iBooks Lehrbücher & iTunes U Course Manager jetzt vorhanden in über 50 Ländern CUPERTINO, Kalifornien – 21. Januar 2014 — Apple ® kündigte heute iBooks ® Lehrbücher und iTunes U ® Course Manager sind Erschließung neuer Märkte in Asien, Lateinamerika, Europa und anderswo auf der ganzen Welt. iBooks Lehrbücher bringen Multi-Touch ™ Lehrbücher mit dynamischen, aktuellen und interaktiven Inhalten für Lehrer und Schüler in 51 Ländern jetzt auch Brasilien, Italien und Japan; und iTunes U Course Manager, erhältlich in 70 Ländern jetzt auch Russland, Thailand und Malaysia, können Pädagogen erstellen und Kurse für ihren eigenen Klassen zu verteilen, oder Teilen Sie sie öffentlich auf der iTunes U app.
"Die unglaubliche Inhalte und Tools für iPad Lehrer mit neuen Möglichkeiten zum Lernen anders als je zuvor anpassen", sagte Eddy Cue, Apples senior Vice President von Internet-Software und Dienstleistungen. "Wir können nicht warten, um zu sehen, wie Lehrer in mehr Ländern ihre neue Lektion-Pläne mit interaktiven Lehrbücher, apps und digitalen Inhalten erstellt werden."
iBooks Lehrbücher bieten iPad ® Benutzer prächtig, Fullscreen Lehrbücher mit interaktiven Animationen, 3D Diagramme, Flick-durch Fotogalerien und Tap-to-Play-Videos drehen. iBooks Lehrbücher nicht wiegen, einen Rucksack, kann aktualisiert werden, da Ereignisse entfalten und nicht zurückgegeben werden. IBooks Lehrbücher decken mit fast 25.000 pädagogische Titel erstellt von unabhängigen Verlegern, Lehrer und führender Bildung Service-Unternehmen neue Lerninhalte aus Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press und Hodder Ausbildung jetzt 100 Prozent der US-Highschool-Kernlehrplan und das General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) Grundstudium im Vereinigten Königreich.
"Oxford University Press iBooks Autor für Headway, Oxfords all-time meistverkauften englischsprachigen Serie, ist zum Erstellen ansprechender iBooks Lehrbücher für iPad," sagte Peter Marshall, Managing Director, ELT Division bei Oxford University Press. "Freigabe 13 neue iBooks Lehrbücher, einschließlich"Headway Mittelstufe,"der meistverkaufte Ebene in der Serie, sind wir die Sprache, die Lernerfahrung für Studenten auf der ganzen Welt bereichern."
"Wir glauben Ressourcen wie iBooks Lehrbücher eine monumentale Verschiebung lernen repräsentieren, da sie mehrere Fähigkeiten eines jeden einzelnen Studenten engagieren", sagte Miguel Dominguez, Marketing Director von Imaxina Novas Tecnoloxias in Spanien, ein unabhängiger educational Content-Entwickler und Herausgeber von iBooks Lehrbücher, darunter "The Senses", die enthält interaktive Elemente wie video und animierte Bilder des menschlichen Auges und des Ohrs zu veranschaulichen, wie der Körper funktioniert.
Mit iTunes U Course Manager können Pädagogen schnell und einfach ihr Wissen und Ressourcen direkt mit ihrer Klasse oder für eine globale Zielgruppe auf iTunes U. Teilen Diese kostenlosen iOS-app gibt Millionen von Lernenden Zugang zu der weltweit größten online-Katalog für kostenlose Lerninhalte aus besten Schulen, führenden Universitäten und wichtigen Institutionen. iTunes U Course Manager gibt auch Lehrer die Möglichkeit, ihre eigenen Dokumente als Teil der Lehrplan, sowie Inhalte aus dem Internet, Hunderttausende von Büchern im iBooks-Store, mehr als 750.000 Materialien aus vorhandenen iTunes U Sammlungen, zu integrieren oder die mehr als 1 Million iOS-apps über den revolutionären App Store verfügbar
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Apple meldet Ergebnisse für das erste Quartal
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Wann: Montag, 27. Januar 2014, 2:00 Uhr PST/5:00 Uhr EST
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WEBCAST: Apple liefert live-audio-streaming von der FY 14 ersten Quartal Ergebnisse Conference Call mit Apples führende QuickTime ® multimedia Software. Live-Webcast beginnt um 2:00 Uhr PST an Montag, 27. Januar 2014 auf www.apple.com/ Quicktime/Qtv/earningsq114 und werden auch für die Wiedergabe für etwa zwei Wochen danach. Der Webcast steht auf jedem iPhone ®, iPad ® oder iPod Touch ® iOS 4.2 oder höher, einen Mac mit OS X 10.5 oder höher oder jeden PC mit QuickTime 7 oder höher ausgeführt. Wenn Sie nicht QuickTime auf Ihrem Windows-PC installiert haben, ist es unter www.apple.com/ Quicktime.
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Apple entwirft Macs, die besten Personal Computer der Welt, zusammen mit OS X, iLife, iWork und professionelle Software. Apple führt die digitale Musikrevolution mit seinen iPods und iTunes online Store. Apple hat das Mobiltelefon mit seinem revolutionären iPhone und App Store neu erfunden und ist die Zukunft der mobilen Medien und DV-Geräte mit iPad definieren.
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WEBCAST: Apple liefert live-audio-streaming von der FY 14 ersten Quartal Ergebnisse Conference Call mit Apples führende QuickTime ® multimedia Software. Live-Webcast beginnt um 2:00 Uhr PST an Montag, 27. Januar 2014 auf www.apple.com/ Quicktime/Qtv/earningsq114 und werden auch für die Wiedergabe für etwa zwei Wochen danach. Der Webcast steht auf jedem iPhone ®, iPad ® oder iPod Touch ® iOS 4.2 oder höher, einen Mac mit OS X 10.5 oder höher oder jeden PC mit QuickTime 7 oder höher ausgeführt. Wenn Sie nicht QuickTime auf Ihrem Windows-PC installiert haben, ist es unter www.apple.com/ Quicktime.
Diese Aufnahme ist Eigentum von Apple und durch US-Urheberrecht und internationale Verträge geschützt. Jede Vervielfältigung oder Verbreitung ist ohne vorherige schriftliche Genehmigung von Apple untersagt. Bitte kontaktieren Sie Apple Public Relations oder Investor Relations bei Fragen.
Apple entwirft Macs, die besten Personal Computer der Welt, zusammen mit OS X, iLife, iWork und professionelle Software. Apple führt die digitale Musikrevolution mit seinen iPods und iTunes online Store. Apple hat das Mobiltelefon mit seinem revolutionären iPhone und App Store neu erfunden und ist die Zukunft der mobilen Medien und DV-Geräte mit iPad definieren.
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Der Stift, Phone und iPad: Obama's Tech Push in US-Schulen
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Mag Namen Apple beste Notebook / Laptop Marke fünftes Jahr in Folge
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Apple Rolls Out CarPlay für sicherer iPhone unterwegs
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Singapur Schule findet New Wege zu erziehen mit iPad
Interaktive Bücher und apps auf iPad helfen Schülern auf diesem historischen Mädchenschule glänzen.
Die Inspiration
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, war Singapur schnell ändern. Obwohl Unabhängigkeit noch war Jahrzehnte vergehen, die Stadt hatte eine anspruchsvolle und wohlhabenden Kreuzung der Welt geworden
Apples Oppenheimer Ende September in den Ruhestand
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iPad erhebt Bergexpeditionen
Berge der Welt. In der Erforschung frigide und unversöhnlich Höhen, die meisten Menschen nur in den Komfort einer Druck-Jet-Kabine besuchen, ein Stück Ausrüstung wesentlich darauf geworden: ihre iPad. "/
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference startet Juni in San Francisco
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NPR zeigt und Nachrichtensendungen ab sofort auf iTunes Radio
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iPad schreibt einen neuen Schlachtplan für Gehirnerschütterungen
mehr Kunst als Wissenschaft. Sie zeigen selten auf imaging Tests. Und ihre Symptome sind oft versteckt, von Athleten, die wollen kein einziges Spiel verpassen. Heute unterstützt Cleveland Clinic in Ohio iPad nutzt, das Geheimnis von Gehirnerschütterungen mit einer app nehmen, mit dem Ausbilder, die Symptome kurz nach eines Ereignisses auftreten zu überwachen. Bereits Spieler machen sicherer gibt dem Feld, Hof und Eis."/
San Francisco Giants Hoffnung iBeacon Hits einen Homerun mit Fans
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference startet Juni in San Francisco
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From humble to high tech, a slow cooker history
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All of a sudden, everyone's a foodie. In the modern day culinary mess of sous-vide machines and high-end blenders, it's easy to forget the work-a-day slow cooker. But then at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, device-maker Belkin announced its plan to extend its Internet-connected WeMo product line to Jarden's small appliance lineup, including slow cooker staple CrockPot. We'll examine what it means to bring your slow cooker online when the Crock-Pot WeMo Smart Slow Cooker debuts this spring. For now, given that you might be using a more traditional model this weekend (and today also being the last day of Slow Cooker Month), it seems like a good time to consider the slow cooker's humble, delicious origins.
