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- Samsung’s Galaxy S IV seen building iPhone-like hype
- Lock Screen Drawer is another iOS 7 toggle concept
- Al Gore teaches us some nice AAPL stock tricks
- Create, add, and share beautiful fliters for your photos with Digiback
- Volume production of Apple silicon looms as TSMC’s 2013 wafer shipments triple
- iPhone market share predicted peaking at 22 percent in 2014
- Former Color employee gives behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s Lala acquisition
- Caption contest: Jony Ive at Silicon Valley’s all-star pizza dinner
- DataMan Next tracks your cellular data usage in a very elegant way
- Korean iPhone users drop privacy suit against Apple to pursue $25M case
| Samsung’s Galaxy S IV seen building iPhone-like hype Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:28 PM PST
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article today by Evan Ramstad entitled “Hype Builds for Smartphone, but It Isn’t an Apple Device.” Essentially, the whole piece is about how the commotion surrounding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S IV handset is reaching iPhone-like proportions. I didn’t agree at first — I’ve seen leaked photos of Android handsets before, and heard rumors and speculation. But as I started to dig in a little bit I realized that Ramstad was right, there’s something different this time around. A lot of people are talking about Samsung’s next flagship handset…(...) "Samsung’s Galaxy S IV seen building iPhone-like hype" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Lock Screen Drawer is another iOS 7 toggle concept Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:31 PM PST
One of the annoying quirks of iOS is there’s no way to quickly toggle battery-draining and data-thirsty features and services we like to use selectively. Of course, that’s without jailbreaking. Considering BossPrefs (the precursor to SBSettings) was released in 2007, it’s about time Apple caught up with the demand for an official quick toggle panel. But how would Apple approach the problem? Jean-Marc Denis posted one possibility to Dribbble. It’s a concept called ‘Lock Screen Drawer’, which would allow users to access toggles by pulling on a tab under the lock screen clock. Pull the tab, and a small tray slides out. In the concept, the tray is equipped with toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, and hotspot. We’d like to see GPS on the list too, so hopefully there would be a way to customize the toggles…(...) "Lock Screen Drawer is another iOS 7 toggle concept" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Al Gore teaches us some nice AAPL stock tricks Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:45 PM PST
I also have another headline: Al Gore profits from Apple losses. Regardless of where you stand, the debate over whether Apple’s iPhone is facing declining demand has now spread from simply a question of iOS versus Android. It’s about Benjamins, who wins and who loses. Facing the ‘threat’ of Apple share value rebounding when its quarterly sales numbers are released next Wednesday, investors are hoping the company’s stock remains low. Among them: former U.S. Vice President and Apple board member Al Gore. Gore last week exercised options to buy 59,000 shares of Apple stock for only $7.475 per share. Because of the low option price versus the actual stock price of $495.2, he was able to buy Apple stock worth more than $29 million for just $441,000…(...) "Al Gore teaches us some nice AAPL stock tricks" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Create, add, and share beautiful fliters for your photos with Digiback Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:16 PM PST
There is an embarrassment of photography and filter apps on iTunes. If you’re not keeping track, Hipstamatic allows users to play with swappable filters disguised as virtual camera equipment, Instagram shares retro-filtered photos to a community, while Snapseed gives mobile users fine control of photo editing on the go. That barely scratches the surface of iPhoneography. In a flooded marketplace, what else can an iOS photography app allow users to do? Digiback is a recently released photography app that allows users to not only share pictures they’ve taken, but to also share their custom filters with other users. Not only can users create impressive photography effects for their own use, you can also share these effects with others, and then benefit from effects created by Digiback’s community…(...) "Create, add, and share beautiful fliters for your photos with Digiback" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Volume production of Apple silicon looms as TSMC’s 2013 wafer shipments triple Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:55 AM PST
