Category: Announcements

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“Let’s talk iPhone.” Live Coverage Links.

Let’s talk iPhone.
Tuesday October 4th, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Cupertino time
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

As usual, some invitees would be reporting live from the event. Live reports and coverage start by 10:00 a.m. Cupertino time. The followings are known sites that actually got the invite to the “Let’s talk iPhone.” event.

Meta-coverage:

More links will be added.

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South Park returns on Wednesday October 5th, 2011.

South Park returns on Wednesday October 5th, 2011. Following the mid-season finale “You’re Getting Old“, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone is giving no clues to where the show is heading. They simply say:

Everything is about to change… or maybe not

You might want to refresh your memory by watching “You’re Getting Old” again. The episode is available at South Park Studios. All you have to do is to click the link on previous sentence. If you can’t watch it because you do not have a U.S. based IP, then please do not look for it elsewhere such as searching for “South Park You’re Getting Old download” or “South Park S15E07” on Google or other fine search engine. In all seriousness, Google is by far a better search engine. Do not believe what Steve Balmer or Paul Thurrott (both are Microsoft cheerleaders) said about Bing being a better search engine than Google. Oh, where was I?

Anyway, South Park is back…. on Wednesday October 5th, 2011.

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Microsoft Security Essentials flags Google Chrome as Malware

I spent the whole morning restoring Google Chrome on numbers of computers at the office after it was flagged as Password Stealer PWS:Win32/Zbot and forcibly removed by Microsoft Security Essentials. As I was working to get this problem straighten out, I discovered other people are having the same problem.

Interestingly, Microsoft Security Essentials did not flag Google Chrome Dev release as malware. It only affects the release version on the computers I have in the office.

I was unable to reinstall Google Chrome even after updating Microsoft Security Essentials. So I disabled Microsoft Security Essentials before started re-installing Google Chrome.

If you were still having problems re-installing Google Chrome with Microsoft Security Essentials disabled, try uninstalling Google Chrome from the Control Panel.

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One of these iPhones is a test unit from Apple.

A source who wants to remain anonymous and is adamant that he is not Phil Schiller sent us a little tidbits about the next iPhone. Well, sort off. The source has two iPhones which look like iPhone 4, but one of them is a test unit. Test unit? A DVT unit? Probably not. The source wouldn’t elaborate more.

We did figure out that iPhone in question is from around WWDC 2011 time.

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Gingerbread 2.3.6 update for Nexus One.

Gingerbread 2.3.6 update notification popped up on my Nexus One last night. Well to be honest, I am not sure when the notification arrived since I had not used the Nexus One for more than a week. According to the message on the Nexus One:

This OTA update will upgrade your device to Gingerbread 2.3.6. It contains important bug fixes and security updates.

Initially I was not able to update the phone because the internal storage was somewhat full. I had to move some applications to the SD card and uninstall some of them.

A quick query on Google, apparently some Nexus One owners are getting the update within the past week.

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Samsung signs agreement with Microsoft while fiercely fighting Apple in court.

Microsoft announces it has signed agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.:

Microsoft announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., to cross-license the patent portfolios of both companies, providing broad coverage for each company’s products. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will receive royalties for Samsung’s mobile phones and tablets running the Android mobile platform. In addition, the companies agreed to cooperate in the development and marketing of Windows Phone.

It is interesting that Samsung signs a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft while fiercely fighting Apple in court over patents and other things.

Well, Samsung already licensed Windows OS for its portable computer in addition to producing Windows Phone 7-based devices.

In related news, Google says that Microsoft-Samsung license deal is “extortion”.

I wonder what Google said about the deals Microsoft made with HTC over Android licensing?

Related read:

Samsung takes Android patent license from Microsoft rather than wait for Motorola

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What if Apple asked Samsung to pay royalties for every Android devices sold? Would Samsung take that deal? That’s exactly what Samsung is doing with regard to the deal with Microsoft.