New Android TV spot mocks the iPhone’s customer base
Samsung has certainly stepped up its marketing game in advance of the 2011 holiday selling season.
Last week it was a TV ad for the new Galaxy Nexus — due to arrive in the U.S. in December — that had the look and feel of an iPhone spot. (See: What Google learned from Apple.)
This week it’s an ad for the six-month-old Galaxy S II that takes aim at Apple’s (AAPL) most devoted customer base: the people who line up to buy the latest iPhone.
Best line: “I could never get a Samsung. I’m creative.”
Gentle mockery can be a devastatingly effective weapon. Just ask Microsoft (MSFT) how it liked the Get a Mac campaign that made fun of Windows PCs on prime time TV for nearly three and a half years.
One subtlety here is that mockery works best in advertising when you are coming from behind, as Avis was to Hertz and the Mac was to Windows. Although Android’s share of the smartphone market now dwarfs the iPhone’s, the message here is that Samsung — and Google (GOOG) — are still playing catch-up.
Google is canning Wave, Knol, Search Timeline and Google Gears, along with a slew of other features in order to build up fewer products with more integrated features.
“Our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, truly beautiful Google user experience,” the company explained in its third blog post concerning the sweep.
Wave, one of the products getting killed off, was a similar product to Google+ in that it allowed you to collaborate with friends and coworkers on a presentation or document. You could have conversations around a topic and introduce supplemental materials, but the product never really took off. Google+ now also has communication and collaboration features such as the screen and file sharing aspects of Hangout, Google+’s video chat client.
Wave will be completely turned off on April 30th, but those who want to save their files can download PDFs of them.
The company is also replacing products such as Gears, favoring baked-in HTML5 features that allow you to work offline. Gears allowed Gmail and Google Calendar users to sync these products with an offline client, which cached e-mails and calendar updates. You were then able to read and respond to e-mails, which would be placed in your outbound box to be sent upon reconnection to an internet connection. Now, however, Google says there is a built in Chrome feature, which allows you to work in this same capacity, but does not exist as a separate product from the browser.
Knol was another collaboration tool, which Google hoped would improve web content. Similar to Wikipedia, it allowed topic “experts” to provide information and insight into that topic. Another axed product, Google Search Timeline allowed you to see the history of a results for a search term in graph form. Google is now directly Timeline users to Google Trends for this sort of information.
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President Barack Obama was among the many people who paid tribute to Steve Jobs, calling the Apple co-founder a visionary and great American innovator. “Steve was among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it,” Obama said of Jobs, who died on Wednesday. “The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.” The president was joined by political, technology, entertainment and business leaders around the world in paying tribute to Jobs. A selection: BILL GATES, MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN “Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor.” RUPERT MURDOCH, CEO OF NEWS CORP “Today, we lost one of the most influential thinkers, creators and entrepreneurs of all time. Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation. While I am deeply saddened by his passing, I’m reminded of the stunning impact he had in revolutionizing the way people consume media and entertainment.” MARK ZUCKERBERG, FACEBOOK FOUNDER AND CEO, ON FACEBOOK “Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.” SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CHIEF EXECUTIVE, G.S. CHOI “Chairman Steve Jobs introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry and was a great entrepreneur. His innovative spirit and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world.” SONY CEO HOWARD STRINGER “The digital age has lost its leading light, but Steve’s innovation and creativity will inspire dreamers and thinkers for generations.” AT&T CHAIRMAN AND CEO RANDALL STEPHENSON “Steve was an iconic inventor, visionary, and entrepreneur, and we had the privilege to know him as partner and friend.” BOB IGER, CEO OF WALT DISNEY CO “Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an ‘original,’ with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era. Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started.” MITT ROMNEY, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL, ON TWITTER “Steve Jobs is an inspiration to American entrepreneurs. He will be missed.” ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, FORMER CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR, ON TWITTER “Steve lived the California Dream every day of his life and he changed the world and inspired all of us.” MASAYOSHI SON, FOUNDER OF SOFTBANK, JAPAN’S NO.3 MOBILE PHONE SERVICE OPERATOR “Steve was truly a genius of our time, a man with a rare ability to fuse art and technology. In centuries from now, he will be remembered alongside Leonardo da Vinci.” MARK CUBAN, ENTREPRENEUR, ON TWITTER “The PC era is officially over. #RIP #STEVEJOBS INVESTOR MARC ANDREESSEN “Steve was the best of the best. Like Mozart and Picasso, he may never be equaled.” PAUL ALLEN, CO-FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT “We’ve lost a unique tech pioneer and auteur who knew how to make amazingly great products. Steve fought a long battle against tough odds in a very brave way. He kept doing amazing things in the face of all that adversity. MICHAEL DELL, CEO OF DELL INC “Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come.” LARRY PAGE, CEO OF GOOGLE, ON GOOGLE+ “He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me.” STEVE CASE, FOUNDER OF AOL, ON TWITTER “I feel honored to have known Steve Jobs. He was the most innovative entrepreneur of our generation. His legacy will live on for the ages.” JEFF BEWKES, CEO OF TIME WARNER “The world is a better place because of Steve, and the stories our company tells have been made richer by the products he created. He was a dynamic and fearless competitor, collaborator, and friend. In a society that has seen incredible technological innovation during our lifetimes, Steve may be the one true icon whose legacy will be remembered for a thousand years.” DICK COSTOLO, CEO OF TWITTER, ON TWITTER “Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn’t just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. #RIPSteveJobs” ARTHUR SULZBERGER, CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CO “Steve Jobs was a visionary and a wonderful friend of The New York Times. He pushed the boundaries of how all providers of news and information interact with our users. I am among the many who deeply regret his passing.” JOHN RICCITIELLO, CEO OF ELECTRONIC ARTS “Steve was one of a kind. For many of us working in technology and entertainment, Steve was a new kind of hero that lead with big, bold moves and would not settle for less than perfection. He is the best role model for a leader that aspires to be great.” JOHN LASSETER AND ED CATMULL, CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER AND PRESIDENT, WALT DISNEY and PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS “Steve … saw the potential of what Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined. Steve took a chance on us and believed in our crazy dream of making computer animated films; the one thing he always said was to simply ‘make it great.’ He is why Pixar turned out the way we did and his strength, integrity and love of life has made us all better people. He will forever be a part of Pixar’s DNA.” SPIKE LEE, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/ACTOR, ON TWITTER “VISIONARIES are always called CRAZY in the beginning. A VISIONARY sees things that everybody else says is IMPOSSIBLE, sees a World that People can’t invision (sic)-MAC, IPOD, IPAD, IPHONE, ITUNES and PIXAR. I have nothing but Love for Mr. Jobs and Apple, they have always given me and my films L-O-V-E. Peace and Blessings to his family.”Tributes pour in for Steve Jobs, dead at 56
As it stands, we sit about a week out from Samsung and Google’s event at CTIA San Diego where the companies will presumably announce the next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, and a new Nexus device made by Samsung, a device that might be called the Samsung Nexus Prime. Details at this point are scarce but we did see what we believe to be the first photo of the Nexus Prime show up today. But guess what? Very few people saw it and that’s because at today’s “Talk iPhone” event, Apple announced a brand new iPhone called the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S’ launch couldn’t come at a worse time for Google and Samsung. Pre-orders start this Friday, October 7th, and the device is going to go on sale on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon starting October 14th. In addition, Apple plans on pushing iOS 5 out on October 12th. Apple announced three different iPhone 4S models. We have the 16GB priced at $199, 32GB at $299 and the massive 64GB model with a price tag of $399. If Google, Samsung and the carriers were smart, they would, at the very least, price the Nexus Prime like the iPhone 4S. If they were smarter than smart, they would undercut the price of the iPhone 4S. Maybe by $50 or so. Verizon and AT&T will have to play along though and thus far, neither of them have. AT&T released a 4G LTE tablet with an absurd price and Verizon is still asking for $300 for the Motorola Droid Bionic even though retailers havedropped it down to $150. Why not just start the Nexus at $150? If it costs $300 at launch, it will be there in a few weeks anyway. If you followed the Apple announcement at all, you would know that Apple unveiled something called Siri Assistant that will be coming exclusively to the iPhone 4S along with the hundreds of other features found in iOS 5. Not familiar with Siri? In a nutshell, it’s a powerful voice command tool that allows you to say things like “What’s the current weather like?” or “Set an alarm for 8am” and get the proper results. All without lifting a finger. For most, this is the main attractive of the iPhone 4S. Not the dual-core processor and not the massively upgraded camera. And guess what? Apple has it right here. It had great hardware in the iPhone 4 and it made that hardware better. It also, and remember this was the focus of WWDC 11, developed fantastic software to go along with that hardware and that puts an enormous amount of pressure on Google to deliver with Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nexus Prime. Right now, the details of ICS remain shrouded in mystery. We have bits and pieces but there is nothing at this point that stands out to the average user and that is who the Nexus Prime needs to lure in order to compete. Oh, and it would probably help if it was able to get it to its phones shortly after announcing it instead of months or a year after the fact. In fact, if Google wants to keep up ahead of iOS 5, Android Ice Cream Sandwich needs to hit recently released devices in a timely manner.Can the Samsung Nexus Prime Compete with the iPhone 4S?
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Problem: After installing Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2, submitted Active Users report. Concurrent request fails with message ‘REP-3002: Error initializing printer’ Solution: To implement the solution, please execute the following steps: 1. Define a dummy printer on the server to be defined as local printer. 2. Set this dummy printer to be the default. 3. Make the following updates in the registry, before making any changes to the registry you should always make a backup copy: Complete path Regedit: You will find String value with name as the newly defined printer Same goes to: You will find String value with name as the newly defined printer You will find String value with name “Device” and has value including the printer name as defined All the above string values should also be set under the following paths for the valid printer to be seen by all usersERR ‘REP-3002: Error initializing printer’
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That new smartphone you just bought? It may well be the “most important technology” in your life. A survey conducted by Cisco on 2,800 respondents found that 66 per cent of students and 58 per cent of young employees consider mobile devices such as laptops, smartphones or tablets to be the most important technology in their lives. Part of this stems from the search for information online, according to the second annual Cisco Connected World Technology Report. The survey reported that mobile technology has overshadowed older devices such as televisions (TVs) and newspapers when it comes to providing information. Fewer than six per cent of college students and eight per cent of employees polled said TVs were important. This downward trend is expected to continue as TV programming and movies become available on mobile devices. Similarly, only four per cent of college students and employees surveyed globally said the newspaper is their most important tool for accessing information. Working on the go The above findings come after a similar survey conducted last year, when 60 per cent of employees around the world said offices are unnecessary for being productive. This may point towards a trend where smartphones are increasingly used for work purposes when the next generation of workers enter the workforce. Furthermore, these mobile technology users also don’t seem to mind the fact that they are regularly interrupted by instant messaging, social media and phone calls. 84 per cent of college students said they are interrupted at least once every hour. 19 per cent said they are interrupted six times or more in an hour, an average of at least once every 10 minutes, while 12 per cent said they lose count how many times they are interrupted while they are trying to focus on a project.
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CommentsThese products did not take off for Google as originally anticipated, so the is letting them die out, leaving room for more important projects such as Google+, which is starting to see deeper integrations with successful Google products such as YouTube.