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As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers
  The timing of the attacks coincided with reporting for an investigation that found that the relatives of China’s prime minister had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.

  

• Microsoft Surface sales well below shipments, says iSuppli
  Microsoft’s Surface RT sales weren’t big, at least not initially, according to the market research firm.
• Surface Pro to launch at Best Buy in NYC on February 8
  Microsoft is planning a midnight launch for the latest member of its Surface family, just ahead of the product’s February 9 commercial availability date.
• Facebook Beats Forecasts on Earnings and Revenue
  Even with a strong earnings report, the company’s stock dropped after hours before recovering.

  

• BlackBerry Maker Unveils Its New Line, and a New Name
  The company introduced a new operating system and a new generation of phones, along with a new corporate name, with the hope of restoring its products’ status as a symbol of executive cool.

  

• VIDEO: Is ‘dirty’ archaeology in the past?
  BBC News visits Southampton University to see how a powerful scanner is changing the way archaeologists make discoveries.
• Latin America’s internet ‘brain’
  A rare peek inside the data hub connecting Latin America to the world
• Zuckerberg Reveals Why Social Media Are Fighting For Your Photos
  In social media land, there’s a war waging over your photos. But like so much else in the Twinstabook sphere, what you share matters only…
• 5 Signs That BlackBerry Is Desperate
  BlackBerry, the once-great smartphone maker that became victim No. 1 of Apple’s iPhone, revealed two devices running on the firm’s new operating system, BlackBerry 10,…
• #FreeCrunkBear: Too Hot For Twitter Teacher Backed By Students
  The 23-year-old math teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado who is in hot water with Cherry Creek School District officials for tweeting racy…
• Mark Drapeau: 5 Lessons About Social Media Engagement From the Embassy of Canada’s Inauguration Tailgate Party
  True to form, the Canadian embassy threw a tailgate party for about 1,000 guests for the inauguration. It was terrific fun. Here are the five secrets to their success.
• The Most Ridiculous Law Of 2013 (So Far)
  When did we decide that we wanted a law that could make unlocking your smartphone a criminal offense? The answer is that we never really…
• Andrew Cherwenka: BlackBerry 10 Launch Wasn’t Magical, and That’s the Point
  Where the iPhone and Android are entertainment devices often used for business, the BlackBerry 10 is a business device that can also be entertaining. Time will tell if there’s still a market for that.
• Dr. Susan Taylor: Can Smartphone Applications Accurately Detect Melanoma?
  What if an app could give misleading health information or give you a false sense that a health issue is not to be worried about or, worse yet, delay a diagnosis of cancer?
• ‘The Biggest Privacy Breach In Our Time’
  Financial information is considered by most to be very private, but that isn’t stopping one credit reporting agency from sharing it without your knowledge, according…
• Randi Zuckerberg On Being Mark’s Sister
  Venturing out on her own after leaving her role as Former Director of Marketing at Facebook, Randi Zuckerberg joined HuffPost Live Wednesday to talk tech…
• Apple Issues SMC Firmware Update for MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air Models [Mac Blog]
  
  Apple has issued updates for MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air notebook models to fix a rare battery issue. The updates are available via Apple’s software updates page or through Software Update and the Mac App Store.
  
  

  This update addresses a rare issue on some Apple notebooks where a battery that has accumulated more than 1000 charge cycles may unexpectedly shut down or stop functioning.

  

  

  

  

• WATCH: This Grandpa Playing Video Games Is Adorable
  Have you ever introduced a grandparent to new technology? It’s often frustrating — but every so often, it’s wonderful and hilarious. Case in point: This…
• Apple Seeds Build 12D61 of OS X Beta 10.8.3 to Developers [Mac Blog]
  Apple today seeded build 12D61 of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers, marking the ninth beta iteration of the newest version of Mountain Lion. 10.8.3 was first seeded to developers back in November.

  Build 12D61 has been released less than a week after build 12D58. The new build asks developers and testers to focus on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari.

  As with previous builds, Apple mentions that it has significantly improved WiFi performance, as noted by 9to5Mac. Registered developers can download the update on Apple’s Developer Page.

  

  

  

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As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Judge Koh Rules That Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe Apple Patents [iOS Blog]
  Judge Lucy Koh ruled in a court filing (via The Verge) tonight that Samsung did not willfully infringe Apple patents. This decision denies any additional damages to the $1.05 billion awarded to Apple last August.
  
  

  As this is the sum total of Apple’s arguments and evidence that Samsung’s infringement was willful, the Court cannot conclude that Apple has met its burden to show willfulness by clear and convincing evidence.

  Samsung argued that they had reason to believe that Apple’s patents were invalid and therefore did not willfully infringe Apple patents – Samsung basically didn’t believe they did anything wrong. Judge Koh believed that Samsung’s argument was reasonable enough to rule out willful infringement but not strong enough to overturn the validity of Apple’s patents.

  

  Judge Koh also denied Samsung’s bid for a new trial, saying that “the trial was fairly conducted, with uniform time limits and rules of evidence applied on both sides.” She went on to write that “a new trial would be contrary to the interests of justice.”

  If Samsung had been found to be willfully infringing Apple patents their penalty might have ballooned well over $1.05 billion that they must pay Apple. In December, Judge Koh had denied another Samsung retrial request based on juror misconduct. The decision is yet another milestone in the long saga that is Samsung v. Apple.
  

  

  

  

  

• Michael Weinberg: 3-D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture
  When you step away from your computer screen and look around, you realize that the physical world — the real world — is full of real, physical things that are not protected by copyright.
• Google Maps’ New Target: Secretive North Korea
  The company opened its map program to “citizen cartographers” at a time when the isolated country is locked in a standoff with the United States and its allies.

  

• New Apple TV Has A5X Chip and Single WLAN + Bluetooth Antenna
  AnandTech has found that new Apple TV will use the same WLAN+Bluetooth antenna/chip combo that the iPhone 5 uses as well as an A5X processor rather than the A5.

  The unreleased Apple TV revision was first suggested by an iOS 6.1 firmware release for a previously unseen AppleTV3,2 model. Then, a new FCC application revealed that the new Apple TV would have slightly smaller dimensions than the currently shipping model.

  
  AnandTech writes:
  

  Instead of the A5R2 SoC (S5L8942) inside the Apple TV 3,1, this new device contains an A5X SoC (S5L8947) as shown in the screenshots I’ve taken of the Restore.plist file, though there are numerous others. It’s entirely possible that Apple is again using different bins of the A5X, it’s not possible to tell whether CPU or GPU cores are fused off at this point from my digging through the IPSW.

  The A5X chip (with Quad-Core graphics) was originally introduced to power the new Retina Display screen of the iPad 3.

  It was in the current Apple TV that Apple first used the 32-nm (die shrunk) A5 chip. It was believed at the time that Apple had used the Apple TV has a test platform to start ramping up that new 32-nm A5 processor before they started using it more broadly to power the still-for-sale iPad 2.

  It seems likely that Apple will follow the same pattern with this new A5X — first ramp up production in the Apple TV, and later extend its use to the new iPad mini. The next iPad mini is believed to include a Retina display. Apple will need to upgrade the iPad mini’s CPU/GPU in order to be able to accommodate the extra pixels of such a display.

