How $96,000 can buy you a top 10 ranking in the U.S. app store | VentureBeat

How $96,000 can buy you a top 10 ranking in the U.S. app store | VentureBeat: "Can you buy your way to the top of the app store? In a word, yes."

Either that or get featured.

Apple announces WWDC 2013 keynote for Monday, June 10

Apple announces WWDC 2013 keynote for Monday, June 10: "But in a rare move, the company has already revealed that it will show off the next major releases of both iOS and OS X at WWDC 2013. Upgraded MacBooks featuring Intel's new Haswell processors are also expected to be introduced at the event."

Lucky for me, session videos are online!

Google's Chrome team developing app launcher for Mac

Google's Chrome team developing app launcher for Mac
Because the Chrome OS platform runs Web apps instead of traditional programs, the app launcher is a vital part of the experience. Instead of having to enter Chrome to execute app functions, the launcher breaks out the Web-based titles into a separate window. "

This may seem like an innocuous announcement, but in combination with Google Native Client, there is a bright future here. Call me a naysayer, but I don't think the future is written in Javascript. Unless of course you want to write a lot more code than you need to. Maybe typescript tho'

Cook: US-built Mac will be refreshed version of existing product

Cook: US-built Mac will be refreshed version of existing product: "While not a major topic of discussion, the Apple chief told Politico that Apple's upcoming domestically-made computer will not be a new product, but a revision on an existing machine. "

This is an interesting story in general and worth tracking. Virtually every device consumers obsess over is built somewhere in the world under less than ideal working conditions.

Smartphone companies, including Apple, have little to show for patent litigation

Smartphone companies, including Apple, have little to show for patent litigation: "Courts around the world have rebuked claims made in lawsuits from smartphone manufacturers, The Wall Street Journal detailed in an industry profile this week."

But the lawyers are making out like whoo hook hook!

As its shares rebound, Apple seen as ready to 'change the narrative'

As its shares rebound, Apple seen as ready to 'change the narrative'
Reitzes expects Apple to announce new software, services and Macs at WWDC, followed by another event in September, where the company is expected to announce a new iPhone.

Bouncing back from hugely successful to insanely successful?

Editorial: Apple's iOS is the new Windows

Editorial: Apple's iOS is the new Windows: "How is it possible that Apple has managed to rapidly sop up the majority of the entire mobile device industry's profits, and has since then continued to dominate the direction of the industry? "

My opinion: the combination of Xcode + Obj-C and mature frameworks makes for the highest levels of programmer productivity, both within Apple and in the 3rd party dev community.

I had 2 cents and now you have it too.

Google Glass is creepy, but augmented reality doesn’t have to be | VentureBeat

Google Glass is creepy, but augmented reality doesn’t have to be | VentureBeat
“Creepy” is a word that often gets thrown around when we’re talking about Google Glass, somewhat rightfully, and somewhat not"

I thought a woman was following me around the Metro station afew days ago taking pictures with her iPhone. It brought out my inner paranoid delusionist because I'm sure she was doing something else and merely keeping the camera in the iPhone pointed in my general direction. Cameras are everywhere, being monitored by god knows who, and I'm not sure why Google glass is any creepier than Big Brother. What you don't know, don't creeps you.

IBM makes the world’s smallest movie with atoms | VentureBeat

IBM makes the world’s smallest movie with atoms | VentureBeat: "Andreas Heinrich (pictured below), principal investigator at IBM Reseach, said in an interview with VentureBeat that his team used the tool to move thousands of atoms into precise spots, creating 242 frames of stop-motion scenes. "

This is a cool and unusual story.