Man oh. Everybody tries to stop paul allen learning more about the my folks air and the latest from the phone war franz he's. It's monday october twenty fifth two thousand ten fine can re- and this is news problem mac o. s. can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to mac o. s. ken day six. More information is available at mac o. s. canned dot com this show is also supported by the mac alaskan time cast out to the i phone an i pod taj available and have store now for two dollars and ninety nine cents. Outcome the defendants you may remember a lawsuit filed a couple of months ago by interval a licensing one of the holding cell by microsoft cofounder paul allen. Attitude said that a o l apple ebay face book google netflix office depot. Office max staples yahoo and you too agent friends on for baton for fundamental web technology used for online commerce and search for. Now most of those companies led by google and minus apple have filed as one to have the case dismissed. Apple as filed separately to have the case dismissed. Election needs to says the alliance of cos calls the interval lawsuit scatters shot since that not only targeted many companies doing many different things. But the suit didn't or couldn't identify specific services each company was utilizing that allegedly in friends on the patent. Google sided couldn't even mount a defense since. They weren't enough details in the suit to say against what it should be defending. Google and apple have also filed separate secondary complains arguing the suit should be dismissed since the companies sued or two and directly linked to be targeted in one complaint. I think so this taken apart a new mac book air and down it's really hard to take a part of new michael care wired says a group or do you know cos employing unusual five point toward screws inside the device with one apparent purpose. Keeping people out the virtual key about sign starts with a new computers bottom k's cover though it extends to the interior as well. Get past the special screws in i fix it says the parts would be easily use a replace a bowl but you're still not getting around apple i fix it doesn't number apart inside or total custom jobs. Made specifically for apple including the internal flashed drive the do they goodbye to ram. Most of the internal components according to wired. It's an impressive feat of engineering says wired by it's we have to conclude not one that invites maintenance upgrade or hanks and mine's by the customer. No real surprise here but apple leaving adobe splash player off the latest michael care was not an oversight and it is a sign of things to come or not in this case. Computer world has apple confirming late last week that it will stop bundling adobe slash with like a last ten. According to the peace other systems will go the way of the air is apple clears up inventory of desktops and notebooks it already have flash included commenting on the issue apple spokesman bill evans says the company is the. Happy to continue to support flash on the mac and he says the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version. It's a downloaded directly from adobe computer world so that means apple will also stop supplying flash security updates the mac o. s. ten users through its patch process meaning users will have to keep up with download and install such updates on their own. That kind of leaves mac users in a bit of alerts for now since last has become a more sizeable target for hackers and mel where creators for now adobe recommends that users download the most up to date version of adobe flash blair from adobe dot com. Companies as a plan to produce an auto update notify airport flash player for the mac soon oh it's not saying exactly what and that'll hit. Special screws in all how much does the new math book air cost to build computer world has agree turn company analyst brian marshall guessing. Apples lowest price mac book air the nine hundred ninety nine dollar eleven point six it one point four get your hurts sixty four get goodbye model. Cost apple seven hundred eighteen dollars to build marshall says that gives apple margins on the machine a between twenty eight and thirty seven percent. Bigger than the twenty percent margins he figures there maintaining on the rest of their laptops. Marshalls excited about the new machine saying enter research node the updated my book here will be a phenomenal mobile content creating device that won't to be cannibal let's stick with the i. pat. The bleachers and the only one excited about the fresh air is digit times has a mean she equal v b of can accord securities research department. Seeing he expects shipments of the new notebooks to hit seven hundred thousand units this quarter that would be seventeen percent of is expected four point one million max. For the last quarter of the calendar year. I movie eleven's trailer feature may bag to make movie parody is but those can only go so far you blechley heard about trailers and i movie eleven practically self building shorts like users drop their own video clips into. What appear to be previews for movies complete with titles music transition fan so a lot. Well the unofficial apple web logs as the trailers themes have logos that look like actual movie studio logos. Just don't use the studio name associated with that logo. Well you can try it just won't work according to the peace that the and using a globe very similar to the universal studios open or one allow users to use the word universal in that title. I move you replace universal with all hyphen one one user try that it also one let users right paramount over the snowing mountain image. It looks a whole lot like they're amounts logo though user comments on the t. wade w page indicate you can put universals name over the paramount us logo and vice versa. So was is just apple trying to keep itself and it's users out of hot water with the studios or to the studios actually lean on apple for this. File that under questions unlikely never be answered. Research in motion co c. e. o. jim ball silly may have a bone to pick with apple c. e. o. steve jobs over i phone verses blackberry numbers the kenny have the same gripes with strategy and a latex on apples earnings call last week covering the july august september financial quarter. Apple c. e. o. steve jobs noted that his cos fourteen million i found shipped. Beat rooms twelve million ships for its most recent financial quarter covering june july and august both silly said apple was playing funny what the numbers arguing that any august quarter that doesn't include september is likely to be weaker. Since september generally seas way strong demand for smart bombs enter strategy analytical switch chose to count for the calendar quarter. Not the firm's respective financial quarters get the om has them saying that for the july august september quarter of this calendar year. Apple shipment survive phones beat rams shipments