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Apple’s Maps problem with complaints coming in about Apple replacing Google Maps - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep35
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:52:40
Publish Date: 2012-09-27 19:16:58
Description: Leon and Garry discuss issues including Apple’s Maps problem with complaints coming in about Apple replacing Google Maps. Apple saying it has sold more than five million units of the new iPhone 5 in the three days since its launch but this has missed analysts’ expectations Apple asking Judge Lucy Koh to add an additional $707 million to the $1.05 billion in damages awarded by a jury in last month's ruling against Samsung Apple TV users receiving an update to their set-top box with iOS 5.1 build 10A406e, which includes a number of enhancements and new features. The update will allow users to save multiple iTunes accounts – and switch between them – and includes support for Shared Photo Streams and AirPlay broadcasting from Apple TV to other devices. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak listing the rollout of a national broadband network as one of the reasons he wants to become an Australian. A fight at a Foxconn dormitory escalating into a full-scale brawl between 2,000 people that left 40 injured and the adjoining Taiyuan facility closed Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer aiming to refocus the company on search tools and advertising platforms, focusing on consumer experience at the possible expense of the company’s bottom line Twitter launching Lifeline, an emergency communication system in Japan Twitter planning to roll out a free tool for users to handpick and publish selections of tweets Facebook in the privacy wars again over a deal it has struck with consumer tracking company Datalogix. This company will track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores. Wikimedia launching a new web tool to make books out of Wikipedia articles. Within the browser, users simply activate the book creator on Wikipedia's sidebar and add articles using a navigation box at the top of the page, or add whole collections of articles using the category page. Myspace is debuting a media-focused social network which emphasizes imagery, a static footer navigation bar with a built-in music player and a left-to-right timeline of posts. The future of Microsoft’s Xbox appears to be moving briskly toward interactive TV, based on a high-profile hire of CBS Entertainment’s former television chief and the launch of two interactive TV “programs” that tap into Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral. Japanese electronics giant Sharp reportedly planning a major restructuring to bring the company back to profitability by 2014. It will cut 11,000 jobs. It will rethink its LCD TV business as well as strengthening the company's smartphone LCD offerings A report issued by the UN's Broadband Commission for Digital Development, established by the International Telecommunications Union and UNESCO, pegging Australia at 21st in the world when it comes to internet access, with 21 per cent of Australians not using the Internet in 2011 A team of Johns Hopkins University astronomers spotting what may well be the most distant galaxy ever detected. IBM produces a solar energy-generating microchip array whose waste heat can drive desalination systems
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