Apple Developing Video Sharing App for iPhones & iPads (video)

Apple Said to Be Developing iPhone Video Sharing App:

Apple is developing a video sharing and editing application and is testing new related features for its iPhone and iPad operating systems. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports on "Bloomberg Markets" August 25, 2016.

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Expectations For Apple's $AAPL Next Event March 21st

Expectations From Apple's Next Event | Tech Bet | CNBC - CNBC's Morgan Brennan and Izea CEO Ted Murphy discuss a new iPhone, iPad, and other device updates expected from Apple's at a March 21st event. Published on Mar 11, 2016

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Two Apple iPad Pro Video Reviews

Apple iPad Pro Reviews--from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg--

iPad Pro Video Review: With giant screen, keyboard and stylus, is the new iPad Pro a laptop? A sketchbook? A TV? WSJ's Joanna Stern goes on a journey to find out what the iPad Pro really is.(Nov 11, 2015)


iPad Pro Review: Big New Canvas - Bloomberg's Sam Grobart got a hold of the new iPad Pro and he needed both hands to hold it. Published on Nov 11, 2015

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Apple Watch Is Biggest Release Since iPad (video)

Apple Watch Is Biggest Release Since iPad: Reichgut -

Jun Group CEO Mitchell Reichgut and Bloomberg's Tim Higgins discuss the Apple watch with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg West." (Feb 27)

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Why European Parliament Is Picking a Fight With Google (video)

Thursday the European Parliament voted  in favor of breaking up Google (the vote is not binding). The world's largest search engine is accused of squeezing out its competitors. Bloomberg spoke with a legal expert about what's driving this action. (Source: Bloomberg 11/26) 

European parliament votes | Ars Technica: " Although the vote is non-binding, it's a definite setback for the company...."


India Today
International Business|In Symbolic Vote, EU Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google
New York Times
A breakup of Google in Europe will almost certainly not happen, legal .... Google in Europe are major American technology companies like Microsoft ...
European Parliament Votes To Break Up Google - Forbes
European Parliament Approves Google Breakup Resolution - Wall Street Journal
European Parliament Backs Investigation To Split Google Search From Its Other Businesses - TechCrunch


Wall Street Journal
EU Says Google Should Extend 'Right to Be Forgotten' to '.com' Websites
Wall Street Journal
In a new set of guidelines agreed upon in Brussels on Wednesday, the body representing the European Union's 28 national privacy regulators said search engines should apply the bloc's new right to be forgotten to all of their websites—in particular .com ...

New York Times
Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization
New York Times
Hovering above the destruction in Sunset Overdrive, set in a city of murderous creatures....

NDTV
Sony settles with FTC on allegedly misleading PlayStation tweets
Los Angeles Times
Sony's PlayStation Vita may not have been so game-changing after all. Sony settled with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday over charges that it deceived customers in 2011 about the "game changing" advanced technology on the handheld gaming ...

CNET
Get 100 free MP3 albums from Microsoft
CNET
"We'll see your one free album, Google, and raise you a hundred!" The catch? Windows 8 and Windows Phone users only...

PCWorld
Twitter starts peeking at the other apps on your phone
PCWorld
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its ...

San Jose Mercury News
Tablet shopping: iPad, Android or Windows?
San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK -- Time for a tablet? People tend to hold onto tablets longer than smartphones, so take time to weigh your options. A major consideration is what phone you or your gift recipient already has. Although it's possible for Android owners to have Apple's ...

CNET
Amazon Black Friday deals on Kindle and Fire devices start Thursday
CNET
Amazon is offering some impressive deals on its in-house Kindle readers, Fire tablets and Fire phones during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend....

Computerworld
Lenovo Pranks Shoppers for Yoga 3 Ad
PC Magazine
The laptop maker on Tuesday released a Yoga 3 promotional video featuring unsuspecting mallgoers and a broken Apple laptop. The prank featured members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater comedy troupe, who tricked passersby at the Plymouth ...

Computerandvideogames.com
Assassin's Creed Unity Season Pass 'discontinued', free game offered
Computerandvideogames.com
In a drastic move following the marred launch of Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has "discontinued" the game's Season Pass and announced free offerings as compensation to owners of the game. Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallet detailed the move in a ...


TechCrunch
Identity Wars: Why Apple Pay Is About More Than Payments
TechCrunch
Editor's Note: Patrick Salyer is the chief executive officer of Gigya, a customer identity management company. There's been no shortage of attention ...

