Apple 13″ MacBook Pro

Apple 13″ MacBook Pro

MacBook, salah satu laptop terbaik milik Apple, telah mengalami pemangkasan yang cukup besar tahun lalu dan Apple telah melakukan yang terbaik untuk mengganti pemangkasan tersebut. Seri MacBook ini memiliki bahan aluminium, layar LED dari kaca, dan trackpads multitouch. Untuk memasuki seri Pro, MacBook ini memiliki fitur seperti FireWire port, sebuah slot SD card, keyboard yang menyala, dan jangka waktu baterai yang lebih lama dari jenis-jenis sebelumnya.

New Information on the Apple iPad 2

The first whispers of the Apple iPad 2 are here, with a number of companies in the Apple supply chain confirming their involvement.  The final design has been completed, the parts are in production, and the upgrades have practically been announced.

Five companies have confirmed their involvement in the next generation iPad.  Two camera companies, Genius Electronic Optical Co Ltd and Largan Precision have confirmed they are involved, and three other companies, chip designer Wintek, battery maker Simplo, and cover manufacturer AVY Precision have also confirmed their involvement.

The main upgrades on the next gen Apple iPad are likely to be both a front and rear facing camera, an SD card slot, better display resolution, and a slimmer, lighter overall design.  News regarding the dual cameras and SD card slot have been confirmed by case design companies Shenzhen MacTop Electronics and Kodawarisan, who have obviously designed their new cases with the both of these features in mind.

The lack of connectivity on the current generation iPad was seen as a negative for many consumers, and Apple seem ready to go a little beyond the current limitations of their 30-pin connector.  However, this is still not going to be enough connectivity for some people.  Luckily however, there are a number of Android tablets now also available for people who need easy USB access.

The next generation iPad cases show the same placement for the existing mute switch and headphone port, although they also shout-down another iPad 2 rumour that has been doing the rounds.  There is no space for a second 30-pin connector on the side for landscape-style docking, a feature some people thought was going to appear on the new model.

One other report doing the rounds this week is that Apple partner Foxconn are ready to start shipping the new iPads within 100 days, which would fit with the estimated April launch that many people have been predicting over the last few weeks.

You Can Now Use Chrome To Surf Internet From Your Ipad

According to reports, Apple iPad tablet is the best device for users to surf the Internet (except Flash format).

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers at the moment. Unfortunately, because the limit of iPad to Javascript engine, it is difficult for Chrome to run directly on iPad.

People hope iPad can support Google cloud sync bookmarks, gesture control and some ChromeOS functions. Despite Apple application website provided access permission for Opera, but the influence of Opera is far from Chrome. So it is unknown whether Chrome can receive authentication. The following is the running rendering that Chrome runs in iPad.

Google Chrome In Ipad:

The Real Tab Browsing:

Tag browsing feature is almost no real manifestation in mobile portable devices. Only Opera can provide better Tab browsing.

Tab Function:

Chrome’s Speed Dial and Bookmarks feature can be fully reflected on iPad flat screen. The new functions that “add to the main dial-up interface” and “Add to bookmarks” can help users manage the common web pages easily.

iPad uses the operating system which is based on iPhoneOS, but ChromeOS is based on browser. The two features in common is more portable and practical. If we can open Chrome browser in iPad and then run ChromeOS to deal with things, it might be wonderful thing.

OLLIE Christie: UK Developer Becomes 10-Billionth-App Man

OLLIE Christie got the phone call this weekend that every app creator dreams of getting.

OLLIE Christie, a developer who runs an applications and game design company near Oxford England, was surprised with an email on his phone over the weekend that read “Mr. Christie, I’m with Apple in Cupertino, Can you call me? I have some good news to share”.  After returning the phone call, he was told that his “Paper Glider” app was the App Store’s 10 billionth download, which earned the downloader, another British resident, a $10,000 iTunes Gift card.

Christie said he was initially quite excited because he thought the message from Apple meant he was the winning downloader, and he had been watching the digital counter on Apple’s website along with millions of Apple users around the world.  He said he had just put his kids to bed when he checked his phone and after reading the message, “My heart was going pitter-patter.”

Gail Davis was the lucky winner of the $10,000 iTunes Gift card, after one of her teenage daughters downloaded Christies’ program. Davis first hung up on the caller notifying her of the win, because she assumed it was a prank call. Her daughters convinced her to call Apple and so she was eventually able to claim the prize.

