The Acorn Archimedes is 25 years old this month. The first machines based on the company's ARM (Acorn Risc Machine) processor were announced in June 1987, the year after the 32-bit chip itself was launched.

Four versions of the Archimedes were released in 1987: the A305, A310, A410 and A440. The first two had 512KB and 1MB of memory, respectively. You could upgrade an A305 to an A310 simply by adding in the extra Ram.


Acorn's Archimedes 310
The A410 had 1MB of memory too, but the A440 had a (then) whopping 4MB and came with a 20MB hard drive as well as the 800KB 3.5in floppy drive – which also supported 640KB discs for BBC Master compatibility – found on the other three models.

Upgrading the A305 or A310 to A410 level was a matter of adding in a "Podule" backplane circuit board, which contained the hard drive controller. You also had to add, of course, the hard drive. There was room for two Podules on the A300 series.

Segall remembers Steve Jobs and Apple’s head of product design Jony (now Sir Jonathan) Ive as “inseparable”: “They were as close as lovers,” he recalled.
But, like all lovers, they had their tiffs.
Segall was shocked at one of these rare arguments between Steve and Jony – he even worried that Ive might quit Apple over the row.
After 1998’s Bondi Blue iMac Apple decided to push the boat out and release a whole rainbow of the coloured computers the next year. Many models in various hues were collected together for Jobs, Ive, Segall and a few others to select from.
But Ive was “driven crazy” by Steve’s choices, and eventually stormed out of the room to his holiday, shouting that Steve could choose any of the colours he liked but he was taking no more part in the discussion.
Eventually Apple chose Blueberry, Strawberry, Lime, Tangerine and Grape.

At first glance, you might mistake Clipboard, the impressively-backed web clipping service, for yet another Pinterest clone. But any similarities are only skin deep. Clipboard’s real rivals are things like Evernote’s web clipper, SpringPad, Delicious, Dropbox and Microsoft’s OneNote. That’s because, explains Clipboard CEO Gary Flake, Pinterest is about expressing an aspiration, but Clipboard is about getting things done.

For half a year, the company has been trucking along in a private, invite-only beta. But today, it’s open to all with a fresh redesign in tow and a new button for website owners.

Granted, there are several similarities between Pinterest and Clipboard. For starters, its collections are also called “boards.” And they’re laid out graphically, with a heavy emphasis on the image associated with the clipped content. But Clipboard isn’t just for clipping an inspiring or pretty picture – it can clip all kinds of stuff, including slideshows (like those from SlideShare), audio, a functioning web app (like an online calculator), an online game, and more. And the clips are functional, too. The calculator works, the games play, you can click the links in the copied text.

Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, dropped us a line about the systems in place to “hide” failed projects. He told us that Kickstarter does indeed hide many projects from search robots, but it’s for a good cause.
“The original poster was correct in noting that we don’t have a browse area for projects whose funding was unsuccessful,” he wrote. “This isn’t to ‘hide failure,’ as the original post said, it’s because it would be a poor user experience (there’s no action that anyone could take) and it would expose the creators of unsuccessfully funded projects to unnecessary criticism from the web (those projects would be prime for trolling).”
“Most unsuccessfully funded projects come up short because of a lack of interest in the project or because their creators didn’t promote it enough, not because of the Kickstarter page itself. Success on Kickstarter comes down to making a video, pricing things reasonably, and telling people about the project.”
In fact, project creators asked that Kickstarter projects be de-indexed for a reason: they ranked high in search results and, if Google crawled them, the resulting failures would percolate towards the top. “Because Kickstarter projects index very highly in search, creators were seeing their unsuccessfully funded projects ranking extremely high — in some cases as the #1 result — for their name. That obviously sucked, so we made the decision to de-index them.”

The company has added a FAQ to address the problem: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creators#AreProjThatWereNotSuccFundBrowOnKick

We already knew that Apple was pushing hard to have the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) select it’s nano-SIM card design over competitors such as Nokia and Motorola who proposed its own form factor. While it was already rumored that Apple had support from the majority of European operators, today the ETSI confirmed that it has selected a form factor for the new 4FF SIM Card:

The fourth form factor (4FF) card will be 40% smaller than the current smallest SIM card design, at 12.3mm wide by 8.8mm high, and 0.67mm thick. It can be packaged and distributed in a way that is backwards compatible with existing SIM card designs. The new design will offer the same functionality as all current SIM cards.

While the announcement from the ESTI doesn’t flat out confirm Apple’s design was chosen, thanks to a little bit of investigative work courtesy of The Verge, we are able to confirm that the new form factor does indeed match up nicely with measurements of Apple’s proposed design. We’ll have to wait for more official info on the new standard from ESTI before we know for sure that Apple’s design was selected.

Dall'autore di Mafalda un volume di vignette e brevi storie che mette alla berlina cattiverie e ipocrisie dell'umanità.

Potenziata nelle funzioni e nell'estetica, l'app mobile ufficiale è il migliore strumento per utilizzare in mobilità il social network di Google.

Even before its cancellation, HyperCard's inventor saw the end coming. In an angst-filled 2002 interview, Bill Atkinson confessed to his Big Mistake. If only he had figured out that stacks could be linked through cyberspace, and not just installed on a particular desktop, things would have been different.

"I missed the mark with HyperCard," Atkinson lamented. "I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser."

Builds since July 2011

Inkling, the San Francisco-based startup that’s known for making super slick interactive digital versions of college textbooks and other educational titles for the iPad, has debuted its first ever platform for the web browser.
‘Inkling for Web’ requires no Flash or other plug-ins, and is powered entirely by technologies such as HTML5, CSS and Javascript, Inkling CEO Matt McInnis said in an interview this week. This means that Inkling titles, which had previously been viewable only through Inkling’s native iPad app, can now be viewed on any up-to-date webkit-based browser such as Chrome or Safari by anyone with an Inkling account.

All current and future Inkling titles are now available through the new web interface — with things such as 3-D graphics, videos and audio features fully included. Every part of each title will have its own unique URL so that instructors can send out links to certain sections. Notes and activity on the web version will automatically sync to Inkling on iOS, and vice versa.

La Rai, ultimamente molto attiva su App Store, sia con app culturali che televisive (vedi Rai.Tv), con il rilascio di “Rai Euro 2012″ continua a dimostrare la sua attenzione verso il mondo Apple e offre ai possessori di iDevices un altro strumento gratuito che, in questo caso, consentirà loro di godere al meglio ed in mobilità la nuova avvince sfida calcistica alle porte.

