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It’s not hard to look at The New York Times’ and wonder what the newspaper’s leadership is doing on the digital front. This 96-page internal report is a hard look at the company’s missteps in the online arena. It’s a fascinating read.
via Vox
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen me talking about re-building my home network. I’ve gotten a few questions, so I thought I’d address them here.
I pay Comcast a bunch of money each month for a pretty nice Internet-only package. (As of this writing, I just clocked 56 Mbps down and 12 Mbps up.)
Instead of renting a cable modem, I use my own. Specifically, a Motorola SB6121 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem.
Seth Fiegerman:
Steve Jobs glanced at the sheet of paper with Apple’s future on it and promptly flicked it away onto the table. Then he uttered one of his trademark criticisms to Eddy Cue, the manager who had handed it to him.
“This sucks,” Jobs said.
This week, I had the pleasure of joining the Cult of Mac guys on their podcast. We spoke about Beats, Apple as a fashion company and the future of OS X.
Fixes include:
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This week, we throw themselves a selfie parade and I read an ancient Apple support document. Federico, Myke and I break down the rumors around Beats and iOS 8 on the iPad.
Don’t miss the After Dark, in which we try to pick a show title. Sponsored by PDF Pen Scan +, by Smile
If the Mac App Store isn’t irrelevant to power users now, the time is quickly coming. Apple’s restrictions have strangled it.
Mark Gurman:
iOS 8 is likely to supercharge the functionality of Apple’s iPad with a new split-screen multitasking feature, according to sources with knowledge of the enhancement in development. These people say that the feature will allow iPad users to run and interact with two iPad applications at once. Up until now, each iPad application either developed by Apple or available on the App Store is only usable individually in a full-screen view.
Apple is gearing up to incorporate Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in the iPhone 6, according to a report from BrightWire citing sources familiar with the matter. The report also notes that Apple has struck a deal with China UnionPay to integrate the banking company’s services into Passbook and elsewhere.
Here’s Eric Slivka in March 2013:
China Times reports [Google translation, via Mac Otakara] that Taiwanese chip firm Chipbond has been selected to provide a number of components for the iPhone 5S, including the touch display driver as well as chips to support fingerprint sensor and near field communications (NFC) capabilities. The report suggests that Apple will use the fingerprint sensor functionality to enhance the security of NFC features such as mobile payments.
How marvelous is the tiny marble on which we live and die.
I’ve written about the week our son was diagnosed with brain cancer a couple of times.
In 2011, I outlined the two years of treatments Josiah received after his diagnosis. A month after publishing the piece I trespassed to visit his old hospital room, an event that will forever be linked to my longterm battle with depression.
Josiah finished chemotherapy almost four years ago, and his MRIs since then have been stable.