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The China Post
A former National Assembly representative yesterday launched a campaign of “one person sending one letter” to Steve Jobs, chief operating officer of Apple Inc. to protest the firm's discriminatory practice of denying Taiwanese buyers iPhone 4 protective sleeves.
Electronista
NVIDIA has agreed to provide compensation to owners of Apple, HP and Dell computers as part of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit.
Mark Sigal, O'Reilly Radar
Apple's product strategy is a study in market segmentation. Versus merely trying to stuff a product, burrito-style, with as many different features as possible, they target specific user experiences, and build the product around that accordingly.
Michael Friedenberg, CIO
Or maybe Forrester analyst Ted Schadler hit the nail on the head in his article in our recent issue when he wrote, "Companies that empower their employees to use these tools have a leg up on those that lock down systems."
Brian X. Chen, Wired News
“The most important hint of Apple’s real ambitions in the living room come from AirPlay, which puts iPhones and iPads in the driver’s seat and makes the TV just an output device for the Apple ecosystem,” said James McQuivey, a Forrester analyst, in a recent e-mail statement. “Expect Apple to gradually push more and more in that direction, but as of this moment in 2010, Apple has not yet made a significant play for control of the TV.”
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
The new Apple TV no longer allows users to purchase and store content on the device, but Apple still managed to cram in 8GB of flash storage, as well as 256MB of integrated RAM. The discovery was made by gadget repair site iFixit during one of its famed product teardowns. iFixit founder Kyle Wiens declared that the Apple TV was "surprisingly repairable."
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice
Airplay is possibly the most exciting iOS feature Apple has released since multitasking. It has incredible potential, and while we’re still waiting to see what Apple will really do with it, they already leaked a couple of details this week that will whet your appetite.
Brett Terpstra, TUAW
With version 2.0, organization is faster and even easier, thanks to features like Quick Move and some new keyboard shortcuts. There's even a Quick Reply feature which lets you respond to a message from within the message or thread by hitting Shift-R (a lot like GMail). There are also keyboard shortcuts for navigating mailboxes and accounts without touching your mouse.
Christopher Breen, Macworld
Lesa Snider, Macworld
As updates go, this one’s a biggy and Adobe’s new cross-platform strategy for both Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Organizer, and Premiere Elements is a breath of fresh air. The layer mask button alone makes this a worthwhile upgrade for frequent users, and the new Guided Edit modes make it a good choice for new users.
David Pogue, New York Times
The Square device snaps into an iPhone and allows you to become a credit card authorizing entrepreneur. No setup fees, no two-year contract — you’re in business.
Peter Kafka, Wall Street Journal
Both the New Yorker and Wired have the same weight problem for the same reason: They are built on the back of an Adobe program that essentially functions as an image reader.
Dave Caolo, TUAW
John C. Welch, Macworld
Since Messenger comes free with Office or as a free download, there’s no real risk involved. If you find a need for it, you come out ahead. If not, you’re only out a bit of time and disk space, and you can get the latter back. But if you don’t have Messenger-specific needs, there’s little reason to use the application.
AppleInsider
Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, accusing the Finnish smartphone maker of violating nine patents it owns and extending the legal battle between the two companies.
Nathan Alderman, Macworld
David Chartier, Macworld
Remote 2.0 brings a handful of big features, not the least of which is a long-awaited interface designed for the iPad. Using the iPad’s large amount of screen real estate, Remote can offer an interface for controlling media over one’s home network that looks much like the tablet’s iPod app, complete with music album and video thumbnails and a complete list of your playlists. It also features a gestures tab for controlling an Apple TV with iOS-like flick and drag motions.
Erica Sadun, TUAW
Looking at an OS dump doesn't always translate to the final live interaction and exploration experience but it does offer tantalizing hints as to what is to come and what will be possible for those willing to start programming and hacking. In this case, Apple TV's sneak peek provides two promises. First, that the system itself will be somewhat customizable and programmable for people who wish to extend its use beyond the built-in features. Second, that we're looking at the future of OS X installs. Apple TV's iOS shows that non-mobile devices without touch screens can leverage iOS's newer, more modern frameworks without sacrificing general computability.
Farhad Manjoo, Slate Magazine
Sure, I write about Apple and Google more than any other companies, but I don't think my coverage—nor the coverage of the tech press in general—is unwarranted. Apple and Google are by far the most interesting and important companies in the industry; indeed, you could argue they're the most innovative companies in the country.
Robin Harris, ZDNet
If you receive and keep a lot of e-mail, download and keep a lot of content or perform large-file I/O intensive work - video, Photoshop, music - you’ll find that Time Machine has a noticeable and perhaps unacceptable impact on system performance.
Graham K. Rogers, Bangkok Post
While I was able to restore these computers fairly quickly to a running state with Time Machine, I know that some prefer software that clones the hard disk, like Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner. Whether the cause of my recent problems with this computer was the hard disk, graphics switching, or a faulty sudden motion sensor (as some have suggested), we may never know. I am back on track with productivity. Warily.
Associated Press
Italy's tourism minister has taken offense with how Apple's "What country" app describes her nation.
Beecher Tuttle, TMCnet
Although a number of analysts immediately dismissed the rumor, noting that they severely doubted that Cook would leave Apple, hundreds of investors tried to get ahead of the story.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Back in May, Apple edged past Microsoft as the most valuable technology company. And, my oh my, has Apple stretched its lead since then.
Tiernan Ray, Barron's
Not true, says Gleacher & Co.’s Brian Marshall, who follows Apple. He called me a short while ago to say he’d just run into Tim Cook in Palo Alto, had coffee, and asked him about the rumor. “Tim Cook will not be going to HP, he loves Apple,” Marshall tells me Cook told him.
Mimi Turner, Hollywood Reporter
Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes told British media execs that television is entering a second golden age of creativity and reward but warned against the danger of low-cost digital giveaways.
Dan Frakes, Macworld
DockView offers an Aero Peek-like alternative for Mac OS X, but one that offers more features than Windows or the Dock.
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
he new interface and improved functionality make short work of even large projects, while the protection and sharing features make it easier to work with others—both on the Mac and on that “other” platform. There are only a few negatives with Excel 2011. I feel scrolling has been overly slowed down, the live window resizing is jumpy, and the lack of support for Services is troubling, as that's an OS X feature that I rely on daily. However, these things are not big enough issues to really affect Excel's performance and features—the program just works, and has many new features and improvements that spreadsheet users have been asking for. Excel 2011 is a solid program for anyone whose work involves a heavy dose of spreadsheet duty.
Franklin N. Tessler, Macworld
PowerPoint for Mac 2011 boasts more than a handful of worthwhile improvements, including greatly enhanced support for QuickTime movies, path animations, features for sharing and collaboration, and an improved interface. Despite a handful of miscues, it’s Microsoft’s strongest upgrade of the program since 2004. If you’re using an earlier version, updating to PowerPoint 2011 should be an easy decision.
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
Microsoft Word for Mac no longer feels like a second-string word processing program in the Microsoft Office suite. It is in fact a powerful tool for creating all your personal and business documents and for collaborating with others. More importantly, Word 2011 now makes it possible to insert a Mac into nearly any business environment and offer Mac users the same set of features found in Word for Windows, without compromise.
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore , CNET
For just $1.99, we can now monitor our output without that up-close-and-personal toilet shelf.
J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times
How do I get rid of my Ping profile? There’s no obvious Delete option in the profile settings.
Whitson Gordon, Macworld
AppleInsider
Hackers have succeeding in running a jailbreak exploit for a newly posted Apple TV iOS 4.1 firmware file.
Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch
The App Store review office at 1 Infinite Loop has officially frozen over: we’ve gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks. In fact, we’ve heard from a source close to Google that it’s already been approved — Google just needs to revamp the application to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS’s multitasking capabilities.
David Morgenstern, ZDNet
A new sign of greater acceptance by business customers of Apple and the Macintosh is Cupertino’s growing interest in that once 100 percent PC market. Apple is expanding its sales support operation to businesses as well as adding business-centric sections to its retail stores.
TJ Luoma, TUAW
Peppi Kiviniemi, Wall Street Journal
So given that everyone is feeling good about the result, why was the news released on a Saturday morning, when no one was watching?
Ciara Byrne, VentureBeat
App developers want approvals by the big mobile players who manage app stores to happen much faster and more transparently, a new study set to be released this week found.
Whitson Gordon, Lifehacker
If you wish you had Windows' Aero Peek-like window previews in OS X's Dock, free app HyperDock brings them to OS X, along with other window management features.
AppleInsider
A new lawsuit takes aim at Apple's delivery of movies, TV shows and other videos through iTunes, alleging that the service is in violation of a patent owned by Multi-Format Inc.
Kirk McElhearn, TidBITS
I suspect that people accuse iTunes of being bloated because it has evolved from a simple music player into a complex media and device management program designed to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of users. To become more comfortable with iTunes, therefore, may require learning a bit more about how it works in order to master those features you use every day and turn off those you don't.
Alexis Kayhill, Mac360
In the growing list of Mac browsers, Camino is a pure love hate relationship. You either love Camino, or you hate it. Alright. Maybe hate is too strong. Spell it ambivalent instead.
