Tim Bray on Glass

post from Daring Fireball on 22 May 2013 09:02:37 PM. © Daring Fireball

Tim Bray:

But people, and there are a lot of them, who are saying ?Glass isdoomed because it?s dorky-looking/privacy-invasive/anti-social?are pretty well wrong; it?s more complex than that.

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Dont Say GIF

post from Daring Fireball on 22 May 2013 08:02:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

Fun song by Gonathan Mann.

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Windows vs. iPad: Compare Tablets

post from Daring Fireball on 22 May 2013 08:02:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

Microsoft still loves their product comparison checklists.

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Most accurate horoscope reader on the App Store -
Complete Horoscope

post from prMac on 22 May 2013 07:29:00 PM. © prMac

Monkey Hive Enterprises is proud to announce the updated Complete Horoscope 2.1 for iOS. Update Included general improvements. The latest version 2.1 release of Complete Horoscope offers iPad retina graphics, iPhone 5 support, Two new horoscope readings each day and spiritual karma. Harness the power of the stars and the universe to help you with your daily life situations. You never know when a new idea may be sparked from some astrological feedback.

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Google plans to bring its own voice search to the
iPhone and iPad

post from Apple on 22 May 2013 05:02:35 PM. © Apple

Google’s own version of Siri is coming to the iPhone and iPad “soon,” according to the company. On Wednesday Google announced an update for its Chrome app is now available for Android and that another update for the Chrome for iOS app will follow “over the coming days” and include Voice Search.

From Google’s blog post about it:

“You can now speak your searches into the omnibox. Touch the microphone, say your search query aloud and see your results (in some cases spoken back to you), all without typing a single letter.”

Unlike Siri, this is not integrated into the operating system, and can only be accessed through the Chrome app.

Little by little, Google has been fine-tuning and improving its products that run on Apple’s operating system, and it’s having the effect of creating a Google layer on top of iOS.

Not only are all of Google’s major properties accessible in app form on iOS — from YouTube to Google Maps to Mail, Drive, Chrome, Search, Google+ and more — they often best what Apple has to offer. In addition, Google is finding ways to interconnect its apps, so iOS customers can jump from Google service to Google service fluidly. Earlier this month Google introduced a new setting for iOS developers that can enable app users to choose to set links in the Gmail iOS app to open in YouTube, Chrome or Google Maps, as appropriate, by default.

In April the company updated its Google Search app for iOS with Google Now, an assistant app that offers suggestions automatically based on behaviors and preferences expressed across Google’s apps and properties, all of which are on iOS.

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Byte Squared Announces Plan for Citrix Worx
Integration in Office Editor

post from prMac on 22 May 2013 04:15:00 PM. © prMac

Byte Squared, a company specializing in Office document editing on mobile devices, today announced that it will be part of the Citrix Ready Worx Verified program. By integrating the Citrix Worx App SDK into its Office editing app, Byte Squared's users will have the ability to access and edit corporate data, without compromising the security of that information. The company's integration will bring Office2 to the Citrix Rrady Worx Verified ecosystem.

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Sony, Technicolor, Dolby and LOOK Effects Join -
Inside The Cutting Room

post from prMac on 22 May 2013 04:05:00 PM. © prMac

Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWShop) is excited to announce growing support for its Inside The Cutting Room: Sight, Sound and Story event held on June 8, 2013 at the French Institute in the heart of Manhattan. Industry titans Sony Creative Software, Technicolor and Dolby among others back New York's largest post-production event. Also added to the Inside The Cutting Room: Sight, Sound and Story cast of all-stars is Jeff Wozniak of LOOK Effects.

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Steve Jobs/James Murdoch E-Book Negotiations

Zachary Seward, writing for Quartz:

The emails have mostly been viewed in the context of the lawsuit,but they also provide an extraordinary view of high-stakesnegotiation between the leaders of two powerful firms, Apple andNews Corp. They start far apart, but over the course of five days,Apple?s then-CEO Steve Jobs successfully pulls the son of NewsCorp. CEO Rupert Murdoch over to his side.

Interesting too, that the negotiations came so close to the debut of the iPad.

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Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple

Connie Guglielmo, reporting for Forbes:

Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for coveringdigital media technologies and companies including Microsoft andApple, has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take ajob with Apple.
Gartenberg didn?t immediately reply to a voicemail message left athis office at Apple asking him to talk about his new role for theCupertino, California-based company. He is working on themarketing team under Apple?s global marketing chief Phil Schiller,according to sources.

Smart hire. Going to be weird seeing him on the other side of the line at Apple press events.

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lyst-michael-gartenberg-joins-apple/

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Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards World
Tarot Week Price Drop

The Random House, Inc., Digital Development Group invites you to tap into your intuition and discover the time-honored tradition of oracle cards with Wisdom of the House of Night Oracle Cards app. To celebrate World Tarot Week, from May 22 to May 24, the app will cost $3.99 USD, reduced from its original price of $6.99 on the App Store, Google Play, and the Barnes & Noble NOOK Store. The price will further drop to $0.99 for World Tarot Day on May 25 and remain at this low price through May 26.

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