Apple Inc. in February reversed its stance on a corporate-governance measure related to executive compensation, implementing a new rule that executive officers must hold triple their base salary in company stock.
The move, which hasn’t previously been reported, came even though a month earlier Apple’s board had urged shareholders to oppose a very similar corporate-governance measure proposed by a shareholder.
Doesn’t sound too painful.
The Galaxy S IV features an Exynos Octa 5410 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz, PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU, 2GB of RAM, 4.99″ Full HD (1920×1080) display and a 13 Megapixel Camera. The device also runs Android 4.2 out of the box. The Galaxy S IV retains the menu, back and home buttons, like its predecessors.
The device supports GSM/WCDMA/LTE networks with an Exynos processor on-board meaning its called the GT-I9500 and only therefore one variant. The Galaxy S IV will be a world phone.
And it appears it still will be made of plastic. I really hope not!
Security and caching service CloudFlare has been offline for more than 50 minutes due to a DNS issue. You may not have heard of CloudFlare but they add a layer between 785,000 websites and their users, all of those websites are currently affected. That’s a large number.
CloudFlare generates so many pageviews that it would be the tenth website in world. Websites affected include Wikileaks and 4Chan.
Apple Macs and other hardware is very costly compared to its competitors.
However Apple does use eBay to flog its refurbished macs. This will help save you a few pennies.
Also if you are a student there are discounts on offer and the discount varies from being at college to university. University students get the biggest discounts. Only catch is you have to use the education computers. That’s how Apple verify your a student.
Software developers Panic are working on new AV software and are investigating Apple’s new-ish Lightning Digital AV Adapter. What they found is that unlike the previous 30-pin module, the Lightning adapter doesn’t carry a native 1080P signal. In fact, when mirroring, Apple says the optimum resolution is 1600 × 900 and when that signal is shown on a 1080P display, it is likely up-converted, showing artifacts consistent with streaming and uncompressing video data.
So when they split open the cable and there is a full ARM processor with 256MB of RAM to process video signals inside the adapter cable. Panic thinks that they are actually streaming an AirPlay network signal through the cable and it is being decoded by the ARM processor.
Why would Apple do this? It’s likely Apple wants to move people to AirPlay wireless streaming to Apple TV so this is just a stopgap solution. Rather than making a larger Lightning cable, it sacrificed on wired video out quality as well as HDMI (And VGA?) cable costs.
Is this being sneaky or clever?
The Blackberry Z10 has a rather clever way of screen sharing built in, but at MWC , OPTiM released news of an app for android that not only let’s you share screens, but also allows remote control over wifi. The app is called Optia for android. It works with all versions of android 2.3 upwards, has a built in chat function too.
Just for a bit of fun, I filmed the power off animation I use on my iPhone 5. I had to use my iPad Mini to film the iPhone 5 so hopefully the quality isn’t too bad.
Details of the tweak used are listed in the description within the YouTube video. Link is here.
One of the stories coming out of MWC was the new Firefox OS and the confirmation of some decent support by manufacturers.
However, Samsung has said it won’t be supporting it. With its fingers in so many pies and its interest in Tizen 2 it’s not surprising it is taking this stance.
Major League Baseball this week announced plans to expand support for Apple’s Passbook mobile ticketing app, which will be accepted at 13 ballparks this season. This is a big increase from when just four teams — the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals —supported the app.
It is confirmed that the latest iOS beta by Apple will break the evasion jail break. However it won’t be too long before a revised jail break will be produced.
But even it there is a gap, or even if the latest version of iOS can’t be jail broken, will people update their devices. If you think about it the latest iOS is really good. But with a jail broken device just adding a few tweaks makes the world of difference.
I for one would hold off updating my iOS software just to keep my tweaks. Would you?
