As CEO Steve Jobs boasted at the company’s San Francisco event yesterday that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices per day, he also took the opportunity to accuse competitors of boosting their device activation numbers. “We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers,” said Jobs, likely referring to the recent figures from Google, whose CEO, Eric Schmidt, claimed that ...
Apple wanted it's new iTunes-based social music network Ping to team up with Facebook, but the two companies could not reach terms accoring to Steve Jobs.
The new service, which was announced yesterday as part of iTunes 10 , will allow users to follow friends and artists and recieve news updates, concert details and custom charts based on what their friends are downloading.
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Part of the new iTunes 10 software , announced and launched yesterday, is a significant new social networking feature for iTunes called Ping . It allows you to comment on music, 'like' it a la Facebook, or rate it. Ping is also very similar to Twitter, in that you can 'follow' people and music stars. All of this happens inside of the iTunes application, either on your computer, iPhone or iPod ...
Sony has announced that a new cloud-based digital music service is in the works for the company’s network-enabled devices, including PS3, Bravia TVs, VAIO computers and Blu-ray players.
Music Unlimited will give users access to millions of songs, with one single account and without the need to manage digital files, the company said at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
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Application security, piracy and prevention all are hot topics recently, with good reason. Without a robust application marketplace, that hundreds of thousands of new activations each month number isn't going to be maintainable, and a robust market isn't possible without the backing of developers. We've seen that Android has a built-in solution to prevent piracy , and we've also see...
One of the great things about stepping up from compact cameras to SLRs is the amount of extra control you get over the final shot. While that control can be used in an almost infinite set of combinations, one of the more popular and effective ways to use it is with motion blur photographs. Photo by TheMonnie The fact that motion blur can be used to create stunning photographs in everythin...
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Aiming to reduce the background noise and the “hisses and crackles” often heard on a normal mobile call, Orange has launched HD Voice calls nationwide in the UK today.
The technology uses the AMR-WB codec and is expected to be adopted by other carriers shortly. William Webb (Head of research and development at Ofcom) says that it is “relatively easy for an operator to introduce—it’s just a sof...
With four months left in the year, 2010 is already the deadliest year yet for U.S. troops. 321 have been killed so far (out of 485 total coalition deaths), compared with 313 deaths in all of 2009. As coalition troop size has increased, and moves have been made into Taliban strongholds, attacks are on the rise, and, according to General David Petraeus, "the footprint of the Taliban has spread". As ...
Stunning. Just stunning. Color me wrong for saying that Apple wasn’t going social, because it just has. The Ping social network is a social network specifically for music. As you follow friends and artists, you’ll find more information about them.
Ping is broken down into two sections, to truly be a social network for music.
Artists:
Posts
Favorite songs
Concert Dates
Releases
S...
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Justin.tv is finally breaking into the mobile broadcasting business with today's release of its first Android application and with an iPhone version soon to follow. The company admits that it's not the first to do mobile broadcasting - competitors like UStream and Qik have been around for some time - but it's the first company do it at this quality. According to CEO Michael Seibel, Justin.tv ...
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At some point, somebody should stop the madness. In a move that’s almost akin to patenting the wheel these days, Microsoft has just been granted the patent for an operating system shutdown procedure. The patent, apparently, was filed back in Windows XP days, a few months before Vista came into the picture.
What is interesting about this, however, is that the patent doesn’t apply only to Windows ...
Here's one for you hackery types -- changing the resolution of your Android phone's screen through software, just like you can on a desktop monitor. You have to be rooted, so take that to mean there's a chance for things to go boom if you don't follow the directions to the letter, and insert the standard disclaimer -- this is at your own risk, and nobody is responsible for things that ma...