Rai Euro 2012 consentirà, infatti, di seguire tutte le partite degli Europei 2012 in DIRETTA, beneficiando addirittura di riprese esclusive per il web (fino a 6 telecamere alternative) nonché di consultare l’indice degli ‘HIGHLIGHTS’ con la possibilità di selezionare e visualizzare le azioni più importanti della partita in corso! Inoltre, poco dopo la fine di ogni partita, sarà possibile rivedere il video integrale dell’incontro.

Ma le funzioni offerte dall’app non finiscono qui. Rai Euro 2012, infatti, consentirà di consultare le classifiche dei gironi e dei marcatori, le News e le Fotogallery sempre aggiornate sull’evento sportivo e sui ritiri, ma anche i video delle Rubriche Rai Sport, le Interviste e i contributi esclusivi.

Come vedete dall’immagine che precede, tutto questo avverrà tramite una comoda app nativa, facilmente navigabile grazie alla opportuna suddivisione nelle sezioni “Home”, “Partite”, “News”, “Video” ed “Extra”.

In an interview with Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek, Parker quickly answered a question that made Ek hesitant. He said there was “some indication” (emails from other people in the industry) that Apple tried to block Spotify from entering the United States, and he noted “Apple was threatened by what [Spotify] was doing.” In October 2010, we heard similar rumblings that Apple attempted to sway execs in the U.S. music industry from signing with Spotify.

According to reports coming from Italian blog Fanpage (via TechCrunch), Apple just bought Italian startup Redmatica, a company that creates software to enhance the capabilities of popular audio sampler software such as the EXS24 used in Apple’s Logic Pro recording suite. The proof apparently comes via documents from local regulator AGCOM obtained by the blog.

Apple has not yet confirmed it acquired the company, but if true it looks like Logic Pro could be getting some powerful and easy sound design tools in the near future. Among the highlights of the company’s tech that Logic and GarageBand could certainly benefit from include slick drag and drop management of sampler instruments and full AU plug in support directly in the synthesis signal chain. Another thing we can imagine Apple is probably interested in is the new Escher, Penrose and Moebius Machines, which allow for realtime detailed and sample specific gain control for every aspect of your sampled loops, and none of the gain control is destructive. The company also has its GBSamplerManager designed for managing sampler instruments for GarageBand on iOS from your Mac.

According to Fanpage Radmatica had income of just €26,000 on €100,000 in yearly revenue.

Cook: “In my view, the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.”
Cook says that isn’t the only way to do tablets, but says Apple’s approach doesn’t require all that.
“We didn’t invent the tablet market,” he notes. “It was there. We invented the modern tablet.”
Cook says that supporting the past requires lifting leg weights.
“Products are about trade-offs, and you have to make tough decisions. You have to choose.”
Microsoft, for its part, has pitched Windows 8 as a “no-compromise” operating system.


6:32 pm: Cook makes his analogy of merging the toaster and the refrigerator, saying that someone may merge the two, but it won’t be Apple. That’s not what is coming next week, he says.
If you merge the two, the PC isn’t as good as it can be; nor is the tablet.

[Un] guanto che evita l’intrusione del polso sul nostro iPad, quando stiamo scrivendo o disegnando.  Usiamo sempre più spesso l’ipad per  scrittura o con  applicazioni di disegno, ed a volte, ed è capitato anche al sottoscritto, capita di rovinare il lavoro svolto. Questo prodotto chiamato  The Hand Glider, ci viene in aiuto, e l’idea la trovo semplicemente simpatica.

The Hand Glider è essenzialmente la metà di un guanto. Esso copre le parti del polso e palmo della mano, che consente di utilizzare una stilo con la stessa naturalezza come se fosse una penna o una matita.

the new Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K760, the successor to Logitech's first solar keyboard, the K750, which earned a CNET Editors' Choice.
From a design standpoint, the K760 is more compact than the K750 and more closely resembles Apple's own Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard with the addition of the strip of solar cells at the top of the unit.

The K760 is designed for use with Macs, as well as iOS devices.
(Credit: Logitech)
The key feature upgrade here is something that Logitech calls "Bluetooth connectivity with easy-switching capability." What that means is you can pair multiple devices -- such as a Mac, iPad, or iPhone -- and quickly switch among them with the push of a button without having to reconnect.

Samsung and Acer have both got ChromeOS laptops on sale, and Samsung has updated its offering with the 12.1 inch Series 5 550, running an Intel Celeron 867 1.3GHz processor with a 16GB solid state drive and 4GB of RAM. At $449 the 550 isn’t cheap and users will have to choose between a 3G version arranged the customary two years of free monthly data rations or one using Wi-Fi to augment its Ethernet connectivity.

The Series 3 Chromebox is Samsung's first desktop ChromeOS system, in a tiny 19 x 19 x 3.3cm package. The Chromebox has a slightly nippier Celeron B840 processor, 4Gb of RAM, a DisplayPort and six USB sockets. It's a cheaper option at $329, but you've got to factor in the cost of the peripherals needed to make it more than a doorstop.

"As the world’s first Chromebox, the Series 3 provides users with the Chromebook’s ease-of-use in a compact desktop product, which easily integrates with their existing accessories," said Todd Bouman, vice president of marketing at Samsung Enterprise business division in a statement. "The second generation Chromebook features powerful components housed in a slim, lightweight body, thanks to Samsung’s advanced hardware engineering."

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook just noted onstage that the company sold 2.7 million Apple TVs in just the first few months of this year. The last time we received official numbers from Apple, it reported 1.4 million units for Q1 and sales of just 2.8 million for the entire previous year, which means Apple is on track to double its Apple TV sales this year. Cook’s comments, as reported by The Verge:

Tim: You know, very uncharacteristic of us, we’ve stayed in the Apple TV product. We’re not a hobby kind of company as you know. Our tendency is to do very few things. And, if something creeps in and isn’t a big success, we get it out of the way and put our energies on something else. Apple TV though, you see what we’ve done. We’ve stuck in this. It’s not a fifth leg of the stool. It’s not the same size as the phone or Mac or tablet business. But last year we sold a little less tan 3m Apple TVs… This year, just in a first few months, we’ve sold 2.7m… This is an area of intense interest for us…

Barely updated since its debut on the original iPhone in 2007, it has long since been surpassed by the video sharing giant’s own mobile website—yet iOS is still set to open all YouTube videos in the native app. Luckily, there’s an easy way to get around this limitation. Simply fire up Settings, tap on General, tap on Restrictions, enable Restrictions if you haven’t already, and disallow YouTube. Doing so has the dual benefit of redirecting all YouTube links to the mobile website and hiding the native app on the device, clearing up more space for apps you actually want to use.

