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May 17, 20080

20 iPhone Killers: The complete list

Categories: Apple, Application, Applications, Audio, Battery, Design, Dock, Itunes, Microsoft, Mobile Appz, Mobile Phone, Multimedia, Office, accesories, internet, iphone, ipod, music, online

Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone on January the 9th, the world has gone touch pad crazy, touch pad technology is the way of the future and many companies have heard the call and made their own touch pad phones in direct competition with the iPod. Now is touchscreen, the iPhone has its own mobile category (The iPhone Killer), almost all manufacturers realize that if they want to sell their smartphones they should label them as "iphone killer", it is not enough to have a full featured smartphone if is not a iphone killer and everyday you see how desperate they are just adding touchscreen to make their devices look like an iphone instead of adding new features. Check the list and make your bets, I believe that the only smartphone that will push down the iphone is another iphone. 1. Samsung F700 Coming in at Number 1 is the Samsung F700 ultra slim phone, answering the call early Samsung have come up with a splendid touch pad phone. Main features of the phone include a 5 megapixel camera, touch pad technology, impressive downloads speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps and a cool slide out QWERTY Keyboard, which is something ...

Feb 21, 20080

MoboVivo Delivers TV Shows on iPhone

Categories: Multimedia, internet, online

MoboVivo has been testing new technology that allows its users to purchase directly from an iPhone and synchronize television programs. The “Buy and Sync” program has been running since the iPhone release in June. Features continue to be added that will make it even easier to watch TV shows directly on a users iPhone or iPods. Available channels include MoboDiva, MoboDocs, UrbanVivo, lifestyle and entertainment. Most programming is available around the world with few restrictions. It is compatible multiple platforms including cell phones, hand held devices, video-enabled mp3 players, cell phones, set top boxes, and gaming consoles made by companies such as Apple, Sony, Archos, Microsoft, and others. “MoboVivo content is entertaining, but it is also important and smart,” said Trevor Doerksen, CEO of MoboVivo. “We know our customers want to live healthy, eat well, and stay informed, our documentary channel and lifestyle channel are very popular. We also know our customers are active and urban and the UrbanVivo nightlife channel is great entertainment” MoboVivo is the first company to offer paid downloads of TV shows in Canada. It is also one of the first companies in the world to offer services to iPhone users. The new buy & sync program bridges the ...

Feb 20, 20080

Is Adobe the next Netscape?

Categories: Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Multimedia, online

Today Microsoft chairman and mastermind, Bill Gates, announced that the software giant is giving away million of dollars in developer applications with a new iniciative called DreamSpark, which will provide professional software tools available at no charge to high school and university students worldwide. Wow, good software samaritan, we all love Microsoft, we really do. The problem here is that for Microsoft it is nothing more than another Netscape, why? See it this way, why on earth would you like to give away professional softwares at not charge if in the end you won't end up earning twice what you have already given? It is an investment and giving away those applications only hurts the Microsoft competition. This time is Adobe, which Microsoft chose as its favorite enemy. Adobe and Microsfot danced a Tango for a very long time, the Tango is an amazing dance, where you must do your best to harmoniously orchestrate the must beautiful movements, the Tango ended being a disgraceful dance and Microsoft has decided to step in Adobe turf, competing directly with Adobe hardcore applications. To achieve this new attack Microsoft created and is intensively marketing, Expression Studio, Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design and Expression ...

Feb 8, 20080

Adobe Stock Photos to be discontinued

Categories: Adobe, accesories, internet, online

Adobe has announced Adobe Stock Photos, the service integrated into Adobe Bridge, will be discontinued as of April 1, 2008. An FAQ is posted to address common questions (especially if you're an ASP user), and there are uninstallers for Mac and Windows that let you remove ASP from Bridge if you'd like. The FAQ is very light on the rationale for the decision, but in an interview with StockAsylum's Ron Rovtar (subscription required for part of it), Adobe director James Alexander says, "We thought we went to market with a set of features and functionality that were going to improve workflow. It was just not as compelling as we thought it was going to be." I don't have a lot of additional context to offer, other than to say that we're working hard to make Photoshop, Bridge, and the other Creative Suite apps much more easily extensible so that they can support whatever services customers find useful--whether from Adobe or from third parties. The product page read: Thank you for using Adobe Stock Photos As of April 1, 2008, the Adobe® Stock Photos royalty-free image service will be discontinued. Adobe made this decision in order to focus efforts in other areas. We ...

