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Amazon Developing New Hardware Products Including a 3D Smartphone and a Streaming Music Player
Posted On Thursday, May 9, 2013 By temp. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: android, apple, disney, downloads, hardware, internet, ipad, iphone apps, microsoft, paris
Amazon is developing a number of new hardware products to complement its Kindle line, The Wall Street Journal is reporting . Amazon hopes to release the devices, which are being developed at an Amazon lab in Sunnyvale, California , in the coming months, but the WSJ is quick to note that some or all of them may be killed at the last minute for a variety of reasons. One of the devices is a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses, these people said.
Code in OS X 10.8.4 Suggests Future Macs Will Offer 802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi Support
Posted On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 By admin. Under 9to5Mac, iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: 9to5mac, california, comics, facebook, google, internet, iphone apps, ipod, macrumors, markets, microsoft, network, taiwan, taxes
Code within the latest 10.8.4 beta release of OS X confirms that 802.11ac 5G "Gigabit Wi-Fi" support, which is not offered in OS X 10.8.3, will be offered on Apple's next generation Macs, reports 9to5Mac . In January, Apple reportedly signed a deal with wireless chip firm Broadcom to bring the high-speed wireless access to its future Mac lineup. 802.11ac offers triple the speeds that are available with the current 802.11n standard, supporting up to 450 Mbps on one antenna and up to 1.3 Gbps when used with three antennas.
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iOS 7 Concept Features Widgets, New Lock Screen, Mission Control and More
Posted On Friday, April 5, 2013 By temp. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: apple, blu-ray, firefox, front page, ideas, internet, ipad, iphone, iphone apps, mac, macrumors, microsoft, taxes, walmart, widgets
Earlier this week, a number of Apple-focused bloggers claimed iOS 7 was running behind schedule and that it would bring a significant user interface refresh . Designer F.
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Apple Close to Striking Deal with Record Labels for iRadio
Posted On Friday, April 5, 2013 By temp. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: birds, copyright, development, facebook, Free, hackers, imac, internet, ipad, iphone apps, microsoft, netflix
Apple is close to signing a deal with both Warner Music and Universal Music Group for its rumored streaming music service , reports CNET . Content negotiations between Apple and record companies were said to have stagnated because the Cupertino-based company was offering low royalty rates , but CNET' s sources say that Apple's music service will bring alternate revenue streams in addition to unique features that are not offered by other streaming music services
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Google Forking WebKit To Create New Web Rendering Engine for Chrome
Posted On Thursday, April 4, 2013 By temp. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: birds, copyright, firefox, friends, internet, ipad, mac, mozilla, news, taxes, walmart
Google announced today that the company is forking the WebKit rendering engine to create its own web rendering engine called 'Blink'. Google had been the using Apple-initiated WebKit project to power its Chrome web browser. Future versions, however, will now be based on this new system
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AT&T Will Roll Out ‘HD Voice’ Support Later This Year
Posted On Monday, April 1, 2013 By admin. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: employee, facebook, front page, internet, iphone apps, ipod, jordan, network, power, videos
AT&T said today that it will begin supporting the iPhone 5's wideband audio -- or 'HD Voice' -- feature later this year, reports All Things D . The technology provides for significantly better call quality, when the network and both devices support it.
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Music Executive: ‘iRadio is Coming’, Apple Pushing for Summer Launch
Posted On Friday, March 29, 2013 By temp. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: apple, chrome, employee, football, front page, imac, internet, iphone, japanese, macrumors, music, pandora
Negotiations between Apple and record companies regarding Apple's rumored 'iRadio' music service are progressing, The Verge reports as one tidbit in a larger article about the music industry in general. The last report about Apple's streaming music service came earlier in March when Apple was reported to be offering half the royalty rate that Pandora pays for a similar product
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Best Buy Reportedly Rolling Out Dedicated Samsung Store-Within-a-Store Concept
Posted On Friday, March 29, 2013 By temp. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors Tags: apple, copyright, facebook, football, google, imac, internet, iphone apps, ipod, mac, photoshop, software
Apple has long had a partnership with Best Buy for dedicated "Apple Shop" sections in many of the electronics retailer's stores, but a new report from Geek.com indicates that those Apple Shops will soon be joined by similar Samsung shops, with the upcoming Galaxy S4 launch serving as the impetus for the first round of store rollouts. Geek.com has been told that the first wave of high traffic Best Buy locations will soon be receiving instruction to remove two aisles next to their mobile department and prepare to install a new Samsung store
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Funny or Die Releasing ‘Very Silly’ Steve Jobs Movie Starring Justin Long on April 15
Posted On Monday, March 18, 2013 By admin. Under iPhone Apps, MacRumors, TechCrunch Tags: apple, employee, facebook, film, funny, internet, iphone apps, ipod, joke, jordan, macrumors, movies, techcrunch
Will Ferrell's Funny or Die website has made a 60-75 minute movie very loosely based on the life of Steve Jobs, reports The New York Times . The film is by far the longest project for the website, which is famous for its short video clips
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Early 2005 iPhone Prototype Looked More Like a Thick iPad Mini
Posted On Monday, March 11, 2013 By admin. Under 9to5Mac, iPhone Apps, MacRumors, TechCrunch Tags: 9to5mac, apple, creator, facebook, google, imac, Industry, internet, ipod, racing
Ars Technica shares several photos of an early functional prototype of the iPhone from 2005, revealing a device closer in size to a thick iPad mini than an iPhone. The photos were sent to Ars by an anonymous former Apple employee who worked on the project in the early 2000s.
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