25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.
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29.12.2007 iPhone dev team confirm 3G iPhone unlocked for all networks
The unofficial iPhone dev team have confirmed moments ago that they have completed an iPhone 3G unlock and are currently packaging a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in other applications from the team like QuickPwn.
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17.12.2008 iPhone 3G: no-contract iPhone on tap
Looks like we'll have to get up bright and early to buy the new iPhone. Also, AT&T says a "no-commitment" iPhone is "coming soon."
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2.7.2008 Microsoft: XP vs. Vista Is the Same as Apples vs. Oranges
Microsoft has found the perfect cure for the now traditional Windows Vista vs. Windows XP smackdowns.
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14.5.2008 MS: Nobody Wants to Pay $500 for Apples Logo These Days
Steve Ballmer, the head of Microsoft Corp., has made a rather radical prediction: sales of Apple computers were about to drop since the biggest thing Macintosh systems provide is the Apple logotype on them.
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26.3.2009 Apples carpet-bomb Safari flaw can wreak havoc on Windows
A researcher has created a proof-of-concept site that graphically demonstrates the risk Windows users face when using Apple's Safari browser.
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10.6.2008 Security in Microsoft Products
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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12.1.2006 2 Office products enhanced
Microsoft looks to expand market by adding features
Microsoft Corp. is trying to expand the potential market for two of its Office programs for businesses, increasing its competition with Oracle Corp., SAP, IBM Corp. and others that make corporate software.
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22.1.2006 Is Microsoft sabotaging its own products?
No, this cannot be the case. Perhaps is is an accident, or a coincidence. But is Microsoft really highlighting links to websites that have references to cracks
for Windows Vista? And you wonder why the piracy of Microsoft software is blooming.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft announces six new products in development
Microsoft today announced new products in development and is giving everyone a chance to test them. Here's a quick run-down as to what the new products are and how to beta test them for free!
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Security in Microsoft Products Chat
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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Microsoft products roadmap for FY08 and beyond
Oh boy, a Microsoft roadmap, havent seen one of these in a while. This is extracted from Steve Ballmers Powerpoint presentation at Microsoft Show and Tell (Financial Analyst Meeting) 2007 yesterday.
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2.8.2007 New Microsoft products for enterprise and small business
Microsoft touted two product rollouts on Monday, one a service pack aimed at attracting large corporate customers with remote offices; the other a licensing and services promotion for small businesses.
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Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation
Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it.
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27.7.2008 Windows 7 RTM Already Has 9,000 Logod Products
At just approximately a month after the general availability deadline of Windows 7, the operating system enjoys strong support from hardware and software companies worldwide.
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20.11.2009 Microsoft Unveils Details of First Products Under Zune Brand
Available this holiday season in the United States, Zune includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new music.
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15.9.2006 Microsoft Fixes Critical Flaw in Security Products
Software patches include critical fixes for bugs in Microsoft Office and the scanning engine used by the company's security products.
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14.2.2007 MSN Beta Team Recruiting for Windows Live Products
The MSN Beta team is currently recruiting likely candidates to test an array of new services and products from the Windows Live family.
Successful applicants may be asked to test MSN Messenger 8 (Windows Live Messenger) or future versions of Messenger. The countries range from Afghanistan to Turkey so everyone will be able to get involved.
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22.11.2005 Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Overview
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft, ISVs Set To Ship Vista-Ready Security Products
Microsoft said this week that its security unit and top security ISVs -- including Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro -- plan to release Windows Vista-ready products and services on Jan. 30, when the operating system is due to become generally available.
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18.1.2007 New iPhone 3.0 OS available
A revised operating system for Apple's iPhone is now available, adding functionality such as system-wide search and cut-and-paste to the popular handset.
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17.6.2009 Apple Announces iPhone
Macworld is going on right now, and Apples biggest announcement of the day so far has been the introduction of the iPhone.
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9.1.2007 Eight Reasons to Think Before Buying an iPhone
Apple made a big splash when it announced the iPhone last month. But with its hefty price tag, restriction to a single carrier and departure from many traditional smart-phone features, buying the iPhone requires careful forethought.
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8.2.2007 Full review of the iPhone
Despite important missing features, a slow data network, and call quality that doesn't always deliver, Apple's iPhone sets a new benchmark for an integrated cell phone and MP3 player. See how it stacks up to our testing.