Christie, whose career in copywriting, and online game development includes the “Bikini-Bounce” game, will not enjoy the $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, but he is already benefiting from a huge increase in the number of downloads because of the immense publicity Apple generated around its App store benchmark.

Davis says, "The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a genuine call. The girls were getting quite tense. They never would have forgiven me. They would have held it against me for all eternity."

Apple Ipad 2 Is Coming Soon

Release date of Apple’s iPad 2 is gradually approaching nearer (there are even reports that the gadget may be announced by the end of January).


We know Apple is going to update its iPad with a new model sometime this year. Now word on internet has it Apple will unveil second generation iPad in April with some new, exciting features. The 2nd gen iPad tablet will be a thinner and sleeker tablet, with a new screen technology which is pretty similar to iPhone 4's Retina Display. The device will have a 10-inch "super high resolution" display.

The new iPad will also feature a dual GSM / CDMA chipset produced by Qualcomm.

Other features include front and rear facing camera, and a SD card slot.

For more details on this, take a look at Techradar's report.

Iphone 5: The Next Generation Of Apple Products

iPhone 5 rumours are flying thick and fast already. Will there be a rush release to erase memories of the iPhone 4's antenna problems? Will the 5th generation iPhone deliver ultra-fast mobile internet? Will it ever end up on Verizon in the US?

Apple is expected to launch its next iPhone this summer, and new reports describe it as a "completely redesigned handset" as well as a "total rethink from a design standpoint."

To start, the iPhone 5's internals will be different - the device will run on a new, combined CDMA/GSM/UTMS chipset from Qualcomm, which will support both AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., as well as other carriers worldwide - perhaps even an expanded lineup, as would now be possible. Along with the iPad 2, this chipset change represents the transition away from Infineon as the iPhone and iPad chipset maker. Going forward, Qualcomm will make the chips for all Apple mobile devices.

The Apple company has acquired Swedish company, Polar Rose, known for its mobile face recognition technology FaceLib among other similar products.

If you're thinking about buying the iPhone 4, you'll be better off waiting for the iPhone 5 instead, as it should be coming out really soon this year.

Here are some of the expected features:

• The new iPhone 5 is expected to have Face Recognition Security so that you don't have to worry about other people stealing your phone and trying to use it... That is, unless they steal your face too.


• Video Chat on a 4G network instead of a slow 3G one
  Much nicer overall body design of the phone. It's going to be even thinner and have a shiny black piece.


• Shatter Resistant and Scratch Resistant Screen.


• The lowest model will come with 32G of space and 64G of memory. I'll be able to store my whole computer on the lowest model of the iPhone 5. Yippeee for me.


• Longer Battery Life - Up to 14 Hours of Talk Time On The 3G and 7 Hours on the 4G. With 14 hours of talking to my girlfriends, I'm only going to have 10 hours to sleep.


• HD Audio - The quality of sound is going to be extra crisp.


• Built In GPS - You'll never get lost or have to download one of those stupid GPS apps.

In summary If the iPhone 5 is an evolutionary step like the move from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 3GS then we'd expect the price to stay more or less the same, although in the UK higher VAT rates may well mean a higher price tag.

Ada ada saja, Apple Sogok Gadis 13 Tahun

Seorang gadis 13 tahun asal Korea Selatan mengklaim ditawari uang oleh pihak Apple agar diam setelah gadis tersebut menuntut Apple ke pengadilan yang terkait dengan masalah iPhone 3G miliknya yang mengalami kerusakan


Tuntutan dilakukan oleh Lee Chul-ho, ayah dari gadis tersebut, dia berharap kalau mereka bisa mendapat uang sekira 294.000 Won (USD251) sebagai kompensasi, karena Apple service centre menolak untuk memperbaiki iPhone 3G tersebut, meski masih dalam masa garansi satu tahun

Pada iPhone terdapat sebuah sensor pada bagian bawahnya dimana sensor tersebut menjadi tidak berwarna apabila rusak karena air. hal inilah yang membuat Apple menolak untuk memperbaiki handphone tersebut karena sensornya mengindikasikan kerusakan karena air, tapi Lee menyangkalnya.
Lee malah mengklaim kalau Apple Korea berusaha untuk membungkam ayah dan anak tersebut dengan menawarkan kepada mereka uang sebagai pengganti ongkos perbaikan jika ia membatalkan tuduhannya dan setuju untuk tidak berbicara ke publik.