Federico Viticci, MacStories
The two main features of the app are tabbed navigation and dual-pane mode: there’s not really much to explain, as they work like you expect.
Lisa Schmeiser, Macworld
Bloggers who value efficiency will appreciate MarsEdit 3.1's ability to write, preview, save, schedule, and publish entries from within one application, rather than having to jump from one Web-based entry page to another. For people maintaining multiple blogs, MarsEdit can be a very powerful tool for simplifying your workload—if you can get all the blogs configured correctly.
Steven Sande, TUAW
Magnus Nystedt, Macworld Middle East
At the end of the first day of iPhone 4 officially going on sale in the United Arab Emirates, it seems like the update of iOS to 4.1 is what is disabling FaceTime on iPhones in the country.
Dan Gillmor, Salon
Big tech companies agreed not to poach each others' employees; are key investors making anti-competitive deals too?
Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek
Dave Girard, Ars Technica
Parallels has had their eye on Windows 3D gaming from the start and, with this release, they've finally converted me.
BRIAN Stelter, New York Times
A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed: that Apple commands an inordinate amount of the media’s attention.
A yearlong look at technology news coverage by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 15.1 percent of tech articles were primarily about Apple; 11.4 percent were about Google; and a meager 3 percent were about Microsoft.
Ogle Earth
I soon discovered that the Chinese version of the iPhone 4 comes with an aggravating quirk, though: The built-in Maps app is crippled. My phone's base map is hard-wired to Google Maps' censored dataset for China, where the depiction of China's borders complies with the official propaganda of the Chinese government. It does not, for example, show the region of Arunachal Pradesh as being disputed by China and India. On my phone, it belongs to China, even though the facts on the ground belie it — it is currently administered by India.
Pan Xiaoyi, Shanghai Daily
Li Qiaoyi, People's Daily Online
China Unicom is selling the handset with a two-year contract, but Apple stores are offering the phone with no-strings-attached. Buyers are free to use the services of any telecom provider.
Consumers have so far voiced little interest in being tied to a contract. Apple Inc is also undercutting China Unicom's price for the new iPhone.
Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times
Mr Jobs may be a slightly unpleasant piece of work, scary and arrogant. But if these messages are his, I congratulate him on his clarity, his tetchiness and on being entirely in the right.
John Naughton, The Guardian
This is what the industry calls "feature creep" on an heroic scale.
Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note
Mashable
The evolution of the Apple mouse makes for an interesting design journey that includes the loss of its tail, moving from a single button to touch, and of course going from beige to multi-colored and back to a monotone.
Chris Rawson, TUAW
We just started Daylight Saving Time in New Zealand yesterday. Since then, many iOS users here have experienced what's probably one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen: our alarms are now going off an hour early.
Register
Patrick May, Mike Swift and John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News
It was, according to the federal complaint, the chummiest of secret clubs among Silicon Valley's corporate elite. The membership rules were simple: Don't cold-call any of our employees with job offers and we won't cold-call any of yours.
The members, according to documents released Friday by the Department of Justice, included the cream of the crop: Apple, Adobe Systems, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar.
Reuters
EU antitrust regulators will scrap two investigations into Apple Inc's iPhone after the company allowed cross-border repair services and eased restrictions on applications for its popular smartphone.
Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville
Nick Bilton, New York Times
Mike Schramm, TUAW
Nick Mediati, PC World
The new version of this hack is less “automatic” than the initial one, according to Grossman, but a hacker just needs to perform a little social engineering to get a hapless Web user to give up their personal details.
BBC
Apple has embarked on a legal battle over the right to use the word "pod".
Heather Kelly, Macworld
Solve your time and space issues by learning what situations call for the iPhone’s HDR setting and when you should skip it altogether.
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
iTunes has powerful tools for managing podcasts, and, of course, you can sync them to an iOS device, or listen to them on your Mac with iTunes. Let’s take a look at how podcast subscriptions work, and how you use iTunes to efficiently manage your podcasts.
Lara Farrar, CNN
While the company's products are especially popular among China's expanding middle- and upper-classes who have disposable income to spend on high-end products to show off their wealth, the iPhone is still too expensive for most to purchase.
Additionally, the Chinese version of Apple's App Store still has an interface in English and requires payment from dual-currency credit cards, which many Chinese don't have.
Ashley Allen and Douglas McIntyre, MarketWatch
Nat Worden, Wall Street Journal
The new Apple TV comes as a proliferation of "over the top" services, which deliver online video to TV sets, are raising concerns that consumers will drop their traditional pay-TV subscriptions. The pay-TV industry just suffered its first-ever quarterly decline in overall subscribers.
At the same time, though, media companies are eager to find ways to increase their revenue from digital media, and they don't want to be seen as unwilling to embrace new technologies that consumers like.
Topher Kessler, CNET
One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive until there is no space left for others. For the most part this just takes some chatting with the other members of a household or workplace, but to avoid confrontations you can set up the system in various ways to limit a user's disk space use.
Macworld
These days, laptop batteries no longer suffer from the “memory effect” and related life-shortening afflictions. But that doesn’t mean modern notebook batteries are maintenance free—if you want to keep your MacBook’s battery performing at its best, you need to take care of it. Today’s Gem, Watts, aims to make such maintenance both easier and more effective. It also incorporates noteworthy features of a few other portable Gems.
AppleInsider
Apple now allows its largest distributors to provide all six models of the iPad to authorized resellers across the U.S., continuing the company's meticulous and methodical expansion of iPad availability.
David Pogue, New York Times
I won’t say “it was worth the wait” — really, everybody would’ve been a lot happier if a Mac dictation app had been available all along — but it’s almost everything it should be. After 25 years, full-blown, professional dictation software has finally come to the Mac.
AppleInsider
Some customers who paid Apple for expedited shipping on the soon-to-ship Apple TV are receiving emails from the company Thursday informing them that those shipping charges have been waived due to a possible 'delay.'
The Warne Account
Bambi Brannan, Mac 360
IT.Enquirer
MailHub is an add-on to Apple Mail. It is a plug-in that is meant to speed up your interaction with Mail, management of messages, in short: the performance of your Inbox. Initially I didn’t see the difference between MailHub and Apple Mail’s Rules, but after having used it for a couple of weeks, the difference is crystal clear: MailHub makes Mail a lot more efficient than you can ever make it by using Rules only. MailHub actually saves a lot of time and aggravation.
GoMo News
John Hatchett, Low End Mac
It's all because I really couldn't get my iSub to work with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. So I decided that I would use my Pismo to play music, since the iSub worked fine with it.
Alec Liu, FOXNews
At the iPad's January launch, Apple CEO Steve Jobs eagerly touted the iPad as a game-changer for education. "The iPad isn't just the best device of its kind -- it's a whole new kind of device," the Apple website says, explaining that the iPad is "poised to change the learning landscape."
Not so fast.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Tim Culpan and Margaret Conley, Bloomberg
Pan Lei and Pan Yong, the Chinese brothers who invented a device to convert Apple Inc.’s iPod Touch into an iPhone, say they are innovators, not copycats.
Their Apple Peel 520 is a case including a circuit board and battery that wraps around the iPod Touch media player, allowing calls to be made after software is installed. The device, which requires breaking into Apple’s operating system, isn’t a counterfeit iPhone, Pan Lei, 25, told Bloomberg Television.
Nick Bilton, New York Times
They show up in the early-morning hours: Chinese men and women, waiting silently and somewhat nervously outside of Apple stores in New York. On some days the lines they form can be a block long.
These are not typical Apple fans. Instead they are participants in a complex and curious trade driven by China’s demand for Apple’s fashionable gadgets — products that are made in China in the first place and exported, only to make the long trip back.
Ryan Rigney, Game Pro
Mikael Hed, CEO of Finnish game studio Rovio, discusses how their immensely successful iPhone hit, Angry Birds, began with just a simple screenshot of an unhappy bird character.
Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
Lots of people are wondering whether a touch-based tablet computer that doesn't have a physical keyboard or run a traditional operating system can replace their laptops on the road. So I decided to find out.
Earlier this month, my wife and I took a 10-day working vacation to Paris, and for the first time in many years, I decided to go away for a week or more without a laptop. Instead, I resolved to rely on only an Apple iPad tablet, my smartphone and a small digital camera.
Don Reisinger, CNET
Apps don't appear to be helping companies sell more smartphones, a study from international accounting and consulting firm Deloitte suggests.
Evan Selleck, SlashGear
While seeing a ringtone maker in the App Store may not seem like a big deal, it goes a long way to show that Apple is doing something (whatever it is, who knows), to make the App Store a somewhat more inviting place, and to slough off those bad remarks that have plagued it since it started denying or removing applications for seemingly no reason.
AppleInsider
Apple on Wednesday released a significant update to its iWork suite of productivity applications for the iPad, delivering support for copying files to a Mobile Me iDisk and exporting documents in native Microsoft Office formats.
Yinka Adegoke and Jennifer Saba, Reuters
NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker said on Wednesday his company is not likely to follow rivals to make its TV shows available for Apple Inc's new 99-cent rental service unveiled earlier this month. Offering NBC's shows for that price on the Apple TV service would undermine the value of their shows, he said.
