'Nieuwe Apple TV werkt met iPhone OS'

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De nieuwe versie van Apple TV werkt met iPhone OS 4, krijgt cloudopslag en kost maar 100 dollar.

Dat meldt Engadget op basis van een bron, waarna een Apple-medewerker het bevestigde. Het nieuwe Apple TV-kastje gaat werken met iPhone 4 en heeft waarschijnlijk dezelfde processor en ingebouwd flashgeheugen. Gevolg is dat de opslag van multimedia deels zal gaan via servers op afstand.

Het apparaat krijgt ondersteuning van volledige HD-kwaliteit beelden. Apple wil zich met Apple TV vooral gaan richten op het streamen van online content. De prijs wil het bedrijf zo laag mogelijk houden. Hij gaat volgens de bronnen van Engadget in de VS maar 99 dollar kosten.

Of de apps uit de App Store straks ook op tv werken is nog niet bekend, maar het zou mogelijk zijn. Volgens Engadget maakt Apple tijdens het ontwikkelaarsevenement begin juni nog niets bekend over de update van Apple TV, omdat die bijeenkomst zich vooral toespitst op de nieuwe iPhone.

De nieuwe versie van Apple TV neemt het deels op tegen Google TV, een internet-tv-systeem waarvoor Google samenwerkt met Sony, Intel en Logitech. Google maakte de komst van Google TV ruim een week geleden officieel bekend.

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Wired Sells 24,000 iPad Apps in One Day s rather impressive.

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Will your iPad app sell like hotcakes or will it flop? If you’re like magazine publisher Condé Nast, that might depend entirely on your target audience.

Geek mag Wired sold 24,000 iPad apps on its first day in the App Store.

When GQ was released as an iPad app not too long ago, its demographic didn’t respond nearly as robustly. GQ has sold 57,000 copies of its iPhone and iPad apps combined over the past six months; apparently, the lad mag’s readers prefer hard copy to downloaded content.

The Wired iPad app costs $4.99 — the same as the ink-and-paper edition — and includes articles and features from the month’s issue. A new app will appear each month. The print version of Wired magazine sells around 82,000 single copies each month and has around 672,000 subscribers.

What do you think: Will significant numbers of non-geek readers ever prefer — and shell out for — a non-physical magazine?



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Facebook Leads in the Top 1,000 Sites [STATS]

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According to Google’s AdPlanner stats, Facebook is the #1 most-visited destination on the web. Weighing in at an unfathomably heavy 570 billion page views and 540 million users, the ubiquitous social network outranks every other non-Google site, taking more than 35% of all web traffic measured.

The stats, which do not include data from Google.com and YouTube, detail the categories, users and page views for each of the top 1,000 sites on the Internet. They also tell which sites have advertising. Wikipedia and Mozilla.com are the only two sites in the top 10 that remain ad-free.

Destinations such as Mozilla.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com and Live.com sit high in the rankings due in large part to their status as default landing pages for various browsers.

When it comes to non-Facebook social media properties, Twitter ranks 18th with 5.4 billion page views, Flickr is 31st with 1.8 billion views and LinkedIn sits in 56th place at 1.7 billion views.

And the usual blogging sites make appearances, too. Blogspot is in 7th place, WordPress in 12th and Blogger in 53rd.

Other popular destinations, according to Google’s report, are international web portals such as Baidu, Sina, 163.com and Sohu. Though relatively unheard of in American tech press, these sites are the online equivalent of our solar system’s Jupiter: enormous and a bit out of our reach.

Bank of America and PayPal also made the list, coming in at 93rd and 39th, respectively. And in the news category we find the BBC, which was ranked 43rd with 2.5 billion hits, followed by the New York Times’ website, ranked 83rd with 600 million views.

We think it’s pretty spectacular and surprising that Facebook has come to dominate global web traffic in just a few short years. Are any of these stats eyebrow-raising to you?



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NBC and Time Warner Side with Flash in Apple-Adobe War

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Apple’s war against Adobe Flash has hit yet another speed bump, as several major media companies have reportedly told Apple that they are sticking with Flash.

According to the New York Post, NBC Universal, Time Warner, and other media firms have told Apple that they won’t reformat their video libraries in order to make them work on the iPad. Apple has famously banned Flash from the iPad and iPhone for a litany of reasons including stability, security, and a preference for the HTML5 standard.

The ban doesn’t seem to phase executives at NBC Universal, Time Warner, and other media companies, though. Google’s very public embrace of Flash, culminating with its inclusion in Google TV, has emboldened these media companies to resist Steve Jobs’ demands. Why reformat your entire video library (not cheap) when Flash works and already dominates the web?

Media companies and Apple need each other in the end, though. Apple has enormous distribution, thanks to the iTunes store and its popular array of products. Media companies have endless hours of content and provide Apple with a potentially lucrative revenue stream.

Would Apple give up its crusade against Flash to secure the cooperation of media conglomerates? Somehow, we doubt it, but we don’t think this will be the end of the tension between media companies and the world’s most valuable tech company.



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Microsoft KIN to Sponsor Another Facebook Road Trip


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Microsoft KIN to Sponsor Another Facebook Road Trip

Microsoft turned some heads with its recent mobile phone marketing campaign; basically, the company sent a young girl, Rosa, around the country to meet her social network in person.

