News tagged ‘айфон’
HyperMac becomes HyperJuice because of Apple's lawsuit
Today Daniel Chin, who is a president of Sanho Corporation, revealed in a press release that the company's HyperMac product line will get new brand "HyperJuice" because of a lawsuit that was filed by Apple.
"In the coming weeks, the 'HyperMac' brand name will be renamed to 'HyperJuice' as part of our ongoing comprehensive licensing negotiations with Apple regarding a wide array of technologies and issues".
iPhone Dev-Team Updates RedSn0w With Limera1n
The iPhone Dev-Team recently has released a new version of RedSn0w for Mac and Windows. RedSn0w uses the Limera1n exploit to support more devices and adds the ability to restore custom firmware ipsws. The crew promises that now RedSn0w will work with the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, iPad, iPod 2G, 3G, and 4G (Not iPod 2G-MC yet).
You can download RedSn0w 0.9.6b2 from here.
iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe
The Web is full of reports that the iPhone alarms (for all models of device) going off an hour later than usual when switched between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time. Later, we reported that firstly this problem was found out in Australia, now Europe faces with the same. So even though the iOS clock changed correctly over the weekend, the alarm is still locked to Daylight Savings Time. Apple acknowledged the bug with a promise to fix it with a software update.
MacBook Air users report about video anomalies and kernel panics
Cult Of Mac yesterday revealed that some early MacBook Air adopters have faced with kernel panics and video anomalies on their new laptops. It is assumed that they can be related to sleep/wake issues.
The discussion initially appeared on Apple's forums. Next symptoms were mentioned:
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iPhone 3GS can record HD-video
Mike Pan has successfully modified his iPhone 3GS and now it can record HD video at 1080x800px with 30 frames per second and up to 20Mbps! The original ability of this handset is 640x480px at 3 Mbps. Mike used the non-standard resolution so the video could be kept at the right aspect ratio.
So here is a short instruction how to enable HD-video recording on your iPhone 3GS with firmware 4.1 (as other firmwares haven't been tested yet):
iPod foils potential kidnapping attempt
Thanks new iPod touch, which looks enough like the iPhone 4, the girl from Stanton, Delaware, hadn’t been kidnapped. The incident happened in the past week on Wednesday, the person suspected in kidnapping attempt asked the 12-year-old girl to get into his van in front of her middle school. But the girl, instead of panicking, put her iPod against her ear and told him she was dialing 911. Believing that she was using an iPhone, the driver immediately sped off. The local authorities didn’t eventually get called (iPod touch doesn’t have call function) and are still looking for the suspect.
Ingram Micro reports about increasing business demand in iPad
Last Thursday Reuters conducted an interview with the CEO of Ingram Micro Greg Spierkl, who told that previously Apple was focused more on selling the iPad to retailers, but now the situation has changed and the company is amenable to sell the tablet devices to businesses too.
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TSA allowed to leave 11-inch MacBook Air in bag at airports
Nicholas Kimball, who is a spokesperson at Transportation Security Administration, told this week CNN that recently presented 11-inch MacBook Airs are small enough that they don't need to be removed from your bag if you're going through an X-ray machine at airport security. MacBook Pro though is still big enough and needs to be researched for the internal components.
It is unknown yet whether 13-inch MacBook Air will also get such a decision, so currently it needs to be taken out at airport security. But it may also be allowed not to be removed as 13-inch model doesn't have an optical and traditional hard drive ещщ.
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Macs Will Get USB 3.0 support later
Recently released MacBook Airs don't have USB 3.0, and there are many rumors whether Apple will ever adopt this technology and when it will happen. But this week someone named Tom Kruk asked Steve Jobs via e-mail why no Mac with USB 3.0 is still available and received an answer. Here is it:
“We don’t see USB 3 taking off at this time. No support from Intel, for example.”
So that means we can expect USB 3.0 support as soon as Intel will adopt its platform.
VLC May Disappear from the App Store
VLC is a popular media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that was ported for the iPad in September and landed on the iPhone few days ago. But now there is a chance it may disappear from the App Store. According to one of the primary VLC developers Remi Denis-Courmont, Videolan (the VLC's owner) has sent a notification of copyright infringement to Apple concerning the iOS's version of the VLS that is being distributed in the App Store.
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"Jobs At Apple" Page on Apple's Site Has Been Updated
Recently "Jobs at Apple" section on the Apple's site has been updated and now includes new jobs position, more information on the carrier possibilities at Apple retail and even a video that introduces the company's retail philosophy.
"Join us at the Apple Retail Store, the unique gathering place where people come to discover Apple products. Show your passion and expertise as you connect customers with our products and help integrate products into their lives. Be a part of our team and change the way our customers work, play, create, and communicate."
In general the section now focuses on how it is incredible to work at Apple and to be part of a company that "actually change people's lives" and "connect customers with Apple products".
Apple answered Motorola with a counter suit
As you remember, recently Motorola filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing some of the company's products in violating of patents, which are related to a range of wireless technologies, including antenna design, GPRS, 3G, 802.11 wireless. And as it was expected, Apple has now responded on that by accusing Motorola in infringing 6 patents related to multi-touch features that were first implemented in iPhone.
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iOS made Microsoft to focus on HTML5 instead of Silverlight
This week Microsoft had held its Professional Developers Conference where the company revealed its new focusing on HTML5 and slowed down its strategy for Siverlight. The core reason for that is Apple's iOS.
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Apple Releases iPhoto 9.0.1 to Address Data Loss
On Friday Apple released an update to iPhoto 9 (part of iLife’11). This update iPhoto 9.0.1 should resolve a data loss problem when upgrading from iPhoto 8 to iPhoto 9.
Shortly after the release of iPhoto '11, lots of users reported that they have problems. After upgrading users found some or all their photos disappearing. Somebody lost all or some photo libraries, data while upgrade process. iPhoto '11 also drops support for older AppleTVs and photo calendars. But Apple claims that the upgrade process is “generally safe and reliable” and recommends all download and install iPhoto software update iPhoto 9.0.1 before updating to iPhoto '11.
Google founders considered hiring Jobs as their company's CEO
New episode from the "Bloomberg Game Changers" (which is a Bloomberg documentary series) revealed an interesting moment in the history of relationship between Google and Apple. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page were looking for Google's first CEO, they considered hiring their personal "hero" Steve Jobs. They even asked their investor John Doerr:
"Why can't he be our CEO?"
Eventually in 2001 Eric Shmidt was hired as the CEO by Brin and Page. Later Schmidt was also serving on Apple's board of directors until he resigned in 2009 because of the increased competition between Apple and Google, as the latter entered the mobile operating systems market by introducing Android.
The whole episode of the Bloomberg series about Brin and Page is available