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    • SemiAccurate reports that Apple will be transitioning back to NVIDIA from AMD as its graphics chip supplier for the next-generation MacBook Pro models offering discrete graphics. The move comes after Apple just recently completed a multi-year effort to switch its entire Mac lineup from NVIDIA to AMD.
    • Licensing restrictions from Intel prevented third-party graphics manufacturers such as NVIDIA from building integrated graphics solutions for Intel's most recent processors, forcing Apple to choose between subpar integrated graphics
      • I think this mitgh be a possibility. NVidia have been better than Intel's and AMD's GPUs, Apple was kind of forced into that position.

    • Apple.com has become the second most trafficked online retail site in the UK, according to a report by website tracking firm Experian Hitwise and IMRG. The #2 spot puts Apple.com only behind Internet retail juggernaut Amazon.co.uk and ahead of retail discounter Argos.co.uk.
    • The #2 spot represents a six-spot move for Apple.com. In July, Apple.com ranked as the #8 most trafficked online retail site in the UK.
      • You gotta think this is seasonal. Plus, people lure over these things. But I bet you out of 100 people that visit Amazon or Apple, a lot more of those will  buy from Amazon.

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    • report released on Thursday by research firm GfK shows that 84% of current iPhone owners plan to purchase another Apple handset when they replace their cellphone, with many smartphone users saying the ecosystem of a mobile OS is a determining factor when upgrading, according to Reuters.
    • conducted over 4,500 interviews of smartphone owners in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, China, the U.S. and Japan, finding that the iPhone had the highest retention of customers, followed by devices running Google's Android OS and RIM's BlackBerry, with 60% and 48% respectively.
      • I'd be really worried if I was RIM at this point...discuss...

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    • . In a post to the company's official blog this week, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows Division
    • Sinofsky explained that Microsoft aims to satisfy two distinct types of customers in the install process: those who want to install with minimum hassle, and those who want to do a clean install with more options, control and customization. Microsoft's simpler solution will allow users to simply launch a file that can be delivered via the Web

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    • The Galaxy S II smartphone commercial was set to debut on Facebook late Tuesday and begin airing on TV on Thanksgiving, Mashable reports. The spot
    • Early web benchmarks from the U.K. version show that Samsung's latest smartphone outperforms the iPhone 4S in some web tests, though Apple's handset bests it with respect to graphics.
      • This is on galaxy Nexus

  • Gossip Land

    •  Persistent Overlay is very focused on gestures. A user would be able to pull down the interface overlay and grab/tear something like a webpage out of Mobile Safari. That webpage or photo could then be dragged into the new interface and stored there as the user navigates throughout iOS.
    • For example, an icon or other appropriate image could be used to represent a music item encoded as an MP3 file. In this way, the persistently displayed icon associated with the music item could remain viewable from one displayed page to another.”

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      • Would make sense to me for Apple to approach screens the way they do chips. Not just buying them, but creating them. When you think about it, what is more important on a device after it's chip?

      • but then Another report from Forbes says: Apple and Sharp together have a modified IGZO (indium, gallium, zinc) technology to achieve 330 dpi, which is sufficient for an HD display while not using IPS nor having to include dual-bar LED backlighting.

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    • The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Sharp will produce the panels at its Kameyama No. 2 plant in central Japan

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    • macotakara.jp claims that Hitachi Displays, Ltd. and Sony Mobile Display Corporation have begun shipments of 4-inch LCD panels to Apple for unspecified iOS device due next year.
      • Feels to me like the iPad1, nobody knows what it is, but everybody wants to do the same.

    • AllThingsD reports on a new research note from Jeffries analyst Peter Misek suggesting that manufacturers are already "scrambling" to react to claims that Apple is preparing to enter the television set market.

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  • Dumb News

    • Craig Mundie
    • "TellMe facility's been in the Windows 7 Phone (sic) for more than a year! I just think that people are infatuated with Apple announcing it... it's good marketing. At least as a technological capability, you could argue that Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows phones for more than a year. You could take these Windows phones and pick them up and say, 'Text Eric,' and it'll say, 'What do you want to say?' and it transcribes it... You can query anything through Bing by just saying the words. I mean, all that's already there. Completely functional, been there for a year."

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