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Jonny Evans - Apple approves streaming music, Fall iPod event looms

Wed, 30 Jun 2010

It took a month but Apple's App Store team have finally approved the music streaming iPhone/iPad app from MOG, and it could be a glimpse at the future.

The streaming music app isn't available yet, but, now that it's approved, it will launch in a few weeks. MOG will apparently cost music fans $9.99 per month for access to its entire music catalog.

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Jonny Evans - Apple seeks deals as Jobs meets big media

Tue, 29 Jun 2010

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is heading to the exclusive Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he'll press the flesh of media moguls as he continues to build out Apple's media-savvy 21st Century tech hub strategy.

Could there be more than this in the Jobs itinerary?

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Jonny Evans - Apple at risk: millions await iPhone 4 patch

Mon, 28 Jun 2010

iPhone 4 sales are spectacular, Apple confirmed this morning. An impressive 1.7 million customers put down their cold, hard cash to acquire one of the company's new smartphones.

"This is the most successful product launch in Apple's history," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO in a press statement. "Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply."

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Jonny Evans - Apple statement on iPhone 4 reception flaw

Fri, 25 Jun 2010

Apple has issued an official statement advising iPhone owners how to overcome the problem in which the device can lose signal when held by its lower left corner.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs also emailed one user to say: "Just avoid holding it that way."

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Jonny Evans - Flaws reportedly hit some Apple iPhone 4 units

Fri, 25 Jun 2010

After iPhone mania worldwide, the first series of iPhone 4 flaw reports warn of reception problems and unexpected blemishes afflicting the device.

I do not know how widespread these problems are, and note that the appearance of reports claiming such flaws is fairly typical after an Apple release.

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Michael Gartenberg - Apple's secret weapon

Fri, 25 Jun 2010

In April, Apple launched its “magical and revolutionary” new device, the iPad. Just 28 days later, it seemed the real magic was how Apple sold more than a million devices in that time period. Less than a month later Apple announced that it had sold its two millionth iPad.

Apple’s sales record here is even more impressive if you factor in that the iPad is a complete new class of device, somewhere between the phones and computers that most consumers understand. It’s also a category of device that has vexed every vendor who has tried to enter this space over the last decade.

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Jonny Evans - Revealed: Why Android beats iPhone for organised crime

Wed, 23 Jun 2010

If you need another great reason to pick up an Android phone, then hear this -- one-in-five Android apps can steal your personal data and share it around.

I'm referring to reports breaking this morning - here and here -- which claim that 20 per cent of the 48,000 apps in the Android market allow third-party apps to access your most sensitive information.

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Jonny Evans - Verizon iPhone set for 2011, fresh whispers claim

Tue, 22 Jun 2010

They've been leaning over the coffee machines and chatting in the back rooms over at Wall Street today, and whispers claim a re-run of the ever so popular iPhone for Verizon rumor.

That's right, analysts at Barclays Capital and the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch are agreeing that the signs and portents point to a Verizon Apple (AAPL) iPhone by the beginning of next year.

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Jonny Evans - What you must know for iPhone upgrade day

Mon, 21 Jun 2010

Today is iPhone (and iPod touch) software update day, as Apple should introduce iOS 4.0 later on today.

The company often pushes out its iPhone patches at 10am PDT. UPDATE: It is available right now.  iOS Firmware has links to the latest builds for direct download.

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Jonny Evans - Palm doesn't know what's holding up Flash for WebOS

Fri, 18 Jun 2010

Now Palm says it has no idea why Adobe hasn't offered any signs of preparing to port Flash to webOS, during an AT&T seminar yesterday.

That's strange as we know Adobe demonstrated a Flash Player for webOS on February 17, 2010.

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Jonny Evans - Quark versus Adobe as publisher to the iPad

Thu, 17 Jun 2010

The iPad is doing for publishing what the iPod did for music players -- bringing digital technology to the masses -- and Quark has a plan to take the fight to Adobe once again as both struggle for the future of publishing as we head to the clouds.

While the company won't say anything directly, it is clear that Quark believes Adobe's clear preference that its customers use its very own Flash platform for digital content and enhanced solutions for tablets and other devices is in fact a big, big chance for Quark to regain lost ground.

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Jonny Evans - AT&T-botched iPhone 4 launch - an Apple nightmare

Wed, 16 Jun 2010

Apple may have sold out on its first run of pre-order-ready iPhone 4 units, and demand may be ten times higher than for any previous model, but that's no excuse for AT&T's seeming complacency.

That could be harsh, and it is only a personal opinion, but take a look:

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Jonny Evans - Apple invades the den with HDMI-ready new Mac mini

Tue, 15 Jun 2010

Sure, it costs around $100 more than the last edition, but Apple's newly-introduced Mac mini gives the company another angle on its front room play -- it comes equipped with an HDMI slot -- and is available today.

