Monthly Archives: May 2012

Remains of the Day: Right here, right now

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

Microsoft Office for iPad may appear this fall, and a new dock-connector port might appear on iPhones and iPads some day, but you can download several of Steve Jobs’s appearances right now. Continue reading →

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Rumor: Apple may be working to reinvent photography as well

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

According to the late Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs’ biography, there were three industries he wished to reinvent through Apple: textbooks, television, and photography. While Apple has already begun some industry-changing moves in textbooks and is said to be working on some form of larger ideas for its Apple TV technology, it can be said that it has also already changed the photographic world several times — but there may be more to come…. Continue reading →

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Impact of tablets to drag PC unit growth down to 1%

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

Riding on strong sales and adoption rates tablet cannibalization of the PC market has been greater than expected, causing analysts to lower PC unit growth expectations for the 2012 and 2013 calendar years to one percent. Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office 365 launches for government customers

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

Microsofthas announced Office 365 for Government, its version of cloud productivity software. The specific government version of the suite released in July 2011 uses specific government-only encryption and storage to help soothe concerns about privacy and data security. Other than the government-level encrypted storage, Office 365 for Government is the same as regular Office 365, keeping Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and the other Office web apps in the cloud, but giving the option of installing a desktop version of the Office 2010 suite as well…. Continue reading →

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Briefly: MobileMe, White House botnets, Woz backs out

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

Users of Apple’s soon-to-be-defunct MobileMe cloud service have reportedly begun receiving notifications from Apple that the service is on its last legs. A tweet reblogged by 9to5mac shows what appears to be a screenshot of a notification from Apple, warning a user that his MobileMe service will be expiring at the end of June. The Notification directs the user to visit me.com/move in order to migrate data to an iCloud account…. Continue reading →

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Briefly: Mobile Me, White House botnets, Woz backs out

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

Users of Apple’s soon-to-be-defunct Mobile Me cloud service have reportedly begun receiving notifications from Apple that the service is on its last legs. A tweet reblogged by 9to5mac shows what appears to be a screenshot of a notification from Apple, warning a user that his Mobile Me service will be expiring at the end of June. The Notification directs the user to visit me.com/move in order to migrate data to an iCloud account…. Continue reading →

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Apple has ‘locked down’ RF suppliers for next iPhone, may move to advanced filter tech

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

An industry analysis of the U.S. semi-conductor market released on Thursday claims that Apple has already decided which companies will supply the important radio chips in the next-generation iPhone, and one of the choices suggest that the handset will use advanced RF filtering technology. Continue reading →

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QuarkXPress 9.3 update features new Kindle support

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

QuarkXPress 9.3 lets users export content directly to the Amazon Kindle format. Continue reading →

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Backstage: On The Possibility Of An Apple Standalone Camera

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

A few days ago, I mentioned that we’d heard claims—initially quite firm, and then not so firm—that Apple is working on a standalone digital camera, specifically a point-and-shoot model designed to deliver image quality and zoom functionality beyond what iPhones, iPads, and iPods can deliver in their thinning bodies. Specifically, the claims from our source were as follows: (a) Apple has been glad that the media and analysts are so… Continue reading →

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Apple turns over entire inventory every five days

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

A report from research firm Gartner says that Apple has an inventory turn metric of 74, which means that the iPad maker turns over its entire inventory once every five days, a staggering number for a consumer electronics company. Continue reading →

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