Apple released a few updates for its iLife suite of media creation and management applications are already available through the Mac App Store as well as by conventional means. All three updates promise fixes for assorted problems that have cropped up in the respective apps. In iMovie 9.0.4, for instance, Apple improves support for opening projects imported from iMovie for iOS.
Apple may be looking to add another iPad manufacturer for its iPad 3 in addition to Foxconn and considering either Quanta Computer or Petagron Technology as the additional manufacturers. Apple could be trying to make sure it doesn’t experience another iPad sales slump and there’s also indication that these steps could be in preparation for a third version of Apple’s popular tablet…………..
Apple and Samsung are currently embroiled in a lengthy lawsuit over the iPhone and several popular Android handsets and both manufacturers claim their other is infringing on their IP and are asking the courts to block/ban the import of the offending hardware. Apple took aim at smaller rival HTC with filling a claim with the International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban the sales of the competing smartphones and tablets, this is the second complaint against HTC with the ITC…………….
A few days ago, TTJ posted news about Apple’s interest to bring wireless charging technology for their upcoming iPhone which may lead to one of the revolutionary attributes to electronic…
iOS 5 beta 3 comes out of the oven, brings new fixes and toggles to the table to registered developers. Build number is 9A5259f. A new iTunes 10.5 beta for Mac OS X has also been released.
Apple has posted two new ads touting their FaceTime and AirPlay features for the iPhone. One of Apple’s latest iPhone commercials is capitalizing on the recent surge of interest in video calling.The ad, which popped up on YouTube yesterday, shows how the feature lets people video-chat with anyone else with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
A Brooklyn-based artist has caught the attention of the Secret Service after installing software on Apple Store computers that takes Webcam photos every two minutes nd posting those images on the Internet, McDonald took the photos and posted them on a Tumblr blog called People Staring at Computers. Apple Stores wipe their computers each night, so McDonald had to reinstall the program every day for the three days that he gathered the photos and he set up nearly 100 Apple computers to take pictures each minute and send them back to his servers………..
An interesting Apple patent filing submitted in October 2010 (before the original iPad was unveiled) but only just published, appears to show the future of multitouch and it’s a major leap from the simple pinch and spread motions we’re currently used to. If that caught your attention, that’s pretty much what Apple has in mind with this patent.