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Saturday 28 January 2012

Bill Gates reveals how Steve Jobs inspired him

Bill Gates has been inspired to push on with his philanthropic work after the death of Steve Jobs reminded him that we only have “limited time” on earth.
Gates spoke to Nightline in a televised interview about his relationship with Jobs and how the Apple co-founder’s death affected him.

Analyst: Apple breaks Microsoft's 'lock' on enterprise

The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today.
The result: An end to Microsoft’s long-running monopoly in the enterprise.

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Impact of Thailand floods continues to bite tech industry

Nvidia lowered its revenue forecast Tuesday for the quarter ending Jan. 29, citing the impact of the hard disk drive (HDD) shortage caused by the Thailand floods on its mainstream GPU business.
Competitors Intel and Advanced Micro Devices also reported that they were affected by the floods, as HDD manufacturers like Western Digital start to bring their operations back to normal in Thailand.

This is Tim: Apple's CEO in his own words

Read an edited transcript of Apple's CEO Tim Cook as he speaks to analysts regarding Apple's recent quarterly results.

Apple reports record revenue, profit for fiscal first quarter

Record-breaking iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales rang in a stellar start to the 2012 fiscal year for Apple. The company said on Tuesday that it tallied $46.33 billion in sales and $13.06 billion in profit for the fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 31.

Thursday 19 January 2012

Hands on: iBooks Author effortless to use, but iPad-only

At Thursday’s education event, Apple put glee into the heart of every ebook publisher when it unveiled iBooks Author, the company’s new ebook authoring tool. Between the WYSIWYG editing, Pages and Word import, and the free price tag, the app sounded too good to be true. While Apple showcased iBooks Author as part of its push to get more iPad-friendly textbooks onto its iBookstore, this ebook creator can be used by any publisher—Apple’s Phil Schiller specifically mentioned cookbooks and travel books among other publications when touting the app.

Apple unveils iTunes U app

At the Apple education event on Thursday, Apple executives Eddy Cue and Jeff Robbin unveiled the iTunes U app, a new way for students and teachers to manage course material for classes on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

iBooks Author offers free e-textbook creation

Apple on Thursday launched iBooks Author, a free Mac app designed to let authors and publishers easily create multimedia-rich e-textbooks for the company's updated iBooks 2 app for the iPad.

Apple releases iBooks 2 with support for interactive textbooks

At Thursday’s education-themed Apple event at the Guggenheim museum, Apple executives Phil Schiller and Roger Rosen were on hand to introduce iBooks 2, which heads the first of two education initiatives unveiled by the company.
Before introducing the app, which is now available from the iOS App Store, Schiller outlined the problems with modern textbooks: They aren’t portable, durable, interactive, searchable, or updatable. In his words, “The iPad stacks up better.”

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Mac Pro Build-to-Order Ship Dates Slip as Future Remains Uncertain

Just before Christmas, shipping estimates for Apple's 12-core Mac Pro model increased to 1-3 weeks, and while that specific model does tend to occasionally see some extra lead time, the shipping delays were later noticed to have extended to nearly any customised Mac Pro order. Even as simple a customization as increasing the RAM on an "In Stock" standard Mac Pro configuration increases its shipping estimate to 1-3 weeks.

Tuesday 17 January 2012

Leading ISPs, websites commit to June 6 start for IPv6

Several of the world’s largest ISPs and websites have committed to permanently enabling IPv6— the next-generation Internet Protocol—on their products and services starting June 6, 2012.

AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable were among seven global ISPs that have committed to this deadline, along with some of the world’s most popular websites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing.

Maker of Steve Jobs action figure halts project

The maker of a controversial Steve Jobs action figure is stopping production and sale of the 12-inch doll following threats of legal action by Apple and Jobs’ family. 

Though we still believe that we have not overstepped any legal boundaries, we have decided to completely stop the offer, production and sale of the Steve Jobs figurine out of our heartfelt sensitivity to the feelings of the Jobs family,” Tandy Cheung, the Hong Kong businessman whose company, In Icon, created the doll, says in a statement.

Monday 16 January 2012

Apple unveils supplier names with 2012 responsibility report

Apple says it stepped up environmental audits of suppliers and found significantly fewer cases of underage labor at its supplier plants last year. The findings were highlighted in Apple’s annual Supplier Responsibility report, which the company released Friday.

Adobe offers CS6 upgrade pricing for CS3, CS4 users

There’s some potentially good news on the horizon for creative professionals who’ve clung to the CS3 and CS4 versions of Adobe’s suite of photo-editing, illustration, and design applications, but who might want to upgrade to the company's forthcoming Creative Suite 6 (CS6) or subscribe to its new Creative Cloud. In a post on the company’s website, Adobe announced “special introductory upgrade pricing” for CS3 and CS4 owners who upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 6 software or to the subscription-based Adobe Creative Cloud.