Jan 3, 20080

MobileScrobbler lets you broadcast your last.fm music

Categories: Apple, Applications, Itunes, internet, iphone, online

MobileScrobbler connects your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch with the Last.fm social music website. As you listen to music on your device, MobileScrobbler sends the title, artist, and album to the Last.fm website. Last.fm uses this information to suggest new music, new friends, concerts, and events based on the music you listen to. Features Scrobble tracks as you listen on your iPhone / iPod touch Queues songs for submission when offline and automatically submits them the next time you connect Listen to Last.fm radio over EDGE or wifi (wifi strongly recommended) Tag songs as 'love' or 'ban' View album artwork and artist data for songs as you listen View lyrics for the currently playing song View upcoming concert events and add them to your calendar All data is cached for offline viewing Requirements A

Nov 19, 20072

Deathmatch: Sony Ebook Reader VS Amazon Kindle

Categories: Application, Mobile Appz, Mobile Phone, Sotfware, internet, online

While Sony's Electronic books have been out for a while, the Amazon Kindle looks like the real winner in the E-Book arena, it is backed by Amazon, which one of its business is sell books, so there is nobody else as ready to provide this kind of experience as Amazon, they provide the ideal environment for this kind of device and in not matter of time they will turn the market upside down. Sony strategy with the Ebook Readers hasn't paid off and it looks. But don't count Sony out yet, this war is just starting to look interesting and Sony has its strategy in place for the Ebook Readers and in the Ebook Readers have some nice features that Kindle will have to match. Sony Portable Reader System ($279.99) Features The Portable Reader offers a new and convenient digital reading experience. It boasts an amazing screen with technology that rivals text on paper. Weighing less than 9 ounces and at only 1/2" thin, it's more compact than many paperbacks. Plus, it comes with a soft, black cover and software that seamlessly allows you to search and browse thousands of electronic book titles from the Connect™ eBookstore and then easily ...

Nov 2, 20071

Apple next move should be about Smart TV

Categories: Apple, Application, Mac Hardware, Sotfware, Youtube, internet, online

We all know the innovator in Apple, they can transform pure simplicity into marvel, why not apply this expertise to the TV. The Television as we know it hasn't changed in years, we have HDTV, LC TV, Plasma TV, but the concept it is the same, UP/DOWN, 1234567890, picture in picture and none of them have given a brain to the TV. The TV was the center of your home and lose its crown to the internet, which has displaced it and instead of merge those technologies, the TV has continued its long journey. What can Apple do? Imagine a TV interface based on Coverflow, where you can change your channels moving your fingers in your remote control trap pad, where you can freeze, transmit and record your favorite programs. Where if you listen a song in any commercial, the information about this song is automatically stored in a small area of your screen, where you can link from an ad to a web page just touching a button and where you just can rate, preview and recommend programs as we do in digg.com and others social sites. This is the television we deserve right now, Tivo has done a nice ...

Nov 2, 20070

Expect more trojans stories about mac

Categories: Application, Mac Hardware, Security, internet, online

There is not time to crash a party than in the begining of itsel.... Coincidence, every major Apple news there is something bad around or Microsoft manages to launch one of its products.... Now it is Leopard and a porno trojan that changes your mac ip address disguised as a codec... only if you let it, everytime a strange application tries to change your mac settings, Mac OS let you know, and only if you accept it as a valid application it proceeds. We are not talking about Windows, we are talking about your mac security and how people ignore everything about it, the mac security has worked for years and it is almost impossible to execute an application if you don't permit it manually, you, the owner of the mac, the user, somebody who has the control of the computer, in this case a mac. So everybody has been talking about how easy is for an internet trojan to runs in mac and they totally forget that (again) for this script/application to run it should be allow to do so... In the end what will really protect you is to think twice about what you do or where you ...

Nov 2, 20070

Apple was right about suscription services

Categories: Apple, Application, Mobile Phone, internet, online

Reading about Napster search for a new business model I realized that all this time Apple was right about refusing to turn itunes into a suscription service. All analysts were talking about how Apple was missing the most profitable oportunity without suscriptions and how those services will destroy itunes. Now the news is that being into the suscription business wasn't so profitable, worst those services were burning money, what would do suscribed to a services that don't let you put your music in your ipod? Nothing, and that was what Napster and friend were doing, nothing. Now everybody is turning to a new business model, a model that will let you listen your music everywhere in an itunes like interface services that will store your selection and let you share it, but not dowload it, so expect some dumb ass analysts tell you that Apple will lose market if it doesn't let users have its music saved online. People, what make Apple successful in the portable music space is the combination of good service and good hardware if one of the two fails then the whole experience will fail, Napster could have a nice approach, but not good hardware to ...

