Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Are you Willing to Shell Out $349 for an Apple Watch?

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Two weeks from now, Apple watch will be available for public (mostly US). With the starting price of $349 for the base model to the $999 for Stainless Steel, it will be interesting to watch out for public response for its sales.

Chinese writers sue Apple Inc for $ 1.88 Million.


Apple is now dragged into court, not for patent fights, and not even by Samsung, but by a group of Chinese writes, who accuses them of stealing their work and making money out of it.

A case is filed against Apple by well know Chinese writers in Beijing over unofficial copies of their works uploaded to Apple’s store. It’s a $ 1.88m (11.91 million yuan) lawsuit.

Apple's App store acheives 15 billion downloads mark with in just three years.

According to Apple, iPhone, iPad and iPod users had downloaded more than 15 billion applications in the past three years, and the released stats suggest the rate of downloads is sharply accelerating.

The latest figures from Apple show that customers have downloaded around 5 billion apps so far this year, considering the company said in January that it had just passed the 10 billion download mark.

Developers now can get hands-on iOS 5 Beta 2

Apple release it's second Beta version of iOS 5. Yet to come newly iOS 5 has some new feature and overhauling. You may be seeing new notifications system and of course, the newly announced iCloud integration.

There are a total of nine distributions of iOS beta build number 9A5248D, which includes three for the iPad 2 (WiFi-only, GSM, CDMA), one for the original iPad, two for the iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA), one for the iPhone 3GS, and two for the iPod Touch third and fourth generations.

Sue, Counter Sue and then comes the agreements.

The long pending patent infringement battle between two tech giants namely Nokia and Apple comes to an end with a technology licensing agreement.

This truce comes after almost more than a year and half when Nokia sued Apple for patent infringements (infringements of touch interfaces, caller ID, display illumination, and 3G and wi-fi technology) in 2009 and so after world saw Apple countersued Nokia for the similar thing.

What iOS 5 had revealed so far ???

So lets us look at briefly what iOS 5 had got stuffed within. iOS 5 beta version and SDK for developers was released during WWDC 2011 has lot of info which can answer some of the rumor doing rounds recently.

Here is what so far we know from various sources:

iOS 5 reveals 1080p Video Export, and confirms the 8 Megapixel Camera For iPhone 5 rumor.

Samsung emerges true competitor to Apple.

Samsung is enjoying its success at its best, thanks to Android..... With the launch of it's second tablet computer, Galaxy Tab 2 with a bigger screen and more processing power than the original Galaxy Tab, looks like its is the true competitor to Apple's iPad.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is designed for max entertainment and multimedia and productive experience. Has a powerful processor to play games with graphics. Galaxy 2 tab has a 10.1 inch screen, dual surround-sound speakers, and front- and rear-facing cameras, with two core processors and latest Google Android version, Honeycomb, which has been optimised for tablets.

Apple release the list of top apps for the year 2010.

So what were the most popular app for apple iOS which people downloaded for the year 2010? Now it's time to know. Two weeks before the end of 2010, Apple released its year-end chart of top apps for the iPhone and iPad.

Top 10 free apps for iPad:
  1. Apple's iBooks reading app

Apple, Google in a bid to grab Canadian giant Nortel Mobile patents.

According to Reuters unnamed sources, many mobile related companies gonna show their interest in Nortel Mobile buyout.

Filed bankruptcy protection back in June 2009, has approx 4,000 patents worth over $1 billion. We may seen apple and google going aggressive on this bid. Blackberry's RIM, Motorola and other may also show their interest in Nortel's wide range of portfolio.

Next Macbooks with Intel's Chipset?

We all know that back in 2008, apple dumped Intel for NVIDIA for graphic processors. But now some reports suggests that apple is going to team again with Intel.

Apple next generation Macbook may come with Intel iGPUs. The new MacBook models will reportedly feature Intel's Sandy Bridge, the company's first notebook-aimed system-on-a-chip, which features an iGPU clocked at between 650 MHz to 850 MHz, with higher clock speeds available via turbo-boost.

Apple to equip the next iPad with OLED display?

Rumors says that the Apple may use OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display for its next iPad instead of current IPS (In-Plane Switching) display which is expected to be launched in the early 2011.

And the rumors also tells us that backlight display components for iPads 2 will come from Coretronic ,says Taiwanese site DigiTimes.

Still no agreement between Apple and Publishers.

Apple and Major Publisher are not able to come under one agreement over subscription issues.

There are many apps waiting for the delivery of News and Entertainment feed via iTunes store but the content to be in delay because of Apple and Publishers stand off.

According to Peter Kafka at MediaMemo, Apple and the publishers are “still miles apart” when it comes to the terms for how to sell subscriptions.

Retina Display for the iPad 2, no no.

We may see the next iPad in a carbon fiber body and Front facing camera but there is a minimal or no chance of having retinal display for the next iPad.

According to Ryan Block calculations, 9.7 inch iPad Retina display would exceed the capabilities of current mobile device technology.

330 pixels per inch (PPI) works on the iPhone 4 precisely because it's such a small screen. Each pixel must be rendered, and the Retina display packs 614,400 pixels at 960 x 640. The same processors are used to display graphics on the iPhone 4 and the current model iPad (the iPad display is 1024 x 768 = 786,432 pixels).

T-Mobile UK reveals iPad Pricing, Data plans.

T-Mobile UK comes out with its iPad pricing and plans.

You can get a T-mobile iPad 16GB for £199 up with monthly plans as follows:

iPad enters the classrooms of Greenfield-Central school in US

Seems like future of education is taking shape in US school. With stylish iPad, students gonna study new things in their classroom.

Under "Leaders on iPad" initiative, Greenfield-Central school district purchased around 80 iPad funded by Federal Communications Commission program.

Tommorow big day for iPad, Richard Branson's “Project” iPad only magazine debuts.


The first issue of iPad magazine "Project" by British Billionaire is due to debut in the next two days.

The cover page featuring Jeff Bridges and a cover story on TRON: Legacy.

According to a source speaking with 9 to 5 Mac, you can subscribe the magazine at here at iTunes store where the magazine will be available.

SunSmart app may help you fight Skin Cancer and sun burns.


Do you know the UV ray from the sun can cause skin cancer and Australians has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, with more than 1,850 people dying of it each year, more than the number killed in road accidents, according to Cancer Council Australia.

Antique original Apple-1 computer sold for $210,000 USD(133,250 pounds) at christie.


The Apple I, which was sold for $ 666.66 and only 200 of them were made at that time, now one of them was sold for 133,250 pounds ($210,000) at christie .

Works 1,000 times slower than the Apple iPad, but sold for 425 times the price.

The successful bidder got it with with a signed sales letter from Steve Jobs himself and the original packaging.

Richard Branson to unveil iPad exclusive magazine next week.

British Billionaire Richard Branson may unveil the iPad only digital magazine on November 30 at the Press conference.

Similar sort of this is happen between apple and News Corp., to launch "The Daily", a news paper for iPad for 99 cents a day.

Branson said in invitations to the press that "Project" themes will include entertainment, travel, business, design, and international culture.

iPad exclusive newspaper, The Daily, by Christmas?

The two business billionaires are on the path to change the way news will be read, peak of its portability.

Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital "newspaper" called the Daily at the end of this month.

According to reports, there will be no "print edition" or "web edition" and is being developed with assistance from Apple engineers.