Microsoft reportedly planning Windows 10 event for January
Microsoft will hold an event this January to show off the new features of Windows 10, according to The Verge. Although January is traditionally ...

Hackers force message on websites via US firm - San Francisco Chronicle: "...The executive says hackers rerouted Internet traffic from its website to a computer server that generated a message to visitors that their site had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. Published reports noted the message appeared on websites for several UK newspapers, CNBC and the National Hockey League. Gigya says no user or company data was compromised in the hack. The Syrian group aligns itself with Syrian President Bashar Assad..."

Here are most of Amazon's Black Friday videogame deals, all in one place

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Real Virtual Reality, Hyve 3D Real-Life Holodeck, No Oculus Rift Needed (video)

Hyve 3D Real-Life Holodeck: No Oculus Rift Needed: Video - Bloomberg:
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Remember the holodeck on "Star Trek: The Next Generation?" With no Oculus Rift or other headset required, Hyve 3D aims to bring virtual reality into rooms using projectors, motion sensors, and wraparound screens. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015" series. (Source: Bloomberg 11/10)

Obama Calls for Strict Net Neutrality Policy - NYTimes.com: "President Obama on Monday put the full weight of his administration behind an open and free Internet, calling for a strict policy of so-called net neutrality and formally opposing deals in which content providers like Netflix would pay huge sums to broadband companies for faster access to their customers."


CNN
Is it time for a new Google mission statement?
CNN
Back in 1999, Google came up with "ten things we know to be true" that ... Rather than a public service, Google is -- with Apple -- the most successful ...

San Jose Mercury News
Apple Security Bypass Can Turn Good Apps Into Data Thieves, Claims FireEye
Forbes
... iOS defences on non-jailbroken iPhones is the holy grail for anyone wanting to hack iDevices. Today, security ...
Apple iOS bug makes devices vulnerable to attack: experts - Reuters
Apple iOS Bug Makes Most Devices Vulnerable To Attack, Researchers Say - Huffington Post


TechCrunch (blog)
Here's What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Thinks Apple And Google Do Best
TechCrunch (blog)
When I think about what Apple does, what Google does and what Microsoft does, therein lies perhaps the simplest answer to why these three ...

The Atlantic
How Numbers on Facebook Change Behavior
The Atlantic
A "like" on Facebook is a treat. You get a little red pop-up on your notifications icon, you see the little box on the lower-left corner of your screen ...

TechCrunch (blog)
Microsoft Office Apps Skyrocket To The Top Of The App Store Following Pricing Changes
TechCrunch (blog)
The apps have shot up to the top of Apple's App Store after last week's ... That gave competitors like Apple and Google room to establish footholds of ...

New York Times
Apple releases new fix for lost iMessage texts
USA TODAY
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Apple has a released a new fix to its iMessage app that's supposed to solve a problem that has long irked cellphone users who ...
Apple finally delivers online iMessage tool for resolving SMS routing bugs - Pocketnow
How to deregister your phone number from iMessage and get your texts back - Gigaom


AppAdvice
iPad is Apple's unanswered revolution
The Verge
Google released the unsatisfying Nexus 9, which had posed the biggest threat of dethroning the iPad, and Microsoft made its Office suite of apps ...

New York Times
For Bono and U2, Apple iTunes Partnership Finally Hits a Wrong Note
New York Times
As a mushroom cloud of discontent erupted, Bono engaged in what sounded like contrition in a video posted on the band's Facebook page as part of a ...

Facebook successfully makes over a half-billion people download Messenger app
Over 500 million people have now downloaded the standalone Facebook Messenger app ...

Amazon's Echo Video Gets Drowned Out by Parody
The video for Amazon's Echo speaker gets parodied on YouTube with a ... A slew of hilarious parodies have turned the Siri and Google Now-like ...

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The Apple Mac, Surprising Growth Driver, Surpassing iPad

Editor's Note: With Windows 8, Microsoft damaged its Windows brand and consumer confidence in Microsoft products and Windows PCs--giving increasing opportunity on the high-end to Apple and on the low-end to Google's Chrome OS computers--


iMac with Retina 5K display, and faster, more powerful, processors, the ultimate all-in-one computer now features the ultimate display.Published on Oct 16, 2014

Apple’s Surprising Growth Driver: the Mac - WSJ - WSJ: "During a quarter marked by frenzied demand for the latest iPhones, Apple Inc. logged its biggest sales gains with a product heading into middle-age: the Mac. On the 30th anniversary of the first Macintosh, a 21% jump in unit sales helped Apple’s computer line leapfrog the sagging iPad to become the company’s second biggest-selling product line in revenue terms, just behind the iPhone. The Mac line generated revenue of $6.625 billion in the quarter, more than iPad revenue of $5.316 billion. Demand for Macs rose amid falling sales of Windows PCs, giving Apple more than 6% of the global PC market, according to the research firm IDC. That percentage is Apple’s highest market share since 1995, when Microsoft Corp. established its dominance over the computer market with Windows 95. The Mac gained market share in 33 of the last 34 quarters, lifting its share from 2.1% in 2006, according to IDC...."


