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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs revealed the culture-changing company’s latest must-have device, a touchscreen tablet computer anointed the “iPad.”

“You can have black-and-white, colour, video in your books — whatever the author wants,” he said. “We think the iPad is going to make a terrific e-book reader, not just for popular books but for textbooks as well.

The 3G version will reach the market in late April. The iPad is “unlocked,” meaning buyers can pick preferred telecom service providers.

“Do we have what it takes to establish a third category of products in between a laptop and a smartphone?” he asked. “We think we’ve done it.”

Apple shares gained 0.94 percent to close at 207.88 US dollars on Wall Street, but slipped a tad in after-hours electronic trading.

Apple simultaneously released a kit for software developers to tailor applications for the iPad.

The long-awaited iPad has a 9.7-inch (24.6-centimeter) colour screen and resembles an oversized iPhone. It is 0.5 inches (1.3 cms) thick, weighs 1.5 pounds (0.7 kgs) and comes with 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes of flash memory.

“We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product,” said Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant last year and was making just his second public appearance since September.

Gameloft and Electronic Arts showed off slick games they had crafted with just a few weeks of preparation, saying the iPad opens countless “new doors.”

Analyst Rob Enderle of Silicon Valley’s Enderle Group said the iPad could be “disruptive for a lot of markets.”

Apple to ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard Aug. 28

Apple had said at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June that Snow Leopard would go on sale in September, though more recently some tech blogs had been bandying about an August 28 date.

As for speed increases in Snow Leopard, Apple said that its Mail application loads messages twice as fast, Time Machine does its initial backup 80 percent faster, and the included 64-bit version ofSafari is up to 50 percent faster.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard will cost $29 as an upgrade for Leopard users. For Mac OS X Tiger users, the Mac Box Set, which includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09, will cost $169.

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That move left many speculating on the lone remaining model’s chances of survival. But the MacBook remains very popular with consumers. AppleInsider notes that Apple’s online store says the white MacBook is the second best-selling model behind the iMac.

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As for speed increases in Snow Leopard, Apple said that its Mail application loads messages twice as fast, Time Machine does its initial backup 80 percent faster, and the included 64-bit version ofSafari is up to 50 percent faster.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard will cost $29 as an upgrade for Leopard users. For Mac OS X Tiger users, the Mac Box Set, which includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09, will cost $169.

For instance, according to Apple, 90 percent of the Mac OS X code has been worked on for the Snow Leopard release. This isn’t just application code, it also includes working on the Finder, making it more responsive.

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Apple had said at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June that Snow Leopard would go on sale in September, though more recently some tech blogs had been bandying about an August 28 date.

Snow Leopard also supports Exchange Server 2007. This means that you can use Mac OS X Mail, Address Book and iCal out of the box with Exchange.

Apple made it clear from the beginning thatSnow Leopard was not as much about adding new features as it was about refining the code in the operating system.

Apple to ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard Aug. 28

Apple will ship its newest operating system to customers a little earlier than expected. The company said Monday that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available this Friday, August 28.

Apple record profits set stage for latest creation

Apple said 58 percent of its revenue in the quarter came from outside the United States.

A tablet would be Apple’s first major product release since it came out with its winning iPhone three years ago.

“We’re thrilled to report our best quarter ever,” Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said in a conference call with analysts.

Apple credited iPhone sales with catapulting profit in the freshly-ended quarter to 3.67 US dollars per share, beating Apple’s previous record-high by nearly 850 million US dollars.

Oppenheimer said Apple expects revenue in the current fiscal quarter to range from 11.0 to 11.4 billion US dollars and for diluted earnings to tally between 2.06 and 2.18 US dollars per share.

Apple reported that revenues in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China tripled while sales also surged in Western Europe.

The service was back up about a half hour later. At 12:17 p.m. PT, Twitter confirmed that it was an attack. “We’re back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack,” the company said.

Outages used to be commonplace at Twitter when the small start-up’s servers were unable to keep up with the massive amount of data flowing through them. They gradually became less and less frequent. But this one’s particularly notable because it happens as Twitter is still reeling from a denial-of-service attack last week that targeted a Georgian activist blogger but ended up knocking Twitter’s servers offline for several hours. Other services, like Facebook and LiveJournal, were also affected by the attack.

More updates when we hear them…last updated at 3:57 p.m. PT.

