Thursday, May 15, 2014




Postmodern Computing






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Samsung-Apple smartphone battleground is a single atom thick



Graphene's ability to conduct electricity about 100 times faster than silicon makes it valuable in other ways too. It could boost the speed of semiconductors, and researchers have applied the material to batteries, making possible a mobile phone that stays charged for a week and recharges in 15 minutes.





Continued popularity of Apple's legacy iPhone 4S added estimated 10M iPhone users last quarter






They have one. It's called the previous year's model (see above)

Apple Needs a New Daring Mid-Market Products Division to Shut up Analysts Stuck on Doom-and-Gloom "Volume" Tales



Specifically Cook noted that in the enterprise market they're virtually seeing 98% of the fortune 500 using iPads and in the latest data, 91% of the activations of tablets in the enterprise were iPad.




Xiomi is the company that cloned the iPhone in China, which has hurt iPhone sales there.

Xiomi is founded by one of China's richest men, Lei Jun, an important figure in the communist party, and it was established in 2010 to expressly copy the iPhone using Andoid.

China's Xiaomi unveils copycat 'Mi Pad' in bid to take on Apple's iPad







Here's the Huge Business Apple Inc Is Building Right Under Your Nose






It's the music business.

Deals never go through the first time, and Iovine is a pro at making deals.

Mix in several attorneys' back and forth and I'm surprised they'll be signed by WWDC

Apple's Beats Deal May Not Be Finalized Until Next Week







Apple Inc and Beats: More Than Headphones






iPhone is wiping the floor with Samsung in Japanese smartphone race






Apple was No. 1 target of patent lawsuits in 2013





iPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1740 X 960 resolution screen in testing






Apple needs to shut this down immediately

Research project Cider brings iOS apps to Android devices






Senator Al Franken Questions Samsung's New Fingerprint Security Feature in Conjunction with PayPal and Beyond






I Don't think a Facebook user sampling is a very scientific method for determining iPhone usage. 

A lot of men particularly never use Facebook, which totally skews this sampling.

This is not even close to actual usage charts determined by much broader scientific samplings.

iPhone rules the US in usage for example, so I added two letters to the title of this article.

Unfair and irrelevant






U.S. court refuses to revive Samsung patent case against Apple






This is a somber looking bunch.

The caption reads: "Chairman Lee and family in happier times"

The guy with the smirk on his face is the son, in the gray sport coat on the right, who's probably going to run the company now.

Who will run Samsung?







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