Microsoft is very ambitious, excited and hopeful with its Windows 8 launch which is due near the end of this year. More so, it has plans of launching ARM based tablets running Windows 8, which are officially named Windows RT tablets. These tablets will be able to offer a number of Windows-specific features which may help Microsoft compete with Apple in the tablet market. Some of these features are detailed below.
Giffer is an wonderful animated app developed for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad device. You can animate anything in your iOS device with this app. Wherever you are, you can animate what are you thinking off. Taber Buhl is the creator of this app. And now they are offering it free of charge for a limited period.
Greenpeace recently lambasted Apple over using ‘dirty’ coal energy for most of the power that is used up by its facilities. Although Apple is already working on a solar energy farm as well as a cell energy farm, both of these combined would still account for only a part of Apple’s overall power usage. Now, the tech giant has revealed plans of constructing a data center that would be 100% green.
Many have been rather sceptical of the attempts at settlement talks between the two tech giants, Apple and Samsung. However, Apple’s chief, Tim Cook seems determined to go forward with the talks. He seems to have taken a clear departure from Steve Jobs’ stance in a recent statement he gave regarding the settlement talks.
According to report, Apple is currently in talks with EPIX, backed by three major studios. The focus of these talks primarily is to procure content for Apple’s set-top box, Apple TV. However, there are chances that Apple’s attempt at furnishing content may also be directed at its long-anticipated iTV.
Nokia has, for long, enjoyed the position of being the world’s largest handset vendor, even when its influence has gradually eroded in the West. However, Samsung has been making strides to bridge the gap and take the crown and though in terms of profitability, Apple still beats Samsung by a huge margin, Samsung was able to sell more mobile sets in the last quarter than any other company in the world, even Nokia.
The rivalry between Samsung and Apple is getting worse. Earlier this week, Samsung hired some protesters who were gathered in front of an Apple store in Sydney and kept shouting “WAKE UP.” Protesters arrived in front of the Apple store in a bus branded ‘WAKE UP’. Blogger Nate “Blunty” Burr captured protesters chanting the ‘Wake Up’ slogan and showing the ‘WAKE UP’ placards outside the Apple store. Although the protesters didn’t answer why Apple fans need to wake up, it is believed to be part of the campaign Samsung started for the launch of Galaxy S3 in Australia.
Apple has always been hailed by users to be the safest OS compared to Windows and Linux. But it seems, the security of Mac OS systems was over-glorified. Digital security software maker Kaspersky Lab’s CEO believes that Apple is ’10 years’ behind Microsoft on security. After the widespread Flashback malware attack on Mac devices recently, users should take notice.
One of the most anticipated event by Apple developers around the world is the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Now, Apple has announced the dates of the next conference which is scheduled to take place less than two months from now on the dates June 11th to June 15th.
DigiTimes recently reported that Apple may be using in-cell touch panels in the upcoming model of its flagship smartphone, iPhone. How true is that, we cannot tell since DigiTimes has a rather mixed record of Apple-related predictions. What we do know, or have now been told by an analyst, is that with the of these panels, Apple may be able to take iPhone’s thickness down by 0.4mm.
Apple and Samsung have been locked in a bitter legal feud over the past few years. Each of them alleges the other side of infringing upon a number of patents. Whereas Steve Jobs was very strong in his opinion of the Android platform, and in his ambition to ‘destroy Android’, his successor seems milder. Now, Joy of Tech has done an illustration of the ongoing settlement talks between the two rivals.
A lot of us believe that Apple’s products are nearly, and mostly, flawless. Particularly if it is a MacBook Pro which is one of the priciest machines commonly used, it has to be flawless. That is precisely what Seattle Rex thought, though that turned out to be wrong. And Rex, naturally, was not happy.
We have been hearing about Samsung’s cloud storage service, which will be its answer to Apple’s iCloud. So far, news had it that the cloud service will be launched sometime in August this year. However, the latest reports suggest that the service may be launched on May 3rd, about the same time when Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III is expected to be launched.
Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, recently made headlines when he quite frankly remarked that systems like Facebook and Apple are a threat to web freedom, apart from governmental censorships and the craving of content producers to somehow gain the powers to ban websites. Now, Brin has stated that his comments towards Facebook and Apple had rather been distorted by reporting.
Philippe Starck has recently caused a lot of buzz in the tech world with his rather misleading announcement that he was working on a ‘revolutionary’ Apple project. Apple was quick to respond and state that there was no such project under way. As was suspected, now it has been revealed that the actual project Starck was working on is Steve Jobs’ yacht.
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