Another attack hits Twitter

Twitter’s servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. This appears to have begun around 11:45 a.m. PDT.

But it’s also a function of open source’s growing importance in the software ecosystem. As more money pours into open source–IDC projects $8.1 billion in open-source revenues by 2013–there will be increasing pressure to make it pay, as InfoWorld recently wrote:

The SpringSource acquisition turns this “wisdom” on its head.

The GPL has been prominent for good reason. It’s accepted wisdom in the commercial open-source crowd that it’s difficult to directly monetize Apache-licensed software, and that the GPL, what with its capitalist urge for control, is a better tool for the financially inclined. Such thinking, among other considerations, led Appcelerator to drop the GPL for Apache, and I believe we’ll see more. We just had a significant demonstration that you can make money with Apache-licensed software. SpringSource was doubling sales every year with Apache, and had a $420 million outcome as a result of both its sales and its community, which may be easier to come by with an Apache license than GPL, at least for commercial open-source projects. IBM already does this. So, frankly, does Microsoft (though still to a small degree). I think we’ll see a lot more. Apache makes its first $420 million

Others and I have made much of VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource for $420 million, but one crucial point has been overlooked: this is the first big acquisition of a company that depends on the Apache license. It’s telling, for example, that InfoWorld’s attempts to interview Richard Stallman, founder of the GPL, were stymied by his “demand(ing) control of what (InfoWorld) published.” You don’t grow a community with that emphasis on control of the outcome. Nearly every other big open-source acquisition, from JBoss ($350 million) to MySQL ($1 billion) to XenSource ($500 million), has involved the GPL. Even Zimbra ($350 million), while not GPL, fits the mold because it used an attribution clause with an MPL license that was designed to accomplish GPL-esque ambitions. Perhaps this is because our notion of “monetizing open source” has expanded, as Eric Barroca astutely argues. The GPL is great for dual-licensing and support-based businesses, but it’s not very adept at incorporating proprietary software in the way that IBM does, for example, or Day Software, as Kevin Cochrane notes. IBM proved long ago that it’s possible to build billion-dollar businesses with Apache. But SpringSource is the first start-up to suggest that Apache isn’t simply a way for big companies to create complements to proprietary cores. Sometimes an Apache core is worth something, too. At least $420 million, by SpringSource’s reckoning. In other words, we’re getting beyond open source as a religious coda, the secret handshake that makes one part of The Club, and instead are focused on building businesses that provide greater transparency and value for customers. I suspect we’ll therefore see more Apache and less GPL going forward, with companies contributing significant parts of their product/business to open source, while delivering the rest via proprietary licensing. Posted by admin Feb 272010 Lcun AOL- We’ve Got Garlinghouse_163 Uncategorized No Comments » Garlinghouse is the latest in a series of outside hires for CEO Armstrong, who himself came from Google (GOOG) in March. Last month, Armstrong named fellow Google alum Jeff Levick as AOL’s new head of sales, Patch Media’s Jon Brod as head of AOL Ventures, and Time Warner Cable (TWC) executive Artie Minson as his new chief financial officer. AOL: "More of a Foot in the Past" One of his main approaches will be collaborating with—and potentially acquiring—other players in Internet communication. "You are seeing the Twitters of the world and the Facebook updates of the world changing the dynamics of online communication," Garlinghouse says. "I definitely come to the table thinking about, ‘How do we collaborate in this ecosystem?’" In recent weeks, AOL Instant Messenger began letting users update their Facebook and Twitter pages directly from its desktop client.

On Sept. 8, AOL said Garlinghouse would head its Internet and mobile communications division, which includes e-mail and instant messaging products. The hire comes as AOL prepares to be spun out from its corporate parent Time Warner (TWX) later this year—and as freshly minted Chief Executive Tim Armstrong leads an effort to trim costs and home in on what AOL does best, including display advertising. Garlinghouse, who most recently served as an adviser to venture capital firm Silver Lake Partners, will likely play a key role in helping Armstrong forge alliances and make acquisitions, while deemphasizing or even spinning off noncore businesses.

The former Yahoo exec also gained props for helping the company pick winners from among existing businesses. In 2007, Garlinghouse helped convince Yahoo to give up its photo service and instead focus on Flickr, says former Yahoo executive Jeff Bonforte. "It was like him living the ‘Peanut Butter Manifesto,’" Bonforte says. Flickr is one of the most widely used photo-sharing services.