ReadWrite
The Mac Is Trouncing The iPad—
ReadWrite
The Wall Street Journal just declared that Apple's "surprising growth driver" is none other than the humble (and seemingly post-PC passé) Mac. While it's true that the Mac is driving growth, it's anything but surprising. See also: Apple iPad Sales Continue To ...

TechNEWS:

New York Times
Apple Pay Runs Afoul of MCX, a Group With a Rival Product
New York Times
Even before Apple Pay was announced, a coalition of retailers refused to ... withtechnology companies, credit card businesses and retailers all fighting for a ... Google'spayments product, Google Wallet, famously flopped after its ...
Why Meijer isn't ditching Apple Pay like other retailers - MLive.com
Apple Pay competitor confirms email breach - USA TODAY
Blocking Apple Pay Is A Terrible Strategy For CurrentC Merchants - Forbes


New York Times
Facebook to Spend Billions on Future
New York Times
“Facebook Atlas is the biggest thing to take on Google in a long time,” said Jan Rezab, chief executive of Socialbakers, a social media analytics firm.
Facebook shares down 11% on warning of rising costs - USA TODAY
Facebook warns of increased spending, shares fall - Reuters
Facebook Vows Aggressive Spending - Wall Street Journal


New York Times
Looking for a Design Behind Amazon's Devices
New York Times
But Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, is known for patience and a ... continuing tech war between it and Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft.


CNET
The complete guide to Google Fit
CNET
Google Fit is Google's answer to Apple's Health app. It uses the sensors built into your device to automatically track activities like walking, biking and ...

Google takes another step into your living room with its Nexus Player
You see, once everything's hooked up, the Nexus Player basically does what Amazon's Fire TV does -- it acts as a conduit to all the video Google's got ...

Stripe Hires Top Google Ops Exec Claire Johnson to Lead Business Operations
But she has held a wide variety of jobs at Google, from working on the ... That includes recent deals with Twitter, Apple and many others to provide ...

Apple SIM Included With iPad for Customer Convenience, but iPhone Not Likely to Join In
Apple had the consumer in mind when it added a multi-carrier SIM card to its new iPads, said Apple vice president of iPhone, iPod and iOS product...

Hands on with the Nexus 6: A Nexus phone Google hopes is one for the masses
And that's good for Google and Android since major U.S. carriers will be ... Microsoft announced a trio of new cloud data services on Wednesday ... Since joining Facebook, Instagram is getting more and more love from big brands.

Google Fit Arrives to Take on Apple's HealthKit
A great paradigm shift in technology has come to light this week – with Amazon unveiling its Fire TV Stick and HP also gunning for the creative industry ...

Tim Cook Reveals Why Apple Killed the iPod Classic...
... After Apple's September keynote, they quietly discontinued their iPod Classic. It's probably no ...

A desktop for Dali: Meet HP's wildly innovative Sprout
HP is attempting to disrupt the printing industry — which it helped create back in the 70s — with a new 3D-printing technology and a wildly innovative ...

What Are Actions?
Google Developers
Actions enable users to interact with your product or service right inside Gmail and Inbox. For instance, when a user receives an invitation to an event, ...Actions can be declared in two ways: as In-App Actions or as Go-To Actions. Multiple types of actions are currently supported.

Internet.org App Launches in Tanzania
Facebook Newsroom

Leaked Office for Mac 2015 screenshots look just like the Windows version
The Verge
Microsoft's next version of Outlook for Mac appeared earlier this week in ...

HP 3D printing with Multi Jet Fusion™ technology
Hewlett Packard
HP's Multi Jet Fusion technology enables the world to realize the full potential of 3D printing—in full-color, highly functional parts.

Speaking in Tech
The Register
Speaking in Tech: Amazon's Fire is being snuffed out ... and Microsoft's ("insane") billion dollar estimate for establishing a presence in the ... 

