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With the passing of another year at Cupertino, so we have seen another year of many of the same themes. Yes, they’re tiring questions for some of us, but they’re pertinent ninetheless – “How is Apple coping in the post-jobs age?” “Is Apple still a byword for innovation?” “What do Apple’s shareholders thinks?” “Are those new iPhones enough to keep the brand ahead of the pack?” “ Is that damn iWatch ever going to appear?” Some of those questions certainly haven’t been answered in 2013, and still won’t be in 2014 – bit more about the for, that Apple will be talking for many years to come. 2013 was a busy year at Cupertino, with the iPhone 5s and 5c, iPad Air, iPad Mini with Retina Display and Mac Pro…

Sir Jony Ive !s many things: Apple’s Senior Vice President, Design; the main beneficiary of the downfall of skeuomorphism champion Scott Forstall; that voice so widely imitated by commentators every time Cupertino has a brand new product to promote via its customary stark white videos; one of the most celebrated natives of Chingford, England; and heir to Steve Jobs. Well, that’s the suggestion among many who have presented the Briton as just one reason why Apple’s greatest days may be yet to come. Sir Jonathan Paul Ive was born in 1967 and has since become one of this generation’s highest-rated industrial designers. Indeed, it’s not hard to see why he has gained the status of a legend among many of his fellow design professionals. He’s the main man behind the…

Apple once again hosted one of its legendary ‘special events’ on Tuesday, September 10, and with it we got product announcements, such as Elvis Costello’s “new song from an album we’re just about to release next week,” in the words of the venerable singer-songwriter who closed the show. As for Apple itself, well, some might suggest that it was easier to count what didn’t happen. In the run-up to this event, the rumour pages were all aflutter, as they always are with all things Apple. The Cupertino firm, of course, has had its detractors in recent times with mutterings about a lack of innovation, a sliding share price and struggles to remain at the front of an increasingly competitive smartphone market all giving potential reason to worry. Just ask Gartner…

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If you were following the news and rumors about the !Phone 5s, you knew a lot of what to expect for the most part even before Apple made the big announcement on September 10. You knew about the fingerprint sensor, the new gold color, and all about !OS 7. But what you didn’t know about was the muchimproved camera. The cameras on !Phones include improvements every year, but they’re not often this exciting. Last year’s improvement of adding the panoramic option was a great improvement and did garner some definite excitement. However, it doesn’t even come close to the excitement now registering over !Phone’s present and future users. This camera is now going to be comparable to the digital cameras photographers use. Is this even possible? Can a simple little…

iPAD AIR Just as Apple surprised everyone by abandoning the Mac OS naming system following big cats and switched up to California locales, they surprised everyone again by abandoning the numbering system for !Pad names. Ater starting with the !Pad, the next generation was called !Pad 2. They followed this with not the !Pad 3, but the “New !Pad/’ although everyone still insisted on calling it the !Pad 3. The next iteration of the tablet was the !Pad with Retina Display, but this got too confusing, as the New !Pad already had retina display. It was then nicknamed the !Pad 4. Convention had everyone believing the followup device would be named the !Pad 5 or Fifth Generation !Pad. Instead Apple went with a connection to its laptop series, calling it…

Holy crystal ball, Batman. The future is here and helping our furry friends find their way back home. Thanks to a new facial recognition technology-based !Phone app released on November 5, lost pets can now be found with a few clicks on a mobile phone. Here’s how PiP (which stands for Positive Identification of Pet) works: Human family members upload a variety of photos of their dog and or cat or both, supply a few details of same, like breed, height, weight, and distinguishing features, and then presto! You’re on board should anyone go missing. At this point the app, which has been uploaded to your !Phone, will send out a sort of Amber alert for pets to all PiP subscribers in the immediate area as well as to vets…

Apple’s move to more seamlessly link its new !OS 7 mobile operating system into car systems will force automakers to decide whether the computer giant is a friend - or a threat to their incar digital plans, analysts say The basic idea, as announced without much detail by Apple earlier this week, is to integrate a simplified, Siri-enabled application of !Phone functions into a car’s dash screen and infotainment system. Apple named Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Ferrari, Infiniti, Kia, Hyundai, Volvo, Acura, Jaguar and two General Motors brands, Chevrolet and Opel, as companies in discussions. But that leaves out other industry notables, such as Ford - which already has a linkup with Microsoft. It’s easy to see why automakers are dividing up. Deciding whether Apple helps or hurts depends on “what…

