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Apple’s e-book ‘cartel’
A revenue chart for the quarter would look very different, with Apple soaking up nearly all the profit there is to be made selling tablet computers these days. See here for how Amazon will “vaporize” the market for everyone but Apple.Apple was more that two years late to the e-book market. Amazon had launched the Kindle in November 2007 and was selling untold numbers of e-books for $9.99 apiece. Together, according to an earlier IBM study, the two devices accounted for 10.2% of Black Friday’s online retail traffic.
According to a class action suit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by the Hagens Berman litigation group, the booksellers were “terrified” by the heavily discounted e-book price structure — which lowered the perceived value of printed books — and were looking for a way to force Amazon to raise its prices.If one publisher acted alone to try and raise prices for its titles, that publisher would risk immediately losing a substantial (and growing) volume of sales.
The language of the European Commission’s press release Tuesday announcing the start of a formal antitrust investigation of Apple (AAPL) and five major book publishers doesn’t address the obvious question: If Amazon (AMZN) is the 500-lbs. gorilla in the e-book trade, why has Apple’s much smaller iBookstore been targeted?The answer lies in a deal that Steve Jobs cut with the five publishers named in the probe shortly before the iPad press conference in January 2010, when he announced the formation of the iBookstore.
“Fortunately for the publishers,” according to Steve Berman, Hagens Berman’s lawyer, “they had a co-conspirator as terrified as they were over Amazon’s popularity and pricing structure, and that was Apple.”Given Amazon’s first-mover advantage and ever growing installed user base, publishers knew that no single publisher could slow down Amazon and unilaterally force an increase in eBook retail prices.On Nov 10., the Department of Education’s IT department slammed on the brakes.
Not wanting to risk a significant loss of sales in the fastest growing market (eBook sales), the publishers named as defendants (“Publisher Defendants”) solved this problem through coordinating between themselves (and Apple) to force Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer pricing.Under the Publisher Defendants’ new pricing model, known as the “Agency model”, the Publisher Defendants have restrained trade by coordinating their pricing to directly set retail prices higher than had existed in the previously competitive market.
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Black friday of apple Amazon
Apple’s retail stores had their biggest sales day of all time, according to published reports.Hot-selling gadgets by Apple and Amazon appeared to drive tech sales on what, by all accounts, was a massive Black Friday.Ma Bell’s plan to buy T-Mobile may still technically be on life support. But make no mistake, AT&T’s stock looks pretty dead.AT&T (T, Fortune 500) announced last week that it is temporarily pulling its application for merger approval before the Federal Communications Commission.
9to5 Mac, an Apple-oriented blog, quoted an unnamed “source inside Apple Retail,” saying that the company had predicted sales four-times bigger than normal and topped that mark by 7 p.m.That move comes as the FCC and Department of Justice have both raised questions about the deal.iPad and Macbook Air sales were “exceptionally strong,” according to the source, who gave the blog a copy of an Apple Store inventory report.
Ma Bell also last week said it was prepared to take a $4 billion accounting charge in the fourth quarter to cover the required break-up fee payment to T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom if the merger falls apart.Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster counted sales in an Apple Store (just as he’s done every year since 2008), reporting that iPads and Macs were leaving the store at a rate of 14.8 and 10.1 per hour, respectively. That’s up from 8.8 and 8.2 per hour last year, according to his count.
If AT&T has to pull the plug on the deal — leaving that pretty T-Mobile spokesgirl looking for another corporate gentleman caller (paging Sprint (S, Fortune 500)!) — it may be tougher for Ma Bell to compete as effectively with its top rival Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500). Fortune’s Phillip Elmer-Dewitt noted his findings, as well as a separate Deutsche Bank analysis in which 75 percent of Apple Stores surveyed said they’d sold out of the iPhone 4S by the end of the day Friday.
