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Apple Will Be Just Fine, Thanks To Aggressive Jobsian Minimalism

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:30:03 +0000

Tech should be approachable, artful, and radically simple In 1996, when Steve Jobs came back to Apple after a decade-long exile, the company's products took a dramatic turn. The next 15 years would be a whirlwind of monstrous success after monstrous s...

The Five Best Forward-Thinking Features in Mac OS X Lion

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:15:01 +0000

Apple's newest version of OS X arrived today, with a heap of future-looking features in tow. Here are five of our favorites The newest version of Apple's desktop and laptop operating system, Mac OS X, was released today, as version 10.7--better known ...

Your iPhone Keeps a Secret Log of Everywhere You Go, Security Experts Find

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:40:24 +0000

No other phone stores this information in this way British security researchers have figured out that iPhones keep track of where their owners go, saving data to the device and uploading it to a user’s computer when the phone is synced with iTunes. ...

Trimensional iPhone App Takes 3-D Scan of Your Face, Sends to 3-D Printer to Produce Face Tchotchkes

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:05:00 +0000

3-D scanning shouldn't be limited to expensive equipment in labs. Developers have started to use increasingly powerful consumer electronics to do what just a few years ago was well out of the reach of consumers. Grant Schindler's Trimensional app for ...

What top app developers really think of the app stores

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:00:05 +0000

App developers want approvals by the big mobile players who manage app stores to happen much faster and more transparently, a new study set to be released this week found. Open First, a research advisory firm based in the U.S. and Europe, learned that...

Has Apple Gained Access to the World’s Most Advanced Manufacturing Tech?

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:29:09 +0000

Apple is known for nosing out unique and revolutionary manufacturing tech, and they may have just done so again, according to the knowledgeable folks over at Cult of Mac. Insiders say Apple's recent licensing deal with Liquidmetal Technologies is a pl...

Israeli Customs confiscates Apple iPad

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:20:17 +0000

As reported in Israeli newspapers, the Israeli government banned the import into the country of Apple iPad. Customs officials confiscated the tablet at the airport travelers arriving in the country. Officials justify their actions by saying that iPad may harm the local wireless networks. Standard wireless networking in the U.S. is more signal powered than [...]

Video: Robot Finger Tests and Ranks Smartphone Touchscreen Performance

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:30:00 +0000

Apple's iPhone reigned supreme, followed from a distance by the Google Nexus One

MOTO labs already won us over by running comparison tests of smartphone touchscreens, but commentators complained about the possible inaccuracies of a human-finger methodology. That prompted MOTO to program its lab robot to redraw the line patterns with a steadier yet lighter finger that truly challenged the sensitivity of each touchscreen.

The MOTO lab folk ran both "medium touch" and "very light touch" tests with the robot finger on each of the four smartphones previously tested with human fingers, and threw in a Blackberry Storm 2 and Palm Pre for good measure.

So who came out on top? Apple's iPhone touchscreen bested the competition by a good margin, but Google's Nexus One and the HTC Droid Eris also turned in solid performances. The Motorola Droid fared the worst and ran into trouble even on the "medium touch" test, while both the Palm and Blackberry devices showed signal loss on the "very light touch" test.

Take a look at MOTO's light-fingered robot in action:

Robot Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo

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Mac OS X Leopard in Japan

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:19:51 +0000

New Apple Mac OS X Leopard is a leader in Japan by selling copies. Last month Mac OS considered to have 53,9% of OS market in Japan. During from November the 6th till November the 12th share Mac OS X Leopard in total amount of retails of operational systems in Japan made 47,9 %. The [...]