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Pioneer Brings AirPlay Enabled Music Tap Systems For Wireless Music Streaming

The Pioneer has announced a new set of AirPlay Music Tap systems that feature Network compatibility for wireless music streaming. The iOS free Remote app will will help you for maximum utility. So by connecting it with your home WiFi or ethernet network, you’ll be able to access your iTunes library from various locations. The features include a 2.5-inch full-color LCD display, Pandora, iHeartRadio, vTuner internet radio and Air Jam, which allows for playlist sharing on your arsenal of the company’s Music Tap systems. There are two models with different features coming in October, so that you can choice of the X-SMC-3-S for $400 or the more dapper, bluetooth-enabled X-SMC4-Elite for $480. Checkout the press release bellow for more.

Broadcom Buys NetLogic Microsystems

Broadcom has announced it is acquiring NetLogic Microsystems in a deal worth around $3.7bn, which will see the company add various processor technologies to its existing wireless chipset business and the deal shows that the communications chip market is still a high stakes battle, as Broadcom tries to fight with a variety of rivals from Intel to Qualcomm, hopes to add more processors to lineup. Broadcom’s combo Bluetooth/Wi-Fi combo chip is used in Apple’s iPhone and iPad as well as Samsung Galaxy S II and the company is looking to NetLogic to provide it with a full suite of processors in the network………………

Download Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 Beta Build 11c55 With iCloud

Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.7.2 beta to developers with support for the beta version of iCloud incorporated directly into the build and the pre-release version, labeled build 11C55, does not require a separate install of iCloud services. Apple has begun transitioning user accounts from MobileMe to iCloud, the last beta release of Mac OS X 10.7.2 came on Sept. 2 and included the 10th test version of iCloud as a separate install. Apple has not included another iPhoto beta with heightened Photo Stream compatibility in this release and developers have seen a steady stream of beta software as Apple gears up for several major releases this fall……………..

G-Technology 8TB G-RAID HDD

G-Technology has this week unveiled their new Thunderbolt Dual-Drive 8TB G-RAID HDD and the Thunderbolt HDD demonstrated at this years IBC 2011 Conference in Amsterdam is equipped with two of the new 4TB Hitachi GST hard drives and also provides a great mobile solution for Mac users with its Thunderbolt connectivity. The HDDs inside the enclosure are the new Hitachi 4TB 7,200 rpm offerings and each TB of storage space on the drive can hold 2.5 hours of HD 1080/60i video. The drive will also be offered with eSATA, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports and it will land in October with the Thunderbolt version coming in Q4……………..

Henge Dock Docking Station For 13″ MacBook Unibody

Henge Docks has created the first truly comprehensive docking station solution for Apple’s line of notebook computers. This means you can quickly, easily and cleanly incorporate your MacBook computer into a desktop setup or your home theater system, so you get the best features of a laptop, desktop and media center PC all from one computer. Henge Docks patent-pending design doesn’t require any hardware, software or settings changes to your computer. In fact, every current MacBook is compatible with our system, right from the factory. Each Henge Dock model is designed for a specific type of MacBook computer.

Download iTunes 10.5 Beta 8 And iWork Beta 3 (Developers Only)

Apple has made available an eighth beta release of iTunes 10.5 to developers, focusing on bug fixes and improvements and the update is available alongside a new release of iWork for iOS beta 3. iTunes 10.5 beta 8 comes with the automatic backup feature to save the music that you added on iCloud from your PC and Apple also encouraging the developers to signup for the iTunes Match beta at cost of $24.99 per year to test the service. The update was released for the common users too unless some major bugs forced Apple to launch the Gold Master Candidate…………………

Facebook’s Revenue In 1st Half Of 2011

Reuters reports that Facebook’s revenue for the first half of 2011 hit $1.6bn with its Net income falling just short of $500 million and Facebook is still a private company and doesn’t publicly disclose its financial details. Facebook’s strong financial numbers underscores its growing popularity among its advertisers and the ompany’s early move to capitalize on the power of social networking by attracting advertisers put it ahead of competitor Google. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and there are currently about 750 million users of Facebook, which is one of the most visited destinations for people on Internet…………….

iPhone 5 Is Coming With Sprint Unlimited Data Plans

Sprint rumored to retain unlimited data with iPhone 5 launch, just to sway buyers who may otherwise spring for the AT&T / Verizon Wireless variants and Sprint has postponed the launch of a new rival 4G phone in order to accommodate preparations for the iPhone’s debut. Unlimited data is a significant selling point for Sprint, which offers a package of unlimited voice and data for $99.99 per month………….