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Carl Icahn Says Apple Shares Sell at Half Price, Wants Buyback

Carl wants his shares in Apple to increase in value--now--

Wall Street Journal
Icahn Letter Pushes Apple to Buy Back More Shares
Wall Street Journal
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, in an open letter, called on Apple CEO Tim Cook to buy back shares. Icahn also projects a new Apple HD TV set in ...
Icahn: Apple shares sell at 'half price' value - USA TODAY
One More Thing: Carl Icahn Expects Apple To Crush The 4K TV Market - Forbes


The Hindu
The Disconnect Between Yahoo Shareholders And Marissa Mayer
Forbes
I'm not the only shareholder who is critical now of Mayer as a CEO. I've spoken to many investors privately who share my frustration and have ...


Wall Street Journal
Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed
Wall Street Journal
Suppliers of the Cupertino, Calif., company had originally planned to produce the larger iPad in mass volume beginning in December, the people said.


USA TODAY
Report: Amazon to open retail store in NYC
USA TODAY
Online retail giant Amazon will take on Macy's and other Herald Square retailers with a ... "Even the Apple Store carries non-Apple products," he says.
Amazon's first brick-and-mortar store said to open in Manhattan - Engadget


Wall Street Journal
Apple Supplier Wants to Wind Down Production
Wall Street Journal
GT Advanced Technologies, a manufacturer of synthetic sapphire that was considered for Apple's new smartphones, is looking to end production after ...


New York Times
Technology Titans Lead Ranking of Most Valuable Brands
New York Times
In addition to Apple and Google, they are Microsoft, at No. ... And Facebook — which had the highest percentage increase in value from last year, 86 percent — is, ... 45, up 27 percent; Amazon, classified as a retail brand, No. 15, up ...


New York Times
Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin
New York Times
Apple and Samsung, for example, are betting on the wrist; Google, the face. A slew of tech companies believe clothing will simply become electronic.


New York Times
Court Hears Case on Pay for Amazon Workers Screened After Work
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments over whether workers at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas must be paid ...

Microsoft reboots
"Lucrative irrelevance" is the phrase Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean uses to elaborate Microsoft's future under Ballmer. With Ballmer gone, though, does ...

GT Advanced Wants to Keep Issues With Apple Secret
GT Advanced Technologies, the sapphire supplier that filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, wants to keep what went wrong between it and Apple ...

The Apple Products Most Overdue For An Update
Well, it's official: Apple is holding an event on October 16 that will reportedly ... You can also follow us onFacebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Google Maps takes its 'street view' to the desert, uses camels instead of cars
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – (Oct. 8, 2014)– Google is taking its famous street view ... In the description of YouTube video above, Google Arabia says, “Explore the Arabian ... Photo courtesy of the Prayers for Shane Facebook page ...

How to Customize Your Google Chromecast with Personal Wallpapers and More
The Chromecast finally supports a feature users have been requesting for ages: customized wallpaper. Read on as we show you how to add custom ...

Google Chrome Blog: A simpler, faster way to use Hangouts on your desktop: "... Voice calling from your desktop. The app now has all the video and voice features you’re used to in Hangouts. We recently announced you can make phone calls to any number in the world (via Hangouts dialer) and now you can do this right from your desktop. If you use Google Voice, the app includes complete Google Voice support, so you can make and receive calls, and get your voicemails and SMS messages directly in Hangouts...."

Attn: Developers:
Chrome 39 beta arrives with new developer features, including JavaScript Generators and Web Animations control | VentureBeat 

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New iPad, Apple Event Oct 16, What Can We Expect? (video)

Apple sent out invitations to an event on Oct. 16, when the company is said to be planning to reveal its latest iPad tablets ahead of the holiday shopping season. Bloomberg’s Tim Higgins reports on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg Oct 8)


Forbes
Apple Announces Special Event: 'It's Been Way Too Long'. Here's What To Expect
Forbes
The clamour surrounding the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Apple Watch may only just be cooling down, but today Apple has announced another ...

Facebook Readies App Allowing Anonymity - NYTimes.com: "The company is working on a stand-alone mobile application that allows users to interact inside of it without having to use their real names, according to two people briefed on Facebook’s plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the project."


Wall Street Journal
Apple, Others Surprised by GT's Bankruptcy Filing
Wall Street Journal
Apple is expected to use synthetic sapphire for screens on some Apple Watch designs but not for the screen of its latest iPhones. Bloomberg News.
GT Advanced bankruptcy offers warning to Apple suppliers - Reuters


Forbes
Supreme Court To Decide If Amazon Workers Should Be Paid For Security Screening
Forbes
In this Nov. 13, 2002 file photo, an Amazon employee packages an order to be shipped from its Coffeyville, Kan., warehouse. (AP Photo/The Wichita ...


