Archive | June 9th, 2011

Apple’s “iTunes in the Cloud” won’t arrive in the UK until 2012

9. June 2011

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Apple’s recently announced iCloud music service will let users “store” copies of their purchased music in the cloud and access it from any iOS device or Mac, DRM free. As for music that wasn’t purchased via iTunes, Apple will provide users cloud access to those songs for $24.99 a year. There’s no doubt that Apple’s […]

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Evernote Peek meshes clever software with Apple’s Smart Cover

9. June 2011

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Talk about clever. Evernote has a new learning app out that makes use of Apple’s iPad 2 smart cover. So smart. The app, which is free by the way, is called Evernote Peek and designed as a handy dandy little study tool. Once you’ve connected Peek to your Evernote account and selected your study materials, […]

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iOS 5 comes with custom vibration settings, LED flash alerts

9. June 2011

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iOS 5 is chock full of new goodies, and with Scott Forstall only taking time to go over 10 of them during this week’s WWDC keynote, a ton of newly discovered features are starting to come to the forefront. One particularly cool new feature centers on accessibility and the degree to which Apple now lets […]

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Apple looking to build massive new campus with “spaceship” style building

9. June 2011

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A real life Mac Mothership looks like it’s headed for Cupertino. Steve Jobs earlier this week took some time out of his busy schedule to appear before the Cupertino City Council where he relayed Apple’s desire to build a mammoth new campus on the 98 Acre plot of land it acquired from Hewlett Packard late […]

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Apple now okays cheaper subscriptions outside the iOS ecosystem

9. June 2011

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Well it appears that Apple’s app store guideline adjustments extend far beyond the new restriction on DUI checkpoint apps. Back in February, Apple’s stance on in-app subscriptions generated a fair amount of controversy for a number of reasons, one of which was Apple’s requirement that publishers offer iOS subscribers the same type of deals made […]

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Sprint iPhone said to be in advanced testing stages at Apple HQ

9. June 2011

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It’s gonna be a busy Fall for Apple. iOS 5 is scheduled to drop alongside a brand new iPhone, and now there are more rumblings of the iPhone coming to Sprint. Sources are telling 9to5Mac that Apple is currently in the advanced stages of testing the iPhone on Sprint’s network, going so far as to […]

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New App Store guidelines ban DUI checkpoint apps

9. June 2011

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In late March, four US Senators banded together and wrote a letter to Apple asking that they remove apps that alert users as to the whereabouts of DUI checkpoints. “With more than 10,000 Americans dying in drunk-driving crashes every year,” the letter stated, “providing access to iPhone and iPad applications that alert users to DUI […]

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