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Apple Working For New Features In iOS Location Services

Apple is working on exciting new features for iOS location services reveals a job posting for an iOS QA Location Engineer and the job posting obviously doesn’t mention what the feature are. A few Apple patent filings have surfaced recently that might offer a glimpse at what the company is planning and earlier this month a patent filing revealed that Apple is looking into improve Maps by implementing schematic maps that distort data to emphasize more important areas and deemphasize areas that are less important. The posting also requests applicants to have familiarity with typical sensors in mobile devices, namely GPS chips as well as navigation algorithms and suggesting that Apple might be looking into developing its own turn-by-turn navigation technology, similar to the one provided in Google Maps………………

Apple Requests MacBook Pro 3G Prototype Back

CNet reports that Apple has finally contacted Carl Frega about a prototype laptop that he had put on sale earlier this month and Carl Frega, a North Carolina resident, purchased the laptop on Craigslist for parts, after discovering it was a prototype he posted images of the notebook online but never managed to generate any interested over the device. Frega repaired the MacBook and sold it via Craigslist, ays after buying the machine, the new buyer took it to the Genius Bar citing random issues and the Genius Bar technicians failed to recognize the device as a prototype and denied service on the machine due to third party parts……………..

NETGEAR N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router

NETGEAR has released a dual-band N router with built-in cloud file sharing and the The WNDR3800 N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router – Premium Edition is the first to support the company’s new ReadySHARE Cloud service. First is the Clear Channel Selector, which analyzes the wireless traffic and switches to the quietest channel to prevent dropouts and second is ReadySHARE Cloud, using the router’s USB port, you can attach an external HDD and access the data anywhere there’s an internet connection. In addition to cloud sharing, USB storage is also supported for UPnP / DLNA media serving and TiVo expansion storage and the WNDR3800 is available now with street pricing around $150………….

iTunes Match Beta Is Available For Developers

Apple has released a new version of iTunes for developer testing of the functionality of iCloud’s new iTunes Match feature for storing songs in the cloud for flexible access from mobile devices and iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 with iTunes Match which’ll let you sign up for a yearly $24.99 fee. iTunes Match first scans your library and compiles a list of songs from what it finds, doesn’t matter if it’s a song you’ve bought through iTunes, one you’ve ripped from a CD, torrented or even made yourself. Songs that iTunes recognizes are streamed from Apple’s master recording at 256kbps and you will then be able to access the entire library from any Mac or iOS device with an Internet connection………………..

MOG’s Music Service Become Available For Boxee

MOG announced the availability of a new app for the Boxee Box by D-Link that allows you to pick and choose from the 11.5 million song from company’s strong library right on your TV. The 320 kbps, to be offered as a native app for Boxee and album art in 1080p that you can peruse using your double-sided Boxee remote and a welcome expansion of the media box’s music repertoire which currently includes Last.FM and Pandora. If you like to try it first, you can get 14-days for free, but after that you have to get into a package of $4.99-a-month basic account or a $9.99-per-month Primo account.

Apple To Bring iCloud Support To Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.9

For Mac users who have not yet upgraded to Lion, new evidence suggests Apple will add iCloud support to its predecessor, Snow Leopard in the form of an update and Mac preference pane in Tiger mentioned that iCloud requires a computer running Mac OS X 10.6.9 or later. OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.9 has not yet been released to the general public and iCloud is currently in beta but is expected to have a full public release alongside iOS 5 at some point in Fall 2011……………

iZON Remote Room Monitor App-Controlled Camera For iOS

Stem’s iZON Remote Room Monitor lets you spy on the babysitter from your iOS device and remote cameras aren’t a new concept, but the iZON comes in at $129.95 and also has some enticing bells and whistles that should appeal to Apple fans. Set up the compact camera somewhere convenient, point it at the object of your interest, and hook it up to your Wi-Fi network and all you have to do is download the free Stem:Connect App from iTunes and configure the device to alert you whenever it detects any motion or sound in within its vicinity. There is a limit of 5 minutes when it comes to remote viewing with the app and that might help save you from running into data overages when using a 3G or 4G cell network……………

JailbreakMe 4.0 Is Coming To Jailbreak iOS 5

JailbreakMe is a userland jailbreak developed by Comex and now they are looking forward a new version of the tool, JailbreakMe 4.0. JailbreakMe 4.0 will be developed by MuscleNerd and will jailbreak Apple’s next iOS update, the iOS 5 and may also hit both iPhone 5 and iOS 5. George Hotz and P0sixninja may have some hidden exploits for the next releases from Apple and Comex’s internship with Apple makes the jailbreak community sad for losing a great jailbreak hacker but we can look forward JailbreakMe 4.0……………….