But analysts said that as long as AT&T keeps paying that big, fat dividend, investors may not care. AT&T’s annual dividend is $1.72 a share. That works out to a yield of nearly 6.2%. Apple tends to avoid discounting its products, but this year offered some deals on Black Friday.Meanwhile, the Kindle Fire tablet — which may become the strongest challenger yet to Apple’s iPad — led the way for a big day for Amazon.Apple, Amazon lead big tech Black Friday.
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Apple:AT&T wins for data speed, Verizon for call reliability
The iPhone 4S is available on three major carriers, leaving potential buyers to wonder whether AT&T, Verizon or Sprint is the better network choice.Comcast is on track to begin offering live television to subscribers’ iPads as long as they stay near their home cable boxes, executives for the cable giant said in interviews.Apple is a powerhouse of ingenuity, patenting ideas as soon as an engineer can scratch them down on paper (or iPad).
Around three dozen Apple patents made their way through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week alone.Here we share three of the most notable — one helps prevent cracked cover glass, another would deliver power to multiple devices with just a single adapter, and a third is a far-reaching location-based services patent that could keep Apple’s competitors on their toes.First off, Apple has come up with a solution for keeping the glass on the back of your iDevice from breaking in the event of a fall.
Pricing plans aside, carrier quality is a significant factor in anyone’s purchasing decision, and now consumers have hard data to help them choose: A just-released study reports AT&T is tops for fast data speeds, while Verizon is the most reliable when it comes to making phone calls.Obviously, the simplest solution would be to avoid glass screens altogether, but if glass is going to stay, it should be made more resilient.The average dropped-call rate for the entire mobile industry is 1.4 percent.
The tests found that Verizon dropped calls 2.1 percent of the time, while AT&T dropped 2.8 percent of calls and Sprint lost 3.7 percent of calls. Although Sprint dropped the most calls, it had the highest call quality on the uplink (outbound calls), while AT&T had the best downlink call quality (inbound calls).The original iPhone launched exclusively with AT&T, which was the sole carrier of the iPhone until Apple announced that Verizon would also begin carrying the iPhone 4 in January 2011.
With regard to maximum data speeds, AT&T led the pack at 6,047Kbps, with Verizon a distant second at 2,371Kbps, and Sprint crawling in last with only 1,767Kbps. It’s unclear, however, exactly where Metrico tested data bandwidth, and as any iPhone-toting San Francisco resident will tell you, data quality can be terrible in areas with high concentrations of tech geeks.Prior to the launch of the iPhone 4S, rumors swirled that the phone would land on Sprint, and ultimately proved true. Of the three carriers, Sprint is the only one that provides a true unlimited data plan.
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Apple’s toxin-free devices
In its latest report, Greenpeace continues to hammer Apple for not disclosing comprehensive statements about future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or having specific public policy statements about energy and climate. (This is despite Greenpeace’s claims that its criteria have changed to focus more on actions than words.) Greenpeace’s latest “Guide to Greener Electronics” was released on Wednesday, ranking Apple in fourth place among several of its consumer electronics peers.
Apple’s efforts have garnered some faint praise from Greenpeace. Last year, the organization awarded Apple four gold stars for eliminating PVC and BFR from its products. In the latest guide, Greenpeace also praised Apple for its leadership in product efficiency and voluntary recycling efforts. For instance, two years ago, energy consumption by its products amounted to 53 percent of the company’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Apple allows some of its engineers to test prototypes of its upcoming gadgets out in the wild.But it also takes serious precautions with those prototypes.Apple will “ugly-up” the casing with prototype material. If your holding an ugly prototype from from Apple, “usually that’s a good tip off that there’s a prettier version that actually exists and they went back in and made it ugly so you can’t enjoy it.”Greenpeace may not like that the company doesn’t disclose specific future plans or policy positions.
