COMPUTERWORLD: Strange days, on the one hand you see Apple discontinue its main enterprise product (the Xserve) in the same week as we see the company’s enterprise credentials climb a notch or two, and we also learn the company’s looking to mobile payment solutions in order to bring people without credit cards inside its future iWallet economy.
Hi Adobe. I know I’ve said some critical things about Flash, and I sure do miss the days when you and Macromedia seemed more focused on creative applications, but I do like this demonstration of a version of Photoshop running on an iPad.
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The App Store’s full of apps, thousands of them, but its still a little tricky sorting through them all, now Apple’s put together a new element to guide you to the most popular ones, the “App Store Hall of Fame”.
The Hall of Fame features the top fifty apps of all time, Apple says, describing these as the ‘best of the best’. The list includes both free and paid apps.
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Yet more Apple moves in corporate America, where the iPhone and iPad are gaining more traction than the actually pretty good Xserve ever did — it seems Bank of America and Citigroup are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry for corporate e-mail.
From out tips:
At PwC, we go live with iPhone roll-out in January – available to all 30,000 US employees. No word yet on availability to our foreign comrades (roughly 120,000 of them worldwide).
– Talkin’ Bout A Revolution
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COMPUTERWORLD: I’ve said it before now I’m saying it again, the iPad is indeed cannibalizing netbook sales. For proof, you don’t have to ask Best Buy’s boss, nor do you have to listen to the analysts, you just need to speak with Microsoft. Apple’s iPad is exploding into the enterprise, defining new categories and generating huge disruption across many industries, meanwhile competitors are simply unable to keep up as Apple does the business.
Apple’s latest patents detail some extremely sophisticated gaming features for multiplayer gaming in real-life environments. We’re heading for the great urban iWars.
There’s an observed trend among enterprise users to move to embrace the iPad, now big business is being urged to make serious plans to integrate the device into their IT infrastructure, on strong advice from the Gartner Group.
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Apple’s taken a bit of a bump in Japan, where Samsung’s recently-introduced Galaxy S Android-powered smartphone has outsold the iPhone — the first time in 18+ weeks iPhone’s been kicked off of the number one slot.
Admittedly the figures only reflect one week’s sales. Also important is that the sales reflect the first week in which Samsung’s offering was made available for purchase.
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COMPUTERWORLD: We may be talking about gaming, but Apple isn’t playing. The company is rapidly deploying all the components it needs to make a major grab for the console games market, powered by the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Nintendo knows what’s coming, while developers expect iPhones to be able to run the kind of titles which were state-of-the-art when Microsoft launched the Xbox360. It is almost beautiful watching as Apple slowly puts its game together.
We had kind of expected iWork 11 to make its first appearance alongside iLife 11 last month. It didn’t, but it looks like Apple’s productivity suite is on the way, it could even ship next month.
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Apple’s legal battle with Nokia looks to have seen some setback, with staff at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) telling the judge in the case that Apple’s patent allegations are ‘unfounded’.
“The evidence will not establish a violation” of Apple patent rights, the staff, which acts on behalf of the public as a third party in the case, said in a pre-hearing memo released yesterday.
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Apple will introduce support for iTunes LP and iTunes Extras formated content on the new Apple TV, but hasn’t committed to a release date as yet, the latest note from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, explains.
Apple has lured Warner Music Group’s head of digital legal affairs, Elliot Peters, to leave the music label to join Apple’s iTunes team.
Based in Luxembourg, Peters will become Apple’s corporate attorney director for iTunes Europe and Internet services, Billboard reports. His job will be to manage the European legal team for iTunes and MobileMe service.
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Apple’s loosened-up its deal for AppleCare customers, enabling them to transfer their maintenance and support agreements to new products.
“As of 28 October 2010, customers who want to transfer their AppleCare Protection Plan (APP) coverage to a new product may do so instead of having to cancel the agreement and purchase a new one.”
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Here’s a funny: Sesame Street’s parody of Apple’s famed ‘There’s an App for that’ marketing schtick.
For example, “If you want to comb your cat…there’s an app for that!”
Funny. Cheers to Technabob.
Living eight to a room on four bunks, long shifts and tiny televisions in depersonalized common rooms, this is life at Foxconn’s iPhone factories, a fresh report informs this morning.
Below pictorial record of life in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzen, China, a place a colossal 420,000 workers call home. There’s pictures of dorm blocks and of the netting draped around these buildings to help prevent suicides at the plants. (The spate of suicides stopped in May, the report explains).
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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s iPad has seized a mighty 95 percent share of the nascent tablet market, and while competitors are swinging into action Apple already has plans to take the discussion to a whole new level as the company engages in an all-fronts fight for the future of innovation and mobility.
If you worry in case viruses appear on the more-or-less virus proof Mac platform, then worry no more — there’s a reputable and free anti-virus solution available for you today, from the security boffins over at Sophos.
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Apple has cut €100 off of the European price of the Mac mini — the price cut is trans-European, it is also available at the UK store.
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Apple and Google seem set for another bidding war with both companies said to be sniffing around at purchasing mobile payments firm, BOKU.
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Apple’s plans for the iPhone 5 extend beyond the iWallet and straight into a more mobile computing experience than you’ve seen before using an iPhone, at least that’s what Cult of Mac is claiming.
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COMPUTERWORLD: Sorry about this. Perhaps I should have posted this earlier, but I slept in. I really didn’t expect Europe’s iPhone users would fail to wake up this morning because a bug in Apple’s iOS alarm software didn’t recognise the change in clocks here over the weekend…
iPhone is the most popular US smartphone while the Android army’s march has propelled that multiplicity of devices to become the most popular OS, Canalsys reports today.
The analysts note massive growth in the sector – the worldwide smartphone market grew by 95 percent over the year ago quarter. Nokia stays ahead of the pack with 33 percent while Apple grabbed 17 percent worldwide, putting it above RIM.
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Apple’s senior VP retail, Ron Johnson, has exercised 150,000 AAPL stock options at a strike price of $11.73, selling these for a total $44.1 million.
Johnson, who has been responsible for Apple’s explosive retail store success, sold his shares at an average $306.07 per share, according to a SEC filing.
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