tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90421465195584889142024-10-24T01:48:30.636-07:00Apple Insights is a blog for all the people interested to know about the Apple and its products as iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes and all its apps. Its a hub all about the apple and its products. Here people can find all the latest news and updates from the apple and its products as iPad, iPhone, ipod, iTunes and all its apps.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042146519558488914.post-29576128384338106172012-07-02T09:58:00.000-07:002012-07-02T09:58:38.758-07:00

Apple injunction against Galaxy S III would give Samsung 'big problems'Apple's recent string of courtroom victories against rival Samsung are continued progress in the company's "thermonuclear war" against Android. Its next target: the latest flagship Android smartphone, Samsung's Galaxy S III.Apple initially tried to halt sales of the Galaxy S III with an injunction before it launched in the

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Ex-Apple executive Tony Fadell revealed that the company toyed with the idea of equipping the first iPhone with a physical keyboard, but ultimately settled on the intuitive multitouch design that changed the face of the game. In a Friday interview with The Verge, the former iPod guru said that Apple narrowed down the original design to three prototypes before introducing the handset in January

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Pictures of the area surrounding Apple's iCloud datacenter in Maiden, North Carolina show that progress is being made in preparing land for the company's future biogas and solar farm energy arrays. The images, captured by Wired in March and posted on Friday, show a large swath of cleared ground in front of Apple's datacenter that will presumably house the Bloom Energy fuel cells as well as 100

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Apple has shown interest in wirelessly powering and charging its portable devices, allowing products like the iPhone and iPad to be powered up while sealed in packaging and on display at a retail store. The concept was detailed this week in a new patent application discovered by AppleInsider entitled "Active Electronic Media Packaging." It describes an active packaging system that would

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Biographer Walter Isaacson has disputed Google CEO Larry Page's assertion that Steve Jobs only said disparaging remarks about its Android mobile operating system to rally his own employees. Page's comments came from an interview this week in which he said he believed Jobs's hatred of Android was merely "for show." The Google CEO suggested that the comments from Jobs served the best interests

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If you’re not familiar with the legal battle between Apple and Chinese company Proview over the trademark for the name ‘iPad’, it’s a pretty interesting read. Our latest post on the matter sums up the dispute well, but some interesting details were revealed today in an Proview press release and summarized by Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt. What happened was

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If you've been patiently waiting for a jailbreak solution for your A5-based device--in other words, your iPhone 4S or iPad 2--it should be exciting news that the jailbreak community has gotten its current program out of the sandbox stage, which generally signals an imminent release. According to a tweet picked up by iDownloadBlog, hacker "planetbeing" has announced that the iPhone&

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Apps to help you take measurements around the house, Google Translate's new iPad app, and Samsung's iMessage-killer. 1. Instapad is a full-on Instagram client for iPad. Instagram hasn't built an iPad app yet, so developer Red Foundry went ahead and built one for them. While you can't upload pictures yet (due to limitations in the Instagram API), the app is still a great way to browse your

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Apple wins $920K tax refund from 1989, loses appeal for overseas tax reprieve California's Supreme Court has affirmed a $920,000 tax refund for Apple dating back to 1989, but it refused to hear the company's request to lower its tax bill for income earned abroad. The court upheld an appellate ruling earlier this week that returned $231,000 in taxes to Apple, along with $689,000 in interest,

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Control over the DVD player used to be a nightly power struggle at the Driver household. Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver didn't always win, either. His children watch everything - "Cars 2," "Dolphin Tale" - whatever's current. The movies "go on and on and on," Driver said. He'd often take refuge in the basement to watch game film, and his son would follow. "And then my son

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042146519558488914.post-63299568573828622392011-10-25T03:39:00.000-07:002011-10-25T03:42:51.468-07:00

Some might lament the lack of Flash compatibility on the iPad, which makes it very difficult to watch video directly from websites, but that doesn't mean there aren't alternative options to watch good content by way of apps. The apps in this story are available at Apple's Canadian Apps Store  SlingPlayer If you have a Slingbox set up at home with your cable or satellite box, you

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Alongside today's quiet MacBook Pro refresh, Apple has also updated its iPad 2 Smart Cover offerings, perhaps most notably discontinuing the orange polyurethane cover and replacing it with a new dark gray cover.  New dark gray Smart Cover Other changes include:  Interior color now matches exterior color. The interior side of the Smart Cover facing the iPad screen had previously