Jeff Carlson, Macworld
Adobe Premiere Elements 9’s strengths lie in its multi-track editing capabilities, along with editor-friendly features such as Smart Trim and DVD creation and burning capabilities within the program.
If you’ve been looking for a replacement for iMovie HD 6, but haven’t wanted to jump into Final Cut Express, Premiere Elements 9 offers a way to make the transition toward more advanced video editing techniques. However, the Sceneline mode might present too many irritations for longterm use. Still, the program does offer a wealth of video editing capability at a competitive price.
David Chartier, Macworld
The iPad offers a fairly distraction-free writing environment, thanks to iOS’s one-app-at-a-time design and emphasis on minimal interface. But Information Architects wants to help your inner writer become even more focused with Writer, its new iPad app.
Christopher Breen, Macworld
Regrettably you waited a little too long as MacBooks released at and after late 2009 (the polycarbonate model, not the MacBook Pro) don’t carry an IR port and therefore don’t work with Apple’s remote. But you’re not completely out of luck.
TJ Luoma, TUAW
Mailplane, the native Mac app for Gmail and Google Apps email, has been updated to version 2.2, adding several new features and improving on others.
Leading the charge is support for the recently-released "Priority Inbox." You can now tell Mailplane to open either your regular inbox, Priority Inbox, or a custom label.
Stage Two
Joel Mathis, Macworld
Not so long ago, the personalities of the market’s dominant smartphones were clearly drawn: The iPhone, fun and full of flash, was for consumer uses, while Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, sober and spartan, dominated the professional market. But the line between work and play has grown blurry, leaving the iPhone—and a new competitor, Google’s Android—to challenge Research In Motion (RIM)’s long dominance in businesses and among professionals.
Tomas Dinges, Star-Ledger
Other Baroque art history high school classes may open with a quiz on famous paintings and artists of the era. But Alex Curtis, headmaster at the Morristown-Beard School, started one recent lesson with a seemingly puzzling question: "Have you got that app yet?"
Larry Dignan, ZDNet
Can Adobe go from being a company mostly about the Creative Suite to one focused on enterprise collaboration, a potential growth driver?
Michael Rose, TUAW
The latest revision to FileMaker's two mobile database apps, FileMaker Go 1.1 for iPhone and for iPad (two separate products), gives the Go team a few vital new features for users on the move.
Josh Lowensohn, CNET
One question that was raised almost immediately when Apple announced Game Center, the company's first-party social gaming service, in April was what would happen to existing social game networks on the platform? The early answer, surprisingly, is comfortable cohabitation.
Dan Frommer, Business Insider
Before Apple launched Ping, its iTunes team was in talks with Facebook for 18 months or more, a source with knowledge of the talks tells us.
While we don't know the details of their discussions, it makes sense that Apple may have wanted to build Ping as a music-tracking and sales service on top of Facebook's social graph. This could have allowed Apple to get what it wanted out of the relationship -- more iTunes and iPod sales -- without having to build a social network from scratch.
Nick Spence, MacWorld UK
Apple will open a new store on Saturday 25 September 2010 at the Metrocentre, Gateshead at 10am. Plenty of free t-shirts and high-fives from staff should help ensure the opening is a success.
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Sanho says it's reusing Apple's own connectors in the sale of its own products, and the same goes for the 30-pin iPad connector. If that is in fact the case, Apple may find itself butting up against the patent version of the first sale doctrine (commonly called the "exhaustion doctrine"), which limits the patent owner's control over patented items after it has been sold the first time.
Scot Finnie, Computerworld
I'm just not that jazzed about iOS. It's fine on the iPhone because the tiny screen of the iPhone limits you anyway. The problem is, with only a little bit of invention, I can easily imagine the iPad being my full-fledged travel machine -- no notebook needed. But Apple has, it seems, intentionally hobbled the iPad. There are so many things it can't do.
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
By failing to upgrade the iPod Classic, the tech giant seems to have left in the lurch the customers who made the music player a huge success.
Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
Messianic, evangelistic and utterly devoted to the art of making beautiful products that ‘just work’ – it’s no wonder Apple’s founder and chief executive is seen as a demi-god in some technology circles.
Rick Broida, PC World
Note to Apple: Hellooooo? Can we get a Delete button, please?
Josh Helfferich, TUAW
AppleInsider
USA Today
David Goldman, CNNMoney.com
Americans' satisfaction with their personal computers has been on the rise for the past decade, but consumers still overwhelmingly prefer Apple's Macs to Windows PCs.
Heather Kelly, Macworld
Adobe on Monday announced the latest version of Photoshop Elements 9, the company's consumer-level photo editing application, for both Mac and Windows. There are a number of features in this version that are new to Mac users, most notably the bundled Elements Organizer, which acts as a hub for importing, managing, and viewing photo and video files.
Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal
The imminent launch of the iPhone 4 in China shows how Apple is rolling products out in China much more quickly than it used to. Apple seemed to have upped its game in China with the official launch of the iPad. Sure enough, fresh on the heels of that came word the iPhone 4 will officially launch Saturday–not to mention that two new Apple Stores are set to open this weekend, doubling the company’s total in China.
Erica Ogg, CNET
Hardware manufacturers liberally take cues from Apple products, so why not its approach to customers?
Jim Dalrymple, CNET
Apple has acquired Malmo, Sweden-based Polar Rose, a facial-recognition company with several products that could be integrated into Apple's current and future product lines.
Michael Rose, TUAW
David Chartier, Macworld
Marcel Bresink has updated TinkerTool, his utility for customizing a number of hidden OS and app preferences, with access to yet more options for Mail, iTunes, Safari, and even the Dock.
David Chartier, Macworld
According to this security document, the update fixes one specific bug in Mac OS X 10.6.4’s AFP file sharing implementation that could allow remote attackers to bypass the password validation system if they know the name of an account on the Mac.
AppleInsider
Rovi announced Monday that it had signed a deal with Apple, which will allow the Cupertino, Calif., company to license intellectual property. The confidential agreement was disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rovi offers a number of products and services that could apply to Apple. It sells metadata and media recognition software, anti-piracy digital rights management services, and interactive program guides for television set top boxes.
Ryan Huang, Channel NewsAsia
With the land swap agreement between Singapore and Malaysia settled, market watchers have said the company in charge of developing the land parcels would likely seek a joint venture with an established developer.
Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News
Apple will open stores in Xidan Joy City in Beijing and Hong Kong Plaza in Shanghai on Saturday, bringing the total number of retail locations in the country to four, the company announced late Sunday.
Greg Sandoval, CNET
Stephen Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney for San Mateo County, Calif., told CNET today that police are close to wrapping up their theft investigation and could forward their final report to his office within the next few weeks. Wagstaffe will then review the information and determine whether to file criminal charges.
Sylvie Barak, RCR Unplugged
Something both investors agreed on, however, was the drawback of getting blinded by an Apple-only approach. Kapoor compared Apple and its app environment to a “drug type of mentality” sucking developers in and making them feel dependent on the firm for the short term monetary gains, whilst crippling them for the long term through lack of control over their own app.
Malloy concurred that there was a “bit of a hypnosis with Apple which gets me a little creeped out”.
Mathew Ingram, GigaOM
Travis Kaya, Chronicle Of Higher Education
As students and faculty members around the country feel around for new ways to integrate the iPad into academic life, a handful of programs are taking a more formal approach to finding its place in the classroom.
Kyle VanHemert, Gizmodo
Terry White
Jason Hiner, TechRepublic
Martin Robbins, The Guardian
Trainee journalists should learn that getting information out of people is not easy.
Caroline Donnelly, CRN
Bulk-buying overseas traders are causing supplies of the latest version of the iPhone to run low at Apple’s Covent Garden store.
Barbara De Lollis, USA Today
Two Holiday Inn properties have officially started letting guests use their Apple iPhone, Blackberry or Android smart phone as a 21st-Century room key, enabling customers to bypass the front desk.
Thinq
Lily Allen is launching a legal assault against Apple in an attempt to ascertain the identity of ne'er-do-wells who attacked her laptop.
Chris Griffith, The Australian
The likelihood of more apps that run on all styles of new-age phones has increased with Apple's stunning reversal of its decision to reject apps created using cross-platform tools such as Adobe Flash CS5.
Radio Business Report
Predictions that many consumers will drop cable and satellite TV in favor of over-the-top (OTT) video services like Apple TV and Google TV are being dismissed by Wells Fargo Securities analyst Marci Ryvicker as misguided speculation. Rather, she says, OTT will be a complement to, not a replacement for, pay TV.
Joshua Frank, Los Angeles Times
In a trendy mall just west of Tiananmen Square, a cellphone shop with minimalistic décor displays the store's only product inside a clear geometric case on the center of its floor.
Jeff Bertolucci, PC World
No one will ever accuse Apple of being a bargain brand, but the company's iPad tablet may prove to be more affordable than the first generation of Android slates, particularly the Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Roman Loyola, Macworld
According to Nuance, Dragon Dictate 2.0 is faster and more accurate than MacSpeech Dictate 1.5. Dragon Dictate is based on the same software engine used by Dragon 11 for the PC. But the engine, according to Nuance product marketing manager Kristen Wylie, is not just ported over from the PC. “It was designed from the ground up to work on a Mac,” said Wylie during a product demo.
