TweetBot, the hugely popular iOS Twitter client, finally comes in a finished desktop version available in the Mac App Store for 20 bucks. No joke. It appears to be a nicely polished piece of software with some smart features, but is there any way to justify that price when you can just use Twitter’s app for free? More »
Google’s having a rough day, but here’s some good news: It has a new Chromebook, and this time it’s $250. That’s pretty amazing. More »
While tablets are great for browsing the web and playing games, they’re also becoming great devices to read digital content on like magazines and newspapers. According to marketing and analytics firm comScore, Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has the highest readership rates of any other tablet, including the iPad and Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Tablet.
comScore notes that around 1 in 10 tablet owners read digital periodicals on their devices every day as of August 2012. 37.1% of tablet owners read a newspaper on their device at least once a month, while 11.5% read a newspapers roughly every day. 11% is definitely a small figure, but we may see that number creep up in the next few years.
According to comScore, a whopping 43.9% of Kindle Fire users read magazines on their device. The iPad came in at 40.3%, and 13.4% for NOOK Tablet users. The newspaper category was a much closer race, though. The Kindle Fire came in at 39.2%, the iPad with 38.3%, and the NOOK Tablet with 31.8%.
To clarify, this isn’t about which tablet gets the most magazine/newspaper readers (and thus being the most popular tablet in this category), but rather what the most popular type of periodical is on which tablets. The survey was conducted during a three-month period ending in August 2012 consisted of 6,000 tablet owners across the US.
Kindle Fire has highest readership rates for digital content is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hungarian student Bence Hajdu had a seemingly obvious genius idea: take out people out of famous paintings. This is Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Last Supper, right after Jesus and his disciples left to have some drinks at some bar around the corner. More »
We’re at Google San Francisco where the company has just announced a new Chromebook from Samsung. This latest Samsung Chromebook which is thin (0.8″), light (2.5lbs) and very affordable ($249, 229UKP), also happens to run on a new ARM architecture code named A15. The ARM A15 is the next-generation central processor (CPU) core design from ARM and it is superior to the current ARM A9 design used by most tablet chips today. Samsung’s chip is called Exynos 5250 and it is a dual-core processor. If you are not familiar with these chips, read our system-on-a-chip (or SoC) reference post.
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Pacemakers save millions of lives, but a security researcher has shown that they can be used to kill on a massive scale as well. Speaking at the Breakpoint security conference, Barnaby Jack of IO Active reverse engineered a pacemaker transmitter – a device like this one used to monitor installed pacemakers – eventually enabling him to wirelessly deliver 830v shocks to a pacemaker using his laptop. Yikes.
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Even worse, Jack warned that a hacked transmitter could control all pacemakers within 30ft. Aside from jolting people, the compromised device could also be used to read and write patient data or load infected firmware into a pacemaker. These infected firmware could even be made to jump and infect other pacemakers, extending a malicious attackers’ range and possibly resulting to mass murder. Jack says he demonstrated this flaw in order to warn pacemaker manufacturers to step up the security of their device. Let’s hope they do.
[via SC Magazine via DVICE]
Challenging the iconic Luxo lamp when it comes to flexibility, Michel Charlot’s U-Turn light trades the complicated springs for a brilliantly simply magnetic ball joint. So you can use it as an adjustable desk lamp when working, or flip it over and illuminate an entire room in a spotlight configuration. It’s the lamp of a thousand uses (minus about 995). More »
In an apparent error, Google’s Q3 2012 earnings have gone live smack dab in the middle of the trading day, instead of after the closing bell as expected. Early indications are that the search giant has notched third quarter revenues of $14.10 billion, representing a 45 percent uptick compared to Q3 2011. GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2012 was $2.74 billion, or 19 percent of revenues, and that would explain the near 10 percent slide in the company’s stock price. A year ago Google nailed down $3.06 billion, or 31 percent of revenues, when looking at operating profit; investors were expecting some $10.65 per share, while they got just $9.03 per share. When looking at net income, Q3 2012 saw that figure at $2.18 billion, whereas the company raked in $2.73 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Presently, trading has been halted on the company’s stock as the dust settles, but one thing is exceptionally clear: pulling in billions in a single quarter won’t go over well with Wall Street if its expectations see you pulling in even more.
Google’s Q3 2012 earnings: $14.10 billion in revenue, $2.74 billion in operating income originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Though the price might be a bit of a turn-off for those of you not familiar with the power of the environment, Tweetbot has hit the Apple desktop environment today in a big way. This Twitter app is up for $19.99 USD, and for that price they’ve brought on one whole heck of a lot of features in this final first release (that being non-Beta, as it were). With this brand new universe for the Twitter king you’ll get Retina Mac Support, integration with your Notification Center, and even syncing with iCloud – of course you’ll need 10.8 Mountain Lion for that.
This update ties together with the iPhone and iPad versions of the app, Tweetbot now ready for the whole Apple universe. This update brings on the Twitter timeline for your desktop with single or multiple window view as well as column view, whatever you do so desire. This app has inline media preview – this working with several kinds of media such as photos and videos from multiple 3rd party networks. If you’re getting too much of a good thing from people you’d rather not hear from as much as you do, you can block and report users for spam and/or mute users, hashtags, clients, and keywords, too!
This release includes the ability to save tweet drafts for future publishing and to use lists as timelines, too. You can create a list of co-workers and friends and set it separate from the rest of your feed – or just make one for the comedians in your life. You can make sure you’re looking good to the rest of the world from this app as well, with the ability to edit your Twitter profile and avatar right from the Tweetbot app.
You can see what’s popular around the world with both local and worldwide trends support, following the hashtags as well as the keywords that you might never otherwise be seeing, right near your doorstep. We’ll be having a more in-depth look at this app later today – if you want to grab the app right this minute, you certainly may. You can find it the Mac App Store under “Tweetbot for Mac” and you will indeed be dropping no less than $19.99 for it – believe it or not!
Tweetbot for Mac hits App Store with hefty price is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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