Android's footprint in the workplace has gone up 60 percent in just a few months, ChangeWave found in a study today. Only 10 percent of US companies used Android in May, but the number shot up to 16 percent in August. The iPhone was the only other platform to grow but moved up just slightly to 31 percent....
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| Read more »Veenix has updated its no-frills music player, Quick-Tunes with a 30-minute sleep timer.
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Apple has been sued by a New Jersey-based company over its iTunes video download offerings. The suit, filed by Multi-Format, Inc. in the Northern District of Illinois East District Court, claims that Apple’s products infringe on the company’s 2003 patent entitled “Multi-format audio/video production system.” Patently Apple reports…
| Read more »nova media unveiled its new iHub Basic application for the Mac on Wednesday. iHub Basic lets users sync calendars and contacts between their Mac and iOS devices including the iPhone and iPad without relying on cloud-based services such as Apple‚Äôs MobileMe.
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If you're a regular reader of the Sports Illustrated (SI) publication for the iPad, you may have noticed something unusual / different in the latest issue. The SI iPad edition is now only viewable in landscape mode, no longer supporting portrait mode as it did in previous issues. If you hold your iPad in landscape mode and then turn it to portrait mode the message, "This page is intended to be viewed in landscape mode. (There's nothing wrong with your iPad -- just turn it horizontally.)" appears.
Guest editor of the SI iPad edition, Josh Quittner (Time Magazine), comments on this change in his personal blog. Quittner says that he believes the optimal viewing experience for photo-driven magazines, like SI, is in landscape mode. He also adds that by not editing in two formats (landscape and portrait) some...
| Read more »This new writing app has some unique features, such as a text focus mode and custom keyboard extensions for navigating text more quickly.
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Adopting Android is like Finnish boys, “who pee in their pants for warmth,” according to Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s outgoing head of its Mobile Solutions unit.  It might make you feel warm for a bit, but you’ll then find yourself in an even worse predicament.
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Burglars stole more than $24,000 in merchandise from an Apple store in Naperville, Ill., on Wednesday, and wireless carrier KT Corp. announced that it has sold more than a million iPhones in South Korea.
Developer emirBytes announced Wednesday the release of iHueSplash, an iPhone app that allows users to adjust the hue of selected colors on images. Users can select either a color or an area, and adjust the hue, as seen in the figure below.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest, baddest, and highest-energy particle accelerator anywhere on the planet. One question that comes to everyone's mind is...what would happen if you stuck your hand in front of the beam?
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When Apple announced Ping, the social network connected to iTunes, CEO Steve Jobs mentioned being able to easily add contacts via Facebook friends. A day after the launch, however, that option quickly disappeared. Turns out Apple may have worked with Facebook for...
| Read more »Microsoft is launching a new program that rewards people for using Bing.
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CNBC reports that iPad is the highest-scoring product the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has ever tracked.
| Read more »The new version Adobe Flash Player addresses recently uncovered critical vulnerability in the software that could result in a crash and allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
| Read more »Dropbox, which provides apps for mobile devices that let users share files and documents, today released its first app for BlackBerry phones as well as Android and iOS updates. The new Dropbox for BlackBerry app can be downloaded today and includes core features such as upload progress, file sync and more. It should cooperate with any other Dropbox-supporting platform and connect over both 3G and Wi-Fi....
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| Read more »Celemony announced Wednesday the release of version 1.2 of Melodyne Editor, Melodyne Assistant, and Melodyne Essential, an update that brings full 64-bit compatibility to the pitch correction software. Melodyne is pitch correction software that can be used with Pro Tools, Apple‚Äôs Logic, and other Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) solutions.
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Most apps appear in the App Store with little fanfare. Information Architects' Writer arrived with a manifesto. In it, the group outlines the many decisions they made in their quest to design the perfect writing environment for the iPad.
The key to good writing, they say, is focus, and the guiding principle of Writer was to minimize distractions. That means no autocorrection, no scroll bars, and no cut and paste. Just you and the text. A Focus Mode even blurs out everything but the three lines you're currently working on, keeping your focus locked on the sentence you're writing.
Information Architects also took pains to make sure that the typography was just right. After consulting with various...
| Read more »Today's special guest on TUAW TV Live will be veteran podcaster Sam Levin, host of the AppMinute podcast (click to subscribe). Sam's well-known for short podcasts that are chock-full of plenty of information. When the two of us get together on the air this afternoon at 5 PM EDT, we'll have a lot to talk about.
