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09-06-10 -
Mark Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-President
Ashlee Vance, reporting for the NYT: In naming Mark V. Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, as Oracle’s new co-president, Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle’s chief executive and largest shareholder, really has put his money w...
09-06-10 -
Whats New in iOS 4.1
Detailed list from Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac.  ★ 
09-05-10 -
Brilliant Star Wars Posters by Andy Helms
Clever pattern, and extra points for using the Millennium Falcon twice. (Via Guy English.)  ★ 
09-05-10 -
Is the Samsung Galaxy Tab Going to Be Expensive?
Apple gets knocked for making expensive kit, but the truth is, no one else can seem to match them. This, I think, is why no one can make a true iPod Touch competitor. If the Galaxy Tab is really going to retail for around $1,000, the iPad is safe ...
09-05-10 -
How Many iPod Touches Have Been Sold to Date?
Horace Dediu estimates around 38 percent of all iOS devices sold to date. This is why I’m surprised, at least slightly, that there aren’t more iPod Touch competitors.  ★ 
09-03-10 -
Felt Tip Inc.
My thanks to Felt Tip Inc. for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote their excellent iOS apps for fitness management. Couch to 5k helps you train to run a 5k, using a tested 9-week workout program based on intervals. Food Diary m...
09-03-10 -
Apple Promo Page for iOS 4.2 for iPad
November can’t get here soon enough.  ★ 
09-03-10 -
Where Are the iPod Touch Knockoffs?
Horace Dediu: So the question is why is the iPad being cloned while the iPod has remained in the market by itself? I’ve been asking for years. Still no such thing.  ★ 
09-03-10 -
iTunes 10 Breaks Automator Integration
Christopher Breen: An unexpected change is that iTunes Automator actions no longer load. This affects both existing workflows created for an earlier version of iTunes as well as any workflows you create with iTunes 10 installed. Those existing...
09-02-10 -
That Skype for Android Update That Purportedly Worked Over Wi-Fi? Not So Fast
Still tied to Verizon’s 3G network — your Wi-Fi connection doesn’t disconnect while using the app, but Skype doesn’t actually use it. Sounds great.  ★ 
09-02-10 -
CRN: Samsung Vows Allegiance to Google Android
CRN: And while Samsung also expects to leverage its own software, called bada, in future devices as well, it’s putting the majority of its eggs in the Android basket, as Android’s popularity continues to snowball with other...
09-02-10 -
Steve Jobs on Why Ping Doesnt Integrate With Facebook
Kara Swisher: And Facebook is nowhere on Ping, either. Currently, there is no linking, sharing or participation of any kind with Facebook–or Twitter or MySpace–on Ping, which will work only on the iTunes software on computers, iPhone...
09-02-10 -
Tim Bray on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Give Samsung credit: their debut Android tablet is not a clone of the iPad. Smaller and lighter, if it has an advantage, it’s that you can hold it in one hand for reading. Bray has links to coverage elsewhere, too.  ★&nb...
09-02-10 -
[Sponsor] Felt Tip Inc.
Summer’s almost over and you want to get in shape and shed those extra pounds. I’m Lucius Kwok, and my company Felt Tip Inc has some great iOS apps for that. Couch to 5k gets your butt off your couch and running a 5k, using a t...
09-02-10 -
Skype Mobile for Android Now Works Over WiFi, But Still Verizon-Only
Android is open, but more open on Verizon.  ★ 
09-01-10 -
Put Up or Shut Up
Roger Ebert: Our political immune system has only one antibody, and that is the truth.  ★ 
09-01-10 -
Roku vs. Apple TV
If you’re mainly interested in Netflix streaming, I can’t see buying one of these over an Apple TV. Am I missing something? Roku does have other content, like, for example, MLB.tv. And the Apple TV doesn’t have an AP...
09-01-10 -
The Talk Show #6: Todays Apple Event
Recorded this afternoon, soon after the end of today’s Apple event, Dan Benjamin and I discuss each of the big announcements. Lots to talk about. This episode was sponsored by Instapaper. If you’re not using Instapaper, shame ...
09-01-10 -
Free Demo Version of Epic Citadel
This is the game Epic demoed during today’s event. Impressive as hell.  ★ 
09-01-10 -
New iPod Touch Tech Specs
From Apple’s tech specs for the cameras: Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio; still photos (960 × 720) with back camera. So it’s not the same camera as the iPhone 4. It does do still photos...
09-01-10 -
Claim Chowder: Engadget and iTV
Josh Topolsky, three weeks ago: Oh, and there’s one more thing — Apple will be officially changing the name of the device to iTV, abandoning the current moniker in favor of something a little more in line with its cur...
09-01-10 -
An iPhone App Developers Diary
Joshua Benton, on developing the Nieman Journalism Lab’s free iPhone app using TapLynx.  ★ 
09-01-10 -
Stay 1.0
Clever $15 utility for Mac OS X from Cordless Dog: If you’re fastidious about keeping your windows tidy, Stay is for you. Stay ensures that your windows are always where you want them to be, even as you connect and disconnect displays. ...
09-01-10 -
Arnold Kim on Workarounds for Watching Apples Live Video Stream
Arnold Kim: For non-supported readers who are desperate to watch the stream close to live, it seems likely that you will be able to watch it — at least in stops and starts. The HTTP Live Stream protocol is based on very standard tech...
