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A recent comment (originally a bit misquoted) by Eric Schmidt asserting developers will overwhelmingly prefer writing apps for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich over Apple’s iOS has resulted in some commotion among Apple watchers. His bait? Ad dollars on the Android platform. However, Android is generating an estimated$833 million in ad revenue a year for Google, at most, and two-thirds of this sum comes from iOS devices. Apple on its part paid out $3 billion to developers as of October 2011 after its customary 30 percent cut....

[UPDATE: Apple has issued a statement on the passing of Bill Campbell, saying he “believed in Apple when few people did.” Via Daisuke Wakabayashi: Re/code today reports that Silicon Valley icon and longtime Apple board member Bill “The Coach” Campbell has passed away at age 75 after a long battle with cancer. The unfortunate news comes from “many prominent tech players,” following earlier unconfirmed reports. Campbell was a mentor to many tech leaders, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos....

Former BioWare General Manager Aaryn Flynn went on record late last week saying that Anthem’s launch was “tough” for him to watch, having been a part of the studio for so long and overseeing the title prior to his departure in 2017. Flynn now works at Improbable Worlds Limited, a tech company that’s goal is to develop video game tools and software for general corporate use. Anthem’s launch has been a nightmare for BioWare and publisher EA....

[vodpod id=Video.16032234&w=650&h=350&fv=videoGUID%3D%7B93134D6D-213A-46AB-9515-30D67F09C4AC%7D%26amp%3Bplayerid%3D4001%26amp%3BplyMediaEnabled%3D1%26amp%3BconfigURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwsj.vo.llnwd.net%2Fo28%2Fplayers%2F%26amp%3BautoStart%3Dfalse] Yesterday we brought you music legend Neil Young’s interview from the “D: Dive into Media” conference where he talked about Steve Jobs’ love of vinyl and hinted at a high-fidelity music service he worked on with Jobs that was later confirmed by Bloomberg. At the same conference, Edgar Bronfman Jr. sat down with AllThingsD on his last day as chairperson of Warner Music Group. While discussing why record labels are still necessary in an iTunes driven music industry, Bronfman talked about his struggles with Jobs on pricing:...

CD Projekt RED team is known for online dark fantasy-like action role-playing video games, and The Witcher III is one of them. This 2007’s title is a series of fantasy action RPGs with overwhelmingly positive reviews on several platforms like Xbox, Windows, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, etc. As we know, Witcher 3 black screen issue on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S is ruining everything. Affected players are getting frustrated a lot due to the black screen issue, which appears whenever trying to launch the Witcher 3 game or after pressing the ‘Start Engine’ button....

Ubisoft Connect is a digital distribution and multiplayer communications service that has been developed by Ubisoft to easily download and play Ubisoft-specific games on Windows just like other game clients. Although the desktop client works really well and doesn’t have too many issues, it seems that some players are getting the Ubisoft Connect ‘Initialization’ message while trying to launch the client or even Ubisoft games. According to multiple reports, whenever players are trying to launch Ubisoft Connect, it basically says “Looking for Patches” initially and then after that “Logging IN” screen, the client starts showing the “Initializing” message every time....

Xiaomi 11T and Xiaomi 11T Pro were launched at Xiaomi’s global event with a hole-punch display design, triple rear cameras, 12GB of RAM, and 120W fast charging. The rear camera setup houses a 108 MP primary sensor, 8 MP ultra-wide shooter, and a telemacro shooter with an f/2.4 lens. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro audio or sound not working issue....

The Flash season 6 midseason premiere features a touching callback to Arrow season 2 that ties into Barry Allen’s Arrowverse introduction. In the episode, Barry (Grant Gustin) is gifted with Green Arrow’s mask, which is something that he made for Oliver (Stephen Amell) years ago. In The Flash season 6, episode 10, “Marathon”, Team Flash gets a surprise visit from Arrow’s John Diggle (David Ramsay), who comes bearing a gift that Oliver wanted Barry to have after his death....

Image of Daisey via BusinessWeek According to an email sent to students of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Mike Daisey was scheduled to deliver a commencement speech at the college’s graduation this year and receive an honorary degree. Following his false claims about Apple supply chain worker conditions, the school and Daisy have agreed to revoke his speech honor and honorary degree. Here’s the letter: Following the sending of this email to students of the college, Daisey posted a response on his own blog....

