Stock Investment Guide Updated for OS X Mountain
Lion

post from prMac on 08 August 2012 10:59:00 PM. © prMac

Churr Software has released Stock Investment Guide 3.2.1, the leading stock analysis tool for OSX. Stock Investment Guide provides investors easy-to-use tools to analyze a company's fundamentals and to project future earnings for prospective investments. The Stock Investment Guide use a time-proven analysis methodology used by stock clubs and individual investors. Users can view historical price graphs, research company news and competitors, and print professionally formatted analysis reports.

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App.net

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2012 09:02:32 PM. © Daring Fireball

In a nut, App.net is a startup aiming to build a rival platform to Twitter, “where users and developers come first, not advertisers.” How? By generating revenue from users instead of from advertisers. They’re not using Kickstarter but they’ve built their own Kickstarter-like system.

Alas, they’re five days away from the deadline and only 45 percent of the way to their goal. If you’re dismayed by Twitter’s shabby and getting-shabbier-by-the-month treatment of third-party developers and the ever-increasing mass-market promotional detritus littering Twitter’s first-party interfaces, I really encourage you get on board as an App.net backer. I did, and I’m already liking what I’m seeing in the alpha release.

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School of Billiards - Effective Training Method -
Basics

post from prMac on 08 August 2012 07:48:00 PM. © prMac

Vladimir Belko has announced School of Billiards 1.0 for iOS. All training programs include lots of information about performing complex strokes, scoring balls and winning the game with the only approach. But for person who holds the cue not for so long, it's a daunting task. There is a method to learn pool secrets quickly and easily. By using this application while learning to play billiards gives you an opportunity to become a professional player just in one year.

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Samsung Calls B.S. on Apples Charges of Copying

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2012 06:02:45 PM. © Daring Fireball

From last night’s Conan O’Brien show.

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Kitten Calculator Safari - Maths and Wild cats,
great for Kids

post from prMac on 08 August 2012 05:06:00 PM. © prMac

Kitten Calculator Safari, from the Kitten Calculator series of apps as featured on AppAdvice.com Quirky App of the Day, reviewer's quote "My kids...loved it". Behold the cutest in kitten calculation has had a big cat makeover and gone on Safari! Kitten Calculator Safari features jungle cats with the highest IQs to solve all your mathematical problems. Including tiger, lion, cheetah, cougar and panther cubs. Fun roaring animation and sounds in one cute number crunching bundle.

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The Apple Roundup: Why Apple & Samsung will
still be best frenemies forever

post from Apple on 08 August 2012 03:02:34 PM. © Apple

With so many people writing about Apple, finding the best stories and reports isn’t easy. Here’s our daily pick of stories about the company from around the Web that you shouldn’t miss:

Bloomberg Businessweek reminds us in a good overview piece that no matter how nasty things get in the current trial pitting Apple against Samsung, the two aren’t likely to end their longtime business partnership thanks to their deeply intertwined business interests.
There’s been a bit of press about Apple’s recent adventures in TV ads. For more about Apple’s brand and how it got to where it is, don’t miss this video of Ken Segall, former creative director at Apple’s longtime ad agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day. 9to5Mac has the link to the video, which is over an hour, and fair warning, Segall is plugging a book. But he has some great anecdotes about working with Steve Jobs.
Apple phasing out Google services like Maps may be part of a larger plan to add additional partnerships and stay one step ahead of Google’s own Android integration roadmap, Barron’s writes.
Google, meanwhile, is continuing to build out its products for Apple’s platform. The Verge has a report that Google’s Search app for iPhone and iPad is going to get Siri-like voice control functionality very soon.
Know Your Mobile has a research note from analysts at Raymond James who found that, despite selling far fewer iPhones than Samsung sold Android smartphones last quarter, Apple still took home 77 percent of all profits made in the mobile industry.

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HP to Incur $8 Billion Impairment Charge

post from Daring Fireball on 08 August 2012 03:02:33 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matt Brian, reporting for The Next Web:

HP believes that its earnings-per-share will rise to $1.00 in itsthird fiscal quarter, up from previous estimates of $0.94, butwill exclude the hefty $8 billion impairment charge that itexpects to record in the same period.
The $8 billion charge has been derived from an overview of HP?sstock, taking in market conditions and business trends in itsServices segment. This basically means after it assessed andtested the value of its assets (or goodwill), it has determinedthat its Services business may be overvalued. As a result, it hasto issue an impairment charge on its balance sheet to take intoaccount the reduced value of its goodwill.

I have no idea what this actually means.

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As verdict on ebook pricing settlement nears,
Apple gets 5 pages to respond to DOJ

post from Apple on 08 August 2012 02:02:49 PM. © Apple

With U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote expected to rule on a proposed ebook pricing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three publishers by the end of August, Judge Cote confirmed that Apple may provide a further five-page objection by August 15.

Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have agreed to settle in response to the DOJ’s allegations that they colluded with Apple to fix ebook prices. (Apple, Macmillan and Penguin are fighting the case in court, but the trial will not begin until June 2013.) The proposed final settlement would require the settling publishers to terminate existing agreements with Apple and would end agency pricing for those publishers for two years.

The Department of Justice received 868 public comments about the settlement, nearly all of them opposing it, but refused to modify the settlement. On August 3, the DOJ filed a memo to the court requesting that Judge Cote approve the settlement without delay and without a hearing.

Apple has already filed a nine-page public comment objecting to the substance of the settlement. Cote’s new ruling confirms that Apple can file another five pages (not ten as Apple had requested) about the government’s handling of the process. She added that she is still considering Apple’s request to hold further hearings on the settlements. If Cote approves the settlements, the three settling publishers will be released from the ongoing antitrust case but will have to conform to the requirements mentioned above.

Separately, last week Barnes & Noble and the American Booksellers Association requested permission to file an amici curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief in the case, saying that “if the Court were not to permit ABA and Barnes & Noble to serve as amici in this matter, it is likely that DOJ?s numerous arguments in that filing that are specifically directed against Barnes & Noble and ABA, complete with their factual inaccuracies, would go unrebutted by any party currently before the Court.”

Judge Cote ruled this week (PDF) that the brief they already submitted — which “contains five pages of substantive arguments that do not address the question of whether leave to file amici curiae responses is appropriate, but rather oppose approval of the proposed Final Judgment” — will suffice as B&N and the ABA’s only comment on the matter, and “no additional filings from the ABA and Barnes & Noble shall be permitted.”

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Starbucks and Square to Team Up

Here’s Jack Dorsey’s announcement.

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PDF Expert 4.2 transforms iPad into interactive
presentation tool

Today Readdle, the recognized leader in PDF technologies on the iOS platform, has released PDF Expert 4.2 for iPad, the next version of its top PDF editing application. With PDF Expert 4.2 people can make interactive non-linear presentations in court, class or meeting room. Using three presentation modes, people can combine content from PDF documents, images and videos during keynote and even add notes and comments that are immediately visible to the audience.

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