Archive | June 14th, 2012
Apple readying 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display for October release
AppleInsider reports: Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider on Thursday that he expects Apple to ramp up production of a 13-inch next-generation MacBook Pro with Retina display in September. That would allow the product to hit stores in early October, in time for the holiday shopping season. Kuo was the […]
Continue reading...Apple can’t stop the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III release as Judge Lucy Koh says it would “overload” her schedule
14. June 2012
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Reuters reports that Apple’s efforts to attain a preliminary injunction against the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III release has fallen short. Then in an order late on Monday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, effectively dashed Apple’s hopes of stopping the launch of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s new Galaxy S III smartphone, […]
Continue reading...Apple applying for top level .Apple domain names
14. June 2012
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The Associated Press reports: Proposals for Internet addresses ending in “.pizza,” ”.space” and “.auto” are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system. Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among companies that are seeking names with their brands. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. sought […]
Continue reading...iFixit tears down new Retina Display MacBook Pro
14. June 2012
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Some notes of interest from iFixit’s MacBook Pro teardown which is apparently the hardest Mac to repair! – The new battery packs quite a punch: 95 Wh at 10.95 V compared to last year’s puny 77.5 Wh. – The Retina display LCD is situated in the display assembly, and it’s not going anywhere. Chances are […]
Continue reading...Apple to share advertising revenue with Baidu
14. June 2012
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Bloomberg reports that Apple, as part of its inclusion of Baidu as a search engine option in iOS 6 for its Chinese customers, will receive a slice of advertising revenue. The revenue-sharing agreement with Apple follows similar accords between Baidu and manufacturers of handsets that useGoogle’s Android operating system, Wang Jing, vice president at Beijing-based […]
Continue reading...iTunes Match in iOS 6 now streams music
14. June 2012
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Apple’N’Apps reports: When you’re on a Mac, you can stream music without any files being stored on your device. On your iOS device, if you tapped to play a song, the song plays automatically, but downloads too. In iOS 6, that’s changed, at least in the first beta. Now when you tap to play a […]
Continue reading...Apple and Time settle their differences
14. June 2012
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All Things D reports: Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. If that seems like non-news, consider that it took the two companies two years to figure this out. Up until now, Time Inc. has been the notable […]
Continue reading...Apple agrees to pay Australian consumer commission $2.25 million over iPad 4G claims
14. June 2012
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When Apple released its latest iPad a few months ago, one of its more heavily touted features, aside from the Retina Display, was its support of 4G LTE networks. The only rub, though, was that the iPad was 4G if you happened to reside in North America. You defnititely wanted to read the fine print […]
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14. June 2012
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