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Remains of the Day: Shape up, ship out

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin

iOS devices are in the army now, Intel’s former CEO recounts his Apple misstep, and Apple’s got its work cut out for its WWDC keynote. The remainders for Friday, May 17, 2013 lead the way. Apple Mobile Devices Approved for Use on U.S. Military Networks (Bloomberg) The Pentagon has given thumbs up to iOS 6 devices on military networks, though the Defense Department is still waiting for Apple’s much anticipated “Find My Enemies” app. Paul Otellini’s Intel: Can the Company That Built the Future Survive It? (The Atlantic) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading →

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Difficult Negotiations May Prevent ‘iRadio’ Launch at WWDC

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin

Last week, we noted that Apple was still struggling to convince the major music labels to sign on to its planned streaming service, informally dubbed “iRadio”, with Sony and Warner reportedly holding out even after market leader Universal had agreed to Apple’s revised terms. In a new article highlighting how Google was able to announce its own music service ahead of Apple, The Verge notes that Apple’s desire to provide a hybrid listener experience has meant more work at the negotiating table. For starters, Google chose to offer a standard subscription music service very similar to those built by Spotify and Rdio, and that meant the terms had largely been established, according to multiple sources close to the talks. Apple, on the other hand, is pioneering a hybrid web and radio service — one that resembles Pandora but melds it with some on-demand features, the sources said. The licensing agreement had to be created from scratch. According to the report’s sources, number four music publisher BMG is also holding out against Apple’s proposed terms, and while there still appears to be significant momentum behind iRadio and a desire by many parties to get a deal done as quickly as possible, it is now looking as though Apple may not be able to launch the service at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Word of Apple’s plans for a Pandora-like service surfaced last September, with subsequent reports indicating that Apple was targeting the first quarter of this year for a launch. As negotiations continued to prove difficult, Apple shifted its focus to a summer launch , but it now appears unclear whether the company will be able to meet even that revised goal.         Continue reading →

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CW Strikes Deal with Apple to Bring Content to Apple TV

Posted on May 16, 2013 by admin

The CW has struck a deal that will bring the network’s content to the Apple TV, reports Deadline . At the company’s annual Upfront Presentation in New York today, CW president Mark Pedowitz announced that the CW’s  TV Now applications, which are currently available on Xbox 360 and Windows 8, will be coming to the Apple TV as well. “This year we’re reaching more viewers on more platforms,” said Pedowitz, speaking of the deal. “We are reaching our audience everywhere they are, and we want you to be with us everywhere we go,” he went on to say to advertisers at the event. The CW told MacRumors that the app will function similarly to the company’s Xbox and mobile apps and confirmed that it will indeed be an app located on the Apple TV’s home screen. It’s a dedicated CW app that will work like our Xbox and mobile and tablet apps – no cable authentication required, full episodes of our shows available next day after air, ad-supported. The CW’s TV Now app for the Xbox offers free full streaming episodes of network shows like The Vampire Diaries with limited advertising. The app also includes additional content like previews and cast extras. Currently, Apple sells CW content through its iTunes store. While the Apple TV offers apps and digital content from sites like Netflix and Hulu, it does not include apps from television networks. The partnership between the CW and Apple will mark the first network television app available via the Apple TV. It is unclear if the CW’s app is part of a larger initiative by Apple to bring additional apps to the Apple TV. The CW is a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS, one of the biggest U.S. broadcast networks. According to the CW, the app is set to launch in the coming weeks, though no exact release date was given.         Continue reading →

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Tim Cook Shares Details About New ‘Made in USA’ Mac Model

Posted on May 16, 2013 by admin

In his interview with Politico earlier today, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared some additional details about the new Mac model that will be manufactured in the United States when it is announced later this year. Cook said that not only will the machine be assembled in the U.S., many of the components will be sourced from suppliers in the country as well. And Cook is also promoting a $100 million investment in domestic manufacturing, where the company will begin producing a new version of a current Mac product later this year. “We’re going very deep in this project,” Cook said, noting that not only will the final product be manufactured in the U.S., but so will many of its components. Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida and Kentucky are among the states he mentioned as having parts and assembly located. Cook announced in an interview with Brian Williams last year that an existing Mac line would be manufactured exclusively in the U.S. beginning in 2013. Speculation had pointed to the Mac Pro , which is due for a significant update , though DigiTimes claimed it was Mac Mini production that would come back from overseas.         Continue reading →

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New High-Resolution Photos of iPhone 5S Parts Reveal Little

