May 2011
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iOS 4.3.3 is out, location tracking 'fix' in tow
Apple’s promised update to iOS to rectify what it perceived as a set of bugs in the system — namely, an excessively large cache of location information that was backed up to iTunes and hung around even after you switched Location Services off — is now being distributed to iPhones, iPads and iPod touches out in the wild. To exterminate those problematic aspects of your OS, you...
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Apple's 2011 iMac undergoes teardown, shows off...
Yesterday, you saw the new 21.5-inch iMac fully specced out and up for sale on Apple’s online store, and you were even treated to the sight of its 27-inch sibling pushing three displays and 11 megapixels of resolution. Today, you get to witness Apple’s latest all-in-one computer fully disassembled. iFixit is doing the honors, as usual, and the investigation starts with the detachment...
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Adobe Photoshop update ushers in new era of iPad...
We’ve been quite enamored with Adobe’s demos of iPad / Photoshop interactivity for some time, and now it looks as if we’ll finally be able to take the whole thing for a spin. As promised, the company today released Creative Suite 5.5, which offers, among other things, the ability to use tablets and smartphones to interact with the company’s flagship image editing...
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WatchOne Thunderbolt port on your new MacBook Pro? Pah. The new 27-inch iMac has twice that many — two. When we got ours out of the box we just had to do the natural thing: fire up as many pixels as possible. Two 30-inch Dell displays and a couple of dual-link DVI display adapters later and we have what you see above: a wide swath of LCD covering covering 11,878,400 pixels. Sure, any average...
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Apple iMac refresh official: Thunderbolt and next...
The last time Apple updated its iMac line we were treated to Intel Core 2010 processors. So it’s no surprise — really, no surprise at all — to see Apple refreshing the lineup today.
Prices start at $1,199 (as usual) for the 21.5-inch (1,920 x 1,080 pixel IPS panel) model with new 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor and 512MB of AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics. Prices soon...
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Electronic House crowns iOS-equipped dwelling 2011...
Electronic House just announced its pick for 2011 Home of the Year, and from the look of things, this iOS-enabled abode has the stuff to put your robotic butler out of work.
The mammoth craftsman’s interiors, designed by OCD poster boy Jeff Lewis, were automated by HD Media Systems using the Savant app. Everything from lighting to shower temperature are controlled using wall-mounted...
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Apple store goes down, iMac refresh on high alert
Details are spotty but Apple special forces have apparently swept into its data center, temporarily disrupting the company’s ability to sell anything online.
We’re expecting official word of the operation from company CEO Steve Jobs, at about 08.30 Eastern Time. With any luck, a new iMac will emerge unscathed by the Nehalem menace, sporting a brand new Sandy Bridge...
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iOS 4.3.3 rumored to be coming within next two...
Apple promised last week that it would address the iPhone tracking issue in a software update in the “next few weeks,” and BGR is now reporting that the update is coming within the next two weeks, or “possibly sooner.”
What’s more, the site says that it’s actually been sent an early version of the iOS update, and that it does indeed no longer back up the...
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Sn0wbreeze brings untethered jailbreak to Verizon...
Verizon iPhone owners, your untethered jailbreaking prayers have been answered.
Hacker iH8Sn0w updated the Sn0wbreeze tool, adding support for Big Red handsets running iOS 4.2.7 and finally allowing those who have forsaken AT&T to bring the magic of Cydia to their phones without the cumbersome need for tethering. The usual caveats apply: you’ll have to get your hands on a copy of...
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Time Inc., Apple to offer free iPad downloads to...
After months of speculation, Time Inc. has finally inked a deal with Apple that will allow print magazine subscribers to access the company’s iPad editions for free.
Beginning this week, subscribers to print versions of Sports Illustrated,Fortune, and Time will be able to download the iPad counterparts at no cost, directly within the magazines’ apps. Today’s deal comes just a...
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Honeycomb or the highway
During the holiday season of 2009 when netbooks were the hot commodity, Apple lost share in the PC market. It had nothing to compete with the sunken prices and shrunken sizes of those miniature laptops. PC vendors such as ASUS and Acer, on the other hand, did well in the netbook segment, as they could call on their expertise in building inexpensive Windows notebooks. After the iPad’s...
April 2011
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Square to add encryption to mobile card reader,...
It’s only been a couple days since we first heard about Visa’s involvement with Square, but the credit card giant is already making its mark on the mobile payment startup. At the Visa Global Security Summit on Wednesday, Square Security Lead Sam Quigley revealed that the company will distribute an encrypted card reader this summer, which will work exclusively with its mobile payment...
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HBO Go hits iOS and Android, free for subscribers
Don’t ditch that premium cable subscription just yet. The long-anticipated HBO Go app just hit the iOS App Store and Android Market, bringing original HBO series and a variety of blockbuster films to your mobile device.
You’ll need an HBO subscription with your cable provider to get past the login screen, but unlocking all that the service has to offer using our Verizon...
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NPD credits Verizon iPhone with stemming the...
As much as we were hoping to get some definitive statements from AT&T and Verizon’s Q1 2011 financials about the Verizon iPhone’s impact on the smartphone market, none were really forthcoming.
It’s left to analyst outfits like the NPD, therefore, to try and parse the data for us and read between the official lines. The latest numbers from the NPD Group’s...
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Intel touts 50Gbps interconnect by 2015, will make...
Woah there, Mr. Speedy. We’ve barely caught up with the 10Gbps Thunderbolt interconnect, debuted in the new Macbook Pro, and now Intel’s hyperactive researchers are already chattering away about something five times faster.
They’re promising a new interconnect, ready in four years, that will combine silicon and optical components (a technology called silicon photonics) to...
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White iPhone 4 thickness creates issue for case...
By now you’ve probably seen the latest spectacle to consume the white iPhone 4: it’s thicker than the black model. The image above illustrates the point using a piece of lead from a mechanical pencil.
So what, you say, in righteous indignation to a device that shipped ten months late. Well, the size difference creates a potential consumer issue since cases (at least the good ones)...
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Pioneer AppRadio brings apps, iPhone connectivity...
If Pioneer’s AppRadio (SPH-DA01) ever sees the light of day, it’ll join a long list of integrated and aftermarket products trying to play off of the iPhone’s success. According to CrunchGear (and its anonymous tipster), the FCC-leaked device boasts a 6.1-inch touchscreen and built-in apps, along with a USB port for accessing content (and presumably, the data connection) on your...