Following up on talk that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is prepping to manufacture Apple's A6X processor and whispers of Tim Cook & Co. negotiating a deal with the foundry to make mobile chips for iOS devices on its 20 nanometer process technology, China Times now quotes Chairman and CEO Morris Chang’s words that TSMC is close to achieving a hundred percent market share on its 28nm process technology. But why have TSCM’s wafer shipments all of a sudden tripled, allowing it to achieve a virtual monopoly on the 28nm silicon? That’s where the Apple link comes into full view… (...) "Volume production of Apple silicon looms as TSMC’s 2013 wafer shipments triple" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| iPhone market share predicted peaking at 22 percent in 2014 Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:45 AM PST
Is the iPhone ready to join the crowd of technology has-beens? That seems to be the impression from a Thursday report from one research firm. The Apple handset, which has been pummeled by negative headlines recently, now faces its marketshare high this year, followed by flatline growth through the rest of this decade. According to ABI Research, Apple’s handset in 2013 will reach 28 percent of the smartphone market, its growth flat through 2018. The reason: the future of smartphones is in emerging markets and inexpensive handsets, an area Apple executives say they won’t chase….(...) "iPhone market share predicted peaking at 22 percent in 2014" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Former Color employee gives behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s Lala acquisition Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:19 AM PST
This is probably one of the more interesting Steve Jobs-Apple anecdotes I’ve heard in a while. It comes from Aubrey Johnson, a former Color employee, who gives us a behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s acquisitions of two startups: Lala and Color. Apple purchased Lala, a streaming music company, back in late 2009, and it just completed its buyout of Color. And outside of the fact that both startups were founded by Bill Nguyen, not much else was really known about the two deals. Until now…(...) "Former Color employee gives behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s Lala acquisition" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Caption contest: Jony Ive at Silicon Valley’s all-star pizza dinner Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:43 AM PST
This photo is gold. Twelve of the most important people in Silicon Valley gathered for a dinner tonight, hosted by Nextdoor CEO and longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nirav Tolia. In attendance was Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive alongside a few other Silicon Valley celebrities. Most notably, these include Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Google X director Mike Cassidy, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and CEOs of Yelp, Dropbox (“you’re just a feature”) and Path. Ive is just behind Yahoo’s Marissa on the right. Such a rare photo-op, and with an informal Jony Ive as a bonus? Priceless. At any rate, it’s nice to see the world’s most acclaimed industrial designer hanging out with Silicon Valley’s most influential entrepreneurs, even if he doesn’t look like he’s having much fun. Perhaps you could write your own caption?(...) "Caption contest: Jony Ive at Silicon Valley’s all-star pizza dinner" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| DataMan Next tracks your cellular data usage in a very elegant way Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:22 AM PST
I didn’t care much about cellular data tracking apps until I gave up my unlimited data plan, a couple months ago. Then all the sudden it became important to me to figure out how much data I was using and make sure I didn’t go over my allocated amount. My wife and I share 4GB, and although we’ve historically never been close to using all of that, I like to keep an eye on my usage, just to feel safe. So I downloaded the DataMan app, which has served its purpose wonderfully ever since as it provided me with real time data usage. One thing always bothered me about this app though: it just looked bad. But this morning, I received an email from Johnny Ixe, the developer of DataMan, letting me know about his new app called DataMan Next. It serves the exact same purpose as DataMan, except it looks much better. I’d actually go as fasr as saying it looks beautiful, but you might want to see for yourself…(...) "DataMan Next tracks your cellular data usage in a very elegant way" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Korean iPhone users drop privacy suit against Apple to pursue $25M case Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:12 AM PST
Back in 2011 a group of 29 people took action against Apple, claiming that the iPhone-maker was illegally enabling location-based features without their consent (you remember locationgate, don’t you?). Today, however, they’ve backed down after failing to provide sufficient evidence. The group had been seeking 800,000 won (or $757 USD) per person, but will now turn their attention to a separate class-action privacy suit filed with a regional court, which involves claims from roughly 27,000 iPhone owners in the country and could be worth up to $25 million…(...) "Korean iPhone users drop privacy suit against Apple to pursue $25M case" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
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