New iPhone App Exposes Over 350 of the Most
Popular Scams in the World

post from prMac on 17 June 2011 08:52:00 PM. © prMac

Canadian company, Amos Studios, announces the launch of Scam Detector 1.0. The new iPhone application reveals in detail over 350 of the most common scams in the world. The scams are separated into nine categories and five sub-categories. While users can easily navigate the menus learning about scams, they can also launch a search to see if they are about to be victimized. The search feature is optimized to find words within the scam descriptions.

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Brain Drain, Indeed

post from Daring Fireball on 17 June 2011 06:03:48 PM. © Daring Fireball

Dan Lyons yesterday at The Daily Beast, on “Apple’s Brain Drain”, an “exodus” of top executives:

But in recent months two top lieutenants have left the company,and while it is way too early to say that Apple is in trouble, itseems we may be seeing a changing of the guard at the company, onethat will mark the end of an era that began in 1996, when Jobsreturned to the company he co-founded and launched the mostremarkable turnaround in corporate history.
The latest defector is retail chief Ron Johnson, who announcedyesterday he would be leaving to become CEO of retail giantJ.C. Penney.
In March, Apple lost Bertrand Serlet, a revered software engineerwho oversaw development of operating-system software for Macintoshcomputers. Serlet had been working with Jobs since the days ofNeXT, the computer company Jobs founded in the 1980s after beingtossed out of Apple.

“Defector”? “Exodus”?

Jobs has been out of the loop since January, when he announced hewas going on yet another medical leave.

“Out of the loop”?

Pretty sure Lyons should have stuck to the Fake Steve schtick.

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Ars Technica: iOS 5 Finally Brings Nitro
JavaScript Speed to Home Screen Web Apps

post from Daring Fireball on 17 June 2011 05:03:53 PM. © Daring Fireball

I like the “finally” in the headline. It’s been three months.

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Use Game Hits to discover all available
promotions in iTunes

post from prMac on 17 June 2011 04:33:00 PM. © prMac

AppGeneration as just released Game Hits 1.0, an App to discover all available promotions in iTunes and the best worldwide hits. You can easelly check all the information, images about each game and click to buy it. It also makes it easy to create your list of favorite games and share it with your friends by mail or post it in Facebook. With this app, you will never miss out on a promotion. We share with you valuable games for free.

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Man of the Week: Republican New York State
Senator Roy McDonald

post from Daring Fireball on 17 June 2011 04:04:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

On reversing his opposition to gay marriage in New York, Sen. Roy McDonald:

“You get to the point where you evolve in your life whereeverything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to dothe right thing.
“You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that.Well, fuck it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do theright thing.
“I’m tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the joband shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I’m trying todo the right thing, and that’s where I’m going with this.”

Todays Edition of Good Luck With That

post from Daring Fireball on 17 June 2011 03:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Stuart Sumner for Computing:

Apple cannot continue to lock down its iOS platform and restrictthe types of software developed for it, says security firmKaspersky’s CTO Nikolay Grebennikov.
Speaking to Computing, he said: “Apple simply can’t continuewith its current closed approach, and in my opinion, to remaincompetitive it should be looking to open up its platform withina year.”
“The Android platform, which is growing its market share, is muchmore open than the Apple iOS and it’s easier to create newapplications for Android, including security software,” saidGrebennikov.

MacDailyNews’s translation:

“We wish Apple would make its platform insecure like Google,so that we can sell ?security? to hundreds of millions ofiOS users.”

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Martin Pittenauers Short (and Admittedly Biased)
History of Collaborative Editing

post from Daring Fireball on 17 June 2011 03:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nice historical overview from SubEthaEdit co-creator Martin Pittenauer.

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A Computing Platform Runs on Momentum

post from Daring Fireball on 17 June 2011 02:04:22 PM. © Daring Fireball

Michael Mace, on “What’s Next for RIM?”:

To restore momentum in a faltering platform, you need a hitproduct. Can RIM generate one? The company says it willaccelerate the introduction of new products, which sounds sensiblein the abstract, but if it’s possible to develop products faster,why didn’t RIM do it before? And considering RIM’s history ofshipping buggy devices, I tremble at what its products might looklike if they were developed even faster.

I think Mace has RIM pegged.

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From the DF Archives: Why RIM Is Screwed

Yours truly, back in May 2008, on the trouble the iPhone posed for RIM:

There is marketing. There most certainly is design. But at thecore of this market — by which I mean the market for handheldmultitasking web-surfing networked-everywhere ?phones? whichare really computers — is engineering.
Apple is the best handheld computer engineering company in theworld today, hands down. They?re also the best handheldcomputer user experience design company. And they?re notsharing.

I.e., RIM was bringing knife-making skills to a gun-making market battle. Starting with the iPhone, the mobile industry shifted from phone/messaging to full-on mobile computing, and RIM wasn’t prepared for that. And in hindsight, that’s why Android has fared so well in the three years since I wrote the above. Android is a mobile computing platform, not merely a phone/messaging platform.

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