by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
In October 2012 Apple launched the super thin version of its new iMac that was applauded to be a technological marvel. But users soon spotted a major disappointment after knowing that the new iMac did not support the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) mount which is an international standard for mounts. Apple soon acknowledged that it would consider adding the VESA mount option to the iMac but never furnished any concrete details for the same. Yesterday, German blog iFun spotted that Apple started offering VESA mount for iMac buyers for an extra $40 premium and with an estimated shipping time of 7 to 10 business days for shipping the same.
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by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
In a strange turn of events, Apple credited a Jailbreak team Evad3rs for spotting 4 out of the 6 exploits patched up in yesterday’s version of iOS 6.1.3. Team Evar3rs famously known for its jailbreak tool Evasi0n are a group of the best hackers for iOS whose latest jailbreak tool is responsible for a record 18 million jailbreaks in a period of 2 months. But sadly Apple patched the prime loopholes exploited by Evasi0n in the latest version of their iOS release. Yet, there is not much to worry about on a long term as sources close of Evad3rs claim that they have enough number of exploits in their kitty that are stored for much anticipated next major version of the OS, iOS 7.0 which might be launched this summer.
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by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
A recent tweet by Jon Frott of CNBC informed that Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch has resigned from Adobe to join Apple in the capacity of Vice President of Technology, directly reporting to Senior Vice President of Technology at Apple, Bob Mansfield. Adobe later gave an official statement stating Lynch to be departing from Adobe and wished him good luck for his future endeavours. According to Adobe’s website Lynch played a prime role in many of Adobe’s technologies after he moved on to Adobe from Macromedia few years ago when Macromedia was acquired by Adobe. Flynch’s key roles included involvement in high support of Flash and his fight against Apple in 2010 to include Flash on iOS, development and management of PDF format and support and development of various cloud services at Adobe.
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by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
With the launch of the much hyped Samsung Galaxy S4 things seem to be a bit more bleak for Samsung in the US markets. Samsung has been making in roads into global smartphone markets by capturing almost 30% of the smartphone market share but it has been struggling to dethrone Apple in the US even after spending huge reserves of cash on marketing. The latest reports from Yankee Group suggests that Samsung will be loosing grounds over Apple in the next 6 months in US. The Galaxy S4 seems just like an iterative version of Samsung most successful smartphone yet, Galaxy S3. But Yankee Group suggests that the Galaxy S4 will still sell in large numbers and still is a good smartphone, but it isn’t good enough to convert more of Apple’s loyal base of customers.
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by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
In the ongoing case going on since last year against Apple for breaching user privacy by collecting location data, the USÂ Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal said that Apple could face severe penalties for unfair submission of documents since the beginning of the case. On March 6th, the Judge ordered Apple to furnish each and every relevant document, efforts taken to gather the documents, related search keys used to find the emails etc. Since then Apple seems to have gathered and submitted more than 2000 extra documents that might be helpful in giving the final decision in the case. The incomplete efforts from Apple seems to be swinging the decision against them.
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by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
Apple just released an iOS update, version 6.1.3 to iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV users to address major bug issues on passcode lockscreen as spotted recently. The update was reported by MacRumours earlier but we could officially update our iPad only a while ago after a push notification showed up the update. The update seems to fix an exploit that could give unrestricted access to users from lockscreen even after a passcode has been enabled. This could help users to steal valuable data from the device which is not intended to.
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by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
Moody Investor Services, as reported by Marketwatch, predicts that Apple would touch around $170 billion of cash reserve by end of this year 2013 but with considerations that Apple would not make any huge unplanned investments. With the ongoing crash of Apple’s stock lately many investors are predicting that Apple would increase its stock buyback program amount and also consider paying a higher dividend per share to attract more buyers towards its stock and thus push its stock price. Last year Apple announced that it would invest around $45 billion over a period of 3 years to buyback stock worth $10 billion and subsequently hand out $2.5 billion per quarter as dividend.
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by raghu on March 19, 2013 ·
WhatsApp, the popular cross platform messenger that has risen to fame on par with BlackBerry’s native system, BBM, is soon going to be moving to a subscription based model in a move to generate more revenue out from iOS users. Currently WhatsApp is running as a subscription based model on all platforms, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone, where users pay a mere $1 per year after free usage for the first year. But on iOS it is currently being offered as a one time payment app for a mere $0.99.
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by raghu on March 19, 2013 ·
The Korean tech giant and Apple’s main rival seems to be already gearing itself up to compete agains Apple’s much rumoured watch (iWatch) that is all set to be launched in the later part of 2013 as per rumours. Rumours have been flouting around since quite some time from various sources including analysts that Apple is preparing its next big thing which will be a wearable computer in the form of a watch. The Apple iWatch would be sporting an all metal and glass body that would also be capable of connecting to other iOS devices to control basic information like calendar, notifications, music etc. as per rumours.
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by raghu on March 19, 2013 ·
A new patent awarded to Apple on Tuesday can boost Apple Maps way further with new Interactive Augmented Reality technology that will help users share and access maps data in a much more effective and interactive manner. Compared to existing Augmented Reality applications the patent filed by Apple takes it a step ahead and plots real time AR screens that user can interact with various annotations and screen sharing options.
The patent awarded by USPTO explains various use cases of the patents including the way a doctor can utilise it for a simple medical diagnosis of a patient and studying and detecting various components of a simple circuit board.
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