How can a plastic ball about the size of a baseball be a robot? How can it be safe enough to be used as a child’s toy? And how can this simple round ball be a video game? Because Sphero 2.0 is amazingly adaptable. It’s so much more than it looks like from first glance. Sphero 2.0 may seem like just a simple plastic ball, but it’s not. There are mechanisms inside it that make it sound like a small animal running around inside. When you pick it up you can feel the weight of the mechanisms moving around. It’s these mechanisms used in conjunction with your !OS device that make it so versatile. If you’ve ever driven a radio-controlled helicopter or car, you can imagine one of the first…

When Apple unveiled the !Phone 5s in Cupertino on September 10, there was plenty to talk about. Was the new handset a worthwhile upgrade on the !Phone 5? Was its specification sheet - incorporating the likes of an “all-new” 8 megapixel !Sight camera and 64-bit A7 chip - sufficiently impressive to allay shareholder concerns about a lack of product innovation? Whatever happened to the Apple TV or !Watch that we were hearing so much about lately? That day, though, much of the world’s media focused its attention on one particular new feature: Touch ID, the !Phone fingerprint sensor. The announcement of this feature wasn’t a massive shock - in fact, there were loads of chatter on the usual online blogs and rumor pages about fingerprint authentication actually and finally making…

Following the launch of Gameloft’s mobile title “Despicable Me: Minion Rush/’ the game has reached more than 50 million downloads on the App Store and Google Play in one month. According to a release, since its release on June 13, the game reached #1 of the Top Free Apps in more than 100 countries on !OS, and maintained that peak position for three consecutive weeks in the U.S. Customer ratings are also exceptional, with an average rating of 4.5/5 on the App Store and Google Play. The game was developed in coordination with Universal Partnerships & Licensing (UP&L) and Illumination Entertainment. “We are proud to have brought all the fun, humor and mischief of the film into this original game,” said Gonzague De Vallois, Senior Vice-President Publishing at Gameloft. “Despicable…

Before Midnight This romance picks up nine years after one of its predecessors, Before Sunset, has ended. Its other predecessor is Before Sunrise. In this latest film, Jesse and Celine are the parents to twins, while Jesse is looking for success in his relationship with his son Hank, as well as his career as a novelist. Celine is between ‘jobs. They’re looking for a romantic evening together but end up going over their past, present, and future together. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star. FIVE FACTS: 1. Just like with Before Sunset, Hawke and Delpy again share screenwriting credit with director Richard Linklater. 2. Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy’s efforts picked up the Screenwriter of the Year Award at the Hollywood Film Awards. 3. Delpy enjoyed filming the fight scene “even…

In a play on famous words memorized from “The Wizard of Oz,” Apple computer users like me are now saying, “Lions and mountain lions and snow leopards, good-bye.” Indeed, these now retired versions of the OS X operating system have been replaced by a new and mighty beast: The OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This news came early into the most recent Apple event held outside San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley. The word came during a meeting that every tech type has been anticipating especially as it’s only weeks after the September launch of the !Phone 5s and the !Phone 5c. And, as is appropriate when an announcement of this nature is imparted, a huge roar of delight erupted from the crowd when Craig Federighi made his biggest claim. In…

Bonnie may live behind bars, but she still likes to bang on drums while fellow resident Kyle enjoys playing the piano. Both musicians are wild animals when it comes to making sounds on a tablet, but that’s not a backhanded compliment. These two inmates are, in reality, orangutans. And just when you thought only humans are able to embrace the world’s newest tech culture, right? Well, not so, say the apes who are going bananas over their ability to use !Pads at the Smithsonian’s esteemed National Zoo. In fact, the Apps for Apes program - an Orangutan outreach initiative seen in action at this progressive place for endangered animals in Washington, D.C. - is working to enrich future primate quality in this zoo and in about a dozen others around…

Who doesn’t want to get away for a breather? Summer’s just about here, meaning the time is ripe for some serious downtime and a leisurely road trip, all with the help of the latest travel apps. These handy assistants make taking to the nation’s highways that much more palatable than in days past when diversions were few and far between. Sure, playing I Spy can be fun, but the game gets old fast. HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED. Now. not only are diversions available via the many gadgets that travel with us, but so is more extensive information about where we as sojourners are headed. Take the Big Sur and Monterey Bay by Sutro Media app. This is one my kin now use during our annual family trips up the craggy…