Forbes
Where Does Apple Pay Fall Short?
Forbes
Apple has a long history of making things work that others have previously tried. With the iPod and the iPad, Apple brought ideas to life that many ...


Newsweek
Drone Delivery for Amazon and Google Slowed by Headwinds
Newsweek
Though Google and Amazon have already begun testing, German ... “And the technology has to be adapted and somehow developed so that the ...


CBS News
Justice Dept. will review practice of creating fake Facebook profiles
Washington Post
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it will review federal law enforcement practices in light of an incident in which a federal agent used a ...


CNET
iOS 8.1 beta 2 reveals new Apple Pay screens
CNET
Scoping out iOS 8.1 beta 2, iOS developer Hamza Sood discovered a few new screens related to Apple Pay, the new payment system demoed by ...


CNET
A walk in the park: Google Maps hits the trails in California
CNET
The new views of the state parks underscore the ever-increasing granularity of Google'smaps, as the company invests in technology -- from ...

Teens Are Abandoning Facebook, According To A New Survey
Teens are totally over Facebook, a recent report from Piper Jaffray states, and the kids are flocking to Instagram and Twitter to fill their social media needs....

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BlackBerry slides, "we were once a $20 billion company"

“We were once a $20 billion company,” Mr. Chen said. “It’s not out of the question that we could go back and recapture old ground. That may sound a little funny to you right now, but you never know.”--BlackBerry CEO in NYTimes.com

BlackBerry revenue falls below a $1 billion - CBS News: "The Canadian company said it lost $423 million, or 80 cents per share, on revenue of $976 million -- down from $2.7 billion in revenue the fourth quarter last year. Analysts expected a loss of 56 cents per share on revenue of $1.1 billion. It's the first time the company has reported less than $1 billion in revenue since late in 2007."

Microsoft unveils Office for iPad, free for reading and presenting | The Verge but read the fine print

Google mandates ‘Powered by Android’ branding on new devices | Android | Geek.com  this mandate is now a part of the Google Mobile Services agreement for new Android phones. This logo placement has its own separate set of guidelines from Google, and must be present in order for manufacturers to gain access to the Google Play Store on new devices.

Microsoft finally unveils Office for the iPad
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- In his first news conference since becoming Microsoft's CEO, ... onApple's iPad, a move critics contend should have happened years ago. ... Google's Web browser Chrome has become a popular alternative to ...

Facebook looks to drones, lasers and satellites for Internet access
CNN
Facebook already has more than a billion users on its service, but before it can sign up the ... Google announced plans to tackle the issue last summer with its own ... Microsoftchairman Bill Gates dismissed some of these efforts in an ...

Amazon Considers Streaming Media Service
Wall Street Journal
Facebook; Twitter ... Amazon Considers Streaming Media Service ... like those made by Roku Inc., PCs, videogame consoles such as Microsoft Corp. ... to better compete with Roku, Google's Chromecast and Apple Inc.'s Apple TV.

Google Wins In Amazon Cloud Price Battle
InformationWeek
Let's put this week's cloud price cuts in context. Cash-rich Google has made it harder forAmazon to profit on AWS. Whether or not Google steals a ton ...

Google, Yahoo report government data demands
San Jose Mercury News
Yahoo and Google both saw a decline in demands for users' data from U.S. law ... orgoogle.com/+BrandonBaileyOnline or on Facebook at ...

Apple Transparent Texting: Faceplant Prevention?
InformationWeek
Apple filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for something called "transparent texting." First spotted by AppleInsider, the idea is quite ...

Facebook, Sony make a play for virtual reality
Fortune
With Facebook purchasing Oculus VR for $2 billion and Sony readying ... "Oculus might be the equivalent of what Glass is for Google (GOOG)," said ...

