Let the pre-release dance begin: The image above comes from HardMac and features a case allegedly designed for the 4th generation iPhone. As you can see these cases have those rounded corners and an aperture for the camera and flash unit. Coming in June?
Update: Apple has refuted this claim, commenting on rumors and speculation
Apple is putting the final tweaks to the next iteration of Final Cut Studio, offering new feature to take the professional video production system to a wider audience.
A report claims a person
On the eve of the Google I/O summit, Google’s CEO talked to Reuters about Google’s relationship with Apple, specifically as it related to iAds and Admob.
Some points:
Well, we didn’t think we’d ever see this. AT&T is tethering in iPhone OS4 beta 4! We are finally going to get tethering here in the US this summer. Shut up, everyone else!
Just for giggles, we called. “AT&T doesn’t offer tethering at this time” and the website just takes you to your account.
This week’s iPhone 4 release features new wallpapers. (Silent Yay!). We’ll post any other new ‘revolutionary’ and ‘groundbreaking’ features we find. Let us know if you stumble upon anything OK?
More below…
iPhoneOS 4 Beta 4 10M2252 just hit the developer center. Developers please feel free to share changes. Kthx.
image via Macworld
Apple has posted a MobileMe Beta FAQ. According to a few readers, the beta is now live for those who initially signed up. FAQ and signup below:
The MobileMe Mail beta is a preview of the new version of the mail web application. MobileMe Mail beta includes a completely new interface with a new widescreen view, improved performance, and powerful new features that make it easier to use than ever. Using the beta is completely voluntary and you can leave it at any time.
More information about new features is available here.
To join the MobileMe Mail beta, log in to http://www.me.com/mail. In the lower-left corner, click the “Request an invitation” link.
If you do not see the link then you already have requested an invitation. You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta and can start using it.
If you received an invitation, then you have already been added to the beta and you don’t need to take any further action. Simply sign into me.com to begin using the MobileMe Mail beta.
Note: You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta and can start using it.
The MobileMe Mail beta is currently available in English.
Safari 4 (Mac and PC), Firefox 3.6 (Mac and PC), and Internet Explorer 8 (PC) are fully supported.
You don’t have to change any of your current settings on any of your devices. Your MobileMe Mail account will continue to work as expected in Mac OS X Mail, and on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. For help setting up your MobileMe account on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, visit the MobileMe Setup instructions.
Only the user of the MobileMe account requesting the invitation will participate in the beta. Other Family Member accounts will be unaffected unless individual users also request to join the beta.
Yes, but the rules you set up during the MobileMe Mail beta will be applied as messages come in to MobileMe, so they may override any rules you’ve set up in Mac OS X Mail. To avoid duplicate rules:
First, please check the MobileMe Mail Beta Known Issues article to see if the issue you’ve encountered has already been reported. If it hasn’t or if you just want to send us your feedback about the beta, click the Feedback link in the lower-leff corner of the MobileMe beta window. We unfortunately cannot respond individually to feedback or issues reported.
If you would just like to opt out of the beta, select the action (gear) menu in the upper-right corner of the MobileMe Mail beta and choose “Leave the Mail Beta.”
Note: One-on-one Support is not available for the MobileMe Mail beta.
The following keyboard shortcuts are available:
| Action | Mac | PC |
| ?P | Ctrl+P | |
| Undo | ?Z | Ctrl+Z |
| Redo | ??Z | Ctrl+Shift+Z |
| Open selected message in new window | Return | Return |
| Scroll in selected message until bottom of message, then select next message | Space | Space |
| Delete selected message or folder | ? | Backspace |
| Select All Messages | ?A | Ctrl+A |
| Compose new message | ??N | Ctrl+Shift+N |
| Reply | ??R | Ctrl+Shift+R |
| Toggle between reply/reply all in Reply window | ??R | Ctrl+Shift+R |
| Save Draft | ?S | Ctrl+S |
| Increase font size when composing a message | ?= | Ctrl+= |
| Decrease font size when composing a message | ?- | Ctrl+- |
| Bold | ?B | Ctrl+B |
| Italic | ?I | Ctrl+I |
| Underline | ?U | Ctrl+U |
| Indent items in a list | Tab | Tab |
| Outdent items in a list | Shift+Tab | Shift+Tab |
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When it comes to technology decisions, the man is money…But when it comes to financial decisions, at least one big one after the dot com bust in 2003, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is anything but.
