Collected: What to expect from the iPad 2.0
COMPUTERWORLD: Angelheaded hipsters, cease your burning, cease your pining for your ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, iPad 2.0 is coming and where v.1 was magical, v. 2 could be poetry, maybe, just believe....
iPad enters UK government as Apple seeks camera expert for v.2 iPad
iPads may be about to take a seat in UK government, with the House of Lords administration committee recommending that iPads, smartphones and other mobile devices are allowed to be used in the Lords chamber and grand committee. “We therefore propose that all handheld devices should be permitted in the chamber and grand committee provided...
Pirate rabbits burrow into the Mac App Store
You like violent bunny rabbits, right, right? Want to watch a violent rabbit create a new definition for homicidal? Then do keep an eye on the unfolding drama between the legitimate makers of open source violent rabbit game, Lugaru HD, and the pirate coder who has also introduced an app called Lugaru via the Mac...
Yet more Beatles hits iTunes, world yawns
Yet more fruit from The Beatles/iTunes deal — and yet another in the marketing led detente that marks the alliance between the scouse mop-tops and the Californian consumer entertainment giant, The Beatles Love album and accompanying exclusive documentary ‘All Together Now‘ are coming to iTunes. iTunes pre-orders are available now while two previously unreleased LOVE...
Apple, Amazon face UK eBook pricing probe
The UK trade regulator is launching an investigation into alleged anti-competitive price-fixing deals within the nascent digital book publishing industry following a “significant number of complaints.” The Office of Fair Trading said the investigation is “into whether arrangements that certain publishers have put in place with some retailers for the sale of e-books may breach...
Google’s Schmidt coy on Apple CEO gig booking
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going to get better and we all hope he returns to work soon, but outgoing Google chief Eric Schmidt seemed remarkably coy to questions on CNBC last night. Asked if he’d consider taking the Apple leadership gig, former AAPL board member Schmidt said, “In the first place, it’s not appropriate....
AT&T’s iPhone billing ‘like a rigged gas pump’ that overcharges, lawsuit claims
You know all that AT&T moaning where the company said it had a great network but accused iPhone users of being “data hogs” as an explanation for network patchiness? Well, it seems the company may have been telling some fibs, and there’s a new lawsuit in town that seeks to prove it. “AT&T has “systematically”...
A quarter of Apps are only used once
Mobile device users are acquiring ever more discretion about the Apps they use, with 26 percent of Apps only ever getting used once after being downloaded. Analytics firm Localytics makes the claims in a report first picked-up by VentureBeat. The analytics firm uses the stats to stress that developers must focus on first impressions within...
Samsung’s ‘iPad-killer’ heads to landfill
Android sales, they say, are skyrocketing, taking marketshare away from the iPad. Except — for all the Android-powered slates you see around the electronics retailers, how many of your friends have one? One, a couple, none? I’m betting none based on statements today from a senior Samsung suit who said that while sales to retail...
Visa begins iPhone ‘iWallet’ payment tests in Europe
COMPUTERWORLD: The iPhone ‘iWallet’ becomes even more real today as Visa Europe launches the first commercial deployment of its own iPhone payments App today. This news as NFC-capable iPhones should show later this year, with AAPL apparently pondering ways to offer a merchants cheap and easy set-up for payment kiosks — mobile payments are nothing...
ActiveSAN — there is life after Xserve
Listen up folks, ActiveStorage has introduced ActiveSAN, a metadata controller appliance that incorporates ‘stunning’ Active Storage product design and the rock-solid performance, and as we said it is good for XSAN and StorNext networks…and it won’t clash with your ‘legacy’ XServe array. ActiveSAN incorporates Intel Nehalem processors in its server platform. The appliance is a...
Samsung will ship half its processors to Apple in 2011
COMPUTERWORLD: Apple and Samsung are old frenemies. The last thing Samsung wants to do is damage Apple’s ‘iBusiness’, despite the popularity of its own Android-powered Galaxy range. Samsung will this year quadruple the number of advanced mobile processors it sells to Apple — handing over half its manufacturing output to Cupertino’s ascendant iOS family. Read...
