Archive for October 2011
Little money made off Android in China during current ‘chaotic phase,’ says VC
A well-known venture capitalist said Monday that Google’s Android mobile operating system in China is undergoing a “chaotic phase,” with “almost nobody” currently making money off of it in the country.
AT&T announced it will expand its 4G LTE coverage from 5 markets to 9 this week, while also introducing two new 4G Android phones. Apple’s iPhone users on AT&T should benefit from sharing the same improved backhaul as LTE.
A new Trojan horse hidden in a Mac OS X application can steal sensitive user data and take control of the computers GPU to generate Bitcoins, a form of currency used online.
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Daily Mac App: QREncoder
QR codes are a great way of instantly sharing information with a quick camera snap? QREncoder is app for your Mac that’ll let you quickly and easily generate them for printing, uploading and sharing.
You can encode almost any sort of text into a QR code: a URL, phone number, text message, email address, twitter handle — maybe even a haiku. QREncoder makes creating codes easy. Fire up the app, select the type of code you want, and bung your text in the box.
You’ve got a choice of size for your QR code, 5, 6, 9 and 12px and you can save it as a PNG for later use.
QREncoder is quick, easy to use and free from the Mac App Store, so is well worth checking out if you want to create quick response codes.
Daily Mac App: QREncoder originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Solar farm, ‘spaceship’ campus to help Apple expenses reach $8B
Apple’s capital expenditures in its 2012 fiscal year are projected to increase by $ 3.4 billion, as the company gears up for major projects like its new solar farm in North Carolina, and a new corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif.
Apple plans to give retail customers the ability to finalize their own in-store purchases via its iOS application for the iPhone, according to a new report.
A new survey of technology directors in U.S. school districts found that all of them are testing or deploying the iPad in schools, and they expect tablets to outnumber computers in the next five years.
Steve Jobs’ sister shares his final moments, last words
Novelist Mona Simpson, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ biological sister, has shared her eulogy for her brother, offering an intimate look at the last moments before he died, including his surprising last words.
Apple is allegedly prepared to add a new thin-and-light 15-inch MacBook to its lineup in the near future, with one report claiming the company has finished development of a crucial test component.
Hackers have succeeded in bringing a limited port of Apple’s new Siri voice assistant feature onto “jailbroken” versions of the iPhone 4 and the fourth-generation iPod touch, though they have noted that the workaround is not ready for a public release.
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me find Spotlight items in the Finder
Dear Aunt TUAW,
There’s plenty I like about Lion – but lots of pointless change for the worse. Top of my hate list is that Spotlight no longer gives me the location of the items I’m searching for. Sure, the preview on cursor hover is nifty, but why oh why can’t Spotlight give me (for example) the location of a long-lost document that’s become embedded in multiple folders, the way it did in Snow Leopard ?
Can Aunty help find a solution ?
Your loving nephew,
Jack, Cheltenham, UK
Dear Jack,
Use your up and down arrows to navigate through the Spotlight results list. (Do not click on items, that will open them). When the highlight is over the item you want, press Command-Enter.
Hugs,
Auntie T.
p.s. Thanks Uncle Brett
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me find Spotlight items in the Finder originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:great apps not found on the iPhone: “hug your kid,” “plant a flower” Do you know of any others?
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Related Posts:Samsung handset sales surge, profits shrink in the third quarter
South Korean electronics maker Samsung on Friday posted record mobile phone sales and profits for the third quarter of 2011, but the growth wasn’t enough to overcome a drop in profit from other segments of the company.
After buyers holding out for the iPhone 4S resulted in slowed iPhone 4 sales for Apple last quarter, Chinese handset maker ZTE slipped past it to become the fourth-largest global handset maker, while Samsung took the top spot among smartphone vendors worldwide, according to a new analysis.
Sprint’s top executive said this week that Apple’s new iPhone is its most network-efficient smartphone, using some 50% less data than comparable Android handsets.
Siri hacked to work on jailbroken iPhone 4 and iPod touch
iPhone experts Steven Troughton Smith and chpwn seem to have just gotten the iPhone 4S-only Siri working on jailbroken iPhone 4 and current-gen iPod touch units this evening. This bypasses earlier authentication issues. They tweeted their success and posted a screen shot showing Siri working via Wi-Fi (the Airplane Mode icon just means that 3G is turned off, but it is possible to turn Wi-Fi back on even in AM; that’s what they did.)
Their success comes just weeks after the iPhone 4S debuted. Since Apple’s back-end systems are checking for iPhone 4S devices before processing Siri queries, they managed to work around this limitation. The hack is based on moving compiled code components from a 4S to the older units.
More information as this develops.
Siri hacked to work on jailbroken iPhone 4 and iPod touch originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Apple acquires 3D mapping company C3 Technologies
Apple has extended its mapping services to a number of mapping companies over the past few years. The company has reportedly been working on building its own solution to maps and navigation on the iPhone, beginning with its acquisition of Placebase in 2009 and continuing with a “crowd-sourced traffic” service this year. Although Google and Apple have recently renewed their partnership and kept Google Maps in iOS 5, if Apple makes full use of its latest acquisition, Apple may have no need for Google’s services for much longer. In fact, Apple may have something up its sleeve that makes Google Maps look like a dog’s breakfast.
According to 9to5 Mac, back in August Apple acquired a Swedish 3D mapping firm called C3 Technologies. Former high-level heads of C3 are now all working within Apple’s iOS division, though they’re still doing all their work in Sweden. C3 Technologies uses some rather science-fictionish techniques to create photorealistic 3D maps with a breathtaking level of detail. Buildings, landmarks, and geographical features all render in 3D automatically, without mapmakers having to mock them up in CAD.
Using missile technology developed by the Swedish military, C3 Technologies’ mapping service is able to create 3D maps with a stunning level of detail. Google Maps has Street View and a couple of other 3D-ish hackarounds, but it’s got nothing on the level of what C3 Technologies has shown. This is no pipe dream service that may work on iOS devices someday; in one of the videos below you’ll be able to see a C3 rep scrolling through a 3D representation of London in real time on an iPad. That video came out in February of 2011, and the technology is almost certainly even farther along now that Apple has thrown its resources into it.
If Apple is able to implement this tech into a homegrown Maps application, it would blow the current Google Maps app out of the water. The applications for 3D mapping at this level of detail go beyond its obvious utility as a navigation aid — if third-party app developers were granted access to the Maps APIs, it could be a huge boon to game developers.
Evidence has been mounting for years that Apple is moving away from its dependence on Google for several internet services, presumably because the two companies now find themselves in the paradoxical situation of being direct competitors as well as partners. Apple has already branched out to Yahoo! and Bing for web searches (although Google remains the default), and Siri does an end run around Google for many of its search functions. If Apple can have this mapping technology available in time for iOS 6′s release (presumably coming sometime in 2012), Apple may be able to extricate itself from Google Maps once and for all.
Below you can view a video showing an aerial view of Oslo rendered in 3D, plus a second video showing how well the service functioned on a first-gen iPad earlier this year.
Apple acquires 3D mapping company C3 Technologies originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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