  

  

  

• Website To Remove Annoying Puzzles
  LOS ANGELES — Ticketmaster, often the target of fan anger when tickets to popular concerts get sold out in seconds, is removing an annoyance that…
• WATCH: Thirty Videographers Capture ‘One Day In Yosemite’
  With the help of 30 videographers, an ambitious filmmaker has created a stunning video that captures the vast magic of Yosemite National Park. Uploaded on…
• RIM pins revival on Blackberry 10
  Will BB10 smartphones revive RIM’s fortunes?
• Investors Shrug Off a Weak Earnings Report From Amazon
  Amazon missed expectations on both revenue and profit, but an increase in its operating margin — to 3.2 percent from 2.7 percent — caught investors’ attention.

  

• Amazon’s Profits Are Down, But Investors Don’t Seem To Mind
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s fourth-quarter net income fell 45 percent, as sharply higher revenue failed to keep pace with increased spending on order fulfillment…
• PHOTO: Steve Jobs Has An Eerie Twin
  The intense all-fruit diet Ashton Kutcher followed to impersonate Steve Jobs may have landed the actor in the hospital, but it sure seems to be…
• Turnstyle: Twitter Plants A Tangled Vine
  By Noah Nelson There’s no other app worth talking about this week than Vine, the short form video sharing service that was released on…
• Best Buy Offering Refurbished Airport Extreme Base Station for $89.99 [Mac Blog]
  Best Buy is offering Apple’s June 2011 Airport Extreme Base Station — the current model that Apple sells new for $179 — for $89.99 as its deal of the day.

  Apple sells the same device refurbished for $139.
  
  

  Originally released June 2011

  The sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station with simultaneous dual-band support is the perfect wireless access point for home, school or small business. It offers fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi access for Mac computers, PCs and Wi-Fi devices such as iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV.

  

  

  

  

• Jordan Friedman: In Digital Age, Social Media Impacts College Journalism
  As journalism programs at colleges begin emphasizing the online and broadcast elements of news, they’re also incorporating social media into their curricula and encouraging students to maintain an online presence.
• FCC Filing Reveals New, Slightly Smaller Apple TV Model
  The FCC has published paperwork, discovered by Engadget, that Apple filed late last week on what appears to be a new model of the Apple TV. This follows on yesterday’s revelation that iOS 6.1 included support for an as yet unrevealed AppleTV3,2 model.

  Engadget writes:
  
  

  While the diagram pictured above doesn’t suggest any major changes to the device’s appearance, it does list some slightly smaller measurements: 93.78mm square compared to the 98mm of the current model. That’s certainly not the biggest of differences, but the measurements in previous Apple FCC filing have been spot on. The model number, A1469, is also one that we haven’t seen before, but the documents unfortunately don’t offer much else in the way of details (only confirmation of the same WiFi capabilities as the current-gen Apple TV).

  In the middle of this month, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — who has been accurate in the past — posted his expectations for Apple’s various product launches this year. He expected a new Apple TV model late in the first calendar quarter, which lines up with the filing.

  

  

  

• WATCH: If ‘Homeland’ Was A ’90s Video Game …
  Showtime hasn’t released a "Homeland" video game … yet … but the good people at CollegeHumor have taken the time to imagine the Emmy-winning series…
• Obama: Foreign-Born Tech Entrepreneurs Need ‘Startup Visas’
  President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to create a special visa category that allows foreign-born entrepreneurs who launch successful startups to remain in the…
• Melissa Thompson: Five Digital Health Trends of 2013: Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
  Health care needs fixing. Here are five trends that will dominate the health care front in 2013.
• So, You Want To Skype With Sarah Silverman?
  We’re not sure she’ll talk dirty to you, but, hey, anything’s possible. Sarah Silverman’s activism looks like it’s not ending with the presidential election. According…
• Verizon, Sprint and AT&T Confirm They Will Carry 128GB iPad WiFi + Cellular
  Verizon and AT&T have confirmed to MacRumors that they will both carry the 128GB iPad’s cellular variant when it launches on February 5th. Earlier, Sprint confirmed to iMore that it will also be carrying the new device.

  AT&T is particularly noteworthy because the carrier is offering $100 off tablets purchased with a 2-year data contract through February 14th.

  Apple added support for a number of new LTE carriers in the iOS 6.1 update that was released yesterday, and presumably all those carriers — as well as normal iPad sales channels — will carry the new 128GB iPad on launch day.

  

  

  

Thanks for reading our digest. Opinions in the articles above are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Digital Workshed ltd.

As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• VIDEO: Digital artists inspired by the GIF’s resurgence
  A digitally ancient file format is finding new uses among artists who value the GIF’s limitations.
• Streaming Shakes Up Music Industry’s Model for Royalties
  Companies like Spotify and Pandora are catching fire, but the money paid to artists is often tiny, perhaps half a penny per play, which has the music industry on edge.

  

• Google in N Korea mapping push
  Google publishes mapping information on North Korea, a country that has so far been mostly blank on the popular website Google Maps.
• Advertising: Playing Whac-a-Mole With Piracy Sites
  New attention is being given to an aspect of online commerce that critics say finances online piracy: advertising.

  

• How I (almost) became a fraudster
  How hardware hacking (almost) made me a fraudster
• How Facebook Taught Its Search Tool to Understand People
  Before Facebook introduced a search tool this month, it assembled a varied team to study what users were searching for and to teach computers how to communicate better with people.

  

• Yahoo Earnings Handily Beat Forecasts
  Marissa Mayer’s first months as chief executive have impressed investors, and the company’s stock, recently at a four-year high, rose after hours.

  

• Phone sensors spot security secrets
  The information captured by smartphone sensors could help criminals guess codes used to lock the gadgets, say security researchers.
• First Photos of the iPad 5 Rear Shell
  
  Rumored 5th Generation iPad (left) vs iPad mini (right)
  9to5Mac has an unconfirmed image of what could be the rear panel for the next iPad. The image matches up very closely with a report from last week.
  

  While we cannot confirm that the above image is legitimate, it does provide a solid representation of what Apple’s next iPad will likely look like. We were told this is a prototype back piece for the fifth-generation iPad with a 9.7-inch display. We were also told that the casing is almost as thin as the iPad mini’s back (pictured to the right). As you can see at the top of the purported iPad 5 backplate, this casing would likely be for an LTE model – as the black antenna cut implies.

  
  The report lines up with iLounge‘s first description of the new iPad which is expected to arrive in October with smaller, iPad mini-esque bezels and chamfered edges and curves.
  

  What does it look like? Well, it’s a lot smaller than one would guess was possible: in portrait orientation, picture a 9.7” screen with virtually no left or right bezels, and only enough space above and below the screen to accommodate the mandatory camera and Home Button elements. Beyond that, it’s noticeably thinner, as well, which is to say the the fifth-generation iPad will be smaller in every dimension than its predecessors. As it will have the same chamfered edges and curves, calling it a “stretched iPad mini” is very close to entirely accurate.

  Leaks of parts for upcoming Apple products are becoming more and more common as the Asian supply chain grows larger.

