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Frederic Lardnois & Peter Ha on OS X's new Power Nap feature in Mountain Lion. First this:

Isn’t Power Nap an awesome new feature of OS X? It is if you’re a Mac user but to Windows users, it’s old news.

Then this:

You see, Microsoft had a similar feature in Vista called SideShow. It was supposed to herald the arrival of secondary displays that were going to be built into laptop lids, for example. Those displays were supposed to show you incoming email, upcoming calendar appointments and similar information – all while your computer was in sleep mode. It was, too put it mildly, a dismal failure. Hardware manufacturers never embraced SideShow (with the exception of a handful of laptops) and most consumers probably never heard of it to begin with.

Old news… that's no one's ever heard of. Makes sense.

TouchPad is Back(ish)!

Matt Burns:

But you better act quick! Don’t let another chance to own a failed tablet slip between your fingers!

(via TechCrunch)

Mobile Adversiting

Shawn Schauer, CEO of Moolah Media:

We’re a small team, so we have to focus on where see the highest response rates, and right now that’s Android, Apple has been clamping down on the user ID tracking, and they’re kind of spooking a lot of people about that. That’s really hurt advertising on the iPhone.

That's fine with me. I'd rather pay for an app than have some advertiser sell me to someone else.

(via TechCrunch)