Amazon stepped up the e-reader war today with an ad for the third-generation Kindle that directly attacks Apple's iPad. The 30-second spot, already shown on ABC, points out that the (thinly disguised) iPad's glossy LCD is hard to read in bright daylight and notes that the Kindle doesn't have any such problems. It's so readable that the Kindle owner can keep her sunglasses on....

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Apple supply manager Paul Shin Devine has agreed to a pretrial court order safeguarding the company's trade secrets, according to Bloomberg. The motion was filed for on the 9th by the US Attorney's Office in San Francisco, which notes that discoveries in the upcoming criminal trial might expose documents, hard drives and other material containing Apple information. Devine will still have the right to challenge how secret material can be used....

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Boxee on Monday revealed that it's switching the Boxee Box away from the NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform to Intel's Atom CE4100 processor. The switch was described to Electronista as a form of future proofing; the company wants to guarantee 1080p HD streaming for the future as well as today, Boxee said. NVIDIA's hardware can handle 1080p, but only in VC-1 and not the more popular H.264 format....

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This is hardly definitive proof, but it's still interesting. A tipster has sent Engadget some snapshots suggesting that a new electronic device will hit Target shelves (Target is a department store in the US) on October.

The mystery item (its name is hidden) comes is six variations, with item numbers that match the iPad price points exactly. Additionally, screenshots from a Target PDA have the item placed in the store's Digitial Audio section, which is where the Kindle and iPods are sold.

Could it be the iPad? It's possible, but these weak images won't let us say definitively. We'll find out on October 3rd, the day it's supposed to go down.

[Via Engadget]

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YouTube is to begin a two-day trial of live video streaming in the US.







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Apple has announced that the iPad will finally reach China later this week, going on sale at 10AM local time on September 17th. Buyers will have to visit one of the country's two Apple Stores, or else an authorized retailer. The launch is also being restricted to Wi-Fi models, priced at 3,988 yuan ($588) for 16GB, 4,788 yuan ($706) for 32GB and 5,588 yuan ($824) for 64GB....

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IvySkin has released its latest iPhone 4 case, the Quattro 4, as well as a slide-on battery pack that uses an advanced power distribution system







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The fifth-generation iPhone may forgo an Infineon baseband chip in favor of one from Qualcomm, according to an unconfirmed report.

Per the Commercial Times report, Infineon will not provide the baseband chip for the fifth-generation iPhone. Infineon’s wireless unit was sold to Intel for US$1.4 billion in August.

According to the report, the next-generation Apple smartphone, which is expected next year, will still be manufactured by the Hon Hai Group and Foxconn, and will include a Qualcomm baseband chip this time around.

A move away from Infineon would break with precedent. Infineon has supplied Apple with the baseband chip for the iPad 3G and...

Incipio has announced its new lineup of cases for the fourth-generation iPod touch, sixth-generation iPod nano and fourth-generation iPod shuffle. The lineup includes updated versions of six of the company’s current case designs and a newly designed case for the iPod nano.  The Linq Wristband for the nano 6G…

Today TMO readers are talking about Apple’s FaceTime video call feature on the iPhone and iPod touch, and debating what impact it could have on cell service providers like AT&T.






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While the new iPod touch stole the show during Apple's recent marketing event, the company also introduced its latest overhaul of the entry-level iPod shuffle. In theory, it's the best of two worlds: it combines the simple button controls of the second-generation iPod with the VoiceOver that made playlists and podcasts possible on the third. In our full review, we'll determine if Apple has addressed the issues that frustrated owners of earlier shuffles....

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We've been keeping a close eye on the race for the best HDR (high dynamic range) photo app for the iPhone. In my latest survey, I advised that progress would be fast as paid apps move to compete with the free Apple HDR software, and that's what's happened.

TrueHDR, a US$1.99 app, has been updated to add a fast Autocapture mode and a SemiAuto mode (where you can drag the exposure control points around to get the best picture).

I thought it was worth another quick look in order to see how the updated TrueHDR compares to Pro HDR ($1.99) and the built-in iPhone 4 camera (with and without the HDR processing).

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YouTube this morning made its live streaming plans official with word that it would start trials. The approach works through a user's existing YouTube channel and follows the same approach as a service like Justin.tv, Qik or Ustream: users need only a FireWire or USB video camera and have access to live comments for any ongoing show. It's not stated but is implied that finished shows will be archived as regular YouTube clips....