Evolution
Research makes case for home blood pressure monitoring
A lot of people have normal readings at doctors' offices, but elevated blood pressure at work or home. Home blood pressure monitoring can help identify these people, studies show.
Public site reveals what Twitter Commerce could look like
A mockup of a Web site from Fancy.com shows examples of what buying things on Twitter could look like if rumors of such an initiative prove true.
Chrome fights back against settings hijackers
This pop-up will prompt Chrome users on Windows to reset their browser settings.(Credit:Google)
Google is taking aggressive steps to combat what it says is the No. 1 complaint in its Chrome browser: having your settings hijacked.
Related stories:Build with Chrome is a virtual Lego time-suck, but worth itThat was fast: Chrome Apps ready to go mobileSave data while translating in new iOS ChromeReversing course, Google rejects Adobe Web publishing techGoogle discards extensions that force feed users ads in ChromeThe company first took measures to address the problem in August when it introduced a "reset browser settings" button on the Settings page in Chrome, but that wasn't enough to fix things.
Now, Chrome will ask Windows users automatically via a pop-up if you want to reset your settings when it detects that they might've been changed without your permission. It will disable all extensions, themes, and Chrome Apps you have installed. It won't uninstall them, so you can still go back and manually reactivate them one at a time if you want.
The more aggressive reaction to unauthorized setting changes comes in response to what Linus Upson, vice president of engineering for Chrome, described in a blog post as "especially pernicious" hijackers who leave behind hidden processes that are designed to hijack your browser again after a short time.
"To make sure the reset option reaches everyone who might need it, Chrome will be prompting Windows users whose settings appear to have been changed if they'd like to restore their browser settings back to factory default," he wrote.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CNET will update the story when we hear back.
Topics: Desktop software Tags: pop-up, settings, browsers, reset, Google, ChromePopular antivirus tools for OS X tested, again
Recently Mac security researcher and analyst Thomas Reed put to the test a number of popular antivirus tools for OS X, to see which perform the best for detecting known malware threats for OS X. This effort follows similar assessments done by Reed in past years, but has been repeated to characterize the fluctuating nature of not only new malware threats, but also the effectiveness of scanning engines as they receive software updates and new malware definitions from their developers.
In his testing, Reed found that the top malware scanners for OS X include the following (in no particular order) which were able to detect over 95 percent of tested threats:
avast! Free Antivirus 8.0 F-Secure Anti-virus for Mac VirusBarrier 10.7.8 Avira Mac Security 2.0.1.105 ESET Cybersecurity 5.0.115.0 Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac 9.0.6 Kaspersky Security 14.0.1.46 Dr. Web Light 6.0.6Worthy of note here is that often acclaimed anti-malware tools such as the open source ClamXav, McAfee, and Symantec's iAntivirus, did not make it into this top tier set. Therefore, if you are looking for an anti-malware package to use, you might consider weighing those which perform well in tests like this, against the additional features they offer and recommendations by those who have used them.
Whether or not antivirus tools are recommended for OS X is a question that is still in a bit of flux. Hard-core Mac users often claim malware scanners offer more potential harm than good, especially given the relative lack of malware for OS X. However, this mentality butts heads with those who may not trust, or have, the abilities to avoid all potential avenues of attack on their systems.
In addition, often security tools will not only include anti-malware scanners, but also have firewalls, secure keyboard entry, and other routines that may sometimes be desired. In addition, some tools are relatively light-weight programs, while others use kernel extensions and background daemons, which may be more intrusive to the system and result in odd or unwanted behavior.
Regardless of what you choose, the most important aspect of a malware scanner is its ability to detect malware, and with results of testing such as that done by Reed, we can make better decisions by clearly distinguishing the top runners from the rest of the field.
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Apple reportedly making push in mobile health
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All signs point to Apple aiming to make a splash in mobile medical health.
The tech giant's so-called iWatch is said to be deep in development, with a heavy focus on mobile health and fitness tracking.And it's also been said that the long-rumored product could be announced by the end of this year.
Adding to the rumor mill's churn: Prominent Apple executives, including Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams and Vice President of Software Technology Budd Tribble, met with the Food and Drug Association last month, according to the association's public calendar. The news was first reported Friday by The New York Times. The subject of the meeting, per the calendar, was "mobile medical applications."
Related postsWhen Apple fanboys watch a keynote -- the truthLenovo CEO aims for Motorola to dust Apple and SamsungIHS cautious about Apple's push for large iPadApple, the biggest loser in the Google-Motorola-Lenovo dealFuture iPhones, iPads could be more touch sensitive The Times also said, citing unnamed sources, that Kevin Lynch, the company's vice president of technology, is involved in creating software for the watch, and that SVP of Technology Bob Mansfield has also been looking at health-related tech to connect to the iPhone.Separately, 9to5Mac says iOS 8 will have a strong health component, including an app code-named "Healthbook." The app will have the ability to track things like the number of steps taken by a user, calories burned, and weight gained or lost, and record record blood pressure, hydration, and glucose levels, according to the report. The new features notably step on the offerings of Nike and Fitbit, already popular on the platform.
Also tellingly, the company has reportedly made some key hires in the space. MacRumors said Apple hired away Michael O'Reilly from his post as chief medical officer at Masimo Corporation, an Irvine, Calif.-based medical technology company.
Apple hasn't yet responded to a request for comment, but we'll update this post if we hear back.
Topics: Apps, Rumors, iOS Tags: iWatch, Apple, Nike, mobile health, FitbitVerizon uses Super Bowl to show off LTE broadcast video
A demonstration the NFL Network broadcast live to a Galaxy Note 3 via the Verizon Wireless network. (Credit:Roger Cheng/CNET)
Verizon Wireless is testing out its cellular video service, called multicast, and will broadcast the Super Bowl over its network on Sunday.
The only catch is the trial is extremely limited -- in fact limited to a single room inside Verizon's Power House, a temporary installation set up in Manhattan's Bryant Park.
Related storiesVerizon's Power House embraces Super Bowl madness (pictures)FCC votes to begin testing an overhaul of US phone system The 404 1,416: Where some developers just want to watch the world burn (podcast)Apple's iPhone 'shortfall'? Blame Verizon, AT&TVodafone shareholders OK deal to sell Verizon WirelessIt's an extremely small scale test, but gives you a glimpse into the kind of service Verizon wants to offer later this year. As all of the US carriers begin to approach parity with their LTE networks, companies such as Verizon are looking for these kinds of services to set themselves apart, while creating a potential new revenue stream.
CNET got a chance to check out the service, and the video quality does look pretty good. The "multicast LTE" room featured a handful of Samsung Galaxy Note 3 units tethered to a flat-screen television and already getting feeds from the NFL Network. You could watch a single live feed, or switch to four screens that juggled the live feed with three other on-demand videos.
Multicast LTE, as its name implies, is a service that rides over the LTE network, pushing out the same video feed to multiple devices, rather than a single phone or tablet. Because its a single, one-way broadcast feed, it is far more efficient than the current method of delivering video, which is sent to a single person based on their request. Because people aren't constantly pinging the network for different streams of video, Verizon could see some of the congested lifted on its network.
Because it is a single feed, there is higher picture quality, lower latency, and no buffering when the video is loaded up.
The service is still a little ways away. Parissa Pandkhou, director of mobile video delivery for Verizon Wireless, said she expects the work on the network upgrades, which includes a mix of software and physical boxes, to conclude around the third quarter. It's still unclear when the service would actually be rolled out to subscribers.
Verizon is working on signing up media partners, although it has at least one: the NFL's new digital network, NFL Now, will in some way incorporate multicast to Verizon customers sometime after it launches in the summer. That deal's not a huge surprise, with Verizon a key sponsor of the NFL and a marquee media partner for NFL Now.
Car companies have approached Verizon about incorporating a potential dongle into their vehicles that would be able to pick up multicast signals. Media companies have also checked out the technology.
There are also a few technical hurdles. Not every phone is compatible with the service, most notably the iPhone. Pandkhou noted that multicast uses a standards-based technology that would allow all vendors to incorporate software that's compatible with the service. She expressed confidence that a broad array of devices would be compatible at launch, noting Verizon was talking to every vendor, including Apple.