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Android has taken the lead in application market downloads, according to reports by by market analysts. This is the first time for the platform to overtake iOS, although Apple still trumps Google in terms of revenue and per-user downloads ABI Research recently revealed market findings during the 2nd quarter of 2011. According to the analysts, Android Market downloads have&

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A developer claims to have got the voice-activated personal assistant Siri fully working on an iPhone 4 and promises that the app will be made available soon. Siri is the headline feature of the iPhone 4S, and lets users send e-mails, conduct Web searches, find local businesses and more; the app is available exclusively on the iPhone 4S, but the developer claims he has made it work on all iOS

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A Jefferies analyst is predicting that Apple Inc. will launch "iTV," an integrated television set that lets people access their music, TV and videos stored remotely in "the cloud," in the second half of 2012. The analyst, Peter Misek, said he thinks Apple will initially make about 5 million to 10 million of the iTV. He is basing this on quotes from Steve Jobs' new biography by Walter Isaacson,

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A refresh to Apple's professional line of notebooks once anticipated for an introduction as early as September may not roll out until early next month.The late-2011 MacBook Pros, first detailed by AppleInsider back in September, will deliver marginal speed bumps to the notebooks' Core i-Series of Sandy Bridge processors but will otherwise introduce no material changes over the existing

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042146519558488914.post-26031468903763321112011-10-23T23:22:00.000-07:002011-10-23T23:24:48.672-07:00

Microsoft announced on Sunday that a new patent license agreement with original design manufacturer Compal means that companies accounting for more than half of all Google Android-based devices now have agreements with the software giant.On the heels of the Redmond, Wash., Windows maker's announcement that it had reached an agreement with Compal to receive royalties in exchange for

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The forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs reveals that he worked to build an integrated, easy-to-use Apple television set, and that he felt he had "cracked" the concept for such a device.The details from Walter Isaacson's book, set to arrive next week, are the latest indication that Apple plans to eventually release a connected HDTV set, as has been rumored for some time. According to The

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042146519558488914.post-5294544668688539982011-10-13T23:23:00.000-07:002011-10-13T23:23:32.831-07:00

The new iPhone 4S features a redesigned antenna design that allows for better reception and faster wireless data speeds, a tweak that should further distance Apple from the "antennagate" controversy that occurred around the launch of the iPhone 4.Leading up to Friday's launch of the iPhone 4S, AppleInsider will offer a closer look at some of the features of the next-generation handset.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9042146519558488914.post-70122737980612523172011-10-13T23:15:00.000-07:002011-10-13T23:16:02.889-07:00

Apple senior vice president of iOS software Scott Forstall is hailed in a new interview as a polarizing genius, and potentially what company needs to continue its remarkable growth story in a post-Jobs era.In a comprehensive look at how the company's youngest senior executive rose through the ranks at Apple,Businessweek contrasts Forstall's many attributes with, what the

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For kids, learning the alphabet isn't exactly as easy as A-B-C. While you and I may have mastered the alphabet from books or television, children today are just as likely to study letters and their sounds with the magical multitouch device that is the iPad. My daughters (ages 4 and 2) helped me test three ostensibly educational apps. Our questions: Are they really teaching the kids anything? And

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The iPod Touch makes up one-third of Apple's total device sales, according to a filing as part of its lawsuit against Samsung, indicating the importance of the music player in the iOS ecosystem. pple has never before released numbers on iPod sales, but thanks to its pending suit against Samsung, a public filing by the Cupertino, Calif.-based company indicates it has sold over 60 million of the

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Apple next month will reportedly begin manufacturing the first updates to its rejuvenated MacBook Air line as the company looks to maintain the impressive sales momentum generated by the ultra-thin notebooks and limit the market opportunity for would-be competitors hoping to wedge their foot in the door. Sales of the aggressively-priced 11.6- and 13.3-inch MacBook Airs got off to a hot start

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Apple's decision to shave the iPad 2's profile and reduce its weight may mean a slight increase in broken screens, a repair expert said today.But other analysts who have torn apart the iPad 2 said that the new design will prevent shattered screens because Apple's using a new, more flexible material.As part of its work to slim down the iPad 2, Apple reduced the thickness of the tablet's glass

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Tablet computers such as the iPad are revolutionizing aircraft cockpits as tens of thousands of private pilots bring the powerful mini-computers into planes. Several of the nation's largest airlines are poised to follow suit. The Federal Aviation Administration this year for the first time granted approval for two charter companies to use iPads instead of the bulky paper charts and

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