Vittorio Pasteris

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We always knew the Apple / Samsung lawsuit would produce some major fireworks, and Samsung just lit off a corker: the company filed a motion Friday night asking Apple to turn over the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 as part of the discovery process. Seriously! Samsung claims that it needs to see Apple’s future products because devices like the Droid Charge and Galaxy Tab 10.1 will presumably be in the market at the same time as the iPhone 5 and iPad 3, and Samsung’s lawyers want to evaluate any possible similarities so they can prepare for further potential legal action from Apple. It’s ballsy, but it’s not totally out of the blue: the move comes just a few days after the judge ordered Samsung to hand over pre-production samples of the Droid Charge, Infuse 4G, Galaxy S II, and Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 so Apple could determine if those products should also be part of the lawsuit and potentially file a motion to block them from the market.

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A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender “anti-virus” software to solve the issue. This “anti-virus” software is malware (i.e. malicious software). Its ultimate goal is to get the user’s credit card information which may be used for fraudulent purposes.

The most common names for this malware are MacDefender, MacProtector and MacSecurity. In the coming days, Apple will deliver a Mac OS X software update that will automatically find and remove Mac Defender malware and its known variants. The update will also help protect users by providing an explicit warning if they download this malware.

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What will be the name of Apple’s cloud-based music service? No one knows. However, a tipster of mine says that it might be iCloud. Why? Because the Cupertino-based computing giant is rumored to be a likely buyer of the domain iCloud.com.

Until recently, iCloud.com was a domain name and a storage-as-a-cloud service owned by Linkoping, Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service company, Xcerion. Xcerion’s iCloud service has just been rebranded to CloudMe, and the company acquired the CloudMe.com domain on April 5, 2011.

My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million. Xcerion hasn’t responded to my queries as yet. At the time of writing, the Whois database showed Xcerion as the owner of iCloud.

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Apple sued Samsung yesterday, the latest in a long line of IP lawsuits against Android device manufacturers. (See: Apple v. HTC, Apple v. Motorola, Microsoft v. Motorola, Microsoft v. Barnes & Noble.) The case is remarkable for several reasons, not least because Samsung is one of Apple’s critical component suppliers: the Korean giant manufactures everything from DRAM and SSDs for MacBook Pros to the A4 and A5 processors in the iPhone, iPod touch, Apple TV, and iPad. That relationship doesn’t seem to have softened Apple’s tone; the company’s complaint bluntly says “Instead of pursuing independent product development, Samsung has chosen to slavishly copy Apple’s innovative technology, distinctive user interfaces, and elegant and distinctive product and packaging design, in violation of Apple’s valuable intellectual property rights.” Oh boy.

Ricordate il museo AllAboutApple: bene oramai è diventato un fenomeno e si trasferisce a Savona ….

Il museo Apple più fornito del mondo è a Savona, in Liguria e nei prossimi mesi sarà protagonista di una nuova importante sfida: la ricollocazione in una nuova sede, più grande, raggiungibile e prestigiosa dell’attuale. L’impresa che attende tutti noi dello staff è a dir poco titanica, spostare un intero museo, che negli anni è cresciuto oltre ogni aspettativa, verso nuovi spazi ove abbia la possibilità di crescere ancora ed affermarsi come punto di riferimento nazionale ed internazionale per la storia della cultura informatica. Tutto ciò significa ricominciare da zero, riprogettare completamente gli spazi espositivi, gli impianti, le zone di stoccaggio dei pezzi non esposti, la biblioteca, il laboratorio, la zona multimediale, tutto insomma! Quello che rimarrà del museo attuale sarà solo l’immenso patrimonio storico rappresentato dagli oggetti raccolti con tanta dedizione e con il vostro prezioso aiuto in tutti questi anni e la passione, la tenacia, la voglia di fare di noi tutti dello Staff!

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This week, the Opera web browser became the first non-native browser made available in Apple’s Mac App Store. While Apple approved the browser, it still managed to hurt its competitor by putting this ridiculous label on it: “You must be at least 17 years old to download this app.”

Opera has reacted in good humor. “I’m very concerned,” Jan Standal, VP of Desktop Products for Opera Software, said in a statement. “Seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application. It’s very fast, you know, and it has a lot of features. I think the download requirement should be at least 18.”

Due dati balzano alla vista:la ripartizione quasi paritetica Android-Apple-Blackberry e la quota modestissima di Nokia (Via Nielsen)

Diciamolo con onestà: una persona che non fosse Steve Jobs, con i soldi e la forza di Steve Jobs sarebbe probabilemente già morto per la gravità della patologia che ha avuto. Jobs ha potuto avere i migliori medici, il suo coraggio e tutto il mondo con lui. E ha anche la sfrontatezza di andare a presentare l’Ipad2.

Ma a dirla tutta a vederlo ci fa fra pena e tenerezza, sempre più magro e consumato. Buona fortuna Steve !

Ingrnadimento di fotografia oderna di Jobs

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Già a Torino qualche dipendente si era confessato, ora un anonimo commesso racconta il suo quotidiano

We are completely in the dark until they do a keynote speech. We have no idea what is coming and are not allowed to openly speculate. You can get into serious trouble if you speculate—especially to a customer. I am asked five times per day about the next iPad or iPhone, and I quite simply don’t know. But I would be in huge trouble if I said something like “The next iPad is going to have a camera.” I actually avoid the technology section of the newspaper so I have no points of view to accidentally comment with or drop into conversation. I’d rather just be dumb about it.

The day of a big keynote, everybody at the store watches it. It’s also really easy to get out of work that day by saying you want to watch the keynote from home. They’ll never say no. Then they’ll start preparing us for the big launch and start scheduling crazy shifts. During the iPhone 4 launch, they brought us food—and good food! Somebody told me that the 5th Avenue store in New York had a masseuse during one launch, and that another store had a kiddie pool full of goldfish as, like, a Zen thing. They also really emphasize how important it is for us to stay hydrated, and we can get big bonuses if we work really long hours on a launch day.

Apple lancia l’abbonamento ai contenuti digitali attraverso l’Apple Store. E iniziano le polemiche sulle scelte di Apple

Apple today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service that Apple recently launched with News Corp.’s “The Daily” app.

Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store billing system that has been used to buy billions of apps and In-App Purchases. Publishers set the price and length of subscription (weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-yearly or yearly). Then with one-click, customers pick the length of subscription and are automatically charged based on their chosen length of commitment (weekly, monthly, etc.). Customers can review and manage all of their subscriptions from their personal account page, including canceling the automatic renewal of a subscription. Apple processes all payments, keeping the same 30 percent share that it does today for other In-App Purchases.