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Apple's week brings new hire, court rulings and iPod spy shots

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories and more in this week's Apple Talk Weekly.

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Apple's week brings new hire, court rulings, and iPod spy shots

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories (and then some) in this week's Apple Talk Weekly.

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Apple's week brings new hire, court rulings, iPod spy shots

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

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Apple cleans App Store of high-profile lookalike apps

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:59:22 GMT

Apple has quietly removed a number of iOS games that could readily be mistaken for their popular counterparts and that had climbed up the charts as a result.

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Apple tweaks the fine print behind its iBooks Author software

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:13:08 GMT

Apple has changed a controversial section of its iBooks Author End User License Agreement, saying that users who want to sell outside of Apple's digital stores can do so, as long as they save in a different format.

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Apple tweaks fine print behind iBooks Author software

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:13:08 GMT

Apple has changed a controversial section of its iBooks Author end user license agreement, saying that users who want to sell outside of Apple's digital stores can do so, as long as they save in a different format.

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W3C Introduces Startup Level for Membership

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:25:49 GMT

To increase and broaden participation in its activities, W3C announces today a new startup membership level for small organizations new to W3C. Organizations are eligible for the new level depending on their size (10 or fewer employees) and annual revenues. This new level is available for the first two years of Membership. Please see the startup level description for details and more information about eligibility. Please contact membership@w3.org if you have any questions.

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Poll: Have you tried Ruby on Rails?

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:19:19 GMT

Let us know whether you've used Ruby on Rails, and if so, whether you like it for your development projects.

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MyAssistant app teaches Siri some new tricks

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 01:48:58 GMT

Looking to get more out of Siri? There's an app for that--if you've got a jailbroken iPhone, that is.

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Survey: Apple phone support still on top, but slipping

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:02:39 GMT

According to a new study, the overall quality of Apple's technical support by phone has declined significantly between 2010 and 2011.

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Apple calls iMessage bug story an 'extremely rare situation'

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:54:49 GMT

The issue with Apple's iMessage that puts one user's account on another device doesn't have a fix in sight, but the company has weighed in on what happened to one user, saying it was "extremely rare."

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Remember that rumored February iPad 3 event? Make it March

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:30:57 GMT

Did you have your hopes up for an iPad 3 debut this month? That rumor may have well been put to rest by its original source, who now says March is when it's all going down.

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Developer news: Ceylon, ASP.NET WebForms, Riak Handbook

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:38:29 GMT

Read about Android on Intel, Microsoft's RC of its private cloud package, unit testing pros and cons, a WP7 developer contest, and more.

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Last Call: Vibration API

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:34:34 GMT

The Device APIs Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Vibration API. This specification defines an API that provides access to the vibration mechanism of the hosting device. Vibration is a form of tactile feedback. The API is designed to tackle high-value use cases related to gaming, and is not meant to be used as a generic notification mechanism. Comments are welcome through 01 March. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

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The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation Draft Published

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:29:17 GMT

The Provenance Working Group has published a Working Draft of The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation. PROV-DM is a data model for provenance for building representations of the entities, people and activities involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. PROV-DM is domain-agnostic, but is equipped with extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be defined. PROV-DM is accompanied by PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption, which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a formal semantics. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

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OS X 10.7.3 hits, promises to smash bugs, add new languages

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 23:21:08 GMT

Apple's released the third minor update to Mac OS X 10.7 that brings a handful of bugfixes while adding new languages. The company also pushed out an update to Snow Leopard and Apple Remote Desktop.

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German court rejects Apple bid to ban Galaxy phone, tablet

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:55:27 GMT

Apple's try at getting Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus smartphone banned from sale in the country have been rejected by a German judge.

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Supposed iPad 3 debug data teases A6 chip, 4G data

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:07:48 GMT

Apple's next iPad will feature a speedier processor and 4G LTE networking, according to photos published by Boy Genius Report of a purported debugging tool captured from a prototype device.

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More photos of iPod Nano with a camera emerge

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 17:39:05 GMT

Will the next iPod Nano once again sport a camera? Newly-released spy shots once again suggest Apple's experimenting with the idea.

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Use SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM to work with BLOB data

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:32:39 GMT

Tony Patton details how developers and DBAs can use the SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM data type within C# code.

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Neil Young: Apple was working on super high-def music

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:51:22 GMT

The popular recording artist says that he was working on a project with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to bring studio-quality digital recordings to the masses.

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BAD to Good Updated: Demo shows web accessibility barriers fixed

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:15 GMT

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has updated the Before and After Demonstration (BAD). BAD shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version of the same website with the accessibility barriers fixed. Read the update e-mail and learn about Accessibility.

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Apple seeks appeal in iPad trademark case in China

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:51:07 GMT

Apple wants a Chinese court to hear its case against a local company for allegedly infringing on the use of the iPad name. The case was tossed out of court last month.

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Internet Society Board Approves Donation to Support W3C Stewardship of Open Web Platform

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:20:22 GMT

In its continuing efforts to foster an open Internet ecosystem, the Internet Society today announced a 1M USD donation to the World Wide Web Consortium. This donation, the final installment of the Internet Society’s 2009 pledge of 2.5M USD over three years, supports the continued evolution of W3C as an organization that creates open Web standards.

“The W3C is emblematic of the inclusive, multistakeholder approach that is critical to the continued development, operation, and use of the open, global Internet,” said Raúl Echeberría, Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees. “We look forward to continued cooperation between the W3C and the Internet Society to advance our shared values through independent voices.” Read the press release and ISOC and W3C FAQ.

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Petition tells Apple: We want an 'ethical' iPhone 5

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:48:47 GMT

A watchdog group is calling on Apple to demand improvements from its suppliers ahead of releasing its next iPhone. The group says it's already brought in 35,000 signatures.

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Three Last Call Working Drafts published by the RDF Web Applications Working Group

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:05:00 GMT

The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Last Call Working Drafts today:

Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice Web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language.

A number of improvements have been made to RDFa 1.1 over the past year by working closely with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the other search engine developers. Public review and comments have resulted in a number of further refinements to the language that eases the learning curve for beginner Web authors.

The release of these documents as Last Call Working Drafts is a signal to the public that the Working Group believes that all of the technical requirements, public comments and reported issues have been addressed. It is also an open invitation to the general public to review and provide feedback on the finalization of this technology via the RDF Web Applications Working Group mailing list, by 21 February. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

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Final Cut Pro X update brings multicam back into the picture

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:30:00 GMT

Apple's brought back a much-requested feature to its Final Cut Pro X pro video editing software as part of a new update that comes with a handful of other tweaks.

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W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Touch Events Specification

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:50:04 GMT

In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to disclosures related to the Touch Events version 1 Specification. The Web events Working Group develops this specification. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. Public comments regarding these disclosures may be sent to public-public-te-pag@w3.org (with public archive). Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups.

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Former Siri board member: She's 'not a data hog'

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:28:18 GMT

Someone from Siri's past has come out in defense of the software voice assistant's alleged data hogging ways, saying each query is about 63 kilobytes of data.

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Apple: Test your luck! Maybe we'll let you buy an iPhone

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:21:45 GMT

If you want to buy an iPhone 4S in Hong Kong, you might have to enter a lottery to win the chance to buy a phone.

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