Of course, investors expect the company’s growth to be driven by the iPhone AND the iPad. If the iPad is slowing down after less than two years, and just as competition starts to heat up, it could be a problem.Speaking of record growth, Apple noted that its rate of increase of greenhouse gas emissions is far lower than its sales growth. Since 2008, Apple’s sales volume has increased 74 percent, while emissions only increased 57 percent.
Dell and HP continue to outscore Apple in Greenpeace’s rankings, largely based on policy statements and stated goals. It’s worth considering that both companies are responsible for nearly a third of the PCs shipped globally and half of PCs shipped domestically. If both companies were to design products with greater efficiency, use more recyclable materials, and eliminate chlorine, bromine, mercury, and arsenic from their products, they would have a far greater overall impact on the environment than Apple currently does.
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Records for the quarter of Apple
Apple said it sold more than 17 million iPhones in the past quarter, falling short of the previous two quarters’ sales figures, as some consumers held out in anticipation of the new iPhone 4S. That’s still impressive, however, considering the iPhone 4 had already been on sale for more than a year during the past quarter. Apple said Monday that it had already sold 4 million iPhone 4S devices in the first weekend of sales.
In the past three months, Apple set new sales and profit records for the quarter and wrapped up a fiscal year in which it blew past the $100 billion mark. It sold an all-time record number of Macs and iPads. It sounds strange, but this is what a bad quarter for Apple looks like.Despite those records, Apple’s revenue and earnings this quarter fell far short of Wall Street’s forecasts.It maybe a little bit disapponit.Apple sales top $100 billion, but fall short of estimates
Over the weekend, the company sold more than twice the 1.7 million iPhone 4s that it sold during last year’s opening weekend, though the numbers are a bit skewed: This year’s iPhone was simultaneously launched in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, while last year’s launch did not include Australia and Canada.
Those numbers disappointed investors expecting more, and shares of Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) fell 7% after hours.Here’s a consolation prize: Apple again edged out Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500) in the tight race to be the stock market’s most valuable company in the world.
However,the world has already witnessed a turn over by the time iPhone 4S lauched.It’s just an iPhone sales slowdown, which can’t be THAT surprising as people waited for the iPhone 5, err, 4S. Mac & iPad sales solidApple sells record 4 million iPhones. Can the new series of Apple mobile break record again? Let’s look forward.
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iPhone 5: France Telecom set for release October 15th
On a date for the launch of the new iPhone is speculated for some time. Stephane Richard, CEO of French mobile operator France Telecom has now announced that the iPhone 5 on 15 October 2011 will go on sale.
The date for the launch of the new Apple smartphone of France Telecom’s chief called in an interview with French business news website FOM. “If you believe what they told us, then comes the iPhone 5 on 15 October this year on the market,” said Richard.
The date could well be true. The Orange mobile brand of France Telecom is one of the world’s most important distribution partner for Apple’s iPhone. Richard also had already betrayed the launch of the iPad 2, before Apple officially said this. It is now natural to speculate whether it is in Richard’s remarks on the iPhone 5 is an indiscretion or a targeted advertising campaign by Apple and France Telecom.
Richard also added that special rates are provided for the iPhone fifth To the hardware features of the new Apple smartphone but he made no statements. So far no details are known, since Apple is ahead of the announcement, as usual, keep covered. According to the rumor mill is based the device on the A5 dual-core processor, which is also the dell latitude d610 battery is used. In addition, there should be an 8-megapixel camera and an improved antenna design. On the software side, the new IOS should be used 5.
The iPhone 5 can in this country already in the German mobile telecoms operators, Vodafone and O2 are pre-ordered. In the U.S., the device should be available in mid-October with Sprint Nextel. Bloomberg called the timing of the launch would coincide with the data of France Telecom’s CEO.
