Archive | March, 2011
Jony Ive gives Office creator Ricky Gervais a free iPad 2
Okay, we’re not gonna raise a fuss. Even though thousands of folks lined up for hours on end in order to get their hands on Apple’s new iPad 2, if you helped create The Office you’re afforded a few luxuries – like receiving an iPad 2 from none other than Apple design master Jony Ive. In […]
Continue reading...“Lion will blow your mind”
25. March 2011
After spending 30 days with a beta of OS X Lion, Jose Gutierrez is impressed: Mac OS X Lion has been out for a month now in a Developer Preview form. I have been using it since day one. After a month of testing and normal use, I can say with confidence that Lion will […]
Continue reading...The NeXT/Apple engineering culture clash
25. March 2011
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David Casseres writes the following in the wake of Bertrand Serlet leaving Apple: Pretty soon he was standing up in front of seasoned Apple software engineers and lecturing us on how not to make mistakes when cutting and pasting code. I said at that time that I had never felt so thoroughly disrespected as an engineer […]
Continue reading...iPad 2 glass is thinner, yet much stronger than the iPad 1 glass
24. March 2011
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The iPad 2 is noticeably thinner and lighter than the original iPad, and impressively, also thinner than the iPhone 4. Apple was able to slenderize the iPad 2 because its glass display is 27% thinner than the one used on the original. This however doesn’t translate into more broken screens as the iPad 2 glass […]
Continue reading...Google begins internal testing on Google Music
24. March 2011
CNET reports that Google has begun internal testing on its long rumored Google Music service, indicating that a rollout may be coming sooner rather than later. Two weeks ago someone writing at the XDA Developers forum claimed to have accidentally discovered Google Music after installing the Honeycomb version of the Android operating system on a phone. […]
Continue reading...Corporate Verizon stores selling original wi-fi iPad from $299-$499
24. March 2011
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A forum posting on SlickDeals relays that all non-franchised Verizon stores are selling the original wi-fi iPad for as low as $299 for the 16GB model, $399 for the 32GB model, and $499 for the 64GB model. These are the lowest iPad prices we’ve seen to date so hurry on in and pick one up if […]
Continue reading...When Steve Jobs put former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on blast
24. March 2011
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With Steve Jobs now re-elected to the Disney board of directors, we were reminded of the very public spat between Jobs and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Back in 2005, a year before Pixar would become a subsidiary of Disney, Eisner lambasted the characters in Pixar films as being “pretty pathetic” measured against those created […]
Continue reading...Craig Federighi – a worthy replacement to Serlet, and a nerd impostor to boot
24. March 2011
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Will Shipley writes nicely on the departing Bertrand Serlet and his replacement, and seeming nerd impostor, Craig Federighi who began working at NeXT in 1994 and took over the EOF group (Enterprise Objects) in record time. We’re all around this table in some generic conference room, and in comes Craig – the new guy – […]
Continue reading...Samsung trying to compete with iPad 2 thinness
24. March 2011
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It’s hard to say that the iPad 2 really caught anyone off guard given that Apple tends to release/announce its products on a fairly predictable schedule. But one aspect of the iPad 2 that threw some competitors for a loop is that the next-gen iPad is ultra thin. So thin, in fact, that it prompted Samsung […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Apple nix radiation detecting iPhone app
24. March 2011
An Israeli software company Tawkon is looking to capitalize on the recent earthquake in Japan with a mobile app that monitors a users exposure to mobile phone radiation. Which, of course, is ludicrous given that the iPhone has no built-in mechanism with which to measure radiation, not to mention the fact that the amount of […]
Continue reading...Departure of Bertrand Serlet is merely a “changing of the guard”
24. March 2011
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When ever a high profile executive plans to leave a company, it’s natural for some to look for underlying dissent and chaos lingering the surface. The recent announcement that Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s top man in charge of software engineering, would be leaving the company expectedly sparked similar fears. But Serlet’s departure is nothing more than […]
Continue reading...US Senators ask Apple to remove apps that alert users of DUI checkpoints
24. March 2011
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Concerned with a growing number of iPhone apps that work to alert users as to the presence of DUI checkpoints, a group of four US Senators penned a letter to Apple’s Senior VP of iPhone software, Scott Forstall, asking that the apps in question be removed. “With more than 10,000 Americans dying in drunk-driving crashes […]
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25. March 2011
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