True Player Gear - Virtual Reality for everyone: Oculus competitor -- probably many more to come

MAP: Here Are the Countries That Block Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube | Mother Jones
By Dana Liebelson
The Twitter and Facebook bans took place after a peaceful protest by Uighurs, ... The block has continued through March 2014, according to Google.
MoJo Articles | Mother Jones

Apple reportedly looking to expand sapphire glass plant — Tech News and Analysis - Gigaom
By Alex Colon
Although construction on the initial plant is still not complete, Apple is already said to be looking at building an expansion.
Mobile

Microsoft Office Mobile is Now Free for iPhone and Android Phones - Lifehacker
By Eric Ravenscraft
In addition to releasing Office for the iPad, Microsoft made one more ... Google Play Music Now Allows Uploads via the Web, Has New Mini Player ...
Lifehacker

Apple To Announce WWDC April 23? -- AppAdvice
By Bryan M. Wolfe
Developers and Apple enthusiasts, take note: Cupertino is likely to announce this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in the coming ...
App Advice

ROKU CEO: Apple Is Losing Money On The Apple TV - Business Insider
By Jay Yarow
Apple typically makes money selling hardware. Not with the Apple TV, ...
Business Insider

Google Code-In 2013: RTEMS project report | Google Open Source Blog
By Mary Radomile
Today's post comes from RTEMS, an open source Real Time Operating System that supports a variety of open standard API's. They have participated ...
Google Open Source Blog

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Microsoft Rant, Apple Envy in Redmond

You can read more of the Microsoft rant at the link below --

Microsoft Bashes Apple's iWork Software, New iPads - Mac Rumors: "Microsoft's corporate vice president of communications, Frank Shaw, today took to the Official Microsoft Blog to denounce both Apple's revamped iWork software and the company's well-received decision to distribute it as a free upgrade for existing users. . . ."

Apple's Newest Strategy: Free

San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft couldn't give Windows away. Not even Google gives away software like this. Apple's position as an integrated hardware/software company makes ...

Computerworld

Apple Targets Microsoft Office With Free Apps - NYTimes.com: "At an event meant to feature its latest iPad tablet computing devices, Apple on Tuesday took aim at one of the biggest and seemingly unassailable businesses of its rival Microsoft, its Office software for tasks like word processing and spreadsheets.Apple said iWork, a set of applications for Macs, iPads and iPhones that essentially duplicates what Microsoft’s Office offers customers, would be free to anyone who bought a new Macintosh computer or mobile device from Apple. Each Apple app used to cost $10 apiece. The latest version of the Macintosh operating system, Mavericks, will also be free. . . ."

Microsoft exec scoffs at talk that Apple's free iWork threatens Office

Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft's head of communications took shots today atApple's decision to give away its iWork productivity software, calling the move "an ...

Economic Times

Startup Cover bets on Android's market clout, ...
CNET
A trio of veterans from Google, Facebook, and Yahoo tries to make Android phones more useful by anticipating the apps you want the moment you wake up a device. Something they couldn't do on iOS. Stephen Shankland. by Stephen Shankland. October 24 ...

Apple Fixes The Two Worst Errors In iOS 7

Forbes
There were two significant errors in Apple's Apple's first release of iOS 7. The first was that there's a minority of the population subject to motion sickness.

RedOrbit

Amazon Exec Rebuts Book About Amazon In Amazon Book Review

Forbes
Eating your own dog food is a bedrock tenet of tech industry religion. So if you're a longtime Amazon executive — and former high school classmate of Jeff ...

New York Times

Apple Wins Patent-Infringement Trial Against Wi-Lan

Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL) won a patent-infringement trial in which Wi-Lan Inc. was seeking $248 million from the iPhone maker over an invention for wireless technology ...

SlashGear

Apple's Free Software Is the Ultimate Fragmentation Fighter

TIME (blog)
Microsoft bundles it with the Surface 2 tablet, an offer which is reminiscent of what Apple is doing with iWork. But Microsoft is even less likely to start giving away ...

New York Times

Google Chromebook concept gaining momentum

Boston Globe
Chromebooks are designed by Google and a number of traditional PC makers, ... created by Google as an alternative to bulkier software like Microsoft Corp. ... An app for Amazon.com's Kindle e-book service lets you store your favorite titles on ... Full-fledged personal computers running Windows and Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X ...

Microsoft cuts Surface Pro prices by a further $100, now starting at ...

Matt Brian
With the next-generation Surface now on sale in 21 countries, Microsoft probably needs to clear out whatever Surface Pros are still lingering in.
Engadget RSS Feed

Eucalyptus tightens ties between its own and Amazon's clouds ...

Barb Darrow
The new 3.4 release enables management of private and Amazon public cloud ... Microsoft keeps building its hybrid cloud with Windows Azure updates. Oct. 22 ...
Gigaom

How Apple makes their high-precision computing machines

Jason Kottke
Even by Apple standards, the video showing how the new Mac Pro is made is a great little piece of cinema. ... What makes Apple fascinating is not that they are using some wiz-bang alien technologies to ...

