Firefox 4 is coming up great, and a huge Safari 5 fan is telling you this. Mozilla has just uploaded Firefox 4 Beta 4 to their servers (although the official Beta page hasn’t been updated yet) and you can go download it here. Update: official beta page now lets you download Beta 4.
The big news is, Tab Candy (or Tab Sets, or Firefox Uberview) has been renamed to Firefox Panorama (I love it) and it’s now built in Firefox 4, starting from this beta.
Earlier this morning Apple announced that iTunes U downloads have topped 300 million in over 3 years. More than 800 universities have iTunes U accounts, half of these institutions distribute content through the iTunes Store.
A very good result, and the prove that iTunes is growing large of great content. I just wonder how long Apple will allow iTunes to contain all this content, before moving to other solutions. Cloud distribution, anyone?
Check out the press release after the break.
Business Insider has just found out that Apple is rolling out to new iAd campaigns: one for AT&T’s $15 monthly data plan and one for “The Switch” movie Jason Bateman and Jennifer Anniston, which debuted last week.
I haven’t been able to test them, but from what I read on BI’s report - they look great.
There’s this iMac Touch rumor that has been floating around on the internet for quite a while now: back in January Digitimes reported that Apple was working on a 22-inch touch-enabled Mac in addition to the iMac line, then 2 months ago LoopRumors claimed that Apple was developing a touchscreen iMac running iOS. I called that rumor “absurd”, and you know why? Because a desktop computer running only iOS doesn’t make sense.
But a desktop computer capable of transitioning from OS X to iOS depending on the device’s orientation? Now that’s interesting.
In the past few months we’ve posted some of the finest and most impressive portraits / paintings drawn on the iPad and iPhone using apps such as Brushes or Sketchbook Pro. The Beyoncè portrait, Toy Stoy 3 + iPad, David Newman’s works or David Jon Kassan’s exceptional speed painting.
Now we can say that there’s a website for that.
Stuart Dredge over at Mobile Entertainment created a very insightful presentation showing all the details behind the mobile app market. The App Store, Ovi Store, Android Marketplace, Palm App Catalogue: everything’s in there, by the numbers.
If you want to know how many apps are available in which store, what kind of apps and how many paid apps people buy each month, check out the presentation below (sorry, it’s Flash). [TUAW via Mobile Ent]
Seriously, there must be something wrong over at the App Review Team. Perhaps a new guy was hired to replace Mr. Shoemaker? No, because the latest App Store rejection really beats all the other ones we’ve posted over the years. Read It Later 2.2 (our iPad coverage here) was submitted for approval a few days ago, and Apple rejected it because an app “can’t require user registration prior to allowing access to the app’s content”. If you’re app is account-based (Read It Later, or Twitter, or Facebook), it can’t go through.
Either we’re reading the rejection letter wrong, or Apple messed up this time. Check it out below.
Because you know, Apple once used the “iPhone is about connecting people” expression in a promo video and Nokia was mad at Steve and Ive. Now that you remember that, take a look at the image below.
No, it’s not what you think! It’s not a Macbook-inspired phone. Oh no, not at all.
Let’s just say that’s…”understanding what consumers want and give it to them”.
Consider this: you’re watching only the most important football game between the Oakland Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2011 Superbowl. Your chicken-wing-sauce encrusted fingers clench as Stroughter penetrates the red zone. Jaws drop. A beer bottle passes hands into unknown territory. And just as the moment of disbelief strikes a cord with the goal line, a lamp shade is tossed through the center of the 30” plasma. Instinctively, you reach for the iPad tucked between the salsa bowl and the guacamole, launch the Verizon FiOS app, and within seconds, catch the touchdown of cosmic proportions while the TV is still reeling from your best friend’s misplaced wide-arm. Anything is possible with the new Verizon FIOS app for the iPad.
