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Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Monday, February 6, ...

Applelinks

• ARM-Powered iPad-like MacBook Air now unlikely? Can iPad Satisfy Ultracompact Laptop Aspirants?
• Snow Leopard Security Update 2012-001 Version 1.1 Fixes Rosetta Issues
• Apple Pulls OS X 10.7.3 Delta Upgrade After Crash Complaints, Redirects To Combo Update
• Lion (Mac OS X 10.7): A Flea-Bitten Cat
• Seagate Predicts Lack Hard Drives for 2012: Truth or A Strategy to Keep Prices High?
• Motherboard Prices To Hike By 10% At End Of 1Q12
• Time Machine: How To Transfer Backups From The Current Backup Drive To A New Backup Drive.......Continue Reading

Tags: News | Tech-Industry |

Applelinks iOS News Reader - Monday, February 6, ...

Applelinks

• Apple CEO Hints At No ARM-based MacBook Air As iPad To "Soon Satisfy" That Niche
• Smartphone Sales Overtake Client PCs in 2011
• Apple to Authors: Content You Make in iBook App is Yours, Not Ours
• Apple in China: Should We Applaud Instead Of Condemn?
• You Bet Apple Could Build The iPhone Here
• Why The Tablet is the Ultimate Mobile Personal Computer
• You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You
• Apple's iPhone Business is Now Larger Than All of Microsoft
• AMD Predicts True CPU-GPU Fusion for 2014
• Windows Phone 8 Details Emerge
• Windows Phone 8 Preview
• Why Desktop Apps Would Be Bad News for Windows 8 Tablets
• The iPad's Split Keyboard Has Hidden Buttons that Make Typing Easier
• Tunewear Security Locker For iPad 2
• Improving Eating Habits Today with MealGuru
• Ball Turret Gunner 1.0 for iOS released - World War II Action Game .......Continue Reading

Tags: News | Tech-Industry | iPhone | iPhone News |

Sony says no PS Vita sales problems in face of 3D...

MacNN

Sony in its results call Friday was confident that the PlayStation Vita was selling well so far. Having moved slightly more than 535,000 units in its first three weeks, according to Media Create data, company CFO Masaru Kato didn't see "any problems" with results so far. The comment came even after shipments had dipped to just over 18,000 in January and had been mostly steady since....

Samsung Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad takes more jabs...

Appleinsider

Samsung's Galaxy Note mobile device was the star of the company's first costly NFL Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, putting a bow on the somewhat controversial "The Next Big Thing is Already Here" media campaign that has been defined by its abject portrayal of Apple customers.

Weekend Tech Review: a free iBook for iPad, week ...

Appleinsider

Here's a recap of the top tech stories involving Apple for the fifth week of 2012, including a look at product news, the week's business stories, and upcoming events. It's published as an iBook you can interactively navigate using iPad

Samsung Continues to Poke Fun at Apple Fans in Su...

Macrumors

Samsung aired another of its series of Apple-mocking commercials during the 2012 Super Bowl tonight. In this ad, Samsung is pushing the new Samsung Galaxy Note.

Like the previous ads in the series, Samsung depicts iPhone fans standing in line for the new iPhone, while promoting their own products as the "next big thing".

Samsung's head of marketing has acknowledged she is directly targeting Apple and shooting to reach a more emotional connection with their consumers.

“Especially in U.S., people are obsessed with Apple,” Lee said, in a lengthy interview at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. “It’s time to change people’s attention.”

The Samsung Galaxy Note that is depicted in the commercial is a 5.3" device which also comes with a stylus. Steve Jobs is famously quoted as saying "if you see a stylus, they blew it."

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Samsung's Super Bowl ad taps Galaxy Note, The Dar...

MacNN

Samsung's promised Super Bowl spot took an unusual turn on Sunday night. After showing iPhone queue waiters complaining about "missing the big game" and being "in detention," a passer-by shows a Galaxy Note. The giant Android phone's pen -- and an impromptu appearance by rock revival group The Darkness -- has the line kicking down the stanchions and joining the party....

Best Buy Super Bowl ad puts phone, app makers in ...

MacNN

Best Buy as part of a promo has started the run of tech-focused Super Bowl ads with a segment pitching its mobile stores. The ad unites both the inventors of phone technology, such as Philippe Kahn (the camera phone) and Ray Kurzweil (text to voice synthesis) with those making newer hardware and software. Key inventors behind Instagram, Shazam, Square, Words With Friends, and others find their way into the 30-second clip....

Apple iPhone 4S A5 chip incorporates Audience Ear...

Appleinsider

Apple's A5 System on a Chip incorporates dedicated noise reduction circuitry by Audience, Inc., which optimizes the performance of Siri voice recognition on iPhone 4S.

Cali pension fund wants Apple to allow majority b...

MacNN

California's public sector retirement system, Calpers, is hoping to push Apple to give it and other shareholders more control over the company's board of directors. The organization told the FT [reg. required] that it wanted a "governance upgrade" where board members are elected or rejected directly based on majority votes. At present, votes can't actively oppose a member, and only one vote is needed in favor to keep a board member in place if no one is contesting the seat....