Microsoft's Office oxygen supply problem - BetaNews

Sridhar Vembu
Google, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and my company Zoho have all offered free office ... Why do Apple or Google or Zoho all want to commoditize Microsoft Office?...
BetaNews

Thoughts on the Apple Event - The Loop

Jim Dalrymple
I've been asked quite a few times today which Apple announcement I thought was the biggest—the blockbuster release that people would be talking about for...
The Loop

Apple may have sold 15M (now old) iPads during the September ...

Ed Sutherland
Normally, selling 170 million of anything is cause for headlines, but everyone isn't Apple. When CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday the tech giant has sold 170 million.
iDownloadBlog.com

Apple - Up-to-Date Program for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
Find out how to get Pages, Numbers, and Keynote free for your qualifying new Mac.
www.apple.com/creativity-apps/mac/up-to-date/

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Apple iPad Problem, Too Expensive

Apple's iPad Sales - Business Insider: " . . . The larger problem, arguably, is that Apple is trying to maintain premium pricing in a market in which competitors are increasingly selling high-quality iPad alternatives for significantly lower prices. In short, Apple's iPads are too expensive. . . ."

Apple's new Mac Pro revolutionizes the desktop workstation
ZDNet
Summary: Let's take a look at this new king of Macs and see what makes it tick....

Apple challenges Microsoft, Google with iWork collaborative tools
CNET
Unveiled on Tuesday at Apple's iPad launch event, the new iWork suite lets you share your documents with others via iWork for iCloud. The new version of iWork lets you ...

Apple gives away Mac software, unveils iPad Air
Reuters
"We want our customers to have our latest software." Apple's iPad Air is about 20 percent thinner than the previous generation of tablets, starting at $499. But the new tablets would face stiff competition, with Microsoft, Nokia and Amazon.com Inc all ...

Apple OS X Mavericks Released Today for Free
ABC News
Prepare your Macs! Apple's latest version of its OS X operating system will be available today, Apple officials announced in San Francisco. Called OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the software will be available for download through Apple's Mac App Store and will ...

Amazon Raises Threshold for Free Shipping
New York Times (blog)
Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press Amazon.com tightened the requirements for one of its most popular shipping methods, Super Saver Shipping, which for a over a decade mailed items for free as long as the order met a $25 threshold. That was quick.

Microsoft cashes in on tablet fervor with Surface launch event
CNET
Though Apple is sure to dominant the news cycle with the rollout of new iPads Tuesday,Microsoft didn't want the coinciding launch of its Surface 2 tablet to go uncelebrated. So it went ahead and decided to throw a simultaneous nationwide in-store ...

Microsoft Readies Answer to Google Glass
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The company is testing prototypes for Internet-connected eyewear similar to Google's Glass, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal, underscoring the company's ambitions to go head-to-head with Google, Samsung and Apple on devices.

Microsoft's Tablet Strategy Is Straight Out of the Thunderdome
Businessweek
Microsoft, which is in the process of buying Nokia's device business, just started shipping the Surface 2, with its 10.6-inch 1080p display, a dual-position kickstand, an optional keyboard cover, and a starting price of $449. This is like two girls ...

Apple Mac Pro Due in December, With 4K Firepower Under the Hood
Wired
Since June, we've known that Apple's next-generation Mac Pro desktop wouldn't be like previous versions. It would look and behave dramatically different, with a hollow cylindrical shape, a thermal-core center to keep its powerful components cool, a ...

Coding Horror: Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?: " . . . Windows light usage battery life situation has not improved at all since 2009. If anything the disparity between OS X and Windows light usage battery life has gotten worse. Microsoft positions Windows 8 as an operating system that's great for tablets, which are designed for casual web browsing and light app use – but how can that possibly be true when Windows idle power management is so much worse than the competition's desktop operating system in OS X – much less their tablet and phone operating system, iOS? . . ."

Owl City’s Adam Young reveals himself as creator of iOS 7′s sounds - 9to5Mac: "According to his discography page, Owl City founder and singer Adam Young is the creator of iOS 7′s sounds. . . ."

Yahoo To Launch Consumer Tech Site With Help Of New York Times’ David Pogue | TechCrunch: " . . .  Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, has also posted a blog post on the company’s official Tumblr welcoming Pogue to the company. Here’s what she has to say about the addition: "David will lead a major expansion of consumer tech coverage on Yahoo and will publish columns, blog posts and video stories that demystify the gadgets, apps and technology that powers our users’ daily lives.". . ."