Sementara pihak Apple menyatakan kalau tindakan mereka adalah sebuah prosedur rutin, mencoba untuk berkompromi dengan pengguna sebelum dilakukannya proses hukum.
Lee Chul-ho menyangkal kalau tuntutan yang dilakukan atas nama anaknya itu hanya semata-mata untuk uang. Dia menyatakan kalau bahwa ada banyak pengguna yang dirugikan apabila berurusan dengan isu iPhone rusak karena air.

Apakah gadis Korea 13 tahun ini tenar karena iPhone akan seperti gadis korea lainnya yang bernama Kim Yeo-hee, gadis yang dijuluki 'Applegirl' ?

Sumber berita :
http://techno.okezone.com

The Pulse iPad app is pulled out ... back to the Apple App Store

Last Monday, in his WWDC keynote speech, Steve Jobs singled out an RSS reader as a demonstration of a great new app for the iPad. On Tuesday, it got pulled from the App Store. Now, it's back again.
The $3.99 app, called Pulse, is a visual RSS reader for news headlines, which renders stories from multiple sources on a clean movable mosaic. It was created by Alphonso Labs  - founded by two Stanford graduate students - in five weeks flat.

But it seems that the Times Company news organisation wasn't glad, and complained to Apple, which punctually pulled it from the store. Its complaint was based on the fact that the app was using the Nytimes.com and Boston.com free RSS feeds, reframing the content, and then charging a fee.

"We want to be clear that we are willing to work with Pulse, but only under our terms of use," Robert Christie, a spokesman for the Times Company, said in the New York Times. 

But the app is now back, with no explanation from Apple, even though there are a few theories. CNET  claims it was a mistake; All Things D says it's a new version which extracts the New York Times as a default feed.

Microsoft, HP and Adobe are preparing their offensive against Apple iPad

 
Flash Will it be the Achilles heel of Apple iPad? Roundly criticized by Steve Jobs himself, who refuses to integrate the iPad format, Adobe has released at least one video showing the future HP Tablet Slate ran it perfectly on this technology.


85% of websites and 75% of Internet videos using Flash. With Flash Player, HP Tablet Slate provides access to the entire Web, "says Alan Tam, head of marketing at Adobe Flash, which features examples of video sites, games, video clips, d 'photo albums or digital newspaper exploiting this technology.






Adobe is not the only publisher to parasitize the launch of the iPad, the marketing must begin April 3 in the United States. The U.S. webzine Engadget, for example, aired earlier this week a mysterious video revealing Courier, a concept of dual screen tablet Microsoft, close to the Booklet already announced by the Redmond company, the future Asus Eee Reader or the Nintendo DS XL.According to Engadget, this double slate could adopt the same operating system as the Zune and especially Silverlight competitor to Flash by Microsoft, whose mobile version will be unveiled in late March at the MIX conference organized by the publisher.


Despite the false start of Tablet PCs and other Smart Display, Microsoft and its partners seem in any case, determined to win the segment of touch pads, a market that could also invest in Google or Sony in the coming months ...

IPad sales top 1 million in 28 days

Apple announced that the Ipad sales reached the 1 million sales in 28 days, more than twice as the Iphone has achieved.

Apple has also indicated that users of multimedia tablet launched April 3 in U.S.A., had already downloaded 12 million applications and 1.5 million digital books.

The iPad, a tablet with touch screen 9.7 inches, is located halfway between the smartphone and laptop. According to figures provided by the group, 300,000 units were sold the day of its launch on April 3, and 500,000 during its first week marketing.
 
Particular, it allows you to read electronic books and newspapers, surf the Internet, watch movies and play video games.
 
Apple has launched Friday in the U.S. 3G version of the iPad, which offers a dual Wi-Fi and 3G, with nearly a month late arrival on the shelf Wi-Fi model
The analysts expect about five million iPad sold this year, even though the tablet is not available outside the U.S. before the end of May.
 
The Apple stock gained 0.77% to 263.10 dollars in early trading while the Nasdaq Composite Index which has risen by 0.6%.

