Archive | October 17th, 2011
Droves of luminaries, from Bill Gates to Joan Baez, attended memorial service for Steve Jobs this weekend
A memorial service for Steve Jobs was held this weekend at Stanford University’s Memorial Church. The event attracted a number of technological, political, and artistic luminaries who all gathered to pay their respects to a man whose products, as he so often said, existed at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. The Wall […]
Continue reading...HD Video shot with the iPhone 4S is pretty, pretty, pretty good.
17. October 2011
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Benjamin Dowie decided to use his new iPhoen 4S to shot some footage as part of his surfing excursion. What he recorded is truly remarkable for a camera phone. And it sure as hell beats the Canon video camera I spent over $600 bucks on in 2008. It’s actually amazing. The automatic stabilisation seems to […]
Continue reading...Stuff Siri says takes on a life of its own
17. October 2011
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It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the funny responses spewed out by Siri are already taking on a life of their own. We highlighted a few of these already such as Siri’s response to a marriage proposal and Siri’s response to a user’s request for marijuana. Now that the iPhone 4S has […]
Continue reading...Chrisann Brennan, Steve Jobs’ first girlfriend, describes a different side of Jobs
17. October 2011
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The stories about Steve Jobs continue to roll in with surprising frequency. The following is a nice little blurb from Steve Jobs’ first girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan. You know, the woman who mothered Lisa. In any event, Chrisann reveals a new side of Jobs, a romantic music-loving guy who wasn’t inclined to waste much of his […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt praises Steve Jobs – “He was always ahead of me”
17. October 2011
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Erick Schmidt and Steve Jobs have had their squabbles over the years, most famously when Jobs felt Schmidt stabbed him and Apple in the back with their plans for Android. You might remember that Schmidt at one point was a board member at Apple before resigning in 2009 citing a conflict of interest due to […]
Continue reading...Qualcomm ordered to hand over documents that might help Apple stave off Samsung patent attack
17. October 2011
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Apple last week was on quite a tear with respect to its worldwide efforts to get Samsung to stop infringing upon its patents. In addition to Apple winning an injunction preventing Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, a Dutch Court also rejected Samsung’s bid to attain an injunction against Apple’s iPad and […]
Continue reading...Apple: iPhone 4S sales top 4 million in first weekend
17. October 2011
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Forget about the iPhone 5, customers are clamoring over the iPhone 4S. Apple today issued a press release announcing that they sold over 4 million iPhone 4S’ since going on sale this past Friday. What’s more, Apple touts that over 25 million customers are now using iOS 5 in addition to signing up 20 million […]
Continue reading...Rovio, makers of Angry Birds, eyeing IPO in 2012
17. October 2011
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Angry Birds may very well be the most addicting iOS game ever made. Hell, it got me hooked and I can proudly, or perhaps shamefully, boast that I’ve beaten every Angry Birds level ever created. Yep, I’m pretty adept at finding time to waste. Building on the success of Angry Birds as a video game, […]
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17. October 2011
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