09-01-10 -
The Wilderness Downtown
Technically fascinating, emotionally moving interactive “video” by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire’s new single, “We Used to Wait”. All HTML5, not a lick of Flash; try it in Chrome or Safari 5. Nice wri...
09-01-10 -
HTTP Live Streaming Spec at IETF
There are some raised eyebrows today regarding Apple’s claim that their live streaming for today’s event is “based on open standards”, but only available for Mac OS X 10.6 and iOS users. It’s a dam...
09-01-10 -
Worth Watching Again: Kevin Tofels Demo of Flash on a Nexus One
Same video I linked to from Ian Betteridge yesterday, but, watching it again today, what I notice isn’t just the appalling video frame rate (“seconds per frame, not frames per second”, as Tofel says), but also how dra...
09-01-10 -
Back When Apple Previously Streamed Video From an Announcement
July 2002: Approximately 50,000 people used QuickTime® to watch Apple’s July 17 live webcast of Steve Jobs’ Macworld New York 2002 keynote, which was simulcast in both QuickTime 5 and QuickTime 6. Going to be a lot more than 50,000 ...
08-31-10 -
Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of Tomorrows Event
How many years has it been since Apple has tried this? If it holds up — a big “if”, considering Apple’s previous live-streaming efforts — there goes the live-blogging racket.  ★&nb...
08-31-10 -
Bloomberg: New Apple TV Tomorrow
Ronald Grover and Peter Burrows, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc., preparing to announce a new set-top box that delivers TV to consumers, will include movies from Netflix Inc., according to three people with knowledge of the plans. But is...
08-31-10 -
Just How Bad Is Flash on Android?
Ian Betteridge: What does this demonstrate? Simply that the idea that Apple could simply magically put Flash on the iPad (which runs a processor in the same class as the Nexus One) is fantasy. Ignoring the broader reasons for Apple wanting to ...
08-31-10 -
Pointing at the TV
Hans Gerwitz on the tricky user-interaction problems posed by an iOS-based Apple TV.  ★ 
08-31-10 -
Put This On, Episode 3: Work
Best episode yet. More “Nerd Boyfriend” segments, please.  ★ 
08-31-10 -
NYT: Army Revises Training to Deal With Unfit Recruits
“Oh that’s right, Private Pyle, don’t make any fucking effort to get to the top of the fucking obstacle. If God would have wanted you up there he would have miracled your ass up there by now, wouldn’t he?&am...
08-31-10 -
Martin Scorsese Attends Free iMovie Demonstration at Apple Store
With most Onion stories, 90 percent of the joke is in the headline. With this one, it’s in the photo.  ★ 
08-31-10 -
Palm Previews WebOS 2.0 Details
Looks like some great improvements. The “Just Type” feature sounds like LaunchBar or Quicksilver.  ★ 
08-31-10 -
AutoCAD Returns to the Mac, Along With iOS Viewer Apps
Everything is coming up Milhouse.  ★ 
08-31-10 -
Getting There From Here, Where by There I Mean a Web Where Flash Is Not a De Facto Standard Technology
Mike Matas yesterday, on Twitter, responding to my piece on Apple/Adobe and Flash: I know who IS losing in the battle between Apple and Adobe over Flash. iPad owners. Dave Winer expresses a similar sentiment here. But how else could it be...
08-31-10 -
Intel Buys Infineons Wireless Unit
The future is mobile.  ★ 
08-31-10 -
Oxford English Dictionary Will Not Be Printed Again
Alastair Jamieson, reporting for The Telegraph: Simon Winchester, author of ‘The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary’, said the switch towards online formats was “prescient”. He said: “Until six months...
08-31-10 -
The Oatmeal: This Is How I Feel About Buying Apps
A classic.  ★ 
08-30-10 -
Last Call on DF T-Shirts
Tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon, I’m going to pull the plug on this round of new t-shirts. Order now if you want one, because we’re only going to print as many shirts as there are orders. This is your last chance to order a DF t-s...
08-30-10 -
How to Judge the Battle Between Apple and Adobe Regarding Flash
Dave Winer argues that the absence of Flash on the iPad “isn’t working”: I see new Flash content several times every day when I catch up on the news with my iPad. This isn’t stuff that’s goin...
08-20-10 -
Creep Executive Officer
In a weekend WSJ interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt said: “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. [&#8230...
08-12-10 -
January Jones
Regarding the idea that Apple may be preparing to launch a CDMA iPhone 4 on Verizon in January, DF reader email suggests there are two aspects to the story that lead to skepticism. First, the timing. Why launch in January? Second: the network tech...
08-11-10 -
N92
Let’s concede for the moment that Amy Thomson’s report for Bloomberg back on June 29 is correct, and that Verizon is going to start selling iPhones in January 2011. Let’s further say that this first Verizon iPhone wil...
08-08-10 -
Papermaster and That Damn Antenna
I don’t know much more than what I wrote yesterday regarding Mark Papermaster’s ouster from Apple in the wake of Antennagate. I do have a few points to add, though. Several readers asked whether this is proof that the iPhone 4...

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