Apple Shows Signs a Major Interface Overhaul Is Coming | Gadget Lab. Wired.com. Vivipost : "veuillez prévoir jusqu'à... Am. Viviane Pretet: I love #Apple :) Waiting f... Apple Recalls 1st-Generation iPod Nano. UPDATE: We've made three attempts to contact Apple officials, trying to find out what this "replacement unit" will be if you send in a first-generation iPod Nano. There has been no response. We called Apple support, asking if a new iPod Nano would be sent to replace the 5-year-old Nanos.
Here's the response the company is giving to its customers: "Your guess is as good as mine. " Stay tuned for a full story, whether Apple officials respond or not. UPDATE 2: Confirmed (finally): First-generation iPod Nanos will be sent as replacements. Do you have an old first-generation iPod Nano lying around? But watch out: There's a slight risk of your old Nano overheating, and possibly even catching on fire because of a defective battery.
Writes the company on its website: "Apple has determined that, in very rare cases, the battery in the iPod nano (1st generation) may overheat and pose a safety risk. Apple's providing a place to check your Nano's serial numbers and order a "replacement unit. " Orange teams up with Apple to offer free iTunes movie rentals - TNW UK. European mobile operator Orange has teamed up with Apple to launch its new “Film To Go” service in the UK, providing its customers with the chance to rent movies via Apple’s iTunes service free of charge, paying just 35 pence for a text containing a promotional code. The service sees Orange invest further in its commitment to the film industry in the UK, adding the new rental service to its Orange Wednesday movie ticket promotion and its sponsorship of the British film awards, the Baftas. As part of the deal, users will be able able to download one film a week for free, which can then be viewed on a computer or Apple device, including the iPhone or iPad.
Each rental will be available for 30 days but viewing must be completed with 48 hours of the first play, the same period of time as existing rentals on the service. The first films available to Orange customers will be The Wrestler, The Ghost, My Blueberry Nights and Che: Part One. Is Apple a Social Company? Paul Greenberg described Apple as a product and engineering centric company, as opposed to a customer and social media centric company, in the interview with Dennis Howlett we posted yesterday.
But today, Mindtouch Executive Vice President of Sales Mark Fidelman, writing for Cloudave, identifies Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phillip W. Schiller as the top social Chief Marketing Officer of the Fortune 100. What gives? Is Apple a social company or isn't it? View full size image Although Apple fans affectionately refer to Steve Jobs as "Steve," he's never been a particularly accessible CEO. Not only is Jobs MIA from the social scene, but so is the company.
So why are people so enthusiastic about Apple that they feel like they are on a first name basis with the CEO even though the company seems like it couldn't care less about their input? But it could be that there's more to it. And then there's Schiller. New Trojan could mean attackers are waking up to Mac OS X? MacBook Pro - The new MacBook Pro. Huge leaps in performance. Launches Subscriptions on the App Store. Apple et la presse: les liaisons dangereuses » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Apple a présenté ses nouvelles règles concernant les abonnements iPhone et iPad pour la presse. Les éditeurs qui voyaient en l'iPad leur sauveur sont maintenant désabusés.
Depuis une semaine, les publishers (comme on les appelle outre-atlantique) sont en colère. Apple a présenté ses nouvelles règles concernant les abonnements “in app” (pris via les applications iPhone et iPad) pour la presse. La firme, qui détient plus de 90% des tablettes, prendra 30% sur la vente de contenus à l’unité et sur les abonnements, tout en interdisant aux médias de renvoyer leurs lecteurs vers des abonnements hors application. En Europe, ce sera même 39% (afin de prendre en compte la TVA bruxelloise, explique Frédéric Filloux). On pourrait arguer qu’Apple joue simplement le rôle d’un distributeur et reste moins cher que le vieux modèle de distribution de la presse papier.
Plus difficilement acceptable, à mon sens : Apple conserve la relation client. Difficile de reprocher à Apple de fixer ses règles. Une boutique de produits Apple reconditionnés sur 2803. J’ai toujours été un vrai fan des produits reconditionnés d’Apple sans jamais réellement trouver mon bonheur compte tenu du fait qu’Apple sélectionne un faible nombre de produits pour la mise en ligne sur l’Apple Store. Alors plutôt que de constamment regarder le store Apple, j’ai décidé d’intégrer une mini boutique (très rustique) directement sur ce blog. Actuellement sur cette mini boutique il doit y avoir 300 produits comme des macbooks, des macbooks air, des ipads, des apples TV et des macs classiques.
Les prix sont en rapport avec le fait que les produits soient reconditionnés (issus du refurb d’Apple donc). En général on doit être à 15% en dessous du prix public, ce qui est déjà pas mal connaissant Apple. Les produits sont mis à jour quotidiennement, pour suivre l’arrivée des nouveaux produits il existe deux solutions : le flux RSS dédié et le compte Twitter (qui finalement ne fait que diffuser les infos du flux RSS). Apple to Unveil IPad 2 on March 2 in San Francisco | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD. To those who care intensely about this kind of stuff–which would be pretty much everyone in the tech ecosystem–Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad, according to multiple sources.
