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Prototype iPhone 3GS on eBay? (No, No Matte Case)
Cult of Mac reports on a "sketch-looking" non functional white iPhone that is being sold on eBay as a prototype iPhone 3GS.The seller says theres a problem with restoring the software: This device is not eligible for the re...
Read more »Windows 7 Pricing vs. Mac OS X: Why Even Go There?
Windows 7 pricing was made official not long ago, and the general consensus is that, despite a slight drop in Home Premium pricing compared to Vista, it’s too expensive.
Read more »Countering rumor says Apple and NVIDIA "doing just fine"
Just as soon as one rumor has suggested trouble in the relationship between Apple and NVIDIA, a conflicting report now claims that the two are still on good terms.
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NVIDIA Sources Refute Claim of Split With Apple
Fudzilla has heard from industry sources close to NVIDIA that a recent report claiming that Apple will be dropping NVIDIA-based designs for future Macs is false and that the companies' relationship is "just fine."Apple is still buyin...
Read more »App Developer Diary Part 2: Pitching My Concept
In this week’s enlightening installment of the App Developer Diary, I pitch my game concept to the coders, preach the gospel of the Game Bible and muse upon the possibility of the project imploding.
Read more »Breaking: shot fired at Virginia-based Apple Store
An unidentified man fired at least one shot at the Apple Store Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia shortly after the store opened Friday morning, wounding at least one, a person with knowledge of the situation tells AppleInsider.
Read more »Apple patching critical SMS vulnerability in iPhone OS
Security researcher Charlie Miller has revealed that Apple is working on a patch for a security flaw he identified in the iPhone's SMS implementation.
Read more »First iPhone 3GS jailbreaking tool available for download
George Hotz, the 19-year old wiz kid who made headlines two years ago for being the first to successfully unlock Apple's original iPhone all by himself, is again drawing the spotlight for creating and releasing the first-ever jailbreaking tool for the new iPhone 3GS.
Read more »Psystar Returns From the Dead, Offers New Apple Knock-Off
iPhone 3GS marked AT&T's "best-ever sales day"
According to an AT&T company memo, the launch of the iPhone 3GS wasn't just a banner sales day for the carrier this year but broke records for any single day of retail sales in the company's history -- including for already stellar iPhone sales.
Read more »Apple Stores now fixing cracked iPhone screens in-house
An iPhone falls to the ground in slow motion and makes its first impact on a corner. You watch as the cracks branch out over the screen like a spiderweb. If it hasn't happened to you, it has happened to someone you know—and now, if the iPhone is still under warranty, Apple can fix it on the spot at one of its retail locations.
Read more »iPhone overheating problems could see aid from new patent
As reports of battery problems causing discoloration on the white model iPhone 3GS continue to grow, a patent from Apple published for the first this week looks to address both internal and external elements that could have adverse effects on a device's power source.
Read more »Greenpeace Demands Apple Come Clean
Greenpeace released the 12th edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics today (PDF), with Apple falling somewhere between tangerine and burnt orange. For those who take the rating seriously, Apple scored 4.7 out of 10, unchanged from last time, though the company slipped from 10th to 11th place in the ranking of 18 companies.
Read more »Apple may be dumping NVIDIA graphics for next-gen Macs (Updated)
Apple has nearly turned its entire line of computers over to NVIDIA-based GPUs, thanks mainly to the vastly improved graphics performance of its GeForce 9400M chipset over comparable chipsets from Intel. However, rumors suggest that recent negotiations between the two companies over next-gen hardware have soured to the point that Apple may give NVIDIA a complete cold shoulder.
Read more »Apple working to fix unreleased iPhone SMS exploit
Tipped off by a Mac OS X security expert, Apple is working to repair a serious security flaw in the iPhones operating system one that could allow an attacker to track the phones location via GPS, eavesdrop on conversations via the microphone, or create a mobile bot net capable of unleashing denial of service attacks.
Read more »Pesky Psystar to emerge from Chapter 11 with new Mac offering
Battered, bankrupt, and thought to be wobbling on its last leg, Psystar this week proved that it can still turn heads when it announced that it will soon emerge from Chapter 11 bearing its fastest Mac system yet.
Read more »Concerns of iPhone 3GS Overheating and Discoloration Gaining Publicity
Last week, Nowhere Else began receiving reports [Google translation] from owners of the white iPhone 3GS that had experience significant overheating, leading in some cases to distinct pink or brown discoloration on the iPhone's back case. A later re...
