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Apple loves rejecting apps
for having swear words in them, but a database of scantily clad Asian ladies? Approved! Who needs a rhyme or reason when you can be random and inscrutable? [
iTunes Link via
TechCrunch]
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February 9, 2010 - 12:20 am
Tags: AT&T, cable, cable vs satellite, jump-ship, left-image500, much-more, satellite, telco
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For a 20% savings, more than 50% cable and satellite subscribers are likely to jump ship to save money. But Telco TV (services like AT&T U-verse ) have a much, much more loyal following. Anecdotally, would you agree
February 9, 2010 - 12:17 am
Tags: been-attributed, black hawk safety net, china, china hacking, hackers, left-image500, official, official-site, online-hacker, posts-tagged, safety, three-operators
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Black Hawk Safety Net , an online hacker training resource with 12,000 paying members and another 170,000 free members, was brought down recently by Chinese authorities. Only three operators of the site were arrested, while the official site itself, 3800hk.com, was put out of commission when the company’s 9 servers were seized.
February 8, 2010 - 11:52 pm
Tags: apple, developers, does-it-matter, iphone, News, reportedly-even, satisfied, since-approval, starting-2010, trained-staff
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TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has started sending developers invitations to take a satisfaction survey with regards to the App Store in general, and the App Store approval process in specific. Apple asks you to answer with: “Very dissatisfied,” “Somewhat dissatisfied,” “Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied,” “Somewhat satisfied,” “Very satisfied,” or “Don’t know.” They also ask, “What one thing could Apple do to make the iPhone Developer Program better?” and give you a text box to write anything you want.
February 8, 2010 - 11:40 pm
Tags: diy, inconvenience, inconveniences, inside-the-fake, left-image500, once-it-detects, player-starts, rfid record player, the-information, user, vinyl
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I like this idea by Matt Brown: He tags 45rpm vinyl records with RFID stickers to play songs in a turntable that doesn’t turn at all. Inside the fake player he placed an RFID reader, which gets the information from the RFID-tagged record. Once it detects it—and the user moves the tonearm into position—the record player starts reproducing a playlists.
February 8, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: advertising, app store, booyah, check-in, citysearch, drawing, game, gowalla, iphone, mobile, mobile-spinach, mytown, neighborhood, people, social
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Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I’d say the current surge of “check-in” apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they’re still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location-aware device like the iPhone, “check-in” apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and so on, are making their mark right now.
February 8, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: architecture, famous, fill-the-open, frank-lloyd, funniest, guggenheim museum, interventions, left-image500, museum, new york, people, posts-tagged, the-funniest
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JDS Architects thought that this trampoline net spiral—which would allow people to bounce from the top floor to the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum rotunda—could be the funniest thing ever.
February 8, 2010 - 10:20 pm
Tags: all-eight, art, cargo-collective, left-image500, planets, pluto-space, posters, posters-feature, space
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Ross Berens’ gorgeous planetary posters feature incredible artwork and real-deal factoids on all eight of our planets, plus our old friend Pluto. Space aficionados, you’ll want to check these out. [ Cargo Collective via Kottke ]
February 8, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Tags: 278-million, all-appearances, apple, curious-tidbit, custom-chips, designing-chips, graphics-core, guts, ipad, pa semi, posts-tagged, power, source-says, true-talent
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A curious tidbit from VentureBeat: The A4 chip that Apple’s pimping hardcore in iPad promos might not’ve been done by their PA Semi team (which Apple acquired for $278 million). Their source says it was designed by Apple’s existing VLSI team, who made custom chips like northbridges for the old G5 Macs. Sounds possible, since there likely isn’t a whole lot “custom” going in the A4’s actual design, which by all appearances is an ARM Cortex A9 wrapped up with a PowerVR graphics core and some other parts in a custom SoC.
February 8, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Tags: apple, apple-financial, economy, entry, financials, insider, intel, redmond, silicon-alley-insider, turns-out-apple
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Filed under: Apple Financial , Apple Back during the earnings call a few weeks ago , it was mentioned that Apple has a jaw-dropping almost $40 billion just sitting around in cash. In the chat, we started talking about other companies that might have that much money in the hopper — Google came up, but I don’t think we were able to guess another one.
February 8, 2010 - 9:43 pm
Tags: Browser, classic, google-goggles, left-image500, nexus one, package, posts-tagged, smartphones, test-gauntlet, verizon
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Android 2.1 for the Droid is making its way through the Verizon test gauntlet, and apparently inside is multitouch for the browser (like Maps 3.4), Google Goggles, and fancy news and weather widgets. Not coming over from the Nexus One ? Live backgrounds—those swishy animated wallpapers—and that new 3D grid of app icons aren’t part of the package.
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