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Apple’s Steve Jobs agrees to biography due in 2012
Apr 11th
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs broke with expectations on Sunday after Simon & Schuster said he had agreed to participate in an authorized biography. Aspen president chief and former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson is penning iSteve: The Book of Jobs with an expected shelf date of early 2012. The official access gave him rare access to a direct interview with Jobs as well as his family, coworkers, and also challengers.
Rumorshad emerged of an official biography coming but hadn’t seen further substantiation until now.
Isaacson is known for having written biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. He may have been approved both More >
Windows 8′s SmartScreen to build on Apple’s file screening
Apr 10th
Among the additions coming to Windows 8 should be an Apple-like file checking system that would refuse to run files known or suspected to be rogue. Microsoft’s SmartScreen, a system first found in Internet Explorer and Windows Live Messenger, will check files for whether they’re malware or otherwise illegal and could stop them from running. The method would prevent ‘social’ viruses, where users end up bypassing their usual safeguards because they think it comes from a known source.
The implementation would be more complex than what Apple offers in Mac OS X, where the checks are based on sporadically updated More >
Apple’s fate not tied to Foxconn, analyst contends
Mar 16th
A creeping slowdown at Foxconn is not likely to drag Apple down with it, argues Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. Challenging a view taken by JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Reiner notes that while Apple and Foxconn once managed to grow together, the pattern may have been coincidental rather than connected as the former’s contribution to Foxconn is “limited.” Foxconn manufactures products for a number of major corporations, not just Apple.
To illustrate, Reiner points out that Apple generated about $ 20 billion of Foxconn’s $ 93.4 billion in 2010 sales. Apple thus accounts for a “relatively modest portion” of Foxconn’s revenue. More >
Chinese patent dispute may render Apple’s Meizu case invalid
Nov 14th
A Chinese dispute with Apple’s iPhone patents may negate some of the company’s legalaction against Meizu, the Beijing Times said Saturday. Local firm Herron Network Information has sued Apple arguing that a patent for the iPhone’s design was invalid as it wasn’t attached to the product name. Chinese law requires that any patent refer to a specific product, and it was only after the Patent Bureau volunteered to associate the patent with the iPhone on its own that the patent went through; relying on someone else was also against the law, Herron said.
It noted that Apple’s design cues were vague. More >
T-Mobile jabs Apple’s FaceTime over Wi-Fi limit, blames AT&T
Nov 3rd
T-Mobile kicked off a new campaign for its HSPA+ 3G network today with a TV commercial (below) poking fun at the limitations on the iPhone’s FaceTime video chat. The 30-second spot blames AT&T for Apple not allowing FaceTime over cellular until 2011 and portrays the rival carrier as an overweight man keeping the iPhone down. T-Mobile’s faster 21Mbps HSPA+ “4G” network and reduced congestion let phones like the just-shipping myTouch 4G join two-way video chats without being tied to an airport or another public Wi-Fi hotspot, the carrier’s's beautiful female stand-in suggests.
The ad goes so far as to borrow More >