Apple posts five new job listings for antenna engineers
Apple posted five new job listings for antenna engineers June 23, the day before iPhone 4 launched.
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Pornographers next to dump Flash for HTML5
Apple is finding an unlikely ally in its efforts to support HTML5 in preference to Adobe Flash as the platform for dynamic web content: pornographers.
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Apple: don't forget to pick up your iPhone 4
Customers who reserved iPhone 4 at their nearby Apple retail store received an email reminder today to actually pickup their new phone on Thursday, along with an apology for any pricing issues that might have been involved in the AT&T authorization meltdown last week.
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Apple begins shipping early iPhone 4 orders
The first batch of iPhone 4 deliveries are now in transit from China, with Apple sending FedEx notifications indicating a June 24 delivery date.
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Inside Apple's new Xcode 4 development tool
At WWDC, Apple treated its Mac OS X and iOS programmers to a preview of its entirely revised Xcode 4 integrated development environment. Here's a look at what's new and how it matters for end users.
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First look: Apple's new unibody Mac mini
Apple's new aluminum unibody Mac mini retains its role as the company's low price, compact PC and server while adding HDMI output and support for Secure Digital Extended Capacity flash memory cards with higher speeds and capacities (more than 32GB).
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Inside Apple's iOS 4: new feature parity with Snow Leopard
Apple's iOS 4 features the biggest foundational leap for developers since the company first opened up iPhone OS 2.0 to development, now catching up to the core features of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Apple to launch new Find My Phone app, MobileMe updates
Apple's MobileMe site is reporting that the system will undergo scheduled maintenance from 10PM PDT to Midnight tonight, Thursday June 17. The site is expected to reopen tomorrow with a finalized Mail update (now in beta), other interface improvements, and alongside a new iOS app that exposes "Find My iPhone" functions for the company's mobile users.
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Apple posts WWDC session videos to iTunes U (u)
Apple has made more than 100 individual sessions filmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference available to developers via iTunes U, for free.
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Verizon corrects Droid X ad error touting 720p screen
A Verizon Wireless web promo for its Droid-branded Android phones originally promoted the upcoming Droid X as having a "720p screen," stoking some brief excitement that iPhone 4 and its Retina Display might be eclipsed, at least until the error was corrected.
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Unibody 2010 Mac mini gets iFixit teardown
Apple's new 2010 Mac mini is wider (7.7 inches square, just like the existing Apple TV) but significantly thinner (just 1.4 inches thick) and easier to take apart than previous models.
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Apple's new iOS 4 Game Center goes live for developers
Apple's Game Center in iOS 4 is now enabling user logins for the first time since the company began distributing the app with developer builds of the next OS for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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AT&T sends out iPad 3G email leak acknowledgment
Following the web attack that enabled black hat hackers to obtain a list of private email addresses of its iPad 3G subscribers, AT&T has mailed out a vaguely apologetic acknowledgment of the event explaining what happened.
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Microsoft store to face off against Apple iPhone 4 launch
Microsoft is opening its fourth retail store in San Diego's Fashion Valley Mall, not just a few doors down from an Apple Store, but also on June 24, the launch day of iPhone 4.
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Apple relaxes iOS SDK terms to allow Lua but block Flash
Apple's iOS SDK rules for iPhone developers have relaxed the restriction of section 3.3.2 pertaining to interpreted code, enabling Apple to forbid Flash and other middleware platforms while still enabling popular game engines and libraries.
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Adobe releases Flash Player 10.1 for Mac
Adobe has declared its 10.1 release of Flash Player a Golden Master and is now serving it as the default Flash Player download after more than six months of beta testing.
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Apple creates dev app to monitor App Store sales
Apple has released a new app for developers called iTunes Connect Mobile to allow them to monitor their App Store sales on the go.
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AT&T website hack leaks iPad 3G user emails [u]
Black hat hackers have exploited a security flaw on AT&T's web servers which enabled them to obtain email addresses from the SIM card addresses of iPad 3G users. (Updated with statement from AT&T)
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Apple iAd plans to eat up half the mobile ad market
Apple will launch its iAd mobile advertising program July 1 on iPhone and iPod touch devices running the new iOS 4. Based on the estimated size of the market, the company says it will take nearly a 50% share of mobile ads in the second half of 2010.
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Expensive malware appears for Microsoft's Windows Mobile
Malware embedded into legitimate-looking games designed for Windows Mobile has appeared, automatically dialing up foreign telephone services to ring up hundreds of dollars in illicit charges for users behind their backs.
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Google Music planned as iTunes for Android, may kill DoubleTwist
Google plans to create a music service for Android that will finally allow its users to download media directly from their phones, similar to the Wi-Fi iTunes Apple launched in 2007.
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Microsoft CEO hopes to reenter phone market, disputes PC shift
At All Things Digital, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer admitted having fallen behind in the mobile business, but expressed a hope of reentering the market with its upcoming products. He also took issue with comments by Steve Jobs on the shift away from PCs.
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Nielsen: iPhone users download the most mobile apps by far
In its "State of Mobile Apps," Nielsen Wire notes that apps are dramatically drawing users to smartphones, and that Apple's lead in apps is vast.
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Microsoft hopes to triple iPhone's launch with Windows Phone 7
In 2007, Steve Jobs set a big goal for Apple in launching the iPhone: 10 million phones sold in 2008. Microsoft is now setting the goal of selling 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices by the end of 2011.
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Apple's iPad big in Japan
The launch of Apple's iPad in Asia is "generating a level of hype and excitement rarely seen these days for a new electronics product in this gadget-loving nation," according to reports from Japan on today's launch.
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