From the DF Archive: Translation From PR-Speak to
English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amorosos Response to Steve Jobss Thoughts on Music

post from Daring Fireball on 14 May 2012 11:02:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

Keep in mind while re-reading this piece from 2007 that this clown — who in response to Steve Jobs’s seminal (and in hindsight, remarkably prescient) “Thoughts on Music” argued that Jobs was wrong and that the answer was more DRM — is the new chairman of the board at Yahoo.

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1600 New Fonts added to the Web Font Plug-in for
Adobe Photoshop

post from Manage This on 14 May 2012 08:02:57 PM. © Manage This

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Reblog Regurgitation Dirtbaggery From The Next
Web

post from Daring Fireball on 14 May 2012 07:03:22 PM. © Daring Fireball

Joshua Gross:

Not only did they not credit my content in the original post, butthe second sentence of the first paragraph is taken nearlyword-for-word, as is most of the second paragraph.

(Gross’s story that The Next Web ripped off, “The $144,146,165 Button”, is worth a read. Small details can make a big difference.)

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More Dirtbaggery From The Next Web

post from Daring Fireball on 14 May 2012 06:03:07 PM. © Daring Fireball

Joshua Gross:

Not only did they not credit my content in the original post, butthe second sentence of the first paragraph is taken nearlyword-for-word, as is most of the second paragraph.

(Gross’s story that The Next Web ripped off, “The $144,146,165 Button”, is worth a read. Small details can make a big difference.)

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Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable: Im Not
Sure I Know What AirPlay Is

post from Daring Fireball on 14 May 2012 06:03:07 PM. © Daring Fireball

Brian X. Chen, writing for the NYT Bits blog:

AirPlay, a software tool included with Apple?s iPads and iPhones,is widely viewed as being potentially disruptive to the cableindustry, because it makes it easy for people to view a broadvariety of Internet content on a television. Time Warner Cable?sleader, however, hasn?t heard of it.

Zero surprise.

Update: Anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? Glenn Britt, next CEO of Yahoo.

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Adobe Will Release Security Patches for CS 5 Apps

post from Daring Fireball on 14 May 2012 06:03:07 PM. © Daring Fireball

They caused a bit of an uproar when they initially decided not to patch these apps, but they’ve changed their mind.

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GroupLogic Named Hot Company at Network Product
Guide's Awards

post from prMac on 14 May 2012 05:35:00 PM. © prMac

GroupLogic, the industry's leading provider of software products that unlock the power of new enterprise platforms, announced today that it has been recognized by leading technology research and advisory guide Network Products Guide as a "Hot Company" at its 7th annual awards presentation, which took place in Las Vegas on May 9th. This acknowledgement came as the result of GroupLogic's rapid growth over the past year, fueled by the introduction of activEcho and the market adoption of mobilEcho.

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Facebook brings bigger pics and posts to mobiles

post from Apple on 14 May 2012 04:04:05 PM. © Apple

Facebook users on Android, iOS and mobile browsers aren’t stuck with postage-sized pictures and posts any more. Facebook announced on Monday that it now supports full-sized pictures on all three platforms as well as posts that will automatically scale from edge-to-edge of a handheld device. The rollout of these changes is now in progress, so some users may not yet see the updates for a bit.

A quick look at some examples from Facebook show the larger pics — up to 3x in size — and posts make much better use of a smartphone’s display, making the experience more like that on a full-sized computer:

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This new feature won’t require Android or iOS users to update their apps as Facebook is pushing the updates on the server side. This is definitely one of the advantages of using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript so heavily in Facebook’s mobile efforts; not only does it provide a similar look and feel across a wide range of devices, but some new features can be implemented without needing several hundred million Facebook users to update their apps. I noticed that the Facebook app on my Galaxy Nexus already has the new feature updates and it definitely provides a more immersive viewing experience that requires fewer taps.

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The Discrepancy in Android Web Browser Usage
Numbers

Peter Bright at Ars Technica, on mobile web browser market share across the whole web (as reported by Net Market Share):

In mobile, iOS users continue to outnumber Android users, with thesurprising implication that Android users don’t actually use theWeb very much on their smartphones.

Net Market Share’s current numbers for mobile (including tablets): 63 percent for iOS, 19 percent for Android. But, looking at Ars Technica’s own traffic, Android comes out ahead of Mobile Safari, 37 to 32 percent. (Although I wonder how much of their “Mozilla compatible” mobile traffic originates from iOS.)

This nicely illustrates the dichotomy between Android usage in the nerd world vs. the world at large.

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Fact-checking the Apple rumor mill, plus 4 other
Apple stories to read today

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:

Harry McCracken at TIME fact checks a sampling of Digitimes reports regarding Apple over the years. It’s not pretty.
No surprise: Foxconn refutes last Friday’s report that it’s building an Apple television. The Next Web has the details and explanation.
Jean-Louis Gassée makes a strong argument for why Apple won’t go back to Intel and x86 processors for its iOS devices.
Apple’s current cable-disrupting technology is supposed to be AirPlay. So why hasn’t the CEO of one of the country’s biggest cable companies ever heard of it? Read the New York Times story.
Following some recent malware episodes, it looks like Apple is getting serious about Mac security, says ZDNet. It has hired security firm Kaspersky Labs as a consultant.

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