Michael Rose, TUAW
In a Sunday press release, Apple announced an on-sale date for the iPhone 4 in China. Saturday, September 25, 8 am is when customers in the world's largest market can get their hands on the new phones; both the Apple Store Hong Kong Plaza in Shanghai and the Apple Store Xidan Joy City in Beijing will be carrying them, coinciding with the opening of the Bejing store.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Michael B. Laskoff, Huffington Post
I was caught in in a bureaucratic hellhole in which the orderly functioning of an efficient system was more more important than a few crushed cogs while a crime was being perpetrated.
Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times
Given the towering superiority of the first linguistic style over the second, will it catch on? Will other companies copy Apple’s language just as they have copied its design?
Mel Martin, TUAW
Peter Svensson, The Associated Press
At first glance, the iPad looked like a heavy, overgrown iPod Touch. After just a few months of use, however, this iPad skeptic realized that it’s so much more — it’s one of those devices I’ve always needed. Those don’t come around very often.
Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
The iPod has become the iconic portable music device of the 21st century.
Tom Foremski, ZDNet
If this is truly an important new technology platform for media, why does it specifically exclude the most innovative sector in media of our modern and historical times?!
Samuel Axon, Mashable
The developer of another Google Voice app for iPhone — “GV Mobile +” — said that Apple approved his app today.
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET
Kevin Kwek, Straits Times
What I am appalled at was the way the overspending was swept aside. It remains a fact that we spent three times more of taxpayers' money than anticipated.
Andrew Leonard, Salon
Wireless connectivity -- and slick tablet computers -- targets global super-saturation.
Bob Sutton, Work Matters
Casey Tschida, App Advice
A third-party Google Voice app has just hit the App Store. GV Connect by Andreas Amann is a native app that is able to interact directly with Google Voice accounts and features.
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice
This is pretty huge. It means that any app that uses Apple’s default media player is already AirPlay-enabled. That means that with IOS 4.2, you can stream from Netflix, MLB At Bat, Vimeo HTML5 Embeds (in Safari), the YouTube clips from the AppAdvice app and so on. It will work with Airport Express and we believe the Apple TV as well.
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Times for iPad and Flipboard take streams of updates and create newspaper and magazine layouts automatically. This approach works better than it may sound at first. Automatic layout seems like an iffy proposition, but both programs produce interesting results.
Jeff Porten, Macworld
App Tamer will automatically stop any application you choose when it is in the background, and automatically bring it back to its full vitality when you bring it back to the foreground. You can choose which applications are stopped, how long the pause should be before this occurs, and whether this should happen all the time, or only when you’re running off battery power. App Tamer can also helpfully gray out the windows of paused applications to remind you that they’ve been halted.
Whitson Gordon, Macworld
Thomas Catan And Brent Kendall, Wall Street Journal
Several of the U.S.'s largest technology companies are in advanced talks with the Justice Department to avoid a court battle over whether they colluded to hold down wages by agreeing not to poach each other's employees.
The companies, which include Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intuit Inc. and Walt Disney Co. unit Pixar Animation, are in the final stages of negotiations with the government, according to people familiar with the matter.
Chris Rawson, TUAW
About a month and a half after the introduction of the 27-inch Apple Cinema Display, it's finally available on Apple's online store.
CNN
Such is Apple’s status in this country that Mac Heads here are willing to pay more than American Mac Heads – almost twenty per cent more mostly because of higher Chinese taxes. That’s a lot in a country where wages are a lot lower. One woman told me just spent a month’s wages on an iPad and thought it was a bargain.
Elizabeth Weil, New York Times
Schnittman breaks down reading into three kinds: extractive reading (say, looking up words in the dictionary), immersive reading (sinking into “Moby-Dick”) and pedagogic reading (studying a physics curriculum). The first type is well suited to the search capacities of digital devices. The second works beautifully on e-ink readers. The third? So far it has failed in all electronic formats, awaiting the right hardware — the so-called form factor. Schnittman says the solution might be in tablets like the iPad.
Bob Snow, ZDNet
Lifehacker
Karlin Lillington, Irish Times
It is an ecosystem that seems to suit everyone – except perhaps sometimes the grumbling customer, who doesn’t feel a basic case should be an additional purchase.
The Associated Press
Chief executive Barry Meyer says Warner Bros. didn't participate in Apple Inc.'s plan to offer TV show rentals for 99 cents because the price was too low and would have hurt sales of full seasons.
AFP
Hundreds queued up on Friday for the first official iPads sold in China, the world's biggest internet market, after months of grey market action among avid buyers unwilling to wait for the Apple tablet.
Electronista
Zurich By Day
Apple’s iPad device has made its appearance in restaurants, hotels and wine bars over the globe. There are many reasons a restaurateur might consider using the iPad for interacting with customers, but what is in it for the user?
John Hatchett, Low End Mac
Jason Perlow, ZDNet
Whatever software development platform and lifecycle management model and systems architecture they’ve come up with at Apple to deploy on Windows is now an unmitigated disaster. Every successive release has resulted in more bloatware and more unreliability.
Rohin Dharmakumar, Forbes
David Chartier, Macworld
IGG Software’s iBank is a more Mac-friendly alternative to financial management heavyweights like Intuit’s Quicken. After a brief beta period that began in July, the official release of this major 4.0 upgrade brings a number of new features and interface improvements to iBank that should make it easier to enter transactions, set up online integration, and simply try the app out for all its worth.
David Chartier, Macworld
New in Acorn 2.5 is support for layer masks and the ability to set a matte background color for transparent images via the program’s Web export tool. There are also new Automator actions for using Acorn to watermark, crop, and otherwise manipulate images with JavaScript.
Erica Sadun, TUAW
Although Apple is certain to be already working on the next generation of iPad, it's clear that its high demand continues to produce limited availability. We may not be seeing refurbished units for some time yet.
Dan Frakes, Macworld
Savescreenie 2 offers more features, works well with the latest versions of OS X, and is easier to use. It’s become my utility of choice for changing OS X’s built-in screenshot settings.
Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville
Previously, the capacity bar would increase in real time as content was added to your device. Now, in iTunes 10, you can see the results of your change even before you start syncing.
Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
Overall, each of the three iPad apps makes the device a fine way to read e-books. Multiple apps and stores—including many not covered here—allow choices absent from dedicated reading devices.
David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
Developers reported that their creations had suddenly come out of the deep freeze and been approved for consumers using the company's iPhone family of devices.
Dan Kaplan, SC Magazine
Apple on Wednesday released a new version of QuickTime to plug two vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that is being actively exploited simply by tricking a victim into visiting a web page.
Scott Gilbertson, Wired
Google has updated the stable and beta branches of its Chrome web browser with several important bug fixes and stability improvements, including a rather serious security bug in Mac OS X.
Reuters
Stephen Dean, The Register
The new iPod Nano is certainly neatly designed, and the touchscreen will have definite novelty value for people who haven’t previously been able to afford an iPhone or iPod Touch. I can live without the camera but the lack of video playback seems like a rather mean cost-cutting measure – especially given the price increase.
Anthony Frausto-Robledo, Architosh
Adam Jackson, GigaOM
It’s the best notebook Apple makes and it also happens to be the smallest. It’s a machine for 75 percent of the portable Mac users out there, and too many people are buying more than they need when the MacBook Air fits in just nicely.
Glenn Howes, A Sprinkle of Cocoa
Jonathan Seff, Macworld
On Wednesday Apple issued Pro Applications Update 2010-02—recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server, and Logic Studio—with improved versions of Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5, and Qmaster 3.5.
Bill Hill, The Future Of Reading
Since I got my iPad, I find reading books on it so good that I can no longer bear to use my Kindle - although the Kindle app is the best eBook reader on the iPad, and the only one I use. Picking up the Kindle - after using the iPad for several weeks - is like stepping back into the Dark Ages of eBooks - a small-screen world of poor contrast, in which you can read comfortably only in perfect, bright lighting. It looks somehow pathetic alongside the iPad. You can never go back home again...
Christopher Breen, Macworld
My recent tips about Automator seems to have piqued the interest of readers who normally don’t touch this fine automation tool.
Dan Moren, Macworld
Users will be able to directly print to HP printers that include the company’s new ePrint feature, debuting in models this fall. According to Apple, iPad users will be able to print text, photos, and graphics via printers on a local network, or over Wi-Fi. Drivers and printing software don’t need to be installed, and Apple says there’s no setup or configuration.
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times
I have yet to receive an answer to a query I posed to press people at Apple after the launch of the Snow Leopard operating system last year — about whether they feel any obligation to help conserve the cats whose names they adopt for products. Maybe they can start with a tiny sliver of the profits from sales of OS X Tiger.
Toronto Sun
The new Apple TV could have me dancing in the street while cancelling my cable bill if we get the networks renting TV shows, and I’ll be cartwheeling if they deal with the other aforementioned issues. But right now it’s more of a wait and see, and in Canada we’re kinda used to that by now. Let’s just hope it isn’t a wait similar to that of getting the iPhone.
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
Jackie Dove, Macworld
Extensis has launched Portfolio Studio, a new application and server that lets small creative teams automatically archive and centralize access to photos and other digital media files with consistent metadata.