Under the new plan, CS3 and CS4 owners will have until December 31, 2012 to take advantage of the offer.

Expect fewer phone models in 2012, executives say

Are there too many mobile phones to choose from? Phone makers are starting to worry that people are getting overwhelmed by so many options and, as a result, some plan to reduce the number of models they produce this year. Speaking at CES this week, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly said that the company plans to make fewer phone models in 2012, in part because the variety is confusing to some consumers.

Why 3D TV isn't 'cool' this year

The bloom is off 3D this year at CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show). It’s as if last year’s CES, where 3D TVs were all the rage, never happened. How did 3D—in one short year—go from darling to dud?

The answer is a combination of things such as a dearth of 3D content, a technology that has not evolved fast enough, and the arrival of more-compelling HDTV tech for TV makers to push over 3D.

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Apple announces Jan. 19 education event in NYC

It’s starting to seem like it wouldn’t be January without an Apple event, as the company announced on Wednesday morning that it will hold an education-related shindig in New York City next week. The fun starts on January 19, at 10 a.m. Eastern/7 a.m. Pacific.

Adobe launches Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta

Keeping its tradition of releasing a free public beta of its professional photo management software in advance of a major new version, Adobe has announced Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta. It’s now available for download on Adobe Labs. The company seeks feedback from the community on how to improve the program before the final release of version 4, which will be sometime in the early part of the year.

For Microsoft's last CES keynote, Ballmer hawks Windows 8, Kinect

Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect technology will be available for Windows PCs in a few weeks and is destined for a lot more than just gaming, CEO Steve Ballmer said at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas Monday.

Apple enterprise sales of Macs, iPads to jump 58 percent this year

Apple will sell an estimated $19 billion in Macs and iPads to enterprises in 2012, a 58 percent jump over the year before. That’s according to Andrew Bartels, an analyst with Forrester Research, who also says that in 2013, corporations will spend $28 billion on Apple computers and tablets.

Tuesday 10 January 2012

Report: Apple planning media-related event later this month

A new year means 365 new chances to speculate on what Apple might have up its sleeve. And two days into 2012, we already have a potential Apple event to talk about.
Before visions of a new iPad start dancing in your head, AllThingsD cautions that the event is unlikely to involve new hardware—no iPad 3 or the rumored Apple television set that Steve Jobs reportedly talked about with biographer Walter Isaacson. Instead, AllThingsD pegs the likely news as “some kind of advertising or even publishing announcement,” based on the New York setting and the likely involvement of Apple executive Eddy Cue. Recently promoted to senior vice president of Internet software and services, Cue oversees everything from iCloud to iAd to Apple’s assorted online retail outlets (the App Store, the iTunes Store, and iBookstore).The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD blog reported Monday that Apple is planning a media-related event for the end of January. The event would be held in New York City, says AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, citing “sources close to the situation.” The AllThingsD report was confirmed by The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple.

What to expect in 2012 technology

All of the technology products we use today—from touchscreens to tablets to social networks—were once the “next big thing in tech.” Experts predicted that each of these things would become a part of everyone’s tech life, before most of us had even heard of them.
No prediction of the future is perfect (not even if you’re Tom Cruise in Minority Report), but that isn’t going to stop us from making our predictions for the next big thing in tech.Of course, experts also predicted that Apple would go out of business before 1998.

Google downgrades Chrome ranking after paid-link monkey business

Google penalized its own browser’s search rankings Tuesday over a marketing campaign that went bad, the company confirmed.
The decision to demote Chrome’s PageRank—the rating Google assigns to sites based on how many other sites link to them—came after bloggers Aaron Wall of SEO Book and Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand revealed a marketing campaign that paid other bloggers to create generic posts which linked to a video touting Chrome to small businesses.“We’ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site’s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days,” a Google spokesman said yesterday in an email.

QuarkXPress 9.2 enhances ePub and iPad publishing

Quark has updated its QuarkXPress design software to version 9.2. Free to all QuarkXPress 9 customers, version 9.2 adds new ePub features, ePub 3 audio and video support, and more options for App Studio.

App Studio is a key component of QuarkXPress 9, offering designers a cost-effective way to create and publish enriched, interactive content to digital devices, such as the iPad. With QuarkXPress 9.2, App Studio templates support iOS 5 Newsstand and meet new Apple guidelines for iCloud storage.

CES: Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage

Goodbye Wi-Fi … at least as we’ve known Wi-Fi.
At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, next-generation radio chips will finally make real what most people have only imagined for the past three years: Wi-Fi connections that measure their data rates in gigabits per second.
And if you’re in Las Vegas at CES 2012, vendors will show next-generation Wi-Fi in two different frequencies: 5GHz, for what will eventually be the IEEE 802.11ac standard, and 60GHz, for what will eventually be 802.11ad. The former can reach data rates of 1.3 gigabits per second, the latter, up to 7Gbps.

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