  

  

  

• Seyi Fabode: Why Smart Meters Will Never Gain Mass Use
  Utilities, smart meter manufacturing companies and the government all tout the need for implementation of smart meters and smart metering equipment. Unfortunately these initiatives are bound to fail for two reasons.
• Top Lawmakers Demand Aaron Swartz Answers From Attorney General
  WASHINGTON — The top Republican and top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent a joint letter late Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder posing…
• Kristin McCracken: Amplify the Message: Social Media at Your Festival Debut
  How can you make the most out of social media today? As you head to Sundance, Slamdance, or any festival this year, some tips on how to capitalize on the increased exposure it will bring — both to your film and to you as a filmmaker.
• Jayson DeMers: Social Media Marketing Lessons From the Controversial and Failed Facebook IPO
  Facebook’s failed IPO started a storm of arguments against social media marketing and ROI capabilities. Social media does work — just not the way traditional media does.
• Woman Trapped In Deadly Nightclub Blaze Posted Final Facebook Message Asking For Help
  A young woman trapped inside the deadly Brazilian nightclub blaze this weekend posted one final message to Facebook, pleading for help as the building burned….
• Danny Rubin: Six Ways That Vine, Twitter’s New Tool, Should Change How You Think About Your Career
  Mark down January 24, 2013 as the day our attention span shrank once again — as if we hadn’t already hit rock bottom.
• Twitter Warns Of Government ‘Chilling Effect’
  Twitter’s second transparency report, released Tuesday, documents government requests for users’ information. The results will surprise no one who has been keeping track of civil…
• Apple Removes Vine from ‘Editor’s Choice’ for Featuring Pornographic Content [iOS Blog]
  Twitter’s six-second video sharing app Vine made headlines early this morning after The Verge discovered that an ‘Editor’s Pick’ clip within the app linked to pornographic content.

  Vine’s Editor’s Picks are curated content and are therefore displayed at the top of the app, which means a large portion of Vine’s users saw the feed containing the inappropriate clip.

  

  Apple originally featured Vine last Friday, shortly after its release, but the Cupertino-based company has now reversed that decision and is no longer promoting Vine via the Editor’s Choice section in the App Store.

  According to a Twitter spokesperson who spoke to The Verge, the pornographic video was the result of human error.
  

  A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor’s Picks, and upon realizing this mistake we removed the video immediately. We apologize to our users for the error.

  Apple was not satisfied with Twitter’s apology, but the app did not receive the same treatment as 500px, which was removed from the App Store last week because it allowed users to search for nude photos.

  Though Vine has not been kicked off the App Store, Apple has ceased all promotions for the app. In addition to removing Vine from Editor’s Choice, the app is no longer listed under the ‘New and Noteworthy’ section and it is not featured in the social apps category.

  The Verge reports that Vine has begun to hide inappropriate content within the app and is now blocking searches for several pornographic terms. Searching for the offending words no longer brings up search results, though inappropriate content can still be accessed when tapping on a tag.
  

  

  

  

• Jesse Archer: Words With Friends, Smut With Strangers
  When a friend said he was cheating with the popular app Words With Friends, I didn’t think much of it. Who hasn’t cheated at online Scrabble? Then he clarified, saying he was using the app to cheat on his longterm boyfriend.
• 4 Vine Web Apps You Have To Check Out Right Now
  Already, it’s easy to forget that Vine, the Twitter-made app that lets you shoot and post six-second videos, was only released last Thursday. Only four…

Thanks for reading our digest. Opinions in the articles above are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Digital Workshed ltd.

As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• 9 Absurd Ways To Destroy Your Favorite Gadgets
  Have you ever thrown your favorite gadget into a tub of liquid nitrogen? Or taken one of your extra laptops and smashed it with a…
• Pentagon to Beef Up Cybersecurity Force to Counter Attacks
  The expansion would increase the Defense Department’s Cyber Command by more than 4,000 people, officials said.

  

• Apple Preparing to Launch 128 GB Versions of Full-Size iPad?
  Following today’s revelation of code in iOS 6.1 Beta 5 hinting at future 128 GB iOS devices, 9to5Mac reports that four new high-end iPad configurations have appeared in a U.S. retailer’s database.

  While the exact identity of the devices is not revealed in the stock database, they do appear as “ultimate” configurations of the current full-size iPad models, suggesting that they may represent 128 GB models of the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + Cellular iPad in both black and white.

  
  

  While it is certainly plausible that this new iPad model is the 128GB iPad, we are currently not confident enough to outright claim that, but it seems likely based on the evidence. [..]

  The P101 and P103 names are Apple’s internal nomenclature for the WiFi-only and Cellular-compatible fourth-generation iPads, respectively. Both of those models comes in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB configurations. These storage sizes are known as “GOOD,” “BETTER,” and “BEST,” respectively. As you can see in our table above, Apple is preparing to release the additional “ULTIMATE” model. “ULTIMATE” frequently refers to the most premium or highest capacity model available. The “A” points to a black configuration, and “B” stands for the white option.

  No additional information such as specifications, price, or a launch date for the new configurations have yet been revealed.

  

  

  

• Employers Increasingly Rely on Internal Referrals in Hiring
  As employers increasingly use their workers’ recommendations to find new hires, the odds narrow for unconnected job seekers, especially among the long-term unemployed.

  

• Tivli Puts Streaming TV on Campus
  Tivli tries to reconcile students’ viewing habits, which increasingly involve mobile devices, with the desire of companies to be paid for wireless content.

  

• Electronic Health Tracking Increasingly Common, Researchers Say
  More Americans are tracking their health using smartphone applications and other devices that collect personal data automatically.

  

• The rise of over-familiar websites
  The irritating rise of websites talking to you like a friend
• Bill Gates: The world can defeat polio
  Microsoft founder Bill Gates on why the disease will be defeated
• Pinball tables offer new tricks
  Is pinball about to stage a comeback?
• No One Seems Happy With ‘Smart Guns’
  NEW YORK (AP) — It sounds, at first, like a bold, next-generation solution: personalizing guns with technology that keeps them from firing if they ever…
• Sam Fiorella: Critics Eating Crow: Google+ Becomes Second Largest Social Platform
  There is an immense opportunity for marketers as Google’s services are further connected through the G+ social layer.
• Disruptions: Disruptions: A Fuzzy and Shifting Line Between Hacker and Criminal
  To many people who understand computers and the law, there is a danger in lumping people who have not sought financial gain with armed robbers.

  

• iOS 6.1 Beta 5 Code Hints at Upcoming 128 GB Devices
  As noted by @iNeal and iDownloadBlog, the new iOS 6.1 Beta 5 released yesterday contains a reference suggesting that Apple may be looking to offer 128 GB iOS devices in upcoming generations.

  
  The reference to a 128 GB capacity comes as part of SystemPartitionPadding key in the build manifest associated with the release and is not found in publicly available versions of iOS.

  While the observation does not mean that a 128 GB iOS device is definitely coming later this year, this is not the first time in recent months that Apple has hinted at future 128 GB iOS devices. iTunes 11, released in late November, contains a graphic corresponding to a mobile device with a capacity of 128 GB, although no such device has been released so far.

  

  

  

• Push For Futuristic Guns Builds On Embattled Past
  NEW YORK — It sounds, at first, like a bold, next-generation solution: personalizing guns with technology that keeps them from firing if they ever get…
• LOOK: Here Is Proof That Twinkies Do Spoil
  A popular urban legend purports that Twinkies never rot. But one eBay user supposedly has evidence to refute this claim. Seller high_order1 is auctioning off…
• January’s Funniest Autocorrects
  If you’ve spent more than 15 minutes on the Internet, you’re probably familiar with Damn You, Autocorrect, the site that curates the funniest texting FAILs…
• Unboxed: Literary History, Seen Through Big Data’s Lens
  Big Data is pushing into the humanities, as evidenced by new, illuminating computer analyses of literary history.

