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- Comex no longer working at Apple [Updated]
- AT&T voices concern over Sprint’s Clearwire deal
- Expert laughs off Microsoft’s pre-emptive claim of Surface beating iPad 3 on screen sharpness
- Color is a talent acquisition
- Apple patents Airplay mirroring for touchscreens, putting Siri in context
- Nope, Google’s $249 Chromebook totally didn’t rip off MacBook Air wholesale
- Sega launches its first iOS exclusive, Sonic Jump
- Apple changes sales tactics as the iPhone’s share in India plummets to new lows
- Google prematurely posts bad Q3 earnings, stock plunges
- Good news: Tweetbot for Mac is out. Bad news: it costs $20
| Comex no longer working at Apple [Updated] Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:12 PM PDT
Nicholas Allegra, a.k.a.Comex — the iOS hacker responsible for the popular jailbreak tool JailbreakMe — has parted ways with Apple after interning there for a little over a year. Last August, Comex broke the news that sent shockwaves through the jailbreak community, announcing that he would be joining the very company whose security he’d successfully undermined more than once. Is it possible that Comex might pick up where he left off in the jailbreak community?(...) "Comex no longer working at Apple [Updated]" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| AT&T voices concern over Sprint’s Clearwire deal Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:03 PM PDT
About this time last year, AT&T’s plans to buyout T-Mobile were in shambles. Thanks to strong opposition from its competitors — namely Sprint, and the US government, the carrier was forced to withdraw its merger application from the FCC. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that AT&T is being vocal about the recently announced Softbank-Sprint-Clearwire deal. The carrier says it’s worrisome that a foreign carrier will have control over such a large chunk of US airwaves…(...) "AT&T voices concern over Sprint’s Clearwire deal" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Expert laughs off Microsoft’s pre-emptive claim of Surface beating iPad 3 on screen sharpness Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:56 PM PDT
A Microsoft engineer in a Reddit thread made a bold claim that a 1,366-by-768 pixel resolution display on the Surface tablet is way sharper than the 2,048-by-1,536 pixel resolution Retina display on the iPad 3. The comment left some scratching their head, wondering if Microsoft found a way to bypass the laws of physics. President of DisplayMate Technologies Raymond Soneira is an expert at these things: he previously dispelled Heatgate, recently rated the iPhone 5 as having the best display in a smartphone and now is back with a brief shootout concerning the Surface’s ClearType sub-pixel rendering allegedly improving display clarity beyond what Apple’s device offers…(...) "Expert laughs off Microsoft’s pre-emptive claim of Surface beating iPad 3 on screen sharpness" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:01 PM PDT
You may have heard that Color Labs, a Palo Alto-based startup that raised $41 million on the concept of a media sharing app called Color, has collapsed as its shareholders and board last week voted to shut the company down. There’s a chance you also felt excited about the prospect of Apple acquiring Color Labs for "high double-digits" millions and breathing new life into the company, per Ken Yeung and Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web. Looks like the authors got it wrong because what Apple has really paid a couple million bucks for is its handful of engineers because the company itself is worthless. A new report by a blog owned by well-informed The Wall Street Journal has it that Apple is reportedly paying something to the tune of $2 to $5 million for Color Labs's engineering team comprised of about 20 people…(...) "Color is a talent acquisition" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Apple patents Airplay mirroring for touchscreens, putting Siri in context Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT
In the first application, entitled “Gesture Visualization and Sharing Between Electronic Devices and Remote Displays,” Apple talks of protecting technology allowing a touch screen device to share its screen with a second, larger display. Because the patent application mentions a touch interface, reports suggest the patent is limited to the iPhone and iPad…(...) "Apple patents Airplay mirroring for touchscreens, putting Siri in context" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Nope, Google’s $249 Chromebook totally didn’t rip off MacBook Air wholesale Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:46 PM PDT
