Less than 3 years after its celebrated opening, despite pointed punditry and challenging growing pains, Apple’s App Store is about to claim 10 billion App downloads. To celebrate, as they did when iTunes reached 10 billion downloads, Apple is giving away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the person that purchases the 10 billionth download. …
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Brian Tong/CNET Apple has released to developers a beta of iOS 4.3, the newest operating system update for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. iOS 4.3 will include several feature upgrades including the addition of personal Wi-Fi hot spots, new multitouch gestures for iPad, and customizable messaging alerts. Also included in the first beta of iOS 4.3 is the return of …
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A Forbes source has confirmed that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is planning to launch its iPad-only daily news source, The Daily, at a special press conference on January 19. Although the information seems pretty complete, as reported by Forbes, there’s no official word from News Corp. about The Daily’s launch date. According to Forbes, Murdoch briefed some reporters under embargo …
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You may be able to get your sweetie a Verizon iPhone this Valentine’s Day. Kent German/CNET On the heels of Verizon’s announcement of a special press conference on January 11, Boy Genius Report says a source has confirmed that Apple has blacked out retail employee vacation time for February 3 to February 6, covering a possible Verizon iPhone launch weekend. …
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SmartPhone Medic Despite not mentioning a word about a possible Verizon-compatible iPhone during his presentation at CES, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg still found his company in iPhone-related news as pictures have surfaced purporting to be of the outer casing for the iPhone 5 or Verizon’s CDMA iPhone. The case photos, provided by SmartPhone Medic, show comparisons of Apple’s current iPhone …
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Apple Some iPhone users have been reporting problems with their Home Button not registering their clicks properly. For example, a double-click only registers as a single-click and a single-click is not recognized at all. I have actually been dealing with this very issue for the last couple weeks on my iPhone 4. I thought maybe I wasn’t pressing the button …
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Apple Two European standardization bodies have agreed to make micro-USB the standard interface port for smartphones in Europe. Though Apple currently uses its proprietary 30-pin dock connector for transferring data and charging its iPhone, iPad, and iPods, CEN-CENELEC and ETSI announced yesterday they have agreed that an adapter is suitable for compliance. The commission “made available the harmonized standards needed …
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Apple With the bulk of the holiday shopping buzz dying down, rumors of Apple’s new iPad 2 have sprung to life. The most recent rumor, courtesy of the Mobile Review blog editor-in-chief Eldar Murtazin, says the iPad 2 will include a USB port. The tweet, discovered by AppleInsider, reads: “Talked with colleague which working with some ODM vendors connected with …
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Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti App maker Occipital has provided a working demo of Apple’s newly integrated gyroscope support in Mobile Safari using images created by 360 Panorama, Occipital’s great panoramic photography App for iOS 4.2. The site, when visited by an iOS device with a gyroscope and running iOS 4.2.1, allows you to view photographs taken with the 360 Panorama …
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Apple Apple has posted job listings for engineers specializing in voice technologies such as speech recognition, iOS software development for speech applications, and speech research. Apple recently filed for patents related to greater integration of voice commands throughout iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch apps, including a customizable API that developers could use to include voice control in their software. The …
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