Twig is incredibly short, so it's ultra-portable. It's only 4 inches (102 mm) long, so it's the perfect iPhone cable for anyone who is on-the-go. But Twig's size isn't the only thing it has going for it. We have designed Twig with a bendable wire "skeleton" and three "legs". These bendable legs are what make Twig so amazing.
The wire skeleton inside Twig isn't a limp noodle like those bendable toys from gum-ball machines. Twig is strong. Bend a leg, and it stays bent. Bend all three legs, and make a tripod. Bend Twig and plug it into your AC adapter to make an instant wall charger dock. And when you want to hit the road, just bend Twig back into ultra-portable mode and chuck it in your bag. It's like no other cable, and it's awesome.

Inizialmente Music Hub sarà disponibile solo per Samsung Galaxy S III, per poi essere allargato ad altri terminali. Gli utenti hanno la possibilità di utilizzare il Music Hub Store in modo gratuito e di abbonarsi alla versione Premium pagando 9,99€ al mese.

Attualmente il catalogo contiene oltre 19 milioni di canzoni, acquistabili dallo store e con possibilità di ascoltare una preview di 30 secondi. La musica acquistata viene quindi archiviata sul cloud e appare automaticamente sul dispositivo Samsung. Tali brani possono poi essere salvati anche in locale e ascoltati offline, mentre abbonandosi alla versione Premium sarà possibile caricare online tutta la propria libreria musicale (fino ad un massimo di 100GB) e di accedervi in streaming dal proprio dispositivi mobile.

Una funzione chiamata “Scan & Match Cloud Locker” consente di caricare i brani preferiti sul cloud e di ascoltarli in streaming con un tempo di caricamento molto inferiore. Gli utenti possono i poi gestire i brani caricati in playlist, inserire anche note vocali registrate dal dispositivo, leggere i testi e condividere i brani con gli amici. Inoltre, Music Hub offre anche la possibilità di ascoltare la musica preferita direttamente dalle stazioni radio, immettendo il nome del brano o dell’artista. Interessante la funzione che consente di “taggare” un brano che ascoltiamo per la prima volta in radio, in modo tale da poterlo ritrovare anche in un secondo momento.

Il garante per la protezione dei dati personali ha pubblicato due interessanti documenti con una serie di riflessioni e indicazioni per il corretto e consapevole trattamento dei dati personali con riferimento all'impiego di nuovi strumenti di comunicazione e su come scegliere con cura le soluzioni per il cloud computing. Indicazioni valide per tutti gli utenti, imprese e amministrazioni pubbliche.

Set to ship June 24, the Armor Series case is dust proof, drop proof, waterproof, and apparently crush proof. [...] The Armor Series has a waterproof "thermal plastic shell" and a "medical-grade" stainless-steel latch.

Now you can…
Easily save, share and discover links — they’re called bitmarks, like bookmarks.
Instantly search your saved bitmarks.
Curate groups of bitmarks into bundles and collaborate on bundles with friends.
Make any bitmark or bundle private or public.
See what friends are sharing across multiple social networks, all in one place.
Save and share links from anywhere with our new bitmarklet, Chrome extension and iPhone app.
It doesn’t stop here. We have big plans for bitly, and we want to build this neighborhood with our community. So get in there, start bitmarking and please tell us what you think!

Monotype Imaging today announced a new mobile font suite designed for Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices. The suite, which offers a slew of tools and services for developers and manufacturers, is called "Type Enhancements for Android."
Though some of the tools in the suite have been previously available to developers, it is the first time they have all been offered in an all-in-one package.
One such module, known as the iType font engine with Edge Tuning, promises OEMs better and cleaner text rendering.
In addition to that, the suite offers a greater breadth of language support than within Android's existing capabilities, and a bigger selection of fonts -- both for developers creating their UIs, and for users who want more customization options.
According to Satoshi Asari, Monotype's director of product marketing, one of the most important aspects of these tools is that they all abide by Google's Compliance Test Suite (CTS) for Android.
Aside from wanting to expand Android's global reach by improving its language supporting capabilities, Asari hopes that Monotype's suite will resolve quality issues for low-end devices. This is especially applicable to handsets with small screens or low resolutions, where text does not render well.
But high-end phones can also benefit from "Type Enhancements for Android" too.
"Flagship devices need to have a high-quality user experience across a high number of use cases," Asari said.

The Good
instant up/instant down; start-up and shutdown times are basically instantaneous
thermals very low; ambient noise non-existent
video playback handles various codecs; capable of playback of direct dumps from digital cameras, camcorders, and playback of older .avi files with no issues. Did not play back my 1-week review video, but it did transfer it off the camera and then file-transferred it to YouTube
handles video playback in one window and multi-tasking another app into a different window with no problems
handles bluetooth pickup out of standby as well as any device; better than most Android devices and at least as well as most Windows PC’s
The Bad
offline capability is very limited
multi-tasking workflow management is not the best; In one instance you are looking at a single spawned instance of an app, the next all of your app tabs and windows appear to have collapsed into a single browser icon.
scroll wheel on at least some Bluetooth mice are not recognized
opening File Manager automatically has the first file or folder selected. If you do not know this, and then select a file and then select “Delete”, you’ve blown away the one you wanted and unintentionally blown away the first object in the list because it was auto-selected
not viable as a gaming platform due to apparent dearth of non-casual games in the WebApp Store; jury is still out on this one as I have more games to test

Apple this month is reported to have begun production of the first prototypes of its much-anticipated connected television sets at one of its overseas manufacturing facilities ahead of a general production ramp expected to begin late in the 2012 calendar year.

The news, which was attributed to "informed sources" speaking to the China Business News, was picked up and translated by the WantChinaTimes earlier on Monday.

In particular, the publication cited its sources as saying that this initial build plan is taking place in one of Foxconn's Shenzhen plants as a trial production run, which typically produces a small number of assembly-line-quality prototypes for Apple to put through its design test verification stages. No further details were reported.

Addio Pan Store. Benvenuto Panini Store! È all’insegna di questo cambio di strategia che si è aperto a Bologna, in pieno centro, il primo Panini Store d’Italia.

Those following us on Twitter already know that last week Apple rejected Instacast, a well-love podcatcher, over its Flattr integration. What does this mean for the future of Flattr inside applications for iPhone and iPad?