Think of multicast as the next generation of several failed attempts to bring broadcast video to the wireless world. Think Qualcomm's MediaFlo or the broadcasters' little-used service, Dyle, the notion of live video on your cellphone has generally been rejected by consumers. Verizon thinks things will be different this time, with more devices and a higher level of video quality hopefully attracting users. Beyond "live" broadcasts, multicast can also handle on-demand videos that are already being streamed.
The network efficiency angle might also be appealing, as the video service eats up a lot less data than traditional mobile streaming, critical at a time when customers are watching how much data they consumer. There's a chance that the data may not count against a customer's allotment at all, depending on how the business agreements are structured with media partners.
Verizon's Power House
Paper and the craft of securing Facebook's future
A new dawn. Hacker Square at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., campus.(Credit:Facebook)
Facebook will enter its second decade by starting over entirely.
The new beginning comes courtesy of Paper, a standalone iPhone application for reading and writing the news, which will launch February 3, the eve of Facebook's 10-year anniversary.
Metaphorically, Paper is the 2014 version of Facebook, unencumbered by the rigid walls erected over the past 10 years, yet supported by the foundation of 1.23 billion people.
More literally, Paper presents News Feed's standbys -- photos, videos, and articles -- in new formats designed for enjoyment on smartphones. The app also comes with newspaperlike sections such as sports, entertainment, food, and even cute (for adorable animal pics) that you can add to your personalized zine to gather news on the topics you care about.
Back to the lab
The app is the first of several singular applications to be developed and released by Facebook Creative Labs. The unit is a startup-like group separated from the operational strictures that come along with a company of Facebook's size. The team has been granted, by none other than CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the freedom to do its own thing so that people like Product Manager Michael Reckhow and Product Designer Mike Matas can come up with radically different ideas.
The team checks in with Zuckerberg for guidance, of course, but the group mostly answers to its individual creative whims.
The company's 10-year anniversary seems as good an opportunity as any to trot out Creative Labs and set the tone for what's to come in the years ahead.
Recomposing Facebook With Paper, Facebook has deconstructed the network into little bits and put a few of the pieces back together to make something else entirely. As a standalone app, the ad-free Paper can only hurt Facebook if it becomes so popular that people dramatically cut back on their usage of the main app, where Facebook needs a large audience to make money from ads.
The reconstruction effort started with cosmetic surgery to the tools that pump blood into Facebook's most-viewed body part: News Feed. News Feed is the source for all that is happening in your network, but it's not exactly designed for elegant storytelling.
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What headphone buyers need to know, Part 1
On-Ear Sennheiser Momentum (left), over-the ear Beyerdynamic T 90 (right)(Credit:Steve Guttenberg/CNET)
I get a lot of reader emails seeking recommendations for headphones, and sometimes they'll ask about two very different types of designs. For example, "What should I buy, Sennheiser's on-ear Momentum or the AKG K 712 'phones?" In that case there's no obvious "better" headphone, because they are two radically different types of headphones. The Sennheiser is an on-ear, closed-back design, and the AKG K 712 is a much larger over-the-ear, open-back headphone. It's like asking "What's better, a Ford F-150 Raptor truck or a Porsche 911 Turbo sports car? They both go fast, but serve very different kinds of drivers. "Best," isn't the right question, it's more about what's the right one for you.
There are many types of headphones, and if you understand the pros and cons of each before you go shopping you'll make a more informed buying decision. Closed- vs. open-back headphones for example, serve different needs. To get a handle on how they differ I spoke with two engineers, Sennheiser's Axel Grell and AKG's Philipp Schuster, and they were a big help. Today I'll cover on- and over-the-ear headphones, tomorrow we'll look at open- and closed-back 'phones.
On-ear 'phones' ear pads rest on the outer ear; over-the-ear models' have larger ear pads that encircle the ears. Grell said that over-the-ear headphones produce more spacious and natural imaging than on-ear models. That's because over-the-ear headphones have larger ear cups which position the drivers further away from the ears, so more sound reflects off the folds of the outer ear. Which is closer to the way we hear sound from speakers. On-ears focus sound directly into the ear canal, so it's a less "natural" way to hear stereo sound. Over-the-ear headphones sound more spacious and expansive than on-ear headphones.
When it comes to bass power Grell and Schuster saw no clear cut advantage for either design type. Bass oomph depends on the specifics of each design, and how effectively the headphones' ear pads seal. If you wear glasses their side temples may adversely affect over-the-ear headphones' seal, and bass response will suffer. Glasses pose less of a problem for on-ear designs. Schuster reminded me that everyone's heads and ears are shaped differently, so the ability of a given headphone to achieve a tight seal varies from person to person.
Most on-ears are optimized for on-the-go users, so their designers focus on making smaller headphones, and that sometimes requires the use of smaller drivers. That approach will limit the amount of bass the headphone can produce. So with headphones size does matter, and a preference for smaller size trumps comfort and sound quality for most buyers.
Over-the-ear headphones are more comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, because instead of having ear pads pressing directly on the outer ears, over-the-ears' pads surround the outer ear. On-ears' "clamping" against the ears' pressure tends to be higher, and they will probably make your ears hotter and sweatier than over-the-ear models. Of course, the specifics of each headphone's design come into play, but I almost always find over-the-ear models more comfortable.
Over-the-ears' biggest drawback is size, they're larger than on-ear headphones. I like the larger soundstage over-the-ear headphones produce, but some listeners prefer the more immediate/present sound of on-ears. Schuster recommends over-the-ears for sound quality and comfort, but over-the-ears are less portable.
Most on-ear headphones are closed-back designs, but over-the-ear models can be either open- or closed-back. I'll cover their pros and cons on tomorrow's blog. I wrote about how ear buds and in-ear headphones differ on a previous blog.
Topics: Tips, Audio/MP3, iPod, High-End Audio, Sound Tags: over the ear headphones, How-to, circumaural headphones supraaural headphones, how to buy headphones, Headphones, on-ear headphonesWhen the Bay Bridge towered over San Francisco
A new exhibit at San Francisco's de Young museum showcases photographs and art of the construction of the Bay Bridge in the mid-to-late 1930s.
How are new iPhones faring in Japan? NTT Docomo offers clues
NTT Docomo, which began offering the iPhone for the first time last fall, is seeing mostly positive results so far in Japan, where the iPhone has been red hot.
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Newly appointed Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Md. Aminul Haque Bhuyan pays homage to Language Martyrs at Central Shahid Minar at SUST.
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SUST Reunion-2012
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Fourth Bangladesh University games-2012
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Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA) To Climate Change held at SUST
Divisional Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change’ was held at central auditorium of Shahahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet on 18 March 2012.
Vice Chanceloor Professor Dr. Md. Saleh Uddin addressed the opening session of the conference as chief guest. He said,
YoungBB National Congress held at SUST
A day long YoungBB 3rd National Congress 2012 was held at central auditorium of Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) on 23 March 2012.
SUST’s Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (GEB) department and Young Biotechnologist of Bangladesh (YBB) jointly organized the congress with the slogan
Independence Day observe at SUST
The 41st Independence Day was observed in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet with renewing the pledge to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War.
Professor Dr. Md. Saleh Uddin, vice chancellor of SUST laid wreath at university’s Chetona’71 in the morning of 26 March 2012 which was followed by students, teachers, officials and different organizations of SUST. They paid rich tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed their life for the country.
On the occasion university’s administration arranged a seminar at mini auditorium while Lecturer of Sociology department Mr Nikhilendu Deb presented a key note paper.
University’s Vice Chancellor delivered his speech as a chief guest and Treasurer Professor Dr. Md. Elias Uddin Biswas spoke as special guest while Dean of Life Sciences Prof Dr. Yesmeen Haque chaired the program.
Conducted over by Register Mohd Isfaqul Hussain the program was addressed among other by Chairman of Computer Science & Engineering department Prof Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Lecturer of Sociology department Sebak Kumar Saha, Professor of Physics department Dr. Sushanta Kumar Das, Professor of Sociology department Dr. Abdul Gani.
Earlier university’s vice chancellor Professor Dr. Md Saleh Uddin inaugurated the cartoon and documentary exhibition.
Later a cultural program was held at Muktamancha in the evening.
About SUSTHome Act Map History Mission ContactAcademicsSchool Library Institutes Faculty Members SyllabusAdministrationVC Office Treasurer's Office Dormitories Registrar's Office OtherAdmissionGraduate Undergraduate Admission Test 2013-14 OthersResearchPublications Labs Centers Conferences Online JournalsCampusCultural Environment Living Muktijuddha CornerQuick LinkDownloads Noticeboard HEQEP ePayment© 2014 SUSTSubmarine cable cut disrupts internet
Internet connection in Bangladesh has been experiencing serious disruption as a submarine cable has been severed near Singapore.