[brightcove vid=1445684076001&exp3=71011229001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=70985739001&pk=AQ~~,AAAAEIcUavk~,5JSLa7YkmQdRK75HNEMSqiKwfBu4LLqK&lbu=https://www.gplus.com/Wireless-Technology/video/VIDEO-All-About-11AC?utm_campaign=11ac0212%26utm_source=cm%26utm_medium=email%26utm_content=editorial&w=486&h=412] Giving a talk at Gerson Lehrman Group’s G+ community, the former EVP & FM of Mobile Platforms at Broadcom Scott Bibaud offered the above explanation about the benefits 802.11ac would bring to all devices. We have discussed Gigabit Wi-Fi before, but we did not really get a handle on when the new Wi-Fi standard would be hitting technology we now use. Apple is usually an early adopter of such technologies, but it is not likely—as you can hear above— that Apple’s next round of products will include this feature....

The final week of Fortnite Overtime Challenges is live, and it allows players who have purchased the battle pass the opportunity to unlock another style for the “Cameo Vs Chic” skins. Similar to the last two Overtime Challenge sets players are tasked with completing 10 different challenges in order to unlock a new style for one of the battle pass exclusive skins. The past two Overtime Challenge sets offered players the chance to unlock exclusive variants of the 8-Ball and Ripley skins....

The Callisto Protocol is a survival horror video game developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by Krafton. It was released on December 2, 2022, and is directed by Glen Schofield, who had previously co-created the Dead Space series. The game is now available for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Microsoft Windows. Callisto Protocol Black Screen issue and the Game not exiting problem are among them....

TOZO is always known for its premium category earbuds. TOZO T12 and T9 Truly Wireless is a decent pair of budget-friendly truly wireless earbuds. But, unfortunately, recently, many users started reporting that after using it for a long period of time, TOZO T12 and T9 Earbuds won’t charge or case not charging problem occurs. However, you need not worry! In this guide, we will explain how you will fix this issue....

The Flash showrunner confirms that Tuesday’s season 5 finale will indeed tease this fall’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. The Flash is in its fifth season, which brought back Eobard Thawne, introduced Barry’s daughter from the future, and done a lot more. Last year, The CW brought together Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl in the latest crossover called Elseworlds. The story had a being called the Monitor “test” Earth-1’s capability of handling an impending crisis, by giving a magical book to a character named John Deegan....

King is a former CIO with 30 years of consulting and executive experience, both in the US and internationally, with expertise in innovation, design thinking, and information technology. King also teaches innovation and design topics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute of Design. Henry and I first met when we were tasked with the implementation of Salesforce’s first distributed ledger (blockchain) project at a large university in 2016....

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation charged former Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang with stealing trade secrets. Zhang was hired back in December of 2015 by Apple to work on Project Titan, focusing mainly on software and hardware for autonomous vehicles. As reported by Bloomberg, the charge was found in documents filed with the Northern District Court of California. Zhang’s duties were to design and test circuit boards that were capable of analyzing sensor data....

The Ascent is a much-awaited action-shooter RPG that comes with a solo and co-op multiplayer mode, set in a cyberpunk world. Although the title is much optimized for the Windows version, it seems that plenty of players are getting affected by being stuck on the loading screen on The Ascent game, you can follow this guide. Just like other PC games, The Ascent also gets stuck on the loading screen. Luckily, we’ve mentioned a couple of possible workarounds that should help you out in fixing the stuck-on loading screen on The Ascent....

Cities: Skylines is one of the single-player best-in-class city-building simulation video games. It’s developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. All the Windows, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, macOS, Linux, Macintosh players can run this game. However, all the games come with a couple of bugs or errors, or after updating to a patch, most of the games cause issues. If you’re also a Cities Skylines gamer and facing the Green screen or other graphical issues during gameplay, then check the troubleshooting steps below....

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to fix the WiFi connectivity issue on the Samsung Galaxy A21S / M31S. Unless you don’t have any other resort, you won’t stream an entire movie or play a hardcore online game on mobile data. Thus, WiFi makes up for quite a huge chunk when using the internet. However, just like any other feature on any smartphone such as the Samsung Galaxy A21S / M31S, WiFi does fail....

The online giant Fortnite possesses one of the largest player bases in a competitive online game in the current market. Hosting players from all over the world through one of the most addicting genres, battle royale shooter. Fortnite, unlike most other shooters available, has a certain degree of skill required other than precise aim. Fortnite requires its players to learn and master the building mechanic before they can truly become an expert in the shooter....