Oct 31, 20070

Apple likes Fon’s wifi for everybody idea

Categories: Apple, Application, internet, iphone, online

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is reportedly "very interested" in a world where people share their WiFi connections in return for free access to other wireless hotspots in their communities, and recently met with the founder of upstart provider FON, whose business aims might just dovetail with the iPhone maker. Jobs had previously read about FON, the latest venture of Argentinean new media entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, which launched in November 2005 under mantra "WiFi for everyone." It sells routers that have been designed to enable subscribers to share their home WiFi access in a more secure manner by splitting a traditional WiFi signal into two separate channels -- one for broadband internet access and another to share with fellow subscribers... (Via Appleinsider) - Whataboutmac.com

Oct 28, 20070

There is a War waiting to happen, Apple should shot first…

Categories: Apple, Itunes, Legal, internet, online

The popularity of itunes+ipod has transformed Apple from a tiny Computer maker that was working its ass off for a success to the most important computer company in the world, and that transformation has brought some free enemies, those that in a time were friends and willing to help now are preparing a contra attack to tumble down what took Apple years to make, itunes music store. First was Apple Records that prohibited Apple Computers to enter in the music business, suit here and suit there, everything is now resolved and couldn't be better, even the Beatles albums are rumoured to be in Itunes someday... Then NBC Universal and Universal Music were reluctant to negotiate a new contract with Apple, because they want more control of their music and content, this December the content from NBC, Bravo and others NBC Universal properties will be gone from itunes. Now is Warner Music, that has been telling the media that they will pursuit a better pricing scheme in itunes, now says that won't renew Apple itunes contract yearly, and will only negotiate its contract in a monthly basis. So is really more important for Apple to secure content for itunes, the success of this online ...

Oct 23, 20070

Bigger Apple means more problems for Universal

Categories: Itunes, online

Now that Apple is better than expected what are Universal's people thinking? Can they continue warning Apple about taking their music from itunes? or would they realize that Apple is now in better position to take on anybody Apple wants? These people hasn't wake up from last night dream and continue believing that they can achieve better results if they handle their music, but they hasn't done any innovation in the music space and pretend to milk the cow forever, music direction is controlled by users and what they want. Related Post: Mano a Mano: Universal Vs Apple - whataboutmac.com

Oct 18, 20070

Itunes’s new threats: Online music Players

Categories: Apple, Mobile Appz, Mobile Phone, online

Itunes has dominated the music space for a long time based on innovation, easy to use and its natural symbiosis with the ipod, dozens of well features players have come and gone and itunes still prevail, but recently those that have standed the itunes power (marketshare and mindshare) and survived are refining its features plus new offering of online music players that are appearing every week, now is ezmo, a flash based online music player that promises to let you upload your music, listen it everywhere and share it with others. While Ezmo doesn't represent a real threat to Apple's itunes right now, Apple should take this kind of sites seriously if they get legit, there are rumors online about Napster abandoning its suscription based business model and return to its roots, offering free online music listening like Ezmo.com. Imagine buying a new ipod touch or iphone with not music inside, you can login into Ezmo.com and listen your music on your own iphone/ipod touch. - whataboutmac.com

Oct 13, 20070

Mano a Mano: Universal Vs Apple

Categories: internet, iphone, online

People from Universal Music are preparing new attacks to the bigger online music store, Itunes, they are readying an online music store with DRM-Free tracks, but the issue here is that those DRM-Free tracks won't be available on itunes, they will be bringing their music catalog to poor services like Real Network's Rhapsody, Amazon, Best Buy, Google and Walmart, letting out Itunes. With this move Universal thinks that they can better manage its music catalog, but the Music industry has showed us that they can't innovate, ripping artists and hunting universities students is what they have done in years, there is nothing new in music and if you don't bring nothing up to what consumers want and keep the prices so higher that is better download them from bitTorrent, you are done, change business because this is not yours. But I still believe in what Apple really needs to do is create a content subsidiary and sign a lot of bands, from Rappers to Classic artists, everybody will like the idea to be pitch in Itunes, Universal is an old dinosaur (Record Labels are dying, ask it to Radiohead) and will be difficult for them to resurrect it, Apple is in ...

Oct 12, 20070

The next iphone killer… too much blood in this fight

Categories: Mobile Phone, iphone, online

Since the begining of the Ipod Era we have seen hundreds of ripoffs trying to lure customers from Apple, some of them with good design in hardware and software and others are just wasting time and money trying to derail the ipod train. Now we are even seeing more and more companies working togethers to create the same iphone experience, we have even seen some prototypes from Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Meizu, the recently announced LG's Voyager, Sun with Java Mobile FX platform and a collaboration between Samsung and Sun to create a better iphone interface, but what they are really doing is telling customers that the iphone is so successful that there's not waste of time replicating the look and functionalities of the iphone. By now there is one iphone's killer and it is Apple, the rest are just set on displacing the iphone position and not in creating a better experience and an itunes like store, sony and others failed creating an itunes like experience in their online music stores, let just wait for Apple..., time will tell. - whataboutmac.com

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