iPhone goes to China
The Apple iPhone is slowly spreading its wings all over. After the launch of iPhone in the US, UK and Germany its now time for China to get the iPhone or atleast IDG news thinks so. Ofcourse there have been rumors regarding the availability of iPhone’s in Canada as well. While Apple has already announced that it will sell iPhone’s in Asia starting mid 2008, no formalized partners or locations have been discussed. Here is what the article says : China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the... Read The Rest →
Zune 2 Launched – Ordering Process Unveiled
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Zune Originals . Users who order from the Zune Originals site will be able to customize their Zune with Laser Engraving on the back of their Zunes. A series of 27 artworks from the “Artist” series will cover the entire Zune. Alternatively, a series of 20 artworks from the “Tattoo” series will allow for up-to 3 lines of text. Finally, without images, you are allowed a maximum of 5 lines of text. All this right behind the back of your Zune. This offer... Read The Rest →
Apple Releases iPhone 1.1.2 Update
The Cat and Mouse game is on, and this time its Apple that’s got the upper hand over the Hackers. Apple has just released the firmware update to Apple iPhone. The latest firmware version is 1.1.2. The iPod hasn’t got a firmware update as yet, and it looks like Touch users will have to wait for some time. You can download the ipsw file directly from Apple or upgrade straight in iTunes. The documentation is available on the Apple Site here. Preliminary reports from people who have upgraded to the... Read The Rest →
Apple Sells 2 Million Copies of Leopard in its first Week
Apple on Tuesday said that it has sold over 2 Million copies of Mac OSX Leopard in its first week since its launch worldwide on October 26th. The release of Leopard has outpaced not only Mac OSX Tiger which was best selling OS from Apple in its History, but has also outpaced Rival Windows Vista. Sales included the ones from Apple Retail Stores, Authorised Apple Resellers, copies that came bundled with new Macs. In comparison it took nearly 6 Weeks for Tiger to reach the same milestone. If Steve Jobs... Read The Rest →
Are you a Java Developer? Then Don't Use Leopard!
Mac OSX Leopard has definitely been one of the best OS launches we have seen in years, but surely it didn’t come without its share of problems. Leopard users have had one major problem of Blue Screens popping out for some users and now the Java developers are having troubles getting Java to work with Apple’s latest OS. Following the release of Leopard on Friday the 26th of October, early users of Leopard complained of problems with Java on the system. The problem apparently is with the code that’s been... Read The Rest →
New Leopard Drivers Hint at New Macs
Things are going pretty fast for Apple ever since Leopard came out 3 days ago. The latest of the rumors to hit the internet is that, Apple is going to launch new Macbooks pretty soon. If you ask me the reason for this, then its pretty much simple, Apple has bundled the drivers for Intel’s GMA X3100 chipset into Leopard, that clearly suggests that Apple definitely has new Macs in the offing with Intel’s GMA X3100 on it. Apple has included a full set of recent drivers for Intel’s GMA... Read The Rest →
Leopard Retail ISO Available on BitTorrent
I have to say Apple has done a brilliant job so far to prevent the retail version of Leopard from leaking on BitTorrent this long, but unfortunately they couldn’t keep things tight any longer and now we have Leopard all over the BitTorrent planet. I for one don’t own a Mac so downloading Leopard doesn’t make much sense, but I know a lot of people who want to download the Retail version thru BitTorrent and I have received over a dozen mails from people asking me where I could download... Read The Rest →
Whoa! iPod Celebrates its 6th Birthday Today
Well time flows a little too fast for Products we all love isn’t it. Well thats the same for the Apple iPod that since its launch 6 years ago has come to redefine the way we listen to our music. It was today that 6 years ago, Steve Jobs at a special event had introduced the iPod. At that point of time Apple iPod had met with a lot of criticism from a lot of people for doing something that was too silly for a company like Apple. Here are... Read The Rest →
Apple Announces a Real SDK for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Alas! Apple has finally done what we have all been craving for the past 4 months. Steve Jobs today in his usual open letter style announced the arrival of 3rd party apps to the iPhone. Well Apple plans to release a SDK(Software Development Kit) in February 2008 which is quite far away right now and I bet its got be February 26th this time around. Well this bodes well for a lot of iPhone users all over the world. For the first time you will be able to apps like... Read The Rest →
Leopard is coming on October 26th
Well finally its decided! Mac OSX Leopard will indeed launch on October 26th as was predicted by a lot of people in the blogosphere. Well it will cost you a 129$ for a single user licence and 116$ for the student licence. And those of you who are looking to purchase Mac OSX Server Edition, then hang on because it releases on the same day i.e. 26th of October. Well Leopard has been one of the most awaited Operating Systems of the year and its got over 300 new features... Read The Rest →
