Seth Weintraub

Adobe’s Photoshop.com has mobile apps for both iPhone and Android. Each platform features a similar set of features.

However, in an interesting twist today, Adobe announced that other Android application developers would be allowed to call up the Photoshop.com application to do photo editing inside their own applications.

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Changewave has put out their latest iPad survey findings today. Frankly, we like to look at the pictures more than the verbiage so we’ve reproduced those below. If you want to know what it all means, head over to Changewave

This is slightly off topic but also pretty hilarious:.http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:266351

I’m going to miss the Daily Show on Hulu.

In the real (not torrenting) world, you have to pay to get video content.  Whether that is by watching ads on Hulu or paying iTunes $1.99 per episode for TV, the content makers need to get paid.  Any other system isn’t going to work in the long run.

Apple, we know, is a friend to record labels, movies studios and TV networks in that they set up systems that make payment easy, and for the most part, transparent and fair.  We now know they are working on commercials too.

Patently Apple today shows that Apple is working on a system that replicates TV commercials for online video.  We’re not exactly sure how this is different from Hulu’s current system (it actually looks quite similar).  In Apple’s system, each bit of a video can only be opened up by watching a ad.  So if you only want to watch the last sequence, you have to watch the ad before it.  Like Hulu.

Apple is also looking for some mobile developer talent to build advertising systems that use CSS and HTML5.

Initially, we thought that this may also tie in with the Quattro Wireless deal (and it still might) but Quattro is much more focused on smaller, mobile ads.

BTW, is that Charlie from Lost up top?

Apple today announced that the iPad would be available from April 3rd (not the March 26th that’d been speculated) and late April for the 3G models in the US.  Global availability (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK) won’t be until Late April as well.

Pre-orders wil be available from March 12 either at the online store or at an Apple retail store in the US.  Apple also announced the iBookstore would be ready for action on the April 3rd launch and available in additional countries later this year.

Apple’s stock surpassed  all time highs on the news.

 Apple’s press release below:

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We’ve enabled a few of the Network System Preferences including getting Tethering settings working with some help from @sonny788

Interestingly, you can see below that tethering by Bluetooth or USB is one of the options.  There is absolutely no chance AT&T allows this to stay the same way for launch, right?

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We’re running on pure Ultra 94 Octane Speculation here but might Apple be readying a Mac App Store?

Before you hit the Flame button, hear us out.  Today, after that long outage, the App Store came back up with a survey, a new license agreement and a $99 Mac developer license that replaces the more expensive, tiered programs that were available before. (Sorry, no more hardware discounts!) 

What does this mean

The new Pioneer VSX-1020-K receiver was announced today and it isn’t just the next version of Gizmodo’s Battlemodo champ and CNET Midrange editors’ choice, though that does give it some credibility   The VSX-1020-K contains a “Works with iPhone” certification (with free custom Pioneer iPhone app, free) that allows you to connect up your iPhone have your way with your living room sound.  That’s in addition to being able to browse your music on your HDTV. 

It is available for pre-order with a price guarantee at Amazon for $549.  iPhone screenshots below:

Product Features

Here’s the older model getting messed with: http://www.cnet.com/av/video/flv/universalPlayer/universalSmall.swf

We’ve been holding off on posting this to see if it was just a blip, but now the iPhone developer site has been down over an hour so perhaps something interesting may come up — like the ability to submit iPad apps?  It is about that time if Apple wants to have a good selection of specially designed apps available at the iPad launch.  Anyway.  If anyone sees anything new – shoot us a note in the comments.

We’re back online

With Sony’s recent offerings (PSP Go sales 50% under estimates) being somewhat below par, it is hard to get excited about anything coming down their pipe.  That, however, didn’t stop the Wall St. Journal from talking about their recent Sony leaks:

Threatened by Apple Inc.’s growing stable of portable devices, Sony Corp. is developing a new lineup of handheld products, including a smart phone capable of downloading and playing PlayStation games, according to people familiar with the matter.  The Japanese electronics giant also has a project under way to develop a portable device that blurs distinctions among a netbook, an e-reader and a PlayStation Portable, or PSP. The device is designed to compete against multifunction products such as Apple’s coming iPad tablet, these people said.

The new devices would take advantage of a new Sony online media platform, temporarily named Sony Online Service.  One of the bigger questions is will they run on the PSPoS or Android or something else?http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/microPlayer.swf

Apple, if they needed a reason to go after HTC, and by proxy Google, may have had it in marketshare numbers. Android’s growth has been pretty spectacular over the past few quarters highlighted by the graphs below from Quantcast, a web analytics firm.

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Those little Mac window icons we found inside of Valve’s Steam gaming platform might not just be skins as some of you thought.  Today, Valve released a slew of teaser ads to various websites around the web (Kotaku, MacRumors, MacNN, Shack News, Macworld, Gizmodo).  Six in all, the ads (pasted below) tease the release of the following Mac games: Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead. (Via Gizmodo)

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Digitimes today refutes stock manipulator analyst Peter Misek’s assertion that parts shortages will cause delays in shipping the iPad and possibly a smaller, US-only rollout.

In response to reports that initial volumes of Apple’s iPad in late March will be lower than originally planned and the launch will be only in the US market because production by Foxconn Electronics has been delayed, Foxconn’s component suppliers have said their supplies are on schedule and Foxconn should be able to ship 600,000-700,000 iPads in March and one million units in April.

Foxconn declined to comment publicly, though I think this proxy communication by their suppliers to Digitimes could be construed as such.  

The iPad is set to go on sale on or around March 26th at 6:00pm.

Also: That is a lot of iPads!

Google surely has an opinion on the bombshell news that Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement, right?  I mean, they are who Apple is really after

Ed Christman at Billboard contends that Apple is pressuring the record labels not to deal with Amazon and their Daily Deal, which allows users to purchase the album at a reduced price one day before it is generally released (on iTunes).

“When that happened,” the executive says, “iTunes said, ‘Enough of that shit.’ “

Sources say that iTunes representatives have been urging labels to rethink their participation in the Amazon promotion and that they have backed up those warnings by withdrawing marketing support for certain releases featured as Daily Deals.

In response, label executives at Capitol, Capitol Nashville and Jive recently opted against participating in Daily Deal promotions they had been considering for Corinne Bailey Rae