As in, iPad 2! Or, as BoomTown is now officially nicknaming it: iPad Too! Analysts expect the iPad 2 to be thinner than its predecessor and feature an improved display, as well as front-facing camera and Facetime video chat support. And some reports suggest it will be powered by one of Qualcomm’s multimode chips and will run on both GSM and CDMA-based networks around the world. In its last earnings calls, Apple said it had sold nearly 15 million iPads, since it went on sale last spring. According to several sources close to the situation, the Wednesday date in a little more than a week is firm and will take place in San Francisco, the scene of many such Apple events. In other words: Let the media frenzy begin! After Seeing the iPad 2, Samsung Reconsiders Galaxy Tab Pricing.
In a refreshingly honest statement, Samsung's mobile division VP Lee Don-Joo admitted that the iPad 2 made some parts of Samsung's 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab look "inadequate," and the iPad 2's pricing might force Samsung to lower the price of its tablet. "Apple made it very thin (...) We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate," Lee Don-Joo told Yonhap News Agency. We feel that a bit of information might have gotten lost in translation from Korean to English, as we definitely don't expect Samsung to pull the 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab from the market and release a thinner version. It's more likely that Samsung simply sees the iPad 2's thinness as a big challenge for its future tablet models.
The other part of Lee Don-Joo's statement is clearer and far more telling. "The 10-inch (tablet) was to be priced higher than the 7-inch, but we will have to think that over," he said. [via Yonhap News Agency] Apple is going to love this: Probably the best customer unboxing video ever. L’art de la rétrographie » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. La représentation graphique des données, une manière d'appréhender le monde qui ne date pas d'hier.
Excursion dans l'infographie du début du siècle dernier, avec David MacCandless, d'Information is beautiful. Quand j’ai commencé à réaliser des infographies, j’avais une prétention assez simple. J’estimais que c’était une “nouvelle manière” d’exprimer et de visualiser l’information; une fusion des données et du design profondément moderne et ancrée dans l’air du temps. Mais quel naïf je faisais ! Espérance de vie animalière et ISOTYPE Ces infographies ont été créées en 1902 par des étudiants de W.E. Un merveilleux petit livre sur ISOTYPE, écrit par la femme de Neurath, Marie, et Robin Kinross, qui vaut vraiment le coup d’oeil. L’art de Gerd Arntz L’esprit d’ISOTYPE, et son langage visuel rigoureux, reposaient avant tout sur le travail pictographique de l’artiste allemand Gerd Arntz. Joli ! Infographies rétro: pourquoi maintenant ? LinkedIn se lance dans la curation avec LinkedIn Today. Facebook launches Groupon competitor with 'Deals' platform.
At a press conference at its head office today, Facebook announced a new Deals platform that allows local merchants to target and offer deals to Facebook users. The new platform could prove to be big competition for social-buying giant Groupon. The Deals platform is built around Facebook's Places feature. It allows users to find specials around them, and it allows merchants to offer specials to drive more business, without paying Facebook a dime. The Deals platform allows users to launch Facebook on their mobile and search for deals available around them, see what deals their friends have purchased, and see what deals are being offered by businesses they "like. " Deals can range from everything to discounts at restaurants, to clothing stores, to coffee shops and more. Once a user finds a deal they want, they can go into the store and claim the discount.
Read more... Facebook says its Deals product is designed to solve an age-old problem of getting local businesses online. Apple-situation-devices. White iPhone is in production, should launch in April. Interest in Apple’s iPhone 4 drops as free HTC smartphones tempt UK consumers. A new report from price comparison website uSwitch shows that as UK consumers look to tighten their spending, they are increasingly turning to free mobile deals that include smartphones from HTC and Samsung, leading to a drop in interest in Apple’s iPhone 4. The Mobile Tracker from uSwitch, which ranks the UK’s favourite mobile handsets based on live searches and sales, shows HTC’s Desire, Desire HD and Wildfire occupying the top three positions, with half of the most popular smartphones running Google’s Android mobile operating system.
The HTC Wildfire has proved popular with consumers, offering the full Android experience for a low price but the HTC Desire has remained consistent, holding the top spot with its powerful hardware despite launching nearly a year ago. The top ten handsets: HTC DesireHTC Desire HDHTC WildfireBlackberry Curve 8520Samsung Galaxy SApple iPhone 4 (16Gb)Motorola DEFYSony Ericsson S500iSamsung G800Samsung i600 Ernest Doku, technology expert at uSwitch.com, comments: Comprehensive iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup [Infographic] iPhone 5 to Have 3.7-inch Screen, Bigger Home Button and iPod Style Body? - TNW Apple. Compiling a series of rumors and tips, Joshua Topolsky of This Is My Next has posted up a mockup of what they believe could be the iPhone 5 along with a set of details about it’s possible features. They make it clear that this particular set of features could never actually see the light of day but the information that they have is very specific about certain changes that we may see in the iPhone 5.
They’re also careful to stress that the image of the potential iPhone 5 that they included, which you can see below, is a crude mockup and not an actual Apple design. The screen for instance has been rumored to grow to 3.7″ in size with a resolution of 312ppi, which is a drop from the iPhone 4′s current 326ppi but still above the ‘Retina Display limit’ of 300ppi.
The change would mean very little additional effort for developers and should not require any change in their apps. You’ll notice that the mockup also has a larger home button. Rumor: Apple Smart TV prototype in the works.