an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account
an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
the reliability of menu extras
an issue in Dictionary when using Hebrew as the primary language
shutter-click sound effect when taking a screenshot
an issue with the four-finger swipe gesture
an issue adding images to contacts in Address Book
an issue in Front Row that could cause sluggish or slow frame rates while watching videos
creation of mobile accounts for Active Directory users
reliability and duration of VPN connections
general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
overall improvements to VoiceOver performance
this update addresses video playback and performance issues for iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) and iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) computers that may occur in some situations while AirPort is turned on
Fonts fixes provided for:
an issue with font spacing
an issue in which some Fonts are missing
font duplication issues
an issue with some PostScript Type 1 fonts not working properly
Graphics fixes provided for:
an issue when connecting monitors to DVI and Mini DisplayPort adapters
an issue in which the brightness setting may not be remembered on restart
addresses functionality with specific display models
general reliability and performance improvements when using some applications
Mail fixes provided for:
a situation in which Mail’s unread count may not update properly as messages are read on another computer
an issue in which deleted RSS feeds may return
an issue in which Mail cannot preview or Quick Look attachments when composing a new message
an issue that can cause Address Book and/or Mail to stop responding when opened
an issue in which email messages received from an Exchange Server are not formatted correctly
an issue in which Mail reports “Account exceeded bandwidth limits” for some Gmail accounts
MobileMe fixes provided for:
performance when accessing files from iDisk via the Finder and syncing iDisk files
an issue in which syncing iDisk files does not proceed beyond “checking items”
reliability and performance when syncing contacts, calendars, and bookmarks with MobileMe (syncing with iTunes and iSync are also improved)
an issue that prevents some users from logging into MobileMe via the MobileMe System Preference pane
Network file systems fixes provided for:
compatibility with third-party AFP servers
file synchronization for portable home directories
Printing and faxing fixes provided for:
automatic printer updates improvements
Print dialog allowing you to enter and send to more than one fax recipient
Safari fixes provided for:
a graphics distortion issue in Safari Top Sites
Safari plug-in reliability
All Android phones only use ROM for app storage? Droid limited to 256MB
Mon, 11/09/2009 - 4:27pm — Seth Weintraub
One of the things that no one has really talked about much on the Android platform is the limit of installing apps to the ROM (news to us). Apple allows you to install apps on the 8-64GB of storage that comes along with the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. AndroidandMe exposes this significant issue with the Google OS:
The Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM which contains only 256 MB available for app storage. Google does not support installing apps to the SD card (and likely never will), so developers are limited in what they can create.
Google is all about the Cloud so this is likely something they’ve considered, but it will significantly limit what can be put on an Android phone like the Droid. 256MB is only enough for a few mid-sized games. IF you build a 50MB app for the Android platform, how many people will give you 20% of their phone’s app storage for it?
Not when Apple’s tablet comes out. In the short term, fewer sales of Snow Leopard (and netbooks). But when the tablet arrives it will (possibly) give SL a boost—and further hurt netbook sales.
I thought Atom support was rather strange… the only people who could make use of it were Dell, Acer et al. So if Apple could update to disallow it, then it sounds reasonable. Of course I am sure some would say, “My Hackintosh was great, I could run OSX anywhere”, and that is fine, but as a shareholder how does it help? Unfortunately it will add fuel to the “Apple wants to control everything” debate but hey.
Not when Apple’s tablet comes out. In the short term, fewer sales of Snow Leopard (and netbooks). But when the tablet arrives it will (possibly) give SL a boost—and further hurt netbook sales.
The relatively small increase in SL sales for use on PCs is immaterial. Preparing to launch a revolutionary new device will propel revenue and earnings growth for the next three years.
The PC market is about to get a swift kick in the butt from an Apple tablet. In a way the netbook makers are paving the road for the tablet.
Samsung Offers Smartphone Software As Competition Intensifies
By EVAN RAMSTAD
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. next year will produce smartphones based on its own operating software and encourage software developers to write programs for them, a step that puts the world’s second-largest cellphone maker in competition with some of its key technology suppliers like Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.
The move is a sign of the rising importance phone manufacturers are placing on controlling their own platform, as companies like Apple Inc., Research in Motion Inc. and Palm Inc. do with their smartphones. Nokia Inc., the world’s largest cellphone maker by unit sales, has two proprietary operating systems for smartphones.
Samsung executives said the company will continue to offer smartphones based on many types of operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Google’s Android. “We feel we need to be multi-platform in smartphones and cannot just focus on one,” says Lee Ho-soo, executive vice president in charge of Samsung’s strategy for product software and content.
But the company, as it did with regular cellphones, is also seeking to control the direction of its smartphone products by offering its own operating system. The move also provides a hedge in case developers of the other systems take financial or technical steps that Samsung doesn’t like.
Samsung on Tuesday launched a Web site aimed at attracting software developers to its proprietary operating system, which it has named “bada,” the Korean word for ocean. It will provide a software development kit to programmers next month. The company hasn’t decided whether to let other cellphone makers to build phones based on its software.
Samsung will offer its first bada-based smartphone in the first half of next year. The company in September opened its first online stores for selling smartphone software in the U.K., France and Italy and aims to provide such service in 30 countries next year.
“The company wants to be a total provider like Apple, with its own platform and app store,” says Greg Noh, analyst at HMC Securities in Seoul. “Being a total provider is every company’s dream right now.”
