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The looming battle for the TV OS

Posted by | Sep 3, 2010 | , |

Andrew Eisner, Retrevo.com’s director of Community and Content, predicts the next platform for apps will be connected TVs. Retrevo sees a living room where TV viewers click on a weather app or sports app instead of watching the local news.

A home where families play a board game together on the TV using the Monopoly app, or stay in touch with their friends with a FaceBook app, all from the comfort of the living room couch. Following are some of Eisner’s thoughts on the looming battler for the TV OS.

“Microsoft unlikely to win this battle

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Deutsche Telekom to lose iPhone exclusivity in Germany?

Posted by | Sep 2, 2010 | , |

Deutsche Telekom AG will lose exclusivity for the iPhone in Germany ahead of the l Christmas holiday shopping season, bringing the number of providers who sell the popular device in the country to three, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467252834463766.html?mod=googlenews_wsj), quoting “people familiar with the matter.”

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CloudDav enables WebDav access for S3, SkyDrive, other Storage Clouds

Posted by | Sep 2, 2010 | , |

SMEStorage (http://www.smestorage.com) has announced that CloudDav is now available to purchase for all registered users of the SMEStorage Gateway service, whether they are free or premium members.

CloudDav enables WebDav access for supported storage clouds, such as Amazon S3 and SkyDrive, even when the underlying storage cloud itself does not support it. This makes it ideal for being able to access documents via iPhone/iPad applications that support WebDav, such as Office2,  from storage providers that are otherwise not supported, according to SMEStorage CEO Ian Oborne.

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MacTech Conference 2010: Sessions and Speakers

MacTech Conference 2010: Sessions and Speakers

Posted by | Aug 31, 2010 |

We start off the conference with an entertaining keynote by Andy Ihnatko. “We’re thrilled to welcome Andy as our keynote speaker. As an internationally beloved tech journalist (not to mention that he’s Chicago Sun Times’ Technology Columnist), Andy is insightful, funny, and a pleasure,” said Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MacTech Magazine.

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