Similarly at AOL, enhancing focus on some products may come at the expense of other units. "There are areas where we will need to invest further, there are areas we will certainly need to reevaluate," Garlinghouse says. Look for some of the biggest changes at AOL Ventures, the unit the company created for businesses that seek venture investment, and which now owns social networking site Bebo and video search engine Truveo. Garlinghouse’s responsibilities will include acting as the West Coast head of AOL Ventures. While he admits some of these businesses may be sold or spun off, he says the unit will allow many of them "comfortable ways to grow in some ways distinct from the mother ship, AOL." He didn’t say which companies may be restructured.

Garlinghouse has experience bringing outside services into the fold. In 2004 he led Yahoo’s $30 million acquisition of e-mail service Oddpost. "That was something that jump-started Yahoo’s growth in e-mail," Garlinghouse says. He was also involved in the company’s 2007 acquisition of Zimbra.

On his first day at the new job, Garlinghouse wouldn’t rule out acquisitions, though he said he’s not planning a shopping spree. "If there are attractive opportunities, we’ll look at those," he says. It’s about time AOL looks for ways to update its communication tools, says Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets. "The way people communicate changes very quickly—Twitter and Facebook are clear examples of that in recent history," Sebastian says. "AOL seems to still have more of a foot in the past than in the future." Responsibilities at AOL Ventures, Too AOL: We've Got Garlinghouse

Former Yahoo! executive Brad Garlinghouse earned notoriety in 2006 when he sent a scathing memo to the company’s top brass. In what came to be known as the "Peanut Butter Manifesto," Garlinghouse said Yahoo (YHOO) had spread itself too thinly across many businesses. Now Garlinghouse is headed to another company that needs to improve its focus. In some ways, the biggest challenges facing Garlinghouse at AOL are of his own making. At Yahoo, he led the effort that put Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger ahead of AOL Mail and AOL Instant Messenger in terms of U.S. visitors. In July, Yahoo’s e-mail service had more than 106 million unique visitors, almost three times the tally for AOL, according to comScore (SCOR). Now he’s determined to revive the flagging properties at AOL. "I’m a very competitive person," Garlinghouse tells BusinessWeek. "I’m here to win and if I didn’t think there was a chance [of beating Yahoo in e-mail and IM], I would not have joined." Posted by admin Feb 272010 9gxp Anti-India protest erupts in Kashmir_331 Uncategorized No Comments » Colonel Vineet Sood, an army officer, denied the protesters’ accusation and said Mir was hit by bullets when suspected rebels fired at Indian soldiers. “It’s a major seizure in several years,” he said. Anti-India sentiment runs deep in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, where most people favour independence from Hindu-majority India or merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan. More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict. Also on Sunday, security forces recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition hidden in two empty plastic water tanks in an orchard in Mamoosa, a village nearly 45km northwest of Srinagar, said Farooq Ahmed, a top police officer. Since 1989, more than a dozen rebel groups have fought Indian rule in the Himalayan region, split between India and Pakistan and claimed by both in its entirety. The seizure included one machine gun, 200 grenades, 10kg of explosives, including RDX, more than 2,000 bullets, four wireless radio sets and hundreds of improvised explosive device connectors, Ahmed told AP. Anti-India protest erupts in Kashmir

January 25, 2010 AP Chanting “Down with India” and “We want freedom”, the protesters blocked a highway passing through Kalampora, a village 35km south of Srinagar, as they waited on Sunday for authorities to hand over Mir’s body, said police officer Farooq Ahmed. Srinagar is the main city in the Indian portion of Kashmir. A local resident, Shabir Ahmed, said on Sunday army soldiers fatally shot local businessman Mushtaq Ahmed Mir during Saturday’s search operation. Posted by admin Tagged with: AP Older Entries Categories Uncategorized (3261) Archives 2010年06月 2010年04月 2010年03月 2010年02月 2010年01月 2009年12月 2009年11月 2009年10月 2009年09月 2009年04月 Links Ghd Nike basketball shoes Prada handbags Puma shoes Herve leger dresses Cheap nfl jerseys Meta 登录 Valid XHTML Entries (RSS) Comments (RSS) WordPress DryIcons © 2009 Suffusion WordPress theme by Sayontan Sinha