Archive | October, 2011
Apple working on iPad Mini – but is that a reference to the screen size or its price?
Steve Jobs famously said that tablets with 7-inch screens stood no shot in the marketplace and would effectively be dead on arrival. Customers, Steve Jobs claimed, wanted their tablets a bit bigger – and so far it’s hard to argue as a plethora of smaller screened tablets have failed to gain even a modicum of […]
Continue reading...When Dropbox told Steve Jobs that they weren’t for sale
18. October 2011
Apple this week delivered its latest attempt at giving users the ability to seamlessly share documents and media across a multitude of devices with the roll-out of iCloud. But before Apple developed iCloud in-house, it sought to acquire Dropbox – which you might recognize as the highly regarded web based file hosting and digital storage […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 is the last product Steve Jobs was intimately involved in
18. October 2011
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The iPhone 4S is flying off the shelves faster than Apple can manufacture them. A quick perusal of Sprint’s website shows that they’re already sold out of the 16 and 32GB models while all iPhone 4S models on Verizon’s website now show a shipping date of October 28th. Clearly, the iPhone 4S is an immediate […]
Continue reading...Apple’s A6 manufacturing will remain a Samsung job
18. October 2011
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Despite Apple and Samsung’s massive legal dispute which now spans 4 continents and over 10 countries, Apple’s upcoming A6 chip – which will probably debut with the iPad 3 – will likely come from Samsung. Over the past few months, a number of reports have claimed that Apple was moving its processor production away from […]
Continue reading...Stephen Wolfram reflects back on Steve Jobs
18. October 2011
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You may not have heard of Stephen Wolfram but rest assured that he’s a brilliant guy. Born in Britain to Jewish refugees, Wolfram is the man behind Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and, more recently, Wolfram Alpha. Not too long ago Wofram penned a truly informative look back at his relationship with Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...Samsung COO Lee Jae-yong attended Steve Jobs’ memorial event
18. October 2011
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This past weekend, we highlighted a memorial service held for Steve Jobs at Stanford University’s Memorial Church. Amidst the large number of high-profile guests was Samsung president and COO Lee Jae-yong – who also happens to be the son of Samsung’s CEO. This is particularly noteworthy given a) Apple and Samsung’s ongoing legal strife and b) […]
Continue reading...Droves of luminaries, from Bill Gates to Joan Baez, attended memorial service for Steve Jobs this weekend
17. October 2011
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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 […]
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18. October 2011
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