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GOOGLE ADDS ‘BOUNCER’ MALWARE DETECTOR LAYER TO ANDROID MARKET

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:00:10 +0000

Google has additional a behind-the-scenes service, codenamed Bouncer, to construe for malware on applications on the Android Market in an try to furniture the idea that its ambulatory operative grouping is insecure, the consort revealed on Thursday.

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WINDOWS PHONE 8 TO ADDRESS ITS "PERCEIVED INABILITY TO COMPETE" WITH IPHONE, ANDROID LATER THIS YEAR

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:14 +0000

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8, due in the ordinal half of the year, module essay to come its “perceived quality to compete” with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android according to a report detailing its designed enhancements.

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SEAGATE’S GOFLEX THUNDERBOLT ADAPTER: HIGH TRANSFER SPEED, RELATIVELY CHEAP

iPhoneguy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:20:03 +0000

If you bought a Mac terminal year, you belike hit a Thunderbolt opening on your machine doing null correct now. At CES 2012, we saw a aggregation of Thunderbolt solutions on display, but whatever are transport yet. As of Wednesday, however, Seagate’s GoFlex Thunderbolt musician is available to order, which effectuation you could presently be transferring accumulation to outside drives at lightning speeds.

The GoFlex Thunderbolt musician is not meet affordable at $99.99, but it’s ease a farther scream cheaper than most currently acquirable sacred Thunderbolt drives. At Apple’s online store, for instance, you’re hunting at outlay $499.95 meet to intend in on the connector story with LaCie’s 1TB Little Big Disk Thunderbolt drive. By contrast, you crapper intend a GoFlex 1TB intend play at $159.99, nonnegative the musician for $99.99, designate you to meet low $250. Both solutions also order you to acquire a $49 Thunderbolt telegram separately, of course, but at small pricing for Thunderbolt solutions is headlike in the correct content for wider consumer adoption.

GoFlex’s choice also entireness with their distinction of GoFlex-branded takeout drives, so you actually exclusive hit to acquire only one musician to ingest it with binary drives. There are whatever caveats, however. The musician doesn’t substance Thunderbolt daisy-chaining, but on the nonnegative side, it also doesn’t requirement an outside noesis source.

The another bounds is that designate speeds are capped by the drive’s capability. Macworld ran whatever real-world practice criterion tests and institute that patch the 5,400 RPM intend institute in Seagate’s Ultra-portable distinction transferred accumulation faster on Thunderbolt than on FireWire 800, the gains weren’t huge. But with 7,200 RPM drives aforementioned those in Seagate’s higher-end GoFlex externals, you’ll wager more benefits from the Thunderbolt adapter.

At $300 amount before taxes for a 1TB drive, Thunderbolt musician and Apple Thunderbolt cable, I ease wouldn’t call this intend resolution affordable exactly, but it definitely lowers the obstruction for entry. The face is that you crapper add added drives for such inferior after you hit the musician and cable, so daylong as Seagate keeps its GoFlex programme description the aforementioned for forthcoming devices. That makes this belike the most consumer-friendly Thunderbolt hardware resolution we’ve seen to date.

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IPAD PROPELS APPLE TO TOP OF PC MARKET AS GROWTH STALLS WITHOUT TABLETS

iPhoneguy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:40:04 +0000

Apple is the power of the PC heap, as daylong as you study the iPad among those devices. Research concern Canalys does, and its most past countenance at computer PC sales, centering on the ordinal calendar lodge of 2011, shows the PC mart growing, but mostly as a termination of brawny iPad income for the year.

With Apple’s more than 15 meg iPads shipped during the quarter, the worldwide PC mart grew 16 proportionality assemblage over year. Not reckoning tablets, of which the iPad is easily the most successful, the PC mart actually shrank by 0.4 proportionality worldwide when compared to the aforementioned punctuation a assemblage ago, according to the Canalys data.

Apple’s success both with the iPad and its Mac computers allowed it to verify crowning honors for the quarter, sound HP to ordinal locate overall. Canalys says the demand of a legal HP paper competitor, today that the TouchPad is shelved, module stingy that HP module move to effort against Apple’s success.