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Product sells increased if concepts are cleared in packaging and would win the hearts of customers. It is more important companies maintain cost of product, packaging within its cost. Mostly people judge the quality of product with its unique packaging.

Late last week, software developer Mark/Space released The Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0.6, a 20.4 megabyte download (via MacUpdate). Like the other Missing Sync apps, Missing Sync for Android allows you to sync your Android devices music, photos, contacts and other data with your Mac.

The new version adds the following fixes and changes:

- Corrected application behavior when a sync is initiated from the phone or by Proximity Sync‚Ñ¢, The Missing Sync will launch on the Mac in the background (it was not already running) and quit after the sync has completed.

- Added support for syncing multiple alarms in events.

- Reduced memory usage when syncing large sets of data.

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It was just that easy. Step 3: Profit.

Apple’s Wi-Fi only iPad is set for a Friday, September 17, launch in China.









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Wondering how to have fun with your iPhone? One obvious way is to play games on it. And I have found 10 great iPhone games which you won'€™t need to pay anything for. Read on my list of top 10 free iPhone games. Try them all out -€“ they'€™re free!

Gamevil's new action RPG HYBRID 2 is an excellent game, but it's not one that I would recommend for just anyone to pick up. We've spotlighted plenty of great casual games and apps here on the Daily App, but HYBRID 2 doesn't fit in that category. If you've never played a Japanese-style action RPG, you'll probably get lost right away. There is a pretty solid tutorial for the combos, but soon after that, the game quickly falls into the kinds of tropes that only someone who loves old school RPGs can deal with; there's a convoluted plot in which the world has to be saved from a supernatural threat (again), jerky controls with lots of stats to oversee and upgrade, and even lots of typos and some Engrish in the menus.

Don't get me wrong -- HYBRID 2 is actually a lot of fun. If you've...

RED this weekend finally began wider distribution of its first next-generation camera. After the earlier upgrade program, the Red One MX is now available to everyone. The camera still shoots at the same 4K resolution as the original but uses a modern Mysterium-X sensor with much better low-light performance and other image quality improvements....

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Adobe extended its reach into the HTML5 world on Monday with the release of its new HTML5 pack for Illustrator CS5. The add-on pack lets users export Illustrator artboards as HTML5 and CSS3 content, and also enhances the application’s SVG export capabilities.






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A new expansion pack to Adobe Illustrator allows designers to build one interface for multiple Web and print platforms.







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Nokia lost another key executive today as its Mobile Solutions head Anssi Vanjoki said he would quit the company in six months. The company veteran would only say he wanted to "seek new opportunities" and insisted he was "one hundred percent committed" to Nokia for the half year.

Apple announced on Monday that it will launch the Wi-Fi iPad in China this week on Friday, Sept. 17, with the multitouch device going on sale at the company's retail stores and authorized resellers at 10 a.m. local time.

Apple’s iPad may be headed to Target store shelves in early October assuming tipsters are reading the digital tea leaves correctly.









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Apple didn't just release iOS 4.1 last week. It also update the iPhone Configuration Utility aimed at helping administrators in business or education environments create configuration and provisioning profiles for iOS devices. Computerworld's Ryan Faas takes a closer look at iPhone Configuration Utility 3.1.






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Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed during the recent Apple media event that iOS 4.1 would add a new feature to the iPhone 4: high dynamic range photography. The technique has been widely used to create often dramatic images of landscapes, scenery, and still lifes using digital cameras. In fact, several apps already exist for doing HDR photography with an iPhone.

But what's so great about HDR photography? And is Apple's new HDR feature any good? Ars dug in to find out.

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Apple's policy reversal on third-party development tools for iOS may yet draw close checks from the Federal Trade Commission.

A slip by Japanese accessory creator keysfactory may have preempted Nintendo's plans to reveal a 3DS release date.

Notable software releases this week include Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3.4, Firefox 3.6.9, PDFpen/PDFpenPro 5.0.1, Safari 5.0.2/4.1.2, iWeb 3.0.2, and Cyberduck 3.6.1.

