Anand Shimpi, founder of #AnandTech retires from journalism, joins #Apple !

Anand Lal Shimpi, founder of the well regarded tech ” review and analysis website” site AnandTech has retired from tech journalism. Last night, Shimpi said he was “officially retiring from the tech publishing world,” but didn’t say what he was doing next. “I won’t stay idle forever. There are a bunch of challenges out there :)”. This doesn’t mean the end of AnandTech however. The site will be run by new editor in chief Ryan Smith.

Bose Sues Beats!

Bose Corporation has filed a legal complaint against Beats Electronics for allegedly infringing patents related to its noise-canceling headphones. “To protect its investments, Bose has sought patent protection, and owns many patents and patent applications. Because Bose invests heavily in research and development, and because Bose has built its reputation on producing superior products through innovative technology, Bose’s continued success depends in substantial part on its ability to establish, maintain, and protect its proprietary technology through enforcement of its patent rights,” said Bose in its complaint.

Bose claims that Beats is infringing upon 50 years of research and development of noise cancellation technology that is protected by 36 U.S. patents and applications.Bose said that it is asserting the following patents against Beats:
6,717,537 – “Method and apparatus for minimizing latency in digital signal processing systems”

8,054,992 – “High frequency compensating”

8,073,150 – “Dynamically configurable ANR signal processing topology”

8,073,151 – “Dynamically configurable ANR filter block topology”

8,345,888 – “Digital high frequency phase compensation”

Bose is asking the court for a declaration that Beats infringed the aforementioned patents, an injunction from “continued infringement,” an award for damages, an order that finds Beats’ infringement is willful and relief that the court deems as just. Bose filed the infringement complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and is asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate the matter.

Samsung just launched a phablet with a ridiculous 7-inch screen

Apple’s Tim Cook on the IBM Partnership #ANTIJOBS

Team,

Today, we announced a groundbreaking new partnership with IBM that will enable enterprises to put the power of big data analytics at their employees’ fingertips on their iOS device. This exclusive global partnership brings together Apple’s legendary ease-of-use and integrated hardware and software with IBM’s unmatched industry depth, enterprise software and expertise in big data analytics.

Shocking Things you didn’t know about FIFA and the World Cup- John Oliver

The FIFA World Cup is something we all spend sleepless nights to watch but what really goes on behind this organization especially in this year’s world cup at Brazil. I didn’t know about this before I saw this video. DO WATCH…

Apple launches 16GB iPod touch and it’s got a camera @ $199 #pressrelease #PR #apple #ipod

Apple Brings Vibrant Colors & iSight Camera to Most Affordable iPod touch Model

 

iPod touch Lineup Now Starting at $199

CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple® today announced its 16GB iPod touch® is now available in vibrant colors and equipped with a 5 megapixel iSight® camera for just $199. The entire iPod touch lineup features the 5 megapixel iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording, brilliant 4-inch Retina® display, Apple’s A5 chip and FaceTime® camera. iPod touch features an ultra-thin and light anodized aluminum design and is available in pink, yellow, blue, silver, space gray and (PRODUCT) RED. iPod touch comes in a 16GB model for $199, 32GB for $249, and 64GB for $299.

iPod touch comes with iOS 7, offering more than 200 features including Camera app filters that let you easily add real-time photo effects. Additionally, the Photos app offers ways to automatically organize your photos based on time and location. With iCloud® Photo Sharing, it’s simple to share photos and videos with exactly the people you want to see them and your friends and family can comment and access their shared streams from any iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch, Mac® or PC at any time. This fall, iOS 8 will be supported on the entire iPod touch lineup.

With the revolutionary App Store℠ on iPod touch, users in 155 countries have access to over 1.2 million apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, including hundreds of thousands of games. More than 75 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. Customers also have the iTunes Store® at their fingertips, giving instant access to an incredible selection of music, TV shows, movies and books to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.

Pricing & Availability

iPod touch 16GB is available starting in the US today and worldwide in the coming days, in pink, yellow, blue, silver and space gray through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested price of $199 (US). Starting today, the 32GB and 64GB models have been repriced worldwide, at a suggested price of $249 (US) for the 32GB model and $299 (US) for the 64GB model. iPod touch requires a Wi-Fi connection or a Mac with a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port, Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later and iTunes® 10.7 or later; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later and iTunes 10.7 or later. An Apple ID is required for some iPod touch features.

Apple deal confirmed by Dr.Dre himself !

Click on the image to view the video. (FACEBOOK)

Post by Tyrese Gibson.

How did I end up in the studio with 
Dr Dre ON THE night his deal went public that he did with Apple 3.2 BILLION!!!! The BEATS HEADPHONES JUST CHANGED HIP HOP!!!!!

Apple to acquire beats electronics for $3.2 Billion

Apple is all set to acquire the entirety of Beats electronics for $3.2 Billion. According to a Financial Times report the deal will be confirmed as soon as next week. USA Today also reports that it’s sources have confirmed this. This deal would be the largest acquisition by Apple ever.

Beats Electronics executives, President and COO Luke Wood and co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.

The post by USA Today also pointed out the irony in the deal. Jimmy Iovine and producer-rapper Dr. Dre co-founded Beats Electronics seven years ago and came up with the idea for Beats by lamenting the decline in sound quality ushered in by Apple’s own iPod and the MP3 era.

The acquisition is the second in line for Beats as HTC bought half the company for $300 million and sold all it’s shares 9 months ago for $265 million. Now it’s Apple’s turn I guess. 

The internet is filled with mixed reactions as to what the deal would mean and it seems like a reasonable mixture. Personally I feel this would be a shot of Apple moving into the serious business of high-end audio in their phones and also headphones that supplement this hardware. Hopefully they make these expensive “fashion accessories” into worthwhile quality sounding headphones.

Apple: ‘There are some things we want every company to copy’

With the hundreds of patent law suits going on Apple makes a pretty bold statement (maybe with Samsung in mind). The ad is focused on green energy to produce products for the market.

Here is how the ad reads.

There’s one area where we actually encourage others to imitate us. Because when everyone makes the environment a priority, we all benefits. We’d be more than happy to see every data centre fuelled by 100% renewable energy sources. And we eagerly await the day when every product is made without the harmful toxins we have removed from ours.

Of course we know we can continue to do better. We’ve set some pretty ambitious goals for reducing our impact on climate change, making our products with greener materials and conserving our planet’s limited resources. So the next time we come across a great idea that can help leave the world better than we found it, we look forward to sharing it.