It's hard to recover your reputation once you've been accused of fomenting the fall of man. It's the sort of indictment that humanity doesn't easily forget. But the apple has been trying to live down that whole Adam and Eve incident for centuries. The past is the past, the Honeycrisps have pleaded. Let the fruit move on, cried the Cortlands. But with time, a few decades of therapy and an expensive PR campaign, it seems even a naughty apple can turn its image around.
Before a host of new gadgetry and innovations take over the world in 2012, it's time to look back at some of the major tech advances from 2011. Apple loomed large, even though it lost a giant, and the gaming world went controllerless.
While iPhone will be able to link to the Internet and transmit real-time traffic data wirelessly, it will not be able to link with the vehicle's control systems to alert the driver of potential problems with vehicle operation. Hughes Telematics, which provides telematics services to Chrysler, is preparing to embark on a massive investment in new geosynchronous satellite systems by 2012 capable of handling two-way communication between the vehicle and the company's support staff. While Apple may be able to point to its influence on vehicle entertainment systems it will likely have a much harder time taking a bite out of the telematics sector.
This year, we'll see new video game machines, a new version of Windows and maybe even an Apple-branded television. But don't get your hopes up too high. My prediction is that those and several other eagerly anticipated tech products will prove disappointing. Here's my forecast for some of the top tech duds for the year:
LETS FACE IT: Max Roach, Sheila E., ?uestlove and Ringo Starr are the exceptions. Most of the time, the drummer goes unrecognized a pair of hands furiously moving behind tall cymbals. Theyre rarely the sex symbol the waif guitarist is and they dont become icons like a lead singer. Take Coldplay . Everybody with a pulse knows who Chris Martin is hes the lead singer, hes Gwyneth Paltrows husband, hes baby Apples daddy.
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WASHINGTON - It's been dubbed cell phone "bill shock," and it's clear why: A woman returning from Haiti after the earthquake disaster is greeted with nearly $35,000 in text-messaging charges. An Orange County, Calif., man is socked with a $3,300 bill after checking e-mail on his smartphone during a cruise celebrating his wife's recovery from breast cancer. Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak experienced it, unwittingly ringing up $7,000 in roaming fees on his iPhone during a three-hour drive through Germany's countryside.
More than 5,000 computer programmers had their heads in a cloud Monday at a conference sponsored by Apple, but it was all good. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's latest foray into cloud technology -- the utilization of vast data storage centers along Internet portals -- by announcing an operating system upgrade that will shake up the way we handle our collections of music, photos and documents. Apple's new service, dubbed -- what else -- iCloud, will permit people who own Macs, iPads, iPhones, iPods and even non-Apple computers to easily access their music collections, photo albums, e- mails and documents from any device they use, without having to manually transfer each file.
SAN FRANCISCO Despite signs that Apple Inc. may land a historic deal with the Beatles to make the band's entire catalog of music available on its iTunes store, analysts say that such a move would be a "non-event" in terms of the company's profits. Rumors of such a deal have been circulating for years. Speculation grew to a feverish pitch Friday when ex-Beatle Paul McCartney told Billboard magazine that an agreement with iTunes is "virtually settled.
Because so little solid information about Apple's latest iPhone leaked before last week's unveiling of the device, in the months leading up to the announcement, industry analysts and tech journalists conjured up a whole slew of new features -- and even a new design similar to the MacBook Air -- out of tidbits of trade talk and rumors. Apple
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