The hard-working Chronic-Dev Team has announced that just over one million users have jailbroken their iOS devices with Greenpois0n Absinthe 2.0. That's impressive, considering the jailbreak was released just three days ago.

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Some significant changes afoot at social and mobile games company Digital Chocolate: founder Trip Hawkins has stepped down as the CEO of the company. And we have also heard a report — yet to be confirmed directly by the company — that president Marc Metis has stepped up as interim CEO; and that Digital Chocolate has laid off up to 180 people across offices in India, San Mateo, Russia and elsewhere.

Hawkins’ news was made public by Trip himself in his company blog, where he notes that he is “transitioning into a consulting and advisory relationship with Digital Chocolate.” Without giving away much about the state of affairs at the company, the move, he writes, is being made as the company  is “narrowing its focus.”

“It made sense to get more streamlined,” he explains. Hawkins founded the company eight years ago.

By coincidence, the news comes at the same time that Hawkins is marking the 30th anniversary of Electronic Arts, another gaming company that he founded: he incorporated that company on May 28, 1982. Before that he worked at Apple, which he joined in 1978, when it only had 25 employees.

Trip’s LinkedIn profile now notes his employment as “computer games professional” with CEO, Digital Chocolate, as a past position.

With Absinthe 2.0 being made available for immediate public download and version 2.0.2 being pushed out to bring iPhone 4 9B208 build compatibility, the jailbreak 5.1.1 tool has been available for a couple of days and thanks to the Chronic Dev Team’s Twitter account, we now know it has racked up some fairly impressive downloads and usage statistics. One of the largest appeal factors to Absinthe 2.0 is that it is the first tool made available to give a functioning jailbreak on the current generation iPad 3. With that in mind, the tool has been used to jailbreak 211,401 new iPads, truly an impressive number.



Absinthe 2.0 provides the ability to jailbreak pretty much all iOS devices capable of running iOS 5.1.1, with the exception of the third-generation Apple TV, one of the other major reasons why it is proving to be so popular. In total, 973,086 devices have been newly jailbroken spanning across the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV range of Apple devices.

With the total number of devices being jailbroken with Absinthe rising all the time, that number should breach the one million mark in no time and shows that jailbreaking remains as popular as ever. That notion is something that has been mirrored by the official Cydia repositories with the BigBoss repo owner claiming that his repo was transferring a staggering 1 gigabit of data per second across ten servers since the release of Absinthe.

The idea here is that you can use multiple Apple IDs on each device, and at the same time each Apple ID does not need to be enrolled in every Apple product, feature and service.  Decide what products and services you want to use first and determine how each device will be used.  If you don’t, before you know it you could end up with a real rats nest of accounts.

Do consider using one master family account on all devices to manage iTunes purchases, and use that same shared account to track the location of all of your devices.  As an added bonus, you could use the calendar, contacts and reminders with this shared family iCloud account as well.  Once you have each device configured with these basics, let each family member decide which third-party email service they want.  This may well be the best strategy to employ, until Apple sees fit to enable multiple users per device.

Grindr has finally caught on and released a hetero-centric version called Blendr. OkCupid is also getting into the location-based dating game with an app called Locals. Well, “dating” isn’t the right word for it. Unlike Grindr, which is overtly sexual, Blendr bills itself as a way to "find friends." 

Mark Waid has really put his money where his mouth is: After preaching the gospel of the “culture of sharing” for a couple of years now, he’s making his comic Insufferable available for anyone to download and share.

Although the comic is available for free from his Thrillbent website, he found that within 24 hours the first chapter had been copied and uploaded to torrent and file-sharing sites. “The only thing that startled me was that it took 24 hours,” he said, and sure enough, the next two chapters were uploaded even faster. And he’s happy about it:


Your mileage may vary but, me, I’m okay with torrenters and “pirates” sharing INSUFFERABLE. Not just because, what the hell, it’s free anyway, Mr. Cynic. .. my hand to God, even if we were charging for it, I’d still be happy because the exposure and promotion is worth more to me at this point than dollars and cents. But more than that…more than that … after having been hip-deep in the research for the past three years, I have seen zero conclusive evidence that, on the whole, “piracy” removes more money from the system than it adds to it.

Furthermore, he points out, pirates gonna pirate and he has no way to stop them. So rather than obsessing about that, he’s turned it to his advantage by posting each chapter as downloadable PDF and .cbz files — with a pointer toward Thrillbent on the last page. There’s no reason why the uploaders couldn’t remove that page, but they haven’t. What’s more, he’s finding that most of the uploaded files of Insufferable are indeed the ones he supplied, which means the “pirates” are really providing him with free advertising.

“It looks like it has become a more conservative execution engine rather than a pushing-the-envelope engineering engine,” says Max Paley, a former engineering vice president who worked at Apple for 14 years until late 2011. “I’ve been told that any meeting of significance is now always populated by project management and global-supply management,” he says. “When I was there, engineering decided what we wanted, and it was the job of product management and supply management to go get it. It shows a shift in priority.”

It might also simply be the result of the shift in scale at which Apple is operating today. They sold 35 million iPhones and 12 million iPads last quarter. Is it not inevitable that global-supply management would grow in importance and influence with numbers like that? The question to ask is whether these changes are because of the differences between Tim Cook and Steve, or the differences in the size and scope of Apple’s business a decade ago versus today.

The Verge reported yesterday that Google would soon be assimilating the Hewlett-Packard team responsible for creating Enyo, the HTLM5-based application framework for WebOS that debuted on the failed TouchPad.
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HP's WebOS Enyo team reportedly heading to Google
But a blog item posted on the Enyo Web site today says the majority of the team remains, that development of Enyo will continue, and that the Enyo team is expanding.
In an update to its report, and citing unnamed sources, The Verge had added that the person in charge of Enyo, Matt McNulty, was one of the people headed to Google, along with other team members "responsible for 99 percent of the code."

According to a blog post by Cisco’s TelePresence Technology Group OJ Winge (via NetworkWorld), Cisco announced it is shutting down its Android-based Cius business tablet project. The roughly $1,000 tablet solution started shipping less than a year ago and clearly is not doing too well. The reason for killing off the 7-inch Cius tab? Winge noted 95 percent of organizations Cisco surveyed now allow employees to bring their own device, which he said underscores “a major shift in the way people are working, in the office, at home and on-the-go.”