Richard refers in an interview on unspecified people (probably from the Apple Corporation, or a supplier) and says: “If you believe what they told us, then the iPhone on 15 5 October come on the market. ” About technical intricacies, however, he gave no information. It is likely that the iPhone will have a five 8-megapixel camera – this appeared some time ago on a photo that shows a plate of sushi and indicate the EXIF data on an iPhone. Also likely to implement a dual-core processor A5 be as good as safe and as far as the operating system, so in all likelihood iOS 5 is used. The display is expected compared to the iPhone 4 be slightly larger and have a diagonal in the new edition of 4 inches – These tended to be a guess. It is also not yet sure whether the new iPhone support the LTE is fast or not. If that is too expensive for iPhone 5 release, in any case can resort to a cheaper alternative – Finally, Apple also plans to introduce a “semi-successor”, namely the iPhone 4S.
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Fujitsu LH531 notebook’s hp pavilion dv4バッテリーinterfaces located on the sides and front,because of it use of sinking shaft design,the rear can not design any interfaces.Interfaces to the left,which are:power connector,cooling air outlet,VGA port,HDMI port,and two USB ports.Fujitsu LH531 notebook’s right side of the interfaces are relatively small,CD-ROM was designed in the right side.Another are the overlap of two USB ports and RJ-45 Ethernet line interface,most rely on the security of reserved slot.
Fujitsu LH531 notebook’s toshiba pa3107u 1brsfront side is designed microphone input and headphone output.The two front side of the interface design has the advantage of visual headset and microphone connected,more convenient.Reader is also designed in the front,it also designed a separate wireless card switch,easy to turn off the wireless network.Fujitsu LH531 notebook’s back did not design any interface,the battery is out of the back.
Fujitsu LH531 laptop’s dell vostro 1510バッテリーconfiguration as a complete is enough to use audio and video entertainment.If you are running the big game,it can only say that the only game with the entry-level configuration,as it is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GT410M graphics card is just an entry-level graphics card.Its CPU for i5-2410M,and comes standard with 2GB memory and 500GB hard drive.And Fujitsu LH531 notebook with two graphics technology.
Fujitsu LH531 notebook’s NVIDIA GeForce GT410M discrete graphics performance is indeed a force,with the great gap between the mainstream GT540M.But the i5-2410M’s performance is very strong,it can fully meet the needs of home office.LH531 Fujitsu laptopdell xps m1210バッテリー,using i5-2410M graphics with dual NVIDIA GeForce GT410M,it is entry-level platform with significant independence,the target user is the user-level office and home entertainment.
Especially women users,Fujitsu LH531 notebook has cherry pink,red and thermal-type action and black color options for them to choose from.Its design brings a shape consistent of Fujitsu notebook features outstanding visual effects narrow frame design,Japanese design allows notebook dell studio xps 13バッテリーcomfort can be handy for everyday use.Work materials are considered excellent,especially the resistance of the screen hinge is quite good,feel good.
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Sharp announces new 3D modules that can record at 720p
After presenting – not without a little ‘with envy by competitors – the revolutionary 3D screens for next generation mobile devices, Sharp is once again ready to impress all with brand new modules can record movies in three dimensions to the resolution 720p.
Given the size of very small, does not surprise us to see these devices on smartphones in the near future but it is obvious that this technology is also applicable in other areas. It is not yet clear when these modules will begin to be available, but some rumors say that by the beginning of 2011 we can already see its first applications.
The race to 3D is becoming more exciting, but this future will be truly three dimensional?
Wave Samsung S8500 video focus on interface, games and navigation
As a curiosity for the new Samsung S8500 Wave is great, since we receive many questions and many emails we read the blog, we announce a series of videos that show in some detail all parts of the software. The videos are unfortunately not in Italian, but we are sure that lovers of this phone or potential buyers may find it very interesting. Notice how the browser is very fast in loading pages (wi-fi).
Unfortunately it seems that the phone has a problem in the video, turn the page. In the test we did a few weeks ago but the rotation was very fast.
The bionic arm is ready and is controlled by the mind!
