Back in January, I
argued that AppStores are not necessary as mobile economics mature and start
to mimic web economics. Why do I need to download Skype from the AppStore when
I can just go to Skype.com and do the same?
3 replies - 4162 views - 09/06/11 by Stephen Forte in News
Today, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple.
0 replies - 3169 views - 08/25/11 by David Gageot in News
While Apple's stock dropped 7% overnight with the announcement of Steve Jobs' departure from the CEO position, Apple's corporate culture and direction certainly won't change overnight. In fact, you may have noticed that Tim Cook has been in the CEO position...
0 replies - 3830 views - 08/25/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Breaking news on Wednesday evening as a press release has hit the wires containing an official letter of resignation from Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple. In his own words, here was what he had to say:I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no...
0 replies - 13707 views - 08/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Yesterday, Apple won two preliminary patents against HTC, which could be a huge blow to both Google and HTC products and could mean a ban on HTC and potentially other Android smartphones. Today, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced their support...
0 replies - 16249 views - 07/19/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
The first release candidate for version 4.7 of the KDE Software Complilation has been announced, which is a development version of the next major release of the Unix and Linux desktop manager. The new version will feature support for OpenGL-ES 2.0, and...
0 replies - 12746 views - 06/27/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Less than a week after Apple introduced the iCloud service at the WWDC, Arizona-based iCloud Communications filed a trademark infringement suit against them. iCloud Communications has been involved in "computer and electronic data transmission"...
0 replies - 8907 views - 06/12/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
The week begins with big news out of the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, where Apple made three major announcements. - The iCloud will provide up to 5GB of free storage for apps, documents, music, books, videos, contacts and calendars. It...
0 replies - 12271 views - 06/06/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
This afternoon, the Java FX 2.0 release was made available in public beta format, signifying another big step in Oracle's plan to make JavaFX a premier rich client platform.
0 replies - 24200 views - 05/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features. The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot. A NetBeans 7.0.1 release in October will feature the final version of JDK 7. Even developers who...
2 replies - 25503 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
The much-anticipated release of the iPad 2 revealed a host of upgrades. Apple's iPad 2 includes a lot of the big, expected new features like a dual-core 1GHz A5 processor and cameras on the front and back. FaceTime video conferencing and VGA resolution...
0 replies - 17878 views - 03/03/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Let’s start this year with an adaptation of the lyrics to Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero.
Out of the OS domination, out from the wreckage
Can’t make the same mistake this time
We are the children, the last generation
We are the ones they...
0 replies - 3023 views - 01/12/11 by Robert Nyman in News
A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and online schema changes. Secondary indexes allow the querying of data through node-local storage on the...
0 replies - 14253 views - 01/11/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
According to an unnamed source, Apple could be planning to release three different versions of the iPad 2 next year: Wi-Fi only, UMTS + Wi-Fi, and CDMA. The source was cited by DigiTimes, and also mentioned that Apple may be working on some anti-smudging...
0 replies - 22970 views - 12/30/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Affected customers have just sued Apple and other iOS app makers including Pandora and Dictionary.com for allegedly letting advertisers create iOS user profiles without customer knowledge or consent. These profiles included location information according to...
0 replies - 19515 views - 12/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
