An iPhone repair site called iResQ has posted purported screenshots of a front panel from the next-gen iPhone. The most interesting, and obvious, feature of the alleged front panel is that its 1/4 of an inch longer than the front panel of previous iPhone models.
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10. February 2010
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