Actor Ashton Kutcher threw himself into the role of Steve Jobs for a biopic, “jOBS,” about the Apple cofounder’s life. Trying a fruitarian diet put him in the hospital, he said at the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Chris Barrett posted video of Kutcher’s discussion on his YouTube channel. Kutcher also...
Daily Archives: January 28, 2013
This Could Be What The Brand New iPad 5 Design Looks Like (AAPL)
The evidence is picking up that Apple may launch a new iPad as soon as this March. The latest leak comes from 9to5Mac, which received some photos of what is allegedly the casing for the fifth-generation iPad. As has been reported before, the iPad 5 will look a lot like the iPad Mini, but...
Pinterest Is Still Around And Is Testing A New Look
Pinterest Remember Pinterest? The site for “pinning” photographs and other images of interesting objects—think Tumblr, but organized thematically rather than chronologically—is testing out a new look, software engineer Vy Phan reports on the company blog. The goal of the redesign (click the image to the right to enlarge it) is to make the homepage...
Apple’s iOS 6.1 Maps Search API is its official alternative to Google Places for local results
With the release of iOS 6.1, Apple has also announced a new Search API that will allow developers to query its Maps servers to get back point-of-interest and location data. This will allow them to integrate these kinds of local results into their apps when users search for things around them. It’s not exactly an...
Facebook is suffering an extended outage affecting many users in the US
Facebook is suffering from an extended outage that is causing downtime for users based in North America. The site has been offline for many in the US this evening — including Texas, New York and others — for around an hour and a half, although other in certain parts of the country are able to...
Chinese regulator warns Qihoo 360 for unfair competition with browser and antivirus products
Shares of Chinese Internet giant Qihoo 360 slipped 1.5% on Monday as news broke that the company had been warned for unfair competition and its iOS apps had been mysteriously pulled from the App Store, as noted by Bloomberg. Though the original report points out that Qihoo had hit its lowest share price in the...
10 Reasons Why Now Is Not A Good Time To Buy Apple Stock
My nephew called me the other day, the morning before Apple released it fourth quarter earnings last week, and asked me if he should buy Apple stock. His “friend,” a stock broker, said he couldn’t think of “one good reason why not to buy the stock.” I didn’t get a chance to speak with...
Is Facebook Down? Facebook Affected By Outage
Update: 6:30 P.M. Pacific: Users on Reddit have reported that attempting to access Facebook with the “www” prefix resolves the problem, while the “facebook.com” root domain continues to experience issues. Reports around the web also suggest that Chrome users are disproportionately affected by the outage. We’ve grown to know Twitter’s fail whale pretty well...
Crashlytics: Twitter Purchases The iOS App-Crash Reporter
Crashlytics, the Boston-based crash reporting solution for iOS apps is moving on up – from independent startup to the newest wrench in Twitter’s tool box. The announcement was made Monday on Crashlytic’s blog and quickly circulated the Web. INTERESTING MA. Twitter buys Crashlytics. This may signal Twitter pushing out its own mobile/devices SDK. techmeme.com/130128/p54#a13…...
VMware sharpens its focus — and its knife
VMware’s future is all about hybrid cloud, software-defined data center and end-user computing, and not so much about other things in its portfolio which will be “de-emphasized” this coming year, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told analysts on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Monday night. “I’ve learned the importance of prioritization and execution,” said Gelsinger,...