Posted on May 16, 2013 by admin

BGR shares several new relatively high-resolution photos of parts claimed to be from the iPhone 5S. These parts have been leaking to repair firms over the past several months, and a number of photos have already been seen, but the new photos do represent the highest-quality look at these parts so far. Vibrator/audio control flex cable for iPhone 5S Unfortunately, the photos reveal little about Apple’s plans for the iPhone 5S, as they are minor parts generally seeing relatively small changes compared to their corresponding iPhone 5 parts. The parts include the loud-speaker bracket, ear speaker bracket, vibrating motor assembly, Wi-Fi flex cable ribbon and SIM card tray from Apple’s upcoming seventh-generation iPhone. Part leaks claimed to be from the iPhone 5S began in January with photos of a speaker enclosure, and have continued with additional photos of the home button and volume/mute button flex cables , front camera flex cable , and nano-SIM card trays . The source of the previous SIM tray leak claimed that the trays were identical to those seen in the iPhone 5, while BGR ‘s report today claims that they are thinner. iPhone 5S nano-SIM trays Most recently, just last week an antenna-related add-on piece for the iPhone 5S logic board surfaced, although the implications of minor changes observed in the part compared to the iPhone 5 remain unknown.         Continue reading →

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Apple Announces Winner of App Store’s 50 Billionth Download Contest

Posted on May 16, 2013 by admin

Apple today announced the winner of its ” 50 Billion App Countdown ” promotion that saw the company pass that milestone on Wednesday afternoon. Word game Say the Same Thing from the band OK Go was the milestone download, with Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio making the winning download. Ashmore will will receive an iTunes Gift Card worth US$10,000. For the first time, Apple also gave the fifty downloaders after the big winner US$500 iTunes Gift Cards. “Apple would like to thank our incredible customers and developers for topping 50 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers. We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years.” Apple ran similar promotions for ten billion and twenty-five billion downloads, in January 2011 and March 2012 respectively. The App Store took just under five years to hit the fifty billion download mark, though the rate of downloads has been accelerating and is now at more than 20 billion app downloads per year.         Continue reading →

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Google Play Books for iOS Updated with Support for Uploaded Files [iOS Blog]

Posted on May 15, 2013 by admin

Google has updated its Google Play Books iOS app following its keynote address at Google I/O this morning, adding support for user uploaded PDF and ePub files. Google Play, the world’s largest eBook collection, just got bigger. Now, you can upload your own files to Google Play Books to access on Android, iOS, and the web. Whether you’re a student with a backpack full of PDF printouts or an avid reader with hundreds of pages held captive on your computer, relieve your back and start adding files today! After uploading your files, you can enjoy reading them with all the nice features available: bookmarks, highlights and notes, dictionary and more. What’s more, your reading progress, highlights etc are synced to the cloud, so if you have multiple devices, you can easily pick up reading anywhere! The Google Play Books app has also been redesigned to add a Read Now section, featuring books that have been recently purchased, upload, or read. This update also brings both stability and performance improvements. Apple has long supported the ability to upload both ePub and PDF files through iTunes so the new version of the Google Play Books app brings it up to speed with iBooks. Google Play Books is a universal app that can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [ Direct Link ]         Continue reading →

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OS X 10.8.4 Build 12E52 Seeded to Developers [Mac Blog]

Posted on May 15, 2013 by admin

As noted by 9to5Mac , Apple today seeded build 12E52 of OS X 10.8.4 to developers. The release comes seven days after the previous build 12E47 and marks the seventh beta iteration of OS X 10.8.4. As with previous beta releases, Apple continues to ask developers to focus on Wi-Fi, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. The update is available through the software update tool in the Mac App Store and  Apple’s Developer Page .         Continue reading →

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Tim Cook to Testify In Front of Senate Committee Over Apple’s Tax Practices

Posted on May 15, 2013 by admin

Apple CEO Tim Cook will testify in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation next week, Politico is reporting . The subcommittee is attached to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs . The hearing, titled ” Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code – Part 2 ” will occur at 9:30AM on Tuesday May 27th in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Subcommittee will continue its examination of the structures and methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue Code and related regulations. Witnesses will include representatives from the Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, representatives of a multinational corporation, and tax experts. Representatives from Microsoft and HP testified on September 12 on the same topic. Apple recently borrowed $17 billion in a bond offering, in part to return cash to shareholders without bringing some of its $100 billion overseas cash pile to the United States. If it were to repatriate that cash to the U.S., it would need to pay a more than $13 billion tax bill.         Continue reading →

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Google Unifies Cross-Platform Messaging Services With ‘Hangouts’

Posted on May 15, 2013 by admin

Google has unveiled a new unified messaging service that is designed to work on Android, iOS, and the web. Called Hangouts, the app incorporates and unifies several different Google services, including Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and the existing Google+ Hangouts. Today we’re launching a stand-alone version of Hangouts that combines text, photos and live video across Android, iOS and your computer. Now that Hangouts spans modalities and devices, you can finally fuhgeddaboudit (the technology, that is), and focus on what really matters: creating lasting relationships. And that, we think, is a plus. Hangouts, which is similar to Facebook Messenger , places an emphasis on “conversations which last,” saving chats between users in the cloud and allowing users to access past chats, shared photos, and video call history. The app’s interface also emphasizes conversations over contacts and supports both multimedia content and additions like emoji. According to Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundrota, detailed chat history can be toggled off. “Of course we give you the ability to delete those things,” he said. “But having the ability so save those conversations, I think is delightful and amazing.” Because Hangouts relies on Google’s cloud, both video and text chats can take place on a number of different devices and between multiple people. The app will be available today from Google Play, the App Store, and the Chrome Web Store.         Continue reading →

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