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Apple Addresses iBooks Textbook Issues with App Update
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 7:27 PM - by Jeff Gamet
Apple released iBooks 2.0.1 for the iPhone and iPad on Friday to address a problem where some iBooks textbooks failed to open.
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3 Free Panorama Apps for iPhone
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 5:30 PM - by Vern Seward with 3 comments
Want to shoot panoramas? With your iPhone? You’re in luck! This week in Free on iTunes Vern Seward takes a look at three free apps that will get you shooting pans like a pro. PanoStitcher, PanoMinute, and TourWrist.
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Apple Clarifies iBooks Author EULA, Excludes Claim on Content
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 4:26 PM - by Bryan Chaffin with 2 comments
Apple changed the wording on the iBooks Author end user license agreement (EULA), clarifying the company’s restrictions on what can be done with content created with the software. The clarification specifies that Apple is restricting what can be done with the company’s proprietary .ibooks files, and is not claiming the content.
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Germany Overturns Injunction, Apple Resumes iPhone Sales
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 10:55 AM - by Jeff Gamet
In what’s turning out to be a day dominated by new of Apple and Motorola’s patent fight, Apple has managed to get an injunction suspended that had blocked the sale of the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 2 with 3G support in Germany. Apple pulled the devices from its online store in Germany earlier in the day to comply with the injunction.
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Reader Discussion: Apple, iPhones & NFC
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 10:25 AM - by Jeff Gamet
Apple hasn’t jumped onboard with wireless NFC credit card payment support with the iPhone yet, but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t planning on adding the feature in future models. Today TMO readers are talking about how Apple could implement NFC and credit card payment support with the iPhone and how Siri voice control could fit into those plans, too.
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German Court Gives Motorola iCloud Injunction
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 9:47 AM - by Jeff Gamet
The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled on Friday that the push email service in iCloud and MobileMe infringes on Motorola Mobility patents and awarded the company an injunction blocking Apple from using the feature, as well as blocking any devices that take advantage of the feature. Assuming Motorola chooses to act on the injunction, Apple would have to stop offering push email service through iCloud and MobileMe in Germany.
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Motorola Ruling Halts Some iPhone Sales in Germany
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 9:02 AM - by Jeff Gamet
Apple has stopped selling the iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 through its online store in Germany following a ruling that the company is violating wireless communication patents owned by Motorola. Apple’s online store also stopped sales of the iPad 2 with 3G support.
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IDC: Apple Overtakes LG as #3 Global Mobile Phone Vendor
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 5:23 PM - by Bryan Chaffin with 2 comments
Apple overtook LG Electronics in the 4th quarter of 2011 to become the world’s third largest mobile handset, according to research firm IDC. In a report released Thursday, IDC said that Apple grew its December quarter shipments 128% year-over-year, while LG’s shipments declined by more than 42%, allowing Apple to slip past the Korean consumer electronics firm.
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Avid Releases Video Editor for iPad
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 11:47 AM - by Jeff Gamet with 1 comment
Avid released its Avid Studio video editing app for the iPad on Thursday. Along with video editing, the app includes animation support along with several effects.
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Analyst: iPhone 5 Coming in June at WWDC
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 11:22 AM - by Jeff Gamet with 12 comments
Apple may be planning on introducing the iPhone5 during its annual World Wide Developer Conference this year, according to Daiwa Securities. The firm goes on to say that Apple will host the event in June even though an official announcement hasn’t been made yet.
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Germany Rejects Apple Injunction for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 5:31 PM - by Bryan Chaffin with 2 comments
Apple lost a request for a preliminary injunction in Germany against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Wednesday after a German court ruled that the patent being asserted by Apple is likely to be found invalid.
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Apple Appeals China’s iPad Trademark Rejection
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 9:19 AM - by Jeff Gamet with 1 comment
Apple has filed an appeal with the courts in China in hopes of overturning a December ruling that gave the iPad trademark to display maker Proview Technology. The court ruled against Apple after Proview claimed it hadn’t been involved in the negotiations to transfer the iPad name rights when Apple arranged the deal in 2010.
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Neil Young: Jobs’s Death Slowed Apple’s High-Def Music Efforts
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 10:58 PM - by Julie Kuehl with 10 comments
The death of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs has slowed Apple’s efforts to move online music to high-def, according to rock legend Neil Young. During News Corp.’s D: Dive Into Media event on Tuesday, the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Famer said he had been in discussion with Apple, including Steve Jobs personally, about improving the quality of digital music.
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The iPhone Cases of Macworld|iWorld 2012
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 4:36 PM - by Nancy Gravley with 1 comment
Nancy Carroll Gravley takes a look at some of the iPhone 4/4s cases that were on display at Macworld | iWorld. They vary from the minimilist to the exotic.
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Germany Upholds Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet Ban
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 10:44 AM - by Jeff Gamet with 2 comments
Samsung took another kick in the pants on Tuesday when a German court ruled to uphold a sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablets. Unlike the original appeals court ruling that banned the tablets because they matched the design of Apple’s iPad too closely, the higher court based its ruling on German unfair competition laws.
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Apple’s iBooks 2 Gives a Bright Future to Home Schooling
Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 1:17 PM - by Jeff Butts with 8 comments
Apple’s “reinvention” of the textbook has created a buzz throughout education, as educators and journalists alike try to predict what impact iBooks 2’s interactive textbooks might have on K-12 public and private schools. What hasn’t really been covered yet (outside the outlets covering home schooling), is what impact the new interactive textbooks might have on the growing number of home schoolers.
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Analyst: China iPhone Sales May Top 40M in 2013
Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 10:41 AM - by Jeff Gamet
Apple could sell as many as 40 million iPhones in China alone in 2013, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty. Part of that sales figure assumes Apple will add China Telecom and China Mobile to its partner list, Currently, China Unicom is Apple’s only iPhone partner in the country.
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Microsoft Money Buys Wisconsin Schools iPads
Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 9:11 AM - by Jeff Gamet
The Madison school district in Wisconsin is buying 1,400 iPads for its classrooms, and the cash to land the deal is coming from a settlement with Microsoft. The district is starting by distributing 600 iPads among students and teachers and plans to add another 800 iPads by next fall.
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Kudos Power Charges Your iPhone without Wires
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at 7:35 PM - by John F. Braun with 2 comments
John F. Braun spent the past few days scouring the expo floor at Macworld|iWorld and one of the many products that caught his eye was the Kudos Power Wireless Charging Power Kit, a system that charges your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S by using wireless induction technology.
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Hub Innovations Shows Stylish Anvil Stand for iPad
Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 7:02 PM - by Bryan Chaffin with 2 comments
SAN FRANCISCO - Hub Innovationsw was showing several new products at this year’s Macworld|iWorld show, but the one that caught out eye the most is Anvil, a very cool stand for the iPad. The device holds your iPad in either portrait or landscape mode, and it includes a stabilizer bar if you want to lean your iPad back and type on it.