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Siri-ing John Malkovich
Apple is continuing its “famous person uses Siri” commercials by bringing in famous person John Malkovich to add a soupon of Old World weltschmerz and philosophizing to what is, in short, a way to schedule a wake-up call without unlocking your phone. The commercials feature Malkovich ...
Apple 'iTV' will revolutionize content delivery and advertising
Apple iTV will completely revolutionize the cable TV and TV advertising markets...
How Will We Interact With an Apple Television?
"I finally cracked it," Steve Jobs famously said to biographer Walter Isaacson in reference to an Apple-made television set. The elegant set-top box known as the Apple TV has been labeled as a hobby since its conception, and many are guessing that a full-fledged television by Apple woul...
"Nanny Computing" and the future of OS X
Note to readers: I failed to add a "do not pub yet" note onto this post the night before last. It was inadvertently published during our overnight before it finished research and editorial review. The post is much the same with clarification added about how and when the hotkey ban is due to go in...
Instacast pricing raises hackles: are apps bought or rented? [Updated]
Update: I made a mistake about Instacast's support for notifications in the original draft of this article. Please read my corrections at the end. My apologies, readers. --RichThe release of Instacast v2.0 ruffled some feathers recently. Vemedio, publishers of the popular podcasting app, have tak...
Beepocalypse: How Apple could improve multi-device reminders
Today, beloved leader Victor pointed me to this write-up over at Tidbits. Although Joe Kissel's experience with quite so many devices (nine, I believe) falls a bit into the extremes of iOS/OS X use, the problem of dealing with distributed alarms is a real one: a single reminder can set off alerts...
Affordable UltraBooks are coming but they aren't UltraBooks
There are looming PC wars coming and it isn't between Macs and Windows based notebooks...
"Nanny Computing" and the future of OS X
As I write this, I just got off the phone with a colleague. He just now is realizing that Apple is end-of-life-ing all those great little hotkey shortcuts that used to let us bring an app to the forefront and do something.QuickSilver? TextExpander? Things? Alfred? Launchbar? All those other great...
Three Ways Facebook Can Leverage Mobile To Boost Revenue
Editor’s note: Hussein Fazal is CEO of AdParlor, an ad management and technology company for Facebook campaigns. AdParlor manages over 1 billion daily ad impressions on Facebook for clients such as Ubisoft, SEGA, Groupon, OMD and Starcom.I must say that I have been a little bit disappointed...
On clueless analysts and iTV being such a "terrible use of retail space"
Pacific Crest’s Andy Hargreaves wins the coveted title for this week’s Most Idiotic Analysis concerning a rumored HD TV television set from Apple, aptly dubbed by the press the iTV.In a note issued to clients on Tuesday, Hargreaves provided two arguments against an Apple-branded telly...
