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A new analysis of Apple’s iTunes and iTunes-related businesses (music sales, video sales and streaming, e-books and most importantly apps) by Asymco’s Horace Dediu has revealed that it is, on its own, one of the world’s most valuable businesses — and …
Prolific UK band Radiohead has announced the release of app they have created in collaboration with Universal Everything, entitled PolyFauna. An experimental game, frontman Thom Yorke states the app was “…born out of The King of Limbs sessions and using the imagery and the sounds from the song Bloom.” PolyFauna aims to envision “an interest in early computer life-experiments and the imagined creatures of our subconscious,” with players being able to create worm-like constructs with a finger swipe. Available for Android devices on Google Play and iOS devices through iTunes, PolyFauna is free….
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A job opening at Apple posted earlier this week, seeking an “Instrumentation Design/NPI Engineer” notes not only that the successful candidate will help the company with forthcoming “new products,” but also mentions that the engineer will work with “ne…
CrushFTP has released a major update of its self-named enterprise-oriented FTP software, v7.0. One change for enterprise users only is the addition of a job scheduler, which can also run jobs in intervals. Events in the app now have a visual task-desig…
Hunting cams are key to selecting the perfect spot for setting up a perch before hunting season begins. Selecting an area with good traffic based on signs is taking a risk, but setting up a camera gives certainty that the grounds will be suitable. But …
Pioneer has been heavily invested in home audio for decades. Couple that expertise with the predilection for flat screen televisions to have equally flat-sounding speakers, and the fit seems obvious. Couple a television-oriented sound bar with wireless…
As part of his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama thanked four tech firms — including Apple, Microsoft, Verizon and Sprint — for their involvement and support of his and the FCC’s ConnectED high-tech initiative, which …
AssistiveWare and Acapela Group announced today the release of Infovox iVox 4.0, which brings to Mac OS X a total of 31 new Text to Speech voices. These include the first ever genuine, natural-sounding bilingual American Spanish-English children’s voic…
Accessories creator Felix has released its versatile case for iPad and iPad mini, the FlipStand. An ergonomic case that acts as a stand, the FlipStand provides 22 angled positions (16 for the FlipStand mini) for using an iPad for reading, browsing the …
Divoom will be releasing its portable outdoor Bluetooth speaker tomorrow, the Voombox Outdoor. Offering 12 hours of play and talk time on 15 watts of power, the Voombox can withstand splashed water and dust. Users can wirelessly stream audio from table…
Non-practicing entity Vringo under the practicing name I/P Engine won a trial against Google on the strength of Lycos patents in 2012, and was awarded $30 million dollars. Google then changed the AdWords program, attempting to circumvent Vringo’s paten…
AT&T has released its quarterly earnings report. For the quarter, the company’s consolidated revenues totaled $33.2 billion, up 1.8 percent versus the year-earlier period. Compared with results for the fourth quarter of 2012, operating expenses were $20.9 billion versus $38.5 billion, and operating income was $12.2 billion compared to a loss of $6.0 billion. Notably, smartphones accounted for a record 93 percent of postpaid phone sales in the quarter which included the release of Apple’s iPhone 5c and 5s….
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Taking a page from its own Christmas promotions, and coming on the heels of the asian stores’ Lunar New Year celebrations, the online Apple Store has “redecorated” somewhat in preparation for the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday. It has added love-them…
The Court of the Hague today ruled that Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL are not required to block traffic to and from BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, reversing a January 2012 order. The court found during the hearing that the blocks were both ineffectua…
Developer Coppertino has released VOX 2.0, an update to its free audio player for OS X. The main change is a redesigned interface, designed to highlight album art while hiding most controls until they’re needed. The app has also been given gapless play…
This week in the MacNN forums, members discuss bugs in Mavericks, slow MacBooks and more. After Grizzled Veteran “And.reg” upgraded to Mavericks late last week, a discovery was made that there was a bug in Spotlight that causes it to crash. Dedicated M…