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Apple offered $ 800 million to acquire DropBox

September 12, 2011 online service
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At least that tells us that the site Business Insider . The Cupertino company would have made ​​a proposal for redemption DropBox to acquire it for the modest sum of $ 800 million . Even if this does not seem illogical, this information is still to be taken lightly, for several reasons.

First, the information collected by Business Insider is by what we used to call a reliable source, since apparently this information come from a conversation would have heard a member of Business Insider between two people. The 2nd reason, and not least, is the founder of DropBox , Drew Houston, just invest a thousand million dollars in the company . This means that Drew Houston is certainly not about to write off $ 200 million just like that.

DropBox would certainly be a very good investment for Apple . DropBox is primarily a company that is profitable, with $ 100 million this year which would justify further that Apple makes an extra effort. In addition, it appears as one of the most interesting companies on the market for Apple . The acquisition of DropBox by Apple would allow it to surround the expertise of employees DropBox for its future storage service icloud .

For those not familiar with this company, DropBox is a service for storing and sharing files online. What is the strength of DropBox is its accessibility through any web browser, but using a multi-customer operating systems.

Steve Jobs promises the finest the world headquarters for Apple

June 10, 2011 Business Service
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On the evening of Tuesday, June 7, the day after the presentation of its new service icloud in San Francisco, Steve Jobs went to the Cupertino City Council, city of 60,000 people in Silicon Valley, where is the current seat Apple. The number one firm came to the apple make the establishment of a new headquarters which, in his own words, will look like “space shuttle has landed.” This construction should accommodate from 2015 some 12 000 employees (2800 only cons to the current headquarters, located at 1 Infinite Loop) and be erected on land purchased by the firm at the apple to Hewlett-Packard. A necessary move, “says Jobs, when his company has grown these last years” like a weed. “

Jobs plans to make this move an architectural event. “The office parks with lots of buildings, it is rather boring, we’d like to do something better than that.” Before continuing, sketches of the future circular building in support, “we know how to deploy the largest surface of curved glass for architectural purposes. I think we have the opportunity to build the most beautiful building in the world.” Amateur painter Maxfield Parrish, Jobs said at the 2003 New York Times : “Design is not only the look and feel, but also utility.”

Respect for the environment is also highlighted. “Today there are 3700 trees on the ground and I propose to double that number,” said Jobs, who is considering reintroducing apricot trees, which were there before. This should be appreciated by ecologists. Greenpeace has recently called to order Apple , pointing to the energy consumption of its data centers. This project will also recall memories of Steve Jobs himself, who during his childhood in Palo Alto and then a young student in Oregon, liked to stroll through the orchards .

It is also observed in this presentation the formidable talents of persuasion from Jobs. At a city councilor who asked him what are the benefits to Cupertino to host this new facility, Jobs said Apple is the biggest taxpayer in the city and it would be unfortunate if it deprives the municipality. When the same elected asked if Apple would provide Wi-Fi while Cupertino, Jobs replied: “But it’s you I pay taxes!” Ultimately, the contractor seems to have conquered the city council members, who applauded several times a member show up, smile, an iPad 2: “This is a wonderful technology. And my 11 year old son loves it. “

Apple is fighting for the name “app store”

May 21, 2011 Gadgets
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The service of Amazon ” Android Appstore “, launched in mid March, caused the initiation of the judicial war machine from Apple .
For the Cupertino company, the name looks a little too much to his own “App Store” for IOS, which he filed in 2008.But Amazon, like Microsoft and several others of new technologies including Nokia , HTC and Sony Ericsson, the name “app store” is a generic term and can therefore not entitled to protection granted to marks.
An appeal against the trademark application was filed in January 2011 in the United States and in Europe in April.”App Store” signifying nothing other than “app store” and the term “app” (short for applications) existing before the arrival of the iPhone , Apple could lose its trademark rights.Indeed, on both sides of the Atlantic, it is impossible to file a generic term. There is no such mark “toy store” as an argument given by Microsoft.
But Amazon did not wait for the court decision, and the brand is still officially the property of Apple, both companies are squabbling for more than two months before the California courts.Apple asked the court to require Amazon to change their names (plus allowances and legal fees).Amazon has responded by citing the definitions of “blind” and “app” in the Oxford Dictionary Français, especially citing the words of Steve Jobs, Apple’s PD-G, who said in October 2010 that the App Store Apple was ” the easiest to use and the largest app store in the world, pre-installed on every iPhone “.
Apple has replied on May 19 , explaining that deny “based on their definitions, the words” app store “means a store together for app” . Apple also denies that the term “app store” is commonly used in the computer industry to speak of any mobile application store.