Authorities concerned said on Wednesday that it would take three to four days to repair the connection.
Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company's (BSCCL) Cox's Bazar Landing Station Deputy General Manager Mohammad Shakhawat Hossain told bdnews24.com that the east segment of the submarine cable, some 56 kilometres away from Singapore, had been cut.
"We're supplying bandwidth through the west segment now," he said.
Currently, Bangladesh is using only one submarine cable. But India, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia who also face the same debacle are coping with the internet traffic pressure through their alternative connections.
The submarine cable system, with which Bangladesh is currently connected, is a high capacity optical fibre Submarine Cable System linking 16 companies of 14 countries. It is called the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe- 4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) cable network and is under an International Consortium.
Bangladesh is expected to connect with the SEA-ME-WE-5 by 2014.
Welcome to SUST email service for All students !!
Students’ email under SUST domain opened on 17 June 2012. Professor Dr. Md Saleh Uddin, vice chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet inaugurated this email facility while Professor Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, director of Computer and Information Centre, and Professor Dr. Yasmeen Haque, dean of life sciences were present at the program held at SUST central auditorium.
Vice chancellor Professor Dr. Md Saleh Uddin, in a brief speech, advised the students to develop themselves with the knowledge of information and technology. He said, you will need not go outside but earn money along with your study if you can gather basic knowledge of computer and the internet. We will stand by you but you have to be enthusiastic.
Professor Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal urged students to be respectful during the use of an email address under the domain of this university website.
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, lecturer of CSE department acted as a moderator of the program where more than one thousand students were present.
It is mentionable that the students holding email addresses under SUST domain will enjoy the free use of Microsoft products when they will not be available free of cost after June 2013.
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Newly appointed Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Md. Aminul Haque Bhuyan pays homage to Language Martyrs at Central Shahid Minar at SUST.
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Apple Reports First-Quarter Results
Apple Leadership Product Images & Info Press Releases Media AlertFY 14 First Quarter Results Conference CallWHAT: Apple® FY 14 First Quarter Results Conference Call
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WEBCAST: Apple will provide live audio streaming of its FY 14 First Quarter Results Conference Call using Apple’s industry-leading QuickTime® multimedia software. The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. PST on Monday, January 27, 2014 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq114 and will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter. The webcast is available on any iPhone®, iPad® or iPod touch® running iOS 4.2 or above, any Mac® running OS X 10.5 or above or any PC running QuickTime 7 or later. If you do not have QuickTime installed on your Windows PC, it is available at www.apple.com/quicktime.
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Apple Reports First-Quarter Results
Apple Leadership Product Images & Info Press Releases Media AlertFY 14 First Quarter Results Conference CallWHAT: Apple® FY 14 First Quarter Results Conference Call
WHERE: Via conference call. The dial-in number for press is (877) 616-0073 (toll-free) or (816) 581-1579. Please enter confirmation code 495624.
WHEN: Monday, January 27, 2014, 2:00 p.m. PST/5:00 p.m. EST
REBROADCAST: The conference call will be available as a continuous rebroadcast beginning Monday, January 27 at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST through Monday, February 10 at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST. The dial-in number for the rebroadcast is (888) 203-1112 (toll-free) or (719) 457-0820. Please enter confirmation code 9268358.
WEBCAST: Apple will provide live audio streaming of its FY 14 First Quarter Results Conference Call using Apple’s industry-leading QuickTime® multimedia software. The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. PST on Monday, January 27, 2014 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq114 and will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter. The webcast is available on any iPhone®, iPad® or iPod touch® running iOS 4.2 or above, any Mac® running OS X 10.5 or above or any PC running QuickTime 7 or later. If you do not have QuickTime installed on your Windows PC, it is available at www.apple.com/quicktime.
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WHERE: Via conference call. The dial-in number for press is (877) 616-0073 (toll-free) or (816) 581-1579. Please enter confirmation code 495624.
WHEN: Monday, January 27, 2014, 2:00 p.m. PST/5:00 p.m. EST
REBROADCAST: The conference call will be available as a continuous rebroadcast beginning Monday, January 27 at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST through Monday, February 10 at 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST. The dial-in number for the rebroadcast is (888) 203-1112 (toll-free) or (719) 457-0820. Please enter confirmation code 9268358.
WEBCAST: Apple will provide live audio streaming of its FY 14 First Quarter Results Conference Call using Apple’s industry-leading QuickTime® multimedia software. The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. PST on Monday, January 27, 2014 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq114 and will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter. The webcast is available on any iPhone®, iPad® or iPod touch® running iOS 4.2 or above, any Mac® running OS X 10.5 or above or any PC running QuickTime 7 or later. If you do not have QuickTime installed on your Windows PC, it is available at www.apple.com/quicktime.
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Is your fridge sending spam? Not so fast
An Internet-connected fridge could be part of a botnet, but it probably didn't happen -- this time.(Credit:CNET)
The security world lit up with news of the first instance of an Internet-connected appliance participating in a botnet. Our fears of Skynet made real had come to pass: not only was your fridge keeping your half-eaten tin of Spam cold, it was sending your e-mail account fresh digital spam at the same time.
Related stories:Symantec takes on one of largest botnets in historyMicrosoft, feds disrupt massive Citadel botnet'Chameleon Botnet' takes $6-million-a-month in ad moneyChameleon botnet steals $6M per month in click fraud scam Malware getting smarter, says McAfeeOne problem: the report appears to be based on incorrect assumptions.
Proofpoint, the security firm that published the report, said that the botnet was 100,000 machines strong and sent no more than 10 pieces of e-mail spam per IP address. However, Ars Technica noted that estimating a botnet size is difficult, and that the technique that Proofpoint used -- scanning public IP addresses -- is known to be hard to connect to specific devices.
Additionally, sending only 10 spam messages per IP address in a botnet is unusual. "Traditional spam botnets will push infected PCs to send as many messages as its resources allow," said Ars reporter Dan Goodin. "The botnet reported by Proofpoint requires too much effort and not enough reward."
As Goodin and independent security expert Bruce Schneier noted, though, just because this connected device botnet probably didn't happen this time doesn't mean it won't ever happen.
Despite being "skeptical" of the original report, Schneier said, "it could happen, and sooner or later it will."
Topics: Security Tags: botnet, Internet of Things, refrigerator, security, smart fridgeWhat should you look for when choosing a car stereo?
Upgrading your car stereo's receiver is the one of the easiest ways to boost your dashboard tech. Here are the seven features we look for when making recommendations.
Apple looking to build mobile-payments service, report says
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Apple already lets users buy music, books, and apps through an iTunes account. But the tech giant has plans to expand its mobile-payment efforts, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Citing anonymous sources, the report says Apple is exploring moving beyond the realm of digital goods and letting users pay for physical goods and services -- such as clothes or a taxi ride -- with an iTunes account. The Journal says Eddy Cue, the Apple executive in charge of iTunes and the App Store, has already met with industry executives to discuss the topic.
Related postsGoogle, Samsung strike patent cross-licensing dealWatch the first public Macintosh demo in newly released videoEarly Macintosh developer: We would have worked for freeApple has the Mac to thank for its next generation of devices Facebook bites backThe company has also moved Jennifer Bailey, a longtime executive who is running the company's online store, into a new role building the payments business, the article said.
Expanding into a mobile-payments business would leverage the hundreds of millions of credit cards Apple already has on file thanks to iTunes. The move would put the company in direct competition with services like Stripe and eBay's PayPal.
The space has been heating up of late. Stripe recently raised $80 million in funding, at a valuation of $1.75 billion. And activist investor Carl Icahn has also called for eBay to spin off PayPal. Later, he said Apple would make a good suitor for the mobile-payments service.
Apple did not immediately return a request for comment. We'll update this post if we hear back.
Topics: Apple Corporate, iTunes Tags: Apple, Carl Icahn, PayPal, StripeApple has the Mac to thank for its next generation of devices
Thirty years later, the Mac's journey is far from over. It's had an even greater influence on the company's touch devices than the Apple II did on the Mac.
How the 'Netflix of books' won over the publishing industry (Q&A)
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Former homeless man finds success in the speaker business
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Five years ago I wrote about a homeless man in California who wanted to start a speaker company. That man, Kevin Nelson, dared to be different: his speakers could produce stereo sound from a single box. He was way ahead of his time -- nowadays millions of Bluetooth speakers claim the same thing. But Nelson's speakers do a more convincing job of creating stereo. Nelson started working on the stereo from one speaker idea in 1989 and spent years perfecting the concept. He cooked up the name Zealth Audio early on and stuck with it.
