DssW Activity Audit v1.1 - Journaling Your
Application Use on Mac OS X

post from prMac on 02 May 2011 10:28:00 PM. © prMac

DssW, the leading developer of Mac energy saving software, today released Activity Audit v1.1 for Mac OS X. Activity Audit creates a journal of the applications used on a Mac. This new release refines Activity Audit's ability to journal when your Mac is in use. Auditing can now be suspended while the Mac is not actively used. Activity Audit now includes a status menu to show when auditing is taking place. Activity Audit creates calendar events as applications are launched and quit.

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Gentlemen, You Cant Fight in Here! This Is the
War Room!

post from Daring Fireball on 02 May 2011 09:04:33 PM. © Daring Fireball

Historic photo from the White House, posted to Flickr:

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along withmembers of the national security team, receive an update on themission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the WhiteHouse, May 1, 2011.

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Worth a Re-Link: Michael Mace on Whats Really
Wrong With RIM

post from Daring Fireball on 02 May 2011 08:04:48 PM. © Daring Fireball

Michael Mace, back in December:

I looked at everything from videogame companies to the early PCpioneers (companies like Commodore and Atari), and I found aninteresting pattern in their financial results. The early symptomsof decline in a computing platform were very subtle, and easy fora business executive to rationalize away. By the time the symptomsbecame obvious, it was usually too late to do anything about them.
The symptoms to watch closely are small declines in two metrics:the rate of growth of sales, and gross profit per unit sold (grossmargins). Here’s why.

I thought this was a compelling and cogent case against RIM when I linked to it in December. Now, almost five months later, it’s looking more and more like Mace was correct.

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TomTom Sold User Data to Police, Motorists Then
Targeted With Speed Traps

post from Daring Fireball on 02 May 2011 08:04:48 PM. © Daring Fireball

Consumer Reports:

Following reports that TomTom had sold traffic data collected fromGPS device users to police who then used it to determine locationsfor speed traps, the company has issued a statement and video inan effort to appease angry customers.

Shameful.

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olice-motorists-then-targeted-with-speed-traps.html?EXTKEY=I72RSC0

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Consumer Reports: White iPhone 4 Is Not Thicker
Than the Black One

post from Daring Fireball on 02 May 2011 08:04:48 PM. © Daring Fireball

Speaking of Consumer Reports:

Recently an avalanche of news and tech sites reported that thewhite iPhone 4 was thicker than the black iPhone, even showingside-by-side photos claiming it was 2mm thicker than the blackversion.
But when we compared a white iPhone 4 with a black iPhone 4 in ourYonkers, NY, lab using high-quality calipers, we found they wereboth the same thickness (0.37 inches). This supports Apple’sassertion that the devices are the same size.

Kudos to Dr. Drang, for one, for being skeptical of the “white iPhone is thicker” claims right from the start.

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icker-than-black-version.html?CMP=OTC-NEWS4

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Apple, as Always, Is Doomed

post from Daring Fireball on 02 May 2011 06:05:07 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jean-Louis Gassée on the meme that Android is doing/will do to iOS what Windows did to the Mac. (I think he gives far too much credit to Henry Blodget, Fred Wilson, and Dan Lyons.)

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ensing-certificate/

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Can Young Girls Reject the Color Pink New
Storybook App says Yes

post from prMac on 02 May 2011 05:48:00 PM. © prMac

I Don't Like Pink!, a new story written and illustrated especially for the iPad and iPhone by Brooks Jones, features a strong-willed young lady named Gabi who isn't shy about expressing her displeasure with a gift she receives from her grandmother. I Don't Like Pink! is a full-color, interactive storybook app that features original music, subtle animation that follows the story, and a professionally recorded voiceover by the author. The app is optimized for iPad.

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Argentinean Wines App Puts Winery Information in
Your Hands

ApplicationCell announces the release of Argentinean Wines 1.1. Argentinean Wines iOS application is a catalog of the best Argentinean wines and wineries. Each listed item contains information related to: name of wine, photo of bottle, varietal, vintage year, origin precedence and winery name. Also, the app has a buying feature which searches prices and markets for each wine. Wineries of each wine are listed in the winery section.

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The Emperors New Network Effects

Smart piece by Greg Cox:

So I think there are three potential outcomes in the mobilehandset industry that are worth contemplating:
Android dominance implies a future where the industry ishorizontal, with an OS vendor creating a dominant applicationplatform with its associated network effects (demand sideeconomies of scale).
iOS dominance implies a future where Apple enjoys the demandside economies of scale associated with a dominant applicationplatform, and the supply side economies of scale associatedwith being the leading handset manufacturer.
iPhone leadership implies a future where the dominant playeris a vertically integrated handset manufacturer that enjoyssupply side economies of scale in manufacturing and marketing.

Count me in with Cox: #3 seems to be where we’re heading, but most analysts seem unwilling to consider any outcome other than #1 or #2.

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Apples Share of the Profits in the Handset
Industry: 50 Percent

Jay Yarow:

According to an analysis by Canaccord Genuity’s T. MichaelWalkley, Apple captured “a remarkable 50% value share of estimatedQ1/11 handset industry operating profits among the top 8 OEMs withonly 4.9% global handset unit market share.”

iPhone is dead in the water.

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