Monday, 27 June 2011

Google confirms FTC investigating antitrust case

A Google SEC filing quietly submitted late Thursday has confirmed an FTC antitrust investigation. The brief notice said it had received a subpoena for a look into the company's behavior. Little was mentioned about the focus other than that it would touch on "search and advertising."...

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=4fbc2ff9b4ae457896c928fd655dbec7

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Sunday, 26 June 2011

AirPlay and Thunderbolt May Be Limited to High-End Devices to Start

Earlier today, we noted that LaCie is preparing to roll out its first Thunderbolt-enabled Little Big Disk external hard drives, although the initial models will be limited to higher-end SSD-based devices.

iLounge now reports that slow roll-out of Thunderbolt and the lack of consumer-based options may be due to high pricing for incorporating the technology, an issue that appears to also be affecting third-party peripherals compatible with Apple's AirPlay streaming technology. According to the report, the inclusion of Thunderbolt or AirPlay compatibility can add as much as $100 to the price of these devices, limiting their ability to address mainstream consumer markets.
Our sources have described the AirPlay technologies as considerably more expensive to incorporate than Apple's standard docking Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad Dock Connectors, and noted that Apple is very heavily pushing developers to adopt the wireless technologies despite the costs involved.

We similarly have learned that the price of the components required to add a Thunderbolt port to an external hard drive is roughly equal to the cost of a low-end hard drive itself, a high cost that one developer has suggested will limit Thunderbolt's near-term use to products aimed at the professional market.
For the time being, announced Thunderbolt products do seem to be coming in at price points above those typically within range of mainstream consumers, as evidenced by Promise's 8 TB Pegasus RAID R4, which briefly appeared on Apple's store priced at $1399.95 before being pulled. That price is only $100 more than for Promise's current 8 TB RAID offering, but it remains to be seen just how quickly Thunderbolt will be able to make its way into more mainstream products.


iLounge suggests that there may at least be some hope for price drops for AirPlay devices in the relatively near future, noting that Philips earlier this week debuted AirPlay-compatible speaker systems with price tags as low as $229, a new floor in what has until now seen the feature primarily limited to higher-end receivers.


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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/24/airplay-and-thunderbolt-may-be-limited-to-high-end-devices-to-start/

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Marketing official claims China Mobile iPhone 5 in September

"A new iPhone with China Mobile's network will debut and the cooperation will be announced in September," says a blog post by the carrier's marketing official, Liu Yang, as quoted by Shanghai Daily and Reuters. The Daily speculates that the device will support 4G networks, which could be backed by recent reports of TD-LTE negotiations. Most analysts, though, are only expecting an LTE iPhone in 2012, due to the limited spread of LTE in the US so far combined with other technological barriers....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=05f818987bb12bd19ddcbbf71d5d29dd

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iMac Top Choice Among All-in-Ones

With its ?souped-up? CPU and graphics performance, beautiful design, and best-in-class display, the 27-inch iMac earns a 9/10 rating and an Editors? Choice award from Computer Shopper. Noting iMac?s strong productivity performance and excellent gaming capabilities, reviewer Jonathan Rougeout concludes: ?In almost every way, this top-of-the-line model beats every other all-in-one on the market.?

Source: http://computershopper.com/desktops/reviews/apple-imac-27-inch-2011-version

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Apple releases WWDC 2011 videos

WWDC 2011 session videos are now available in iTunes. These HD videos can be downloaded and viewed for your developing pleasure but require paid program credentials to access.

All material in the sessions remains under Apple's confidential information NDA.

Have fun, and we'll see you back in the real world in about, oh say, 300-hours.

Thanks, Joshua Weinberg

Apple releases WWDC 2011 videos originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Announces New iMac

Apple today updated its signature all-in-one iMac with quad-core processors, powerful new graphics, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology, and a new FaceTime HD camera. Starting at $1199, the new iMac is up to 70 percent faster and offers up to three times faster graphics performance than the previous generation.

