Judge Not By What They Do, But Rather By How They Spin
Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine, talking to Li Qiang, founder of China Labor Watch:
“Dell and Hewlett Packard are not doing as good as Apple is
doing right now,” Li Said. “But when we talk about publicity
and public relations, it’s another story.”
So who does CLW spend the most effort criticizing — the companies whose actual labor practices [...]
Apple Updates iBooks Author With Clarified EULA
Matthew Panzarino:
Apple has updated its iBooks Author app in order to clarify the language of its End User License Agreement. The changes to the EULA clarify that Apple does indeed intend the packaged product to be sold on the iBookstore only, but also make it clear that it does not lay claim to the content that you [...]
Welcoming Eric Rosenthal
I’m excited to welcome Eric Rosenthal to the OpenX team. As we announced yesterday, Eric has been appointed as the General Manager, Enterprise, and will be contributing his deep experience and knowledge of the industry to help grow our business and further the global adoption of OpenX Enterprise.
Eric brings a rare knowledge and understanding [...]
First
Horace Dediu:
Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share.
Apple and Samsung combined for about 91% of profits with RIM third at 3.7%, HTC fourth at 3.0% and Nokia last at 1.8% of a $15 billion total for the quarter.
Not bad.
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In Praise of Cheap Labor
Paul Krugman, writing for Slate back in 1997:
Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization
— of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to
low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive
Third World exports. These critics take it as a given that anyone
with a good word for this process is naive or corrupt [...]
APP OF THE DAY: Remarks review (iPad)
Take note….
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Readdle is back with yet another note-taking app, this time in the form of Remarks which it describes as a new way to “write down your thoughts, capture ideas and information, annotate documents and [...]
iPhone photography course on offer for ‘appy snappers
At Kensington and Chelsea College
In what is believed to be a UK first, London’s Kensington and Chelsea College?is to offer budding photographers a photography course with a twist. For there won’t be any SLR action going on; the course, called “iPhoneography” is, you guessed it, centred on teaching fanboys and girls how to take good [...]
Gamer dies at PC in Taiwanese Internet cafe and nobody notices
…for nine hours!
A man died at his work station in an Internet Cafe in Taipei, Taiwan this week, but nobody noticed for up to nine hours. Twenty three-year-old?Chen Rong-yu checked in to play the multiplayer online game?League of Legends on Tuesday night, but was found sitting “rigid on a chair with his hands stretched out [...]
Dropbox for Android beta lands with auto camera uploads
And 500MB picture space
Dropbox has taken off the covers of an all new version of its cloud-based solution for Android devices: The Experimental Android Forum Build 2.0.9. Catchy name huh?
The beta release brings with it a number of key new features, most notably the addition of a brand new Camera Upload function. This allows you [...]
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning confirmed to be prequel to MMO
EXCLUSIVE: Todd McFarlane tells the Lint
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the single-player role-playing game due for release on 10 February by Electronic Arts, is the forerunner to a MMO that has been in development since 2006. There has previously been confusion over whether developer 38 Games will continue with its original plans for an online game [...]
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