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1.7.2007 iPhone Unlock Toolkit 1.0.0.1
The long awaited iPhone has been on the market for just a few weeks and the first tools to unlock this nice device popping up already. Thanks to Steve Jobs for this download.
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4.8.2007 3G IPhone to be in June!
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday.
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26.4.2008 3G iPhone for $199
Live updates and analysis on Steve Jobs keynote address at the 2008 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference..
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9.6.2008 Will BlackBerry kill the iPhone?
Just a few short weeks after the Mac trounced competitors in a customer satisfaction survey, the iPhone has repeated the same trick for Apple in the smartphone market.
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7.5.2009 Jobs: iPhone is winning
Did you think Apple didnt care that its former hardware guru Jon Rubinstein and a bunch of former Apple employees left the company to help Palm create an iPhone-competitor in the Palm Pre? Think again.
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22.6.2009Apple branded apples
It's been known for years that the iPhone is extremely popular in Japan. However, one very avid Apple fan, decided to show his love for the iPhone
and Apple in a different way. An owner of a Fuji apple orchard printed up custom stickers of iPhones and the Apple logo. He then put the stickers on
his Fuji apples while they were still young and on the trees. A month later after the apples had matured, he removed the stickers. As you can see
the lack of sun reaching the apple cause them to keep the stickers original design. News source: Weird Asia News News source: Blog!NOBON
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04.12.2008The Futurist: Why Apples Good Products Are Bad For Innovation
Fewrather, no othercompanies stir up the same fools game of me-too as Apple. I feel sort of ridiculous saying it, and perhaps sound like a bit of a
fanboy, but Apple makes products that work in ways most CE products dont. When playing with an iPod or iPhone, its almost easy to take for granted the
fact that most things we buy just arent user-friendly.
A top exec at Research In Motion (that would be the guys who make
BlackBerrys) told me a few months back that about 30 percent of Windows Mobile phones were returnedpresumably because their buyers are so frustrated
with their atrocious battery life/molassis-slow processors/impossible-to-navigate GUI/propensity to freeze. Im not sure how many iPhone buyers are
returning their gadgets in frustration, but Id guess its a statistically insignificant number.
In general, as the cliche goes,
Apple products are known for being simple, pretty, easy-to-use, and fun. And this is exactly why they are bad for progress in the tech world.
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14.09.2007PC World names the 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
PC World has put together a top 25 list of the most innovative products of the year 2007, noting the “Innovation”, the
“Benefit” and a brief overview of each. All entries on the list are somehow tech-related and all are available either in-store or online
right now. I personally can’t wrap my head around how the order of this list was devised, or how some products even made it on the list, but
I’m sure the reasoning is clear to someone. Have a look at the list and let us know what you think of it, and what your top 25 would be!
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29.12.2007Sony re-enters the glass tube business, with an innovative new speaker
Sony is a company well known for creating new and innovative products, and has done it again with a new transparent tube speaker that will be released
in Japan for a hefty price tag...
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30.05.2008HTC Introduces iPhone-Like 'Touch'
HTC shot back at Apple on
Tuesday, introducing the Touch
mobile handset that boasts
many of the innovative
features of the iPhone in a
similar package...
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06.06.2007What CIOs want in Apples next-generation smartphone
Though Apple continues to be coy regarding business-minded tweaks to the next iPhone, slated for unveiling next week, enterprise users have plans of
their own: They want the iPhoneeven if the IT departments still a bit weary.
In light of the expected release of Apples
second-generation iPhone at the companys Worldwide Developers Conference next week in San Francisco, we asked a group of CIOs and IT directors about
the features that they most want to see in the new device to help make the smartphone more enterprise friendly.
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04.06.2008iPhone: Forget downloading, think sideloading
By now, nearly every feature
of Apples forthcoming iPhone
has been dissected and
debated, from its keyboardless
touchscreen to future plans
for third-party software
applications. The phones music
player, based on Apples hugely
successful iPod, is catching
some flak because consumers
cant access the iTunes store
from their phones: Instead of
buying music over the air,
theyll need to purchase tunes
using a computer, then synch
the music on their iPhones,
also known as sideloading.
But Apples
sideloading gambit has the
support of an unlikely
booster: Nokia (NOK) board
member Daniel Hesse, who
recently told The Browser
that, for transferring music
and multimedia files to mobile
phones, sideloading will be
absolutely crucial. Hesse,
who ran AT&T (T) Wireless
Services in the late 1990s,
added: I think no matter how
fast the wireless networks get
here, the computer is always
faster.