 

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As Apple approaches a decade of iPod sales, starting off with the Classic and progressing to the Touch, the company has taken a gamble with major redesigns of its entry- and mid-level offerings. The previous Shuffle dropped its click wheel, requiring users to control playback via in-line remote. Interestingly enough, Apple dropped the click wheel from the sixth ......

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Along with a $129 (give or take) price tag, the GeForce GTS 450 is more affordable than any other DX11-class GPU out there right now. Performance-wise, the cards measure up pretty well versus competitive offerings from AMD.

Taiwan’s NMA, the global leaders in news coverage that looks like a video game, made a short speculative fiction film based on a speech President Obama delivered in Cleveland recently. Besides testing new facial motion-capture technology, the video manages to capture the sense of ridicule that Obama inspires even in Taiwan.

T-Mobile's other upcoming HSPA+ phone, the myTouch HD, has potentially been validated through an internal document that suggests it may be the fastest and most advanced Android phone this year. The sheet handed to TmoNews lists it as having a dual-core 1GHz processor that would line up with testing of the HTC Glacier earlier in the summer. Backing the chip and the connection, it would be T-Mobile's first phone with an enabled front video camera for chat or live streaming.

In short, Facebook believes that if you use Facebook in a way that Facebook doesn't like — as defined by its terms of use — you commit a federal crime.

The above image is one of several from Alejo Malia that depict a world in which all the elements of Google Maps place markers, public transit symbols and even the yellow street view guy are completely real and physical objects looming over our buildings, streets and heads. Malia is a Spanish illustrator and designer who, while relatively unknown, has a very strong social media presence. He's on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blogspot and Flickr.He uploaded this set of images (titled "Google's World") yesterday, but it's not his first literal imagination of the technological world of the web; he also produced an image that incorporated Facebook's "Like" button into a real photograph.Here's the rest of the "Google's World" set. Enjoy, and be sure and tweet your appreciation at Malia if you like his work.[Via Gizmodo]For more Tech coverage:Follow Mashable Tech on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Tech channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad

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In our Kindle Vs. iPad battle, we pit the best features of each gadget against each other to determine a...

According to the com Score Latest Metric Report of the month August, Facebook has beaten Google in the time spent and Visits. It is estimated that Time spent on facebook is 41.1 million minutes while time spent on Google is 39.8 million minutes including Youtube, Google News and Gmail etc. Yahoo is on third and Microsoft on fourth in this race according to com Score.

The Restore is the third eco-friendly Samsung cell phone to be carried by Sprint. The Restore is built with a more mainstream slider design than its predecessor, the Reclaim. While there were some features in the Reclaim that we enjoyed there was plenty of room for improvement...

Acer may be planning a major break from traditional notebook design with a dual-screen model reportedly leaked late Saturday.

After more than 70 years of misinformation about this botanical remedy, I am delighted that we are finally gaining a mature understanding of its immense therapeutic potential.

After more than 70 years of misinformation about this botanical remedy, I am delighted that we are finally gaining a mature understanding of its immense therapeutic potential.

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Amazon has continued to shave weight from the Kindle, bringing the latest model down to just 8.5 oz. Although the third generation is only 1.7 oz lighter than the first- and second-generation offerings, the savings becomes noticeable through an extended reading session. Weight is one of the selling points that differentiates e-book readers from tablets, such as ......

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Social media changes from month to month. Trends come and go quicker than the seasons change. The latest trendy site could be next years Myspace and the hottest new site probably hasnt even been conceived yet or is at the couple of guys in a garage stage. Having said that there are some trends that I think will continue over the coming year and with that in mind I wanted to share them here. Rather than focusing in on the finer detail I have compiled the list below in broader terms with all the main players represented. All in all it should be an exiting year ahead in social media and these should be seven of the main trends
Group Buying
This really has been the huge power house of online commerce in the last year. Services like Groupon have come on the scene in a big way (Even Microsoft entered the market today) and the idea behind it really is so simple that it makes you think Why didnt I think of that. Like all kick ass ideas this one is incredibly simple and...

Just like a couple of weeks ago, this weekend again we’ve got something unusual and creative to lift up your spirits and challenge your creativity over a lousy Sunday. Particle animation is a beautiful concept from motion graphics. Using specialized software, you can simulate the movements of particles depending on the environment — for instance, music rhythm.