Some probable topics on the show will be the recent clarification of Apple's app acceptance criteria, some of the apps that have been welcomed to the App Store as a result, and what this all means for developers and app purchasers. We'll also talk a bit about the Android platform and its impact in terms of competition to iOS.
Those topics and more will be discussed when we get together for TUAW TV Live. Be sure to drop by TUAW just before 5 PM EDT (2 PM PDT) to get the...
| Read more »For years, various companies have been trying to lure customers with a more compelling viewer experience than what‚Äôs available with cable and satellite DVRs. Content providers play favorites with Cable and Satellite to fight that and preserve ad revenue. TiVo and Roku are agressive and experienced. Microsoft has turned the Xbox into a living room entertainment center. Now, Google has jumped in with Google TV, and Apple has revamped the Apple TV. ¬†How will Apple fare in this environment?
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Apple supply manager Paul Shin Devine, accused of taking kickbacks from suppliers, has proposed a bond of $612,407 taken from foreign bank accounts in order secure a temporary release from jail. Pledged as collateral is the equity of Devine's home near San Francisco, and the home of his mother, located in Maryland. Defense lawyer Raphael Goldman claims that most conditions for release have been met....
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| Read more »A survey of U.S. iPhone owners found nearly half would be "very interested" in switching to Verizon Wireless from AT&T.
| Read more »Wahoo Fitness has debuted its new Fisica Sensor Key for the iPhone and iPod touch and Fisica Sensor Case for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4. Both sensors are Apple-certified devices that receive and interpret wireless ANT+ protocol data from compatible products including heart rate sensors,‚Ķ
| Read more »Research In Motion (RIM) is almost ready to unveil a new tablet device to compete with Apple‚Äôs iPad, along with a new operating system to drive the device. The Wall Street Journal reported that not only will RIM use an OS developed by QNX Software Systems for the tablet, the company plans on transitioning the entire BlackBerry smartphone to the same OS.
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Sonoma Wire Works is one of those companies that you know is going to release quality, innovative products every single time they put something out. The latest hardware and software releases for the iPhone are no exception. I’ve known the folks at Sonoma for years now and trust their work. I’ve used their RiffWorks Mac [...]
| Read more »Dear Aunt TUAW,
Dunno if you've seen this before! Is it a Verizon iPhone leaked screaanshot?
Hugs,
Francis
Dear Francis,
Auntie isn't sure if this falls under the basic rule of "Don't teach Auntie to suck eggs -- or change carrier names," but given Auntie's general familiarity with the subject matter, she's leaning towards "fake."
What do you other nieces and nephews think? Let Auntie know in the comments.
Love,
Auntie T.
TUAWDear Aunt TUAW: Is this a Verizon iPhone? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our...
| Read more »Dell's namesake chief Michael Dell confirmed [sub. required] the company's 7-inch Looking Glass tablet today at Oracle's conference. He didn't provide more details other than to say it would run Android like the Streak. Dell also didn't mention ship dates and other details....
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| Read more »Music software developer Ableton has released Amp, an effects plug-in designed to deliver realistic guitar amp and cabinet sounds to Ableton Live users.
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Netflix has officially launched its online streaming rental service and application for iOS devices in Canada, providing Canadian users with instant, on-demand access to a variety of movie and TV show content from the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Originally released for the iPad earlier this year, the Netflix…
| Read more »It's rare that we run a post that consists mostly of "hey, watch this video." That said... hey, watch this video:
Infinite
Many people argued that we didn't need a sequel to Bioshock, but Bioshock 2 was enjoyable and very much worth the return trip to Rapture. At the end of the game, however, I did feel strongly that the tale had been told. Having Irrational Games return to the series with a new setting but familiar aesthetics is wonderful, and things already feel fresh and exciting.
It's going to be a long wait until 2012.
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| Read more »Nuance has released Dragon Dictate 2, a major upgrade of the company's voice recognition utility. The app handles both text input and application commands. The core enhancement of Dictate 2 is integration of the Dragon 11 engine, which is said to improve on the accuracy and performance of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5. Nuance bought out MacSpeech earlier this year....
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| Read more »Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group has claimed that Apple is prepared to begin assembling CDMA iPhones in December, and will produce 3 million units for a 2011 launch -- such phones would obviously be intended for a CDMA carrier like Verizon or Sprint.
