Apple Won't Introduce New Apple TV Box Next Week, Will Upgrade Software

There are very, very good odds you're going to hear about new iPhones at Apple's event next Tuesday.

But if you're looking for a new Apple TV, you're going to be disappointed.

Despite speculation about new Apple TV hardware on the way, Apple won't be unveiling any new boxes next week, according to people familiar with the company's plans.

That said, the company will be tweaking the software inside its Web TV box. Apple has already said that it will be bringing its new iTunes Radio service to Apple TV. And it has been adding new content partners, including Disney and HBO, throughout the summer.

Expect to hear about more changes next week.

Sources said that one new feature in the works will let people who've bought content from Apple play that stuff on other users' Apple TVs, via Apple's Airplay system and Apple's server. So if you bought a TV show or movie from Apple's iTunes store, you could watch it at a friend's house by calling it up on your iPhone and telling your friend's Apple TV to start streaming it. (The files wouldn't need to be stored on your iPhone or iPad)

You could have previously accomplished this by getting your friend to log out of their Apple TV box and then logging in with your own credentials. But that's awfully cumbersome - particularly with Apple's minimalist Apple TV remote. And you can already do a variation on this, though not as elegantly, with some Apple TV apps like HBO Go.

But if this makes it that much easier to watch "Pain and Gain" with your pals, then that's a good thing. And if that makes you less inclined to buy a $35 Google Chromecast and treat that as your Web TV device, then that's good for Apple.

No comment from Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr.

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Amid Corporate Reorganization, Symantec Names Five New Execs

Last month, security software company Symantec confirmed a significant round of layoffs, amounting to about eight percent of its total headcount.

Today it starting adding back to that headcount with the naming of five new senior executives, including a chief marketing officer, a chief communications officer, a chief security officer and two senior VPs.

Announced in a corporate blog post earlier today, the five new execs are being brought on to execute a company-wide shift in direction instituted by Steve Bennett, Symantec's new CEO, who joined the company a year ago.

The new hires are:

• CMO Manny Kostas, a former SVP of marketing and strategy at Hewlett-Packard, who left after a shake-up last year. He has been working for Polycom since October.
  
• CCO Colleen Lacter, a veteran of PR agency Waggener Edstrom (better known as Microsoft's PR agency). She was involved in many significant product launches, including Windows 95, Internet Explorer, MSN and Bing.
• CSO Julie Talbot-Hubbard, previously chief information security officer at Ohio State University.
• Matt Lynch will be SVP for eBusiness. He was most recently COO at Amazon-owned IMBD.com. Stephen McHenry will be SVP for Cloud Platform Engineering. He's a Google veteran whose titles there have included CIO, CTO and engineering chancellor. His job will include building out Symantec's cloud computing infrastructure.

The hires are part of a broader shake-up that Symantec said was coming in a regulatory filing earlier this year. It said it plans to take charges related to its reorganization amounting to between $220 million and $250 million for the 2014 fiscal year ending next March. In June, it carried out the largest of a series of job cuts, eliminating about 1,700. Of those, 1,000 were supposed to have been cut in June, with the remaining cuts taking place this month.

Firefox 7 Beta uses less memory

We do know that Mozilla has just released Firefox 6, but here we are with Firefox 7 Beta - and this particular version (also, we did cover whispers of Mozilla mulling over whether to do away with version numbers) is said to be the first to implement Memshrink. Just what does Memshrink bring to the table? It will be able to reduce Firefox's memory usage by get this - nearly 50%. Now that is certainly something worth looking into, and if such low memory usage levels can be achieved even in a beta, imagine what the full version will be able to do.

You will be able to download the new Firefox 7 Beta for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and as for those who have been running the Firefox beta, they need not worry since their version(s) will be updated automatically. On a slightly different note, Mozilla has also rolled out a beta version of Firefox for Android. It must be noted that Firefox 7 s memory usage will remain constant even if you decide to leave the computer and browser running overnight, where it will free up even more memory whenever you close more tabs.

For those who have made the upgrade, how do you find it? Are there any bouquets or brickbats that you want to share with us?

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Samsung says $52m, not $380m, is owed for Apple patent infringement

Samsung lawyer admits to infringement by 13 devices in San Jose hearing but puts damages far lower than those estimated by Apple as trial damages are reassessed. By Charles Arthur and agencies

Charles Arthur

Outlook.com is now official

Do you remember when web email kicked off in the early days of dial up connectivity? Yes sir, everyone wanted and rushed for an email address, and the younger (and more foolish, I might add) ones among us realized that all of the cool email usernames were already taken, leaving us to agree to whatever the machine's reasoning threw our way, such as younggirl1980@hotmail.com or boyscoutlover95@yahoo.com, where they all sound so wrong on different levels in this day and age. Embarrassing, even. Well, having said that, perhaps it might have been half a decade since you decided to log into your Hotmail account, but you might want to do so soon, as Microsoft has officially launched Outlook.com on Tuesday, which would mark the demise of its predecessor, Hotmail.

Yes sir, a minute of silence for the faithful departed please. Taking approximately 7 months after Microsoft unveiled a preview of the Outlook email service, the software giant decided to announced the end of its beta run over in a blog post. Having picked up Hotmail in 1997 (was it that long ago?), Microsoft claimed that they will switch users from Hotmail over to the new Outlook service "soon", but it is a good thing that the Redmond, Washington company will not force these affected users to change their emails to an “outlook.com” address.

Be warned, though, change is definitely coming later this summer, so you might want to mentally prepare yourself for a jump over to the Outlook bandwagon after being in love with Hotmail for so long. Microsoft said, “Everything from their @hotmail.com email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vaation replies, etc. will stay the same, with no disruption in service.” With over 60 million folks who are actively using Outlook.com, hey, we certainly cannot argue with such levels of approval, can we? Do you think you will miss Hotmail?

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