  

• This Might Be The Greatest Resume We’ve Ever Seen
  There are bad online resumes, there are good online resumes, and then there’s Philippe Dubost’s online resume. Dubost, a web product manager, built a…
• Japanese Spy Satellites Blast Off Into Orbit
  TOKYO — Japan launched two intelligence satellites into orbit on Sunday amid growing concerns that North Korea is planning to test more rockets of its…

Thanks for reading our digest. Opinions in the articles above are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Digital Workshed ltd.

As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Apple Seeds iOS 6.1 Beta 5 to Developers
  In a relatively rare weekend release, Apple today pushed out the fifth beta of iOS 6.1 to developers. The release comes just two days before the fourth beta, which was seeded on December 17, is scheduled to expire.

  
  No public release timeframe for iOS 6.1 is known yet, but registered developers can download the latest beta via Apple’s Developer page.

  

  

  

• Eating your own, Microsoft style
  Microsoft’s version of Apple’s “cannibalization” isn’t pretty, but it’s probably necessary.
• John Pavley: Not Worried About Big Brother or Big Government
  I personally do not believe the U.S. Government is controlled by shadowy figures lurking behind a smoke smoke screen of faux democracy. If anything, the political and social events of the last few years are evidence that no one is ultimately "in control" and that every player is each equally frustrated.
• Silicon Valley Exec Out Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
  Keith Rabois, the chief operating officer of mobile-payment giant Square, stepped down from his position at the company on Thursday due to allegations of sexual…
• Startup Square Squares Off Against Rivals By Dropping Fee
  Mobile payments startup Square just announced they’re cutting the 15 cent processing fee other mobile payment systems collect–but are they poised to remake the credit…
• First Reviews of Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Jobs’: Entertaining But Safe, "Fails to Think Different", Apple Fans Will Be Very Mixed
  Following the premiere of Ashton Kutcher’s new film Jobs at the Sundance Film Festival, a number of publications have posted reviews of the flick which is scheduled to arrive in theaters nationwide on April 19. The first video clip of the movie was released earlier this week.

  
  Cinema Blend:
  
  

  A biopic about a great man that’s way too aware of his greatness, jOBS tells us a lot about the genius of Steve Jobs, but doesn’t show us much of anything that actually reveals it.

  The Next Web
  
  

  But, overall, jOBS works. The lead actors are likable and appear to have put serious effort into getting the spirit of the characters right. The film looks (mostly) good aside from some of what could likely be ascribed to budgetary constraints. And though the director is a tad indulgent here and there, it doesn’t take away from the overall feeling of ‘decent’ that I came away with.

  The Verge
  
  

  As expected, there are some liberties taken with Apple’s story and even / especially the representation of some characters — but the emotional resonance of Steve Jobs himself is convincing. It’s not revisionist history, and it’s not some greater parable about the human spirit. Jobs is a point-A-to-point-B story about a uniquely innovative thinker and ruthless businessman — one that had a notable and meaningful impact on the world. It’s a good film, but it’s also very “safe” — a familiar story that doesn’t try for a bigger picture.

  CNET
  
  

  Others will write of the things “jOBS” omits, gets wrong, or simply avoids. My primary disappointment was in how shallow the film felt, given the extensive historical record. In the early days Jobs’ co-workers had to wrestle with a man who smelled bad, who cried often, who yelled constantly, who missed deadlines, who overspent his budget by millions. He did it in service of products we love and use daily, and yet his obsessions took a toll on those around him. He also inspired others to do the best work of their lives, pushing themselves further than they ever imagined they could go. There is great drama to be found in all that, but it is not to be found in the saccharine “jOBS.”

  Other reviews are available from The Hollywood Reporter, Slashfilm, Indiewire, and the Salt Lake Tribune.

  

  

  

• Fully Functional MAME Emulator Appears in App Store [iOS Blog]
  TouchArcade notes the appearance of an arcade game called Gridlee in the App Store.

  Gridlee is a 1983 arcade game that was never officially released, but the code was later released for free for non-commercial usage in 2001. The App Store app uses MAME 0.139u1 (MAME4iOS) to provide the emulation engine for the game. MAME is a popular arcade machine emulator that will run thousands of arcade games if you have the original ROMs.

  When launching the free app, users are greeted with the Gridlee game. TouchArcade readers, however, quickly noticed that additional ROMs could be copied into the App’s ROM directory (without jailbreaking), revealing the fully functional MAME emulator.
  

  When word of this hit our forums, readers were quick to pull out iExplore and begin digging about the app’s directory structure looking for a ROM folder. Well, it’s in there, and sure enough, if one copies other MAME ROMs into that folder, the Gridlee app starts up with the standard MAME4iOS ROM listing, allowing for a great many games beyond just Gridlee to be played on the iPhone or iPad in this Universal app.

  
  The story is similar to the iMAME Emulator that was released into the App Store in December, 2011. Apple quickly pulled that app a few days after its release. While a number of individual emulators do exist on the App Store, Apple has been more restrictive about these open emulators, presumably due to potential legal issues.

  Gridlee is a free download on the App Store. [Direct Link]

  

  

  

• Digital Domain: Republic Wireless’s Plan Melds Wi-Fi and Network Calling
  Republic Wireless keeps its cellphone service prices low via an interesting hybrid: it uses Wi-Fi when customers are in a Wi-Fi area and a 3G network when they are not.

  

• Unboxed: Literary History, Seen Through Big Data’s Lens
  Big Data is pushing into the humanities, as evidenced by new, illuminating computer analyses of literary history.

  

• Workstation: How Job Seekers Can Say ‘Look at Me’ to Online Recruiters
  Some employers aren’t posting jobs these days, choosing instead to search online for the right candidate. So job seekers may need to ask themselves “How searchable am I?”

  

• WATCH: Kid President’s Incredible Pep Talk
  "Who do you know who needs some encouragement?" That’s what Kid President, the "self-appointed voice" of our childrens’ generation asks in his latest video, which…
• Gene Gurkoff: A Parkinson’s App?
  As a mobile app developer myself, this has got me thinking of other ways we could use the other features of modern smart phones to efficiently crowdsource Parkinson’s research. Here are some ideas — some of which are already being explored.
• Muhammad H. Zaman: Solving Global Mental Health Challenges With a Cell Phone
  There is no question that mobile phones have transformed the way we live, but it is the ability to use the same phone call for the global good, that is the most inspirational part.
• Marc Rinosa: 4 Ways Instagram Has Redefined Teen Culture
  How has the application influenced teen culture? How has a 14.4 megabyte program changed our perspective as young people?
• Champ Kind Gives An Update On ‘Anchorman 2′
  David Koechner chatted with HuffPost Live on Friday to discuss his new web series "Full On Koechner," a new show from YouTube’s comedy channel Official…
• Move Over Canadarm, Here Comes Dextre
  Move over, Canadarm. You may have helped the space shuttle fleet repair the Hubble Telescope and build the International Space Station, but there’s another robotic…
• What Landed Ashton Kutcher In The Hospital?
  PARK CITY, Utah — Ashton Kutcher says playing Steve Jobs on screen "was honestly one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever tried to do…
• The 9 Most Popular Viral Videos Of The Week
  If you’re looking to see the most popular YouTube videos of the week, look no further. Once again, we’re bringing you the week’s most-watched videos,…
• WikiLeaks Founder Calls Film ‘A Mass Propaganda Attack’
  LONDON — If you’re making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you probably see coming. Julian Assange says he has obtained…

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As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Car-Sharing Services Grow, and Expand Options
  More people are joining car-sharing organizations, which are responding by offering a wider range of services, like one-way rentals, free parking and handicapped-accessible minivans.