There is no denying that iOS devices and cheaper Android solutions are taking the place of Cius. Recent studies show Apple with 97 percent of tablets in the enterprise, while 94 percent of the Fortune 500 is currently testing or deploying the iPad. The result is no further investment in the Cius tablet line and only limited support for what is currently available. The company will instead “double down” on Jabber and WebEx:

Over the last year, Cisco has demonstrated a commitment to delivering innovative software like Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx across a wide spectrum of operating systems, tablets and Smart Phones. We’re seeing tremendous interest in these software offerings. Customers see the value in how these offerings enable employees to work on their terms in the Post-PC era, while still having access to collaboration experiences… Based on these market transitions, Cisco will no longer invest in the Cisco Cius tablet form factor, and no further enhancements will be made to the current Cius endpoint beyond what’s available today. However, as we evaluate the market further, we will continue to offer Cius in a limited fashion to customers with specific needs or use cases.

“Pre-sandbox screening of submissions has been shockingly arbitrary and Apple staff are frequently either unwilling or unable to understand detailed technical arguments,” said one anonymous developer.

Developers looking to Apple for guidance about sandboxing their apps have been disappointed, not least because of Apple’s own failure to sandbox its apps. So far only TextEdit and Preview have been sandboxed.

“A great source of irritation for developers is Apple's own failure to sandbox its own programs,” noted one developer. “Apple has sandboxed some of its applications, but the vast majority remain outside of the sandbox and will still be available via the Mac App Store.”

“The reason that they can't sandbox their own applications is because they experience the very same problems as third party developers: appropriate entitlements do not exist, the APIs are buggy and the sandbox model makes no sense for many applications,” the anonymous developer added. “In order to sandbox their own applications they would need to remove features that users have come to rely upon. For no reason. They don't want to do so. They don't want to irritate their users.”

He claims that Apple is resort to "cheats" that third party developers would “never get away with.” He suggested: “Apple should first have sandboxed its own applications and made sure that the sandboxing works properly. Then they could legitimately have asked us to join them.”

“The sandbox doesn't really make sense and Apple knows it,” another developer, told us, anonymously.

“Something has clearly gone very wrong when Apple imposes changes that require a large proportion of non-game apps on the Mac App Store to be feature crippled. Nobody knows what the real motivation behind it is,” he noted.

“I suspect that Apple's new found love for the sandbox has more to do with exercising greater control over third party developers and streamlining their review process than with any end-user benefits,” suggested one developer, noting that Apple’s reviewers can now “just look at the entitlements to see what the application can do,” rather than “checking what an application does do.”

Though Yahoo's Livestand digital newsstand app has been up and running for less than a year, the company has decided to pull the plug on it.
The company announced its decision in a blog post today, saying it has learned a lot about what works and doesn't work with Livestand and is "actively applying those insights toward the development of future products that are better aligned with Yahoo!'s holistic mobile strategy."
The app has earned four stars in the App Store and is one of the first products the company plans to discontinue this year.
The blog says the company is "pivoting to a mobile products-first development model," and points to Yahoo's recently released Axis browser as proof.
"There's no doubt that one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, priorities for us is to innovate for the mobile user, whether they're using feature phones, smartphones, or tablets -- or iOS apps, Android apps, or mobile Web browsers, for that matter," the post reads.
Yahoo debuted Livestand in November, despite some uncertainty over the future of management at the company. Yahoo's recent management shakeup resulted in the appointment of interim CEO Ross Levinsohn.

After bringing Classics Illustrated into the digital age, and onto Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet, in March, Trajectory Inc. announced this morning it has teamed with Apple to deliver the enduring comics series on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
[...] More than 120 titles are available from Apple’s iBookstore.
“Making the Classics available in digital form brings these brilliant works to where people live now, on their mobiles,” Trajectory CEO Jim Bryant said in a statement. “The iPad and iPhone are great for interacting with one of the most beloved comics and graphic novel series of all time.”

[...] designed for the new iPad, [it] has a neat trick up its sleeve: the keyboard is detachable, held in place by Velcro.
That might not sound like a big deal, but it allows you to vary both the angle of the iPad’s screen and the distance between keyboard and display, which is ergonomically very useful.

Detaching the keyboard even works while the whole thing is sitting on your lap, allowing you to type on the iPad as if it were a laptop. Ridges on one side of the case hold the bottom of the iPad in place.

Sales of webOS phones never made a dent in the industry, and the much-anticipated TouchPad tablet was cancelled by HP before it even got started.

Then HP reshuffled its management and decided to make webOS open-source to keep the platform from going the way of the dodo. It would offer webOS to the world for anyone to use, and keep the team intact to make a serious effort.

Now comes the word that Google has poached the core Enyo team from HP, to end up doing who-knows-what at Google. Odds are it won’t be bringing Enyo, the application framework behind webOS, into the Android effort. Whatever these smart folks end up doing for Google, their departure pretty much puts the kibosh on the open-source webOS effort no matter what HP says.

HP is not in a position to make a serious run at the webOS open-source effort. Having just announced the impending layoff of 27,000 employees, HP must be the worst place to work in any industry. You read that right, the layoffs are in the thousands, or more than many companies in the world employ in total. What a sad place HP must be to work today.

So don’t expect webOS to set the open-source world on fire, it is coming from too bad a place for that to happen. Given HP’s terrible situation, there is no way the open-source webOS effort will be a priority. Most of the key webOS team have already left HP for greener pastures, and this news about the important Enyo team is just a twisting of the knife.

It’s a safe call to say that webOS is finally dead in reality, if not in name. Such a sad end for what could have been a revolutionary mobile OS. RIP webOS.

Flickr has just announced new Groups features on its blog, including a Justified View, the ability to submit photos directly to Groups via the Uploadr and brand new API methods for developers. Yahoo has, of course, been floundering lately, and Flickr is really feeling the heat from competitors like 500px – all the more reason to push forward and provide some desired improvements for users.

The Justified View, which we’ve already seen on the Photos from Contacts and Favorites pages, looks pretty damn impressive compared to the previous design. With this change, Flickr has also added sidebar navigation

Kickstarter does not want you to see failed projects. Failed Kickstarter campaign pages include robot meta tags to keep search engines from indexing them. Plus, Kickstarter’s front page and “Discover” interface never show failed projects. Ever.)
[...] failed results do show up in Kickstarter’s own search results [but it] has made an interesting design decision when it comes to how it displays (or doesn’t display) “failed” projects.

