It's Apple Style

On going Auto show in Paris had gain some electronic-automotive importance. The auto enthusiast has witnessed something new in this year auto show. German Automaker BMW had showcased its car integrated with apple's iPad at the back of the front seat.

Source: ultimateautos.blogspot

Apple's iPhone 4 was launched this weekend in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but the buyers later found out that FaceTime was missing in their phones . The National reports that the video chat feature is missing from phones sold at UAE carriers Etisalat and du, as well as those from Vodafone Qatar.

Carriers are blaming Apple for the missing feature, and spokespersons from both Etisalat and Vodafone say they're speaking to apple about reinstating FaceTime post-haste; It was reportedly advertised on Middle Eastern versions of Apple's iPhone website until around September 20th, when all references to FaceTime were removed.

TUAW reports that some UAE denizens have actually tested FaceTime on phones bought abroad and found it working just fine, but that the functionality disappears after installing the local version of the iOS 4.1 update.

I have never seen such crazy accessories as i am seeing for apple products. The latest one is from Rampant Gear which lets you make use of your 5the gen iPod nano as head cam and record some crazy stuff with you eye view. It cost you around $35. Here is video recorded with the help of Rampant Gear.

This patent work might be seen in future apple products. Here it is how it works, We know that camera flashes are typically fixed in a single spot on a device, Apple's attempting to patent a flash redirector that could whip them around, letting you frame a dimly-lit picture the way you want and automatically adjust the intensity and direction of the flash to get better results.

The new patent joining the apple's intellectual property is Hand-held capacitive sensor device.

The handheld device uses capacitive sensors to recognize your identity just by the way you hold it, and subsequently personalize the device's buttons and settings to your hand based on your user profile.

The other thing you could grip a handheld with either hand, and it would automatically generate "button zones" under each finger using sensors (or disappearing buttons, perhaps) baked right into the chassis, making cries of "you're holding it wrong" hopefully fade into obscurity.

- Engadget.com Inputs via USPTO

Good news for the Apple. European Union had decided to bury the apple antitrust investigation file in wake up relaxation in policy changes.

The EU joined the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in investigating why appple chose to block third-party dev tools. "The Commission intends to close the investigations into these matters," it wrote earlier today.

Src: [Europa]

(CNN) Technoholic mommy use apple iPad to deliver her baby.

Marcy Woodson, a pregnant woman used her Apple iPad to time her contractions.

"I got the Apple iPad for Mother's Day, which I guess is kind of appropriate that it came in handy when this one was born", says Marcy Woodson

It sure did. Marcy was monitoring her contractions on the iPad. "So this is when I decided to go get my husband was after this 4:59 one."

When the mother to-be realised she'd waited a bit too long, she woke her husband Mike to tell him the baby couldn't wait. "What would be wrong with getting some coffee and going to the Baptist? That's a better idea," he said.

After dominating the Entertainment world with iTunes, apple so may be adding magazine and newspaper subscriptions to its distribution.

One of the article in Wall Street Journal claims to have further inside information about Apple's digital newsstand, saying that Apple has stepped up its efforts to court publishers for a launch "as early as the next month or two."

According to "people familiar with the matter," Apple is pressing news and magazine conglomerates to get on board with Apple. The industry people believe that it might provide some revenue and at the same time fearing that Apple might dominate this area similar to Entertainment with its iTunes for so long.

So far, Apple has allegedly participated in talks with News Corp., Hearts Corp., Time Inc., and Condé Nast. None of the above companies are sure at this point of time to join the apple train but apple has hinted that one of them had already joined them.

(PTI) One of the British pop star Lily Allen is on the headlines. Not for any concert, but she gonna sue the Technology giant Apple after her laptop, produced by the company, was hacked.

The 25-year-old who is expecting her first child with boyfriend Sam Cooper, filed a lawsuit against Apple in the London High Court last week, reported Sun online.

Lily Allen recently found out that her laptops have been accessed without her permission and tried without success to determine the identity of the hacker.

After the company failed to help her, Allen decided to take them to court.

(IANS) Apple has reloaded the iPod. The world's most watched gadget maker can now legitimately claim that the new version of the iPod touch is more than just an MP3 player.

