Archive | June, 2012
Apple releases new iPad ad – “Do it all”
Check it out below. It’s called “Do it all” and yet another example of Apple highlighting the iPad as both a productivity and content consumption device. Send a note. Stay informed. Catch a show. Make your point. Make a memory. Make a masterpiece. Read something.Watch something. And learn something. Do it all more beautifully, with […]
Continue reading...iFixit calls MacBook Pro Retina Display an “engineering marvel”
19. June 2012
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The folks at iFixit write: The Retina display is an engineering marvel. Its LCD is essentially the entire display assembly. Rather than sandwich an LCD panel between a back case and a piece of glass in front, Apple used the aluminum case itself as the frame for the LCD panel and used the LCD as […]
Continue reading...Jesus Diaz has guts
19. June 2012
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For heaping a heap of praise on a product that no one has ever used just yet. “Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete,” he writes. Hmm, we’ll have to wait and see on that.
Continue reading...When Steve Jobs dropped some social media knowledge on the Obama campaign
15. June 2012
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BusinessWeek reports on how Obama campaign manager Jim Messina got some solicited advice from Steve Jobs, among others. In two long, private conversations, Steve Jobs tore into Messina for all the White House was doing wrong and what it ought to be doing differently, before going on to explain how the campaign could exploit technology […]
Continue reading...Fortune profiles Apple’s former retail chief Ron Johnson
15. June 2012
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Fortune has a thoroughly entertaining and informative profile of Ron Johnson, Apple’s former retail chief who recently assumed the CEO position at JC Penney where he’s excited to tackle his latest challenge – transforming JC Penney from a has-been department store into a rousing shopping experience. Described as relentless and cheery with an all-American upbringing, […]
Continue reading...Apple readying 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display for October release
14. June 2012
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AppleInsider reports: Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider on Thursday that he expects Apple to ramp up production of a 13-inch next-generation MacBook Pro with Retina display in September. That would allow the product to hit stores in early October, in time for the holiday shopping season. Kuo was the […]
Continue reading...Apple can’t stop the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III release as Judge Lucy Koh says it would “overload” her schedule
14. June 2012
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Reuters reports that Apple’s efforts to attain a preliminary injunction against the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III release has fallen short. Then in an order late on Monday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, effectively dashed Apple’s hopes of stopping the launch of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s new Galaxy S III smartphone, […]
Continue reading...Apple applying for top level .Apple domain names
14. June 2012
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The Associated Press reports: Proposals for Internet addresses ending in “.pizza,” ”.space” and “.auto” are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system. Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among companies that are seeking names with their brands. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. sought […]
Continue reading...iFixit tears down new Retina Display MacBook Pro
14. June 2012
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Some notes of interest from iFixit’s MacBook Pro teardown which is apparently the hardest Mac to repair! – The new battery packs quite a punch: 95 Wh at 10.95 V compared to last year’s puny 77.5 Wh. – The Retina display LCD is situated in the display assembly, and it’s not going anywhere. Chances are […]
Continue reading...Apple to share advertising revenue with Baidu
14. June 2012
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Bloomberg reports that Apple, as part of its inclusion of Baidu as a search engine option in iOS 6 for its Chinese customers, will receive a slice of advertising revenue. The revenue-sharing agreement with Apple follows similar accords between Baidu and manufacturers of handsets that useGoogle’s Android operating system, Wang Jing, vice president at Beijing-based […]
Continue reading...iTunes Match in iOS 6 now streams music
14. June 2012
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Apple’N’Apps reports: When you’re on a Mac, you can stream music without any files being stored on your device. On your iOS device, if you tapped to play a song, the song plays automatically, but downloads too. In iOS 6, that’s changed, at least in the first beta. Now when you tap to play a […]
Continue reading...Apple and Time settle their differences
14. June 2012
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All Things D reports: Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. If that seems like non-news, consider that it took the two companies two years to figure this out. Up until now, Time Inc. has been the notable […]
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19. June 2012
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