Germany-based Otto Bock Healthcare has announced that its prototype of a prosthetic arm that can be controlled by thought is ready. The bionic arm has been tested on young Austrian Christian Kandlbauer, 21 years and is the first person in the world for years that the morning he went to work and driving a car with a robotic arm controlled by the mind!
Four years ago, Christian has lost both arms due to electric shock of 20,000 volts. The left arm was so implanted the revolutionary robotic arm simply by thinking about who controls what you want to do. It ‘the first project of its kind in Europe and an international conference held last week in Leipzig, Germany, the company announced that the bionic arm is ready to leave the lab to be available to the public so soon.
‘S team of Dr. Egger is publishing detailed guidance on surgical techniques to be adopted. This is a new technique (TMR) known as "targeted muscle reinnervation" in which the use of nerves that once transplanted, allow you to send electrical impulses to the brain, signals that are then interpreted by a micro-computer and used to control the prosthesis.
Now Christian can drive, have a job and even grab a glass of beer.
"With the implants are able to do things in my life alone, without the help of another person," he says. "I am independent." "I feel very happy," the BBC said in a telephone interview. "I feel that my arm is a part of my body."
Nirvana taptaps Revenge, Tapulous new game available in the App Store
After the huge success of taptaps 3 Revenge, Tapulous back in the App Store with a new music game. This is the version of taptaps dedicated to Nirvana: Nirvana taptaps Revenge. In the game we will have 13 tracks of well-known grunge bands of all time to play.
This special edition of Tap Tap Revenge has the following characteristics:
* 13 of the Nirvana classic.
* 4 songs to play in landscape (horizontal)
* Battle Mode to hone your skills against an opponent in a Bluetooth network.
* Four levels of difficulty
* This section is dedicated to the history of the Band
Here are 13 songs available:
* All Apologies
* Breed
* Breed (Live)
* Come As You Are
* Heart Shaped Box
* In Bloom
* Lithium
* Lithium (Live)
* Rape Me
* Smells Like Teen Spirit
* Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)
* Stay Away
* You Know You’re Right
Nirvana taptaps Revenge is available in the App Store at a price of 3.99 euros and weighs 15.4 MB. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, requires firmware 3.0 or later.
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Samsung W960, the first phone with AMOLED 3D display
That Samsung was a leader of the displays for mobile phones and one of the leading manufacturers of panels for TVs with the new 3D LED had no doubt, but to see a mobile phone with AMOLED 3D display still do not imagine it. We had already talked about a similar technology in some previous articles, but we could not imagine seeing her debut so soon. Samsung W960 is the first smartphone with a display capable of displaying 3D stereoscopic images without special glasses.
The screen has a diagonal of 3.2 inches, and will AMOLED touch-screen (not super AMOLED apparently). When the market should be guaranteed only in South Korea, but we hope to arrive in Europe soon. The interface is the Touch Wiz 2.0, with support for integrated TV (for the Asian markets), HSDPA, Bluetooth and expandable memory via microSD.
W960 seems to be the first test of this new technology and see a phone, perhaps with Super AMOLED Bada and this new 3D technology may not be a hypothesis so far.
New video of the Playstation simulator for windows mobile version of HD2 fpsece 0.10.1
Still small updates to the popular Playstation emulator for Windows Mobile FPSECE. Fix for memory, the HTC Gsensor skins and a new Journal. We recall that a couple of months ago was the possibility of adding multi-touch on ‘HD2 that is obtained by inserting the line Multi_Mode = 1 in the [PocketPC] in. Ini file where you installed the program. Forum Official details of the various updates and the official website can be found.
Olympus E-P2, now also in silver color
The mirror cameras with the micro four thirds in coming years surely will gain significant market share. This type of device is still quite expensive to produce but in the future, almost certainly, the field of compact cameras is (at least) supported by this new segment.
Olympus was one of the first companies to offer this type of camera and the E-P2 is enjoying worldwide success beyond all expectations. Today, Olympus E-P2 is only available in black color but the Japanese company has just announced that soon will arrive in Europe a version "silver".