Ipad : Lastest Apple Technology

The Ipad is a computer developed by Apple. It has a blow awning and has no keyboard, which defines it as a slate book PC type. It is advised to absorb the abandoned alcove amid the MacBook and the iPhone. The iPad was appear and presented at the Keynote of January 27, 2010.


Among the software installed by default are Safari, Mail, Photos, Video, YouTube, iPod, iTunes, AppStore, Maps, Notes, Calendar and Contacts. The application iBooks, powered by Apple, allowing the purchase and read electronic books is available for download from the AppStore soon April 3.


All applications available on the App Store, which represents about 150 000, will work with the iPad, and applications specific to the platform will be developed through the SDK. Apple also adapt its software Pages, Keynote and Numbers (formerly grouped under the iWork for Mac), which are traded separately on the App Store at a price of $ 9.99 each


The desire of Steve Jobs, Adobe Flash technology will not be incorporated into the iPad, as is the case now on the iPhone and iPod touch.


After the presentation of the iPad, the press emphasizes the rendering speed of web pages, the responsiveness of the touchscreen and the sale price of the device, considered reasonable. Among the weaknesses, journalists are the presence of a virtual keyboard and regretted the lack of camera, as well as non-support of multitasking and Flash. The webdesigner complain of resolution 1024 × 768 pixels, considered low.


Walt Mossberg believes that the iPad outwardly resembles a large iPod touch but offers more powerful, closer to the versions for the Macintosh, especially in the case of productivity applications impression shared by David Pogue, for whom name "Wholesale iPod touch does not do justice to the device .


The press revealed that the group STMicroelectronics has introduced the brand "iPad" at OHIM in 2000, while Fujitsu was filed in 2003 with the USPTO. These companies use to sell different products in the field of electronics. In January 2010, Masahiro Yamane, director of public relations division of Fujitsu, said that the mark belongs to the Japanese In March, ownership is transferred to Apple. In 2007, the trademark "iPhone" was already the subject of a dispute between Apple and Cisco, before the two companies reach an agreement to share.


The Free Software Foundation, which campaigns against the systems of digital rights management, regrets that, as in the case of the iPhone, third-party applications for the iPad are required to be licensed by Apple and distributed on its App Store. However, it allows Apple to manage applications on the App Store. Thus, the firm has already done the cleaning of the slate of the App Store by removing, for example, applications of a sexual nature or to ensure the safety of these mobile terminals (for exemption).
Walt Mossberg believes that the iPad outwardly resembles a large iPod touch but offers more powerful, closer to the versions for the Macintosh, especially in the case of productivity applications impression shared by David Pogue, for whom name "Wholesale iPod touch does not do justice to the device.

Kim Yeo-hee, Si AppleGirl

Seksi, cantik, dan bersuara menarik. Itulah ciri gadis Korea bernama Kim Yeo-hee ini. Beberapa dari kita mungkin belum terlalu mengenal siapa gadis yang dijuluki 'Applegirl' tersebut.

Kim sejatinya bukanlah artis, melainkan gadis rumahan biasa yang mujur. Hanya saja, berawal dari kecintaannya pada iPhone, ia kemudian membuat video rekamannya sendiri yang di-upload di YouTube.

Hebatnya, hanya berbekal beberapa unit iPhone, Kim dengan sempurna melantunkan beberapa hits dari Lady Gaga dan Beyonce. Ditambah lagi dengan dukungan paras cantik khas Asia serta suara merdu, videonya tersebut dengan cepat menyebar di YouTube.

Dalam sekejap ia pun menjadi buah bibir pengguna internet dunia, hingga pada akhirnya mendapat julukan 'Applegirl'. Saking populernya, dalam waktu dua bulan akun YouTube Kim langsung ramai dipadati jutaan pengunjung.

Seperti dikutip detikINET dari Wall Street Journal, Senin (14/6/2010), kini Kim dikabarkan tengah memiliki kontrak rekaman dengan sebuah label bernama Dreamhigh-Ent yang bermarkas di Seoul. Kabarnya, akhir bulan ini albumnya keluar.

Mungkin peristiwa semacam ini dapat menjadi pelajaran bagi kita. Bahwa di tengah perkembangan teknologi web 2.0, seseorang dapat dengan cepat mendapat atensi publik yang pada akhirnya bisa turut dilirik oleh industri.


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