  

• Don Tapscott: Going Down the Road — In a Car That Drives Itself
  Imagine your car taking you from your driveway at home to your office’s parking lot without you having to touch the wheel. It would be commuter heaven.
• An $80 Million Chunk Of Twitter Was Just Bought
  By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, has taken an $80 million stake in Twitter Inc, a person…
• WATCH: Dentist Admits He Paid Patient to Remove Yelp Review
  Online reviews can make or break a business, so it’s no wonder that some business owners have tried to control their ratings on sites like…
• PHOTOS: Questlove Dreams Of Sushi
  Foodstagram is clearly not dead. On Friday, Instagram lover and Roots drummer, Questlove, took to the photo sharing site to show off his latest foodie…
• Iran Using Fake Blogs To Target BBC Reporters
  With only a few months left until the June presidential elections, the Iranian government has come up with an unprecedented string of creative tactics to…
• After Newtown, Some Places Are Getting Rid Of These
  BOSTON (AP) — It was 10 days after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in Newtown, Conn., when Tracey Hyams and her family…
• The Most Popular Delivery Dishes
  Urbanites become more reliant on online food delivery services with every passing day. User-friendly apps on cell phones and tablets allow you to order dinner…
• W. David Stephenson: Homeland Security and the IoT: Why Didn’t I See the Links?
  Because all sorts of things are linked via the Internet with the Internet of Things in redundant networks of networks, the IoT can be a critical tool toward building resilience, whether in a natural disaster or a terrorist attack.
• Vala Afshar: The 10 Must-Have Sales and Marketing Business Tools
  Today, CIOs are expected to develop strategic partnerships with sales and marketing in order to co-create business differentiation by leveraging the very best technologies. Here are the 10 indispensable marketing and sales tools for you to consider.
• iPad Mini Ship Times Drop to 3-5 Days on US, Canada, Australia, China, Hong Kong Apple Online stores [iOS Blog]
  iPad Mini ship times have dropped to 3-5 days at a number of Apple Online Stores around the world, including the U.S., Canadian, Australia, New Zealand, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Japanese outlets. This was first noticed by iPhoneinCanada.ca.

  The most notable exception to the shipping time improvement is the European stores, which have a 2 week lead time.

  
  During its first quarter conference call, Apple executives noted that the iPad mini was constrained for the entire holiday quarter. The company believes it can achieve supply/demand balance on the mini by the end of the March quarter.

  

  

  

• Apple loses most valuable crown
  Another fall in Apple’s shares means the company loses the title as the world’s most valuable publicly-traded company.
• Winners of the VA Patient Record Competition Announced
  The winners of the VA Patient Record competition have been announced and are now being showcased.
• Apple Adds ‘App Store Notes’ to Featured Apps
  Apple has quietly added a new notes feature to its curated apps in the iOS App Store. Apps chosen for Editor’s Choice and App of the Week now come with App Store Notes, which offer a quick description of the app. For example, here’s the new note feature for Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes:
  
  

  Clash of Heroes has it all: epic storytelling, a wonderful blend of style and substance, and a spectacular battle system. This strategy-puzzler is genre-defining and an absolute must-play effort from the creators of Sword & Sworcery EP.

  The App of the Week, Gesundheit, which is currently offered for free in the iPhone App Store, features a similar description. Some other apps, such as those found in the “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” sections of the App Store also have App Store Notes, though not all of the apps in those sections have the new notes.

  
  Six of 24 New and Noteworthy apps on the iPhone have notes, while the rest do not. Only two apps, Temple Run 2 and Momonga Pinball, on the What’s Hot have notes included.

  App Store Notes might be trickling out to all of Apple’s selected apps, or may be reserved for those that are the most popular. At this point in time, it is unclear what criteria Apple is using to determine which apps are furnished with notes, or if it is a feature that will roll out to all curated apps. The new app notes are only visible in the iOS App Store, and do not show up in the desktop version of iTunes.

  

  

  

• Paul Zwillenberg: Digital Game Changers Hail the Web’s Transformative Potential
  Technology has the potential to generate growth and reshape the nature of work, collaboration, and economic activity. But it takes people with the vision to challenge the status quo, envision the future, and go for it.
• BlackBerry’s Going To The SuperBowl
  WATERLOO, Ont. – The BlackBerry is ready for game time.Research In Motion (TSX:RIM) said Friday that its new operating system will appear in a 30-second…
• Private Investigators Reveal How Cheaters Get Caught
  Technology is killing the cheater. Texts, tweets, posted photos can lead to trysts. Social networking sites like Facebook get a bad rap as marriage breakers,…
• Ian Bassin: In Remembering Aaron Swartz, Let’s Not Forget Jamel Dossie
  Often it takes a rare injustice perpetrated against a privileged young person for our society to recognize the common injustices we visit every day upon less-privileged minorities.

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As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Max Little: How Math Could Improve Life for Nearly 6 Million With Parkinson’s
  Current symptom tests are done in a clinic. They are expensive, time-consuming, and logistically difficult. Our technology could enable some radical breakthroughs, because voice-based tests can be administered remotely, and patients can do the tests themselves.
• Maura O’Neill: Disruptive Innovation Often Comes From Unexpected Places
  Steve Jobs loved music, but hadn’t spent his life as a disc jockey. He was not a professional musician or a stereo hardware designer and he didn’t focus on music marketing. That is, until he and his team at Apple released the iPod.
• Alvaro Fernandez: Why We Need to Retool Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Driven Technologies
  If we are to meet a massive and growing need, we’ll need to disrupt today’s status quo in which research is based on small and fragmented clinical trials, and where active brain care is often left for patients whose problems have grown until it is too difficult to manage them.
• Craig Bowron: Bright Idea for a Bad Disease, But Will Knowing Early Help?
  Say I plunk you down at home plate in your local baseball stadium. After arming you with a Red Ryder BB gun, I release a ravenously hungry lion from the center field bullpen. As the beast crosses the warning track, I offer you a pair of opera glasses, so that you can better visualize the lion as it begins to pick up your scent.
• Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Beta Updated Again for Developers

  Just a week after the release of the last build, Apple has released another beta build of OS X Mountain Lion to developers.  The latest 10.8.3 build is 12D58 and came exactly 7 days after the 12D54 build was seeded to developers.  Overall this is the third week in a row that a new build of the [...]

  The post Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Beta Updated Again for Developers appeared first on AlliOSNews.

• Samsung profits up 76% on mobile
  Samsung Electronics profits surge 76% in the last three months of 2012, on the strength of its booming smartphone business.
• Microsoft Q2 Earnings Up as Windows, Enterprise Sales Rise
  Microsoft announced quarterly earnings of $21.46 billion for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2013, with Windows sales leading the way.

  

  

• Microsoft: We’re going to broaden Surface lineup
  A Microsoft executive mentions — again — expanding the Surface tablet franchise. The comments were made during the company’s earnings conference call.
• Apple Launches ‘Get Stuff Done’ Promotion for Mac App Store [Mac Blog]
  Apple today began a new ‘Get Stuff Done’ promotional sale, offering discounts on several popular productivity apps.