Hesse, who
says he sideloads content to
his Nokia smart phone, says he
likes sideloading content: He
can download music purchases
faster using his wired
broadband connection, and he
likes using his computer to
manage his playlists...
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15.06.2007Apple's obsession with secrecy
Remember that iPhone 3G ad that Apple ran when the phone was first announced? It turns out that it might not be so far from the truth after all. Apple
seems to be a company that has more rumors generated than anybody else, and the hype the generate for their upcoming products is always gargantuan.
The reason for this is because they do their best to keep their products secret, but just exactly how far do they go to do this? The NY Times ran an
article just recently, detailing the lengths that the Cupertino firm goes to in order to keep things tight. Apple has been known to even surprise its
own employees with product launches.
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24.06.2009Unauthorized iPhone apps market flourishes
Software developer Dylan Schiemann used Steve Jobs own words against him in a presentation on developing third-party software applications for Apples
iPhone.
You can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone, CEO Jobs said at an
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June in San Francisco.
It depends on your meaning of the word exactly, Schiemann said
Monday at the AjaxWorld 2007 Conference & Expo in nearby Santa Clara.
Jobs says Apple will allow third-party software developers
to write applications to run on an iPhone, but not be installed on it. Instead, the apps can only be delivered through the devices Safari Web browser.
While an endorsement of Ajax from Steve Jobs is welcome, Schiemann and others at the Ajax conference say there are limitations on how their apps can
run on Safari, and there is a vibrant community of developers writing apps to install directly on iPhone, contrary to Apples wishes.
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27.09.2007AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone
Im still trying to understand why Apple would go to such extremes to keep people from writing programs that run on the iPhone. Ive been
writing about Apples software update that seems to have deliberately disabled
third-party applications that users have installed.
In particular, Apples explanations dont make sense to me. This is what Steve
Jobs, Apples chief executive, said to
Newsweek in
January:
You dont want your phone to be an open platform, meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the
providers network, says Jobs. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesnt want to see their West Coast network go down because some
application messed up.
That sounds reasonable until you realize that there are many millions of phones that run operating systems from Palm,
Microsoft and others for which third-party applications are created all the time, and networks dont seem to be crashing as a result.
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02.10.2007Apple's iPhone to get .NET app development through Novell
When Apple introduced the App Store for its iPhone device, there was nothing but talk of financial paradise for some developers. Even a single coder
could get into the game, bringing with them only an interesting and unique title, and begin hauling in literally thousands of dollars. It was great
for some, though for those on the Windows side of the world, not so much. As you may know, to develop applications for the iPhone, you need to use
Xcode and the iPhone SDK, which is only available for Apple's OS X operating system. To top it off, knowing Apple's Objective-C programming
language is essential too, which isn't desirable for some.
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14.09.2009Apple's iPhone takes the place as the top camera on flickr
Apple's iPhone may not be the best quality photo-taking device on the planet, but it sure is handy; it's possible to upload photos to flickr
just by sending the image to a certain email address, and otherwise, you can even use Apple's own iPhoto software to do the trick. Perhaps
it's the convenience, or perhaps it's the amount of iPhones that have been sold so far, but either way, the iPhone now has the spot of top
camera on flickr, a website dedicated to storing and sharing photos.
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18.08.2009Apple's next iPhone to feature iMovie application?
A big feature of Apple's (supposed) upcoming iPhone is movie recording, and many suspect movie editing to come with this. This editing feature has
been laying low in Rumortown lately, but it's reared its ugly head once more, in the form of a BusinessWeek article. The subject? Apparently, an
application based on Mac OS X's iMovie will come bundled with the iPhone OS 3.0 release, coming this Summer. The article states that, "I've
spoken with a source that is familiar with Apple's plans for the next iPhone, which may well be announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers
Conference in early June.
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01.05.2009Apple's notebook market share climbs to 17.6 percent
While Apple may be focusing a lot of its attention on the iPhone lately, consumers are clearly still interested in the companys computer offerings.
Data from one market research firm shows Apples notebook business broke 17 percent while another research firm said Apple has moved into third place
among computer makers.
According to NPD, Apples retail notebook market share for June 2007 was 17.6 percent, a 2.2 percent
increase over the same period last year when Apple posted a 15.4 percent market share.