Furthermore, as AI reports, Fidacaro expects Apple to crank out 11.6 million iPhones in the fourth quarter of FY 2010, which would be a new record for Apple, and a 39% increase from Q3 in FY 2010.
Such a production schedule would produce between 21 million and 22 million GSM and CDMA iPhones for the quarter. That seems like an awfully ambitious number, as manufacturers struggle to fill orders in...
| Read more »Home automation peripherals maker Savant introduced its unique touchscreen remote control this week. Dubbed Savant Touch Remote, it uses the latest iPod touch as the interface. It will use iOS 4.2 with a custom Savant app on top. This lets users control their multi-room A/V systems and still download apps, use FaceTime for calling and perform other typical iPod functions....
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| Read more »iPhone, iPad users and owners of Android-based smartphones can access virtualized Windows desktops using version 3.1 of Kaviza's VDI-in-a-box product.
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The Apple supply manager charged with selling company secrets for more than a million dollars in kickbacks will be able to bond out of prison once a $440,000 lien against his mother's home is posted with the court [updated].
Mailplane, the native Mac app for Gmail and Google Apps email, has been updated to version 2.2, adding several new features and improving on others.
Leading the charge is support for the recently-released "Priority Inbox." You can now tell Mailplane to open either your regular inbox, Priority Inbox, or a custom label.
My favorite new feature is the ability to drag a Mailplane URL directly from the title bar. I use this with BusyCal's URL field if I need to connect an email with a meeting. It works for conversations or searches.
TrueNew support has also been added. I hadn't heard of TrueNew before, but it's pretty nifty if you're in the habit of leaving unread messages in your inbox. TrueNew shows you your total unread count plus what is truly new since the last time you took any action on your inbox so that you can see what...
| Read more »A group of individuals has filed a lawsuit against Ringleader Digital, claiming that the company is abusing HTML5's local storage feature, using it to store a tracking "cookie" that can't be deleted when you delete your browser's cookies.
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Roughly nine months after the device’s local release, South Korean iPhone carrier KT has announced that sales of the iPhone have passed the one million unit mark. Yonhap News Agency reports that KT saw activations reach 1.02 million as of Aug. 16, and expects sales to reach 1.2 million…
| Read more »Paul Shin Devine, the Apple global supply manager accused of leaking company secrets for bribes, is hoping to convince the court to release him after posting a US$612,407 bond. Mr. Devine has been in jail for several weeks since his arrest, and his attorney claims he has met most of the judge‚Äôs terms for bail.
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An upcoming Dropbox update for iPhone and iPad will bring a handful of new features, such as offline caching, HD video uploading, and multitasking under iOS 4. The company's new App Directory catalogs the growing number of apps that use its cloud file storage services.
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Last week we introduced you to the rubber-band machine gun of your slightly disturbed dreams. This week, we've got a 1.25 kilojoule coilgun.
| Read more »Ableton has introduced Amp, a new effects add-on for the developer's Live production software. The expansion simulates various real-world guitar amps, improving the character of Live's output. The "Blues" effect, for example, is modeled after a 1970s amp, while "Rock" simulates "the best known rock amp of all time," a 45W model from the '60s. Some other options include Clean, Boost, Lead, Heavy and Bass....
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| Read more »Distributor KT Corporation announced this week that the iPhone has sold more than 1 million units in South Korea. It took nine months for that many units to fly off the shelves, and that doesn't include sales of the iPhone 4.
When the iPhone 3GS launched in Korea in November of 2009, KT Corp. had some 65,000 pre-orders to fill. By contrast, customers had placed 350,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4. Now, KT and Apple struggle to meet the demand as bottlenecks are hindering distribution elsewhere, despite manufacturer Foxconn's best efforts. Still, KT Corp. expects to reach 1.2 million...
| Read more »Hasselblad swept through a series of new medium format camera systems at the Photokina show along with a tease of a 200-megapixel camera next year. The H4D-31 is one of the company's cheapest ever complete cameras and shoots at 31 megapixels while still sharing all the features of the larger models, including the off-center focusing adjustment that defines the H4D line. It will cost 9,995 euros ($13,416) with either an 80mm prime lens or a CF-mount lens adapter to use existing Hasselblad optics....
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| Read more »Apple is the target of yet another patent infringement lawsuit, this time from the New Jersey-based Multi-Format Inc. The company alleged in its lawsuit that Apple is violating its patents by building and selling products that support downloading and viewing video-based programs such as TV shows and movies.