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
iPod touch users will have the ability to take some decent if wimpy images where before they could take none. Progress is marching slowly—it took Apple almost four years to add any camera hardware to the iPod touch at all—but at least it's marching in the right direction.
Mark Hachman, PC Magazine
Best Buy will sell the Apple iPad in all of its 1,093 U.S. stores beginning Sept. 26, the retailer said on Tuesday.
Straits Times
The Singapore School Transport Association (SSTA) and school bus operators said they are 'seriously considering' raising prices by 10 per cent to 20 per cent a month next year.
AppleInsider
Epic Games has announced that the software development kit for its Unreal 3 engine will soon add iOS support.
Neil Turner's Blog
In fact, there's no other region-specific services, despite the Apple TV now running on a similar operating system as the iPhone.
Topher Kessler, CNET
The latest version has a few small quirks, and I am not able to test it in all configurations or its full capabilities, but overall it does live up to the advertised improvements over the prior version.
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET
"Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction. Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon."
David Chartier, Macworld
New in this multiplatform, offline blogging client are some media management features, including per-blog image dimension settings, support for Lightroom 3 media libraries, and a “Paste HTML Source” command so you can paste in things like YouTube videos while editing in rich text.
MacNN
Brian Ross, Huffington Post
For folks with multiple devices, the iTunes store can be a huge pain. Downloadable content can end up in a variety of devices, and has to be moved around using the iTunes application on the computer, which is slow and inconvenient.
Tim Nash, Low End Mac
This year's iPod nano has gained an iOS-like multitouch interface, but how many people are willing to pay for better controls on an iPod that offers less features? It's an attempt to take the iOS interface to ever cheaper devices, to devices that don't need a large screen, but to succeed, the Nano needs to be seen as value for money and, if possible, enter new markets.
Pierre Igot, Betalogue
Well, it turns out that neither my wife nor I ever really felt the need for a hardware keyboard. The on-screen software keyboard was adequate to meet our needs.
Beau Colburn, Macworld
Often times in photography, the image that you capture isn't quite as exciting as what you had in mind. Beyond the subtle tone or cropping changes you can make in Preview or iPhoto, try adding a more unusual effect to give an image a whole new look. These three applications offer inexpensive ways to turn bland photos into cool creations.
Jake Gaecke, Appletell
Bob Evans, InformationWeek
The iPad engages its users to move beyond mere productivity—applying technology to a something you already know how to do and delivering a more-efficient outcome—and into the realm of innovation by allowing people to create new ways of seeing things, new ways of presenting ideas, new ways of communicating, and new ways delivering almost every fathomable type of information, from business graphics to images to text to video.
Dan Frakes, Macworld
David Dahlquist, Macworld
Agile Web Solutions has updated its password storing utility, 1Password, with a number of new features, updates, and fixes, including partial support for the Firefox 4 betas and new tools for detecting and resolving conflicts for all Sync modes.
AppleInsider
Apple has added a new feature to the support section of its website dubbed "Express Lane," making it easy for customers to select a product, detail any issue they may have, and get in contact with an Apple representative.
Joe White, App Advice
Yesterday, it seems Kovacs sent GV Mobile back to Apple’s approval team in the hopes that they’ll give it the thumps-up. Speaking through Twitter once again, Kovacs (@seankovacs) simple posted the word: submitted.
Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville
The only think I can think of is that the album was listed as a pre-order, and now that it’s released, the pre-order listing has actually been deleted. If so, that seems kind of odd.
Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle
Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
When some people see my Mac screen for the first time, they ask me what all that stuff in my menu bar is and why their menu bar doesn't have it. I explain that space on my Mac screen is precious and in short supply and that I am a big fan of third-party utilities that let me perform useful tasks without cluttering my screen with application windows.
Apple
For over 50 years, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts have aimed to make guests feel more than welcome by providing amenities and services that meet their needs as quickly and directly as possible. With iPad, Hyatt now has the ideal platform to deliver the kind of seamless guest services the company prides itself on — not to mention a powerful, portable business tool for executives in Hyatt’s corporate headquarters.
Apple
The Mac has transformed teaching and learning in the Greene County school system in rural eastern North Carolina. A new project-based curriculum has engaged and motivated students, and college-going rates have risen dramatically.
Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
Yes, Apple reviews any binary that is uploaded to iTunes Connect, but a developer can easily upload something never intended for publication by setting the release date far into the future. Additionally, offenders may simply reclaim an application name for three more months once Apple releases it back into the wild.
Jay Yarow, Business Insider
Mke Cassidy, San Jose Mercury News
TJ Luoma, TUAW
I find it frustrating that iTunes continues to provide basic user feedback such as telling me which 'item' it was referring to in the error message above.
Macworld
We put our heads together and came up with a list of ten features—for the tenth anniversary of the OS X beta’s release—that we consider to be the most significant contributions to the Mac experience.
David Winograd, TUAW
AppleInsider
Apple announced on Monday that it will launch the Wi-Fi iPad in China this week on Friday, Sept. 17, with the multitouch device going on sale at the company's retail stores and authorized resellers at 10 a.m. local time.
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
My life changed ten years ago, when Apple rolled out the Mac OS X Public Beta. Of course, I didn’t know it at the time—on September 13, 2000, if my memory serves me correctly, it seemed like this new OS was just the next step (albeit a big one) in the evolution of the Mac’s operating system. Of course, as someone who loved to live on the bleeding edge of technology, clearly this was something I had to have.
Matt Hamblen, Macworld
MicroStrategy said it is running some applications that can run on both the iPad and iPhone, while others are designed to fully take advantage of the larger 9.7-inch iPad touchscreen. For example, some of the latter applications help sales personnel easily show off videos or live demonstrations to customers during face-to-face meetings, said Mark LaRow, senior vice president of products.
Benj Edwards, Macworld
In honor of OS X’s tenth anniversary, let’s examine at some of the more notable differences between the public beta that debuted a decade ago and today’s version of OS X.
Eric Slivka, Macrumors.com
Based on evidence we've compiled, we believe that Apple may have purchased a small Cambridge, UK-based company known as imsense for its expertise dealing with just this technology.
Matt Hamblen, Computerworld
Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer, hugely popular among consumers since its April debut, is slowly finding its way into the hands of doctors, lawyers and other businesspeople who say it can help them do their jobs.
Chad Garrett, TiPb
iTunes 10 is here, we’ve been using it for a while, and now we’ve got a complete walkthrough for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users. If you’re new to iTunes 10, especially if you’re new to iOS devices, we’ll help you get up and running quickly. If you’re already an expert, well here’s a guide you can send your new user friends and family.
Rafi Mohammed, The Street
Memo to network television executives: you are at a critical juncture. Pricing decisions today will have significant profit ramifications to your future. The choice is clear: become commoditized or stand up for the value of your creative endeavors.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Apple products play an oversized role in the small survey of college campuses (seven schools, 212 students) released Monday by Hudson Square Research's Daniel Ernst.
Ian Sherr, Dow Jones
Consumer Reports magazine has reiterated it cannot recommend Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4, saying a flaw in the device's antenna design causes it to lose reception when held a certain way.
Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times
No tradesperson would arrive at a job site without the proper tools. Likewise, I start each computing day with my bag of Mac OS X enhancements and extenders right at hand.
Benj Edwards, Macworld
The fortunes of the Mac platform drastically changed 10 years ago, with the release of a simple CD.
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
What's so great about HDR photography? And is Apple's new HDR feature any good? Ars dug in to find out.
Kevin Kwang, ZDNet Asia
Apple faces an uphill task convincing schools to adopt its Volume Purchase Program because its closed, rigid app store environment make access and digital rights management a pain for schools' IT administrators, said industry watchers.
Scott Cendrowski, Fortune
Ed Bott, ZDNet
Robert Stockdill, Inside Retailing
It took less than four weeks for US retail stores to start using the iPad to aid the in-store shopping experience.
Eric Bleeker, Motley Fool
Apple will become the most valuable company in the world. Bet on it. In fact, go out and sell all your personal belongings, liquidate your 401(k), and buy Apple stock with every last dollar you own.
OK … on second thought, I wouldn't advise that -- it's a bit rash. But there are ample reasons to believe that the company's rise is just starting and that Apple will continue blowing past expectations.
Philip Elmer-DeWit, Fortune
Ross Rubin, Engadget
A decade ago at Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs provided a rare look into the vision guiding Apple. Breaking with naysayers foretelling the demise of the PC, Jobs said that the PC was now entering a third golden age of "Digital Lifestyle," following those of productivity and the Internet. In this era, the PC would serve as a digital hub.
Sean Pearce, YorkRegion
The Macalope, Macworld
Sina
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
Apple has begun emailing developers if they’ve failed to upload their binary for 90 days after first starting the app creation process. Apple warns the developer that they have another 30 days to do so, or the record will be deleted from iTunes Connect. And the key point: “The app name will then be available for another developer to use.”
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
We'll just come out and say it: the sixth-generation iPod nano feels very un-nano-like. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely feels and "acts" more like a shuffle, but with a screen. The size and built-in clip definitely help this perception, but the general limitations of the device (no more video, largely focused around audio-only) make it more like the shuffle than ever before.
AppleInsider
Customers who buy an iPhone 4 after Sept. 30 will not be able to request a free case through Apple's "Case Program," but they will be able to contact AppleCare to request a free Bumper.
