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Daily Archives: October 1, 2012
SAP Exec: Oracle CEO’s Claim ‘Fries My Brain’ (SAP, ORCL)
YouTube/saptechnology SAP’s EVP of database technology See Also Larry Ellison: Oracle Has Invented A New Kind Of Database SAP Exec: Here’s Why We Spent $8 Billion On Two Cloud Companies Dear Larry Ellison: SAP Execs Have An Answer To Your Tweet That Disses Them Last night, Larry Ellison introduced a new server that uses...
The 11 Best Music Apps
Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also The 9 Best News And Reading Apps The 12 Best Social Networking Apps The 18 Best Productivity Apps In The World Last month, we published the App 100, a collection of the best across all platforms. Realizing that 100 apps is a lot to digest, we decided to break up...
It’s alive: Elevation Dock modified to work with Apple’s iPhone 5 Lightning Connector
As the owner of a now-useless-to-me Elevation Dock for iPhone with 30-pin dock connector, I was immediately interested when my buddy Oliver Nelson told me that he had modified his model to work with the iPhone 5′s Lightning connector. The results are pretty clean overall, but the phone does sit up higher on the...
Apple to release fiscal Q4 results and hold conference call October 25th at 2PM PST
Apple has announced its fourth quarter earnings report and call, which will be held on Thursday, October 25th at 2PM PST/5PM EST. Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO said that Apple “expect revenue of about $34 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $7.65” in the fourth fiscal quarter. Apple’s revenue amounted to $35B in...
Interest in Bing’s iPhone app spikes even higher following Apple’s apology letter
Following the iOS 6 Maps frenzy, TNW noted that search queries for Bing’s iPhone app, which includes a mapping component, were on the rise. In fact, TNW dinged Microsoft early on for not taking a sharper route with its tool, which provides a workable maps experience, whilst Google was out of the picture and...
Don’t Believe Shoddy Research About Apple Maps Usage
A new report that usage of Apple’s new iOS 6 Maps is plummeting has me pretty steamed. This claim – as is so often the case in the tech universe – is based on a meritless, PR-driven study. 5,000 users of an obscure app for highly technical people is a hopelessly skewed sample of what...
Showtime’s YouTube Gambit: Dexter And Homeland For Free
The entire season 7 premiere of Dexter is on YouTube – and no, it’s not a pirated copy. Showtime posted the entire episode, as well as the season 2 premiere of Homeland. A capitulation to pirates? No, an effort to entice viewers to pay for premium television service. Bundled cable channels occasionally host episodes...
Is Windows 8 Already In Trouble? Survey Says Most Win 8 Users Prefer Win 7
Are even early adopters of Windows 8 reluctant to fully commit to the new operating system? A growing undercurrent of grumbling may indicate that that’s the case. According to a survey by Hong Kong-based ForumsWindows8.com, more than 53% of the site’s users prefer Windows 7 over Windows 8. Only 25% of the site’s users...
Microsoft attacks JavaScript scaling with TypeScript
Microsoft is adding yet another langauge — TypeScript – to a roster that already includes Visual Basic, C# and F#. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, a language originally meant to build web pages. The goal is to bring more enterprise class features to JavaScript, the use of which has exploded among corporate developers. The reason?...