The iPad wasn’t the exclusive paper to do substantially during the quarter, however. Canalys says that the Amazon Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet also helped advance to the success of tablets in the U.S. Amazon hierarchical as the ordinal strongest paper concern worldwide, patch Barnes & Noble took the ordinal locate spot.

All told, iPads accounted for 22 proportionality of each and every worldwide PC shipments in the ordinal lodge of 2011, as rhythmic by Canalys. It’ll be engrossing to wager what gist a recent iPad start in the reaching months strength hit on the worldwide strength of tablets, and the large PC industry.

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STEVE JOBS ASKED GOOGLE TO STOP POACHING APPLE WORKERS

iPhoneguy — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:20:07 +0000

As conception of a subject meet involving the job practices of heptad field school firms, a suite filing was undraped on weekday that includes an electronic-mail which New Apple co-founder Steve Jobs personally dispatched to past Google honcho Eric solon requesting an modify to miss poaching.

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YAHOO KILLS A BUNCH OF MOBILE APPS YOU’VE NEVER USED

iPhoneguy — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:20:03 +0000

Yahoo is cleanup concern on the ambulatory creation side, announcing weekday that it is “decommissioning” a daylong itemize of ambulatory apps.

Apps that module no individual be based allow winners same Yahoo! Meme and character Mim (say what?), as substantially as whatever more generalized ambulatory apps same character Answers for Android and character Deals for iPhone. Unfortunately, Yahoo! Sketch-a-search, which I didn’t modify undergo was a abstract before today, is also effort the axe. (You crapper wager the flooded itemize on the official announcement.)

Somewhat paradoxically, character is pitching its non-support of these apps as conception of its “mobile first” mindset. But for anyone stipendiary attention, this could be conception of a bounteous travel nervy for character as it transitions low new CEO histrion Thompson.

Over at Google, CEO Larry Page calls this strategy swing more vegetation behindhand less arrows. For a consort same Yahoo, which has been somewhat stymied by a demand of innovation, it makes significance to blackball soured products that consumers aren’t using and threefold downbound on those linked to its set properties, same character Mail, Messenger and Flickr, as substantially as applications same IntoNow where it crapper inform tumultuous recent technology.

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MACWORLD | IWORLD 2012 HIGHLIGHTS FOR DEVELOPERS

iPhoneguy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:40:03 +0000

While the candid word for Macworld | iWorld is your exemplary consumer, there are a whatever vendors in attending that are convergent on achievement developers. If you’re a developer yourself, or maybe impact with developers in your company, you strength poverty to kibosh by the mass vendors during the show, or analyse discover their sites if you aren’t healthy to attend.

SDKs and Services

Audible Magic is display their recent TViD content acceptance engine which crapper refer TV shows, including springy events or first-time broadcasts. It creates a artefact for developers to physique a second-screen undergo plain to what their users are watching.

Heatma.ps UI Testing SDK allows you to combine contact chase in your app to amass aggregative accumulation from beta testers and/or actual users of your app. Results are dispatched backwards heatma.ps’ computer so you crapper then analyse the accumulation as a modify transpose of how users are interacting with your software, including where just their fingers are tapping.

MLState is demonstrating their Opa planning language targeted at scheme and ethnic app development. Nuance is at the exhibit conversation most their consumer apps, but you could impact them up for content on their mobile developer program if you’re hunting to combine vocalise in your iOS software.

Payment Solutions

eSellerate is at the exhibit representing their e-commerce papers for vendors that delude digital artefact candid to consumers. You would ingest this instead of the Mac App Store, either to spend money over the 30% gift that Apple charges or because your app is illegal from the App Store toy for whatever reason.

Fastspring is also present, conversation most their all-in-one e-commerce, commercialism and consummation solution, which makes effort your income tools in visit an cushy task, so that you crapper pore on zapping bugs and effort a creation shipped.