From today on, you will be able to select the photos you want to transfer in the Bump app, go to the Bump website on your computer, and then tap the phone on the spacebar key to transfer them. In order for it to work you have to enable location sharing on your computer’s web browser.
According to Lieb, the feature works with most modern web browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. There are some sporadic issues with Internet Explorer, he says.
So how does it all work? The new app uses the same technology in Bump’s self-titled app and in Bump Pay. A combination of the sensors in the phone and Bump’s Cloud services allow the phone and computer to communicate and then transfer the photos.

Plants, like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone's blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we'll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi's got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company's servers where it's then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow. You'll have to cough up £99 (about $156 USD) for the currently available European-only, golf club-like device, but that's about all -- access to the company's apps and services are free for users. So, if you've been dying to pull back the curtain on the secret life of plants or just sick of shelling out to replace your withering window collection, hit up the source below to get your order on.

Con un comunicato stampa, Apple ha ufficialmente affermato di voler pagare i dividendi ai propri dipendenti con RSU, ovvero quelle azioni che in genere vengono consegnate ai dipendenti come incoraggiamento per restare all’interno della compagnia. Tra i vari impiegati troviamo una figura di spicco, questo è Tim Cook, egli possedeva 1 milione di RSU per un valore complessivo di 75 milioni di dollari. Nonostante abbia già incassato moltissimo denaro di recente, egli ha compiuto un gesto molto interessante, infatti ha completamente rifiutato la propria parte. Per dovere di cronaca, ricordiamo che le azioni sono state pagate a 2.65$ l’una.

Eccovi un breve estratto del comunicato:

Come richiesto da Mr.Cook, nessun elemento appartenente alle sue RSU verrà pagato come dividendo; assumendo un valore di 2.65$ ad azione e moltiplicandole per 1.125 milioni di elementi, Mr.Cook ha rinunciato a circa 75 milioni di dollari di dividendi.

La notizia dei pagamenti non è stata inaspettata, infatti verso la fine di Marzo, l’azienda aveva comunicato l’intenzione di spendere parte dei 100 miliardi di dollari nel distribuire quanto dovuto ai vari impiegati. I calcoli sono stati effettuati, i pagamenti veri e propri avranno inizio il 1 luglio.

Item 5.02.    Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
 
(e) Compensatory Arrangements with Certain Officers.
On May 24, 2012, the Compensation Committee (the "Committee") of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. (the "Company") approved amendments to each outstanding and unvested restricted stock unit award granted by the Company to its employees (other than Timothy D. Cook, the Company's Chief Executive Officer). The amendments provide that if the Company pays an ordinary cash dividend on its common stock, each award will be credited with an amount equal to the per-share cash dividend paid by the Company, multiplied by the total number of restricted stock units subject to the award that are outstanding immediately prior to the record date for such dividend. The amounts that are credited to each award are referred to as "dividend equivalents." Any dividend equivalents credited to an award will be subject to the same vesting, payment and other terms and conditions as the unvested restricted stock units to which the dividend equivalents relate. Depending on the domicile of the employee, accumulated dividend equivalents will either be paid in cash or used to offset employee taxes due upon vesting of the restricted stock units.

The Committee determined these amendments were appropriate in light of the Company's announcement on March 19, 2012 that it intends to commence paying ordinary cash dividends of $2.65 per share to its shareholders on a quarterly basis sometime during the fourth quarter of its 2012 fiscal year. As restricted stock units are not outstanding shares of common stock and thus would not otherwise be entitled to participate in such dividends, the crediting of dividend equivalents is intended to preserve the equity-based incentives intended by the Company when the awards were granted and to treat the award holders consistently with shareholders.

At Mr. Cook's request, none of his restricted stock units will participate in dividend equivalents. Assuming a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share over the vesting periods of his 1.125 million outstanding restricted stock units, Mr. Cook will forego approximately $75 million in dividend equivalent value.

 

Optrix case transforms your iPhone 4/4S or iPod Touch 4G into a rugged action sports video camera. Bump, bash, crash, and splash with your phone safely housed in our polycarbonate shell and rubberized inner iPhone case. Perfect for sports like skiing, biking, skating, motocross, auto-racing and many more. 

1080p HD Video (4S)
Military Grade Enclosure
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If you have both an iPad or Retina display device (iPhone 4 or 4th generation iPod touch) and any other iPhone or iPod touch, you can use the fantastic remote control feature to wirelessly control the iPad/Retina display device with an iPhone/iPod touch over bluetooth or wifi. Then plug the iPad/Retina display device into a TV or display through the component cable or VGA adapter and play Chopper 2 on your TV from your couch!

Chopper 2 is also one of the few games to support full 1080p output to an HD TV over HDMI from the iPad 2, and supports AirPlay mirroring with iOS 5 and an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S.

Note: TV output is only supported from an iPad, iPhone 4, or 4th generation iPod Touch or better.

This version of Chopper 2 can also be used to control the Mac version, available on the Mac App Store.

Nokia chose not to sell the N95 phone in Egypt when the sale of GPS-enabled devices there was illegal before 2009, whereas Apple opted to make and sell a special GPS-less iPhone 3G for that market. Early models of the Chinese iPhone 3GS lacked wifi, while the Chinese iPhone 4/4S has firmware restrictions on its Google Maps app.

Just after its proposed $1 billion acquisition of mobile photo sharing service Instagram, Facebook announced Facebook Camera for iPhone in a blog post this afternoon. The app features filters just like Instagram, and it has the ability to upload a batch of photos at once. The regular Facebook app only allows you to upload one photo at a time. Upon first opening Camera, it detects any Facebook accounts already associated with the iPhone, so you can upload photos immediately. Facebook Camera for iOS is now available on the iTunes App Store.

As you can tell from the screenshots of the app in the gallery below, it reminds us a lot of Instagram. There is also the ability to view your friend’s photos in a single timeline. Complete with filters and quick-sharing options, it is almost as if Facebook launched a competitor to its own app.

Here is the full breakdown of features:




Post multiple photos from your camera roll at a time
Crop and apply filters to give your photos a new look
Scroll down a single feed of all your friends’ photos
Tag your friends, add photo captions and say where you are
See photos from the different apps your friends use

Now, developers have another business model option thanks to today’s newly-announced in-app subscription feature within in-app billing. The feature is quite self-explanatory—users can purchase subscriptions to any type of extra content from an app using any Android device. Some examples of in-app subscription could apply to bonus game levels/maps or and recurring services like journals and magazines. The ability to sell monthly or annual subscriptions in any app is effective immediately, while users can also start buying right away.

