We already knew that Apple was pushing hard to have the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) select it’s nano-SIM card design over competitors such as Nokia and Motorola who proposed its own form factor. While it was already rumored that Apple had support from the majority of European operators, today the ETSI confirmed that it has selected a form factor for the new 4FF SIM Card:

The fourth form factor (4FF) card will be 40% smaller than the current smallest SIM card design, at 12.3mm wide by 8.8mm high, and 0.67mm thick. It can be packaged and distributed in a way that is backwards compatible with existing SIM card designs. The new design will offer the same functionality as all current SIM cards.

While the announcement from the ESTI doesn’t flat out confirm Apple’s design was chosen, thanks to a little bit of investigative work courtesy of The Verge, we are able to confirm that the new form factor does indeed match up nicely with measurements of Apple’s proposed design. We’ll have to wait for more official info on the new standard from ESTI before we know for sure that Apple’s design was selected.

La Rai, ultimamente molto attiva su App Store, sia con app culturali che televisive (vedi Rai.Tv), con il rilascio di “Rai Euro 2012″ continua a dimostrare la sua attenzione verso il mondo Apple e offre ai possessori di iDevices un altro strumento gratuito che, in questo caso, consentirà loro di godere al meglio ed in mobilità la nuova avvince sfida calcistica alle porte.

Rai Euro 2012 consentirà, infatti, di seguire tutte le partite degli Europei 2012 in DIRETTA, beneficiando addirittura di riprese esclusive per il web (fino a 6 telecamere alternative) nonché di consultare l’indice degli ‘HIGHLIGHTS’ con la possibilità di selezionare e visualizzare le azioni più importanti della partita in corso! Inoltre, poco dopo la fine di ogni partita, sarà possibile rivedere il video integrale dell’incontro.

Ma le funzioni offerte dall’app non finiscono qui. Rai Euro 2012, infatti, consentirà di consultare le classifiche dei gironi e dei marcatori, le News e le Fotogallery sempre aggiornate sull’evento sportivo e sui ritiri, ma anche i video delle Rubriche Rai Sport, le Interviste e i contributi esclusivi.

Come vedete dall’immagine che precede, tutto questo avverrà tramite una comoda app nativa, facilmente navigabile grazie alla opportuna suddivisione nelle sezioni “Home”, “Partite”, “News”, “Video” ed “Extra”.

In an interview with Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek, Parker quickly answered a question that made Ek hesitant. He said there was “some indication” (emails from other people in the industry) that Apple tried to block Spotify from entering the United States, and he noted “Apple was threatened by what [Spotify] was doing.” In October 2010, we heard similar rumblings that Apple attempted to sway execs in the U.S. music industry from signing with Spotify.

the new Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K760, the successor to Logitech's first solar keyboard, the K750, which earned a CNET Editors' Choice.
From a design standpoint, the K760 is more compact than the K750 and more closely resembles Apple's own Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard with the addition of the strip of solar cells at the top of the unit.

The K760 is designed for use with Macs, as well as iOS devices.
(Credit: Logitech)
The key feature upgrade here is something that Logitech calls "Bluetooth connectivity with easy-switching capability." What that means is you can pair multiple devices -- such as a Mac, iPad, or iPhone -- and quickly switch among them with the push of a button without having to reconnect.

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook just noted onstage that the company sold 2.7 million Apple TVs in just the first few months of this year. The last time we received official numbers from Apple, it reported 1.4 million units for Q1 and sales of just 2.8 million for the entire previous year, which means Apple is on track to double its Apple TV sales this year. Cook’s comments, as reported by The Verge:

Tim: You know, very uncharacteristic of us, we’ve stayed in the Apple TV product. We’re not a hobby kind of company as you know. Our tendency is to do very few things. And, if something creeps in and isn’t a big success, we get it out of the way and put our energies on something else. Apple TV though, you see what we’ve done. We’ve stuck in this. It’s not a fifth leg of the stool. It’s not the same size as the phone or Mac or tablet business. But last year we sold a little less tan 3m Apple TVs… This year, just in a first few months, we’ve sold 2.7m… This is an area of intense interest for us…

Barely updated since its debut on the original iPhone in 2007, it has long since been surpassed by the video sharing giant’s own mobile website—yet iOS is still set to open all YouTube videos in the native app. Luckily, there’s an easy way to get around this limitation. Simply fire up Settings, tap on General, tap on Restrictions, enable Restrictions if you haven’t already, and disallow YouTube. Doing so has the dual benefit of redirecting all YouTube links to the mobile website and hiding the native app on the device, clearing up more space for apps you actually want to use.

