Interesting new product available at T-Mobile Stores in the US. Are they just looking out for AT&T iPhone and iOS device users or is there something bigger coming? Remember it was just this week that T-Mobile started running its AT&T bashing ads in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ format. via Engadget.
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Yet more Apple moves in corporate America, where the iPhone and iPad are gaining more traction than the actually pretty good Xserve ever did — it seems Bank of America and Citigroup are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry for corporate e-mail.
From out tips:
At PwC, we go live with iPhone roll-out in January – available to all 30,000 US employees. No word yet on availability to our foreign comrades (roughly 120,000 of them worldwide).
– Talkin’ Bout A Revolution
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From C-section via Techcrunch:
Google’s Instant steaming search results just hit the iPhone and presumably other iOS devices. Up here in New York, we’re still without. Hit us in the comments if you’ve got the Instant.
COMPUTERWORLD: I’ve said it before now I’m saying it again, the iPad is indeed cannibalizing netbook sales. For proof, you don’t have to ask Best Buy’s boss, nor do you have to listen to the analysts, you just need to speak with Microsoft. Apple’s iPad is exploding into the enterprise, defining new categories and generating huge disruption across many industries, meanwhile competitors are simply unable to keep up as Apple does the business.
Apple’s latest patents detail some extremely sophisticated gaming features for multiplayer gaming in real-life environments. We’re heading for the great urban iWars.
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It is nice to see the Mac Version of Skype starting to gain feature parity with the Windows version. But this looks totally different than any Skype I’ve ever seen. It is all in one window and has the following new features:
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There’s an observed trend among enterprise users to move to embrace the iPad, now big business is being urged to make serious plans to integrate the device into their IT infrastructure, on strong advice from the Gartner Group.
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Apple’s taken a bit of a bump in Japan, where Samsung’s recently-introduced Galaxy S Android-powered smartphone has outsold the iPhone — the first time in 18+ weeks iPhone’s been kicked off of the number one slot.
Admittedly the figures only reflect one week’s sales. Also important is that the sales reflect the first week in which Samsung’s offering was made available for purchase.
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According to CNET, Lightpeek 10Gb Tx/Rx bus technology is on the way for a 2011 debut, likely in Apple’s Macintosh computeres.
But Apple is expected to back Light Peak, if past comments from Intel still hold. Shortly after its annual developer conference in 2009, Intel said that it had showed the technology to third parties, got feedback, then incorporated the feedback into the next design, adding, at that time, that “Apple is an innovating force in the industry.
Steve Jobs recently panned USB3 in an email saying that Intel didn’t directly support it in their chips. Intel will natively support Light Peak. Below is a video on Light Peak:
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“People looking for a light duty laptops should consider an iPad.” –Mossberg
Remember a lot of non-techies follow this guy’s advice.
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Some hackers have got Plex client working on the new iOS-based AppleTVs. That means if you have a Plex server running in your house you could theoretically play any Plex content on your AppleTV. Here are the simple instructions.
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Oh, snap! As part of the Q&A in today’s announcement, FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded a question about a Facebook App coming to the iPad. His answer? “iPad is a computer, not a mobile device.”
That wouldn’t be so bad if some douchebags weren’t installing it on Android tablets as we speak.
That big Facebook announcement today? Yeah it is a smartphone update, but not a Facephone. Zuck took to the stage to announce some feature updates to the Android and iPhone Facebook apps, including the new Places, Groups and tagging features. It hasn’t hit our App Store yet (Update there it is!) but I’m sure you’ll let us know in the comments when it does, won’t you?
COMPUTERWORLD: We may be talking about gaming, but Apple isn’t playing. The company is rapidly deploying all the components it needs to make a major grab for the console games market, powered by the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Nintendo knows what’s coming, while developers expect iPhones to be able to run the kind of titles which were state-of-the-art when Microsoft launched the Xbox360. It is almost beautiful watching as Apple slowly puts its game together.
We had kind of expected iWork 11 to make its first appearance alongside iLife 11 last month. It didn’t, but it looks like Apple’s productivity suite is on the way, it could even ship next month.
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Apple’s legal battle with Nokia looks to have seen some setback, with staff at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) telling the judge in the case that Apple’s patent allegations are ‘unfounded’.
“The evidence will not establish a violation” of Apple patent rights, the staff, which acts on behalf of the public as a third party in the case, said in a pre-hearing memo released yesterday.
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Apple will introduce support for iTunes LP and iTunes Extras formated content on the new Apple TV, but hasn’t committed to a release date as yet, the latest note from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, explains.
Apple has lured Warner Music Group’s head of digital legal affairs, Elliot Peters, to leave the music label to join Apple’s iTunes team.
Based in Luxembourg, Peters will become Apple’s corporate attorney director for iTunes Europe and Internet services, Billboard reports. His job will be to manage the European legal team for iTunes and MobileMe service.
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Here’s a funny: Sesame Street’s parody of Apple’s famed ‘There’s an App for that’ marketing schtick.
For example, “If you want to comb your cat…there’s an app for that!”
Funny. Cheers to Technabob.
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It doesn’t look like T-Mobile is getting the iPhone anytime soon.
Also, if you want to video chat over 3G on the iPhone 4, your options include YahooIM, Fring and Tango… or jailbreaking.
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Living eight to a room on four bunks, long shifts and tiny televisions in depersonalized common rooms, this is life at Foxconn’s iPhone factories, a fresh report informs this morning.
Below pictorial record of life in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzen, China, a place a colossal 420,000 workers call home. There’s pictures of dorm blocks and of the netting draped around these buildings to help prevent suicides at the plants. (The spate of suicides stopped in May, the report explains).
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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s iPad has seized a mighty 95 percent share of the nascent tablet market, and while competitors are swinging into action Apple already has plans to take the discussion to a whole new level as the company engages in an all-fronts fight for the future of innovation and mobility.
If you worry in case viruses appear on the more-or-less virus proof Mac platform, then worry no more — there’s a reputable and free anti-virus solution available for you today, from the security boffins over at Sophos.
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