I know of a few folks that hope that iWork will go the way of MobileMe and simply become part of Apple’s upcoming iCloud service. I wouldn’t mind an iCloud tie-in, but I don’t want iWork apps to be “just” cloud-based apps; I still want copies of the software and the documents I produce on all my hardware.
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Samsung will become the world’s largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj, which has lead the market since 1996, per the Nomura research group, as reported by “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/1xnm7). Nomura also sees also Apple overtaking Nokia in the next quarter, pushing the Finnish company to No. 3 in the rankings.
“Nokia looks set to relinquish its smartphone crown to Samsung and Apple,” Nomura analysts said in a research note. “Further emphasizing the shift in power to Asia is our forecast for HTC to almost match Nokia during 2012.”
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“The Economist,” a London publication, says Apple will probably be around 100 years from now, reports “The Daily Feed” (http://macte.ch/Hg6kL).
The economic magazine took a look at today’s top performing tech companies and pondered who will make it to the other side of the 21st Century. “The Economist” thinks Apple will be around for a looooong time due to its philosophy: “Take the latest technology, package it in a simple, elegant form, and sell it at a premium price.”
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By Greg Mills
Personally, I don’t do FaceBook. However, my wife does FB and loves it. Therefore, privacy issues in FaceBook’s new geotagging pictures with names using facial recognition software residing on FaceBook servers, affects me as well as her. Since I tend to show up in the pictures she posts on line, my pictures are included quite often.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
EmirBytes has released Label Dispenser 1.0, its new photo labeling solution for iOS devices. The US$0.99 app was developed specifically for photographers and hobbyists to label their photos. It offers controls for manipulating the label’s position, size and angle. Users can customize the label, in terms of the background “tape” designs, font face and font colors.
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