Twig is incredibly short, so it's ultra-portable. It's only 4 inches (102 mm) long, so it's the perfect iPhone cable for anyone who is on-the-go. But Twig's size isn't the only thing it has going for it. We have designed Twig with a bendable wire "skeleton" and three "legs". These bendable legs are what make Twig so amazing.
The wire skeleton inside Twig isn't a limp noodle like those bendable toys from gum-ball machines. Twig is strong. Bend a leg, and it stays bent. Bend all three legs, and make a tripod. Bend Twig and plug it into your AC adapter to make an instant wall charger dock. And when you want to hit the road, just bend Twig back into ultra-portable mode and chuck it in your bag. It's like no other cable, and it's awesome.

Inizialmente Music Hub sarà disponibile solo per Samsung Galaxy S III, per poi essere allargato ad altri terminali. Gli utenti hanno la possibilità di utilizzare il Music Hub Store in modo gratuito e di abbonarsi alla versione Premium pagando 9,99€ al mese.

Attualmente il catalogo contiene oltre 19 milioni di canzoni, acquistabili dallo store e con possibilità di ascoltare una preview di 30 secondi. La musica acquistata viene quindi archiviata sul cloud e appare automaticamente sul dispositivo Samsung. Tali brani possono poi essere salvati anche in locale e ascoltati offline, mentre abbonandosi alla versione Premium sarà possibile caricare online tutta la propria libreria musicale (fino ad un massimo di 100GB) e di accedervi in streaming dal proprio dispositivi mobile.

Una funzione chiamata “Scan & Match Cloud Locker” consente di caricare i brani preferiti sul cloud e di ascoltarli in streaming con un tempo di caricamento molto inferiore. Gli utenti possono i poi gestire i brani caricati in playlist, inserire anche note vocali registrate dal dispositivo, leggere i testi e condividere i brani con gli amici. Inoltre, Music Hub offre anche la possibilità di ascoltare la musica preferita direttamente dalle stazioni radio, immettendo il nome del brano o dell’artista. Interessante la funzione che consente di “taggare” un brano che ascoltiamo per la prima volta in radio, in modo tale da poterlo ritrovare anche in un secondo momento.

Il garante per la protezione dei dati personali ha pubblicato due interessanti documenti con una serie di riflessioni e indicazioni per il corretto e consapevole trattamento dei dati personali con riferimento all'impiego di nuovi strumenti di comunicazione e su come scegliere con cura le soluzioni per il cloud computing. Indicazioni valide per tutti gli utenti, imprese e amministrazioni pubbliche.

Set to ship June 24, the Armor Series case is dust proof, drop proof, waterproof, and apparently crush proof. [...] The Armor Series has a waterproof "thermal plastic shell" and a "medical-grade" stainless-steel latch.

Apple this month is reported to have begun production of the first prototypes of its much-anticipated connected television sets at one of its overseas manufacturing facilities ahead of a general production ramp expected to begin late in the 2012 calendar year.

The news, which was attributed to "informed sources" speaking to the China Business News, was picked up and translated by the WantChinaTimes earlier on Monday.

In particular, the publication cited its sources as saying that this initial build plan is taking place in one of Foxconn's Shenzhen plants as a trial production run, which typically produces a small number of assembly-line-quality prototypes for Apple to put through its design test verification stages. No further details were reported.

Those following us on Twitter already know that last week Apple rejected Instacast, a well-love podcatcher, over its Flattr integration. What does this mean for the future of Flattr inside applications for iPhone and iPad?

The hard-working Chronic-Dev Team has announced that just over one million users have jailbroken their iOS devices with Greenpois0n Absinthe 2.0. That's impressive, considering the jailbreak was released just three days ago.

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With Absinthe 2.0 being made available for immediate public download and version 2.0.2 being pushed out to bring iPhone 4 9B208 build compatibility, the jailbreak 5.1.1 tool has been available for a couple of days and thanks to the Chronic Dev Team’s Twitter account, we now know it has racked up some fairly impressive downloads and usage statistics. One of the largest appeal factors to Absinthe 2.0 is that it is the first tool made available to give a functioning jailbreak on the current generation iPad 3. With that in mind, the tool has been used to jailbreak 211,401 new iPads, truly an impressive number.



Absinthe 2.0 provides the ability to jailbreak pretty much all iOS devices capable of running iOS 5.1.1, with the exception of the third-generation Apple TV, one of the other major reasons why it is proving to be so popular. In total, 973,086 devices have been newly jailbroken spanning across the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV range of Apple devices.

