CNN to air Alex Gibney's 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' this Sunday CNN has launched a microsite advertising its upcoming broadcast of "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine," the controversial Alex Gibney documentary about Apple's iconic co-founder.
Samsung launches 6-inch, all-metal, super-thin Galaxy A9, in China | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Evan Blass Like the rest of the A handsets, Galaxy A9 is a metal and glass design, running Android 5.1 Lollipop (with a Marshmallow upgrade likely to arrive in a timely manner). At 7.4mm thin, the A9 features a full HD (1080p) Super AMOLED display, 3GB RAM / 32GB storage, and a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 652 SoC, all powered by a massive, albeit non-removable, 4,000mAh battery.Marvy!
'Blank’s Rule': To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy | VentureBeat | Business | by steveblank, Steve Blank Yet in 1961 LOR was a completely insane idea. We hadn’t even put a man into orbit, let alone figured out how to rendezvous and dock in earth orbit, and some crazy guy was suggesting we do this around the moon. If it didn’t succeed, the astronauts might die orbiting the moon. However, Houbolt wasn’t some crank, he was a member of the Lunar Mission Steering Group studying space rendezvous. Since he was only a mid-level manager, he presented his findings to the internal task forces and the experts dismissed this idea the first time they heard it. Then they dismissed it the second, fifth, and 20th time.Yes!
WhatsApp will take on FaceTime with video calling feature Having added voice calling at no extra cost earlier this year, WhatsApp is now reportedly looking to introduce FaceTime-style video calls, according to a new report.It ain't a standard if it only works on one platform. Sorry, I can't call you, you don't have an Apple device.
Microsoft acquires Ray Ozzie's team communication startup Talko, will integrate tech into Skype | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Jordan Novet Part of Talko’s appeal was that former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie was at the helm. Ozzie himself invested in the startup, as did Greylock Partners, Kapor Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.It's a mixture of Mozart and Bach, I call it mach!
The app brings together talk, texting, and conferencing. It’s been available on iOS and Android.
Powa Technologies enters China with UnionPay joint venture - Business Insider British payments startup Powa Technologies has signed a 10-year deal with China's state-owned payments company to bring its mobile payment app to the country.This is where US foreign policy intersects high technology. To understand it, read about the UK's involvement in the Asian Infrastructure Bank.
Cult of Android - Evernote is killing Skitch, Clearly and its Pebble app Evernote’s efforts to streamline its business will see it chop a number of apps from its lineup, including the popular annotation app Skitch. Clearly, a browser extension for Google Chrome, is also getting the boot — as is Evernote’s Pebble app.I love it when companies that have an initial first success realize how difficult it is to replicate success in the apps market over and over again.
Apple assigns App Store oversight to Phil Schiller in apparent nod to developer issues Apple's decision to split its App Stores out of Eddy Cue's iTunes and iCloud oversight and instead assign them to Phil Schiller, its head of worldwide marketing, appears to based on an effort to differentiate platform management of developers' interactive apps from the reselling of static content from media holders, and to handle each appropriately.Help us, Obi-Phil, you're our only hope.
Apple rolls out revamped Mac in Business webpage with focus on success stories Apple launched a redesigned Mac in Business webpage on Wednesday to better target its growing presence in enterprise, highlighting corporate success stories, a special section detailing its partnership with IBM and reworked marketing literature focusing on individual productivity apps.Guarded yay! Yay.
If you'd bought Apple stock instead of an Apple III, you'd be a millionaire In December 1980, Apple’s newest computer was an Apple III, with a starting price tag of $4340. Today, you’d be lucky to get that much for it — despite the relative rarity of that particular model.While you're at it, you should travel back in time and invent plastic.
Apple’s official IPO anniversary is actually tomorrow, December 12. At the time, the Wall Street Journal noted that, “Not since Eve has an Apple posed such a temptation.” It wasn’t wrong. The company’s public offering turned out to be the biggest since the Ford Motor Company in 1956.
Steve Jobs, just 25 years old at the time, ended the day valued at $217 million.
Cook says Apple won't race Google to bottom of education market, calls Chromebooks 'test machines' At an Hour of Code educational coding session in New York on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company is interested in building powerful, meaningful products for students and teachers, not inexpensive "test machines" like Google's Chromebook.Not sure that I'm a fan of Chromebooks, either, but at least on a Chromebook you can write code that powers a Chromebook (Javascript, Chrome extensions, etc). On an iPad, if you want to learn how to write apps for it, you need a Mac. Nothing wrong with that, but I think that means the iPad is not really a machine for launching new coders into the next era. I think the Raspberry PI is the Apple ][ of this generation. I suppose you could write an Apache Cordova application on an iPad. Also, MAD LOGO is interesting.
Twitter's Periscope claims App of the Year in Apple's 2015 App Store picks Periscope, the Twitter-owned live streaming app, was chosen as the overall favorite among Apple editors. Close behind were Lightricks' Enlight photo editor, and Robinhood, an app for free stock trading.Still think twitter is going down? I think not!
In Steve Jobs biopic sweepstakes, Ashton Kutcher is surprising box office winner over Aaron Sorkin | VentureBeat | Business | by Chris O'Brien Perhaps only someone like Steve Jobs could inspire two people as different as Ashton “Dude, where’s my car?” Kutcher and Aaron “blablahblahblahmeister” Sorkin to create separate biopics within only four years of his passing.I think Kutcher was a fairly realistic "Jobs" I believe Kutcher dropped out of engineering school to become an actor.
Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss | Cult of Mac Teaching your kids how to code is pretty much as important as teaching them to write, according to Apple’s senior VP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, in an interview promoting the company’s Hour of Code project.And that's why we have Raspberry PI, which is the Apple ][+ of the next generation.
Trump's dream: Bring Apple manufacturing back to U.S. Trump made the comments during an interview to promote his new book, Crippled America. “We think of Apple as an American company,” Trump said. “But they make their product in China. And they have offices here, but China makes more money with Apple than we do, if you think about it.”Trump does have some intelligent thoughts. Not necessarily good for business, but with the right tax breaks...
Epson unveils world’s first in-office paper recycling system | Ars Technica Printer giant Epson has developed an in-office paper recycling machine. Called the PaperLab, you put waste paper in, and then new, bright white printer paper comes out. Epson says this process is more efficient than sending paper to an off-site recycling plant, and it's also much more secure: the PaperLab, which breaks paper down into its constituent fibres before building them back up into new sheets, is one of the most secure paper shredders that money can buy.I'd say the wow factor here eclipses any iOS or Android device released in recent memory.
Cult of Android - Android users defect to iPhone 6s at unprecedented rate Apple’s iPhone family becomes even more successful every year, and the latest models aren’t just a hit with faithful fans. According to new research, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are attracting Android switchers at an unprecedented rate.I got a free MotoG in my new digs and I don't miss the iPhone at all.
TSMC may assume full control of 'A10' chip manufacturing for Apple's 'iPhone 7' in 2016 With next year's anticipated "A10" processor expected to power the next-generation iPhone, TSMC will likely gain complete control of Apple's processor manufacturing orders, according to a new report.Samsung and Apple, frenemies forever!
Microsoft delivers an unexpected gift to Apple Store employees | Cult of Mac Microsoft’s rivalry with Apple heated up this year when the company opened a flagship store on Fifth Ave in New York that looks a lot like an Apple Store. In the spirit of Christmas though, the company is calling for peace, and to show they mean it, they sent their employees caroling to the Fifth Ave Apple StorAwww. Office is always the biggest selling application, eventually.
