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Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D61 to Developers and OS X Beta Seed Program Members.
As usual, be forewarned before installing any beta/preview release software. There tends to be some show-stopping bugs.
According to a certain Apple engineer, the development of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 is nearing completion.
In addition to the new build of OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, Apple also releases Safari 7.0.4 Seed 1.
It started with a May 1, 2014 post on Secret.
Then came the revelation that it was a hoax:
This reminds me of the “Apple asymmetric screw” hoax.
Journalism is certainly far from being fine. The urges for “being the first to report” and “exclusivity” certainly to blame.
I have been using Keynote almost exclusively for presentation.On Thursday, May 1, 2014 I used my MacBook Pro to display the Keynote presentation and my iPad Air as the remote. Of course I used the “doodling” and virtual laser pointer features. I had great feedback from the audience who never seen presentation like this. Other presenters asked me if I could show them how to do it in PowerPoint.
I have been getting a lot of phone calls that Office 365 is having trouble with activation. According to users, their copy of Office 365 was previously activated.
This is especially annoying because they actually paid for the subscriptions.
Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D55 to Developers and OS X Beta Seed Program Members.
Be forewarned before installing any beta/preview release software. There tends to be some show-stopping bugs.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may really hate the peering deal he signed with Comcast, but that didn’t stop him from entering a similar partnership with another ISP: Verizon and Netflix have also agreed on a paid peering relationship.
News of that pact was first broken Monday afternoon on by BTIG Research’s Walter Piecyk, who tweeted Monday afternoon that Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam had confirmed the commercial relationship between the two companies.
As a customer of both Netflix and Verizon I should welcome this. As a technologist, I am not so sure if this is a good thing in the long run for consumers in general.
There are more dominoes to fall following Netflix deal with Comcast and Verizon. It would affect more companies other than Netflix and ultimately consumers.
From Apple PR:
CUPERTINO, California—April 23, 2014—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended March 29, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $45.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $10.2 billion, or $11.62 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $43.6 billion and net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.3 percent compared to 37.5 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Notable numbers:
Also from Apple PR:
The Board of Directors has also announced a seven-for-one stock split. Each Apple shareholder of record at the close of business on June 2, 2014 will receive six additional shares for every share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on June 9, 2014.
Does that mean I could finally buy 10 Apple Stocks instead of none?