Posts Tagged with ‘Apple’

I have four children. Four. And each one has his or her own calendar that requires constant syncing with my calendar as well as my husband's calendar so that we know who has to be where at what time. Calendars are such a problem for us that I try every single time/appointment manager as soon as I find it, from Sandy to virtual assistants. Since I still haven't found one app that does everything I need it to do, I [...]

I followed liveblogs of the iPhone SDK announcement today (thanks to TUAW and Engadget) just for fun, to see if any new social platforms would emerge or special Web 2.0 news would come out.
Was I the only one shocked with the closing of the media event? I should have known that Jobs had something up his sleeve all along with his announcement of iFund. Apple is going to partner with KPCB in venture capital business, and I, for one, [...]

A major tide is shifting in the music industry as the digital age slowly eats away at the number of CD sales in favor of downloadable MP3s. Today, Apple has announced that the sales figures for 2007 are in from the NPD Group, and iTunes has come in as the #2 music retailer, trailing only behind Wal-Mart.
In today's press release, Apple has revealed that more than 50 million people are now using the iTunes store of more than 6 [...]

Right from Google's initial launch of Android, I've been curious about what the overall plan was for the product. After all, Google sank an enormous amount of money into its development, and judging from the blogs of Java developers that I read, a pretty good amount of time as well. It seemed an awfully big project to have launched without the usual amount of Google fanfare, and it was coming fairly late in the game, with Symbian, Windows Mobile, and [...]

With all of the increased competition coming from Apple these days, Netflix seems to have a strategy for 2008 that will move the movie rental service beyond serving DVDs through mailboxes across America.
Perhaps it is because of the modern-day format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray that Netflix is now looking to expand the ways consumers can access its library of video entertainment. Whatever it is, it will not only save movie lovers a trip to the store, but also [...]

Odds are, if you are on Facebook, you've played at least part of a game of Scrabulous, a virtual duplicate of the popular board game Scrabble® that currently resides on a list of the top 10 applications installed on Facebook.
I've played several games, most with my Profy colleage Leslie Poston, but from the first moment I saw it, I wondered how long it would be until I saw a takedown notice. Scrabulous is not licensed in any way, shape, or [...]

The original intent of the Apple TV set-top box was to make it easier for anyone to transfer media files from their PC to their television, which is an idea that seems to have been somewhat accepted by consumers although the interface still presents some problems to users.
Now, to make it even easier to watch movies on the AppleTV, Apple today announced a new software update for the devices which will add support for the new iTunes Movie Rental [...]

Amazon today announced that its completely DRM-free catalog of MP3 downloads was expanded through the addition of Sony BMG music, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month.
With all four major music labels now on board, it looks like AmazonMP3 can now be considered a real threat to iTunes and its more limited variety of DRM-free music (over 3 million at AmazonMP3 compared to just 2 million at iTunes). “All four major labels will [...]

Well, it?s happened. Sony BMG announced it is ?finalizing plans to sell songs without copyright protection? sold via the Web.
And here we were just starting to appreciate the resistance the recording giant had thus far erected in the face of inevitable change.
Okay, actually, to be straight with you, no, we didn?t so much as give the company a passing smirk in our own coverage of its stubborn refusal to bend to consumer demand. But let?s shelve the nasty talk [...]