This means Apple has a Mac that's designed to play nice with your HDTV -- that the company shipped the product on the same day as the iPhone 4 is being made available for pre-order internationally underlines the way it continues to experiment with convergence culture.

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Jonny Evans - The Android star is rising, how will Apple respond?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010

Apple (AAPL) executives will be taking a look at this morning's newly-published Quantcast May market share data with interest.

The figures detail mobile Web consumption by operating system across May, 2010. They confirm -- as if such confirmation were required -- that the smartphone war is between two clear leaders, Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

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Jonny Evans - WWDC: Chrome shows us Apple's cloudy Mac future

Fri, 11 Jun 2010

He's right, of course. Apple's iOS 4 is part of the evolution of the new age.

In future, applications along with the majority of your computing experience will be hosted in the cloud and available to you across a plethora of devices.

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Jonny Evans - Will iPhone lose YouTube in Apple v Google war?

Thu, 10 Jun 2010

Just how dirty will the war between Apple and Google get? Will Google respond to Apple's iOS iAds lock-out by locking Apple's people out of YouTube?

Once upon a time when they were friends, Apple's Steve Jobs and Google boss Eric Schmidt would share grins and handshakes and secrets. They had a 'special' relationship.

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Jonny Evans - Samsung mobile devices use iPad and iPhone chips, analyst claims

Tue, 08 Jun 2010

After the WWDC keynote, the mobile industry plot thickens on reports this morning claiming Samsung is fielding exactly the same ARM-based processor as Apple does inside its new crop of mobile devices.

We learned last week that Samsung is making a tablet based on the same processor as used within the iPhone, but we hadn't been told it was an exact copy of the processor.

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Jonny Evans - WWDC 2010: Live Blog

Mon, 07 Jun 2010

We're picking up on what happens and popping it in one place here for your edification. Scroll down for the latest news.

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Jonny Evans - WWDC: 6 funny iPad videos while you wait for WWDC

Mon, 07 Jun 2010

With everyone watching and waiting for WWDC news later today, I thought it might be fun to post a small collection of all those viral iPad videos which have been popping up all over the internet in the last few weeks.

Some readers may also want a look all the emerging speculation on Apple's Magic Trackpad and the future of the Mac user interface...

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Jonny Evans - How Apple can transform Foxconn's iPhone factories

Fri, 04 Jun 2010

The wave of suicides among workers at Apple partner Foxconn cannot be  excused by shallow comparisons of meaningless statistics -- not when a company has become as central to the public eye as Apple is today.

Apple leads the online news agenda online in a big, big way. Twitter discussions about Apple accounted for an astonishing 51 per cent of Twitter links posted in the week May 24-28.

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Jonny Evans - Google gets a little evil in iPhone v. Android

Thu, 03 Jun 2010

What would you think if your local supermarket gave the best shelf space to own-brand products chosen by itself?

What if when you went down the coffee aisle, you found loads of coffees from the supermarket, many more from its biggest competitor, but all the other coffees were made available on a shelf you had to stoop down to see?

Well, that's how I see one recent move by search giant, Google, to offer links to Android and iPhone apps at the top of its mobile search results.

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Simon Jary - The Software Graveyard

Thu, 03 Jun 2010

Could you live without your iLife applications (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, etc)? How about Apple’s iTunes? Microsoft’s Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc? Adobe InDesign? God forbid, Adobe Photoshop? These programs are our daily tools – more important, dare I say it, than the operating system we use them on.

There are ready and able alternatives for the majority of the above, and mostly we take the death of a favourite software program in our stride. I suspect we’d be pretty disoriented and grieve at the loss for a while, but some might get angry and want to get even with whoever it was who took away their primary tool and skill base.

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Jonny Evans - WWDC: AT&T axes unlimited deal as iPhone upgrade looms

Wed, 02 Jun 2010

AT&T has introduced new deals for future iPhone users, even as Apple CEO, Steve Jobs offered some respect to the carrier for its work so far...while declining comment on claims the partners may abandon their special relationship.

These new iPhone data deals are set to come into effect on June 7, the same day as Apple's expected introduction of a new model iPhone at WWDC next week.

Spanish carrier, Telefonica, last week dropped iPhone 3G and 3GS from its available catalog as stocks ran low, suggesting new models could be with us momentarily, though not with Flash.

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Jonny Evans - Google's closing Windows kills Mac security myths

Tue, 01 Jun 2010

Despite the ongoing struggle between Apple and the search giant, Google has dumped Windows in favor of Mac and Linux systems -- underlining the inherent security weakness of a mass market OS such as Microsoft Windows.

Industry watchers have been urging larger corporate and enterprise IT shops to move away from dependence on monocultural technology infrastructure for years.

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