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Neuroshima Hex is a tactical tile-based game where two armies square off on a grid of hexes and seek to destroy the opponent's HQ. By placing tiles that represent attacking units, tiles that gives certain units buffs, and tiles that represent immediate actions such as throwing a grenade, you're able to attack your opponent and hopefully whittle his HQ's hit points down to nothing.
The basics are simple, but the strategy can become interesting as you mix up ranged and melee attackers, decide which tiles to keep and which to discard each round, and worry about the order of attack by looking at the initiative of your units during the Battle phase. Here's a look at the game in action on the iPad. Keep in mind that the game is...
| Read more »AGF has introduced a new set of cases for the iPhone 4 that sell exclusively at AT&T stores and feature a number of, well‚Ķ color combinations.¬†
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Have you heard? Apparently iPods cause hearing loss. A Journal of the American Medical Association study published in August found that 14.9 percent of teenagers aged 12-19 suffered from hearing loss from 1988-94; 19.5 percent of the same age group had hearing loss from 2005-06. Throw in another statistic, a 100 percent increase in the number of iPods in existence from 2005-06 as compared to 1988-94, and it's clear what's behind this statistically significant rise in teen hearing loss.
Or maybe it's not so clear, after regarding a meta-study from the University of Minnesota. Researchers there found that 15 percent of the university's marching band members suffered from hearing...
| Read more »How often have you listened to music in the office, and not realized someone's shouting at you? Or unknowingly missed an announcement on the train that the course was changing? "Awareness! The Headphone App!" could be a $5 life-saver.
Available for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, it utilizes the inbuilt microphone and feeds in relevant outside noise over the music. How does the app know what's relevant or not? Well, it's probably not accurate 100 per cent of the time, but any sharp noises (such as a car horn, or someone suddenly shouting) will make it over your David Bowie, but constant noise, such as a jackhammer or people talking next to you, will remain blocked out.
Well, as blocked out as they always were, which is to say... [iTunes via Shiny Shiny via...
| Read more »LaCie has announced the latest addition to its line of professional displays, the LaCie 324i, which promises to deliver uniform and accurate colors thanks to its wide gamuts and backlight stabilization.
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Apple's decision to loosen App Store rules and once again permit third-party development tools has had a "muted" impact on Adobe, at least in the short term, according to the latter company's CEO. Shantanu Narayen made the comment during his Adobe's third-quarter results call, in which it announced record revenue of $990.3 million, up 42 percent from the same quarter last year. GAAP net income rose from $136 million to $230.1 million....
FileMaker on Wednesday updated FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad, adding several new features requested by users. Among the new features in FileMaker Go 1.1 is the ability to create PDFs from your database and save them on the device or email them to others. You can also save a copy of [...]
| Read more »Gear4 has rolled out its new AlarmDock Reveal for the iPhone and iPod. The AlarmDock Reveal is a compact clock radio featuring a 12 or 24 hour dimmable clock display, dual alarms with the ability to wake to a buzzer, radio, or music from the attached iPhone/iPod, a unique‚Ķ
| Read more »The latest revision to FileMaker's two mobile database apps, FileMaker Go 1.1 for iPhone and for iPad (two separate products), gives the Go team a few vital new features for users on the move. First up: PDF creation in-app, which allows you to take a database report page or form and instantly create a saveable or mailable PDF -- great for invoices, site reports or price quotes.
Second, the apps now support image capture from the iPhone camera or from the iPad's photo library; you can populate image fields in a database directly, a great tool for real estate or inventory applications.
Other new features include scripted record imports from remote or local databases, the ability to email an entire DB from your device, file embeds (like a spreadsheet or document) into database records, and some additional security options. The URL handling for FM Go has also been souped up,...
| Read more »For people dissatisfied with the limitations of iCal, there is BusyCal. You can set up a shared calendar in BusyCal so that multiple users on a local network can both view and edit its events.¬†It all works superbly well. At least it did until Apple threw a monkey wrench into the setup. With the new MobileMe Calendar (currently still in beta), Apple changed the way in which its calendars sync. BusyMac and MobileMe Calendar became incompatible. All of that has changed with yesterday‚Äôs release of¬†BusyCal 1.5 beta.To help understand what has changed, why it changed, and how best to migrate to the new software, I sat down with John Chaffee, President of BusyMac, to get the answers.
