Browsing all posts in June, 2009.

Upgrade fee sees few iPod touch users updating to 3.0 software

Nearly half of all iPhone users have already jumped at the opportunity to enhance the functionality of their handsets by installing the free iPhone Software 3.0 update, but the same can’t be said for iPod touch users, who — deterred by a $10 upgrade charge — are adopting the new software at a snail’s pace.
On [...]

Tidbit: Apple naming Leopard point release after ancient gods

It’s well known that Apple brands major versions of its Mac OS X operating system with code-names corresponding to big cats, but the company also uses similar naming conventions internally for its maintenance releases, such as those for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard bear the names of ancient gods.
For example, back during the Mac OS [...]

Apple updates Apple TV, Remote app to allow multi-touch control

Apple breathed some new life into its Apple TV media hub on Wednesday with upgrades to both its firmware and the iPhone’s Remote app that let owners control the wireless media hub through multi-touch input on their handheld’s touch-sceen.
The combination of Apple TV 2.4 and Remote 1.3 (free, App Store) provides a new Control [...]

Apple exploring wireless system for quantifying the unquantifiable

Apple this week was granted a sprawling patent on a series of wireless sensing systems aimed at quantifying actions or events that can currently be measured only qualitatively, such as the effectiveness of a karate kick or what exactly happened to a package from FedEx that arrived with its contents broken.
The patent spans some 83 [...]

Bogged down AT&T 3G to clear in months; Buffett criticizes Job

Residents of major US cities that have had near-unusable 3G since the iPhone 3G’s launch should finally get relief in the months ahead, AT&T says. Meanwhile, Palm is getting its own relief via breakthrough sales of its Pre smartphone, but Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is getting no break frp, Warren Buffett, who says the executive [...]