News Corp, chief Rupert Murdoch is at D:All Things Digital this week, and took a moment during his opening presentation to give us a run-down on his attempt to make cash out of the iPad app gold rush.
The boss of the giant international media company broke out a few figures on sales of newspaper-related iPad apps, and made a statement to underline the value of content to the technology food chain.
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This clip shows us doctors at a hospital run by Kobe University actually using an iPad as a display during a surgery.
In the video you can see a medic zooming in and out of images shown on the iPad
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If ever there’s been a heart-warming animal story that’s desperate for an accompanying video it has to be this one — a nice little story about a dolphin, an iPad and a research team.
The story is as follows: Dolphin research scientist, Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com, is using an iPad to help develop a language with which to communicate with a young two year old dolphin called Merlin.
“The use of the iPad is part of our continuing search to find a suitable touch screen technology which the dolphins can activate with the tip of their rostrums or beaks. After extensive searching and product review, it looks like our choice is between the Panasonic Toughbook and the Apple iPad,
After just two months in the wild, AT&T is dropping the $29.99 unlimited data plan for new purchasers of the 3G-capable iPad.
The new, only-slightly-better-if-you-are-cheap, plan will run users $25 for 2GB of data transfer over 30 days. If an iPad user blows through their 2GB of data, they are charged another $25 and the 30-day timer resets itself.
Basically, new iPad owners pay $25 for 2GB of data, or 30 days — whichever comes first.
From AT&T’s press release:
For new iPad customers, the $25 per month 2 GB plan will replace the existing $29.99 unlimited plan. iPad customers will continue to pre-pay for their wireless data plan and no contract is required. Existing iPad customers who have the $29.99 per month unlimited plan can keep that plan or switch to the new $25 per month plan with 2 GB of data.
Apple and AT&T’s one-option data plan for the iPhone is no more. Since the iPhone 3G came out two years ago, the iPhone data plan has been $29.99 for unlimited use. Now, new customers have a pair of cheaper, but less-unlimited options. All data plans now offer unlimited use of AT&T’s 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, which is sort of nice.
The “DataPlus” package is $15/month for 200MB of data transfer — with a $15 charge for any overages up to 200MB. AT&T claims 65 percent of its smartphone users will fit safely under the 200MB cap.
The more prestigious “DataPro” package is $25/month for 2GB of data transfer, with a fairly reasonable (well, not compared to the prior unlimited plan) $10 per GB for overages. Tethering (including for the iPhone) can be added to this plan for $20/month. There is no tethering option for the DataPlus plan.
Existing AT&T customers are grandfathered into the $29.99/unlimited plan — but they cannot take advantage of the new tethering feature unless they “upgrade” to the new DataPro plan.
Follow all that? This might make it easier:
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If you are an existing iPhone customer, you can keep your existing unlimited plan for $29.99. If you wish to add tethering as an option, you must drop your old plan and add the new 2GB/$25 plan — plus pay $20 a month for tethering.
If you are a new iPhone customer, you must choose the DataPlus or DataPro packages, and add tethering if you so desire.
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Here is the relevant text from AT&T’s press release:
It’s official: AT&T is FINALLY launching iPhone data tethering in the United States this summer, with the launch of iPhone OS 4. The iPhone is getting a new data plan that offers tethering as a $20 per month add-on.
Existing iPhone customers will have to drop their $30/month unlimited data plan for a new $25/month 2GB plan — plus cough up an additional $20 per month for tethering. That’s in-line with what the other cell carriers charge for tethering, but having to change plans is annoying.
From AT&T’s press release:
Smartphone customers
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Steve Jobs talked about many interesting topics tonight at All Things D’s D8, and Flash was a major topic. The video above focuses on Jobs’ conversation about that.
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Steve Jobs is set to be interviewed by Mossberg and Swisher tonight at D8 at 6PM PT. We’ll post information as it happens but don’t think they’ll have a live video feed. If any of the attendees is doing a UStream/Qik, you know where to find it (here).
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As is the poster, we aren’t sure if this is a feature or bug, but it certainly would be one of those useful “little things” that Apple is so good at.
The New York Times’ Nick Bilton’s dog Pixel playing Airhockey on iPad:
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Google’s move to close the door on Windows is a good thing for the computer industry, a great step for Mac and Linux systems and a call to arms to enterprise users to improve security by abandoning reliance on single OS computing set-ups in favour of a new world of tech-diversity. Read more.
Jobs’ first Emails are coming in about the Foxconn ‘issues’. In a three part email conversation with an Apple fan on the Foxconn problems, Jobs wrote:
Apple is giving the Foxconn suicides its full attention and is insisting its suppliers meet the company
Google’s move to close the door on Windows is a good thing for the computer industry, a great step for Mac and Linux systems and a call to arms to enterprise users to improve security by abandoning reliance on single OS computing set-ups in favour of a new world of tech-diversity.
No big surprise here but the iPad’s International launch seems to have put another spike in the iPad’s rapidly growing Web market share which had the device topping out at .17% over the weekend.
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We usually dismiss security warnings from anti-virus companies because they are just plays to get Mac users to buy their software. This latest one from Intego might, however, be of concern to a few of you out there.
Description: Intego has discovered a spyware application that is installed by a number of freely distributed Mac applications and screen savers found on a variety of websites. This spyware, OSX/OpinionSpy, performs a number of malicious actions, from scanning files to recording user activity, as well as sending information about this activity to remote servers and opening a backdoor on infected Macs. OSX/OpinionSpy is installed by a number of applications and screen savers that are distributed on sites such as MacUpdate, VersionTracker and Softpedia. The spyware itself is not contained in these applications, but is downloaded during the installation process.
Intego sells its Mac anit-virus software for $50 or there are many free anti-Virus software apps available like ClamAV.
The information provided with some of these applications contains a misleading text that users must accept explaining that a
