BlackBerry to finally get 3D gaming

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 02:10:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

RIM opened up the BlackBerry Developers Conference by revealing the first modern 3D support for its ...

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iPhone sales expand in Singapore, Qatar

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 01:35:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Apple is persisting in efforts to expand iPhone sales before the end of 2009, reports note. Singapo...

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App Store Rejection of the Week: Bobble Rep

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2009 01:28:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Directory of U.S. congressional representatives and senators, rejected because each is illustrated with an animated bobblehead caricature by Mad Magazine’s Tom Richmond.

(Via Metafilter.)

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HD Radio tuner shows for iPhone; built in soon

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 November 2009 01:25:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Gigaware and iBiquity Digital have unveiled a new app and peripheral combination for the iPod touch ...

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HD Radio tuner shows for iPhoen; built in soon

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Gigaware and iBiquity Digital have unveiled a new app and peripheral combination for the iPod touch ...

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AT&T Announces New 3G LaptopConnect Device

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2009 01:21:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

So they’re rolling out higher-speed standalone 3G tethering for use with these devices, but still won’t sell tethering service to iPhone users. I cannot wait to dump these clowns.

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Robert Scoble on the Droid

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2009 01:12:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Robert Scoble, long-time iPhone user, bought a Droid, and his thoughts on it are interesting:

Second, the hardware. I totally disagree with CrunchGear on this point. Greg Kumparak said that the Droid is ?a shining example of great industrial design.?

Oh, please.

It?s a phone an engineer could love. Compared to the iPhone or the Palm Pre it isn?t even in the same league. The battery door on the back proves my point. The iPhone? They just got rid of the idea of replaceable batteries and the Palm Pre spent a LOT of time making sure that having a replaceable battery did NOT make the phone have a noticeable door. The back of both the iPhone and the Palm Pre is smooth. The back of the Droid is not. That is NOT a shining example of great industrial design.

Android may well have a bright future, and I’m certainly very intrigued by it personally. But I suspect no Android phone will have have the attention to detail of an iPhone or a Palm WebOS device.

I’m very much enjoying Scoble’s perspective on the Droid — more about the user experience and less about the technical specs — but I can’t let this bit from his conclusion go without comment:

I told Dave Winer that it looks a lot like Windows 3.1. The Mac back then was way better, but we all know that Apple ended up in 1995 with a small market share compared to Windows 95. The thing is, the Droid is Windows 3.1. It is showing the momentum is shifting but now Google has to ship their metaphorical equivalent of Windows 95. It isn?t this phone.

Windows 95 was a huge improvement over Windows 3.1, and it appeared at a time when Apple’s leadership was weak and the Mac OS was stagnant. But even Windows 3.1 had a massive monopoly-size market share, and I’m pretty sure the Mac never had more than about 5 percent of the U.S. unit sale market share in the ?90s. I don’t think this analogy is applicable to the current situation at all.

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Zevrix Updates BatchOutput Server for InDesign to
Support Snow Leopard

Zevrix Solutions today announces BatchOutput Server 4.2.4, an update to its output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Originally developed for a major publisher in the U.S., the software automates InDesign output by processing files from hotfolders. BatchOutput Server offloads printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. The new update adds support for Snow Leopard and improves error reporting.

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