Apple soon to launch its streaming music service

May 20, 2011 online service
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Apple has already managed to conclude agreements with EMI, Warner and Sony, to launch a music service streaming cloud, reports Bloomberg . Universal would be the last. This service would allow iTunes users can access their music library from any Internet-connected device, thus avoiding having to sync iTunes on all their devices. Offer a priori similar, therefore, to the recently launched Google . The details could be provided on June 6, at Apple’s conference for developers.

The offer Apple still present several differences with those of Google and Amazon, which are really just storage space in the cloud. First, Apple users are not forced to upload their entire music library to Apple’s servers, thanks to agreements with record companies. Indeed, these agreements allow Apple to provide access to music provided by record companies (only one copy per title), and not uploaded by individual users.

Then, according to Techcrunch , which has unearthed a patent filed by the company in 2009, the Apple service could store some files locally, thus eliminating part of the problem of the connection (not connected, no access to the service ).

Samsung filed a complaint against Apple in turn

April 23, 2011 Gadgets / iphone
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Earlier last week, Apple accused Samsung of copying its products. Korean immediately retaliated by pursuing the California manufacturer for patent infringement regarding the correction of errors in data signaling in mobile networks WCDMA.

Samsung Electronics has responded regarding the prosecution committed last week by Apple. In its complaint, the Korean manufacturer was accused of having appropriated the technologies to iPad, the iPhone and iPod for its design and smartphones Galaxy its shelves. Yesterday, the electronics giant has sued Apple in Seoul for five violations of patents, more than two in Tokyo and three in Manheim (Germany).
“We decided to actively respond to the lawsuit filed against us to protect our intellectual property and ensure the continuation of our innovation and our growth in the mobile communications industry,” Samsung said in a statement. In its complaint, the Asian manufacturer
involves Apple for patent infringement regarding the correction of errors in data signaling in mobile networks WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), connecting mobile phones to PCs so that the PC can use the wireless telephone and reduce the power consumption when transmitting data over HSPA (High Speed ​​Packet Access).

The Galaxy Tab first tablet that can compete with the iPad

The complaint filed last Friday by Apple in the U.S. reported that Samsung had copied the external features of the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad designing icons similar to those in Apple products. Last year Samsung became the first major manufacturer of consumer electronics to launch a tablet that can compete with Apple. Its range of smartphones based on Android, Google’s mobile OS is also coming into contention with the iPhone from last year. Apple had introduced the first iPhone in 2007 and announced its iPad tablet over a year ago. For its part, Samsung came out his smartphone S Galaxy in mid-2010, before launching his Galaxy Tab a few months later.

Gartner has predicted that sales would reach the iPad 48 million units this year, and that the tablets Android would approach 13.9 million. The firm gives Apple the IOS 68.7% share in the mobile OS market. Next year, the firm expects this proportion is expected to decline to $ 63.5%.

Apple sues Samsung for the Galaxy

April 19, 2011 Gadgets
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Apple takes legal action against Samsung for having “copied” Apple’s intellectual property in some of its products.
Be mainly concerned the Nexus S, Epic 4G, 4G S Galaxy and Galaxy Tablet Tab.

According to the WSJ, these devices are cited as imitating the look and feel, that the appearance and user experience, iPhone and Apple iPad.

The charge of the Apple formula thus: ” rather than to innovate and develop its own technology and style unique to Samsung products smartphones and tablet computers, Samsung chose to copy the technology, user interface and style Apple’s innovative products in these counterfeit “.

Samsung joins HTC, Nokia and Motorola in the list of companies being sued by Apple for one reason or another. But if Samsung is particularly interesting since the two companies have trade: Apple in fact incorporates components manufactured by Samsung in its systems. The action brought by Apple against Samsung Will it affect their relationships?

Apple reorganizes forums

April 18, 2011 iphone
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Apple has kicked nine to its technical support forums, renamed ” Apple Support Communities “. Open to all, they can exchange experiences and advice when something is wrong with the hardware or software. Although several nationalities meet there, there are exchanges in English. And you can subscribe to RSS contextual son to follow the evolution of a discussion.

The topics have been rearranged so that their presentation and gateways between other similar exchanges. Conversations have adopted a presentation to iChat, some messages can be described with a system as Facebook (a button “I”) and the tools to participate are (slightly) more sophisticated. With the backing of a text editor with formatting options and the ability to attach a picture about it to better describe the problem (an icon is also provided for video, but it is disabled).

