One secret plan maker make an extemporaneous retreat from the field of fight , while Apple get all its firepower to bear on mental object talks and the iPad is strategically deployed in bureaucratic trouble spot . The remainders for Friday , March 2 , 2012 are oscar mike .
EA permanently suspending development on Battlefield 3 : Aftershock(Vox Games )
Electronic Arts says it will not be reinstating the iOS variation of Battlefield 3 , which it pulled from the App Store in February after customers complain of wide - range problems . A pity , especially after EA spent all that money on an single theme call by Pat Benatar—“Love is a Battlefield 3 : Aftershock for iOS . ”
orchard apple tree throws weight around in TV negotiations(New York Post )
Rumor has it that Apple fourth-year vice chair Eddy Cue has been negotiating with capacity providers over a pullulate telly service . medium executive director have purportedly been loth to entrust , due to Apple ’s demand to hold in both content and pricing . But , as we all jazz , Apple likes to represent hardball , and the last thing anybody — high - powered administrator or mere deadly — want to hear when they beak up their phone is the scary three words in the English linguistic process : “ This is Tim . ”
iPad consumption by metropolis leaders one example of change with the times(City of Vancouver )
Fromairplane cockpitsto the halls of city government , the iPad is revolutionizing how we take with paper documents . In January , the City Council of Vancouver , Washington launchedits paperless enterprisingness , and only two months later , they ’ve used 40 percent less paper for get together . And played 100 percent more Words with Friends .
Retina expose Macs , iPads , and HiDPI : Doing the Math(TUAW )
TUAW ’s Richard Gaywood runs the numbers on the much buzz - about iPad 3 and concludes that when it add up to Retina displays , the eyes have it .
iPads using iOS 6 , high - res displays showing up in Ars server logs(Ars Technica )
The squad at Ars Technica discovered , while apprehend through their waiter logs , that they had been visited by a strange entity : a gadget claiming to have a screen resolution of 2048 - by-1536 pixel — coincidently , just what ’s been rumored for the iPad 3 . In summation , they found report that some visitors were running iOS 6 . Which remind me : I really take to stopspoofing my internet browser ’s exploiter agent string . And reloading Ars Technica C of times .
Apple TV stock shortfall appear , source say new model imminent(The Verge )
Everybody may be talking about a new iPad , but what about a Modern Apple television ? The Verge indicate out that Apple TVs are out of Malcolm stock at a numeral of storage , with handiness not listed until on or after March 7 , the daytime of Apple ’s mass medium event next hebdomad . So either a new Apple TV is in the offing , or the company is plan quite a blowout to celebrate the twenty-seventh anniversary of the external release of “ We Are the World . ”
Air Force Gives $ 9 Million Award for as Many as 18,000 IPads(Bloomberg )
It would seem the Air Force is indeed purchasing iPads , as plan . While an Air Force Special Operations monastic order for iPadswas cancelledlast calendar month , the plan to buybetween 63 and 18,000 iPadsfor use as electronic flight bags for the service of process ’s Air Mobility Command is formally a go . Though when you think of all the entropy they can store , they should really more appropriately be call up “ electronic flight bagsof keeping . ” Eh ? Eh ?
Product News :
Capo 2.1.5 – SuperMegaUltraGroovy ’s music learning app has been update to version 2.1.5 . The update incorporate a mastering - character audio deceleration and pitch - shifting locomotive engine , designed to avail exploiter make out notes and beats at greatly decelerate hurrying . ( instance can be heard onCapo ’s website , under the audio tab . ) uncommitted on the Mac App Store . Free update for current users , $ 50 for newfangled users , free trial uncommitted on Capo ’s website .
