HBO Go 1.71 update adds support for Jelly Bean devices

HBO Go 1.71 update adds support for Jelly Bean devices

When it first landed on the Kindle Fire, HBO Go for Android tablets seemed like a dead cert. And, sure enough, it wasn't long before the service found its way on to slates with version 4.x, with one minor exclusion -- those running Jelly Bean. Well, version 1.7.1 puts that all in the past, and now means the full gamut of Android users (unless you never made it past Donut) can join in the fun. Reading this on your Nexus 7? Make haste toward the source link for the download.

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Tweet Keeper Archives Your Old Tweets [IPhone Downloads]

iOS: Our Twitter feed is probably the closest thing many of us have to a daily journal or activity log, and yet Twitter doesn't provide a way for us to export the data, or even search more than a few days' worth of Tweets. Tweet Keeper is a tremendous app that will liberate your data from the service and make it completely searchable. More »


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HP, Dell and the paradox of the disrupted

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what story does the above picture tell? It tells the story of one of the most dominant coalitions of our time — Wintel — coming apart at the seams. In quantitative and qualitative terms, it suggests that if this is the best that the four horsemen of the PC industry have to offer going forward, this tale won’t be ending too well. And things are looking particularly grim for Hewlett Packard and Dell, the two best-known faces of the personal computing industry (see also, “HP: The Garage is Closed”).

As much as anything, it’s a stark reminder that disruption doesn’t give a crap about legacies. This is something that I have seen again and again in my twenty years as an entrepreneur in network infrastructure, Web-based services and mobile applications.

Once upon a time, Dell was the personification of the American dream. Born in Michael Dell’s college dorm room, Dell’s founding had the homegrown optimism of a Norman Rockwell painting. Dell was the embodiment of scalable build logistics, coupled with standout customer service. It was the Amazon of personal computing — before Amazon existed.

As for HP, you remember “the HP way” and the original “two founders in a garage” narrative, right? The company was a true force driven by clear directives such as, “attack the undefended hill” and “number one or two in each targeted market.”

However, there is a paradoxical truth. Although disruptive change takes far longer to occur than most people account for, once it kicks in, it steamrolls incumbents faster than they can course-correct.

The paradox of the disrupted

At its core, the Dell and HP story is about the shift to integrated, differentiated systems lead by software (see also, Mark Andreessen’s “Why Software is Eating the World”). Like most hardware-centric companies, neither HP nor Dell ever grokked software, certainly not in terms of any integrated strategy (JetSend, Chai and WebOS were all failed software efforts by HP). This gets to the nut of why these guys missed the boat on mobile and tablets. HP, after all, actually owned Palm, yet lacked both the clarity and conviction to intelligently pursue the software play required to succeed in mobile — only the single largest segment of the next 20 years!

Then again, they didn’t think they had to. After all, the horizontal model that made Microsoft a lethal killer in segment after segment had dominated the conventional wisdom of the preceding 20 years. Built on the premise of industry alignment around loosely-coupled, but coordinated efforts between hardware and software component makers, the horizontal ethos dictated that hardware folks worry about hardware and leave the software differentiation to the software guys — separation of church and state, so to speak.

We’re all lemmings in terms of following what works. So when the horizontal model made Bill Gates the richest man in the world, industry after industry embraced it as the one right way.

With the advent of the Internet, however, a vicious cycle of commoditization — horizontal’s downside — began to play out. We are now at the endgame of that cycle, a point where few companies can make money via commodity economics, and HP and Dell are Exhibit A and B, respectively.

I believe that the next 20 years will look a lot less like the Microsoft model and more like the Apple differentiation model, where every effort is focused on the central goal of delivering complete product solutions and richer, more satisfying customer outcomes. In other words, we’ll move to an economy where businesses and industries are defined by tight integration from bricks and clicks to hardware, software and service — aka, the vertical model.

Does either HP or Dell have what it takes to make this transition? No one really knows. But what gets me excited is that some companies will figure this one out. Their success will, in turn, provide the roadmap to re-invention for the next generation of innovators to follow. We are lemmings after all.

So get ready, as we are at the end of a cycle, and approaching the beginning of a new one. It’s post-global, post-digital and post-commoditization. The new cycle is all about making the inefficient more efficient, and creating differentiation where commodization exists. The rise of integrated systems is upon us.

Mark Sigal is an eight-time entrepreneur, whose ventures have sold to Apple, IBM and Intel. He is chief product officer at Unicorn Labs, an eBooks and eLearning platform provider.

Image courtesy of Flickr user Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com.