Google ad patent would offer e-shoppers a free taxi to stores
Brick-and-mortar retailers might one day be able to serve up high-tech Web ads that do the math and potentially offer big-ticket shoppers free rides to their stores.
Ingredients for life hitching ride on space dust, study says
Water and organic compounds could be hitching a ride through space on interplanetary dust particles.(Credit:UH SOEST/LLNL,John Bradley)
For years, astronomers have been scanning nearby asteroids, the moon, Mars, and deeper space for evidence of the building blocks of life.
Now, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that both water and organic material could actually have our planet surrounded, floating around space on ubiquitous interplanetary dust particles that constantly rain down on Earth and the other bodies in our solar system.
"It is a thrilling possibility that this influx of dust has acted as a continuous rainfall of little reaction vessels containing both the water and organics needed for the eventual origin of life on Earth and possibly Mars," researcher and study co-author Hope Ishii of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology said in a release.
Translation: tiny trace amounts of water and organics left over from the birth of our solar system could be riding the solar wind on specs of space dust that make their way to the surface of nearby planets, asteroids, and moons.
Scientists have suspected that one way water and other key components of life are delivered to the surface of Earth and other planets is by riding on the backs of comets that collide with them. This new research is in a way an extension of that hypothesis reduced to a molecular level, but with a key difference in how water molecules came to hang out on the rims of flecks of space dust.
Related storiesHubble spies water vapor plumes on Jupiter's EuropaForget winter in Westeros, summer's coming to TitanNewly spotted wet asteroids point to far-flung Earth-like planetsIn the case of comets, the icy space rocks import frozen water from beyond the solar system when they come to visit, but the traces of water on interplanetary dust particles are actually a product of the solar wind that blasts them with hydrogen ions, shaking up the atoms of the silicate mineral crystals in the dust particles. This process leaves behind some oxygen to react with hydrogen and create water molecules.
"Perhaps more exciting," Ishii said, "interplanetary dust, especially dust from primitive asteroids and comets, has long been known to carry organic carbon species that survive entering the Earth's atmosphere, and we have now demonstrated that it also carries solar-wind-generated water. So we have shown for the first time that water and organics can be delivered together."
In other words, the cheese and the sauce have been floating around space since nearly the beginning of time, just waiting to be wrapped up in a comfy corn tortilla atmosphere to seed the whole enchilada of life.
Next up, the researchers plan to look into how much water may be hitchhiking to the Earth's surface on space dust and what types of organic or inorganic compounds might be riding shotgun on the trip.
No research is in the works, however, to figure out how that jelly doughnut wound up on Mars.
Topics: Science, Space Tags: solar system, space dust, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and PlanetologyIt's not the bus, stupid. It's the system
A woman picks through a garbage can in San Francisco.(Credit:Getty Images)
A couple of hundred years ago, textile workers smashed stocking frames, burned factories, and clashed with police to protest the changes being wrought by what the essayist Thomas Carlyle later described as the new Mechanical Age.
They were afraid of losing their jobs in an economy with no social safety net. It's now clear that their enemy wasn't the new technology; it was a political and economic system which left the have-nots struggling for survival. But they didn't blame the Industrial Revolution, they blamed the face of the Industrial Revolution: the machine.
With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, you'd think that we would have learned a lesson. Think again.
Over the last few months, a building inchoate rage against the technology industry has exploded into public view. In Paris and Lyon earlier this month, striking cab drivers attacked Uber cars to protest the launch of the private-car service in France. Rude Baguette, a French tech news site, reported tires slashed, car windows shattered, and vehicles being pelted with eggs. Closer to home, the Bay Area -- home to Silicon Valley and San Francisco -- has been pulled into a rancorous dispute over tech-driven gentrification and the responsibilities wealthy companies ought to shoulder to ameliorate the resulting social dislocations caused, in great degree, by their increasing prosperity.
Related storiesSan Francisco to charge for tech buses using city stopsSan Francisco approves tech shuttle bus pilot programTaxi dispute gets physical in France with attack on Uber car That's a fair debate for a city and a region with a long history of progressive politics. But somewhere along the line, this thing has gone off the rails.Earlier this week, a group calling itself "the counterforce" knocked on the Berkeley home of Google developer Anthony Levandowski to announce their intention to put up a protest banner in front of his house and hand out fliers around the neighborhod. The bill of particulars against Levandowski, a star engineer at Google, runs the gamut from being responsible for "the sterilization and gentrification" of downtown Berkeley to helping further the spread of the surveillance state. You can read their writeup here and make up your own minds. (Disclosure: Levandowski's fiancee is a former CNET reporter.)
But after living in the Bay Area for a while, you get used to batshit insane without flinching. After all, Berkeley exists to make San Francisco look sane. What doesn't so easily compute is how some Einstein concluded he could strike a blow for justice by tossing a rock through the window of a Google bus. I suppose that for the critics, the bus shuttles, which shepherd employees working at Google and Twitter, represent the social entitlement accorded fabulously compensated outsiders who don't have to wait in traffic or sit on subways like the rest of us. Not to mention their stock options, their big houses, and altogether wonderful lives -- and this while unemployment levels remain far above their historical norms. Still, they are focusing on the wrong target.
We're talking about larger economic and social forces at play. That's why monochromatic prescriptions aren't going to point the way out.
Tom Foremski, a longtime observer of the local tech scene, asks why the technology industry doesn't pitch in and "start making a difference." Twitter, which encourages its employees to volunteer on company time, is one of several local tech companies offering reach-out initiatives, but various do-gooder programs -- and I'm all in favor -- won't change very much. (For the record, San Francisco did recently approve a plan requiring shuttle buses to pay a fee for stopping at designated areas in the city.)
Slogans won't stop, let alone cushion, the effects of post-industrial capitalism. If you want a pinata, fine, you won't need to wait long to find some self-absorbed Gen X doofus, gabbing on his iPhone as he enters another outrageously pretentious eatery that's opened its doors on San Francisco's increasingly gentrified Mission Street. Caricatures only go so far. The way out of what is a legitimate concern is to create conditions that foster job creation, education, and housing policies to offer people a decent place to live. Those are big, complicated issues which require the attention of big brains thinking very hard and carefully.
If I may paraphrase James Carville, .
Topics: Media, Policy, Social networking Tags: San Francisco, tech backlashMicrosoft Surface: It's on a roll (and why it exists)
Microsoft saw revenue and unit shipments double for its first branded PC when it announced earnings this week. Surface is here to stay, apparently.
Stephen Hawking declares: 'There are no black holes'
Hope? Or not so much?(Credit:BBCWorldNewsWatch/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Wait, so my life may not have disappeared down a black hole after all?
There is a chance for it to emerge and bloom like the career of David Hasselhoff?
It's charming when a phrase enters the language and we think we all know what it means. In the case of "black hole," we think of an infinity of black nothingness that swallows everything that slips into it.
But now, in a new paper called "Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes," Stephen Hawking has cast the cat among the black, holey pigeons and caused a scattering of incomprehension.
His precise words were: "The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes -- in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity."
It seems clear. There are no forever and ever holes of blackness. There is always the chance that light might emerge.
Hawking continued, however: "There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time. This suggests that black holes should be redefined as metastable bound states of the gravitational field."
So there are black holes. It's just that we should redefine them a touch. So what's this apparent horizon?
More Technically IncorrectMan runs into burning home to save his XboxPolice want to use your home security cameras for surveillanceGoogle ad patent would offer e-shoppers a free taxi to storesColbert: We must save 'mom-and-pop sites like Bing'People buy iPads, get floor tilesWell, it's "a surface along which light rays attempting to rush away from the black hole's core will be suspended."
But if they're suspended, they will never emerge, stuck in solitary confinement like the Man in the Iron Mask. The result is surely still the same. Once something disappears into a black hole, it's done for.
At times of existential stress like these, I turn to Nature magazine for help. It suggests that, at least in theory (and, let's face it, this is all theory), black holes might at some point disappear.
However, the magazine offers a dispiriting set of words from Don Page, a physicist from the University of Alberta in Canada. It might be possible that particles could emerge from black holes, he said.
Oh, cry of joy.
However, if particles did "it would be worse than trying to reconstruct a book that you burned from its ashes."
Ah, now that's a feeling I'm familiar with.
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Members of the original Macintosh team reflected on creating the machine. From left: panel moderator Steven Levy, Bill Atkinson, Randy Wigginton, Bill Fernandez (standing), George Crow, Steve Capps, Bruce Horn, Andy Hertzfeld, Caroline Rose.(Credit:Dan Farber/CNET)
This article is part of a CNET special report on the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh, looking at the beginnings of Apple's landmark machine and its impact during the past three decades.
