TNW:
Benioff liked the name so much that he trademarked the term and bought the domain. It was only when Apple (and Jobs) introduced the App Store on the iPhone that the Salesforce chief decided he needed to something about the term and the domain, now that the Cupertino-based company was using it.
He gave the trademark and domain to Jobs as a thank you. That’s how much Jobs meant to the industry.
If you’re looking for a Digital Audio Workstation, this might be a good time to look at Pro Tools 9. (more…)
…rather than producing thick periodicals the size of the Yellow Pages, the Bucs have downloaded their playbooks on iPad 2s and distributed them to each of their 90 players.What’s more, players can use the tablet computer to reference video files of games, and practice and situational videos of any NFL team.
First iPads were used instead of flight manuals for commercial pilots. Now they’re being used for NFL playbooks. Is there any question that the iPad is more than a fad? This device is changing the world.
Localytics reports that iPad users spend a great deal of time reading news on their devices – more than twice the average length of time than other apps. Music, health and reference apps followed. (more…)
Cook concluded his remarks by assuring investors the release of upcoming Apple products such as the iPhone 5 would be postponed for at least four years so the company could throw all its time and resources into the creation of high-quality printers for the home and office.
Thanks to humor and satire site The Onion for injecting some much-needed hilarity into today’s Apple news.
(An e-mail purportedly sent by Tim Cook to Apple employees)I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change. I cherish and celebrate Apple’s unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that—it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.
Reassuring words, not only to Apple employees but to everyone who uses and depends on Apple products.
[via Daring Fireball]
In the last 12 hours I have been called by everyone from friends to MSNBC wondering what I thought of Steve Jobs’s resignation from Apple. I’ve read thousands of words that have been written about him, and realized that my thoughts are much shorter. This is what I would say to Steve:
Thanks for all of your hard work and products that have changed my life. Thanks for changing the world. Here’s to a long reign as Chairman of Apple’s board.
Cheers Steve.
Jim
Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.
Indeed.
WSJ:
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” [The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]
There are so many good ones in there.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent.
They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
In a letter addressed to Apple’s Board of Directors and the Apple Community, Steve Jobs explained his decision to step down as CEO. (more…)
Apple’s Board of Directors on Wednesday announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO. The board has named Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the new CEO. (more…)
If you purchase your copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution at a retail store, you’re supposed to receive a code that allows you to play the game for free using the online gaming service OnLive. It’s a neat giveaway, and it certainly gives gamers an incentive to try the service, but a leaked memo seems to show GameStop’s fear of digital delivery: employees are allegedly being asked to open every game and remove the coupon.
For the uninitiated, OnLive is a cloud-based game service that lets you play PC games on your Mac, PC or on a TV (using a hardware device). GameStop says the coupons for OnLive were slipped into the shipping boxes without its consent. So I guess that makes it all right for them to remove the coupons without your consent.
Screw those guys. If you were planning to buy Deus Ex for your Windows gaming rig or for a Windows partition on your Mac, do it from someone besides GameStop.
Apple is the top US retailer, at least in terms of sales per square foot, a RetailSails analysis indicates. The firm recently surveyed the last four quarters of over 160 retailers, and remarks that Apple’s sales were about $5,626 per square foot, up 49.1 percent year-over-year. The figures are based on global results, not just those from US stores, RetailSails points out.
The closest one to Apple was Tiffany at $2,974 per square foot.
Apple on Wednesday posted iMac graphic firmware update 3.0, available for download on its Web site. (more…)
Even if preliminary, the detailed decision handed today contains some interesting information, some of which is also relevant to some other lawsuits, such as Apple’s disputes with Motorola and HTC. In the United States, Apple asserts its slide-to-unlock patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,657,849) against those companies. Apple is suing HTC over it in Delaware, and Motorola in Southern Florida. The Dutch judge who wrote today’s decision declared the European counterpart of that patent (EP20080903) obvious (as compared to prior art presented by Samsung) and, therefore, invalid. An invalid patent cannot be infringed, which is why the Dutch decision doesn’t even address the infringement question.