Most titles have been aligned, sometimes curiously, and the “Your stuff” … and other details on the iPad , the main column that contains the major categories for each hardware or software can be scrolled, the elevator does not appear in Mobile Safari … But there is still the IOS in the air with menus that look the same on the mobile OS.


Steve Jobs: the official biography coming soon

April 14, 2011 Business Service
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Those wishing to know more about the guru of the firm at the apple will be served with the forthcoming publication of a biography of the official. Arriving in bookstores is planned early next year.

Steve Jobs , who established the firm Apple in 1976 with the help of Steve Wozniak and who has subsequently done a real steamroller in the areas of digital music, mobile phone and the touch pad, will soon have his official biography .

This was announced on Monday the U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster, who speaks with availability planned for early 2012 , the Atlantic but also on the Old Continent. Signed agreements with publishers and Jean-Claude Lattes Arnoldo Mondadori will especially get it at home and in Italy.

Entitled “iSteve: Book of Jobs” and result from the pen of Walter Isaacson , former editor of Time magazine, former CEO of CNN and now president of the Aspen Institute think tank, the book s ‘support on exclusive interviews conducted for three years with Steve Jobs himself and his family, friends, colleagues and competitors.

There have been other unofficial biographies, the image of “iCon: Steve Jobs , ” “Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward” and “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” . Not to mention “The Little Kingdom” , one of the few to have been authorized by Steve Jobs. No doubt the latter, through its official and author known for his many biographies of figures (Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, for example) will be eagerly awaited.

How to Stream Media to your iPod Touch and iPhone

March 17, 2011 iphone
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Apple Macintosh – A FlashBack

February 2, 2011 Computers
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The first Apple Macintosh (Macintosh 128K) in 1984 was immediately supplied with a graphical user interface (Mac OS). The development of the Mac without mouse control was begun in 1979 under the leadership of Jef Raskin. Steve Jobs gave later invited to visit the Xerox PARC lab, along with other artists Bill Atkinson, and after this visit, several ideas from PARC and its mouse-driven Xerox Alto workstation acquired. The Apple team, however, developed itself in the overlapping windows interface, the ability to move or remove icons, the ‘cut and paste’ metaphor and a menu bar that looked the same in each program.

The Macintosh ( usually referred as MAC ) was used by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 developed mouse and used the metaphor of the desktop. One user did not incomprehensible commands to type. After turning on the Macintosh computer he saw (on the 9-inch monochrome screen) a symbolic desktop for itself with icons of a cabinet, sheets of paper, folders for them to do, and a trash to them away throw.

The actual operating system behind by Apple as much as possible kept out of sight. It worked first on a processor from the Motorola 68000-series, and consisted of a system – called System – as best RAM was loaded, a file manager – called the Finder – and a growing number of extensions, the extensions. Adjustments to the system could be implemented by control panels calling certain functions that could be brought, the Control Panels.

The Macintosh was inaugurated on January 22, 1984 with a one-minute commercial during the U.S. Super Bowl. About half the population of the United States looked at this. Two days later, the computer was officially introduced by Apple founder Steve Jobs. The price of the first Mac was between 1995 and 2495 U.S. dollars.

The Macintosh is in many ways the founder of what is now called the PC. Computers without mouse and window control a la MS-DOS were hardly available around 2002. The first Macintosh running at 7.83 MHz clock speeds while in 2003 to nearly 500 times are achieved. The original Mac operating system (MacOS) was phased out around 2002 and replaced by the BSD Unix-based Mac OS X. The first version of this derived from the old mouse-based Unix variant NeXTStep, debuted in 2001 (Mac OS X 10.0). OS X worked within the old Classic MacOS for the release of version 10.5 only within the so-called Classic emulation. With the advent of ‘Leopard’ original MacOS 10.5 disappeared permanently from the stage at Apple.

On June 5, 2005 Steve Jobs announced that Apple would begin to switch from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors. The move would be complete in 2007. The reason for this transition was the high power consumption and high heat production of the G5 processors from IBM, Apple laptops, which could not compete. Apple introduced the first Macs with Intel Core processors Duo’ early as January 2006, until August 2006 when the last Power Mac and Xserve with an Intel processor are provided. The switch to Intel was also name changes: the MacBook, the iBook, PowerBook, the MacBook Pro, Power Mac, the Mac Pro.

This article is written referring with wikipedia.org

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