a blackberries well that is the fight on which many of concentrated gig um points out that neither company game anywhere near the world's current smart phone leader. That would be nokia all apple shepton estimated fourteen and a half million units according to strategy handle it x. nokia shipped twenty six and a half million thanks to it's huge presence in asia and you're out. More t- leave reading on the bright isn't high phone seen that says to call centers connected with the carrier are stepping up in the several hundreds over the next three months according to the p c. Salt lake city stellar performance and kinda saw george's alright le are hiring it but still these around the states. What the right let alone advertising for seventeen hundred openings in indiana california virginia and colorado. Until the performance filling positions in pennsylvania utah taxes ohio and south carolina. Well neither company mentions bryce and apple or the i phone by name the tell up requirements ads as employees will field called spring major wireless cell phone service retailers. Seen that says dollar performance has supported apple horizon wireless in other cell phone carriers in the past alright let has said it's hiring for a fortune fifty cellular telecommunications company. They expect to increase it's marketing and sales for rising may have reason to urgent i phone up it's on a long election he used to has big red reporting slower growth than usual last week. According to the peace rising added nine hundred ninety seven thousand new cell phone customers and it's most recent quarter. Which doesn't sound bad but pretty much is compared to the two point six million added by it's cheap combated or a t and t. In fact the b says to do or practically neck and neck now with arising claiming ninety three point two million customers purses at n t's ninety two point eight million i. That's a half a million separating first and second well horizon didn't say how many of it to new customers were smart phone subscriber's election needs to says it does appear that the launch of the i a phone bore at a t and t. Blunt and some of arise and success. How does the second most forgotten social network on the planet try to get itself remembered more outs for i thanks in august news quirk own my space launched a music video after the eye pad. Now i lounge says the social network is launch a new out for the i a file. I lounge says the app called super posed lets users update multiple social networks at once changing status messages as well as sharing photos videos and legs on my space as well as space book and quit or. Hey where's the love for friends stir. It's a post only service slash application there's no way to see what once posted on the various sites it serves super post is free and is available in the app store now. So it turns out more people have downloaded after i bad send nielson originally said i told you friday of nielson numbers that said thirty two percent of i bad owning respond and said never ever ever it downloaded and happy for their super sized i pod taj. Now i lan says the firm as amended its original reports saying the percentage abide by the owners who never downloaded nap is nine percent. Not thirty two. No word on the initial one third verses one tends confusion hey i bad owners you know that really convenient screen orientation lock button on the i pad. Yeah that's going away next month oh not the button itself of course. The what the button dot. Mac and and says the i o. s. for beta for the i a bad iowa sport out to changes the buttons function converting it from an orientation device to them you would switch. A nine to five mac reader has written the apple c. e. o. steve jobs who may be getting his email on again. Asked whether the switch on the side would be a mute button now jobs responded. And that's for both a matter as usual. Yep. But here's the thing we know the button function can change because. Apples changing it apparently for the third time since before the ipaq came out apple had to switch listed as a mute button than it was an orientation lock and now it's going to be a mute button again so ask mister nine to five. Well there be a way for users to choose in the settings menu whether the toggle toggles either a mute function or an orientation function. Nope replied jobs ever the word smith orientation lock will now be located in the multi tasking girl recording the mac and then i o s four dot two is due for the i bad and other i things sometime next month. There may not have been enough wonderful only them or on obtain the them to power uncle rupert to noon news machine apple insider highlight the wallstreet journal piece that says new score is nixon plans to create a subscription based digital news service. But the eye pad and other tablets. A person familiar with the matter tells the journal. Which is owned by new score that the u. tablet send trick new servers is dead for now the company still sees tremendous value in the idea. From the way to ruin your own surprise department election needs to says barnes and noble is apparently can burn last week's nope color rumors. According to the beastie book cellar posted then pull down a product page for an accessory. A screen protector for what it said was the milk color. Gee i wonder what barnes and noble denouncing tomorrow and finally today in me he lumped i badge and do a distraction category but this week president brock go bomb i has given a digital autograph on the screen of apples tablets. The telegraph out of the u. cases sylvester cotton and attend the of a speech by the president at the university of washington in seattle on friday held on his eyes bad with a hand written message on the screen. Mister president sign my i bad the secret service told gone no but the president sign step them and signed his name with his finger on the screen gone figures this has to be the first time and i bad has received a presidential autograph. Interestingly the telegraph piece said nothing about what the president speech was about. It's kind of makes one wonder how far off the mark he was when he said back in may with i buy tonight pads next boxes and play stations information becomes a distraction a diversion a form of entertainment. Rather than into a live in power and meant still though the present signed tonight bad. Neat. Mac o. s. cat. Brought to you by me and supported by the listeners like you subscribers to mac o. s. can they six more information is available at mac o. s. canon dot com. This show is also supported by the mac o. s. can find cast out for the ice on an i pod taj. Available and ask for now for two dollars and ninety nine cents. Music for the show compliments of c series check them i don't know i tunes or as their website kate hi series dot com ah. We will sauce again tomorrow until then that is news from moscow last ten. Fine can raise. Gary and. Try
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