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The entrance to MetLife Stadium, which will host the Super Bowl in a week. (Credit:Roger Cheng/CNET)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Like the millions of people tuning in during the Super Bowl, Michele White will be glued to her monitor.
But unlike everyone else, the big game won't be on her screen. Instead, White, the head of network operations and engineering in the New York metropolitan region for Verizon Wireless, will be staring at and stressing over something else altogether: the status of her network's ability to handle the estimated 82,000 people who will be in attendance at the game.
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How small can a bona fide high-end headphone amplifier be?
Meridian Prime(Credit:Meridian)
Meridian Audio may be one of Britain's oldest high-end audio brands. It was founded in the late 1970s, but it was always exploring new technologies. It introduced the world's first high-end CD player in 1984, advanced the state of the art in self-powered speakers, and pioneered digital loudspeakers. The company also developed the lossless compression technology used in many Blu-Ray discs.
So when I heard Meridian was introducing a high-end headphone amplifier, I immediately requested a review sample. When the box arrived, I thought they sent the wrong piece, it was too small to be a contender, but the Meridian Prime is a good deal more compact than the competition's models. It's also a stunning piece of industrial design. The desktop-friendly-size 6.3x2x5.9-inch all-metal chassis is gorgeous; fit and finish are what you'd expect from a high-end brand. The front panel hosts two 6.3mm jacks for full-size headphones, plus a 3.5mm jack for in-ear headphones. The back panel sports a USB input, stereo RCA analog inputs, and outputs that can drive self-powered desktop speakers. The Prime is made in England.
Meridian and Bryston are the only two established high-end brands making headphone amplifiers. Unfortunately, I didn't have the Bryston BHA-1 amp on hand to compare, but the BHA-1 is just an amp, the Prime has an onboard USB digital converter that handles up to 24 bit/192 kHz digital audio. The Prime can be run with the included wall wart, or from your computer's USB port. There's also an optional, upgraded power supply that's the same size and sports the same look as the Prime chassis.
With my Audeze LCD-3 headphones I compared the Prime with my old Red Wine Audio Corvina headphone amp. The Prime's clarity and detail resolution on Moby's "Play" CD far outpaced the Corvina's. The sound was more transparent; the Corvina's richer and warmer tonal balance was sweeter, but the Prime's more immediate, you-are-there sound won me over. The Prime has an Analogue Spatial Processing feature that ever so gently expands the stereo soundstage, I found it worked well on some recordings, but others sounded better with the processing turned off.
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Profile: Golf GTI
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The seventh-generation GTI is a very grown-up car: fast, refined, sure-footed. It will no doubt be reliable and headache-free to own. But I can't help thinking that it lacks the pizazz of the first-generation GTI, and I think I know why.
The first GTI wasn't built because Volkswagen had a reputation to live up to, or because a product planner decided a GTI model would sell. In fact almost the opposite is true: in the early '70s Volkswagen was only known for rather old-fashioned air-cooled machinery with no sporting pretensions whatsoever. The GTI was pieced together by a bunch of petrolhead engineers as a Saturday morning 'skunk works' project, against the instructions of Ernst Fiala, the head of engineering. It was only when they presented him with a prototype built on the sly and asked him to drive it that Fiala started to see the potential.
Even then, the Volkswagen management wasn't at all sure the 'über-Golf' would sell. It tentatively agreed to a production run of 5000 so that the GTI could be homologated for Group 1 racing and rallying, and hoped there wouldn't be too many still lying around unsold by the time the next-generation Golf arrived in the mid-'80s... They needn't have worried, of course. After the GTI's launch at the Frankfurt show in 1975 the first 5000 sold in record time, and it kept on selling: after six months Wolfsburg has built 50,000. The 'hot hatch' was now a thing.
That stiffly-sprung fuel-injected little hatchback with tartan seats, red stripes, jokey Golf-ball gearknob and no brakes to speak of belongs to a long-gone era. It was left to Peugeot to produce a real replacement, with the 205GTI, while the second-generation Golf became much more grown-up. Every succeeding generation has become more sophisticated and more serious - faster, safer and altogether better. What's lacking is the character of those original GTIs.
In a Mark 1 Golf GTI you get the impression that the car relishes every chance to squeal through a bend with its inside rear wheel cocked in the air. You get the feeling that the seventh-gen GTI would be embarrassed at the thought of doing the same.
Over the years the GTI - and most other cars, as this is a universal problem - has got bigger, more powerful and much heavier, and that's partly what robs it of character. Some of that weight is inevitable, because it's what makes the current car far more able to look after you in an accident (you wouldn't want to hit anything solid in a '70s GTI, or any other '70s car for that matter) but a lot of it could be designed out by using innovative materials like high-strength alloys, and cleverer interior design.
Yes, the Golf GTI is great as it is. But it would be even greater if there was less of it.
Tags:xcarPolice want to use your home security cameras for surveillance
Home surveillance cameras catch many things.(Credit:Hdymer/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
We're all in this together.
The authorities are peeking in on our progress thought life, and we accept it as part of our security.
But they don't want us to feel left out. So now they're wondering whether they might be able to use our security for, you know, everyone's.
An imaginative proposal emerging from San Jose, Calif., City Councilman San Liccardo asks for citizens to donate their own home security systems for the greater good.
As the San Jose Mercury News reports, all the citizens would have to do is to register their home security cameras with the local police.
In the event of a local incident of any kind, the police would be able to remotely access the video feed and view everything the home security camera captured.
Supporters suggest that this is an intelligent and logical suggestion to combat increasing crime in what used to be known as a safe part of America.
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This might, indeed, seem like an act of excessive faith.
One scenario also might haunt some minds. What if the police have remote access to your security cameras and you yourself are involved in certain activities that might, under strict interpretations, be regarded as against the law?
Still, San Jose isn't the first to enjoy this suggestion. Cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago are already testing the idea.
Los Gatos-Monte Sereno in California is another area that's achieved the cooperation of its citizens.
One of its police officers, Catherine Mann, assured the Mercury News that the police weren't "sitting around watching live videos" from people's homes.
But in our highly unstable world -- where many are desperate to be seen, but some still value a touch of privacy -- it's rarely the promises that disturb, it's the possibilities.
Topics: Music, Media, Random, Social networking, Advertising Tags: law, Technically Incorrect, San Jose, security, SurveillanceMan runs into burning home to save his Xbox
The house suffered $80,000 worth of damage.(Credit:ABC15 screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
A sense of priorities is always helpful in life. As is a sense of passion.
The two miraculously came together for one Kansas man and, miraculously, he survived to tell the tale.
As ABC15 reports, the man's Olathe, Kan., home was on fire.
He woke up during the night to discover this phenomenon. He made it outside before the fire engulfed him.
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So, as if it were a scene from one of his favorite games, he rushed back inside to rescue his system.
He found it and rushed back out of the house again.
The police say that he suffered only smoke inhalation. Some might say that he suffered from a lot more than that.
It's unclear from reports what kind of Xbox this was. However, one assumes it must have been a relatively new Xbox One.
Surely no one would re-enter their burning house to retrieve some gaming relic.
There again, we already have recent video evidence that gamers can be very particular human beings indeed.
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Google, Samsung strike patent cross-licensing deal
Samsung's Galaxy S4 and other popular handsets run Google's Android operating system. (Credit:Josh Miller/CNET) Google and Samsung on Sunday unveiled a broad, long-term cross-licensing deal that will cover their existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years.
The two companies provided essentially no details about the terms of the deal or what patents and technologies its covers, only saying that it's "mutually beneficial." However, they did take veiled shots at Apple, stressing how two big companies can work together to avoid litigation.
Related stories:Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation over patent disputeSpin control: Apple goes on offense against AndroidCNET's take on the Galaxy Note 3 "Samsung and Google are showing the rest of the industry that there is more to gain from cooperating than engaging in unnecessary patent disputes," Seungho Ahn, the head of Samsung's Intellectual Property Center, said in a press release.Allen Lo, deputy general counsel for patents at Google, echoed Ahn's comments, saying that "by working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation."
Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in litigation for several years, and Apple also has sued other Android handset makers. In the case of Samsung, Apple accused the company of copying patents such as its technology for making a screen bounce back when you reach the bottom. Apple has been victorious over Samsung in US courts so far, and the next case, which covers gadgets such as the Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5, goes to trial March 31.
The two companies have been ordered to hold talks by February 19 to try to resolve their issues. However, a settlement has seemed unlikely. In November, before jury election began in a separate patent infringement lawsuit Apple filed against Samsung, US District Court Judge Lucy Koh told both parties that she would like them to try to reach a settlement and that she would prefer the companies' CEOs participate in the talks. She prefaced the request by saying to the attorneys for Apple and Samsung that "you don't have to laugh at me, but even my chambers laughs at me when I mention settlement."