Read more »More iPhone App Controversy with Alleged Underaged Nudity
Wired reports on the latest high profile app removal from the App Store related to nudity. This time, a free app called BeautyMeter was removed due to an inappropriate image of a nude minor. The photo ... depicts a photo of a nude ...
Read more »14 Free iTunes Visualizers
Apple’s iTunes application is perhaps the most popular app ever installed on the Mac. It’s also one of the least flexible, in terms of customization. There’s little you can do to “make it your own,” so to speak. However, all is not lost for habitual tweakers like myself; the iTunes Visualizer can satisfy your need to not leave well-enough alone.
Read more »Apple/NVIDIA Rift to Spark Major Component Changes?
Apple looks towards fingerprint-based multi-touch controls
Filings from Apple over the past two years reveal that the company is constantly looking to improve upon the ways in which customers interact with its multi-touch devices, the latest of which proposes methods for controlling iPods and iPhones by detecting and using a user's fingerprints.
Read more »Psystar Exits Bankruptcy, Launches New Xeon-Based Systems Running OS X
Psystar, manufacturer of unauthorized Mac clones currently involved in a legal battle with Apple, reports that it has exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is again prepared to take on Apple. Psystar filed for bankruptcy just over one month ago.
Read more »Secret to App Store Success: $1,875 per day
Do you have what it takes to create the next great iPhone app? Or have it featured on iPhone commercials and installed on the all iTouches at the Apple store? Maybe have a big ol’ icon flashing so fast at the next WWDC that you have to include a seizure warning? There’s an app for that!
It’s called your checkbook.
Apple tweaks MobileMe with a few improvements
Apple has added a number of tweaks to its MobileMe Web services this week. Mail, Gallery, iDisk, account settings, push contacts and calenders, and Back to My Mac all got improved, and a new version of the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows enables syncing through a proxy.
Read more »Apple developing "active packaging" for iPods and iPhones
Known for thinking outside the box, electronics maker Apple Inc. is now apparently working on an in-the-box concept that could provide power to iPods, iPhones and other electronics devices still inside their retail packaging, allowing them to display demo videos and receive firmware updates while hanging unopened on a shelf in a retail store.
Read more »Shipments of Open Source Smartphones May Hit 223 Million By 2014
Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint Identification, and RFID Tag Readers in Future iPhones?
Apple has let loose a number of revealing new patent applications that cover some interesting technologies that could be used in future iPhones.
Haptic Tactile Feedback
Perhaps most interesting amongst the patent appli...
Read more »Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?
Apple has published a very interesting patent application in which they explore how to provide a Karaoke experience on the iPhone. Not only would users be able to sing along with their favorite songs, but Apple wants to give real-time feedba...
Read more »Apple Dropping NVIDIA for Future Macs?
SemiAccurate claims that Apple will be dropping NVIDIA-based designs in their next iMacs and laptops for at least the next few years. They claim the reason is due to the recent NVIDIA manufacturing defects which affected a number of MacBook Pros.
Read more »Apple covering all the bases with Mac OS X 10.5.8 betas
With each successive beta release of Mac OS X 10.5.8, it's becoming increasingly apparent that Apple is determined to give nearly every facet of its Leopard operating system a diligent once-over before turning its focus to Snow Leopard.
Read more »Apple may drop NVIDIA chips in Macs following contract fight
Although they've portrayed themselves almost as best friends for several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models.
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University of Florida's PharmD program to require iPod touch
The University of Florida is the second school in as many months to announce that students enrolling in one of its curriculums this fall will be required to own either an iPhone or iPod touch, highlighting an increasing role for Apple's multi-touch devices in higher education.
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Maine negotiates to gives MacBooks to all 7–12 graders
Many school districts have initiated programs to put MacBooks in the hands of students to engage them in technology and incorporate it in the learning process.
Read more »New iPhone 3GS TV spots highlight Voice Control, copy/paste
If Apple does one thing well, it's to tout features that other companies have had for years and pass them off as life-changing. Since Apple can't tout speed as an improvement on the new iPhone (as the company did that last time around), Apple instead chose to highlight functionality that other products have had for years. Apple has begun airing two new commercials doing exactly that in Copy and Paste and Voice Control.
Read more »MacBook Air is the Apple Netbook, End of Story
Apple Announces Netbook! That’s the headline you wanted to see, right? That’s the headline that industry analysts and so-called experts believe Apple must have in order to remain relevant in today’s economic climate. That’s also the headline you’re not likely to come across unless it happens to be April 1.
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