Apple How important is having the top spot in Apple’s App Store listings before the holiday “freeze,” when applications cannot be added, changed, or updated? Important enough for most of the major players to drop prices on their biggest titles. After Electronic Arts dropped the prices of most of its popular game titles, many to …
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Apple has updated its popular digital-book reader iOS App, iBooks, now version 1.2, to include support for AirPrint, PDF and notes printing, Collections, and new fully illustrated children’s books and art books available for download in the iBookstore. Apple’s iBooks allows you to download digital versions of your favorite books directly to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. iBooks 1.2 …
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Will you hear an iPhone on Verizon’s 4G LTE network now? Apple As holiday shopping days shrink, Verizon iPhone rumors are growing. The latest from MacDailyNews pegs the Verizon iPhone for a post-Christmas release on Verizon’s sparsely available 4G LTE networks. These details are from a MacDailyNews source that they “believe to be familiar with the matter”: Verizon managers are …
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Apple After introducing an API that allowed developers to check on an iOS device to see if its operating system had been compromised (read: jailbroken) less than six months ago, Apple has now unexpectedly dropped the functionality from iOS 4.2.1. The jailbreak detection API was part of the mobile device management (MDM) API which was introduced with iOS 4 in …
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USPTO, via AppleInsider In patent documents released this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple reveals plans to improve voice control on its iOS devices using contextually defined commands selected by users. USPTO, via AppleInsider Apple purchased the iOS “personal assistant” app maker Siri earlier this year, suggesting it had plans to beef up the voice control functionality …
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Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti As expected after a report in music magazine NME back in November, Gorillaz front man and songwriter Damon Albarn has produced the latest Gorillaz album on an iPad and will release it Christmas Day for free. The album will be a digital download, free to users on Christmas Day with a free music video from one …
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Apple According to sources in Taiwan talking to DigiTimes, Apple’s initial shipments of the much-anticipated iPad 2 are 100 days away with expected stock levels to be between 400,000 and 600,000. The end of February could be the target ship time for the iPad 2, according to this report. “Apple originally planned to start mass production in January, but because …
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iPads could end up being as useful as a scalpel in the O.R., according to interview. Apple Georgetown University has begun a program that uses iPads in their operating rooms to assist doctors with complicated operating procedures. The iPads allow surgeons easy access to all sorts of medical data, imagine, and processes during an operation. The ease of using iOS …
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Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti If you fondly remember the famous boulder scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” you’ll probably enjoy Cookie Rush–a run-for-your-life side-scroller from Mobjoy. The premise is simple–help the villagers escape the giant, smiling cookie by skillfully placing jump markers along their path. Obstacles appear along the way like big, mean dogs, water traps, and milk carton …
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You could soon be buying your clothes on an Apple-based point-of-sale system. 9to5Mac Apple’s iPod touch-based point-of-sale system, dubbed EasyPay, had been rumored to be available for third-party retailers looking for a mobile solution to their sales experience, which may soon land in some major stores. 9to5Mac reports that Gap, Inc. has begun piloting the EasyPay (rebranded ZipPay) system at …
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