Processori capaci, consumi bassi e bassi costi di realizzazione: sarà questa l'arma decisiva per la conquista del mercato da parte di Google e degli altri produttori di tablet Android?

Platter is a new micro-social network app dedicated home cooking. It allows you to take pictures of food you make and upload them to show the world, tagging them with the you used ingredients. You can then search through those ingredient tags, finding inspiration for something to make with the ingredients you have to hand. As you'd expect, you can also do the usual social networking things, like follow people whose food you find interesting, and post comments and "likes" on pictures.

"Why do I need this?" you might ask. "I have Instagram and Twitter, Facebook and Foodspotting. Why do I need another app?" Well, the Platter team cleverly identified that in fact none of these apps are exactly what you need if you're a home cook looking to show off. Instagram has plenty of food pics, but lacks the ingredient tagging feature. Twitter and Facebook are more general purpose. Foodspotting is designed around the idea of taking pictures of food when eating out, not for home cooking. Platter is complementary to these services.

To underscore this, it has (as you'd probably expect) the ability to cross-post pictures to Facebook and Twitter. These cross-posts are in the form of links to Platter's attractive web interface (self-promotion alert: that's my own Platter page), from where you can drill down into individual pictures. This web view feature is already fuller-featured than Instagram's pared-down approach, as you can navigate from users to pictures and back again, and the Platter team are planning on expanding this further in the future.

[The company] unveiled this morning its newest tool: one that makes transferring photos from an iOS or Android device to a computer as easy as bumping that device against the computer's spacebar.
The key to the new feature is that it requires no software installation on the computer, said Bump CEO Dave Lieb. Instead, it works through users' browsers -- Chrome, Firefox, and Safari -- and the Bump mobile app. Once users load Bump's Web site and the app, they select the photos they want to move and tap their phone against their spacebar. The photos appear on the computer instantaneously.
When the photos appear on the computer, there are a couple of options. One is to download the photo to the computer's hard drive. The other is to create a sharable link to the photo or photos. That means that it's easy to take a group of photos at an event, quickly transfer them later to a computer, and then send a link to everyone who was at the event, Lieb explained.
The new tool works much the same way Bump has all along: it correlates the location of both devices when the app is running and in this case, when the spacebar is tapped, it knows that it's supposed to move photos stored on the mobile device to Bump's hosted Web site.
Users of Bump's existing iOS and Android apps will have to download the latest updates in order for the new service to work.

Google has released the Android version of an overhauled Google+ app, part of the company's attempt to move to a "simpler, more beautiful Google," in the words of Vic Gundotra, the company's senior vice president of engineering.
The new app catches up with the iOS Google+ app that Google released a couple weeks ago with a new visually rich, photo-first interface. And in some ways it surpasses it, for example in its support for tablets.
Google trails Facebook by far when it comes to the magnitude of membership on the overt social-network Google+ site, but the company is trying to compensate by wiring Google+ social interactions into major properties including Gmail, YouTube, and search. And it's trying to outdo Facebook in features, too -- thus today's app update.
Among the new app's features:

The new interface can get cluttered with busy images combined with text, comment boxes, and the +1 icon.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
• Most obviously, a new interface that puts images front and center, with the text of a Google+ post overlaid on the top. It's supposed to be more visually rich, but I find the new look often cluttered and jumbled.
• The old home screen is replaced by a navigation ribbon that slides down the left edge of the screen. That's a lot less dorky for tablets, which before had five tiny icons amid an ocean of wasted space.
• An ability to +1 a post directly from the stream of posts.
• The ability to start a video chatroom "hangout" from from an Android phone or tablet using the navigation ribbon. Hangout requests also can ring the phone like an incoming phone call.
• An option to directly turn a photo seen on Google+ into an Android device's background.
• The ability to edit your posts from the app, not just from a personal computer.

The cover story of the latest issue of Fortune details how Cook is changing Apple in its post-Steve Jobs era. The piece, written by Adam Lashinsky, kicks off by describing how Apple investors were shocked when Cook met and spoke with them at an investor meeting in February at the company's corporate headquarters.

Cook's style is a stark change from his predecessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who despised participating in such investor events. But despite the "shifts of behavior and tone" described in Lashinsky's article, he added that Cook is maintaining "most of Apple's unique corporate culture."

"In general, Apple has become slightly more open and considerably more corporate," he wrote. "In some cases Cook is taking action that Apple sorely needed and employees badly wanted. It's almost as if he is working his way through a to-do list of long overdue repairs the previous occupant (Jobs) refused to address for no reason other than obstinacy."

In doing things his way, Cook has also retained his disarming personality, which Lashinsky said most employees at the company seem to prefer. For example, Cook often sits randomly with employees in Apple's corporate cafeteria during lunch, while Jobs typically dined with design chief Jonathan Ive, who was knighted this week in his home country of the U.K.


Apple CEO Tim Cook tours an iPhone production line at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, China, in March.


Cook has also instituted major changes at the company, such as a considerable focus on using renewable green energy, bringing in independent audits of Apple's overseas supply chain, and also allocating $45 billion over three years toward a stock dividend and share repurchase program. And all of those changes have been made while Cook oversaw the two most successful product launches in Apple's history with the iPhone 4S last October and the third-generation iPad this March.

The Fortune cover story includes comments from an unnamed CEO of "an influential tech company," who described Cook as "down to earth, noncorporate, detail-oriented, and disarming."

"He's casual, grounded, and easy to talk to," they said. "I forgot he's the CEO of Apple. And that was not my experience with Jobs."

photo sharing is poised to be the service’s next breakout hit, thanks to an enthusiastic community of photographers who like the focus on attractive full-size images, Google+’s new photo-centric iPhone app, and a uniquely Google passion for metadata.

In fact, Google+ is pushing hard on the photography front and is in a great position to dominate the floundering Flickr.

The Google+ team teamed up with Kelby Training for a two-day Google+ Photographers Conference in San Francisco, or as it was adorably called, a HIRL — Hangout in Real Life. Vice president of product for Google+ Bradley Horowitz (pictured above), who led Yahoo’s purchase of Flickr in 2005, kicked off the event Tuesday by talking about the future of photography, how Flickr changed his outlook, and whether ads will ever make an appearance in Google+.

When Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said we might see $199 Tegra 3 tablets this summer, he wasn't speculating idly. Nvidia has revealed that it's working on just such a tablet: Kai. At the company's annual meeting of investors last week, VP Rob Csonger revealed the idea, and explained Kai isn't just a piece of hardware, but a plan to democratize its quad-core Tegra 3 system-on-chip. Nvidia wants to offer Android 4.0 tablets that are more powerful than the Kindle Fire at the same price point, he said:

Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we've developed called Kai. So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we've developed to reduce the power that's used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet.