With the total number of devices being jailbroken with Absinthe rising all the time, that number should breach the one million mark in no time and shows that jailbreaking remains as popular as ever. That notion is something that has been mirrored by the official Cydia repositories with the BigBoss repo owner claiming that his repo was transferring a staggering 1 gigabit of data per second across ten servers since the release of Absinthe.

The idea here is that you can use multiple Apple IDs on each device, and at the same time each Apple ID does not need to be enrolled in every Apple product, feature and service.  Decide what products and services you want to use first and determine how each device will be used.  If you don’t, before you know it you could end up with a real rats nest of accounts.

Do consider using one master family account on all devices to manage iTunes purchases, and use that same shared account to track the location of all of your devices.  As an added bonus, you could use the calendar, contacts and reminders with this shared family iCloud account as well.  Once you have each device configured with these basics, let each family member decide which third-party email service they want.  This may well be the best strategy to employ, until Apple sees fit to enable multiple users per device.

Grindr has finally caught on and released a hetero-centric version called Blendr. OkCupid is also getting into the location-based dating game with an app called Locals. Well, “dating” isn’t the right word for it. Unlike Grindr, which is overtly sexual, Blendr bills itself as a way to "find friends." 

After bringing Classics Illustrated into the digital age, and onto Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet, in March, Trajectory Inc. announced this morning it has teamed with Apple to deliver the enduring comics series on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
[...] More than 120 titles are available from Apple’s iBookstore.
“Making the Classics available in digital form brings these brilliant works to where people live now, on their mobiles,” Trajectory CEO Jim Bryant said in a statement. “The iPad and iPhone are great for interacting with one of the most beloved comics and graphic novel series of all time.”

From today on, you will be able to select the photos you want to transfer in the Bump app, go to the Bump website on your computer, and then tap the phone on the spacebar key to transfer them. In order for it to work you have to enable location sharing on your computer’s web browser.
According to Lieb, the feature works with most modern web browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. There are some sporadic issues with Internet Explorer, he says.
So how does it all work? The new app uses the same technology in Bump’s self-titled app and in Bump Pay. A combination of the sensors in the phone and Bump’s Cloud services allow the phone and computer to communicate and then transfer the photos.

Plants, like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone's blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we'll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi's got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company's servers where it's then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow. You'll have to cough up £99 (about $156 USD) for the currently available European-only, golf club-like device, but that's about all -- access to the company's apps and services are free for users. So, if you've been dying to pull back the curtain on the secret life of plants or just sick of shelling out to replace your withering window collection, hit up the source below to get your order on.

Con un comunicato stampa, Apple ha ufficialmente affermato di voler pagare i dividendi ai propri dipendenti con RSU, ovvero quelle azioni che in genere vengono consegnate ai dipendenti come incoraggiamento per restare all’interno della compagnia. Tra i vari impiegati troviamo una figura di spicco, questo è Tim Cook, egli possedeva 1 milione di RSU per un valore complessivo di 75 milioni di dollari. Nonostante abbia già incassato moltissimo denaro di recente, egli ha compiuto un gesto molto interessante, infatti ha completamente rifiutato la propria parte. Per dovere di cronaca, ricordiamo che le azioni sono state pagate a 2.65$ l’una.

Eccovi un breve estratto del comunicato:

Come richiesto da Mr.Cook, nessun elemento appartenente alle sue RSU verrà pagato come dividendo; assumendo un valore di 2.65$ ad azione e moltiplicandole per 1.125 milioni di elementi, Mr.Cook ha rinunciato a circa 75 milioni di dollari di dividendi.

La notizia dei pagamenti non è stata inaspettata, infatti verso la fine di Marzo, l’azienda aveva comunicato l’intenzione di spendere parte dei 100 miliardi di dollari nel distribuire quanto dovuto ai vari impiegati. I calcoli sono stati effettuati, i pagamenti veri e propri avranno inizio il 1 luglio.