The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that Google has agreed to forfeit $500 million in online ad revenue generated through AdWords advertisements for online Canadian pharmacies. (more…)
It’s not restricted to Sony Ericsson handsets, either. HTC’s often held up as the paragon of Android quality — alongside Samsung — but my own Desire HD is riddled with stuff that I simply don’t want: 3Mobile-TV, 3Musik and Planet3 were all installed alongside third-party apps such as Amazon MP3, Bebo, Bejeweled Deluxe and a demo of EA’s Sims 3.Who’s responsible? Networks, largely, which receive clean handsets and then load them up with rubbish after signing deals with numerous partners. And it’s not like you can just get rid of this software, either — most of it’s there to stay, with hard-coded blocks in place to ensure you don’t uninstall any of the tat you don’t want.
Mike Jennings goes on for a while, but finishes with:
… after all, this sort of thing doesn’t happen on iOS.
Yep.
The Rechtbank ‘s-Gravenhage (a Dutch court in the city of The Hague) today issued a formally Europe-wide preliminary injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones — but not the Galaxy tablets — at Apple’s request. The decision follows a hearing held on August 10 and 11, 2011.
The injunction applies to European countries which recognize a particular software patent. FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller says 14 countries don’t, including Austria, Belgium, Iceland Portugal, and Spain.
Asian suppliers have begun making a lower-cost version of the hot-selling smartphone with a smaller 8-gigabyte flash drive that will arrive around the same time Apple unveils its much-anticipated iPhone 5, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Apple’s COO Tim Cook already said that the company is exploring all possibilities and all markets for the iPhone. Makes sense that Apple would start taking on Nokia in this segment.
Android is being slammed by malware, according to a new report released on Tuesday by Antivirus vendor McAfee. (more…)
I can’t wait to get my hands on a guitar product after a company says it’s perfect for live playing, studio tone, and is also an audio interface. No promise like that has ever come true, and it usually only takes an afternoon to pick out all the flaws in those promises. (more…)
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For $400, these look like very nice monitors.
United on Tuesday said it is converting its flight decks to be completely paperless and will deploy 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. (more…)
Something this good cannot be ignored.
Everyone knows Apple’s approach to their OS is proprietary. Even though Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 OS is freely licensable, it is fully controlled by Microsoft. And now that Google has bought Motorola, Android is looking more and more like it could become more tightly controlled as part of a vertically integrated offering. Unless HP quickly states that webOS will not only be licensable but also truly open (which I don’t think they will ever do), then I believe that there is serious room for a completely new mobile OS to emerge and especially give handset vendors targeting emerging markets an OS of their own to work with.
Not a lot of choices for handset makers that would allow them to compete with Apple.
Apple has released iTunes 10.4.1, an update that’s available for download through the Software Update system preference. (more…)
Looks like Microsoft’s Brandon Watson got more than he expected when he Tweeted about webOS devs switching to Windows Phone. In a follow up Tweet, he notes the overwhelming response:“…I have >500 emails in just the last 22 hours. Had to rethink the algorithm for responding to all.”
Brandon Watson is senior director of Windows Phone 7 development at Microsoft. He put the word out to published webOS developers shortly following HP’s decision to discontinue webOS hardware, offering webOS developers hardware and assistance if they wanted to switch to WP7 development instead. Good on Watson for recognizing an opportunity when he saw one.
Unity Technologies – maker of the Unity game development platform for iOS, Android, consoles and the Web – has announced details for Unite 11, this year’s gathering of Unity developers. The event is scheduled for September 28 – 30, 2011 at the Masonic Center in San Francisco, Calif. (more…)
Social networking is something most of us use to share ideas, media and to chat, but it’s not very private. Now you can setup and manage private groups with a new iOS app called Glassboard. (more…)