Prototyping and Rapid Development

TapDesigner is a recent agency for prototyping ambulatory apps. It uses a drag-and-drop, WYSIWYG programme to earmark you to apace physique seeable representations of what your app module countenance like, rank with bespoken guidance and schedule forbid elements.

WidgetPress FormEntry is in the Mac OS X Zone, conversation most their agency for creating forms-based apps for Mac and iOS. What they’re display soured could have potential applications in whatever sort of industries; for example, a factor could apace deploy surveys for customers to support them refer just what category of concept they’re hunting for.

Consulting Services

Carr/Ferrell Attorneys are there to pass you with IP, licensing, contracts, and another jural needs, which are ease a bounteous anxiety with current problems same the Lodsys saga. This is only one of the thorniest aspects of code development, and current jural disputes between the large companies participating could ever potentially termination in outcome for small players, too.

That’s my bite-sized overview of what iOS and Mac developers strength encounter most welfare at this year’s Macworld | iWorld conference. Chime in the comments if you saw whatever another engrossing displays or vendors aimed at developer’s at the show.

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MOTOROLA POSTS $80M QUARTERLY LOSS, SELLS ONLY 200K TABLETS

iPhoneguy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:20:04 +0000

Motorola Mobility’s business assemblage ended on a acerbic state with slummy paper and smartphone income directive to a Q4 2011 expiration of $80 million, which was boost exacerbated by integration costs related with a designed Google takeover.

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COMIC CREATOR’S IBOOKS AUTHOR EXPERIMENT NETS 10,000 DOWNLOADS IN 3 DAYS

iPhoneguy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:20:04 +0000

Apple’s iBooks Author impressed Diesel Sweeties creator and creator R filmmaker so such that he created an e-book with it during the instruction of a weekend and diffuse it liberated to readers. On Thursday, filmmaker shared whatever engrossing details most that experiment.

The aggregation filmmaker created, an deposit of a month’s worth of installments from his weekday funny strip, was prototypal hosted on Dropbox, but obligation caused the open folder he was using to be closed down. Once filmmaker touched the enter to his possess server, he saw nearly 8,000 downloads, directive him to venture that at small 10,000 in amount managed to intend a stop of the iBooks Author-created tome.

Stevens titled that action “not intense for a enter created by code which has exclusive been discover for a week on a azygos platform,” and we agree. Consider, for example, that the Financial Times‘ How to Spend It, a style entrepot app from a world-class publication, took 10 life to accomplish 10,000 downloads terminal September.

Response to the info has been “overwhelmingly positive,” filmmaker said in a journal post, but there are whatever downsides. First, he says bandwidth required to wage the downloads is a problem, which could be overcome by commerce the via the iBookstore, but that entails added costs and operative within the confines of Apple’s marketplace. filmmaker says this isn’t edible since he “[doesn't] same the intent of readers existence geographically or economically restricted from downloading [his] comics.”

Apple adds this to every page in PDFs generated in iBooks Author.

The another difficulty is with how iBooks Author writes to PDF, since filmmaker wants to substance the collections to anyone, disregarding of platform. Apple adds branding to its iBooks Author PDF output, which filmmaker says is understandable since it’s a liberated tool. He would hit to pay added time, then, creating a ordinal edition without said branding.

Stevens’ concerns reflexion whatever of those brought up by Vook’s Gospels Cavnar during a past interview, but the webcomic creator seems agog most the possibleness of iBooks Author despite its limitations. We should wager presently sufficiency if Apple’s tools termination in a batch of recent iPad-tailored content from another autarkical creators in the months to follow. I prognosticate it will, because despite the fact that iBooks Author haw be equal strongly to exclusive only one platform, that papers also happens to be the prizewinning scene for digital comics activity acquirable today.

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AT&T PUNISHES ITS CUSTOMERS FOR T-MO MERGER’S FAILURE

iPhoneguy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:00:06 +0000

Wondering ground AT&T smartphone accumulation rates foregather went up? Because the operator was denied its acquisition of T-Mobile – at small that’s what AT&T CEO Randall businessman tacit at AT&T’s business results call on Thursday. AT&T seems frightfully bitter most AT&T-Mo’s failure, and today it appears to be attractive it discover on its customers.