  
  The sale, which will take place over three weeks, features three categories: Prioritize, Organize, and Utilize. This week’s category is Prioritize, and features list making apps like Clear and Things at a deep discount. Here’s a full list along with prices:

  -Clear: $6.99 down from $9.99 [Direct Link]
  -Things: $24.99 down from $49.99 [Direct Link]
  -2Do: $14.99 down from $29.99 [Direct Link]
  -Due: $4.99 down from $9.99 [Direct Link]
  -Todo: $6.99 down from $14.99 [Direct Link]
  -TaskPaper: $11.99 down from $24.99 [Direct Link]
  -The Hit List: $24.99 down from $49.99 [Direct Link]
  -BreakTime: $2.99 down from $4.99 [Direct Link]

  The sale on these apps will last from January 24 to January 31. Next week, Apple will feature a new set of apps for sale.

  

  

  

• DealBook: Goldman Overcomes Its Latest Headache
  A case brought by the founders of Dragon Systems was among a spate of legal problems and public relations difficulties for Goldman in recent years.

  

• Catalyst ready to change enterprise browsing
  Browsium’s Catalyst solution for making enterprise browsing safer and easier leaves its beta tag behind.
• AT&T Fourth-Quarter Earnings Hurt by Pensions and Storm
  The carrier reported a fourth-quarter loss of $3.9 billion, but earnings of 44 cents a share excluding pension costs. Revenue slightly exceeded expectations.

  

• Microsoft Reports Drop in Profits
  Microsoft said its profit declined 4 percent in the holiday quarter, as its entertainment and Office divisions posted double-digit declines in revenue.

  

• French Twitter Case Is Latest Skirmish Over Net Speech
  In yet another struggle over speech on the Internet, a French court told Twitter to identify people who had posted anti-Semitic and racist entries on the social network.

  

• Amazon Considering ‘Zombieland’ Series
  The current zombie craze shows no signs of abating, with Amazon reportedly in negotiations to develop a half-hour comedy based on the 2009 movie "Zombieland,"…
• Evan Selinger: What Sci-Fi Can Teach Us About the Present and Future of Information
  With the technology out of the incubator and in our living rooms, Silicon Valley’s mouthpieces are becoming increasingly comfortable generating hype about the exciting new world it will create. Get ready for a "more information-rich, more navigable, more interesting, more fun" existence.
• Welcome To The Future! Parking In Santa Monica’s First Robo Garage
  Meet the parking garage perfectly suited for an episode of The Jetsons. Below the UCLA Santa Monica Outpatient Surgery Center, the machines in a new…
• Biotech: Engineering the world
  Using living organisms to transform the world
• Julio Fernandez: How to Prevent Facebook’s Graph Search From Costing You Your Job
  As you interview for a new job, will the HR manager make decisions according to what they find on Graph Search? Will a photo and a tag from a friend cost you your job? How about a Facebook page you liked several years ago?

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As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Apple revenues miss expectations
  Computing giant Apple reports unchanged profits and record revenues in the last three months of 2012, but markets register disappointment.
• Disney CEO Remembers Relationship with Steve Jobs [Mac Blog]
  Today at the Hollywood Radio and Television Panel, Disney CEO and Apple board of directors member Bob Iger discussed his relationship with Steve Jobs, according to The Wrap.

  Jobs became Disney’s largest shareholder after he sold Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion, which also set the stage for Disney’s acquisitions of Marvel and Lucasfilm later on. Iger recalled that the deal almost never happened because of Jobs’ disagreements with previous Disney CEO Michael Eisner. When Iger took over, one of the first things he did was call Jobs.
  

  “I don’t even remember it being totally premeditated,” Iger said. “I just decided to call my parents and my grown daughters in New York and a couple of good friends and Steve.”

  He asked Jobs if their relationship could be salvaged, but Jobs responded that he felt that Iger was just more of the same, although he agreed to talk anyway. The rest is history as Pixar was sold to Disney and Iger and Jobs’ relationship, and by extension Disney and Apple’s relationship, improved.

  Iger said Jobs was “relentlessly” honest and that he would call Jobs on Saturday nights to find out if the latest Disney movies “sucked.” Iger went on to say that Jobs’ directness was infectious and that he told Jobs how much Disney needed Pixar to improve its animation offerings. He later learned, after reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, that Jobs had been impressed by Iger’s honesty.

  Jobs has had a major impact in the world of animation as well as Disney and Pixar’s fortunes. In November, Pixar named its main building after Jobs.

  

  

  

• Ashton Kutcher Movie ‘jOBS’ Coming to Theaters April 19 [Mac Blog]
  The Ashton Kutcher-led jOBS film will be opening in theaters on April 19, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

  
  

  The biopic, directed by Joshua Michael Stern and written by Matthew Whitely, chronicles Jobs’ ascension from college dropout to one of the most revered entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Part of the film was shot in the historic garage where Jobs first set up shop at his family’s home in Palo Alto, Calif.
  jOBS also stars Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons and Matthew Modine.

  The film debuts at the Sundance Film Festival this Friday, January 25. Stars Kutcher and Josh Gad, who play Jobs and Steve Wozniak respectively, will be at Macworld/iWorld next week to kick off the event with a talk about playing the two Steves.

  

  

  

• Logitech to unload Harmony line after ‘disappointing’ quarter
  Electronics company blames continued weakness in the global PC market for strategy shift away from remote controls, speaker docks, and console gaming peripherals.
• Windows 8 to mainstream solid-state drives, says analyst
  Cheaper flash, Windows 8 means more SSDs this year, says IHS iSuppli analyst.
• Media Decoder Blog: A Resurgent Netflix Beats Projections, Even Its Own
  Netflix reported $8 million in net income, surprising analysts who had expected a slight loss. It increased the number of subscribers for its streaming service to 27 million.

  

• Three charged over computer virus
  Three European men are charged in the US with distributing the Gozi computer virus, allegedly generating huge illegal profits.
• Apple’s Profits Are Flat, and Stock Drops
  Investors have come to expect nothing short of perfection from Apple, but with the company’s stock sinking 11 percent, it is clear there are a range of challenges.

  

• Microsoft Surface Pro: The movie
  Microsoft’s Surface Pro promo has arrived. The message: it’s a PC and can do everything a PC can do.
• Apple Stock Down 10% in After Hours Trading Amidst Concerns of Flat Growth
  After reporting record-breaking quarterly revenue and profit earlier today, Apple’s stock has taken a 10% tumble in after hours trading. Apple posted a $13.1 billion profit for the quarter this year compared to a $13.06 billion profit in the same quarter of last year, yielding flat growth year over year.

  
  The flat growth, as pointed out by Apple, is largely because manufacturing costs have risen, even as revenue has risen 18%. The New York Times notes that analysts were worried that about Apple’s profit margins, even after Apple warned that a significant overhaul of its product line would mean high manufacturing costs in the early lives of the products.
  

  The results arrived with an unusual level of anticipation, even for a company as high-profile as Apple, because of anxiety among some investors about Apple’s ability to sustain its growth and create new hit products. Apple’s stock has lost about a quarter of its value since September, erasing more than $170 billion of its market value.

  Business Insider notes that even though Apple’s holiday quarter in 2012 had a week less than it did in 2011 that sales growth still wouldn’t be at the point that it was.

  Apple’s 10% stock decline gives it a current market cap of $463.49 billion and a loss of nearly $50 billion in market capitalization from worried investors. Despite analysts’ and investors’ worries of year-over-year growth, The Wall Street Journal‘s Tom Gara notes that Apple’s losses in market cap today were roughly equal the value of two Research in Motions and two Nokias.

