Daily Archives: October 11, 2012

Apple Poaches One Of Samsung’s Key Chip Designers (AAPL)

October 11, 2012
Apple Poaches One Of Samsung’s Key Chip Designers (AAPL)

Email More iFixit Apple’s A6 chip, which it uses in the iPhone 5. See Also Court Reverses Injunction On Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus Phone Here’s The Commercial For Apple’s New Colorful iPods Wozniak On The iPhone 5: Apple Has Become Arrogant Apple has hired chip designer Jim Mergard away from Samsung, according to the WSJ. Mergard...

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Carol Bartz’s Advice For Marissa Mayer (YHOO)

October 11, 2012
Carol Bartz’s Advice For Marissa Mayer (YHOO)

Wikimedia See Also Marissa Mayer Gets Her Own Lunch In The Cafeteria Like Any Normal Employee Yahoo Employees: Here’s Everything Marissa Mayer Needs To Fix Are We ‘A–hole Sexist Pigs’? Fortune has profiled Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer—and while Mayer didn’t talk to the magazine, Mayer’s predecessor, Carol Bartz, did. Here’s the subtext of Bartz’s...

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Lance Armstrong Owes A Lot Of People An Apology

October 11, 2012
Lance Armstrong Owes A Lot Of People An Apology

AP See Also Lance Armstrong Was ‘Unaffected’ By Yesterday’s Bombshell Report Lance Armstrong’s Team ‘Ran The Most Sophisticated Doping Program Ever’ Testimony Reveals The Moment When Lance Armstrong’s Team Decided To Dope I’ve now read most of the 200-page report outlining the doping evidence against 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. I suppose...

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Carbon Audio Zooka: It’s the Bluetooth speaker that your iPad has been waiting for

October 11, 2012
Carbon Audio Zooka: It’s the Bluetooth speaker that your iPad has been waiting for

While I’ve bemoaned at great length how tired I am of seeing yet another Bluetooth audio device, sometimes I’ll get ones across my desk that are simply too slick to ignore. The Carbon Audio Zooka, is exactly that. Originally coming to market as a Kickstarter project, the Zooka has since branched into outlets like...

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Dropbox for Android adds Photos tab for all your uploaded photos and videos

October 11, 2012
Dropbox for Android adds Photos tab for all your uploaded photos and videos

Drobpox today updated its native Android app with more emphasis on media content. You can download the latest version now from the official Google Play store. The update comes just a day after Dropbox updated its mobile site with new image galleries. The company has been pushing hard with a new focus on photos;...

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Graphics glitches seen on iPhone 5 screens and keyboards are likely a software issue, not hardware

October 11, 2012
Graphics glitches seen on iPhone 5 screens and keyboards are likely a software issue, not hardware

Over the past couple of weeks, users have been reporting screen glitches seen on the screens of their new iPhone 5 devices. These glitches very commonly show up on the keyboard, especially when there is a popup window present that is waiting for text entry. That most frequently occurs in the App Store, where...

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How High School Students Use Facebook To Fool College Admissions Officers

October 11, 2012

  College admissions officers have learned to check applicants’ Facebook profiles, and what they see there can have a negative impact on the students’ chances. Guess what? The kids are a step ahead of them.   Parents, teachers and guidance counselors warn high school students that what they post on Facebook could hurt their...

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"The Magazine" For iPad: An Island Of Calm Amid A Roiling Sea Of Journalism

October 11, 2012
"The Magazine" For iPad: An Island Of Calm Amid A Roiling Sea Of Journalism

Another tech publication? And you have to pay for it? What is Marco Arment thinking? Today the Tumblr cofounder and Instapaper creator pushed out the inaugural issue of The Magazine, an iPad mag focusing loosely on technology. Launching a paid tablet magazine is gamble, but Arment has a fresh approach. The Magazine is, above all,...

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[Video] How Tech PR Can Work Better With Journalists & How Readers Can Benefit

October 11, 2012

Brian, Dan, Fruzsina and Jon are joined by tech PR consultants Zach Servideo and Jocelyn Johnson to talk about what’s right and wrong with the relationship between PR reps and journalists covering technology. It’s a big conversation, and this is just the start. Please chime in with feedback. The topic that’s directly about tech,...

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Meet Manymo, a web-based Android emulator

October 11, 2012

One of the challenges Android developers face is the wide array of devices their mobile apps have to support, each with a different screen size and resolution. Manymo can’t eliminate that problem, but it can make it easier for developers to test their software on various devices with different Android versions without actually having...

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