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• iOS developers Steven Troughton-Smith and TheMudKip have managed to hack the 2nd generation Apple TV to run iOS apps at full resolution.
• Many existing apps seem to run well on the Apple TV, which is known to be an iOS device using an A4 processor.
• hack isn't available publicly yet, and remains more of a proof of concept at this time

  • What we really need is a full redesign of the Apple TV UI. Airplay is good enough to stop me from repacking my Apple TV, but it's not really the solution. For example, it will not warn me of the start of a live game while I'm air playing some iplayer movie, or something of the sorts.

  • They've developed their own app launcher with the little remote. This pictures the frustration of people with Apple TV.
    
    Will it be o value to anybody. With Airplay available in almost every app, I doubt it!

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• In second place was Java ME with 21.3 percent, while Android came in third.
• Apple's share slid from 54 percent in November of 2011
• Coming in fourth in the data was Nokia's Symbian platform, with 5.8 percent, while Research in Motion's BlackBerry holds 3.5 percent.
• Apple's smartphone took 25.2 percent to lead all mobile devices. The iPad, though, was the second most popular device, with a 24.5 percent representation.
• PC market. There, the Mac finished with 6.4 percent in December of 2011, well behind the 92.2 percent share Microsoft held with Windows.
   
   Tracking specific versions of PC operating systems shows that Windows XP, despite being 10 years old, still leads the way with 46.5 percent. Windows 7 is in second with 37 percent, while Windows Vista holds 8.44 percent.
   
   Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard platform remains its most popular at 3 percent, despite the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in July. Lion closed out 2011 with a 2 percent share in December.

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• The Wall Street Journal that Kodak could submit the Chapter 11 request as soon as this month or early February. Under bankruptcy protection, the company would reportedly continue to operate while a court would undertake efforts to auction off a set of 1,100 patents.
• still has 19,000 employees. Kodak revealed last July that it was shopping its collection of digital imaging patents around in order to shore up cash for a turnaround.

  • Too slow to pivot. That was the problem. Their move to digital was just too slow.
• Insiders said Kodak had unsuccessfully petitioned hedge funds to borrow money to stay afloat while waiting for the patents to sell. The company has also reportedly talked to banks about $1 billion in financing that it would need during bankruptcy proceedings.

  • This was after starting the battle with Apple that would bring them 650£M, But that has been delayed until 09/12
• Kodak's market cap at just $126.88 million. Five years ago, the stock was worth over $25, a far cry from its current value of $0.47

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• AllThingsD reports
• As the report notes, the New York location makes it likely that the announcement has something to do with advertising or publishing. Several of Apple's media and advertising units under senior vice president Eddy Cue have significant presences in New York City, and Cue is also said to be set to play a role in the event.
• Apple participated in a pair of New York-based media events last year, although both of those were primarily hosted by other companies: the Verizon iPhone introduction and the launch of The Daily.

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• • The problem with textbooks is that they are incredibly expensive. The student then sells it on eventually. When they entered the digital format, these kept virtually the same price and or course don't allow for reselling.
• Steve Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson has indicated several times that one of Jobs' last goals had been to revolutionize textbooks. According to Isaacson:

  His idea was to hire great textbook writers to create digital versions, and make them a feature of the iPad. In addition, he held meetings with major publishers, such as Pearson Education, about partnering with Apple.
• Steve Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson has indicated several times that one of Jobs' last goals had been to revolutionize textbooks
• e've received from a source indicating that Apple last month filmed a series of short interviews with textbook industry executives. The interviews are said to have been of the type that would be used in one of Apple's promotional overview videos for a new product or service.
• Clayton Morris of Fox News, who claims that the event will focus on iTunes U and perhaps textbooks.

  Here is what I know from sources involved: 
    
   - This event will focus on iTunes University and Apple in education 
   - I learned of the event back in September when it was originally scheduled for late Fall in New York but it was eventually postponed.  
   - The event will be in New York rather than in the Silicon Valley because New York is more centrally located for textbook and publishing.  
   - This initiative has been in the making for years.  
   - The announcement will be small in size but large in scope: a big announcement in a demure space.  
   - I expect at least two large project announcements as they relate to Apple in education.  
   - Steve Jobs was intinimately [sic] involved with this project before his passing. He gave a hat tip to the textbook side of this project in the Isaacson biography.  
   - This will not be a hardware-related announcement.
• Ars Technica adds its voice to the rumors surrounding digital textbooks:

  And based on information from our own sources, we believe the announcement could likely involve support for the EPUB 3 standard, which enables a wider variety of multimedia and interaction features. [...] 
  

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• Earlier this week, a report from the UK's Daily Mail made waves for its claim that Apple was interested in bidding for the rights to stream English Premier League football games
• The Guardian now follows up with a new report denying that Apple will be in the running.
• live matches broadcast by Sky are already available on iOS devices via the channel's SkyGo app and that archived Premier League content is available through iTunes.

  • Right, but you're missing the point. This would be great for a TV. Apple is not interested in a subscription but in you buying their hardware to watch this stuff. 
    In this case, every household in the UK would have to buy an Apple device of sorts (TV perhaps) to watch this stuff, because they would never make this available to anyone else.
    
    Plus, if they really wanted it, they could outbid anybody.

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• • I think People are missing the point in this hypothetical TV. IF indeed there is a TV in the pipeline, it will be completely different from anything we've seen. Specially when it comes to controlling it and the way content is distributed.
• USA Today revealed that the 50-inch television secretly resides in the "locked-down studio" of Ive. The person also reportedly said that Apple is looking to build an LCD television sized 42 inches or larger with built-in Wi-Fi functionality.

• DigiTimes reported on Friday that the so-called "iPad 3" will launch in March with a high-resolution Retina Display, like is found on the iPhone and iPod touch. That will be followed by an "iPad 4" with "killer applications" set to launch in October.
• Apple is planning to launch the fourth iPad quickly in October to counter a rumored Google-branded tablet as well as touchscreen devices running Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. The Taiwanese industry publication said the fourth iPad will feature "much upgraded hardware specifications and integrated applications so as to compete with an array of Android-, Wintel- or WoA (Windows on ARM)-based tablet PCs to be released in the fourth quarter."

  • Apple does not respond directly to any product, they always follow their own thing. If we talked about  a digital keyboard/touchpad/controler thingy for the macs...that's something else.
• for the third-generation iPad, the report said it will feature a QXGA display with a resolution of 1,536-by-2,048 pixels. It will also sport longer battery life, but reportedly "may not be so amazing as expected."
• the publication also reiterated belief that Apple will continue to sell the current iPad 2, but will drop its price

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• • This comes in the same week that Apple has been granted 14 patents regarding the original iPhone OS.
• The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Elan against Apple in 2009, accusing the company of violating two patents related to multi-touch input, and Apple counter-sued the same year.

  • This had to do not only with iOS but also touchpads and magic mice