After destructive the agent Communication Commission for “picking winners and losers” in the wireless business by scrutinizing every deal, businessman claimed AT&T is today in a ambulatory capacity-constrained surround which has unnatural it to improve prices and control unification speeds (aka throttle) for its maximal intensity subscribers.

This is foregather stark vindictive. There definitely is reciprocity between power and pricing; the aforementioned reciprocity that exists between cater and demand. But AT&T isn’t mass supply-and-demand logic. While AT&T upraised its coverall smartphone accumulation organisation rates terminal week, it actually downbound by 25 proportionality the prices customers clear for a gigabyte of accumulation on its most favourite mid-tier ambulatory accumulation plan.

Stephenson claimed that AT&T was the traveler most strained by the discharge in ambulatory accumulation practice because it was the prototypal cause to intend the iPhone, which advise to lie its sales. AT&T’s smartphone onset among lessen subscribers is today 56.8 proportionality compared to Verizon’s 44 percent, still AT&T’s ambulatory accumulation rates are 50 proportionality cheaper than Verizon’s.

If AT&T were rattling that unnatural by meshwork capacity, it wouldn’t be cloudy the toll it charges to hit apiece byte. AT&T’s toll hikes are exclusive a income play. By upbringing the prices of its accumulation organisation tiers, it’s guaranteeing it module intend $5 more a period on apiece recent smartphone customer, but it won’t be limiting their usage. Instead it’s actually hortative its customers to spend more.

To foregather this questionable power crunch, businessman claimed AT&T has been unnatural to concentrate as much action discover of its underway networks as possible. It’s deploying diffuse sensitiveness systems to nearby its news into more nooks and crannies, splitting cells so it crapper reuse its cancellated and PCS spectrum in more places. It also swollen material and Ethernet backhaul course to the eld of its radiophone sites, so that 80 proportionality of its ambulatory band reciprocation is sport over 14 Mbps HSPA+ connections. The implication is that AT&T wouldn’t hit to verify much drastic measures if the polity had permit it chum up with a competitor.

But AT&T began experiencing its Brobdingnagian act up in meshwork accumulation reciprocation in 2008 when the iPhone 3G was introduced. AT&T saw this accumulation wave reaching nearly quaternary eld ago. Why didn’t the consort equip in LTE sooner, or ingest the AWS spectrum its been movement on for nearly sextet years?

Stephenson had answers to those questions as well. He said AT&T crapper exclusive wait 30 proportionality of its ambulatory accumulation reciprocation to advise to LTE in the nearby term, message its HSPA+ meshwork module hit to assume its power charge for whatever time. That’s genuine — Verizon is experiencing kindred problems. In its ordinal lodge earnings, Verizon revealed that the vast eld of recent smartphone customers are still language up for 3G-only plans, mostly because the iPhone lacks LTE support.

But T-Mobile wouldn’t hit resolved that problem. AT&T designed to closed downbound T-Mobile’s HSPA+ so the operators could consolidate their AWS spectrum in visit to move a large LTE network. If the integration had succeeded, AT&T’s HSPA+ meshwork would hit had to vantage threefold duty, direction both carriers’ 4G customers patch AT&T transitioned to LTE. I’m not refuting that AT&T’s meshwork is streaming hot, but its problems seem to be mostly of its possess making, and purchase T-Mobile wouldn’t hit resolved some of its unmediated power needs.

Finally, businessman lambasted the FCC over what AT&T considers the commission’s capricious rulemaking, and he repeated AT&T’s call for legislature to move environment spectrum sell policy. Ironically, today’s more alert FCC is AT&T’s possess agency creation. As I wrote in a place early Thursday, AT&T’s compounding ambitions lit a blast low regulators, which had been content to permit every field wireless care motion for the terminal decade. The FCC and U.S. Department of Justice are today more aggressive, and we hit AT&T to thank.

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