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On websites like Swoopo, BigDeal.com and Beezid, flat-screen televisions, laptops, Apple iPads and other products sell for a fraction of their retail price. There's a catch: Bidders pay a few pennies each time they bid, and each bid delays the ending time of an auction by a few seconds. Now traffic on penny auction sites is declining.
| Read more »Apple's decision to allow intermediary tools to port software from formats like Flash to the iPhone did not have a significant effect on sales of Adobe products, the company's CEO said this week.
Netflix on Wednesday launched its Canadian service that lets residents sign up for Watch Instantly streaming movies and TV shows. Like the US service, users can visit with their Internet-connected PCs, Macs, Samsung and Toshiba Blu-ray players, PS3s, Wiis or iOS devices to the service in order to receiver streaming content. Blu-ray and DVD aren't options due to the costs and licenses needed for physical discs....
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| Read more »Netflix expanded its streaming video service beyond the U.S. borders into Canada on Wednesday. The service lets Netflix subscribers stream TV shows and movies to their computer, iPad, iPhone, TiVo HD, and other compatible devices.
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We could finally be nearing the end of the lost iPhone saga. Way back in April, police launched a probe into the alleged sale of the lost prototype iPhone 4 that was found in a bar near San Jose earlier this year, and CNET is now reporting that the investigation is almost over. Chief Deputy District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe of California's San Mateo County says that the final report on the probe could be sent to his office in the next few weeks, at which point he'll look at what evidence was collected and see if charges need to be brought.
Wagstaffe also says that multiple Apple employees were interviewed in the case, including Steve Jobs himself. Police also searched Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house at one point (the phone was reportedly sold to Gizmodo by a college student...
| Read more »In this review you'll find an overview of new useful Adobe Photoshop techniques and tutorials that we've found and collected over the last months. We sincerely hope that at least some of the techniques presented there will help you improve your graphic design skills in Adobe Photoshop.
| Read more »Your computer isn't fast enough? Intel will send you a a key to unlock additional features of your CPU...uh oh!
| Read more »Sanofi-Aventis has introduced its iBGStar Blood Glucose Meter for the iPhone and iPod touch. The dock-connecting device uses proprietary Dynamic Electrochemistry to analyze blood samples for more accurate results, and offers the ability to operate on its own or in concert with the iBGStar Diabetes Manager App. The app‚Ķ
| Read more »Call it Microsoft's Windows 7 "halo" effect. Most PC makers gained ground in the latest edition of a major customer satisfaction survey because they like Windows 7 a lot more than they did its predecessor, the much-maligned Vista.
| Read more »FileMaker has released a major update to its FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad applications that allow users to work with FileMaker Pro databases on their iOS devices. The version 1.1 updates, available separately for the iPhone and iPad platforms add the ability to create PDFs from‚Ķ
| Read more »No matter how big or small your team, the online service will help you setup a good communicating ground for your team.
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Undercroft is an iPhone RPG that's reminiscent of the old Elder Scrolls games; it's turn based, and seen from a first-person perspective (even though you actually play a party of adventurers). This is strictly fantasy fare, and it doesn't do a lot that's new. For the first few quests, you're fighting rats and spiders, and you'll need to level up, deal with loot, and do lots and lots of exploring and quest completing before getting anywhere. But as traditional as it is, it's actually a lot of fun, and the retro format translates well to the iPhone's touchscreen. We've seen elsewhere that the iPhone can do next-gen games, but it's nice to see older forms like this finding a tidy home on the App Store.
And what the heck, ... it won't cost you anything. The game is sponsored by developer Jagex's Runescape at the moment, so you can download and play the whole thing...
| Read more »Apple's FileMaker division has posted a new version of FileMaker Go for the iPhone and iPad, v1.1. The app lets users update FileMaker Pro and Server databases, locally or remotely, and over Wi-Fi or 3G. New is the ability to generate PDFs of reports, invoices and other documents from within the app, which can then be saved or e-mailed to others....
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| Read more »FileMaker announced the immediate availability of FileMaker Go 1.1 for the iPhone and iPad on Wednesday. The updates for the mobile versions of the FileMaker database application added the ability to export PDFs, as well as email copies of databases to other FileMaker Go users.
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This week’s featured photo is from our iPhones Around the World gallery, and shows an iPhone 3GS in front of the Fishermen Statues of Buzios Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To share your photos and to be considered for our Photo of…
| Read more »Susquehanna analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro today claimed in a research note that Apple will make three million CDMA iPhones in December. Checks with Asian suppliers led him to believe the company is queuing up the large amount in anticipation of a launch in early 2011. Combined with GSM models, as many as 21 million to 22 million iPhones could be produced in the last three months of the year....
