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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An interesting story coming from Cult of Mac today. Leander Kahny talks about his shared plane ride with PrimeSense CEO Inon Beracha in 2008.
You see, even though Microosft spends oodles of money in-house, it actually bought the Kinect technology from an Israeli company made of of former army engineers. This was in 2008 and Beracha was shopping the tech to everyone in the Valley. Apple being one of many who were interested.
Kinect is Microsoft’s new XBox full body scanning Gaming technology (if you hadn’t heard) with the New York Times‘ David Pogue saying,”It’s a “crazy, magical, omigosh rush.”
So how did it go with Apple?
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Interesting new product available at T-Mobile Stores in the US. Are they just looking out for AT&T iPhone and iOS device users or is there something bigger coming? Remember it was just this week that T-Mobile started running its AT&T bashing ads in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ format. via Engadget.
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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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From C-section via Techcrunch:
Google’s Instant steaming search results just hit the iPhone and presumably other iOS devices. Up here in New York, we’re still without. Hit us in the comments if you’ve got the Instant.
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.
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It is nice to see the Mac Version of Skype starting to gain feature parity with the Windows version. But this looks totally different than any Skype I’ve ever seen. It is all in one window and has the following new features:
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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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According to CNET, Lightpeek 10Gb Tx/Rx bus technology is on the way for a 2011 debut, likely in Apple’s Macintosh computeres.
But Apple is expected to back Light Peak, if past comments from Intel still hold. Shortly after its annual developer conference in 2009, Intel said that it had showed the technology to third parties, got feedback, then incorporated the feedback into the next design, adding, at that time, that “Apple is an innovating force in the industry.
Steve Jobs recently panned USB3 in an email saying that Intel didn’t directly support it in their chips. Intel will natively support Light Peak. Below is a video on Light Peak:
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“People looking for a light duty laptops should consider an iPad.” –Mossberg
Remember a lot of non-techies follow this guy’s advice.
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Some hackers have got Plex client working on the new iOS-based AppleTVs. That means if you have a Plex server running in your house you could theoretically play any Plex content on your AppleTV. Here are the simple instructions.
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Oh, snap! As part of the Q&A in today’s announcement, FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded a question about a Facebook App coming to the iPad. His answer? “iPad is a computer, not a mobile device.”
That wouldn’t be so bad if some douchebags weren’t installing it on Android tablets as we speak.
That big Facebook announcement today? Yeah it is a smartphone update, but not a Facephone. Zuck took to the stage to announce some feature updates to the Android and iPhone Facebook apps, including the new Places, Groups and tagging features. It hasn’t hit our App Store yet (Update there it is!) but I’m sure you’ll let us know in the comments when it does, won’t you?
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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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.
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It doesn’t look like T-Mobile is getting the iPhone anytime soon.
Also, if you want to video chat over 3G on the iPhone 4, your options include YahooIM, Fring and Tango… or jailbreaking.
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