Does that make Kai a reference design? Probably yes, but we wouldn't be surprised if it's also a consumer product. Nvidia and Asus teamed up at CES 2012 to introduce a quad-core tablet with a then-unheard-of $250 price point, the ME370T, and it's a dead ringer for the Kai in the picture above. We haven't heard a thing about the ME370T since CES, but perhaps it's on the way, and if we're lucky, it's the first of a whole new wave of affordable Tegra 3 slates. Maybe Google's Nexus tablet will be among them.

Update: Nvidia didn't have much to add when we asked them about Kai, but told us that devices are already inbound: "Customers are using the Kai platform to build Tegra 3 tablets now."

Since the desktop version of Yahoo! Axis is simply a browser extension, that means that Yahoo’s search deal with Bing drops its search box on top of whatever page you’re on. Instead of building its own desktop browser, which would have taken quite a long time and been a nightmare to support, Yahoo! decided to skip all of that and slip in the backdoor, by making itself extremely prominent.

If, and it’s a big if, Axis can grab a sizeable userbase, then Microsoft Bing just scored itself a whole slew of new search users.

Say I’m hooked on Axis, use its iPhone and iPad apps, I dig on its homepage. Then I visit Google.com. I’m presented with an alternative search option, Bing:



The search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! was made on July 29, 2009, and nearly three years later, Microsoft just got Christmas in July a few months early.

Combine Axis with its newly introduced redesign and Bing’s not having a bad month. Can Bing pick up a considerable amount of ground on Google’s search dominance? Only time will tell.

Yahoo! today released its Axis extension for Chrome – and accidentally leaked its private security key that could allow anyone to create malicious plugins masquerading as official Yahoo! software.
Australian entrepreneur Nik Cubrilovic, who last year garnered notice for identifying Facebook's tracking cookies, revealed the certificate blunder on his blog, and said users should not install the extension “until the issue is clarified”.

Cubrilovic peeked into the extension’s source code and found the private certificate, which Yahoo! uses to sign the application to prove it is genuine and unaltered. The result, he says, is that a miscreant could forge a malicious extension that would be verified by Google's web browser as coming from Yahoo!

There are all sorts of attacks that could be executed with a spoofed extension; the most obvious of these, as Cubrilovic notes, would be to create and sign a traffic logger to capture a victim’s web activity.
Also: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57440597-83/yahoo-fumbles-security-in-axis-browser-launch/

Security wonk Eugene Kaspersky is not happy with Apple, since the company won't let his eponymous antivirus firm develop antivirus software for iOS devices. Speaking to The Register, Kaspersky went so far as to say "That will mean disaster for Apple," since malware targeting the mobile operating system will "inevitably" strike iOS at some point in time.

Kaspersky admits that iOS is "by design ... more secure" than other operating systems. His infection vector of choice is to place the malware into the source code of legal software that has to be downloaded from the App Store, as it is "almost impossible to develop malware which does not use vulnerabilities."

Kaspersky goes on to say that an infection of this sort will "be the worst-case scenario because there will be no protection. The Apple SDK won't let us do it." That will, in the Russian's opinion, result in a loss of market share for Apple and a huge boost for Android -- an operating system he's happy with since it is less secure and he can develop security software for.

He's so sure of the demise of iOS because of malware that he's made bets with friends stating that Android will have an 80% market share by 2015.

Apple designer Jony Ive was knighted today in a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace, according to a BBC News UK report. It's an honor he said was "absolutely thrilling."
Ive's knighthood was announced late last year and the ceremony took place on Wednesday. The famed Apple designer shared some small talk with Princess Anne, who was doing the knighting. You can watch the short ceremony on the BBC's website.

C2 Enterprises has released Photosmith 2.0, a major update to its advanced photographic workflow app for iPad and Lightroom users. Redesigned from the ground up the new version boasts significant improvements in speed, flexibility and memory usage and adds a plethora of the most-requested features by users of the original version.

Photosmith 2.0 now supports wireless two-way synchronization with Adobe Lightroom via a free Lightroom plugin and can also directly receive photos wirelessly from Eye-Fi cards. Users can sort and filter photos, organize them into collections, and apply star ratings and colour labels, all of which can be synchronized with the photos in the user’s Lightroom library. Keywords and IPTC metadata can be applied to photos individually or in batches and users can define presets to quickly apply and reuse the same settings. Users can also share photos to Facebook and Flickr or send them out via e-mail and the app includes native support for Adobe Lightroom’s Export and Publish Services. RAW, JPG, RAW+JPG and DNG formats are fully supported along with advanced file formats from many popular cameras including Canon CR2, Nikon NEF, Pentax PEF, Sony ARW. Photosmith 2.0 requires an iPad running iOS 5.1 or later and is available from the App Store for $20 or as a free update for Photosmith 1.x users.

In a surprising development, Tiger Direct, an online retailer, leaked specs and price of the Samsung Chromebox. They accidently made the product page active.
Even though Tiger Direct removed the page from their website, cached webpages from Google still give us the complete details of the new Chromebox.

Google updated its Google Search iPhone app to version 2.0.0 today, which introduced a completely redesigned app that focuses on improvements to speed and full screen browsing features. Among the new features are an auto full screen mode that hides controls when scrolling down and reveals when scrolling up, and a new full-screen image search view.

The updated app also includes “major speed improvements,” a built-in text finder for webpages, and quick links to Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and search options such as images, places, and news. The iPad did not receive the same update, but both the iPhone and iPad will now be able to save images to the iOS camera roll.

Jonathan Geller of BGR published a report, quoting “a reliable source,” that claims Microsoft Office for iOS will launch in November. He also said that it will be available on both iPhone and iPad, rather than iPad-centric like once believed. The report does not provide any more information, but here is how The Daily originally described the app a few months ago:

The app’s user interface is similar to the current OneNote app, but it has hints of Metro, the new design language that can be seen in Windows Phone and in the as-yet-released Windows 8 desktop operating system. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files can be created and edited locally and online.
Consequently, Microsoft Office Live could also get a new complete overhaul to match its recent design changes.

Con un'interfaccia compatta, un approccio testuale e numerose impostazioni, Reader X iPad è la soluzione perfetta per chi vuole gestire agilmente tanti feed sul tablet di Apple