Whitson Gordon, Macworld
David Chartier, Macworld
Ryan Faas, Computerworld
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Yes for Flash apps in the App Store, no for Flash in the iPhone browser -- at least for now.
Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine
Owing to its market share and the fact that it controls its hardware and, to a certain extent, software ecosystem in ways no other system manufacturer can match, Apple may in fact have an advantage. On the other hand, that can't be all of it. Sometimes doing things different really does make sense.
Ian Paul, PC World
Here's a look at what might be headed back to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch under Apple's new iOS Developer License.
Erica Ogg, CNET
The tone comes across almost as if Apple didn't really want to publish these rules at all. So why did it? The timing is certainly curious, since Apple rarely gives up information willingly about anything related to how the company works. The fact that regulators were sniffing around Apple's policies was likely a motivating factor.
Peter Kirn, Macworld
Finale's ambitious annual upgrade cadence can make it hard for existing users to determine when to upgrade, but Finale 2011 is a comparatively easy choice. If you use lyrics, you should upgrade even if you're using Finale 2010, and users of older releases will find the latest Finale more usable while producing better output. For those not yet using Finale, the choice is more personal.
David Dahlquist, Macworld
Though it will run on any iOS 4 device, FaceMan is specifically designed to make use of the iPhone 4’s front-facing camera. It provides 16 real-time effects that swirl, stretch, distort, and otherwise mangle your face beyond recognition.
AppleInsider
On its official blog, Adobe confirmed Thursday that it was resuming development of the tool, which allows Flash developers to "quickly and easily deliver applications for OS devices."
Scott Rosenberg, Salon
Apple loves to maintain tight control of things. That's been a hugely successful approach for its hardware business. It's even a defensible position applied to software. But it's a lousy model for a newsstand.
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice
Despite what you might think, the document is very human as you’ll see, nothing like a law book. It also does leave Apple some space so they’re not completely giving up on their freedom to reject you. Further, you’ll discover that this new transparency comes at a price as it seems like Apple will be much stricter from now on about what it approves.
Mel Martin, TUAW
Digital Arts
Red Giant Software has released Magic Bullet Suite 10, a collection of eight software applications used for professional color correction, enhancement, and film output in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Apple Final Cut Pro.
Dan Frakes, Macworld
AppleInsider
Calling it the "best Windows on Mac experience yet," Parallels on Thursday formally announced the sixth version of its virtualization software, set to bring more than 80 new features and enhancements when it launches Sept. 14.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
'We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, “I’ll know it when I see it”. And we think that you will also know it when you cross it.'
Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
Many users are reporting that iOS 4.1, released Wednesday, does indeed fix the issue. But others who have downloaded and installed the update say their iPhone 4's touch screen still fails to shut off when they hold the phone close to their face.
Dan Gallagher, MarketWatch
Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. jumped more than 8% to $31.71 in early trading Thursday after Apple Inc. issued a statement relaxing restrictions on mobile app developers.
AppleInsider
Apple on Thursday announced that it has would no longer ban third-party intermediary development tools for iOS as long as App Store software does not download any code, potentially paving the way for third-party intermediary tools to convert applications from other formats like Adobe Flash.
Jane Wells, CNBC
In what appears to be a first, Apple opened up iTunes software system to BridgeCo, a software company that embeds chips in stereo equipment which allow users to seamlessly stream music wirelessly from a mobile device.
ANdy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
I’ve had time to use the new Shuffle, Nano, and Touch and I declare the 2010 editions to be a mixed bag. One is a retreat back that amounts to a big step forward; another is set of “under the hood” upgrades that adds true muscle car performance; and the third is ...
... um ...
Quite creative.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Having played with the new Nano today in an Apple Store, it feels much more like a Shuffle with a touchscreen than a replacement for the previous Nano.
John Hatchett, Los End Mac
Greg Kumparak, Mobilecrunch
The exploit in question here seems to focus around the boot rom, which, as you might have guessed from the preamble, is one of these non-rewritable components. Apple can patch up this exploit in any new hardware before it leaves the factory (they’ve shipped revised hardware as a result of similar exploits in the past), but once that boot rom is flashed and the phone is assembled, it’s a done deal.
Mark Hachman, PC Magazine
Apple's Game Center - part of the company's iOS 4.1 update excludes the older iPhone from its hardware compatibility list, even though the phone can theoretically run Apple's latest iOS version.
Geekzone
Apple’s share of the New Zealand personal computer market exceeded 11 percent in the second quarter of 2010, says distributor Renaissance.
John Biggs, Crunchgear
Ping isn’t perfect. I’m surprised its so clunky right now. However, it does point to better things down the road.
David A. Milman, Computerworld
AppleInsider
The new fourth-generation iPod touch from Apple has the exact same A4 processor as the iPad, meaning it has 256MB of RAM, or half than the 512MB found in the iPhone 4.
David Chartier, Macworld
New in Apple’s portable video-editing studio is the ability to split video clips, automatic music looping when video extends beyond the music track, and an in-app page of tips to help users edit better movies.
Dan Moren, Macworld
Overall, iOS 4.1 is a worthy update that packs both new capabilities as well as improvements to existing features—and all for free, too. With the performance improvements, even iPhone 3G users will find something to like in 4.1.
David Chartier, Macworld
Major feature additions include high dynamic range (HDR) photos, Game Center, FaceTime calling from the Phone app’s Favorites tab, uploading full HD videos to MobileMe and YouTube over Wi-Fi, and support for TV shows rented from the iTunes Store.
Eric Zeman, InformationWeek
Jonny Evans, Computerworld
Dow Jones
Apple Inc. has been given a China network access license for its iPhone 4 smartphone, according to the website of China's Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center, indicating the new version of the popular device could soon make its debut in China.
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
Small foibles aside, MacSpeech scribe is a powerful and intelligent tool for transcribing your recorded speech. A simple training process and access to a wide variety of standard audio formats mean that you’ll be moving your spoken text to the printed page in a matter of minutes and with a minimum of hassle. Scribe is the best, simplest way for you to get your spoken word to the printed page.
Lucy Craymer, Wall Street Journal
Five weeks since Apple began offering the iPhone 4 in New Zealand, customers in the country are still waiting to get their hands on the popular smartphone, with no indication on when the long-running supply problems might be sorted.
Ruth Mortimer, Marketing Week
Well, excuse me, Mr Jobs. Apple may be a fantastically clever company with many beautiful products, but Ping is not a social network. It is a standard sales tool dressed up in the most fashionable clothing of our time – social media.
Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
For some, the nano's emphasis on simple music playback, rather than gimmicks such as recording or watching films, will be a huge plus point. Moreover, its excellent battery life and compact size make it an indispensable exercise companion for runners and keep-fit fanatics, particularly with Nike Plus and a pedometer built in to the device.
But the fundamental problem, for me at least, is that it doesn’t feel like an iPod. It lacks the cheap and cheerful charm of the shuffle, and the premium lustre of the touch. It feels as though you are paying extra money just for the privilege of tapping a touch-screen rather than clicking a button.
Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing
NICK Bilton, New York Times
Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
The transition is taking place before our eyes. The click wheel, once the signature of the iPod line, is all but extinct now. Instead, Apple is continuing their march forward into touch.
Jason Snell, Macworld
With the redesign of the fourth-generation iPod shuffle, Apple has brought back a classic design that works well with any set of headphones. At $49 for 2GB of storage, it’s not only the perfect entry-level iPod, it’s also a solid second device for iPhone users who want to keep it simple while exercising.
Christopher Breen, Macworld
The iPod touch is wildly popular for good reason. It’s an extremely versatile device—media player; pocket gaming machine; productivity tool; Internet communication device; and, with this latest update, pocket camcorder, still camera, handheld recorder, and FaceTime video phone. While its cameras fail to produce results as good as the iPhone 4, they make FaceTime possible, which allows us to more easily forgive their less-than-pristine images and movies.
Dan Frakes, Macworld
The new iPod nano is a bit of an enigma. On the one hand, its size and touchscreen interface are sure to generate oohs and aahs, and in many cases provide genuine—and substantial—benefits. On the other hand, the new interface suffers a bit from being confined to a tiny screen, features found on previous models are missing, and the lack of physical playback controls (or at least Apple’s inline-remote earbuds, standard on last year’s model) means the device is less usable than it could be, especially in precisely the environments where it should excel: at the gym and on the go. A slightly larger screen and either basic physical playback controls or Apple’s remote-equipped earbuds would have made for a stellar music player, despite the "lost" features.
Nick Spence, Macworld UK
Apple-owned FileMaker has announced the availability of Bento 3 Project Manager, a new set of templates that aim to make it easy for Mac users to track their personal projects and manage their time within the Bento database application.
Michael Rose, TUAW
The good news is, the Safari 5.0.2 update fixes a passel of bugs and outstanding security issues. The bad news: like all Safari updates, which replace the underlying Webkit framework used by many Mac OS X apps to render HTML, this 39 MB update requires a restart.
David Chartier, Macworld
Though less ambitious than previous years in terms of sheer new features, iTunes 10 is a solid update that will need to age like a fine wine to be truly appreciated. Once Ping gets a round or two of updates, the Apple TV 2.0 ships, and AirPlay appears in accessories, iTunes 10 may prove to be quite a useful update for those who want to use these features.