Microsoft Prepares Surface 2 Midnight Launch: " . . . some shortcomings persist, namely a dearth of quality Windows apps. In his review of the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, Wired's Mathew Honan observed that in terms of the Windows app ecosystem, excluding legacy x86 software, a year failed to make much of a difference . . . Honan said the Windows Store app marketplace is infested with "crappy little parasites" that add little value. Worse, established apps like Dropbox and Evernote deliver less functionality than their counterparts on other platforms, causing Windows tablets, and the Surface by extension, to fall behind in the mobile app race. . . ."

Microsoft Surface 2 vs Nokia Lumia 2520: Which Windows RT tablet ...

ZDNet
Summary: The Surface 2 and Lumia 2520 need to prove there is really a Windows RT tablet market big enough for both Microsoft and Nokia to play in.

ReadWrite

Google brings Maps to business owners with Maps Engine Pro

PCWorld
Google wants to turn business owners into cartographers with a new mapping tool designed to visualize their companies' data. On Monday,Google launched ...

Computerworld Australia

Google's 'Project Shield' Will Offer Free Cyberattack Protection To ...

Forbes
Google Ideas associate CJ Adams presenting Project Shield at a company summit in ... Over its years as an Internet behemoth, Googlehas learned a lot about ...

Times of India

Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps face off in DoD contract

ZDNet
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) has approved for purchase 50,000 seats each Microsoft's and Google's ...

Neowin

Apple Preparing 65-Inch TV for Release in 2014, Analyst Says

Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL) will probably start selling ultra-high definition televisions with 65- and 55-inch screens during the fourth quarter of next year, according to a ...

Financial Post

Google closes in on mastering mobile

Computerworld
Computerworld - Google may be the Internet company getting closest to figuring out mobile -- with a slew of mobile YouTube users and increasing smartphone ...

Women Citizen

Apple is making inroads in the business world

Los Angeles Times
Although Palmaz Vineyards is a relatively small business, its enthusiastic embrace of iPads represents something much bigger taking place at AppleInc...

Economic Times

Apple needs 22% of TV set market to stay on top

Computerworld
Computerworld - Apple rose to the top of the ranks of the Fortune 50 on the success of the iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook, but to continue being a market ...

Computerworld

Apple Environmental Chief: Clean Energy Sourcing Takes Creativity

Chicago Tribune
Unlike Google, which seems to be getting deeper into the power generation business every day, Jackson said that Apple "is not, at this point, embarking on the ...

Chicago Tribune

Walmart And Amazon Get Ready To Rumble This Holiday Season

Forbes
While Amazon and Walmart duke it out over holiday shopping dollars, there are ... likely see a boost as will Google Google Offers from you guessed it, Google.

Times of India

When to Use Quickoffice vs Google Drive - Lifehacker

Eric Ravenscraft
Recently, Google released a revamped version of Quickoffice for free to the Play ... It's also worth pointing out that if you want to do any work with Microsoft file ...
Lifehacker

Google Now Offers Free DDoS Protection - Gizmodo

Adam Clark Estes
Google's waving its pro-internet freedom flag again, launching a suite of anti-hacker software intended to help human rights and elections-related websites in ...
Gizmodo

Why Should We Do Everything Google Says? - Search Engine Journal

Bernadette Coleman
Matt Cutts I have said this before, I love Google. I live and breathe Google. But the other day at dinner my husband and I were talking about why we had to make ...
Search Engine Journal

Google seeks to attract small businesses with Maps Engine Pro tool ...

Trevor Mogg
Google announced Maps Engine Pro on Monday, a tool aimed at small businesses that enables map-based visualization of company-related data "to help make ...
Digital Trends

Google's Project Shield helps small websites stand up to DDoS attacks
Yes, it shares the same codename as NVIDIA's portable Android console, but Google's Project Shield has nothing to do with gaming -- it's all about.
www.engadget.com/.../google-project-shield-helps-small-webs...

Google launches new anti-DDoS service called 'Project Shield' | The ...
Google has announced a new suite of tools for activists and non-profits at their Ideas conference in New York today, including tools for evading web censorship ...
www.theverge.com/.../google-launches-new-anti-ddos-service-...

Ford's Alan Mulally for Microsoft? CEO mum on move - CNN.com
Microsoft announced a deal last month to purchase Nokia's mobile phone ... 8 reasons Mulally is better for Motown than Microsoft .... Powered by Google.
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