As good as the notebooks are doing, Apples
overall standing among computer makers is up too.
According to data from research firm IDC, Apples continued rise in computer
sales puts it in third place overall among all computer makers. This is the first time since 1996 that Apple finds itself this high on the list of top
selling manufacturers.
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22.08.2007Blackberrys innovative touchscreen
RIM has finally decided to cast away their QWERTY keyboard origins that their phones had been named after, and replace it with a touchscreen version
for the Blackberry Storm. Engadget has posted a review of the new Blackberry Storm that introduces this new innovative touchscreen. The screen is
not only capacitive (multi-touch) like the iPhone, but also offers the ability to push in to the screen and create a 'click' action. This
technology called SurePress and allows a user to hover over an item before performing a decisive click. A common problem with touchscreen smart
phones was compatibility with existing web pages that use hover events to provide feedback.
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21.11.2008Google improves Google experience for iPhone Users
In the spirit of the first day of Macworld, Google has announced new improvements to the integrated Google experience on the iPhone. By navigating to
www.google.com with their iPhone Safari browser, iPhone users will discover that the search giant has taken the previous version and streamlined the
interface even further, making the applications faster and improving their usability. Google explains that the experience is made possible by the
iPhone's general usability and the capabilities of its web browser, combined with the company's innovative mobile web applications. Google
plans to expand this experience to international versions of the iPhone and to other platforms that offer similar usability and browser capabilities.
Macworld attendees can see a live demo at booth #1268 in the South hall.
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14.01.2008Are these the specifications of Apple's next iPhone?
It's been a while since we've seen an Apple rumor, but here's one for you to quench your thirst; MacRumors has posted what appears to be
specifications (rumored, might we add) of the inevitable upcoming iPhone. The post originally comes from a Chinese website and forum, and the poster
has no current credibility in the world of rumors, so be skeptical. They posted an image, found below: It shows a model number of "MB717LL", a
new one, as well as revealing 32GB of storage space. Again, the poster is not exactly a reliable one, but the specifications (listed below) seem to
bode well with all previous rumors.
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12.05.2009iPhone's secrecy, development flips wireless industry
The iPhone is one of the most widely craved devices to grace the consumer market; after millions of dollars invested in its development, and secrecy
so intricate that even Apples own engineers were kept in the dark about the complete product. After releasing the iPod in 2002, Wired
writes that CEO Steve Jobs began to notice
the variety of devices that people would carry with them in day-to-day activities such as a cell phone, BlackBerry, and MP3 player. Jobs realized
that the products would inevitably come together and could potentially dethrone the iPod, so he decided that Apple would have to out-innovate the
competition with its own device.
When work on the iPhone officially started, secrecy was Jobs top priority. He recruited
engineers to work on Purple 2 a moniker based off a failed initial iPod phone, whose project was dubbed Purple 1 and split them across the Apples
Cupertino campus. Software and hardware development teams werent even able to interface with each other directly; hardware engineers designed the
product around dummy software, while software developers designed the operating system to run on a circuit board housed by a wooden box.
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10.01.2008T-Mobile leaks Apple's iPhone 3GS hardware specs
A few days ago Apple announced the iPhone 3GS at the annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple was very short with the details on the new
iPhone 3GS, however T-Mobile has spilt the beans and have posted a few hardware specs that the device will feature at launch in a few weeks:
According to the screen shot below, taken from the T-Mobile NL website, the iPhone 3GS will feature 256MB of RAM and a whooping 600 MHz processor.
Previous versions of the iPhones that came to market included 128MB of RAM and a 412MHz processor. The added RAM alone will make a huge difference in
speed and should allow larger applications run on the device.
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11.06.2009Lawyer Sues Over iPhones Little White List
Move over hackers, here come the lawyers. A suit claiming that Apples
restrictions on the iPhone
constitute unlawful competition has been filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. The suit, which is seeking
class action status, is the second iBrick-related case. On Friday, a California resident, Timothy Smith, filed a similar case in state court.
(AppleInsider has coverage of both the
federal and
state suits.)
Max Folkenflik, the lawyer in the federal suit, said it turns on the idea that Apple is
illegally bundling AT&T wireless service and Apples own software with the iPhone. Other phones, he argued, are available unlocked for one price, and
linked to a particular carrier for a lower price. But iPhone users dont have that choice.
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