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NBC rebrands Olympics app as NBC Sports Live Extra, promises streams for a wider athletic universe

NBC rebands Olympics app as Sports Live Extra, promises live streams for a wider athletic universe

NBC's Olympics Live Extra may have lost its original raison d'être after the flame was extinguished in London, but that doesn't mean it's time to purge the app from your phone's home screen. An update for Android and iOS users alike is giving the title new life as NBC Sports Live Extra, and the name makes it quite obvious that you'll have a lot more to watch than just biathlons and fencing. NBC expects to offer live streaming for the European PGA, LPGA, MLS, NHL, Notre Dame, PGA, Ryder Cup and other events or leagues culled from the channel formerly known as Versus. Highlights, social sharing and other side features will carry over as well. You don't have to do a thing beyond check for a new version to make the switch to the already updated apps, but you will have to subscribe to conventional TV to use them properly: NBC is requiring TV Everywhere authentication for access to most of what's on offer from NBC Sports Network and the Golf Channel.

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Elisabeth Murdoch Tells The TV Industry To Adapt Or Die

Elisabeth Murdoch Tells The TV Industry To Adapt Or Die:

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The first woman in 17 years to give the MacTaggart address at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Elisabeth Murdoch did more than just bitchslap her brother, James, for his devotion to profits at all costs in his own MacTaggart lecture three years ago.

[…]

‘if we don’t have the confidence to collaborate between producers and broadcasters, advertisers and second screen services - we are in danger of losing the battle at just the time when we could be winning.’

Read the whole piece. She’s a visionary.

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IFTTT Recipes: Post to App.net

IFTTT Recipes is a new recurring column featuring recipes developed using IFTTT.com and their favorite IFTTT channels. Come see what TUAW bloggers cook up in the IFTTT labs!

IFTTT recipe Post to Appnet

Wouldn't you like to post (tweet?) to App.net from the Twitter client you already love with no extra effort? IFTTT works that magic for you.

App.net is a young, Twitter-like service. It's funded entirely by annual memberships, which is appealing to many who dislike intrusive advertising like sponsored tweets or Twitter's newly restrictive rules for developers.

Since it's still in active development (alpha access is being slowly rolled out to early adopters), there's not much support by way of fully formed apps for iOS and OS X. I dislike posting from a browser, so I've been ignoring App.net for the time being. However, IFTTT's recently-added App.net support lets me contribute with the Twitter apps I already use. Here's how to build this recipe.

First, enable both the Twitter channel and the App.net channel (provided that you're in on the alpha). Then follow these steps:

  1. Choose "New tweets by you" as the trigger. Optionally include mentions and retweets.
  2. Choose App.net as the action, then "Post an update." Fiddle with the ingredients to you liking (I accepted the default).
  3. Click "Create action," give it a name and finally click "Create recipe."

You're done! Now tweets composed and shared with your favorite Twitter client will appear in your App.net stream. You'll have to go over there to monitor replies, etc., but this takes care of the posting. Enjoy!

IFTTT Recipes: Post to App.net originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Universal Turing Machine In Penrose Tile Cellular Automata

New submitter submeta writes "Katsunobu Imai at Hiroshima University has figured out a way to construct a universal Turing machine using cellular automata in a Penrose tile universe. 'Tiles in the first state act as wires that transmit signals between the logic gates, with the signal itself consisting of either a 'front' or 'back' state. Four other states manage the redirecting of the signal within the logic gates, while the final state is simply an unused background to keep the various states separate.' He was not aware of the recent development of the Penrose glider, so he developed this alternative approach."

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Atari ports classic games to HTML5 for web and Windows 8, lets developers craft their own (video)

Atari ports classic games to HTML5 for web and Windows 8 users, lets developers build their own video

Atari is big on nostalgia this year, but it hasn't had much in the way of software to reflect the trip down memory lane beyond the existing mobile apps. Its remedy to that shortfall is full of 2012 buzzwords. The new Atari Arcade includes modern takes on eight classic Atari 2600 games, all built entirely with HTML5 and free to play. As fun as that promises to be, our interest is most piqued by the game library's open-ended nature; this isn't just an alternative to firing up a smartphone. A new Javascript kit lets developers not only build their own games but make money as they see fit, whether it's through ads or in-app purchases. Whether they're new or old, titles work in multiple contemporary browsers, although Microsoft would really, really like you to know that the games are ad-free and touch-optimized for both Windows 8 tablets as well as Internet Explorer 10. We'll try to remember that when we look to relive our Combat memories on a Surface.

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Square scores retail deal with AT&T, swipes smile off competitors' faces

Been paying for your frappuccino via Square, and fancied getting some of that diminutive payment-taking action for your own business? Well, previously, if you didn't live near an Apple store, Radioshack, Walgreens, Fed Ex office, Best Buy, Target, UPS or Wal-Mart then you were fresh outta retail-luck. Or living in a cave. Now, however AT&T has started stocking the card readers at all its bricks and mortar outlets too, further plumping-up that number of locations that stock it. Frankly, we're not surprised to see this reaching more shops, if the sales guys spend all their time drinking that brand-endorsed coffee.

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