The technical features remain exactly the same and the camera will be accompanied by a 14-42mm zoom the focal length. The price of this version will be slightly higher, and set at 799euros. We shall see in Europe in mid-May.
IPad is controlled by the Magic Mouse!
Every day we discover new hacks and features of the Apple tablet (jailbroken or not), as support for un’hard drive outside the control of the tablet with the Wiimote and compatibility with the Apple USB keyboard. A final research, as we have previously shown, reveals that 44% of the iPad replace a netbook!
Redmond Pie has so transformed the iPad in a real PC Desktop dock with keyboard and Mighty Mouse. Not only that the utility app called "BTstack Mouse" now available on Cydia for iPhone and iPod touch, fails to recognize different types of mice.
Below, the video demonstration with the Magic Mouse depending on the iPad: you can have access to the settings of the pointer, you can scroll web pages with ease, browse the Photo Library, to zoom a map in Maps with double click, select a piece of text in Pages, and even draw! Here’s the video from Youtube.
MyPaint, the complete graphics editor for Maemo
Some of you will surely have experienced in recent periods MyPaint, fantastic application for editing images on the N900.
Until yesterday, in fact, you could install MyPaint through a series of files and not through the repositories, but fortunately now you can ‘download safely and easily from N900.
With MyPaint you can create, edit and save different types of image formats, including:
*. Now. Jpg,. Jpeg,. Png.
* OpenRaster (. Hours), MyPaint native format, which preserves all information on the levels
If you really need to find a defect by the application of many functions, is the lack of support files. Psd (for now).
MyPaint Manager packages can be downloaded from Extras-Devel repository through.
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HP Laptop XP Downgrade
Windows XP for a long time, much appreciated by the HP presario cq60 battery users on the computer. The operating system is stable, offers a classic and very intuitive and easy to use interface. But if Vista, most consumers are fascinated to see how it is with him, but in the end was not very happy idea.Windows Vista, even today, as the operating system in some laptops and some simply do not appreciate . If you should happen to the HP laptop and make a few changes to get back into Windows XP, you can by a relatively simple steps to manage.
But it’s not just Vista, as some users even prefer Windows XP to 7, it’s about how you used to, and attitudes that see what you can build your own laptop HP XP downgrade.First all of them for the Windows XP disk drives and at least 20 GB of space on this work. Note that this refers to the hard disk format, so if you have some important information in Section C, or where you want the OS to not run again a few saves to make hp 510 battery . Now the Windows XP CD into the drive HP laptop, and began.
Thus started the laptop again, and CD-ROM drive can read. You can press any key to boot from a CD. If you have a utility to install Windows, press the “R” the Recovery Console to open. You will be asked to type your Windows installation to choose. Enter “1″, then press Enter. Recovery Console command prompt, type the following commands: fixboot FIXMBR CD / Ren WinXP exhaust vents. If “Enter” when you press enter ‘exit’ will start the laptop with Windows XP installed hp pavilion dv4 battery to download.
Enter the wizard installation steps are completed, to complete the installation will start automatically. At least you wipe out, but everything is automatic. When the installation is complete, Windows XP, run the boot. Now you can have your documents and files in Windows Vista the default folder, usually C If you drive copied all the files and a version of Windows XP drivers for the laptop, remove the directory “WinXP” installed hp compaq nc6400 battery, the unused space on the OS.
As I mentioned, you will have the information you have HP laptop loses it, or save the data directly from a CD or another hard drive or do it themselves. Of course, this process is only about 1 hour and lasts for you to learn to switch between operating systems, but the risk is high, and sometimes, so be prepared for it. If all these things, you have a laptop with Windows XP, you can take if you want, and use. HP is a reputable manufacturer and that is why many people want a Apple powerbook g4 battery for sale, but check the operating system when buying a new system and see if you are wrong, it’s not.
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Posted on December 7th, 2011 by karanzy
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