Who said that Apple was being tardy in its attempts to show its innovation once more? Whereas those awaiting the more-thaneagerly-awaited !OS 7 and the possibly-onlyslightly-less-eagerly-awaited OSX Mavericks will both have to wait until “this fall” to get in on the action, one new Cupertino product that we are getting right now is the updated MacBook Air. We think it was worth waiting for, too, although you might not agree on first glance. For one thing, don’t expect any drastic changes in the aesthetics, as we’ve seen on the !OS side of things. As a matter of fact, the exterior of the new MacBook Air features no changes whatsoever, with the exception of the addition of a second tiny hole for a two-mic setup, akin to that seen on the…

CEO Steve Ballmer is restructuring the company to cope with a quickening pace of technological change that has left the world’s largest software maker a step behind its two biggest rivals, Apple and Google. In an effort to catch up, Microsoft is dismantling a management structure that separated the company into sometimes disjointed divisions and hatching a more cohesive product line-up. The new set up revolves around software, devices and services connecting those devices to applications stored in remote data centers --a concept that has become known as “cloud computing.” The move comes amid a lukewarm response to the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship Windows operating system and a steady decline in demand for personal computers as people increasingly rely on more convenient smartphones and tablets. If things pan out…

This morning Gameloft, a leading global publisher of digital and social games, and Microsoft Corp. announced a full slate of Gameloft’s blockbuster titles for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, with 15 games slated over the next twelve months. Beginning with the releases this Fall of Asphalt 8: Airborne and Dungeon Hunter 4, Gameloft will launch a complete line-up of blockbusters across many genres simultaneously on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, taking advantage of the Windows platform’s multiple hardware configurations and focusing on exciting new features like cross-platform play between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices. “Gameloft’s AAA-quality games are a perfect match for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8,” said Baudouin Corman, Gameloft’s VP of Publishing, Americas. “Microsoft’s platforms provide a great environment for serious and deeply…

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Nokia is expanding its lineup of Windows phones and introducing its first tablet computer, all sporting the powerful camera technology found in its flagship Lumia 1020 smartphone. The struggling cellphone maker is turning to the camera to differentiate its phones from rivals. The Lumia 1020 has a 41-megapixel camera with technology designed to produce better low-light shots and offer greater manual controls than most smartphones. The new devices will use Microsoft’s Windows system and come as Microsoft aims to complete its 5.44 billion euros ($7.4 billion) deal to buy Nokia’s phone business and patent rights. The deal is expected to close early next year. The Finnish company has seen its cellphone business unravel since Apple revolutionized the way people use handsets with the 2007 introduction of the !Phone. Microsoft, meanwhile,…

Ironically, I am writing about roller coasters, even though I am scared to death to ride these seemingly threatening theme park beasts. Oh, don’t get me wrong. Awe overtakes my fear when it comes to the way these mechanical marvels work, and I am duly impressed by the architectural impact each has on the surrounding landscapes in which these contraptions exist. But getting on board to take the real ride? No way. Or at least that’s how things stand today. A while back when my sons were young and adventurous (as opposed to now when they’re older and even more adventurous) I took an assignment that had us trying out roller coasters every weekend for a month. This is something that every kid who grows up in Southern California dreams…

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NEW YORK - When Apple launched its !Tunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry _ reeling from the effects of online piracy _ was anxious to see how the new music service would shake out. “The sky was falling, and !Tunes provided a place where we were going to monetize music and in theory stem the tide of piracy. So, it was certainly a solution for the time/’ said Michael McDonald, who co-founded ATO Records with Dave Matthews and whose Mick Management roster includes John Mayer and Ray La Montagne. The !Tunes music store became much more than a solution; it changed how we consume music and access entertainment. It’s not only music’s biggest retailer, it also dominates the digital video market, capturing…

Apple is on the verge of rolling out its own music streaming service, a move that could shake up the fast-growing Internet radio market. Apple Inc. has signed deals with two major music labels for the rights to stream their songs but is still negotiating with a third music label, which could delay Apple’s plans to announce the !Radio service next week at the company’s developers conference. When Apple finally does launch its streaming service, it will be a relative latecomer, following rivals such as Pandora, Rdio, Google, Spotify and even Microsoft. But with Apple’s position as the world’s largest music retailer, with the !Tunes store available in 119 countries, analysts say it would be a mistake to underestimate the impact its service could have. “There are plenty of reasons…