Now, they’re extending the same opportunity to all Facebook users. Anyone who “likes” the KIN page can enter in a sweepstakes to “win a KIN journey.”

“We sent a girl named Rosa around the country to visit her social network in person,” the page reads. “We want you to be the next to take that journey.” And since the “journey” is essentially an extended social media marketing campaign for Microsoft and KIN, the sweepstakes is essentially a casting call for the next face of the brand.

Any U.S. adult can enter to win, and the whole shebang ends tomorrow.

Social media road trips aren’t a new concept. Last summer, Graham Smith and Josh Baron made a grad thesis and short documentary about a Facebook road trip. And the author spent a good portion of 2009 doing roughly the same, minus the thesis.

The KIN “journey” examines the concept of online friendship in a rather outdated way; most Twitter and Facebook users realize that not all their online connections are truly “friends,” regardless of a network’s nomenclature. Still, it provides an interesting platform for discussion of web-based relationships and an equally interesting string of YouTube videos. Here’s an overview of what a Kin road trip would entail:

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Acer Shows Off an Android Tablet (Which Looks Like an Ereader) [Tablets]


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Acer Shows Off an Android Tablet (Which Looks Like an Ereader) [Tablets]


Regular readers will know that Acer's been planning ereaders and tablets for some time, but the Dubai-based Shufflegazine saw Acer's CEO fondling what looks like an ereader (check out the QWERTY keypad)—despite him calling it an Android-powered tablet. More »




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Pew: 71% of Young Adults Change Online Privacy Settings


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Pew: 71% of Young Adults Change Online Privacy Settings

auth_pers_may10.jpgThe same day on which Facebook has rolled back changes to its default privacy settings, Pew Research has released a report on privacy and reputation among young adults that has some interesting results. Though many have proposed that older generations of Internet users are more concerned with privacy online, Pew's study found that young adults aged 18 to 29 are more likely to monitor their online reputations by changing settings and deleting items on social networks.


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According to the study, 71% of young adults have changed their default social network privacy settings to limit the information they share with others, compared to just over half of the users aged 50-64. Additionally, 47% of young adults said they have deleted comments from their profiles, and 41% say they have removed their names from photos that they were tagged in.

71% of young adults have changed their default social network privacy settings to limit the information they share with others, compared to just over half of the users aged 50-64.
"Search engines and social media sites now play a central role in building one's identity online," said Mary Madden, lead author of Pew's report, "Many users are learning and refining their approach as they go-changing privacy settings on profiles, customizing who can see certain updates and deleting unwanted information about them that appears online."

As the report concludes, adults aged 18-29 are far more worried about preserving the integrity of their reputations online, and are, in fact, less trusting of the networks that host their data. 28% of young adults said they can "never" trust these networks with their data - twice as many aged 50-64 who echoed this sentiment.

The disparages between privacy concerns of younger and older generations of social network users could have a bit to do with the complexity that some networks place on their privacy controls. Facebook announced efforts today to make privacy control much easier to understand, which could increase control changes from older and less active users.

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Apple Is Now Bigger Than Microsoft [Apple]


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Apple Is Now Bigger Than Microsoft [Apple]


So, it's happened. By at least one metric, for at least this very moment—it could change tomorrow—Apple is now bigger than Microsoft. Apple's market cap passed Microsoft's today, just two months after edging under Walmart. The latest showing from Google Finance puts Apple's market cap at $225.98 billion to Microsoft's $225.32 billion. More »




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Facebook Privacy Briefing: Zuckerberg Shares that Privacy Does Matter


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Facebook Privacy Briefing: Zuckerberg Shares that Privacy Does Matter

fb connectA single word, context, was the message in today's Facebook briefing. In a world of changing expectations, the company says it is listening - both to what you are saying and what you are doing. "We listen to the net promoter score and find out if you promote Facebook to your friends," Mark Zuckerberg said.

In his presentation and Q&A this morning, it was easy to see how hard it is to gain a common context for how we view sharing. The last quote from him today was "Facebook is not a solved problem". We find this refreshing, and of course, true.


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In today's briefing, Mark Zuckerberg shared a review of the history of how the site has changed over time. Additionally, he demonstrated several a new simple privacy control aimed at tightening the experience of sharing for users.

Many things have changed in the short time that Facebook has been around. Cited today, user sharing behaviors, platforms, government interaction, and regional expectations.

The company has a big challenge and has in some cases been caught in the edge cases, which can safely be asserted, are being learned in real-time as the population of the site grows.

Meeting users needs for privacy is a problem of context, and Facebook is in a defining moment in its ability to scale as the prime global information sharing platform.

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In the company's efforts to "modernize the sharing platform" the company has taken heat by users in making sweeping changes that it feels strengthen the foundation of the system.

In responding to the negative feedback from users, press, and government, the company shared these areas where the world has changed.

One bing change is in the way we use the Internet, in short, people share more now than ever.

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Additionally, where we are located and what affinity is the "base" for experience. Facebook started with "campus", and evolved around preferences, interests, pages, and regions.

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When some of the regions "grew up" in Facebook, it became clear to the company that "auto friending" all of India (for example) wasn't meaningful or useful to many users.

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