août 2012
121 billets
Apple's new iPhone expected to be 18% thinner than...
A significant redesign of Apple’s iPhone due this September is not only expected to yield a display with with roughly 30 percent more real estate but an overall design that’s nearly one fifth thinner than the current iPhone 4S. See on appleinsider.com
Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter now...
The Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter is now available via Apple Store Online for US$29. The Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter allows you to easily connect your Thunderbolt-equipped Mac to a FireWire device with the Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter. See on macdailynews.com
Why Apple TV just became Apple's most important...
There are coincidences in this world, and it’s important not to read too much into them. Pandora playing the song stuck in your head doesn’t make you psychic. But then there are coincidences you can’t help but think might mean a little bit more. Like, say, three heavy hitter holdouts all hopping on Apple TV within two days of each other. Maybe it’s just one of those...
How To Make A Company & Sell It For 120 Million
Tech Hustler Guillaume Decugis previous company, Musiwave, was sold for $120 million in 2006 and was the leading Mobile Music Service Provider in Europe. Musiwave is now a Microsoft company. Guillaume also launched Goojet, a mobile social media which topped 1m downloads in France at the end of 2010. Currently he is the CEO & Co-Founder of Scoop.it, the publishing-by-curation platform that...
This Is How the iPad Mini Will Look Next to the...
With the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Bloomberg and Apple’s unofficial PR department confirming it, the new iPad mini seems like a sure shot. We have collaborated with Nickolay Lamm to create these images, showing how the mini model may look next to the current iPad. See on gizmodo.com
Le sexe ou l'iPad : les hommes choisissent la...
Incroyable mais vrai, comme diraient certains. Selon Ipsos, 39% des hommes interrogés affirment que les nouvelles technologies sont leur première source de plaisir, devant le sexe qui concerne 36% d’entre eux. See on minutebuzz.com
Apple's iPad further dominates with 68% share of...
Apple retained the lion’s share of the tablet market in the second quarter of 2012, dominating with a 68.2 percent market share. Apple’s strong performance handily beat the second-place tablet maker, Samsung, which took 9.6 percent of the market with 2.4 million units shipped, according to IDC. Coming in third in the second quarter of 2012 was Amazon, as the company was estimated to...
Here Is the Entire 132-Page Samsung Internal...
It’s quite a whopper, 132-pages of envy and scheming. In sum, this internal document compiled by Samsung is a long, slobbering iPhone jealousy fest. A highly detailed and deliberate comparison of Samsung’s Galaxy against Apple’s coveted iPhone. See on gizmodo.com
83 million Facebook accounts are fake
The number of fake accounts on Facebook is roughly the size of Egypt’s population and larger than most of the world’s countries, the company disclosed this week. In a 10-Q filing, Facebook acknowledged that a total of 8.7% — or 83 million — accounts on the network are bogus. Of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are “undesirable” accounts, a.k.a....
HTC Looking To Challenge Samsung’s Note Series...
HTC it prepping to join the phablet market this fall, with a 5-inch smartphone of their own. Not much is known about the device other than a rumored 1794 x 1080 (1920 x 1080 minus 126 vertical lines for Android’s onscreen navigation buttons) hi-res display and possible Snapdragon S4 chipset with Adreno 320 GPU. See on cultofandroid.com
Samsung Announces The Global Launch Of Its New...
Apparently Samsung could’t keep its excitement over the Galaxy Note 10.1 contained and felt the need to announce a global launch ahead of their August 15th event. The video for the Note 10.1 is quite impressive and makes it appear to be one of the most versatile, functional and productive tablets I’ve seen to date, thanks to their S Pen software suite. See on cultofandroid.com
Reuters showcases EOS-1D X multiple exposure modes
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X are both able to combine up to nine separate frames, with four options for how the images are then combined. This control over the way the data is combined sets the camera apart from multi-exposure functions that appear in a variety of existing cameras. Both Canons retain the ability to save all the original files, or just the composite image, and will do so...
iPad Smart Covers could get a whole lot smarter...
“Adding the integrated display to the flexible cover greatly enhances the overall functionality of the tablet device,” explained Apple in the patent application, which also noted the tech passes data, video, and power through a MagSafe-like connector seated on the hinge. The Smart Cover notably houses a touch-sensitive user-interface by way of a “sensor overlaid on the flexible flap display.” A...
Check out this redonkulous 300W iPhone portable DJ...
The Philips FWP3200D 300W Mini Hi-Fi System, often simply referred to as the “Party Machine”, is essentially a set of rotatable iPhone docks atop a 300W speaker system that includes two speakers boxes and packs a 2-inch tweeter and a 5.25-inch woofer. See on 9to5mac.com
Google gets its social ad start-up by buying...
Google tried and failed to buy its way into the social ad business a couple months ago. This time, it got it done: The ad giant has picked up Wildfire, which helps marketers manage their presence on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. See on allthingsd.com
Tighter iTunes Twitter integration rumored to take...
Coming on the heels of multiple claims of past Apple talks with Twitter, including old whispers of an investment in the company, a new report reveals the iPhone maker may be looking at using the micro-blogging service to fill the gap left by Ping when the service shuts down this year. See on appleinsider.com
Amazon Instant Video launches on Apple's iPad App...
Amazon on Wednesday launched its new Instant Video application for iPad, giving Prime subscribers access to more than 20,000 titles from Prime Instant video. See on appleinsider.com
A new Peerindex this summer
You may be aware that PeerIndex is having a make-over in the next couple of weeks. You can expect a complete re-skin of the website and an algorithm enhancement. The new PeerIndex will be aesthetically superior with a donut chart break-down of your topical activity, more valuable data that takes better account of spam, as well as new features to be added gradually, offering you further insight...
iPhone vs Android : l'avis des DSI
iPhone vs Android : l’avis des DSI : Dynapost, Centre Pompidou, CCM Benchmark et Fondation de Rothschild, quatre DSI font part de leur préférence entre les deux smartphones, et détaillent les motivations de leur choix. See on journaldunet.com
Facebook pushes photo prominence in timeline
Facebook has updated the way photos are presented in the timeline section of users’ profiles - devoting more page space to the images and making it easier to give some images prominence. See on dpreview.com