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| Read more »The New Twitter is coming! Shout it from the rooftops! Sing it in the valleys!
| Read more »Mobility, apps, and the "cool" factor fuel workers' creative use of Apple's smartphone. But how exactly are businesses using the iPhone? We take a look.
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This is a fantastic rant by Bill Murrary in 1982 (almost 30 years ago now) about the caveats of technology. From lamenting about robots taking away jobs to a talking dashboard that tells you when you've run out of gas, this thing is hilarious.
| Read more »Sennheiser has announced iPhone/iPod/Mac-compatible versions of seven of the company's popular headphones, each with a three-button inline remote/microphone module.
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The new FileMaker Go app for the iPad makes taking your Filemaker databases with you an easy experience that just works. 
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Guild Wars 2 is going to become the latest big PC game to get a satellite iPhone app. Our friends at Massively have a post up about the "extended experience" that ArenaNet is going to offer in the MMO sequel. You won't be able to play the full game on your iPhone or iPad, but you will be able to chat with friends, browse the world of the game, access character and achievement information, and even wiki information about the game, either from a mobile location or just using the mobile device alongside you as you play. It all sounds really interesting, and actually very forward-thinking; lots of gamers have an extra device around them as they're playing these PC games, so why not use the iPhone or iPad to enable mobile connectivity and add on to the...
| Read more »Two months after they debuted, the mobile versions of FileMaker are both getting an update to add a number of features to the database apps for the iPhone and iPad.
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Apple filed a lawsuit against Sanho, the maker of HyperMac portable battery chargers, for patent infringement. According to the filing, the HyperMac product line infringes on six different patents related to Apple’s MagSafe charger connector, the iPod and iPhone dock connector, and cables.
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If you’re going to be in the market with the 800 pound gorilla, it’s advisable not to infringe on said 800 pound gorilla’s patents.
Or at least try to be subtle about it.
Per AppleInsider, Apple has filed a lawsuit against Sanho Corporation, maker of the HyperMac line of accessories, alleging violation of patents it owns related to the MagSafe charger and cables that use the iPod 30-pin connection.
The lawsuit filed this month accuses Sanho, based out of Sunnyvale, Calif., of infringing on six MagSafe- and iPod-related patents, covering a variety of products sold under the HyperMac brand name. Among the products named in the suit are its magnetic power connectors, known as MBP-PRO and MBP-AIR, as well as a MacBook car charger, MBP-CAR.
Instead of mimicking Apple’s patented MagSafe connectors, Sanho’s products actually rely on...
| Read more »A serious bug that led to a series of fast-spreading worms on Twitter's website Tuesday had been fixed in August but was accidentally re-introduced.
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Illusion Labs has released an update to Labyrinth 2 for the iPhone and iPod touch, adding integration with Apple’s new iOS 4.1 Game Center and support for Retina Display devices. Labyrinth 2 provides a virtual version of the classic ball-in-maze puzzle game where players must use their device’s accelerometer to…
| Read more »Facebook has released a minor update to its application for iPhone and iPod touch devices, addressing a number of bugs and providing an improved login experience for developers using the Facebook SDK. The Facebook 3.2.3 update fixes crashes related to receiving push notifications and navigating in the private messages section‚Ķ
| Read more »Research in Motion may introduce a tablet computer next week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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It took nine months, but iPhone sales in South Korea have finally topped the 1 million mark. KT, Apple’s iPhone partner in the country, expects sales of the combination iPod and smartphone to reach 1.2 million in early October.
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Japanís Sigma Corp. has today taken the covers off its flagship Sigma SD1 15.4 megapixel DSLR at Photokina. It adopts a lightweight, weather-proof, solid magnesium alloy body to house its 1.5X crop Foveon X3 sensor. The technology enables the camera to capture all primary RGB colors at each pixel location rather than use a Bayer filter and leads Sigma to make a questionable claim to a 46-megapixel sensor....
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| Read more »Software giant Adobe on Tuesday announced the launch of Photoshop Elements 9, the company‚Äôs consumer-level photo editing application, for both Mac and Windows. The new version boasts a number of features that are new to Mac users, most notably the bundled Elements Organizer, which acts as a hub for importing, managing, and viewing photo and video files.