  

  

  

• The light fantastic: Harnessing Nature’s glow
  From Darwin to glowing trees
• VIDEO: Are Lolcats art?
  London gallery hosts internet cat phenomenon
• Goldman Sachs Cleared in Collapse of Dragon Systems Sale
  Dragon, the speech recognition software company, had accused Goldman Sachs of negligence in arranging the deal for Dragon to sell itself to Lernout & Hauspie in 2000.
• Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation
  Manufacturers of robots and similar machines gathered in Chicago, casting automation as an indispensable engine of economic growth.

  

• Google Report: Government Spying More Than Ever
  Law enforcement is asking Google for its users’ data more than ever — and most of the time, they aren’t getting a warrant first. That’s…
• Bianca Bosker: Search As We Know It Isn’t ‘The Worst’ — It’s Obsolete
  A little over a week after Facebook unveiled its search engine and hot on the heels of Google’s earnings call, Buzzfeed’s John Herrman has published…
• Bryce Maddock: Why Twitter Won’t IPO in 2013
  You have seen it a hundred times before. The latest "it" company is standing on a balcony, overlooking a sea of applauding stockbrokers, reporters and other NYSE staff. Their company has gone public and the only way to go from here is up, right? Wrong.
• Apple Sees Highest Growth in China, Revenue Up 67%
  During today’s quarterly results call for the first fiscal quarter of 2013, Peter Oppenheimer mentioned that the company focused on establishing a new operating segment of Greater China, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

  “We have established a new operating segment for China, given the contribution of that region to our business,” said Oppenheimer.

  The company has adjusted how it reports revenue for separate geographic regions because of the significant sales of both hardware and software in China during the last couple of years. China was responsible for $6.8 billion of Apple’s revenue during the last quarter. Overall revenue in China is up 67%.

  
  While Apple experienced strong iPhone growth overall, selling 47 million iPhones compared to 37 million in the year-ago quarter, it saw the most significant growth in China, which is up more than 100% year over year. Despite a late launch of the iPad, it was also noted to be successful in the country.
  
  

  In terms of the geographic distribution, we saw our highest growth in China. It was into the triple digits, which was higher than the market there. We’re extremely pleased.

  It is clear that China is our second largest region. And there is a lot of potential there.

  Apple opened four new stores in the Greater China area during 2012, and when asked about China during the question and answer section, Cook reiterated plans to continue to expand on the 11 stores that it has in the country, saying that Apple had “many more” stores to open.

  Tim Cook spent a portion of January in China, meeting with both government officials and representatives from China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile carrier. During the visit, Cook was interviewed by Sina Technology, where he emphasized Apple’s efforts to raise its profile in the country.

  

  

  

• 5x5x5: Barbara Bush Talks About Technology’s Impact On Global Health
  In partnership with the Social Innovation Summit, we’re running a series called 5x5x5 — 5 Leaders, 5 Sectors, 5 Questions. Five guests from a variety…

Thanks for reading our digest. Opinions in the articles above are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Digital Workshed ltd.

As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.

• Apple revenues miss expectations
  Computing giant Apple reports unchanged profits and record revenues in the last three months of 2012, but markets register disappointment.
• Disney CEO Remembers Relationship with Steve Jobs [Mac Blog]
  Today at the Hollywood Radio and Television Panel, Disney CEO and Apple board of directors member Bob Iger discussed his relationship with Steve Jobs, according to The Wrap.

  Jobs became Disney’s largest shareholder after he sold Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion, which also set the stage for Disney’s acquisitions of Marvel and Lucasfilm later on. Iger recalled that the deal almost never happened because of Jobs’ disagreements with previous Disney CEO Michael Eisner. When Iger took over, one of the first things he did was call Jobs.
  

  “I don’t even remember it being totally premeditated,” Iger said. “I just decided to call my parents and my grown daughters in New York and a couple of good friends and Steve.”

  He asked Jobs if their relationship could be salvaged, but Jobs responded that he felt that Iger was just more of the same, although he agreed to talk anyway. The rest is history as Pixar was sold to Disney and Iger and Jobs’ relationship, and by extension Disney and Apple’s relationship, improved.

  Iger said Jobs was “relentlessly” honest and that he would call Jobs on Saturday nights to find out if the latest Disney movies “sucked.” Iger went on to say that Jobs’ directness was infectious and that he told Jobs how much Disney needed Pixar to improve its animation offerings. He later learned, after reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, that Jobs had been impressed by Iger’s honesty.

  Jobs has had a major impact in the world of animation as well as Disney and Pixar’s fortunes. In November, Pixar named its main building after Jobs.

  

  

  

• Ashton Kutcher Movie ‘jOBS’ Coming to Theaters April 19 [Mac Blog]
  The Ashton Kutcher-led jOBS film will be opening in theaters on April 19, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

  
  

  The biopic, directed by Joshua Michael Stern and written by Matthew Whitely, chronicles Jobs’ ascension from college dropout to one of the most revered entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Part of the film was shot in the historic garage where Jobs first set up shop at his family’s home in Palo Alto, Calif.
  jOBS also stars Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons and Matthew Modine.

  The film debuts at the Sundance Film Festival this Friday, January 25. Stars Kutcher and Josh Gad, who play Jobs and Steve Wozniak respectively, will be at Macworld/iWorld next week to kick off the event with a talk about playing the two Steves.

  

  

  

• Logitech to unload Harmony line after ‘disappointing’ quarter
  Electronics company blames continued weakness in the global PC market for strategy shift away from remote controls, speaker docks, and console gaming peripherals.
• Windows 8 to mainstream solid-state drives, says analyst
  Cheaper flash, Windows 8 means more SSDs this year, says IHS iSuppli analyst.
• Media Decoder Blog: A Resurgent Netflix Beats Projections, Even Its Own
  Netflix reported $8 million in net income, surprising analysts who had expected a slight loss. It increased the number of subscribers for its streaming service to 27 million.

  

• Three charged over computer virus
  Three European men are charged in the US with distributing the Gozi computer virus, allegedly generating huge illegal profits.
• Apple’s Profits Are Flat, and Stock Drops
  Investors have come to expect nothing short of perfection from Apple, but with the company’s stock sinking 11 percent, it is clear there are a range of challenges.

  

• Microsoft Surface Pro: The movie
  Microsoft’s Surface Pro promo has arrived. The message: it’s a PC and can do everything a PC can do.
• Apple Stock Down 10% in After Hours Trading Amidst Concerns of Flat Growth
  After reporting record-breaking quarterly revenue and profit earlier today, Apple’s stock has taken a 10% tumble in after hours trading. Apple posted a $13.1 billion profit for the quarter this year compared to a $13.06 billion profit in the same quarter of last year, yielding flat growth year over year.

  
  The flat growth, as pointed out by Apple, is largely because manufacturing costs have risen, even as revenue has risen 18%. The New York Times notes that analysts were worried that about Apple’s profit margins, even after Apple warned that a significant overhaul of its product line would mean high manufacturing costs in the early lives of the products.
  

  The results arrived with an unusual level of anticipation, even for a company as high-profile as Apple, because of anxiety among some investors about Apple’s ability to sustain its growth and create new hit products. Apple’s stock has lost about a quarter of its value since September, erasing more than $170 billion of its market value.