Most notably, the device now includes the "Face Time" video conferencing service, allowing users to telephone over the internet.

The iPod touch, the flagship of Apple's MP3 player line, always looked similar to an iPhone. All that was missing was the cellular service component. The fourth generation of the music player, now hitting the market, remains something less than a full-featured smartphone, yet now it too can use the internet to make phone calls.

Deep within the USB device configuration list for the latest iOS 4.2 beta 1 is an iProd 2,1 descriptor that links to an entry for the AppleTV2,1.

The AppleTV2,1 key refers to the second hardware revision of the Apple’s digital media device which was announced at Apple’s Fall 2010 event. Not only does this identify the mystery device as the new Apple TV, it also confirms that the streaming device is powered by Apple’s mobile OS, not the propriety Mac OS X of the original Apple TV.

It is possible that iOS for the Apple TV shares the same vulnerabilities as its iPhone and iPod touch counterparts.

Assuming there is enough on-board storage available on the Apple TV, the Apple hacking community could jailbreak this device and enable support for applications.

Src & Text: [IntoMobile]

So finally iPhone user can call via Google Voice. Though it's not official app from the Google, it is called GV Connect helps to use Google Voice with your iPhone.

Firstly the app was rejected by apple due unfriendly rules followed by apple, due to tight competition from the Android mobile platform made apple to relax rules. The app maker was encouraged to resubmit by apple after change of rules.

It will be costing you almost $ 3, to be precise $ 2.99.

The GV Connect program said it will enable you to interact with your Google Voice account much quicker than with the web-based version from Google. But Android experience of google voice is awesome.

Download GV Connect [iTune]

Best Buy on the leading global electronics retailer has came out with its assessment. Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn take back his statement that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs.

According to Dunn, reports claiming a decline in notebook and netbook sales are grossly exaggerated and are not an accurate depiction of what Best Buy is currently seeing.

These reports cited by Dunn are based upon a comment attributed to him by the Wall Street Journal.

In this comment, he claims that the iPad is causing Best Buy’s netbook and notebook sales to decline by 50%. This one quote appeared in headline after headline and caused a furor in the tech world yesterday.

Incipio one the company has come with accessory that will serve you iPod style quotient just for $ 25. The new Linq case, for the 6th-gen nano with an ostentatiously rugged shell, a velcro strap, and a couple of vibrant new color options.

It will be available early next month for $25 with additional straps costing you another $10.

Despite the recent policy changes, Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FTC will continue to carefully scrutinize Apple’s actions despite its loosened policy towards third-party iOS compilers.


The main corporate and the big loser was Adobe. Since its newly launched Flash Professional Creative Suite 5 contained a dedicated packager for the iPhone that was now prohibited by Apple’s TOS. After Anti-Flash policy by Steve Jobs Adobe responded by suspending development on both this Packager application and Flash for the iPhone.

Sean Kovacs, developer of GV Mobile, was encouraged by Apple to resubmit his application to the app store.

According to Kovacs, the new rules and terms for the app approval process showed no signs of keeping his GV Mobile app from getting approved.

Additionally, Kovacs said that he would work on making the app free, and that he was working with Apple to get GV Mobile back under its original name so he wouldn’t have to call it anything else.

Apple apps relaxation rules made a hell lot of change around the developer and the most to gain is Adobe's Flash.  Adobe announced Friday that it would resume development on Flash for the iPhone.

Adobe "will now resume development work" on its Packager for iPhone for future releases, Adobe wrote in a blog post. The feature is part of the Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool.

In April, Adobe announced that it would no longer invest in iPhone-based Flash development after Apple banned private APIs and required apps to be written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine.

"Essentially, this has the effect of restricting applications built with a number of technologies, including Unity, Titanium, MonoTouch, and Flash CS5," Adobe principal product manager Mike Chambers said at the time. "While it appears that Apple may selectively enforce the terms, it is our belief that Apple will enforce those terms as they apply to content created with Flash CS5."

Do you know apple shell out $75 Million a month to maintain iTunes and its getting more and more as there is no. of increase in sale of apple products.

According to a new report by Asymco, iTunes is pushing almost a billion dollars a year to run.

Right now, iTunes is only $100 million away to reach $1 billion mark, but if the same trend continues....... iTunes maintenance cost will $2.25 billion by the end of 2011.