Per Macworld, Photoshop Elements 9 includes one of Photoshop CS5′s most popular features, Content Aware Fill, and puts it into the Spot Healing Brush. This tool can be used to remove specific objects from an image by analyzing the surrounding information. Also new to this version are Layer Masks, which can be used to block out specific parts of images with varying transparency levels.
Users new to photo editing can use the program’s guided edits to learn how to make...
| Read more »Apple is expected to build its first 3 million Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhones in December 2010, contacts in the company's overseas supply chain reportedly indicated.
For the seventh straight year in a row, Apple has topped the American Customer Satisfaction Index survey, ringing in at number one on the annual list of PC manufacturers as ranked by customers. And it earned its best score ever -- an 86 out of 100. That's nine points ahead of its closest competitors, which are Dell, Acer, and HP. As you can see from the chart above, Apple is on its way up as well.
It's tempting to lay success like this at the feet of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, but keep in mind that this is strictly about PC manufacturers. Consumers are more satisfied than ever with their Macs, and it shows on the sales side as well, with...
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Shares of Apple hit a new high of $287.36 in volatile trading Tuesday, only to settle back down to $283.77 by market close -- still a daily gain of 54 cents. The gain was pushed on by a wave of good news, anchored by the iPad's good reception in China and Apple's plans to sell the iPhone 4 in that country Sept. 25, not to mention Apple stellar showing in the latest American Consumer Satisfaction Index. One immediate catalyst was Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu's prediction Monday that the iPad will help Apple beat expectations for the current quarter.
South Korea's KT this week said it had passed one million iPhone sales after nine months of having the device in the country. The marker was passed on August 16, almost a month before the Korean iPhone 4 launch, and is known to be accelerating with the launch of the current model. KT is still trying to fulfill the now 350,000 back orders for the iPhone 4 and expects to have reached 1.2 million sales by early October....
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| Read more »Not that there's anything wrong with politicians playing games, obviously, but we know just how addictive Angry Birds can be. Speaking to Andy Payne from the UK's Interactive Entertainment Association, the Prime Minister revealed he is a "huge" fan.
The full tweet can be read on Payne's Twitter account, but to avoid the eyesore of looking at his account wallpaper we'll repeat what he said here: "The Prime Minister is a huge Angry Birds fan and has paid for the full game." Prime Minister ...
| Read more »An anonymous reader writes "Looks like it's not just Apple fanboys that are going wild for the iPad: in Australia, virtually every state education department is trialling the tablet in schools ‚Äî and some schools are even trialling it without the official support of their department. One university in Adelaide has even abolished textbooks for first year science students and is allocating free iPads to first year students instead. It will be interesting to see what happens when the inevitable wave of Android tablets hits over the next six months."
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| Read more »Pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis today launched its iBGStar hybrid medical device to monitor blood glucose levels that can also be plugged into an iPhone or an iPod touch. The iBGStar is USB-sized blood glucose monitor that works as a standalone monitor, or it can be used with the new iBGStar Diabetes Manager app. Users can download the app for free from the iTunes store early 2011, although the device itself still requires FDA 510(k) clearance....
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| Read more »Of the few iMac hamster cages we've seen before, this one just takes the seed-biscuit. Gutted and then added with a Rotastak-like tube, its hamster-tenant turns the cogs and occasionally eats some bits. Watch the video here: [Gizmodo Japan]
| Read more »A previous update of Facebook's iOS app completely messed up a handful of features, particularly its push notification services. I'd be browsing through status updates, exit out of the app, and see a notification badge had popped up. Curious to see what was new, I'd go back into the app and check out the notifications ... only to find notifications for stuff I'd already read. This wasn't a "once in a while" kind of bug, either; it happened nearly every time I used the app.
Facebook's app has been updated to 3.2.3, and it claims to fix not only the push notifications issues but also crashes associated with viewing messages and errors involving Facebook's Places feature. So far, things seem to be running smoother for me. However, based on the feedback that this update's received so far on the App Store, it hasn't been a universal fix. Download the update and see for yourself if it fixes any issues you may...
| Read more »Typography is the art. It is very useful techniques of arranging and modifying designs. It is important for designers to choose right font. If you choose wrong font, you can make your design destroy or design.
| Read more »Is this too bold a prediction? You might think so until you look at the stats. eBook sales were up almost 200 percent in 2009. Here are 5 reasons smartphones are ideally placed to get a big piece of the publishing pie.
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