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Apple Announces One Million Ping Users in First Two Days

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 20:30

Apple today announced that over one million users have joined Ping, the company's new social networking feature focused on music and built into iTunes 10. According to Apple, one-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 in its first...

Steve Jobs Defends New iTunes 10 Icon Against Criticism

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 14:58

With the release of iTunes 10 on Wednesday, Apple has revamped the application's icon for the first time in many years, doing away with the traditional design of music notes on top of a CD. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the change at Wednesd...

Apple Adds Showtimes to Movie Trailer Site

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 14:20

Macworld reports that Apple has added listings of showtimes to its movie trailer site, offering a slick HTML5 interface that utilizes geo-location to find theaters in your area.

When you visit the page, your Web browser will a...

Apple Removes Custom Ringtone Creation in iTunes 10

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 14:05

Apple's former custom ringtone editor, no longer present in iTunes 10
As noted by Mac|Life, iTunes 10 appears to be lacking the ability to create ringtones from songs purchased from the iTunes Store. The feature had allowed users to s...

Apple Reportedly Looking to Push Monthly iPad Production to 3 Million

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 11:43

According to a new research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, Apple's manufacturing partners are now pushing out two million iPads per month, with Apple urging them to boost production to thr...

iOS Passes Linux to Become Third-Most Popular Internet Browsing Platform

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 09:37

As noted by Computerworld, Internet research firm Net Applications has calculated that Apple's iOS has passed Linux to become the third-most popular Internet platform, surpassing Linux to trail only Windows and Mac OS X. According to Net App...

Apple Details Features in iOS 4.2 for iPad

Fri, 2010/09/03 - 05:02

Apple has posted a dedicated page detailing the new features coming to the iPad in November. iOS 4.2 is the unifying release that finally brings the iPad and iPhone in feature sync. The iPad was originally launched with iOS 3.2 and has sin...

Apple-Facebook Controversy Over Ping Rooted in API Usage, Feature May Return

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 17:00

Earlier today, we reported on confusion surrounding the brief appearance of Facebook Connect functionality in iTunes 10's "Ping" social networking feature that initially appeared to allow users to find friends by checking their Facebook conta...

Apple Confirms No Software Update for Original Apple TV

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 16:14

Included in a nice overview of Apple's new iPods and Apple TV from Ars Technica is confirmation that users of Apple's earlier Apple TV models will not be receiving a software upgrade to enable Netflix streaming and other software features of ...

Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H535 to Developers

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 15:09

Apple continues its trend of weekly releases of Mac OS X 10.6.5 developer builds today by pushing Build 10H535 to registered developers. The release marks an increment of four builds since last week's re...

Spammers Already Taking Aim at Apple's Ping

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 14:50

It's been less than 24 hours since Apple released iTunes 10 and its integrated social networking functionality, Ping, but spammers and scammers are already starting to spread their messages via the service. The first major instance appears t...

Fourth-Generation iPod Touch Teardown Photos Posted by FCC

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 12:42

Engadget notes that Apple's new iPod touch introduced yesterday has appeared on the website of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Along with other standard information on radiation emissions required by the FCC for approval, t...

Confusion Over Facebook's Brief Appearance in Ping for iTunes

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 10:26

Screenshot from Follow Music and People with Ping video tutorial
With yesterday's release of iTunes 10, Apple also deployed a new music-focused social network feature known as Ping. When it initially launched yesterday, users creating...

Twitter for iPad Offers a Fresh New Interface

Thu, 2010/09/02 - 01:59
Tonight Twitter released a new update to their popular Twitter application that makes it a Universal app with native support for the iPad's large display. While native support has been a long requested feature for the official Twitter app, the compa...

Apple Posts September Media Event Video Stream in Multiple Formats

Wed, 2010/09/01 - 23:20

Apple has posted the full stream for today's Media event. While the stream had been available for Mac OS X 10.6 and iOS users immediately after the broadcast, it is now provided in multiple formats that can be viewed cross platform on both ...

iTunes 10 Now Available to Download

Wed, 2010/09/01 - 22:00

Apple has finally posted the iTunes 10 release for download. iTunes 10 was introduced today during the keynote event. The new version of the media management application features a streamlined interface and a new networking feature called P...

Apple's New iPod Touch and iPod Nano Commercials

Wed, 2010/09/01 - 17:00
During today's media event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new commercials, one each for the new iPod touch and iPod nano. Apple has now posted the commercials to its product-specific sites, as well as its YouTube page.


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Notes and Observations about Apple's iPod and Apple TV Announcements

Wed, 2010/09/01 - 14:59

Apple hosted their media event today and announced a number of new products and updates. For a summary of those announcements, see our previous coverage:

- Apple Announces All New iPod Models: Shuffle, Nano, and Touch
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Apple Announces All-New iPod Models: Shuffle, Nano and Touch

Wed, 2010/09/01 - 14:46

Along with announcing iOS 4.1 and the forthcoming iOS 4.2 for the iPad, Apple announced all-new iPod models at today's keynote event.

The new iPod shuffle will see the return of buttons and will still include the VoiceOver fea...

Apple Introduces Updated Apple TV with Netflix Integration, TV Show Rentals

Wed, 2010/09/01 - 14:43

As hinted early in the keynote with the mention of TV show rentals, Steve Jobs today announced the second generation of Apple TV hardware, a significant redesign for the device. At one-fourth the size of the original Apple TV, the new device ...