According to Marketwatch, Jobs and other Apple employees traded far riskier options in for safer ones that would be more likely to yield profits.
The cost of the swap in today’s money? $10.3 Billion. Ouchy.
Let’s keep in mind that the reason that those options were so valuable was because Jobs brought Apple back from the brink to its current prosperity. So the better he did, the more he ‘lost’.
Apple updated its Mac Java engine today, only for Intel machines running 10.6.3.
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6. Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2 supersedes the previous Java for Mac OS X v10.6.
Loren Brichter’s Tweetie application is now the free official Twitter for iPhone app. As it propagates through the Internet you’ll eventually be able to find it here.
via MacStories
Nike will launch a heart monitor in its Nike+ iPod range on June 1, a thread on the company
Google opens its developer conference in San Francisco this week, setting the stage for another intensification of its battle with Apple for the future of technology.
Apple must respond to Google’s front room ploy, or run the risk of tacitly ceding control of the front room to another. This seems unlikely. Read more.
The latest Retrevo survey
While the focus switches to Apple versus Google and Apple versus Adobe, don
We do like the sound of Air Display, a new solution from Avatron which turns your iPad into a mini-monitor for your Mac.
Once you
Is Twitter preparing to introduce its very own Twitter app for the iPhone? Signals suggest this is the case, as popular client Tweetie 2 has disappeared from the App Store, shortly after Twitter acquired the app.
The genius of the Onion is often how close to reality they stray. Stick around for the Yahoo dig at the end.(Non Flash here)
Bullish reports on Apple this morning, with former ThinkEquity analyst, Vijay Rakesh, commencing coverage on the company with a $300 target for new brokerage, Sterne Agee.
A second report somewhat contentiously predicts Apple and Google will be the only likely survivors of the smartphone OS wars. That prediction underlines the intense nature of the battle between the two former allies. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, sat on Apple’s board until last year.
Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Rodman & Renshaw, made this assertion in a note to clients released last night. A few bullet points from Barrons report:
Apple this morning quietly introduced an updated configuration of its entry-level MacBook.
As previewed by the Vietnamese leak, Apple boosted speed and introduced longer battery life (up to ten hours) to its MacBook range. The price remains the same at $999 and the processor has been upgraded to 2.4GHz (Up from 2.26GHz).
The previous model possessed a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo processor and used NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics. This model also offers WiFi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR as standard, together with Gigabit ethernet, a Mini DisplayPort, two USB 2.0 ports and audio in/out.
At these specs this model is almost identical to the bottom end 13-inch MacBook Pro, which only betters it with 4GB of RAM and an SD card slot.
The new models are now visible on Apple’s UK and US stores, though product specifications in the write-up hadn’t yet been upgraded.
Tech specs include:
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Business Insider takes a look at lobbying spending from big tech companies. Google’s lobbying is half what it spends on advertising, ” Apple spends the least on lobbying as percent of revenue”.
Data comes from the Senate Office of Public Affairs database. We also graphed lobbying spend as a percent of revenue. Read more.
Since the 1980’s, Apple’s financial bread and butter was the Macintosh — really, the company’s only major source of revenue. Since 2001, when the iPod was introduced, the iPod and iTunes Store have turned into asecond significant revenue stream for the company. In the past three years, since it launched in 2007, the iPhone has exploded as a source of cash for Apple, Inc. So successful in fact, that the iPhone counts for nearly as much revenue as the Macintosh and the iPod divisions combined.
For the most recent fiscal quarter, ending in March 2010, iPhone sales of a record 8.75 million units accounted for 40 percent of revenue at Apple: $5.45 billion of $13.5 billion in total revenue. The Macintosh (2.94 million units) and iPod (10.89 million units) combined brought in $5.62 billion. Not a bad haul, and it shows just how important the iPhone is to Apple’s future.
The obvious next question: what percentage of revenue will the iPad make up next quarter?
(Data courtesy Apple, Inc.)
US Mac sales climbed 39 percent (Y-o-Y) in April, the latest Piper Jaffray report based on NPD Group data explains.
Apple 2.0 tells us about the latest Gene Munster report which says that April has been an excellent month for the computer company, he says. His 39 percent Mac sales boost translates into between 3.1-3.2 million Macs for Apple
The iPad is going to take a huge slice of the netbook market — but may not quite kill the demand for low-powered, low-featured but affordable netbook devices, fresh research claims.