- 9to5mac.com

Quebec's regional operator Videotron had launched its mobile service today with a buzz and some curiosity?

An executive VP hinted that the newly formed wireless carrier may carry the iPhone, freshly manufactured with support for the 1700MHz AWS band. The VP also suggested the same handset would land at Wind and T-Mobile.

So what this is gonna mean to apple? As we all know and hearing the T-Mobile and Apple partnership, this mean every thing to iPhone.

So T-Mobile fav, for you the story is not yet ended :(

After refreshed Apple Gadget line up with the new iPod nano and iOS updates that too before the beginning of the biggest holiday season for the year. Apple could sell 28 million iPad tablets in 2011, according to an analyst at the UBS Investment Research.

"we believe could still be conservative," according to Maynard Um, an analyst at the UBS Investment Research.

There is no evidence that iPad purchases are affecting Mac sales, but the popular tablet has been "adversely impacting" PC sales, specifically notebook PCs, Um wrote, prompting many of them to launch iPad competitors. There will not likely be any "viable threats" to the iPad "for some time," however.

"We believe that a majority of this impact is occurring on the lower end of PC sales as the iPad is priced close enough to this range that it becomes attractive to consumers looking to make purchases within this segment," he wrote.

Apple iPhone 4 is now officially available in Korea . There was the Hungama with a huge line of iPhone lover lined uped to get hands on their latest iPhone.

KT apples local distributed celebrated the launch of the latest Apple phone with a count-down, along with performances and raffles at his headquarters in downtown Seoul.

More than 40,000 people were expected to receive the iPhone 4 by next week, according to KT Corp., the exclusive local distributor of the phones.

In total, around 300,000 have already signed on with KT to receive the phones.

Few months after Apple-Adobe face off, Apple give in to the popularity of Adobe's Flash.

"The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards - all areas where Flash falls short," wrote Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs back in April, 2010 on the company's official website justifying why Apple doesn't allow Flash on iPhone.

Relaxing restriction for app makers that banned developers from using app conversion tools like Appcelerator's Titanium, Unity 3D, and most importantly, Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Flash CS5, writes Devindra Hardawar from VentureBeat.

They will also be allowing 3rd party advertisers such as AdMob, but not analytics software such as Flurry.

Apple Inc., has said that it will begin relaxing restrictions for application developers and will provide guidance for the existing and new application developers, but at the same time it said that doesn't mean that the selection process will get any easier.

Recently Apple had been criticized by parents since the iPhone used by their children can gain access to unhealthy content for the children via its apps store.  

The guidelines say, among many other things, that hastily-assembled code, pornography, any video game identifying enemies as a specific race or ethnicity, or "mean-spirited applications" will be rejected.

The latest eye candy gadget from apple is iPod nano which is also dubbed as iWatch as it can be worn on your wrist. The latest iPod nano or iWatch weigh merely 21 grams. The tiny player measures just 1.48 inches by 1.61 inches by 0.35 inches.

And the wacky part is that this tiny player has touch screen with multi-touch input. It has a clock, FM Radio, and impressive battery backup of 24 hours, one whole day :-o.

"It's very tiny and instantly wear­able," said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "It even has a clock - one of our board of directors says he's going to wear it as a watch."

Nuu Mini Key adds a bulky Qwerty key board to the most popular Touch smartphone i.e., iPhone 4. It works by pairing via Bluetooth. So this might suck your battery very fast. It is said to available by the end of the year, it may cost around $60 .

Sony has entered into Online webstore venture to sell new music and video download service, similar to  Apple's iTunes.

The announcement, made at the IFA technology fair in Berlin, was timed to coincide with an Apple media event in the US.

It will be a cloud-based service will be available on PlayStation 3s, Bravia TVs, Blu-Ray players and Sony's personal computers.Initially it will offer movies, Music will be added at the end of the year.

The Music Unlimited service, due at the end of the year, will give users access to millions of songs.

Details of Sony's latest service and the costs will be announced later.

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I don't understand how crazy are these apple fans........... Now a video on Viemo show a Canon SLR stuffed with iPhone 4. Its looking good. Hope to get the clear Cult soon.