Apple Reportedly Disrupting iPhone Competitors With Legal Threats Backed Up by HTC Suit

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:42:00 EST

Fortune reports on a new research note from Oppenhiemer & Co.'s Yair Reiner claiming that Apple in January began high-level talks with major phone manufacturers expressing its displeasure with what it con...

iPhone Developer Agreement Revealed by Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:57:15 EST

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday announced that it had obtained a copy of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and published it for public consumption. While the contents of the license agreement, which govern...

Apple Releases iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 for iPad

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:21:12 EST

Apple today released iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 via the iPhone Dev Center, offering developers updated tools for building applications for the iPad. The last update to the SDK was issued two weeks ago, continuing a trend of biweekly revisions.

MacHeist nanoBundle: 8 Mac Apps for $19.95 [Updated]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:03 EST

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including:

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FileMaker Pro 11 Brings Streamlined Database Creation With New Reporting and Collaboration Features

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:15:49 EST

Apple subsidiary FileMaker today announced the release of FileMaker Pro 11, the latest version of its popular database application. The updated version brings several new features, as well as streamlined...

Gruber: No 'Widget Mode' for Minor Applications on iPad

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:47:00 EST

Last month, speculation that a number of minor iPhone applications such as Stocks, Weather, Voice Memo, Clock, and Calculator "missing" from the iPad could reappear in some sort of "widget mode" similar t...

Valve Officially Announces Steam and Game Library Coming to Mac in April

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:39:35 EST

Valve Software today officially announced that it is bringing its Steam game distribution platform, as well as its own library of games, to Mac OS X next month.

Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team ...

Apple Cracking Down on "Cookie Cutter" App Store Applications?

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:38:42 EST

TechCrunch discusses a picture that is being pieced together from reports from App Store developers suggesting that Apple is looking to crack down on "cookie cutter" iPhone applications that offer little...

Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video Posted]

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:58:51 EST

Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju:

The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap, going through the various features (iBook...

Valve's Portal 2 Confirmed for Mac

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:15:04 EST

After Valve's series of teaser images, it's now been revealed that their upcoming sequel Portal 2 will also be coming to the Mac. The above image comes from a series of scans from the latest issue of Gameinformer magazine which carries a cov...

According to Jobs: No iPhone-to-iPad Tethering, 10 Hour Battery Life Reaffirmed

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:39:22 EST

Swedish site Slashat.se reportedly emailed Steve Jobs asking the simple question "Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?" Steve Jobs' reply was a simple "no" and was sent from his iPhone.

Tethering is t...

iPad Poised to Grab Significant Portion of e-Reader Market

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:51:59 EST

Last week, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky released the results of a survey showing pent-up demand for the iPad exceeding that of the original iPhone, highest customer demand for low-capacity Wi-Fi-only and high-capacity 3G-enabled ...

Slight iPad Shipping Delay Due to Software, Not Hardware?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:15:05 EST

Daring Fireball's John Gruber claims to have heard from his sources that the slight shipping delay (about a week in the U.S. and on the order of a month in the first batch of international markets) for the Wi-Fi iPad is due not to hardware pr...

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D567 to Developers

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:43:39 EST

Apple today seeded yet another version of Mac OS X 10.6.3, termed Build 10D567, to developers. iPhone in Canada offers some details on the new version, which has seen only minor refinements as development appears to be wrapping up. Develope...

Apple Patent Application Reveals Flexible Integration of Advertising Viewing in Video Files

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:48:49 EST

Patently Apple points to an interesting Apple patent application published yesterday describing methods of incorporating commercials into video content such that viewing of the commercials interspersed throughout the video presentation would ...

Apple Announces April 3rd Launch Date for Wi-Fi iPad in the U.S.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:48 EST

Apple today announced that Wi-Fi models of the iPad will go on sale in the United States on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models in the U.S., as well as both Wi-Fi and 3G models for a number of other countries, will be available in late Ap...

Apple Seeking to Stimulate Mac Development With $99 Mac Dev Program

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:06:15 EST

After a brief outage on Thursday, Apple's developer site returned with a dramatically restructured developer program for the Mac that is modeled after the $99/year iPhone developer program:

"Modeled after the highly successful...

Sony Preparing New Handheld Devices to Take On Apple

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:07:36 EST

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on Sony's plans to develop a new lineup of handheld devices to compete against Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Threatened by A...

Fortune Again Names Apple World's Most Admired Company

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:30:19 EST

In the 2010 edition of its annual ranking of "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune placed Apple at the top of the list for the third year in a row and by the highest margin ever in the survey's ten-year history. Apple was followed in the...

More Analyst Claims of iPad Production Delays Surface

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:34:46 EST

The Wall Street Journal reports on a new note from research firm ThinkEquity claiming that the Apple's manufacturing partners in Taiwan are in fact experiencing delays in ramping up iPad production ahead ...

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