Linked List: August 20, 2013

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

The Suits of James Bond 

Matt Spaiser, aptly chronicling the sartorial details of the James Bond franchise. So great.

International Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming 

Justin Gillis, reporting for the NYT:

An international panel of scientists has found with near certainty that human activity is the cause of most of the temperature increases of recent decades, and warns that sea levels could conceivably rise by more than three feet by the end of the century if emissions continue at a runaway pace.

See also: Chris Mooney at Mother Jones on five of the “holy crap” details of the report.

Tumult Hype 2.0 and Hype Reflect for iOS 

Amazing graphical HTML5 animation builder, now with a helper app for previewing on iOS devices.

Ad Age: Big Marketers Sign Up for Apple’s iTunes Radio 

John McDermott, Ad Age:

iTunes Radio, Apple’s answer to Pandora, is set to debut next month with a handful of high-profile brand partners including McDonald’s, Nissan, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and possibly one or two more brands, according to people familiar with the negotiations. […]

Of course, consumers can choose to have no ads at all. iTunes Radio will be a free, ad-supported service to the public, but Apple will be offering an ad-free option to anyone who purchases iTunes Match, a cloud-based music storage feature that allows users to access their libraries on any Internet-connected Apple device.

Best reason yet to sign up for iTunes Match.

How Steve Jobs Got AT&T to Share Revenue 

Peter Cohan, Forbes:

When he worked at telecommunications consulting firm, Adventis, Raj Aggarwal met with Apple’s Steve Jobs twice a week for several months. In an August 15 interview, Aggarwal explained how Steve Jobs persuaded AT&T’s Cingular Wireless to provide service for the iPhone with an unprecedented revenue sharing agreement. […]

Aggarwal was impressed by the way Jobs was willing to take a risk to realize his vision. “In one meeting in the conference room with Jobs, he was annoyed that AT&T was spending too much time worrying about the risks of the deal. So he said, ‘You know what we should do to stop them from complaining? We should write AT&T a check for $1 billion and if the deal doesn’t work out, they can keep the money. Let’s give them the $1 billion [Apple had $5 billion in cash at the time] and shut them the hell up,’” Aggarwal recounted.

Apple Developer Center Outage Fixed ‘Remote Code Execution’ Flaw 

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

While security researcher Ibrahim Balic speculated that he might have been behind the security breach, it is now clear that the issue he reported was unrelated to the major flaw that caused the downtime. Apple credits Ibrahim with reporting a separate iAd Workbench vulnerability on July 22. The vulnerability allowed Balic to obtain both names and Apple IDs of users.

It was a separate “remote code execution” vulnerability that prompted Apple to take the whole thing down.

Cringely on the Ashton Kutcher ‘Jobs’ Movie 

Cringely:

For years there was this running joke that Steve had changed, that he was no longer that guy who made us all uncomfortable. Then an hour or a day later he’d do something that would show he hadn’t really changed at all. And yet at some point Steve did change. It was subtle but real and it set the tone for the last 15 years of his life — the most productive 15 years of his life or that of any American executive.

This film misses all of that.

Special for the ‘Apple Would Never Make a Gold-Toned iPhone If Steve Jobs Were Still Alive’ Crowd 

Yeah, would never happen.

Nilay Patel Reviews the New $599 TiVo Roamio Pro 

I’m glad TiVo is still around — we’ve been TiVo users since around 1999. But a $600 box in 2013 that still has non-HD user interface screens? Come on.