Meanwhile, Google and Samsung have been close partners over the years. Samsung's smartphone success has come from using Google's Android open-source operating system. There have been reports of tension between the two companies, but both are reliant on each other to keep their mobile momentum going. It's likely that many of the patents involved in the cross-licensing deal relate to mobile technology.
Samsung's new tablets go Pro at CES 2014 (pictures) 1-2 of 9Scroll LeftScroll RightWhere should I put my TV?
Top Row: Omnimount. Bottom Row: BDI(Credit: Omnimount, BDI) No matter what size or type of TV you're considering, ponder placement for a moment. Maybe that spot that's always been home for the TV isn't ideal. Maybe a slight shuffle of furniture will yield better picture quality, or allow for a larger TV.
I can't come to your home to help with ideas (sorry), but I can give you some dos and don'ts when it comes to TV placement, to point you in the right direction (i.e., toward the screen).
Obviously if you have a massive entertainment center, you're limited in your placement potential. But putting the option out there for a room reorganization might be the leverage you need to convince your spouse to get a new TV (or a larger TV).
Before you get the idea of a 22-inch LCD stuck in the corner of the ceiling, or an 84-inch 4K smack in the middle of the room, keep the following tips in mind.
Find the perfect spot for your TVDo...
...Check height. While there's no set height for TV placement, ideally you don't want the TV to be too high. Staring up at a TV is like sitting in the front row of a movie theater. It's not ideal, not comfortable, and not conducive to long viewing sessions. Generally speaking, you want the center of the TV to be about eye level, or even slightly lower. This is true whether you're mounting the TV, or putting it on a stand. For more on this, check out How high should I put my TV?
...Check distance. It's unlikely anyone reading this is going to be sitting too close to their TV. Most people sit about nine feet from the TV, which is too far to distinguish between 1080p and 720p TVs of most sizes. Sitting closer to your TV has two benefits: it fills more of your field of view (so it's more immersive), and you can see more resolution (the image is more detailed). If you can't/don't want to sit closer, you can alternatively get a larger TV. Check out How big a TV should I buy? for more info.
Related storiesLED LCD vs. plasma vs. LCD Active 3D vs. passive 3D: What's better? Why all HDMI cables are the same TV tech explainer: Every HDTV technology decoded What is refresh rate? 1080i and 1080p are the same resolution What is 600Hz? Audiophile Odyssey: Behind the Scenes at B&W, Meridian, and Abbey Road Studios...Check placement. Room lighting and reflections are the No. 1 killer of TV images according to a study I just made up. The fact is, pretty much every modern TV has a reflective screen, and I don't care how awesome your lamps are, they're not as interesting as what's on TV (OK, that's arguable.) Sure, you can just turn off the lights (or close the blinds), but sometimes that's not easy or possible. If it isn't, check out How to rid your HDTV of reflections.
If you're thinking of wall mounting, keep in mind the all the Dos mentioned so far. Plus, if you're thinking of getting an LCD, make sure you get a wall mount that's able to pivot or adjust. With few exceptions, LCDs have worse performance if you're not sitting directly in front of them. Being able to pivot or move a wall mounted TV so it's aimed directly at your eyeballs will be a huge improvement in picture quality (compared to the same TV not aimed at you). It's worth mentioning at this point TV weight is not a limiting factor when it comes to mounting.
...Consider more than style. When it comes to TV stands, there are countless options. Consider the TV height in addition to whatever style you like. Most stands are fairly uniform in height, and a few inches above or below ideal isn't going to matter, but a large TV on a tall stand isn't a great idea.
...Consider the mini-humans. Turns out, falling TVs injure a child every half-hour. Check out How to keep your TV from falling over if you've got kids or lively pets.
Don't...
...Mount the TV too high. A TV at the correct height is going to look really low when you're standing. Which is fine, since most of the time you won't be standing when you're watching.
...Mount a TV above a fireplace. For the above reason and more.
...Mount a "regular" TV outside. There are TVs made for just that. Or, if you don't want to spend the money on a TV designed for outside, just know that any TV you leave out there isn't likely to last long (even if it's under an awning). Best to bring it in when you're not using it.
...Sit too far away. However, you can get a larger TV to compensate.
...Put the TV in an awkward location. If you have to turn your head to see the screen, it's just going to lead to sore necks. Twisting your head a bit may not seem like a big deal, but keeping it that way for hours at a time can be a pain -- literally.
Bottom line
Let's take two rooms as examples. First room: you have a great TV, mounted high on a wall near the corner, with the sofa and adjacent lamps, on the other side of the room in the other corner. These poor folks have a small-seeming TV, lots of reflections, and stiff necks from turning and looking up at the TV. Second room: the TV is mounted at eye level, the sofa is eight to nine feet away, and a bias light provides soft room lighting. In which room would you want to watch a marathon of "Arrested Development"?
Proper placement can determine a significant portion of the overall enjoyment of a new TV. It's worth considering adjusting your room to be more conducive to comfortable TV viewing. Not only will you gain potential picture and comfort improvements, but in the process, you might free up more space for other things. Like a rug that really ties the room together. Or that life-sized Storm Trooper you've always wanted.
Got a question for Geoff? First, check out all the other articles he's written on topics like HDMI cables, LED LCD vs. plasma, active versus passive 3D, and more. Still have a question? Send him an e-mail! He won't tell you what TV to buy, but he might use your letter in a future article. You can also send him a message on Twitter
AT&T Offers Customers $100 Sign-On Bonus
This is a way for AT&T to work with customers on a loyalty program that benefits both. The customer gets a $100 credit and AT&T creates an even more stable customer base. Offering each customer $100 to add another line of service is a win-win for both the customer and for AT&T, said Jeff Kagan, a wireless industry analyst.
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Contributing cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project is consistent with the open-friendlier Microsoft. Redmond has embraced openness and understands that openness creates a rising tide. Joining the Open Compute Project is an important step in the right direction given Microsoft's big picture, said analyst Zeus Kerravala.
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Apple Reports First-Quarter Results
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Phivolcs turning into a porn site?
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Cyberspace erupts with joy as Mindanao peace deal signed
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Qualcomm Buys Palm IP from Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard has a lot of products and technology, like the IP Qualcomm just purchased, that current management believes will not have any real place in the company’s future. From Qualcomm's perspective, buying tech from HP with deep roots in earlier forms of mobile computing may inoculate the company against future legal challenges.
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Two options are now offered in AWS Redshift data warehouses, Dense Compute nodes and Dense Storage nodes. Compute nodes can provision higher performance data warehouses, while Storage nodes, using hard disk drives, enable low-cost data warehouses. Dense Compute is for customers whose data warehouse is under 500 GB.
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Apple Expands Worldwide Access to Educational Content
iBooks Textbooks & iTunes U Course Manager Now Available in Over 50 CountriesCUPERTINO, California—January 21, 2014—Apple® today announced iBooks® Textbooks and iTunes U® Course Manager are expanding into new markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere around the world. iBooks Textbooks bring Multi-Touch™ textbooks with dynamic, current and interactive content to teachers and students in 51 countries now including Brazil, Italy and Japan; and iTunes U Course Manager, available in 70 countries now including Russia, Thailand and Malaysia, allows educators to create and distribute courses for their own classrooms, or share them publicly, on the iTunes U app.
“The incredible content and tools available for iPad provide teachers with new ways to customize learning unlike ever before,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We can’t wait to see how teachers in even more countries will create their new lesson plans with interactive textbooks, apps and rich digital content.”
iBooks Textbooks offer iPad® users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, rotating 3D diagrams, flick-through photo galleries and tap-to-play videos. iBooks Textbooks don’t weigh down a backpack, can be updated as events unfold and don’t need to be returned. With nearly 25,000 educational titles created by independent publishers, teachers and leading education services companies, including new educational content from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Hodder Education, iBooks Textbooks now cover 100 percent of US high school core curriculum and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) core curriculum in the UK.
“Oxford University Press is using iBooks Author for Headway, Oxford’s all-time best-selling English language series, to create engaging iBooks Textbooks for iPad,” said Peter Marshall, Managing Director, ELT Division at Oxford University Press. “In releasing 13 new iBooks Textbooks, including ‘Headway Pre-Intermediate,’ the best-selling level in the series, we are enriching the language learning experience for students around the world.”
“We believe resources like iBooks Textbooks represent a monumental shift in learning because they engage multiple capacities of each individual student,” said Miguel Dominguez, Marketing Director of Imaxina Novas Tecnoloxias in Spain, an independent educational content developer and publisher of iBooks Textbooks, including “The Senses,” which incorporates interactive elements such as video and animated images of the human eye and ear to illustrate how the body works.