  Business Insider notes that even though Apple’s holiday quarter in 2012 had a week less than it did in 2011 that sales growth still wouldn’t be at the point that it was.

  Apple’s 10% stock decline gives it a current market cap of $463.49 billion and a loss of nearly $50 billion in market capitalization from worried investors. Despite analysts’ and investors’ worries of year-over-year growth, The Wall Street Journal‘s Tom Gara notes that Apple’s losses in market cap today were roughly equal the value of two Research in Motions and two Nokias.

  

  

  

• The light fantastic: Harnessing Nature’s glow
  From Darwin to glowing trees
• VIDEO: Are Lolcats art?
  London gallery hosts internet cat phenomenon
• Goldman Sachs Cleared in Collapse of Dragon Systems Sale
  Dragon, the speech recognition software company, had accused Goldman Sachs of negligence in arranging the deal for Dragon to sell itself to Lernout & Hauspie in 2000.
• Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation
  Manufacturers of robots and similar machines gathered in Chicago, casting automation as an indispensable engine of economic growth.

  

• Google Report: Government Spying More Than Ever
  Law enforcement is asking Google for its users’ data more than ever — and most of the time, they aren’t getting a warrant first. That’s…
• Bianca Bosker: Search As We Know It Isn’t ‘The Worst’ — It’s Obsolete
  A little over a week after Facebook unveiled its search engine and hot on the heels of Google’s earnings call, Buzzfeed’s John Herrman has published…
• Bryce Maddock: Why Twitter Won’t IPO in 2013
  You have seen it a hundred times before. The latest "it" company is standing on a balcony, overlooking a sea of applauding stockbrokers, reporters and other NYSE staff. Their company has gone public and the only way to go from here is up, right? Wrong.
• Apple Sees Highest Growth in China, Revenue Up 67%
  During today’s quarterly results call for the first fiscal quarter of 2013, Peter Oppenheimer mentioned that the company focused on establishing a new operating segment of Greater China, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

  “We have established a new operating segment for China, given the contribution of that region to our business,” said Oppenheimer.

  The company has adjusted how it reports revenue for separate geographic regions because of the significant sales of both hardware and software in China during the last couple of years. China was responsible for $6.8 billion of Apple’s revenue during the last quarter. Overall revenue in China is up 67%.

  
  While Apple experienced strong iPhone growth overall, selling 47 million iPhones compared to 37 million in the year-ago quarter, it saw the most significant growth in China, which is up more than 100% year over year. Despite a late launch of the iPad, it was also noted to be successful in the country.
  
  

  In terms of the geographic distribution, we saw our highest growth in China. It was into the triple digits, which was higher than the market there. We’re extremely pleased.

  It is clear that China is our second largest region. And there is a lot of potential there.

  Apple opened four new stores in the Greater China area during 2012, and when asked about China during the question and answer section, Cook reiterated plans to continue to expand on the 11 stores that it has in the country, saying that Apple had “many more” stores to open.

  Tim Cook spent a portion of January in China, meeting with both government officials and representatives from China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile carrier. During the visit, Cook was interviewed by Sina Technology, where he emphasized Apple’s efforts to raise its profile in the country.

  

  

  

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• Steve Jobs Threatened Palm with Patent Suit Over No-Hire Policy
  Steve Jobs threatened to file a patent suit against Palm if they didn’t agree to not hire Apple employees, according to a Reuters report on a court filing (via AppleInsider) made public Tuesday. The court filing is a part of a class action lawsuit against Apple, Google, Pixar, Lucasfilm and others over an agreement those companies made to not hire each other’s employees.

  
  The companies attempted to keep an array of documents secret, but that request was rejected in parts by Judge Lucy Koh, which is why a statement from former Palm executive Edward Colligan has become public record. Colligan said that Jobs proposed the agreement to Palm, and that Jobs suggested that if Palm didn’t agree they could face lawsuits “alleging infringement of Apple’s many patents.” Colligan responded to Jobs with an email:
  

  Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other’s employees, regardless of the individual’s desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal.[...] Palm doesn’t target other companies-we look for the best people we can find. l’d hope the same could be said about Apple1s practices. However, during the last year or so, as Apple geared up to compete with Palm in the phone space, Apple hired at least 2% of Palm’s workforce. To put it in perspective, had Palm done the same, we’d have hired 300 folks from Apple. Instead, to my knowledge, we’ve hired just three.

  Colligan also told Jobs that he was not intimidated by patent litigation and said that Palm had recently acquired some patents from Siemens that it could use against Apple and its iPhone patents. Jobs responded:
  

  Just for the record, when Siemens sold their handset business to BenQ they didn’t sell them their essential patents but rather just gave them a license. The patents they did sell to BenQ are not that great. We looked at them ourselves when they were for sale. I guess you guys felt differently and bought them. We are not concerned about them at all. My advice is to take a look at our patent portfolio before you make a final decision here.

  Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs revealed that Jobs was angry at Palm for hiring former employees, although the threat of patent litigation in Colligan’s statement is certainly a new revelation.
  

  “Jobs was so furious that Palm was hiring some of his former employees that he complained to Bono, who was a cofounder of a private equity group, led by the former Apple CFO Fred Anderson, that had bought a controlling stake in Palm.”

  These aren’t the only instances that Jobs became angry at the poaching of Apple employees, however. In January 2012 it was revealed, also according to a court filing, that Jobs complained to then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the hiring of Apple employees at Google.

  Recently, current CEO Tim Cook was ordered to give a deposition in this case, so more nuggets of information are likely to be released as court filings are made public.

  

  

  

• VIDEO: Australia ‘prime target for hackers’
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• DealBook: Microsoft May Back Dell Buyout
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• Despite Strong Earnings, Google Is Still Stymied by Mobile
  The search giant showed some progress on its advertising pricing, which had been hurt by lower-cost mobile ads, and investors responded warmly.

  

• I.B.M. Reports 6% Increase in Profit Despite Flat Revenue
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• IBM Q4 Profits Up 6 Percent on Software, Hardware
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• Melanne Verveer: Closing the Internet Gender Gap
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• Intel to wind down desktop circuit board business
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• Dark, Serialized And Dangerous: Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’
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• James Reinhart: Re-commerce: The Resale You’ve Been Waiting For
  Following in the footsteps of retail, the future of used is all online. As technology continues to make the experience of selling and purchasing second-hand items easier and more secure, when will other verticals start to embrace resale?
• Naomi Mandelstein: 5 Tips for Corporate Social (Media) Responsibility Communications
  Social media can be a powerful tool for stakeholder engagement. It can broaden your reach, help source new ideas from the margins, and create a real-time, continuous feedback loop. And it’s not just about Twitter and Facebook.
• Thomas Clayton: 5 Ways Celebrities’ Social Media Presence Evolved in 2012
  There’s more to a celebrity’s social media profile than you think. There’s so much that goes into how they use and leverage their social media accounts. Here are five ways that I’ve seen the role and uses of celebrity social media profiles evolve over the past year.
• AMD limps through Q4, and 2013 doesn’t look much better
  AMD tumbles to the end of the 2012 fiscal year with yet another poor result for its fourth quarter.
• Why Is Obama’s Reelection Tech Team PO’d?
  In the aftermath of the election, a stark divide has emerged between political operatives and the techies who worked side-by-side. At issue is the code…
• PHOTOS: Author Of ‘Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide’ Chats With NatGeo
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