Wireless Dynamics unveils near-field/RFID reader
for iPhone

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Mac OS X 10.7 already in development

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Apple is in early development of the next major version of Mac OS X, evidence suggests. The inf...

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Im Going to Tell My Son the Worst Swearword in
the World

post from Daring Fireball on 18 November 2009 10:44:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

Jon Ronson:

My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than fuck. “No,” I say.

There’s a silence. “You’re lying,” he says.

“There’s none worse than fuck,” I say.

Joel narrows his eyes. “I know you’re lying,” he says.

(Ronson made the excellent documentary Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes.)

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Apple Has Been Working on OS X 10.7 for At Least
a Month

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Snow Leopard has barely gotten its paws wet, and now news comes that Apple is already working on its replacement. It’s not really surprising, since Apple is basically always either working on the next iteration of its products or releasing them, but still, it does whet the appetite for the next version of OS X.

The suggestion of the new operating system appeared in an entry posted early this morning in a change database for “launchd,” an open source framework that controls the booting of OS X and administers running processes. The new entry includes an error message with the string “11A47″ in it, which is a reference to what version of Mac OS X is being used.

Previous versions of OS X have all followed the same numbering scheme. The number at the start of the string references which version of OS X is being used, with the letter indicated the minor release number and finally another number at the end indicating the development progress of said minor release. So, for example, Snow Leopard at release was represented by the string 10A432, and Leopard was 9A571. 11A47, then, would seem to indicate that an early build of 10.7 was being used.

According to MacRumors, the “47″ part of that number would suggest that Apple has already been working on the new version of OS X for at least a couple of months now. It’s still very early days, though, and probably even a long way off from a release to the developer community. We saw a two-year span between 10.4 and 10.5, but only a one year gap between the release of 10.5 and 10.6, because 10.6 represented mainly performance upgrades and refinements. Chances are, 10.7 is at least another year and a half off.

No news yet on what to expect in 10.7, although there is reason to believe that the upcoming iteration of OS X will bring more major changes than the last update. Traditionally, Apple introduces far more GUI and basic functionality changes in major point releases, but Snow Leopard was a special exception to that rule, a fact reflected in the price. It’s possible that Apple will release OS 11 at some point, but as of right now, it seems likely that it will continue with the current numbering scheme.

Anything in particular you’d like to see in 10.7? Maybe something you were disappointed wasn’t there in OS X 10.6? Personally, I still think Finder could use some further fine-tuning, but otherwise I’m at a loss at the moment.

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Surveillance: New Online Get A Mac Ad

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Today, on CNN.com I noticed a new online Get A Mac ad that I’ve lovingly named “Surveillance.”

Apple has done these sort of multi-banner ads on large news sites like CNN and NY Times before where the two ads cleverly interact with one another.

In this ad, Mac and PC are talking about Windows 7 and above them a number of surveillance cameras are showing people going in and out of Apple stores presumably switching from PC to Mac. PC can’t stand the thought so he runs to one of the stores and is observed on one of the surveillance cameras stopping people form going in to the Apple store.

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Filed Away for Future Claim Chowder: Mike
Arrington Says Google Is Making Its Own Android Phone

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Mike Arrington says Google is definitely making its own phone, coming in “early 2010”:

Way more interesting are the rumors we?ve been hearing for months about a pure Google-branded phone. Most of our sources have unconfirmed information, which we describe below. But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they?ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

That puts Arrington on the same side as the almost-always-full-of-shit Scott Moritz. On the other side: Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering for Android at Google, who just two weeks ago said Google would not “compete with its customers” and “We’re not making hardware. We’re enabling other people to build hardware.”

So either Mike Arrington is totally wrong or Andy Rubin is a liar.

At the outset of Google’s Android initiative, I was a proponent of their creating a Google-branded, Google-designed reference handset. But at this point, after promising their hardware partners for 18 months that they wouldn’t do that, I don’t see how Google could do it without infuriating their partners and spoiling their trust. It’d be like what Microsoft did to its PlaysForSure partners when it introduced the Zune.

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Sony Ericsson cutting four offices, 2,000 jobs

Sony Ericsson is in the middle of a surprise, major cost-cutting measure that will close some of its...

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Korea ready for iPhone sales, China Mobile still
in talks

The path is now clear for South Korean iPhone sales, reports note. The Korea Communications Commiss...

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Sunstorm Interactive releases Run Razzle Run -
New Action Game

Sunstorm Interactive today announces Run Razzle Run 1.0, their exciting new game for iPhone and iPod touch. Run Razzle Run takes players back to traditional arcade action. Razzle is on the loose again! Players must take the rambunctious rat from one end of the city to the other. While racing along the power lines Razzle-rescuers direct Razzle to jump up, jump left or jump right, over and over again in a never ending combination of skillful moves.

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