I kinda like the concept of an Internet-only notebook which boots in a few seconds, is always on and runs smoothly. I wanted to like Google-branded Chromebooks and almost bought one before realizing that Apple has already ticked all the right boxes with its iPad computer. But if a portable computing device with a physical keyboard which runs a browser-based OS and runs only web apps is your thing, this new Chromebook surely will pique your interest. Apart from being a total rip off of the MacBook Air down to its black rounded keys, trackpad and the recess right where the lid opens, know that this Chromebook is a quarter of the Air’s asking price and half the iPad’s. On paper, the machine is a must-have: it weighs in at only 2.43 pounds, is 0.8-inches thick, runs 6.5+ hours battery and rocks a 11.6-inch display at a 1,366-by-768 pixel resolution. Per usual, there are some caveats that a flashy commercial (included below) fails to mention…(...) "Nope, Google’s $249 Chromebook totally didn’t rip off MacBook Air wholesale" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Sega launches its first iOS exclusive, Sonic Jump Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:21 PM PDT
Sega, a console maker turned games developer, is pretty active on the iOS platform. It’s been churning out various episodes of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and recently launched its popular Crazy Taxi game on the iPhone. Today, Sega released a brand new iOS game set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. Called Sonic Jump, it’s Sega’s first iOS-only game. As the name suggests, Sonic Jump has your charming hedgehog character jumping up the platforms, collecting coins, avoiding enemies, squaring off against Dr. Eggman and a whole bunch more. It should be instantly familiar to anyone who has played platform jumpers like Doodle Jump. Fans of Sega games will no doubt feel right at home. Sonic Jump runs natively on both the iPhone and iPad and is provided as a universal binary setting you back two bucks. A few screenies, more info and a trailer can be found past the fold…(...) "Sega launches its first iOS exclusive, Sonic Jump" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Apple changes sales tactics as the iPhone’s share in India plummets to new lows Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:24 AM PDT I’ve previously written about Apple’s woes in India, where the company was forced to re-price the iPhone 3GS because cheap Android handsets took the market by storm. It’s really the same problem plaguing Apple in any other country, only it’s way more pronounced in India, a 1.24 billion people market that buys 220 million handsets per year. India is also home to the largest concentration of people living below the World Bank's international poverty line of $1.25 per day. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Apple’s exorbitant pricing model in India couldn’t fly with the vast majority of would-be buyers who simply cannot afford an iPhone at Apple’s terms of business…(...) "Apple changes sales tactics as the iPhone’s share in India plummets to new lows" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Google prematurely posts bad Q3 earnings, stock plunges Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:49 AM PDT
A strange thing has just happened: Google has posted its third-quarter earnings prematurely, giving Wall Street analysts and investors a pause as the company missed expectations substantially. Compared to Google’s stellar results in past few quarters, largely driven by soaring sales of ad slots and Apps hosted solutions for businesses, the September quarter saw the search giant stumble a bit. The Mountain View, California-headquartered company reported a huge 20 percent dive in net income to $2.18 billion (operating income was $3.26 billion). Net revenue was $11.3 billion versus the $11.9 billion that investors had been expecting. Google earned $9.03 a share versus an analysts’ estimate of $10.65, a huge disappointment analysts had expected, on average. Doesn’t look good at all. I guess that $12.5 billion acquisition of unprofitable handset maker Motorola Mobility has really ‘paid off’, so to speak…(...) "Google prematurely posts bad Q3 earnings, stock plunges" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Good news: Tweetbot for Mac is out. Bad news: it costs $20 Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:12 AM PDT
TapBots’ beloved Twitter client Tweetbot has finally arrived for the Mac, following an extensive period of beta testing since July. The bad news is, it will run you a whopping twenty bucks a pop! It’s not that developers have become greedy overnight, mind you. As you know, Twitter has capped their user base in a quest to exercise total control of third-party programs. Twitter is doing so by enforcing token limits upon third-party developers. Tokens determine how many users an app like Tweetbot for Mac can have. As a result, developers get to only sell the app until they use up all the tokens Twitter allocated. That’s the official line. Some people think it’s crap, others point the finger of blame at Twitter. You could call it economics, I guess. No matter how you look at it, Tweetbot for Mac – at least to my knowledge – has officially become the priciest Twitter client on the Mac App Store…(...) "Good news: Tweetbot for Mac is out. Bad news: it costs $20" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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Apple’s patent attorneys are busy again. The Cupertino, California company has filed two patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, related to extending 
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