Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-outs-future-traffic-plans-in-location-qa/
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Apple Outs Future Traffic Plans in Location Q&A
In its explanation of the collection of anonymized location data from iPhones, Apple provided a rare glimpse into its future plans. The company revealed it's collecting traffic data from devices, too, in order to build "an improved traffic service" for iPhone users.
Sources Confirm Apple's Purchase of iCloud.com
Earlier this week, a source reported to GigaOM that Apple has purchased the iCloud.com domain name for the sum of $4.5 million, presumably preparing to roll out its forthcoming cloud-based music service u...
Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/29/sources-confirm-apples-purchase-of-icloud-com/
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Increase music volume on the iPhone
This tip describes how to increase the volume of music on your iPhone. It actually works on all the iOS devices.
Some people want to increase the volume of their music, especially the ones living in the EU, because Apple limited the volume to about 75% (EU regulations). If you don't want to jailbreak your iPhone or you are already on 100%, the trick is to disable the equalizer.
The equalizer on the iPhone doesn't strengthen the lows or highs, it only lowers the other frequencies so that the lows (or other) seem to be louder than the other frequencies.
[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. Do this at your own risk, and please be careful with your hearing.]
Some people want to increase the volume of their music, especially the ones living in the EU, because Apple limited the volume to about 75% (EU regulations). If you don't want to jailbreak your iPhone or you are already on 100%, the trick is to disable the equalizer.
The equalizer on the iPhone doesn't strengthen the lows or highs, it only lowers the other frequencies so that the lows (or other) seem to be louder than the other frequencies.
[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. Do this at your own risk, and please be careful with your hearing.]
Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=0d351a173aabaa9062b241152b205e11
Remains of the Day: Leaky wheels get the grease
Was the iPad 2 design leaked? Seems like there's some good evidence to that fact. Elsewhere, Microsoft wants to capitalize on the success of iOS and Verizon takes its first step in admitting smartphones have a problem.
Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=2ef441f09264a22449d475964b57cfee
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The Week in iPad Cases: Deadheads and back harnesses
This week's roundup features designs destined to appeal to fans of a certain psychedelic band from the Sixties and admirers of the unique and eclectic. But, as usual, there's a little bit for everyone.
Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=2c07def9595fe5cfa5665cbb7e8beabc
Internet braces for royal wedding
As the bride climbs into her dress, the groom adjusts his cufflinks, the 1,900 invited guests arrive, and chefs make final preparations for the festivities to follow the ceremony, popular websites like YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter will be tuning their systems for a surge of wedding watchers.
In less than 24 hours, Prince William will marry Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London, England. It's the first British royal wedding in the age of the modern internet, and the monarchy promises to make it an internet-friendly event. Tomorrow's celebration will be streamed live via YouTube, and the official royal-wedding website will post status updates to Twitter and Facebook; so will about 400 million of the royal family's biggest fans, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The anticipated increase in online traffic for tomorrow's royal wedding could bring the internet to a frustratingly slow crawl and may topple some of the web's premier destinations. Matt Graves, a spokesman for Twitter.com, said his site is ready for the deluge of wow-look-at-that-dress tweets that will inevitably arrive as Kate walks down the aisle.
As seen above, Twitter posted a photo of its co-founder, Biz Stone, mounting a single Xserve labelled "Wills & Kate" in preparation for the big event. The picture prompted the not-actually-official TwitterGlobalPR account to snipe, "Rumours of Twitter needing extra servers for the Royal Wedding are greatly exaggerated. We only need one." Of course, the photo is intended as a joke -- everyone knows Twitter's infrastructure runs on the Mac mini.
Historically, major news and events have caused trouble for popular websites. Twitter, for example, displayed a boatload of fail whales after Michael Jackson died in 2009 and during the World Cup and Wimbledon in 2010. The simultaneous sporting tournaments generated the highest traffic in the internet's history when over 10 million links were clicked per minute, according to Akamai.
Will the internet survive Prince William and Kate Middleton's big day? We'll all find out at 11:00 am London time on Friday, April 29.
Internet braces for royal wedding originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/internet-braces-for-royal-wedding/
White iPhone 4 produces long lines in Beijing
The white Apple iPhone 4 made its retail debut today, and China is one market where demand is high for the long-awaited device. According to a report from Computerworld, hundreds of customers lined up outside the Apple Store in Beijing to buy the long-delayed white model.