Matt Drance, Apple Outsider
I suspect Ping has already more than paid for itself through new music that people were not going to buy last week, and now have.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Ian Paul, PC World
As music and entertainment services move online, there may be a chance for other companies to break Apple’s dominance over digital music. But the powerful combo of the iPod and iTunes, along with experiments in interactivity, social features, and—perhaps next?—online services could mean Apple will be digital music’s gatekeeper for many years to come.
Appletell
thinkSPAIN
Eric Lai, ZDNet
SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann tweeted yesterday that the enterprise software vendor has already rolled out iPads to 1,000 employees.
And this isn’t just a superficial show of support for SAP’s new-found embrace of mobility: according to Bussmann, every iPad comes with e-mail, Virtual Private Network (VPN) access to server-based applications through Citrix software and Business Intelligence tools via BusinessObjects.
Macworld
AppleInsider
Though spammers quickly flocked to Apple's fledgling social network last week, most of the bogus surveys and other unwanted comments were removed by Monday.
One Man And His Blog
If you want more evidence of that this is mostly about recommendation and purchase, just look at where Ping lives.
Jeffrey Mincey, Mac 360
If you’re iPhoto Library is large and unwieldy, with a thousand or more Events, and a growing mixture of photos and movie clips, and, if exporting files has become cumbersome, then look at iPhoto To Disk.
Stephen Withers, IT.Wire
Matt Tinsley, TUAW
Brett Terpstra, TUAW
Fake, like Automator, offers an Actions library and allows you to create drag-and-drop workflows with Web-specific capabilities.
John Brandon, Macworld
I found Drive Rescue to me a bit more valuable to my daily Mac activities because it actually restored some files I had lost. Drive Genius repairs hard disk problems, but it can’t resuscitate a damaged file in the sense that you can recover the files and use them again. It fixes your drive. That’s why I ended up thinking Drive Genius is valuable, just not wholly indispensible.
Bloomberg
Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou cut his long-term growth target for the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics by 50 percent as demand for Apple Inc. iPhones and iPads fails to offset slowing computer sales.
Vlad Savov, Engadget
Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note
The Apple App Store is one of the greatest game-changers of the past twenty years. Will Apple let it crumble under its own weight?
Miguel Helft, New York Times
More than 100 other devices can stream Netflix movies, including game machines, Blu-ray players and Internet-connected TVs. Indeed, Apple faces an increasing number of competitors that include upstarts like Roku and Boxee, powerful rivals like Google, and established players like Sony and Samsung.
Rob Cyran, New York Times
When should investors sell Apple shares?
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Apple may in fact be selling more hand-held game devices than Sony and Nintendo combined, as Steve Jobs claimed on Wednesday, but journalists trying to fact-check that statement can be forgiven their skepticism.
Tony Bradley, PC World
The genius of Apple's iCulture strategy is that the relationship with iOS and the investment in an extensive library of iOS apps is a much stronger bond than the two-year wireless contract. Aside from the early termination fee, there is no reason most users won't switch wireless providers given a better deal, but switching platforms requires a culture shift that many are unwilling to embark on.
Jay Yarow, The Business Insider
Without the ability to actually to actually tell our friends what we're listening to, Ping is a pretty useless service. Without the ability to listen to all our music through Ping, like we once did with Lala, the service is decidedly weak.
But here's what we want to know: Is this Apple's fault, or are the music labels stopping Apple from making Ping a better service?
Technollama
ADO Strategies
Pierre Igot, Betalogue
While iTunes is indeed not a document-based application, it is possible to have multiple windows open in iTunes. Just double-click on any playlist or even the iTunes Store in the source list on the left of the main window.
This will open what you double-clicked on in a separate window and, guess what, that window has a title bar, which makes the vertical window controls look even sillier and uglier, because they are not even tucked in the corner of the window any more.
Jay Yarow, Yahoo!
Steve Jobs was initially a Ping user, but then he decided to abandon the social network.
While we couldn't find much of Apple's top brass, we did find some execs and employees Pinging it up.
Martin Peers, Wall Street Journal
Apple may be hoping for regulatory relief—with good reason. In April, the Federal Communications Commission invited comments on a proposal that cable and satellite operators let viewers use any "smart video devices" available in stores to connect to their TV service. It says it wants to "foster a competitive retail market" in the devices.
Andrew Wallenstein, AdWeek
At issue is the 99-cent price tag that represents a steep discount from the TV episodes already offered on iTunes. Multiple executives described it as an unacceptable devaluation of the content that puts in jeopardy the so-called "downstream" windows crucial to generating profit including DVD and syndication.
One studio chief drew a comparison between the new arrangement and the damage done to the music industry when Apple disaggregated the traditional album-oriented business model in favor of a singles-centric approach.
Bryan Wolfe, App Advice
Michael deAgonia, Computerworld
If time is money, this is a serious computer to consider -- not because of its raw processing power alone, but because of the fact that its raw processing power helps you get some of your life back. That's a concept many people seem to forget. All those seconds and minutes spent waiting for your hardware to crunch through data add up. With something as responsive as the iMac, you get some of that time back.
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
Ping is designed to let you follow artists and friends, share what music you’re buying and are into, and discover what others enjoy. So is it worth the Apple-generated hype?
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
While we agree that iTunes is "faster and more responsive," we're not sold on the revised user interface.
Chris Rawson, TUAW
For the same price as last year's iPod nano, you get a much smaller device with a new multitouch-based UI, but you also lose many of the features the old model had. That's form over function all the way, and it's just as bad, in its way, as Apple getting rid of FireWire on its MacBooks.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said today.
Lance Whitney, CNET
Apple's new social media service, Ping, is already getting hit by a barrage of comment spam.
Mike Schramm, TUAW
Joe Aimonetti, CNET
Apple has confirmed that it will not be releasing software updates for owners of the original models of the Apple TV which includes no support for streaming Netflix, as seen on the newly released version.
Jeff Bercovici, DailyFinance
While Disney (DIS) also went along with the pricing scheme -- no surprise, since Steve Jobs sits on the Disney board -- CBS (CBS), Viacom (VIA) and NBC Universal all held out, worried that show rentals could undermine their economic model. Why, one wonders, would News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch -- who's made plenty of noise in the past year about the importance of getting paid in full for quality content -- come to a different conclusion?
Ed Christman, Billboard
In trying to move to a 90-second song sample, iTunes may have to pay for the privilege, which is not out of line with the way things have been going lately in the music industry.
James Galbraith, Macworld
Based on performance alone, it seems like the Mac Pro addresses a smaller market each time a new iMac appears. But there remains a need for a highly configurable and fast performing Mac. The new Mac Pros may be little more than speed bumps from the systems they replace, but they do offer better performance at the same price, while offering even more options for customization.
Don Clark, Wall Street Journal
Lower pricing is one of the most noticeable features of Apple Inc.'s latest gadget for delivering Internet video to televisions. Some of the savings appear to come at the expense of Intel Corp.
Christopher Breen, Macworld
An unexpected change is that iTunes Automator actions no longer load. This affects both existing workflows created for an earlier version of iTunes as well as any workflows you create with iTunes 10 installed.
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice
Basically, AirPlay allows iOS apps to stream almost anything over Wi-Fi to an Apple TV. And, if Apple does makes that feature available to developers, it will open endless possibilities to bring apps your TV, just as we wanted.
ohn Siracusa, Ars Technica
Apple needs to accept the things it cannot change and have the courage to change the things it can. Perhaps consumer reaction to this latest Apple TV device will finally give Steve Jobs the wisdom to tell the difference.
Dan Moren, Macworld
While Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent much of Wednesday’s presentation talking about TV rentals on devices running iOS 4.1 (due next week) and the new Apple TV (due later this month), you can fire up a rental right now—as long as you don’t mind watching on your Mac or PC. While some shows are available in both HD and SD and others available only in SD, they all cost just $1 to rent.
Mel Martin, TUAW
No one ever knows when something will strike Apple's fancy and become a built-in feature. The HDR capability was a surprise to me, and something more than a surprise to the developers who brought HDR to the iPhone as independent apps.
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
The whole point of Ping is really to aid music discovery among a circles of friends (which you could already do on services like Last.fm, of course), but Apple also wants to keep users on iTunes and get them to buy more while there. Once you come to terms with this, the service makes more sense.
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
iTunes 10 features a number of interface changes, and many of them seem designed to save space. Since it’s hard to display all the information about music and other media in iTunes, a few pixels here and there gives users more room in the different views available.
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
Blogo 1.3 is a great, versatile blog editing application that goes the extra mile by offering features you won’t find in other similar applications. But that advantage comes with caveats. Tools for adding and editing photos, and limitations on the number of posts you can edit at one time may render Blogo inadequate for some users.
Heather Kelly, Macworld
HDR photography isn't loved by everyone. The final products can be garish, and when everything in an image is perfectly exposed the scene can look fake. Apple's HDR appears to avoid this pitfall by dialing down the overall effect. It's so mild that some iPhone photographers might choose to leave the setting on all the time.
Macworld
Has Apple finally hit upon the magic formula for a living room companion? We won’t know for certain until the product actually ships. But we can answer a few common questions about the latest edition of the Apple TV.
Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
Kara Swisher , Wall Street Journal
Jobs did not elaborate on those troublesome terms and also would not say if Ping would incorporate connecting with Facebook or even using Facebook Connect–which would make it much easier to find friends to share music with.
Erica Ogg, CNET
A Facebook spokeswoman wouldn't confirm whether the company had disallowed Apple's use of the Facebook API, but did say this: "We're working with Apple to resolve this issue. We've worked together successfully in the past, and we look forward to doing so in the future."
Dan Nosowitz, Fast Company
Joe White, App Advice
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET
Ping picks at the nice parts of Facebook and Twitter--friending and following--and offers these benefits to its users without the generalists' pains.
Matthew Miller, ZDNet
Yukari Iwatani Kane And Shira Ovide, Wall Street Journal
Other media companies, including General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal, Time Warner Inc. and CBS Corp., turned down Apple's new pricing options and don't expect to sign up for TV-show rentals as currently configured, according to people familiar with those companies.
Even Fox—a unit of News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal—considers its participation a short-term experiment, according to people familiar with the matter. Jim Gianopulos, CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, said Fox would work with Apple "for the next several months."
Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Even Jobs concedes the device is mainly for tech hobbyists, and most of the Sept. 1 event was dedicated to the revelation of a new line of iPods and a social networking feature that works within iTunes. What Jobs didn't say is that Apple wants to become king of the living room. He tells Bloomberg Businessweek that when the time is right, Apple could open an App Store for the TV that could do for television sets what all those apps have done for the iPhone. Asked if the iPad could evolve into the TV of tomorrow, Jobs shrugs and says, "That's how I do most of my TV watching today."
Jennifer Saba and Yinka Adegoke, Reuters
Apple Inc introduced a new version of Apple TV on Wednesday with shows from just two networks, underscoring its struggles to win over a media industry worried about losing control over the pricing of its programs.
Jason Perlow, ZDNet
The rental pricing (and content availability) just doesn’t make sense yet. And without Apps, and extremely limited prime time TV content selection, I just don’t see what the value play of the new Apple TV is yet.
Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters
Critics hoping for more from Apple Inc's Web-to-TV plans -- a device, say, that would revolutionize living room entertainment the way the iPad changed tablet computing -- may just need to wait a bit longer.
Chris Morris, Variety
Hollywood's majors have been divided on Apple's TV show rental plan, as evidenced by the lack of programming from NBC and CBS in the announcement. Apple topper Steve Jobs expressed optimism that other networks would "see the light and get on board" with the company "pretty fast."
Donald Bell, CNET
Khoi Vinh, Subtraction
The problem is that every company out there that’s addressing this opportunity, from Sony to Samsung to even Apple, is actually trying to solve the wrong problem. None of them are really asking how they can fix the living room problem. Rather, they’re focusing on establishing their brand in the living room, positing completely unrealistic scenarios in which a consumer buys only, say, Samsung-branded components (e.g., its absurdly useless WiseLink protocol) without acknowledging the reality that the components of most home theaters make for a decidedly heterogeneous world.
Seth Weintraub, Fortune
A Google Spokesperson told me: "The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services." --meaning that Jobs' assertions were wrong.
Om Malik, GigaOM
Apple received much of this social capability with the acquisition of Lala, an online music service, which as a standalone company used sharing of social objects to drive folks towards paid music downloads. Now they are only closing the loop by further sharing what they bought. I wouldn’t be least bit surprised if the sales of music on the iTunes store rocket upwards, thanks to social discovery.
Ben Kunz, BusinessWeek
Next time you're sitting at an airport bar and hear two businesspeople debate whether Apple is a technology or design company, chime in: "Nope. What Steve Jobs sells is pricing."
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt noted that Google was activating 200,000 Android devices a day. Obviously, that’s a massive number. Today during the Apple event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs took the chance to one up him — then take a shot at Google.
Paul Boutin, New York Times
Apple’s goal is to boost sales of iTunes music and videos, by enabling what techies call discovery. Discovery is the process of finding something you didn’t know you were looking for. You may not have known it existed. For instance, Ping generates a Top Ten list from the music purchases of your circle of friends. By learning what your friends and your celebrity heroes are listening to, you will very likely discover new songs you’ll want to buy with one more click.
Jason Snell and Jonathan Seff, Macworld
After Wednesday’s Apple media event, we got to spend a little while in a hands-on area adjacent to the Yerba Buena theater with a few dozen members of the media, analysts, VIPs, and—most importantly—new iPods and Apple TVs. Without any further ado, here’s what we spotted.
AppleInsider
Announced on Wednesday, AirPlay is the improved and rebranded AirTunes, which allows users to stream music from their computer to other locations in their home. Previously, that streaming required an Apple-branded AirPort Express or another computer running iTunes. With AirPlay, users will be able to stream to speaker docks, AV receivers and stereo systems from companies including Denon and Bowers & Wilkins.
Richard Gaywood, TUAW
There are lots of disgruntled people in the UK this evening, following Apple's announcement that the new Apple TV, retailing for $99 in the US, will cost... £99. If you subtract our sales tax (which is always quoted upfront, unlike in the US) that's the equivalent of $128, a rather excessive 28% hike.
Clint Ecker, Ars Technica
Alongside the music players, Apple announced a smaller, black Apple TV that costs $99, has no built-in storage, streams content from iTunes or iOS devices, and fully integrates Netflix into the existing Apple TV interface. Apple's new black box will be available later this month.
Mike Schramm, TUAW
Megan Lavey, TUAW
Most of the new release's focus is on Ping, a social network for music. "It's like Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes," Jobs said.
Marco Tabini, Macworld
Apple didn’t just roll out new products during its Wednesday press event; it also rattled off some impressive statistics about its mobile, music, and retail efforts. Here are some of the numerical highlights from Steve Jobs’s presentation.
Erica Sadun, TUAW
FaceTime. It isn't just for iPhone any more. Apple has just introduced a new generation of iPod touch with an improved chip (the same A4 that powers the iPad and the iPhone 4), a better display (the iPhone 4's double-resolution Retina display), and a built-in, front-facing camera that introduces FaceTime video conferencing capabilities.
Dave Caolo, TUAW
The new shuffle has a familiar-looking click wheel on the small postage-stamp shaped model that was introduced a few years ago.
Megan Lavey, TUAW
It's hip to be square. Announced today, the newly introduced iPod nano finally dispenses with the wheel as a control surface -- because now the control surface is the iPod touch. The new model is so small that like the newly announced iPod shuffle, it has a clip that allows it to be worn and has a 24-hour battery life.
AppleInsider
Apple on Wednesday showed off iOS 4.2 for the iPad, including folders, multitasking, support for wireless printing, and streaming of audio, video and photos through the new Air Play feature.
Megan Lavey, TUAW
Siobhan McFadyen, Daily Record
Welcome to the world's first iSchool - where pen and paper have been pushed aside in favour of computers. At Cedars School of Excellence, in Greenock, all the lessons are now taken using iPads.
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Despite his bravado, however, Shipley can admit when he makes a mistake. On the release of the 2.5 update to Delicious Library, he told Ars that the ambitious plans for Delicious Library 2.0 ending up resulting in a finished product that, while beautiful and impressive looking, performed poorly for some users. That's why version 2.5 consists largely of bug fixes and performance enhancements, and instead of adding features takes a few away.
Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
Dan Gillmor, Salon
There were a number of noteworthy elements to Wednesday's launch announcements in San Francisco -- updated music and video players, plus a social network that could become a real force in that arena, and more. The most obvious, however, was the company's relentless pursuit of being the primary media gatekeeper and toll collector.
What Apple has embedded in its social network is something Facebook can't dream about, at least not yet: verified users and their credit-card numbers, more than 160 million of them.
Ron McElfresh, Mac 360
Ali Shah, GigaOM
Apple already has the simplicity with the iPhone 4’s version of FaceTime, and they seem to be poised to get the ubiquity.
John P. Falcone, CNET
Is AirPlay an iTunes-only protocol, or does it work with other audio sources? Does AirPlay offer any added value over Bluetooth for streaming audio?
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Wall Street Journal
Apple’s fight with the Beatles over the Apple trademark is legendary. But on Wednesday, Apple avoided any such problems over its Ping social network for music — by making sure that it had an agreement with the golf company that holds the Ping trademark beforehand.
Ping has a whopping number of trademark registrations — more than 1,000 around the world, according to the company and its parent, Karsten Manufacturing Corporation. Most of those are related to golf equipment, but the company also owns the rights to Ping for social networking and other online services, it says. That, of course, could have been problematic for Apple.
Ryan Marshall, Fast Company
Associated Press
Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone, Macintosh computers and other consumer electronics, spent $330,000 lobbying the federal government in the second quarter on spending for technology in education and other issues, according to a disclosure report.
Cody Willard, MarketWatch
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Is Steve Jobs' tablet the device that finally gets Apple past the IT-department gates?
Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News
Apple, the Cupertino maker of Mac computers and mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad, will provide a live video stream of its San Francisco media event Wednesday.
Dan Frakes, Macworld
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
I think it’s a poor assumption that Apple could, by sheer will, produce a version of iOS where Flash Player works well on the iPad.
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