Source: http://www.apple.com/imac/?sr=hotnews.rss

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Analyst: Apple stock hampered by worries about 4G transition

Apple stock is suffering because of worries about the company transitioning to Qualcomm receivers for the iPhone, argues Barclays Capital's Ben Reitzes. The analyst notes that Apple shares have declined 9 percent this year versus just a 5 percent slip in the NASDAQ. The situation is compared to that of 2006, when investors were worried about Apple switching from PowerPC processors to ones made by Intel....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=60c940a02222a1f2fdd6f34747180669

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Dropbox Breach: Fewer Than 100 Accounts Affected, but One Person Actively Exploited Security Hole

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/dropbox-breach-fewer-than-100-accounts-affected-but-one-person-actively-exploited-it/

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Time Capsule torn asunder, no "server grade" hard drive inside

Hardmac took apart a 2 TB Time Capsule and found something interesting. The uninteresting bit: there's really nothing new in the new Time Capsule -- same antennas, etc. The interesting bit: Apple claims to have a "server grade" hard drive in the Time Capsule. However, Hardmac discovered the drive inside is actually a Western Digital Caviar Green disk, a fairly common consumer grade hard drive. As Engadget points out, what qualifies a drive to be enterprise grade is the mean time between failure (MTBF), which we don't know for the Caviar Green because Western Digital isn't telling. In fact, based on this review at TechArp, there's no average seek or latency time given. You'd think a drive manufacturer would report these things, no?

Given previous issues with Time Capsules, we're hoping this doesn't become an issue in the future. "Server grade" can be interpreted in many ways, after all (I happen to have a first-gen G4 Mac mini set up as a server, but I wouldn't deploy that as a real server!). It's a shame to see Apple calling what appears to be a pretty vanilla drive something that it likely isn't.

[via Slashgear]

Time Capsule torn asunder, no "server grade" hard drive inside originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Saturday, 25 June 2011

A Showpiece E-Book for iPad

Blogging in The New York Times, technology columnist David Pogue calls Our Choice ? Al Gore?s new e-book app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch ? ?one of the most elegant, fluid, immersive apps you?ve ever seen.? Pogue notes that the Our Choice app updates Gore?s 2009 best-selling book about solving Earth?s climate crisis and that ?the real magic? is in the visual elements, which include more than 400 pages of interactive photos, graphics, and video. Pogue concludes: ?For once, here?s an e-book that really does redefine the net effect of an e-book.?

Source: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/al-gore-invents-a-showpiece-e-book/

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WWDC 2010 Journal, Day 1

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleMacBlog/~3/QzxxANEXIqA/wwdc-2010-journal-day-1.html

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Tales of Monkey Island series now on iPad

Tales of Monkey Island series now on iPad Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island is finally available for the iPad. Its first episode is available for free for the next month.

Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=f81bcb656cfd8eb3fce695abb03480a8

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Does hardware trump network speed? 1M T-Mobile iPhones say yes.

Will there be an LTE iPhone this year? A new report Thursday from T-Mobile suggests that network speed isn't a big concern for a sizeable chunk of iPhone users, nor is official carrier support, so Apple can probably take its time with next-gen mobile broadband.

Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/does-hardware-trump-network-speed-1m-t-mobile-iphones-say-yes/

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Apple iCloud guide shows web apps for MobileMe features

Apple has posted an iCloud transition guide both to outline what was changing and to assuage worries that web apps might go away. The Q&A promises that the calendar, contacts, e-mail, and Find My iPhone will all still have web interfaces. The only services going away will be iWeb hosting, the Gallery pages, and iDisk, although iDisk is partly replaced by iCloud....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=106c8ecaee60ab5745811d6c573349e7

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AT&T iPad hacker pleads guilty

AT&T iPad hacker pleads guilty A 26-year-old man who last year helped hackers steal personal information belonging to about 120,000 iPad users pleaded guilty to fraud and hacking charges in a New Jersey court Thursday.

Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=b26290889bc34043c0ebdcdb1f84157d

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ITC delays Kodak vs. Apple and RIM decision

The ITC has announced on Thursday that a decision on RIM vs. Apple and Kodak will be delayed [PDF] by one week. It's a bit of a surprise, especially this late in the day, as ITC was supposed to make a decision today. There's no clear reason for the postponement that we could find, but FOSS Patents suggests, "This could either be due to a delay on the ITC's part or a way for the ITC to give the parties more time to negotiate a settlement."

You'll remember that Kodak sued both Apple and RIM, focusing mainly a patent broadly described as an "image-preview feature in camera phones." Kodak CEO Antonio Perez told Bloomberg that the company is seeking US$1 billion.

ITC delays Kodak vs. Apple and RIM decision originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Friday, 24 June 2011

Apple releases WWDC 2011 videos

WWDC 2011 session videos are now available in iTunes. These HD videos can be downloaded and viewed for your developing pleasure but require paid program credentials to access.

All material in the sessions remains under Apple's confidential information NDA.

Have fun, and we'll see you back in the real world in about, oh say, 300-hours.

Thanks, Joshua Weinberg

Apple releases WWDC 2011 videos originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Happy First Birthday, iPhone 4!

One year ago today, where were you? Were you standing in line waiting to snag the newly announced iPhone 4, or were watching from afar, marveling at the long lines? Unless you had your head in the sand, you were likely doing one or the other.

In the 12 months since its launch, the iPhone 4 has left an indelible mark on the smartphone industry. It's now available globally and remains the top-selling handset.

Speaking of first anniversaries, a friendly reminder for those who were early adopters of the iPhone 4: the one-year warranty runs out starting today for those who bought their handset at launch. You might want to add the extra protection of AppleCare to cover you until the iPhone 5 comes out.

Happy First Birthday, iPhone 4! originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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High costs limiting adoption of Apple's AirPlay and Thunderbolt technologies

High overhead costs associated with adding Apple's new AirPlay and Thunderbolt technologies to devices are serving to limit adoption of those emerging standards by both Apple and third-party hardware manufacturers, according to a report which AppleInsider can corroborate.

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Source: http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=4ee628b9ea2ddd3198fa168372571498

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ComScore Claims the iPad Accounts for 97 Percent of US Tablet Traffic

Source: http://searchengineland.com/comscore-the-ipad-owns-97-percent-of-us-tablet-traffic-82855

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Hands-On Video of LaCie Little Big Disk SSD With Thunderbolt

Since Apple and Intel introduced the Thunderbolt high-speed connectivity standard back in February, users have been waiting for third-party manufacturers to deliver compatible peripherals taking advantage of the significant speed boost over existing mainstream interfaces.

At the Thunderbolt debut, prominent external hard drive solution provider LaCie was one of the first to commit to the new connectivity standard, noting that it was planning to release Thunderbolt-enabled versions of its Little Big Disk external hard drives.


SlashGear today posted a hands-on video with the Thunderbolt-enabled Little Big Disk, showing off an SSD-based version packing two 160 GB drives. LaCie's setup saw two such drives daisy-chained in a RAID 0 configuration with a 24-inch display tacked on at the end of the chain, all connected to a Core i7-based MacBook Pro. The drive setup was able to handle impressive read speeds of over 825 MB/sec and write speeds of over 350 MB/sec.
The first demo was a raw speed test, reading and writing to the drives with 4GB files. As you can see in the video, the MBP was able to write at up to 352.5 MB/s, while read speeds reached 827.2 MB/s. The company told us that the same setup had hit 870 MB/s peaks in their own testing.

The second test was playing back three simultaneous video files stored on the drives, each coming in at 1080p Full HD resolution. Again, as in the video, playback was stutter-free whether windowed or full-screen. We were also able to scrub back and forth through the clip - with the two others running in the background - with no lag or pauses.
SSD models of the Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt are due to ship this summer ("a question of weeks from now", according to the LaCie representative), but pricing has not yet been released. More budget-friendly models based on traditional hard drives are also in the works, although LaCie has yet to offer a release timeline for those models.


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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/24/hands-on-video-of-lacie-little-big-disk-ssd-with-thunderbolt/

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