Samsung Galaxy S5 : un Galaxy S4 étanche avec un lecteur d'empreintes

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Apple wins 'best mobile tablet' award at Mobile World Congress in absentia

Quelle est la durée de vie moyenne des Apps ? | Viuz

Très intéressante étude sur le cycle de vie des apps, avec distinction de catégorie.

Quelle est la durée de vie moyenne des Apps ? | Viuz.

Support for Windows XP and Office 2003 ends

10 leçons qu'il faut retenir du rachat de WhatsApp par Facebook - Challenges

Il y a trois ans, indique The Verge, ce fonds de capital-risque américain, l'un des plus gros de la Silicon Valley, avait investi 8 millions de dollars dans WhatsApp pour une part de capital comprise entre 10 et 20% (l'information n'est pas publique). Ce qui veut dire qu'il va récupérer entre 1,6 et 3,2 milliards de dollars dans l'opération. Au mieux, le retour sur investissement sera donc de 40.000%. Et peut-être davantage encore, puisque, selon Fortune, Sequoia aurait investi 60 millions de dollars dans la start-up.

via 10 leçons qu'il faut retenir du rachat de WhatsApp par Facebook - Challenges.

J'aime la phrase finale

En tout cas, il a du panache, que l'on assimilera, au choix, à de l'audace, de la folie ou de l'inconscience.

 

WhatsApp victime de son dysfonctionnement mensuel

Difficile lendemain de cuite pour WhatsApp ? Le service de messagerie instantanée est en panne depuis le début de la soirée. Lorsqu'on lance l'application, celle-ci ne parvient pas à se connecter.

via WhatsApp victime de son dysfonctionnement mensuel.

Voilà de quoi énerver quelque peu Mark Zuckerberg...

Microsoft reportedly dropping licensing fees for Windows 8.1 amid competition from Apple and Google

Google and Apple definitely shaked the PC market.

Opinion: Why I love Apple products, and am just a tiny bit embarrassed to be seen using them

Put the price apart, when it comes to quality, mac becomes the number 1 choice

I recently had a discussion with a guy from an IT company who has a BYOD policy. In few words, they give their employees 1200 € (about 1600 bucks) to buy a personal computer with a 3-year 24/24 warranty and use it at work. After one year, the PC is their own.

What appears is that 80% of people buy a Mac. To be honest, I could not imagine this. But this is the fact. If you have enough money and only care about quality, Mac is really a bargain.

Apple should think about it. They have the quality but their prices is clearly high. This is a market position that I may understand, but they have a clear advantage in terms of image to people (even IT ones, which - as an IT guy - I didn't believe). What about a low-end "MacBook c" for young people, students and so on (and why not, with delightful candy colors that had success in the past ?

"Un jour, Motorola pourrait concurrencer Apple"

"Un jour, Motorola pourrait concurrencer Apple"

Intéressante intervention de Guy Kawasaki

Knight Lab Timeline JS test

click here for Apple timeline

A little test of Timeline JS from Knight Lab on some Apple products.

Simple to use and quite good result.

Texts are from Wikipedia and photos from Flickr (see captions for credits)

"Big plans" for Apple in 2014

Tim Cook, Apple COO, in january 2009, after Macworld Expo keynote. Picture by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Big plans" for Apple in 2014

Paroles, paroles, paroles... So far, Tim Cook has been very generous in announcements, but far less in concrete innovations.

This may be a crucial year for the post-Jobs era for Apple.

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Big brother may be your phone company

 

Big Brother Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Big brother may be your phone company

Un procureur demande à Apple d'activer son Activation Lock par défaut

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http://www.igen.fr/iphone/un-procureur-demande-apple-d-activer-son-activation-lock-par-defaut-109388

Do I like Apple products? Yes I do. Do I like Apple? I don't give a damn

I have got an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod touch, and two MacBook. Am I an Apple addict? I do not think so. I just observe that I prefer the MacBook I write this blog on than the DELL PC I work on. On the same way, I just used a Galaxy Tab II to test some mobile application in my job. Sorry, but here again, I prefer my old 1st gen iPad.

So, what is so appealing for me in Apple products? I had a recent visit in MoMA some days ago and what is clear is that these products are very close to pop art. By essence, they have something to do with design in its primary essence and I like it. This is not something rational, as art is not. This may be expensive, as art may be. But this something I feel beautiful as some art forms do.

On the other side, the DELL PC I use at work is so black, so sad, so close to any other computer and so far from beauty... The Samsung tablet I use is so complicated, so an engineer product with so much settings and at the end, just another tablet...

Let's admit it, innovation is not on Apple side (at least for a while I foresee). But they anyway still have design with them. And I like design. This is not rational. This is just a matter of nature.

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A quick return of experience on Google App Engine

Architecture of the Google App Engine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Offers on cloud computing are growing faster nowadays. In this article, I propose to have a look on Google with its Google App Engine platform (GAE) that I had the opportunity to use recently.

GAE was first released in April 2008 and is based on a Python web-server. The offer consists of
an out-of-the-box application platform including a development kit, an application server, a non-relational data store as well as a huge bunch of web-services that can be used freely or through a pay-per-use scheme.

Provided with the standard GAE plateform is a no-SQL database accessible through either Java or Python API (this last one being apparently the preferred one for the access to the data store)

GAE pricing model follows a pay-per-use scheme with a free start and fees to pay when quotas are reached.
In the same way, used services (search, geolocalization...) are available through a pay-per-use scheme with a free start for non professional use.

I tried Google App Engine with Java recently and was quite satisfied with the whole ecosystem. In order to access to the database, I also add the ORM Objectify that greatly accelerated my development.
I particularly liked the integration with Eclipse, which is the Java IDE that I use. The data store use was a bit weird for me as the beginning and I had to change my relational schemes way-of-thinking.

The only point I may raised would concern the migration of the hosting of the application from the GAE environment to an other one (for instance not submitted to Patriot Act). But this will be another story...

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7 iPhone rumours to prepare you for Apple's Sept. 10 announcement

Fingerprint sensor would be really a breakthrough.

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A new strategy for Microsoft?

We just heard about Steve Ballmer leaving that Microsoft announces the acquisition of Nokia. What may be considered as a good opportunity for these two companies reveals a strong change in Microsoft strategy for mobile web market.

Taking aside the painful experience of Surface tablet, Microsoft have never been considered (yes "considered" - just have a look at the secret history of Microsoft hardware - to see their hardware realizations beyond mices and keyboards) as a pure player in hardware. But it was at least not a fully vertically integrated one.
On its side, Apple, with a converging OS for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad proposed a fully integrated (locked) vision to its end-users from years now. One like it or not, but such is the proposal.
Google, which once was its is a full software provider is now selling tablets, smartphones... on an integrated (but open) schema.

So times are changing and Apple vision of a vertically integrated model providing services to end-users through a cloud model seems to be promising.
Google understood some months ago and is clearly in first position. Apple stays on its positions but loses drastically market shares as the time goes by. Microsoft, on its turn, is changing its mind and strategy, acquiring one of the most experienced company in mobile phone devices. Won't it be to late?

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