Google confirms iPhone compatibility for Glass, but questions remain over notifications
Google will likely reveal more about the device in the lead up to this year's Google I/O, given the device is expected to launch later this year for around $1,400."

I really like the fact that this is a whole new product category and not a weak attempt at oneupsmanship which seems to be the main thing going on in hardware these days.

Personally, this is my kind of device. If only it cost the same as an iPod.

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No Close Encounters With Apple Spaceship Until 2016 - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD
Apple Campus 2 will be a new home for our company and an important part of the lives of more than 12,000 Apple employees"

Campus 2 sounds like the sequel to a low-budget slasher flick.

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'Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview' coming back to Landmark theaters May 11
MacNN reports that "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" will return to Landmark theaters beginning next week. Magnolia Pictures also plans to release the documentary on DVD and to other theaters this summer."

SOURCE:http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/05/04/steve_jobs_the_lost_interview_coming_back_to_landmark_theaters_may_11.html

I've seen Redwood City, and those wilds are wooly.

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I'm an advocate of DragInstall for Macintosh.

Once you start down the slippery slope to a code-driven installer, there's no turning back.

Today I installed an art program for the Mac, and the installer requested administrator access. Hmmm, am I missing something here? Since when does an art program need to run as root?

This continuous prompting for Administrator access significantly weakens security, paving the way for malware and viruses. When the issuing of security priviledges happens on such a frequent basis, it loses all meaning, becoming nothing more than an annoyance for users.

Drag Install. If OfficeX 2002 can do drag install, you too can do drag install.

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Adobe chief predicts everybody but Adobe will continue to make compelling desktop applications. Adobe, on the other hand, will roll out Flash based solutions that provide at the minimum twelve features, at least until you press the BACK button on your browser, accidentally erasing everything you did.

Adobe is introducing limited functionality Photoshop Express as part of its move to providing software as a service. Company chief executive Bruce Chizen has recently vouched his belief that online software will become the de facto standard for software distribution within the next decade.

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According to MacNN, Apple has filed patents on OpenGL multitexturing techniques widely discussed in the public domain:

Apple’s Abstract: A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream is decoded. After decoding the compressed image is separated into an image representing the luminance and an image representing the chroma. The chroma image is resampled as appropriate using the GPU to provide chroma values corresponding to each luminance value at the proper locations. The resampled chroma image and the luminance image are properly combined to produce a 4:4:4 image, preferably in the RGB color space, and provided to the frame buffer for final display. Each of these operations is done in real time for each frame of the video.

Here's some "prior art" OpenGL multitexturing code circa 2004 (Source: fourcc.org).

I think the MacNN patent numbers or links are incorrect, as they link to some unrelated patents.