Item 5.02.    Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
 
(e) Compensatory Arrangements with Certain Officers.
On May 24, 2012, the Compensation Committee (the "Committee") of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. (the "Company") approved amendments to each outstanding and unvested restricted stock unit award granted by the Company to its employees (other than Timothy D. Cook, the Company's Chief Executive Officer). The amendments provide that if the Company pays an ordinary cash dividend on its common stock, each award will be credited with an amount equal to the per-share cash dividend paid by the Company, multiplied by the total number of restricted stock units subject to the award that are outstanding immediately prior to the record date for such dividend. The amounts that are credited to each award are referred to as "dividend equivalents." Any dividend equivalents credited to an award will be subject to the same vesting, payment and other terms and conditions as the unvested restricted stock units to which the dividend equivalents relate. Depending on the domicile of the employee, accumulated dividend equivalents will either be paid in cash or used to offset employee taxes due upon vesting of the restricted stock units.

The Committee determined these amendments were appropriate in light of the Company's announcement on March 19, 2012 that it intends to commence paying ordinary cash dividends of $2.65 per share to its shareholders on a quarterly basis sometime during the fourth quarter of its 2012 fiscal year. As restricted stock units are not outstanding shares of common stock and thus would not otherwise be entitled to participate in such dividends, the crediting of dividend equivalents is intended to preserve the equity-based incentives intended by the Company when the awards were granted and to treat the award holders consistently with shareholders.

At Mr. Cook's request, none of his restricted stock units will participate in dividend equivalents. Assuming a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share over the vesting periods of his 1.125 million outstanding restricted stock units, Mr. Cook will forego approximately $75 million in dividend equivalent value.

 

Optrix case transforms your iPhone 4/4S or iPod Touch 4G into a rugged action sports video camera. Bump, bash, crash, and splash with your phone safely housed in our polycarbonate shell and rubberized inner iPhone case. Perfect for sports like skiing, biking, skating, motocross, auto-racing and many more. 

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Nokia chose not to sell the N95 phone in Egypt when the sale of GPS-enabled devices there was illegal before 2009, whereas Apple opted to make and sell a special GPS-less iPhone 3G for that market. Early models of the Chinese iPhone 3GS lacked wifi, while the Chinese iPhone 4/4S has firmware restrictions on its Google Maps app.

Just after its proposed $1 billion acquisition of mobile photo sharing service Instagram, Facebook announced Facebook Camera for iPhone in a blog post this afternoon. The app features filters just like Instagram, and it has the ability to upload a batch of photos at once. The regular Facebook app only allows you to upload one photo at a time. Upon first opening Camera, it detects any Facebook accounts already associated with the iPhone, so you can upload photos immediately. Facebook Camera for iOS is now available on the iTunes App Store.

As you can tell from the screenshots of the app in the gallery below, it reminds us a lot of Instagram. There is also the ability to view your friend’s photos in a single timeline. Complete with filters and quick-sharing options, it is almost as if Facebook launched a competitor to its own app.

Here is the full breakdown of features:




Post multiple photos from your camera roll at a time
Crop and apply filters to give your photos a new look
Scroll down a single feed of all your friends’ photos
Tag your friends, add photo captions and say where you are
See photos from the different apps your friends use

Platter is a new micro-social network app dedicated home cooking. It allows you to take pictures of food you make and upload them to show the world, tagging them with the you used ingredients. You can then search through those ingredient tags, finding inspiration for something to make with the ingredients you have to hand. As you'd expect, you can also do the usual social networking things, like follow people whose food you find interesting, and post comments and "likes" on pictures.

"Why do I need this?" you might ask. "I have Instagram and Twitter, Facebook and Foodspotting. Why do I need another app?" Well, the Platter team cleverly identified that in fact none of these apps are exactly what you need if you're a home cook looking to show off. Instagram has plenty of food pics, but lacks the ingredient tagging feature. Twitter and Facebook are more general purpose. Foodspotting is designed around the idea of taking pictures of food when eating out, not for home cooking. Platter is complementary to these services.

To underscore this, it has (as you'd probably expect) the ability to cross-post pictures to Facebook and Twitter. These cross-posts are in the form of links to Platter's attractive web interface (self-promotion alert: that's my own Platter page), from where you can drill down into individual pictures. This web view feature is already fuller-featured than Instagram's pared-down approach, as you can navigate from users to pictures and back again, and the Platter team are planning on expanding this further in the future.

