Posted by S King on September 13, 2010 ·
iPhone
In a message posted to its website on Friday, Apple updated its iPhone case program webpage and announced that the program will officially be coming to an end on September 30. A return to Apple’s normal return policy means that iPhone owner now have only 14 days to return their device and will incur a 10% restocking fee.
“We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue [...]
Posted by S King on September 10, 2010 ·
iPhone
After Apple has announced yesterday that it will be relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code, developers were greatly relieved, as it meant that they could again start using third party development tools to create iOS apps.
Adobe was glad at this development and has termed Apple’s decision “great [...]
Posted by S King on September 8, 2010 ·
iPhone
Bad news for all the iPhone 3G owners who were looking forward to Game Center, Apple’s social and gaming networking application, which is included with iOS 4.1. Apple has confirmed that Game Center will work on the second-generation iPod touch, but not on the iPhone 3G.
The first-generation iPhone and iPod touch models are the only other iOS based devices that cannot access Game [...]
Posted by S King on September 6, 2010 ·
Ping
Apple’s Ping music social network had a rocky start, it was hit with spam comments, saw Facebook withdrawing ‘Facebook Connect’ and is plagued with international availability issues, despite these issues it surpassed the 1 million user milestone in few days after launch.
Apple had introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10, users can follow updates from both their friends [...]
Posted by S King on September 3, 2010 ·
Facebook Connect
Facebook has reportedly pulled the plug on using the ‘Facebook Connect’ on iTunes Ping by turning off Apple’s access to its Facebook Connect API, as an agreement between Apple and Facebook couldn’t be reached, prompting Facebook to cut off access. Apple subsequently removed the feature from its service.
Ideally, Facebook’s API is open to any application [...]
Posted by S King on September 3, 2010 ·
Image Source - Sophos.com
Internet and Spam are synonymous, how could Apple’s recently launched Ping Social Networking site be safe from spam. The Ping network which is integrated with iTunes 10 and allows iTunes users to follow artists, update status and swap comments with other fans got attacked by spammers within few hours of its launch, the comments sections to be swamped by phony [...]
Posted by S King on September 2, 2010 ·
iTunes Ping
Apple’s upgrade to iTunes 10 with an improved interface and new logo saw the media management software turn into a fledgling social network called Ping that could rival Facebook and Twitter.
The 160 million of iTunes Store registered users worldwide can now click the ‘Ping’ tab in iTunes, create a profile and begin following and being followed by like-minded [...]
Posted by S King on September 2, 2010 ·
new Apple iPod Touch
The new iPod Touch is an iPhone 4, minus the phone and SMS functions – need we say more.it is powered by the the same A4 chip found in iPhone 4. There’s an integrated gyroscope now for more gaming control. The Wi-Fi antenna now supports 802.11n at 2.4GHz.
The two noteworthy improvements are the Retina screen and the dual cameras. The screen is the same found [...]
Posted by S King on September 2, 2010 ·
Apple's new releases
Apple’s media event on Wednesday was full of shiny gadgets and software releases. We will cover the releases individually, nevertheless, here are the highlights
Apple TV
Okay – the rumors has got it wrong, the moniker has not changed to Apple iTv, but, Apple TV now beams streaming-only content with a 1/4 size of the old device. The new Apple TV will pack built-in [...]
Posted by S King on August 31, 2010 ·
Source - Engadget
Soon after the rumors of a YouTube’s video rental service it has emerged that the day may not be too far before Apple starts offering streaming video through iTunes soon. iTunes’ customer survey seems to hint towards this “Titles are available to watch instantly” is listed among the survey questions which will be a refreshing change from the current method [...]