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iPhone gains, BlackBerry loses US smartphone marketshare

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 9 2010 - 4:42 am PT
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Apple iPhone gained one percentage point share in the US smartphone market while BlackBerry lost a point in the last three months of 2009, said comScore.

The researchers reported Monday that BlackBerry remains the most widely used smart phone system in the US, with 41.6 percent of the market – one point less than in the previous quarter.

Apple gained 1.2 percentage points to reach 25.3 percent of the US smart phone market.

Microsoft took 18 percent of the market, followed by Palm with 6.1 percent and Google with 5.2 percent.

Motorola remained top US handset hardware maker in the quarter, with 23.5 percent market share. Its closest competitors, LG Electronics and Samsung, made 21.9 percent and 21.2 percent of all phones used in the US, followed by Nokia Corp. and RIM.

Best Buy shows MacBook Pro inventory as "deleted"

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 8 2010 - 6:12 pm PT
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Our MacBook Pro update sensors are on high alert and, with that in mind, we’re posting this screenshot which may mean that updates are indeed coming soon.

A Best Buy spy has forwarded us a screenshot of their inventory system that shows all current MacBook Pros in the system as “deleted”.  Perhaps an update is coming sooner rather than later?  The real question: Will they have 3G?

 

Here’s the email with the tip.  If it has been posted other places like MacRumors forums and TUAW, it is just that, a tip.

Thanks for the pageviews tho.  Here’s another one from some forum giving us fantastic traffic!:

9to5mac at Macworld

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 8 2010 - 4:41 pm PT
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Macworld starts tomorrow and we’ll be on the floor looking at all of the new/upgraded products on display.  The event has decidedly less attention this year due to Apple’s bypassing, but there is still no other gathering outside of Apple’s own events with a bigger Apple audience.

Although Apple won’t officially be here, we’ve been invited to check out Apple’s subsidiaries who have rented hotel space near Moscone to show their wares as well.  

If you are coming to the event, you might want to check out the free iMacworld app for iPhone and iPod touch to help navigate the show floor space.  If you want to get in contact with us, shoot an email to macworld2010@9to5mac.com.

 

Macworld Expo: InFocus shows wireless projetor system for Macs

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 8 2010 - 10:02 am PT
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InFocus has stolen a march on an anticipated run of product launches at Macworld in San Francisco this week, introducing a new solution for Macs which enables wireless projection of audio and video assets via a projector.

Based on wireless technology from Wisair, the InFocus DisplayLink Wireless system (c.$136) allows presenters to easily connect to InFocus DisplayLink-enabled projectors and share HD content on the big screen without wires.

The solution first came to market in August last year – for Windows only. Today the company brings Apple laptops into the fold, it will release the system with Mac OS X support at the end of March 2010.

As the company explains:

MacBook Pro Core i7 caught GeekBenching itself

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 6 2010 - 8:13 am PT
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If you were excited about the prospect of Core i5 MacBook Pros, which Intel briefly offered up in a contest last month, you are going to be pretty stoked about today’s news from MacRumors.

Their forum members found a GeekBench scoring done yesterday by a Core-i7  M620 MacBook Pro which is running an unreleased version of Mac OS 10.6.2 (Build 10C3067) and Bios MBP61.88Z.004C.B00.1001251657.

Current generation MacBook Pros score in the 3700-4000 range on the GeekBench score meaning that this particular laptop is a screamer. 

We’re hoping we don’t have to remind anyone here to hold off on buying a new MacBook Pro for the foreseeable future as it seems an update is imminent, with Macrumors even saying that International supplies of MacBook Pros have been dwindling.

We should note that it isn’t impossible to fake the specs of a MacBook to Geekbench.

Mac OS 10.6.3 build 10D548 seeded to developers

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 6 2010 - 7:29 am PT
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Some news from the Mac development realm today: OS X 10.6.3 build 10D548 was released to developers last night. 
From the seed notes:

Included in this update:

– Performance improvements for 64-bit Logic
– Addresses compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
– Includes changes to QuickTime X that increase reliability, improve compatibility and address security.
– Improves printing reliability and compatibility with 3rd party printers
– Respects the DNS server ordering as specified in Network Preferences
– Addresses an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail when scrolling
– Resolves an issue that prevented files with the # or & in their names from opening in Rosetta
– Resolves an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows shares
– Resolves an issue that caused machines using BTMM and the Bonjour Sleep Proxy to wake unexpectedly

Focus Areas
– AirPort
– GraphicsDrivers
– iCal
– QuickTime
– Printing

But the biggest news? 

Known Issues
– none

Which means we might see it sooner rather than later.

Sling says they didn't work with AT&T to optimize app, it was always optimized. AT&T caught in big fat ugly lie.

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 5 2010 - 9:39 am PT
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Another classy one from AT&T:

Ars contacted Sling to see what exactly they did to optimize their code for it to get accepted by AT&T.  They said there had been no changes since the original submission over a year ago and that it had always been optimized for 3G network streaming.  

“We didn’t change anything,” Sling Media’s John Santoro told Ars. “AT&T never discussed any specific requirements with us.”

Santoro explained that SlingPlayer Mobile has always contained code to adapt the stream quality to the given network conditions. AT&T has been in discussions with Sling since it was first released last year, but AT&T never asked the company to make specific modifications. No changes were made to the app’s 3G streaming capabilities between its being barred from AT&T and now.

That makes AT&T a big fat liar.  From their press release yesterday:

How Steve Wozniak Brought Color to Personal Computers

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 5 2010 - 1:22 am PT
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In this clip Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, talks engagingly about how he added color to computing.

For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve has won numerous accolades, including the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985.

In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”

See more clips at Fora TV. (Looks like this may have taken place late last year, but this video’s only been in circulation a few hours, far as we can tell).