Yet another sign this morning that means the end of time for non-Intel Macs – Google has announced plans to end YouTube support for Safari 2, the previous version of the Apple browser.
Now, this may not be anything for most of us to lose too many tears over, but for many running older operating systems on older Macs, it will be yet another reason to upgrade.
It isn’t just Safari that’s impacted. YouTube will also end support for Internet Explorer 6 – a nine-year old buggy Windows browser that still accounts for an estimated 20 per cent of web traffic. Also set for the great YouTube switch-off: Firefox 2 and Chrome 3.
The system streams digital television (DVB-T/Freeview) to all the Macs or PCs on your home network via your WiFi network.
Simply plug it into your antenna, and your network and you can watch, pause and record TV on any computer in your house. It means your computer TV tuner no longer needs to be directly next to your antenna outlet – but only in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The US TV system is different, so it won’t work there.
(The company probably has something in the pipeline for US readers).
Off-topic for us, but Crass is one of the most significant bands that convinced us that attempting to do things for yourself wasn’t just possible, but essential, to living a healthy existence – and now it seems a Steve Ignorant led version of the band are about to rip it up on a final tour, The Last Supper.
From the PR: “In 2007, Steve Ignorant gathered some friends together and put on two shows at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. Called The Feeding Of 5000, the show was a celebration of the Crass album of the same name, which was performed in its entirety.
“It most certainly was not a Crass reunion, and never sought to be.
The Last Supper tour will “answer the calls that have come from around the globe in response to the Shepherd’s Bush gigs,” Ignorant explains. He’s going to focus on the period of the band’s work in which he feels Crass were at their strongest, most productive and most hopeful.
He’ll perform with Crass songs plus a few other favourites with a full band and promises some “rather special visuals”.
Having started in London in 2007, this new EXPANDED show will now visit other parts of the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA before a finale in London in 2011.
Known dates so far:
SEP 24 Bristol Academy
SEP 25 Birmingham Academy
OCT 1 Manchester Academy
OCT 2 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Tickets available now from www.gigbox.co.uk and the usual suspects.
Apple will hold its first shareholder meeting this week with a new co-lead director: Avon Products Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andrea Jung, a report explains.
“Jung, the newest director and only woman serving on the seven-member board, quietly took over as co-lead in December,” BusinessWeek tells us, adding, “She succeeds former Apple executive Bill Campbell, one of the company’s longest-serving board members and a mentor to CEO Steve Jobs,” the report informs, adding, “Jobs is expected to appear at the Feb. 25 meeting.”
Naturally, the move is designed to answer critics who slam Apple’s leader for having too much control of the hand-picked board.
With the iPad out the way where oh where can the Mac rumor focus go – to the next-gen (so-called 4G) iPhone, that’s where, and Bloomberg last month began this speculative gold rush, claiming the new iPhone (which you got to accept, in the words of Douglas Adams, is going to give us a period of “rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty”) will offer a more advanced camera and may have a touch-sensitive casing.
Goldman Sachs (where Apple COO Tim Cook crooned earlier today) came up with this skinny/guessing, with analyst Robert Chen making the claim one month ago.
The analyst reckons the new iPhone will “feature a new plastic casing similar to that used for Apple’s touch-panel Magic Mouse released last year”.
“The technology may be replicated in the new iPhone to offer touch-sensitive features on the rear of the handset, Chen said.”
Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference 2010
Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs conference on February 23, 2010.
Apple has the audio available as a streamed thingummy right now. Don’t read about it, hear it.
Sometimes you just need to join the dots, and now some of the reports emanating from major media outlets detailing various problems faced by workers at some Apple manufacturing partners make a lot more sense, emerging as they have scant days before Cupertino issues its 2010 Progress Report on Supplier Responsibility, which it has this evening.
The report confirms the majority of Apple’s manufacturing partners are based in countries including Taiwan, China, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
Apple held its recently-acquired fifth-place position in the French PC market in the final quarter 2009, Gartner has confirmed, conceding Apple has had “significant growth” across Europe, where PC shipments totalled 20.2 million units.
Meanwhile US surveys suggest that growing profile in the consumer PC market is driving Apple to a resurgence in the enterprise, where IT admins seem more willing than ever to support the Mac as part of a hybrid or purely Mac network.
In 2009, PC shipments reached 64.8 million units in Western Europe, representing flat unit growth from 2008.
Apple’s iPhone seems set to be the biggest-selling individual smartphone of 2009, while Apple’s mobile OS has jumped to third place in the smartphone market, the latest Gartner figures say – and the success is causing problems in the flash memory market.
“It’s unbelievable how much better family trips have gotten. Just last week I checked us in on the way to airport. Found the kids a snack near the gate. And even had their favorite movie ready to go. Then my husband turned to me and said, “Did we turn off the lights?” So we turned off the lights. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another sign this morning that means the end of time for non-Intel Macs – Google has announced plans to end YouTube support for Safari 2, the previous version of the Apple browser.
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Apple will hold its first shareholder meeting this week with a new co-lead director: Avon Products Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andrea Jung, 
