Publishers say that they require more information about users than Apple usually divulges. Apple’s stance on user privacy may threaten the marriage between the iPad and the publishers of books, magazines and newspapers.
Over the last year or so, some Firefox users have complained (guilty as charged) about nagging performance and stability issues with the popular open source browser. The recent release of Firefox 3.6, however, addresses these issues and brings some nifty new features to the table, as well.
Speech-to-text wizard Nuance Communications has acquired MacSpeech, the leading provider of speech recognition solutions for Apple computers, in order to extend it’s reach into the Mac realm.
The guy who kept the nature and extent of his various illnesses over the course of years as secret as he could — no complaint from me — is said to be preparing to tell the story of his life in collaboration with a top biographer. One wonders, however, what will get included and to what extent the Apple CEO’s famed “reality distortion field” will play in shaping the book.
As opposed to the use of Apple’s digital rights management software for movies, TV and iPhone apps, this time around it appears that individual publishers will have the choice of whether or not they will use this technology to “protect” their electronic book titles.
A number of cellular system operators have decided to gang up on Apple as a new way to fight the leader in the cell phone app wars, joining forces to go up against Apple and the App Store.
The last thing the graphic software giant needed right now was even the insinuation that the company was standing in the way of the HTML5 standard, which many view as a competitor and even a replacement for piczilla’s Flash. Now, they’ve got more than that, though it’s not entirely clear what the publicly available information is really telling us.
Gotta a belly full of ire, a volume of vituperation you’ve been holding back? Well, here’s a deserving target that thinks some poorly shaped Aluminum and a few icons are enough to earn him some respect.
Few services have been as good for Apple as iTunes, and iTunes is about to be very good indeed for the lucky downloader of the 10 billionth song from iTunes, awarding that music fan a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
Redmond’s former Chief Executive Officer, who now spends most his time and money trying to solve Third World folks’ problems, has commented on Apple “latest creation,” the iPad. Unfortunately, rather than seeing a product that’s wholly different, Gates seems locked in a Windows everywhere mindset.
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