by Jason Wilk on February 5, 2009
- In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius’ today whether or not anyone noticed the change, they all said that Facebook stopped working sometime in the past week. One of the genius’ said “Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most popular time-killer [Facebook] of them all on the banned-list will certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers”.
- As you may have heard, MySpace was banned in May of 2007 from all Apple Stores. When asked why, Apple said “Nearly 2 million people visit Apple Stores every week. We want to provide everyone a chance to test-drive a Mac, so we are no longer offering access to MySpace in our stores.” Apple Stores, which now total 251 worldwide, see an average of 15,744 visitors weekly per store (Q4, 2008). So, currently about 16 million people per month are now denied the right to jump on for a minute (or an hour) to update their status or do their daily stalking. It will be interesting if Facebook will see a slight dip in traffic this month due to the change.
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by Jason Wilk on February 3, 2009
- Motorola in its earnings call today said it is going to shift away from Windows 7 as its primary operating system used on it’s next generation of devices. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha said that they will be focusing on Android in the coming year. Why you ask? Because he said it’s better. Jha said it will wait for Microsoft to finish WinMo 7 before making any rash decisions to cut them out completely, but for the time being, change is desperately needed on the homefront for Motorola. Jha also said that Android is a smoother consumer experience and with the recent rise in third-party applications taking over the deck, an open platform for developers is they key ingredient to success (see: Apple).
- Motorola doesn’t have any time to waste. The company today posted a $3.6 billion loss in the fourth quarter, suspended its dividend and projected further losses in the first three months of 2009. Even worse, the days of the RAZR are long behind. Last year Motorola shipped about 19.2 million devices in the fourth quarter, compared with about 41 million in the year-ago period. Maybe that touch screen Krave wasn’t such a hot follow up idea after all. Image: AllthingsD
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by Jason Wilk on February 3, 2009
- Above is an image of what the Apple tablet is going to look like. It has been widely rumored that Apple would move to an entirely touch screen notebook experience, and the confirmation of their patent today confirms those claims. What’s even more interesting is that in the last few months, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, decided to join the board of a company called Axiotron that makes the award-winning ModBook. You guessed it, the ModBook is a custom MacBook that has been entirely repurposed to become a touch screen tablet. Currently they run at an extremelly high rate of $4,998. Funny enough, the latest edition (and best yet) will be availabe in May/June, right around the same time as the next Mac keynote. Coincidence or is the next Axiotron ModBook going to be coming out of Cupertino? Many think Wozniak joined their board to oversee the operation and technology behind creating a seamless tablet computer. I’d sday it’s more than coincidence and the next keynote will be seeing the debut of the next generation of mobile computing. Here is a clip from the patent claim by Gizmodo.
[0015]As a housing for a computer device, one embodiment of the invention includes: a front shell; a back shell coupled to said front shell to produce said housing, electrical components for the computer device being internal to said housing; and a foam stiffener provided internal to said housing to substantially fill unused space internal to said housing, thereby providing stiffness to said housing.
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by David Heyerman on January 31, 2009
- Adobe chief, Shantanu Narayen told Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that Adobe is now working on a “two-way process” with Apple to develop Flash for the iPhone.
- Beforehand, Adobe was said to be develping the animation plug-in solely, but now, with Apple’s support, Flash should be closer than we once expected.
- “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
- No word on when it’ll drop, but exciting, nonetheless.
Photo: Engadget
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