[The company] unveiled this morning its newest tool: one that makes transferring photos from an iOS or Android device to a computer as easy as bumping that device against the computer's spacebar.
The key to the new feature is that it requires no software installation on the computer, said Bump CEO Dave Lieb. Instead, it works through users' browsers -- Chrome, Firefox, and Safari -- and the Bump mobile app. Once users load Bump's Web site and the app, they select the photos they want to move and tap their phone against their spacebar. The photos appear on the computer instantaneously.
When the photos appear on the computer, there are a couple of options. One is to download the photo to the computer's hard drive. The other is to create a sharable link to the photo or photos. That means that it's easy to take a group of photos at an event, quickly transfer them later to a computer, and then send a link to everyone who was at the event, Lieb explained.
The new tool works much the same way Bump has all along: it correlates the location of both devices when the app is running and in this case, when the spacebar is tapped, it knows that it's supposed to move photos stored on the mobile device to Bump's hosted Web site.
Users of Bump's existing iOS and Android apps will have to download the latest updates in order for the new service to work.

Since the desktop version of Yahoo! Axis is simply a browser extension, that means that Yahoo’s search deal with Bing drops its search box on top of whatever page you’re on. Instead of building its own desktop browser, which would have taken quite a long time and been a nightmare to support, Yahoo! decided to skip all of that and slip in the backdoor, by making itself extremely prominent.

If, and it’s a big if, Axis can grab a sizeable userbase, then Microsoft Bing just scored itself a whole slew of new search users.

Say I’m hooked on Axis, use its iPhone and iPad apps, I dig on its homepage. Then I visit Google.com. I’m presented with an alternative search option, Bing:



The search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! was made on July 29, 2009, and nearly three years later, Microsoft just got Christmas in July a few months early.

Combine Axis with its newly introduced redesign and Bing’s not having a bad month. Can Bing pick up a considerable amount of ground on Google’s search dominance? Only time will tell.

Yahoo! today released its Axis extension for Chrome – and accidentally leaked its private security key that could allow anyone to create malicious plugins masquerading as official Yahoo! software.
Australian entrepreneur Nik Cubrilovic, who last year garnered notice for identifying Facebook's tracking cookies, revealed the certificate blunder on his blog, and said users should not install the extension “until the issue is clarified”.

Cubrilovic peeked into the extension’s source code and found the private certificate, which Yahoo! uses to sign the application to prove it is genuine and unaltered. The result, he says, is that a miscreant could forge a malicious extension that would be verified by Google's web browser as coming from Yahoo!

There are all sorts of attacks that could be executed with a spoofed extension; the most obvious of these, as Cubrilovic notes, would be to create and sign a traffic logger to capture a victim’s web activity.
Also: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57440597-83/yahoo-fumbles-security-in-axis-browser-launch/

Security wonk Eugene Kaspersky is not happy with Apple, since the company won't let his eponymous antivirus firm develop antivirus software for iOS devices. Speaking to The Register, Kaspersky went so far as to say "That will mean disaster for Apple," since malware targeting the mobile operating system will "inevitably" strike iOS at some point in time.

Kaspersky admits that iOS is "by design ... more secure" than other operating systems. His infection vector of choice is to place the malware into the source code of legal software that has to be downloaded from the App Store, as it is "almost impossible to develop malware which does not use vulnerabilities."

Kaspersky goes on to say that an infection of this sort will "be the worst-case scenario because there will be no protection. The Apple SDK won't let us do it." That will, in the Russian's opinion, result in a loss of market share for Apple and a huge boost for Android -- an operating system he's happy with since it is less secure and he can develop security software for.

He's so sure of the demise of iOS because of malware that he's made bets with friends stating that Android will have an 80% market share by 2015.

Apple designer Jony Ive was knighted today in a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace, according to a BBC News UK report. It's an honor he said was "absolutely thrilling."
Ive's knighthood was announced late last year and the ceremony took place on Wednesday. The famed Apple designer shared some small talk with Princess Anne, who was doing the knighting. You can watch the short ceremony on the BBC's website.

Google updated its Google Search iPhone app to version 2.0.0 today, which introduced a completely redesigned app that focuses on improvements to speed and full screen browsing features. Among the new features are an auto full screen mode that hides controls when scrolling down and reveals when scrolling up, and a new full-screen image search view.

The updated app also includes “major speed improvements,” a built-in text finder for webpages, and quick links to Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and search options such as images, places, and news. The iPad did not receive the same update, but both the iPhone and iPad will now be able to save images to the iOS camera roll.

a completely digital guitar with a built-in iPhone dock that uses sensors to relay what you are playing to a specially designed iPhone app. Unlike ION’s Audio Guitar Apprentice for iPad that we showed you at CES, gTar has strings and a fretboard layout designed to feel identical to a traditional guitar. However, like ION’s product, the gTar is marketed as more of a learning tool than a replacement to your main axe and includes LED lights that show you how to play certain songs preloaded in the app. It would be nice to have a built-in speaker, but you can always go with a pair of Bluetooth headphones instead.



gTar has 34 days to reach its $100,000 funding goal, and you will have to pledge at least $350 to get your hands on one when it ships in September. The product will eventually hit retail for $450. The company also plans to release an SDK for devs interested in building apps for the gTar.