With iTunes U Course Manager educators can quickly and easily share their knowledge and resources directly with their class or to a global audience on iTunes U. This free iOS app gives millions of learners access to the world’s largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools, leading universities and prominent institutions. iTunes U Course manager also gives teachers the ability to integrate their own documents as part of course curriculum, as well as content from the Internet, hundreds of thousands of books on the iBooks Store, over 750,000 materials from existing iTunes U collections, or any of the more than one million iOS apps available on the revolutionary App Store
“The incredible content and tools available for iPad provide teachers with new ways to customize learning unlike ever before,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We can’t wait to see how teachers in even more countries will create their new lesson plans with interactive textbooks, apps and rich digital content.”
iBooks Textbooks offer iPad® users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, rotating 3D diagrams, flick-through photo galleries and tap-to-play videos. iBooks Textbooks don’t weigh down a backpack, can be updated as events unfold and don’t need to be returned. With nearly 25,000 educational titles created by independent publishers, teachers and leading education services companies, including new educational content from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Hodder Education, iBooks Textbooks now cover 100 percent of US high school core curriculum and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) core curriculum in the UK.
“Oxford University Press is using iBooks Author for Headway, Oxford’s all-time best-selling English language series, to create engaging iBooks Textbooks for iPad,” said Peter Marshall, Managing Director, ELT Division at Oxford University Press. “In releasing 13 new iBooks Textbooks, including ‘Headway Pre-Intermediate,’ the best-selling level in the series, we are enriching the language learning experience for students around the world.”
“We believe resources like iBooks Textbooks represent a monumental shift in learning because they engage multiple capacities of each individual student,” said Miguel Dominguez, Marketing Director of Imaxina Novas Tecnoloxias in Spain, an independent educational content developer and publisher of iBooks Textbooks, including “The Senses,” which incorporates interactive elements such as video and animated images of the human eye and ear to illustrate how the body works.
With iTunes U Course Manager educators can quickly and easily share their knowledge and resources directly with their class or to a global audience on iTunes U. This free iOS app gives millions of learners access to the world’s largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools, leading universities and prominent institutions. iTunes U Course manager also gives teachers the ability to integrate their own documents as part of course curriculum, as well as content from the Internet, hundreds of thousands of books on the iBooks Store, over 750,000 materials from existing iTunes U collections, or any of the more than one million iOS apps available on the revolutionary App Store
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Survey Says iPhone, iPad Top Kids’ Wish List
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Procter & Gamble Uses iOS Devices to Boost Global Productivity
iPhone and iPad enable our sales force globally to take a step ahead in productivity. Our people are more productive, they’re enjoying their work more, and they’re connected in new ways.
iPads With Instant Replays Transforming the NBA
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Apple is getting into the sports software game by teaming up with "Sportstec" - a software program that provides quick edits of basketball game footage on iOS devices. Bloomberg's Senior West Coast correspondent Jon Erlichman takes a look.
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"Bridie Farrell, Champion Speedskater. Bridie Farrell is making a comeback. A world-class speedskater who took nearly a decade off from the sport, she’s using new technology to prepare for her toughest competition yet. " /
TV Broadcaster Speeds Up Telenovela Production With Final Cut Pro X
While it’s hard to know what a nation might collectively be thinking at any point in time, it’s easy to see what it’s watching. And on any given day, millions of Mexicans are watching telenovelas, the Latin American equivalent of U.S. soap operas that draw even more ardent viewers.
Some of the most popular Mexican telenovelas are produced by Azteca
iPad Helps Racers Gear Up for the Win
"Mark Post, Riviera Racing Team Owner and Driver. In off-road endurance races like the Baja 1000, just crossing the finish line is considered an accomplishment. Riviera Racing uses iPad to maximize the chances of getting there first." width
Apple Unveils iBeacon to Assist Shoppers
XApple Guides Shoppers Inside Stores With iBeaconBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology WriterDec 6, 2013, 3:28 AM
GPS will tell you how to get to the nearest Apple store. With iBeacon, Apple hopes to guide you around once you're inside, whether it's to pick up an order, upgrade to a new iPhone or shop for a pair of headphones.
The implications of iBeacon go beyond Apple stores. One day, commuters might get information on subway delays as they stand on the platform, while museum visitors might get details on the painting they are standing in front of. Other retailers will be also able to offer deals or track which aisles shoppers linger in the longest.
In-store location technology does raise privacy concerns, though many shoppers have shown a willingness to be tracked if there's something in it for them.
"With any new technology, you don't know how it's going to be used until it is being used," technology analyst Rob Enderle said.
He said Apple "is pretty good" at getting people to use new technologies, but it could take years for iBeacon to mature and reach its potential. He said Google, Microsoft and other tech companies will likely follow suit with their own location technology.
On Friday, Apple Inc. began using the technology at its 254 U.S. stores to send you messages about products, events and other information
Wind Turbine Technicians Use iPad to Keep Blades Spinning
"Siemens Energy-Wind Service. The wind power industry depends on the service technicians who climb to great heights, often in extreme weather conditions, to keep the turbines running as efficiently as possible. Now iPad is helping the technicians work more efficiently, too." width
iPad Helps Broadway Director Stay in Step
"Jeff Whiting, Director and Choreographer. Behind the magic of every Broadway show are hundreds of thousands of steps, all precisely calculated, staged, rehearsed, and perfected. Jeff Whiting uses iPad to stage every move his actors make." width
Beyoncé Album Shatters iTunes Store Records
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All-New Mac Pro Available Starting Dec. 19
graphics, storage, expansion, processing power, and memory. And we challenged ourselves to find the best, most forward-looking way possible to engineer each one of them. When we put it all together, the result was something entirely new. Something radically different from anything before it. Something that provides an extremely powerful argument against the status quo.
iPad Transforms Napa Winery’s Production Process
"Christian Gastón Palmaz, Director of Operations, Palmaz Vineyards. At Palmaz Vineyards in Napa, California, master vintner Christian Gastón Palmaz analyzes powerful data on iPad to transform the way he manages his winery from the vineyard to the tanks
iPad Can Be Another Pair of Eyes in Operating Room
"Dr. Itaru Endo, Director of Digestive Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Yokohama City University. Liver surgeries are particularly complicated and difficult. And surgeons are often without valuable information in their operating rooms. That’s why Dr. Itaru Endo and Fraunhofer MEVIS have developed an iPad app that displays interactive patient data during surgery to save time
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013
in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone. App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December making it the most successful month in App Store history. Apple’s incredible developers have now earned $15 billion on the App Store.
“We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The lineup of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014.”
With the introduction of iOS 7, developers were able to create stunning apps that took advantage of the redesigned user interface and the more than 200 new features and APIs. Developers such as Evernote, Yahoo!, AirBnB, OpenTable, Tumblr, Pinterest and American Airlines re-imagined the user experience, bringing content to the forefront while increasing the overall efficiency and performance of their apps.
2013 saw surprise hits like Ellen DeGeneres’ Heads Up, ProtoGeo’s Moves, Simon Filip’s Afterlight and Kevin Ng’s Impossible Road. Many of the year’s biggest successes like Candy Crush Saga, Puzzles & Dragons, Minecraft, QuizUp and Clumsy Ninja were created by international developers, while Duolingo (United States), Simogo (Sweden), Frogmind (UK), Plain Vanilla Corp (Iceland), Atypical Games (Romania), Lemonista (China), BASE (Japan) and Savage Interactive (Australia) emerged as developers to watch in 2014.
The revolutionary App Store offers more than one million apps to iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 500,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 24 categories, including newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness, travel and kids.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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“We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The lineup of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014.”
With the introduction of iOS 7, developers were able to create stunning apps that took advantage of the redesigned user interface and the more than 200 new features and APIs. Developers such as Evernote, Yahoo!, AirBnB, OpenTable, Tumblr, Pinterest and American Airlines re-imagined the user experience, bringing content to the forefront while increasing the overall efficiency and performance of their apps.
2013 saw surprise hits like Ellen DeGeneres’ Heads Up, ProtoGeo’s Moves, Simon Filip’s Afterlight and Kevin Ng’s Impossible Road. Many of the year’s biggest successes like Candy Crush Saga, Puzzles & Dragons, Minecraft, QuizUp and Clumsy Ninja were created by international developers, while Duolingo (United States), Simogo (Sweden), Frogmind (UK), Plain Vanilla Corp (Iceland), Atypical Games (Romania), Lemonista (China), BASE (Japan) and Savage Interactive (Australia) emerged as developers to watch in 2014.
The revolutionary App Store offers more than one million apps to iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 500,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 24 categories, including newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness, travel and kids.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
Press Contacts:
Ted Miller
Apple
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Yahoo Tech Reviews the New Mac Pro
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Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World
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