The color purple: Could the WWDC logo foretell a TiVo partnership?
Much has been written about Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 logo, and eager Apple watchers are looking to it for clues about what the company might announce on June 10. (Images: TiVo; Apple; Jason D O’Grady/ZDNet) While iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 are foregone conclusions, the WWDC logo might While the…
Virgin reveals TiVo tweaks Broadband TV News
Virgin Media’s director of consumer platforms has given details on the improvements made by the cablenet to its implementation of TiVo. “There were too many buttons on the early remotes and in the early days people were trying to integrate it too much with the previous platform,” Ian Mecklenburgh told…
Adobe Reveals Cloud-Based Lightroom-Style iPad App Mashable
Adobe’s already graced the iPad with Photoshop Touch, a simplified version of its venerable desktop photo editing application, Photoshop. Now the company’s offered a sneak peek of an iPad app that promises many of the most powerful capabilities of Lightroom, Adobe’s professional photo image editor. Adobe product manager Tom Hogarty,…
Tablet sales soar as Blackberry boss predicts market’s death
Tablet computer shipments soared in the first quarter of 2013, growing by 142.4% compared with the same period in 2012, according to analysts IDC. Figures suggested more tablets were shipped from January to March 2013 than in the entire first half of 2012. Apple remains the biggest brand in the market with a 39.6% share. The…
Olympus PEN E-P5 mirrorless camera leak suggests 16-megapixel, WiFi flagship
Olympus is about to add another branch to your camera-buying decision tree judging by new images and specs that leaked out showing a new PEN E-P5 model. The classically shaped Micro Four Thirds flagship was shown in leaked photos along with specs pointing to a 16-megapixel sensor, WiFi, a 1.04…
Google , T providing free public WiFi at South Station
Google, Biederman Redevelopment Ventures Corp. and the MBTA have partnered to build the infrastructure for free public WiFi service inside Boston’s South Station.Starting today, free WiFi access will be available throughout South Station. Google has invested in the network and BRV Corp., who manages the public space programming inside…
More 80s Fabulousness
Robot Unicorn Attack 2 improves upon almost every aspect of the original. The concept has been expanded far beyond its initial tongue-in-cheek roots, and those changes serve to make it come together as a better cohesive whole. The absurdist humor that captured so much attention the first time around feels Like…
Does Apple’s iOS need a makeover?
Apple designers are said to be working around the clock on major changes to iOS to update, streamline and improve how the mobile operating system looks ahead of the company’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in the second week of June. The changes may be so drastic, Bloomberg reported, that the company…
Chinese Restaurant Offers “Wife” Instead of “Wifi” Kotaku
This restaurant in rural China isn’t bathed in Wifi. According to the above sign, it’s covered in Wife. Online in China, people are apparently amused by the above sign, spotted at a rural restaurant. It reads (via MIC Gadget), “Our Farm Has Been Covered With Wife.” While English isn’t the…
Apple’s Ive Seen Risking IOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul: Tech
You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com Play Apple’s Ive Seeks Dramatic Changes in New iOS 7 Jonathan Ive, six months into an expanded role as Apple Inc (AAPL).’s top product visionary, has embarked on a sweeping software overhaul that leaves the company at risk of falling…
