Dec 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
After numerous people got lost in Murray-Sunset National Park when Apples map led them there instead of the city Apple has corrected the issue. This time of year is the beginning of their summer and temperatures reach 146 degrees. There is no water source in the park. Police have had to rescue stranded people. There map had the city 45 miles from where it actually was. Police posted the error on their website and reached out to Apple to correct the issue. Apple has corrected the issue and apologized for the problems.
Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Motorist are getting stranded in Murray-Sunset National Park trying to reach the city of Mildura using Apple maps. Police in Victoria, Australia are warning motorist not to use the app because Mildura is actually 43 miles away. Police tested the app and confirmed that it is incorrect. There is no water supply in the park and the temperatures can reach 107.6 F. Police have saved some people that have been stranded for 24 hours that walked long distances to get cell phone reception. The police have reached out to Apple about the discrepancy. In the above photo the red pin is where Apple list Mildura and the purple is the actual location.
Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Next year iPhone will come to T-Mobile. This will be very interesting because T-Mobile has been on a crusade to end phone subsides and show the public that they are actually paying more to when they take a discount on a cell phone. This will be a hard sell for the iPhone because they range between $650 to 850. T-Mobile has financing that will allow the customer to purchase a phone and put it on a payment plan for an additional $15 to $20 a month. This financing will make the bill look competitive to other carriers. T-Mobile allows customers to bring unlocked phones onto their network which is cheaper for service. By T-Mobile not doing subsides they say that the plans are going to be cheaper.
Dec 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Samsung is trying to get a federal judge to throw out or lessen the 1.05 billion patent judgement against them. Meanwhile Apple is trying to get 535 million more because the jury found that Samsung willingly infringed on the patents. Apple wants 26 Samsung products banned some of which are older and will not hurt Samsung. But a win could give Apple a global edge over Samsung.
Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
The new iTunes 11 is the most change Apple has made since 2003. Connectivity between iTunes and your libraries has been made faster and more seamless. The Sidebar has been removed, there is now a drop-down button, after you select the media type you now get choices along the top. Expanded view has been added that gives the user more information about music, movies and TV shows. A Miniplayer has also been added. The new iTunes will take a little getting used to but there are nice new features.
Dec 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Awhile back I wrote a blog about John McAfee and his dispute with his neighbor which was found dead. After the report of the neighbors death John McAfee was nowhere to be found and there was a claim that he had falsified metadata of a photo of him in Guatemala. However it does seem as though he is in fact in Guatemala. He even released a statement about the issue:
?I apologize for all of the misdirections over the past few days. It was not easy to exit Belize and required many supporters in many countries. I am in Guatemala and will be meeting with Guatemalan officials this morning. If all goes well I will do a press conference tomorrow.?
There should be more details coming out about what has happened with McAfee after November 12 which was the day the manhunt started for McAfee as he was noted a ?person of interest? in the murder.
Dec 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
By the start of next year Yahoo is cutting certain services. The biggest drop will be the phone in and phone out service which was a feature in conjunction with Jajah. The contract ends on January 30th. People who have paid for the service stopped being billed on Friday. However if their is an a balance owed to you for prepaid you will have to contact Jajah for the refund. Finally they are also removing interoperability with Microsoft Live Messenger on December 14th. Pingbox and public messenger will also be removed.
Nov 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the last couple of days Groupon has had a bunch of negative press. Especially about the CEO and his possible departure. Well it looks like Groupon is making some strong moves to get back to the glory days. Groupon and Major League Baseball has struck a deal with 30 MLB clubs. Now this is going to be through Groupon Live. Some baseball teams have had Groupons before with their tickets and saw some success and now more teams will try their luck. The groupons are going to be deals on seating the 30 mlb stadiums foe specific games based on reports of the deal. So with online tickets like ace tickets, scorebig.com and other sites selling tickets at low cost how likely do you think it will be that when you want to go see your team that you will go to grouponlive for said tickets. Give me your feedback.
Nov 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
It looks like Sharp is having some finical issues as they are looking at a second straight year of losses at a record pace. Now there have been reports that they have went to Dell and Intel about getting some capital. Now Sharp isn’t the only Japanese electronic companies that have been looking to get some investments. Sony and Panasonic have also been reported to look for some venture capital to get back to core business. So it will be interesting to see.what Sharp gets. Sharp was one.of the industry leaders in television development but not even an industry leader is not safe from this poor world economy.
Nov 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Windows 8 has hit the 40 million licenses sold mark just after the one month anniversary. This news was shared to the media at the Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference. Right now it seems that Windows 8 is also outpacing Windows 7 in terms of the upgrades and this is mostly due to how the ease of use in performing the upgrade. The Windows Store is also seeing some decent numbers as it has pasted the $25,000 revenue mark and right now the developers of apps keep 80% of the revenues. So I would start developing for the Windows 8 platform.