Though it accounts for about 20% of the global cellphone market, Samsung is a latecomer in smartphones, which is the industry’s fastest-growing and most profitable segment. Smartphones will account for about 16% of all cellphones this year, but represent less than 5% of Samsung’s business.
To date, most of Samsung’s smartphones are built around Windows Mobile software but the company has also built a few Android-based models and two that use a Linux-rooted operating system called LiMo.
Mr. Noh estimates that bada-based smartphones will account for half of Samsung’s smartphone lineup by 2012. Samsung’s Mr. Lee said it’s too early to make such estimates, however.
—Jaeyeon Woo contributed to this article.
Here’s yet more movement from standard-issue print publishers into the new eBook/handheld device paradigm, NewspaperDirect has launched an iPhone version of its popular PressReader application, which lets users download and read over 1,300 full-content digital replicas of newspapers and magazines.
PressReader presents publications as full-content digital replicas in their original layout. Every article, advertisement, crossword puzzle and cartoon is presented in its original context in the paper, with the ability to instantly zoom in on any element. PressReader offers rich-graphics or text-only viewing options, an interactive table of contents, cross-title searching, sharing of articles, and live, clickable elements such as URLs, telephone numbers, email addresses and hyperlinks to other articles.
The PressReader iPhone application and (during November) the first seven titles are free downloads from the iTunes App Store. Among other titles, it offers The Washington Post, New York Post, Globe and Mail, National Post, The Guardian, Daily Mail, International Herald Tribune, The Australian, Gazeta Wyborcza, Corriere della Sera, Bangkok Post, and Kommersant.
“Other news applications for the iPhone offer limited website access or a reduced version of the publisher’s content, whereas PressReader delivers your favorite publication in its entirety and original layout; it’s just like reading the paper,” said Alex Kroogman, CEO of NewspaperDirect. “We’re continually enhancing PressReader for iPhone, and we’re looking forward to offering the application on any new devices Apple might announce such as the highly anticipated Apple tablet.”
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Samsung on Tuesday launched a Web site aimed at attracting software developers to its proprietary operating system, which it has named “bada,” the Korean word for ocean. It will provide a software development kit to programmers next month. The company hasn’t decided whether to let other cellphone makers to build phones based on its software….
Maybe they’ll use Bing search and henceforth be known as Bada Bing!
Just another stab in the heart of the dying dinosaur that is Microsoft IMO.
[ Edited: 16 November 2009 09:12 AM by ChasMac77 ]
John Gruber has posted a take down of Joe Wilcox’s piece which was posted friday entitled “Apple was NOT more profitable selling cell phones than Nokia in Q3” Wilcox stated the following (to give you a flavour):
As for Apple’s overall phone profits being higher than Nokia’s, don’t believe it. Just because dozens of Websites report something as true doesn’t make it so. Because of the extent of misreporting, I can’t say where the fault lies. The Strategic Analytics report, which again I haven’t seen, might have gone no further than present numbers showing that Apple makes more profit per phone than Nokia. That absolutely makes sense. But to assert that iPhone generated $1.6 billion profit during a quarter when all Apple products generated $1.67 billion is simple stupidity.
John’s piece points out the main bit of where Joe’s piece goes wrong which is that he completely ignored the 1.1 billion non-gaap earnings. Joe’s argument can be seen in that last sentence.
Oh Joe You Didn’t
Joe Wilcox published a piece Friday titled “Apple was NOT more profitable selling cell phones than Nokia in Q3” (caps emphasis his). It’s in reference to the widely-cited (and linked from DF here) report last week by Strategy Analytics which concluded that Apple generated more profits than Nokia from mobile phone handset sales last quarter.
Wilcox was skeptical — nothing wrong with that — and conducted his own investigation into the numbers:
Intel to launch four Arrandale CPUs for mainstream notebooks in January 2010 DigiTimes
Intel plans to launch four 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs (Calpella platform), the Core i5-520M, Core i5-430M, Core i3-350M and Core i3-330M, in the first half of January 2010 for the mainstream notebook segment, according to sources from notebook players.
The Intel Core i5-430M runs at a clock speed of 2.26GHz, but with Intel’s Turbo Boost technology, it can run up to 2.53GHz for a single core. The Intel Core i3-350M also runs at 2.26GHz, but does not support Turbo Boost technology; Intel Core i3-330M runs at 2.13GHz and also does not support Turbo Boost technology.
These processors are the follow on to the Core2Dou for mobile and should find their way into the next generation MacBook and MacMini. Since these cores include a GPU on die, I would expect Apple to use the quad core mobile Clarkfield with a discrete GPU in the top end Macbook Pro.
Today, we’re proud to announce version 2.0 of Google Earth for iPhone. We’ve added some exciting new features, including the ability to view maps that you create on your desktop computer right from your iPhone, explore the app in new languages, and improved icon selection and performance.
View your maps wherever you go
Have you ever wanted to view a custom map with Google Earth on your iPhone? Well, now you can. By logging in directly to your Google Maps account, you can view the same maps that you or others have created, using the My Maps interface. Maybe you’re on a trip and want to see where Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of Lonely Planet, most likes to travel. Or perhaps you’re walking around looking for a restaurant and you want to see where world-famous chef Ferran Adrià likes to eat. All you have to do is click “Save to My Maps”, open Earth on the iPhone, log in with the same account information, and voilà, you have your same collection of My Maps right in your pocket
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