TT Snippet's Vol. 2 :: No.3

TT Snippet's Vol. 2 ::  No. 3

• In the biggest corporate offering ever, Apple sold $17 billion of bonds to finance its pledge to return $100 billion to shareholders dividends and buybacks by the end of 2015.

• The first companies to win over consumers with smart watches could lock users into their platforms, boosting sales of phones, tablets, apps and TVs. CitiGroup analyst, Oliver Cheu, estimated in March that Apple alone has a $6 billion opportunity in its iWatch. Other competitors include Italian "I'm Watch," which is selling at $399 each.

• According to the BBC, iTunes is offering a new streaming service to compete with Pandora soon.

• In its race to dominate all video, Amazon will offer a TV set-top device in the fall.  It will stream video over Internet onto your living room.  The TV will plug into all of your Amazon content.  This device will compete with other devices such as Roku, Apple TV and the Boxee.

• Would you like an app that finds you a parking space? Santa Monica-based start-up, "ParkMe" gathers information from web-connected parking meters and parking garage real time from car navigation systems, as well as iPhones and iPads --- running it through their systems. It is expanding into New York, San Francisco and Austin, Texas next, coming soon to where a parking space is waiting for you.

REVIEW: Skitch

Skitch is an app that I've always liked, and its new owner (Evernote) has dumbed-down the interface, according to MacLife Magazine. They go on to say that the app makes it simple to take, annotate and share screen captures. "Despite the odd, cumbersome moment, adding nondestructive arrows, lines, boxes and text to an image is child's play."  This is great when you are working with a client and you have to specifically point tings out, almost wire-frame like.


C'est tout, mon amis!