Customers in line confirmed they passed on the black model, which launched in September 2010, and waited for the white one to make its debut. "I don't like the black color," said line-waiter Annie Zhang. "I've always been waiting for the white-colored iPhone 4."
Apple's presence in China is growing at an extraordinary rate. Apple's iPhone models account for 8.3 percent of China's smartphone market share, and sales of the iPhone in Q1 2011 grew by 250 percent year over year. The introduction of the white iPhone 4 will boost sales even higher in China, as white devices are popular there; the color white is often associated with purity and fulfillment in Chinese culture (also with funerals and mourning, but that's probably not what Apple is going for).
White iPhone 4 produces long lines in Beijing originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/white-iphone-4-produces-long-lines-in-beijing/
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Three Foxconn employees charged with leaking design of Apple's iPad 2
Local authorities in China arrested three Foxconn employees months ago, and in March officially charged them with leaking the design of Apple's iPad 2 before the device was unveiled.
Source: http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=2519761b1a87b305da1fd805241b1c86
GameFly adds social features to iOS app
The latest version of the video game service's mobile app lets users create a profile and follow other like-minded gamers.
Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=b2dd2ed44ef39808719244a7c4fca843
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Apps help you follow Endeavour's last mission
Scholle Sawyer McFarland is in Florida as part of the NASA Tweetup to view the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour this Friday. She asked her fellow attendees for some of their favorite shuttle-related apps. Here's what they came up with.
Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=9190113bbc19576bbac85aa2b3235092
Tapose hopes to bring MS Courier two-pane style to iPad
Tapose (Tap-o-SAY) is a project to bring the best ideas of Microsoft's defunct but intriguing dual-screen Courier project and incorporate them into an app for the iPad (and perhaps later for Android tablets) that mimics both the Courier's free-form writing support as well as its two-pane interface. Using the iPad in landscape mode, the proposed app would split the screen, allowing users to run two apps side-by-side: for example, the Camera Roll on one side and Mail on the other, making it easy to drag-and-drop photos as attachments....
Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=2103826ff8ed91b30edad6f80576e07e
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
YouTube seals deals with major studios to compete with iTunes
Earlier this week, Google and YouTube reportedly closed deals with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Universal and Lionsgate to offer filmed content from these studios as streaming rentals -- including access to new releases the same day as competing movie-on-demand services. YouTube's new service is expected to compete with market leaders in the online video rental market: Apple and Amazon.
In an effort to generate revenue with professionally produced content, YouTube began offering premium video rentals on its website about a year ago, starting with a limited number of films from the Sundance Film Festival, Weinstein Co. and MGM. But the Google subsidiary has struggled to transform its 130 million monthly users into a sizable audience for its paid and ad-supported feature films. This week's licensing agreements that expand YouTube's library of rental titles may help more customers see value in paying the website for access to Hollywood films and make it a more competitive rival to Apple's iTunes and Amazon's Instant Video services.
Google isn't the only big brand making big moves in the streaming video business. According to The Hollywood Reporter, both DirecTV and Dish Network are exploring subscription streaming service businesses to challenge Netflix and iTunes. Meanwhile, cable television provider Comcast is trying to negotiate deals to offer premium video-on-demand options that would allow cable subscribers to enjoy new movies only 6-8 weeks after their theatrical release dates.
YouTube seals deals with major studios to compete with iTunes originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/27/youtube-seals-deals-with-major-studios-to-compete-with-itunes/
Verizon iPhone Surge Yields First Slip in Android U.S. Sales Share in Two Years
Market research firm NPD today announced the results of its "Mobile Phone Track" survey for the first quarter of 2011, covering U.S. mobile phone sales. According to the study, Apple rode the strength of the CDMA iPhone launch on Verizon to ...
Developer notes Apple testing iOS 5.0 internally with third party apps
A third party iOS developer notes having received a crash report from a system running iOS 5.0, indicating that Apple is internally testing the new system using third party apps.
Source: http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=c853bca283c6f15b947e92e0bbbee483
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Steve Jobs outlines Apple's efforts to clarify iPhone location tracking issue
In an interview with Wall Street Journal blogger Ina Fried, Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs explained the steps his company took to respond to the explosion of interest in reports concerning how iOS devices use location services.
Source: http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=fd1bcc238b80ade69b0b6ca3eef4214b
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