The iPhone app was released on Thursday 17 May in the UK alone, in advance of a wider launch later in the year. It's not just about shooting videos and sharing them on Facebook and Twitter. Vyclone's social features begin when you're actually filming.

Or as its in-app intro describes it: "Co-create, sync and share movies with the people around you. Film together and make a movie with all of your perspectives."

IK Multimedia’s newest microphone is aimed squarely at podcasters. The package comes with a plastic stand which props up an iPhone at just the right angle for talking into the mic. You can use it with an iPod Touch too, though you’ll have to turn it upside down in order to plug the Mic Cast into its headphone jack.

iRig™ MIX is the first mobile mixer for iPhone, iPod touch or iPad devices. iRig MIX offers the same controls you would expect from a professional DJ mixer (crossfader, cues, EQ and volume controls, etc.) in an ultra-compact mobile mixer that can be used with a huge variety of iOS DJ mixing and other apps.

Apple allowed an iOS developer to take pre-orders on a game destined for the App Store, while also giving the developer full support for its Kickstarter project.
Developer Six to Start was given the go-ahead to take pre-orders of Zombies, Run! by Apple, both as part of the Kickstarter and then also after the Kickstarter had finished. The only caveat was that the studio was told it must stop taking orders outside of the App Store once the game was released.

A version of the game was released for pre-orders and Kickstarter backers, separate from the paid version, that asked for authorization via a password. Over 3,000 copies of the game were distributed in this way, said the team.

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A poche ore di distanza da questa “censura”, Apple fa marcia indietro e ora la parola “jailbreak” su iTunes Store compare in modo corretto.
La censura riguardava sia le applicazioni presenti su App Store, sia i brani contenenti la parola “jailbreak” al loro interno. Ora, invece, tutto è tornato alla normalità e non vi è più traccia di tale censura.
Ricordiamo che il jailbreak, oltre ad essere il titolo di alcune canzoni, è anche il nome della procedura che serve a sbloccare il dispositivo e ad installarvi applicazioni non approvate da Apple.

Recordings can be sent out via e-mail, uploaded to Dropbox, or accessed through iTunes File Sharing, and with the latest update, can now also be uploaded directly to SoundCloud.

On a more practical note, Drexler also seemed to confirm during his talk the endless rumors of a new Apple TV. "You know, Apple has 10 products," he said. "The living room they're dealing with at some point in the near future."
Lastly, Drexler, with his trademark humor, offered up some advice for aspiring CEOs and expressed sympathy for current Apple head-honcho Tim Cook's unfortunate position.
"The best job to have: Take over a company that's doing poorly," Drexler said. "Never take over a company that's doing great. You know, I love Tim Cook, but I wouldn't want his job!"

The folks behind the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, now dubbed “jOBS,” which stars Ashton Kutcher as the late CEO, released a presser this evening to announce the production’s June start date for filming. They also confirmed shooting will begin in the “historic garage” where Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. The film’s early scenes will even feature Jobs’ Los Altos home where he grew up to maintain “accuracy and authenticity” during the movie-making process.
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Apple is currently involved in an outreach program to its new neighbors in its planned ‘Campus 2′ area.  This week, a brochure was mailled to residents surrounding the new campus providing new information and inviting feedback in a variety of ways. Although the project seems to be a big win for the city of Cupertino, some residents have voiced some concern about the additional traffic and other changes to the area.

We’ve obtained a letter from one of Apple’s new neighbors and here are the takeaways:

Campus 2, as it is currently called, won’t replace the 1 Infinite Loop campus.  Instead, it will just provide ‘research facility’ office space for an additional 13,000 employees, more than 3,000 more than 1 Infinite Loop.  There is 300,000 feet of expansion space for future growth.
Campus 2 will attain LEED certification and will have no manufacturing or heavy industrial activity onsite. Apple has and will continue to take additional steps to reduce auto use by employees. The roof of the main building is a huge solar array.
Campus 2 will not be open to the public so no museum or corporate store
The ‘world class’ auditorium, located at the very southern tip of the new campus, will host product launches and corporate events
The corporate fitness center/recreation center will be located to the north west of the main circular building in a separate structure
Infinite Loop will remain the official corporate HQ so top executives will likely stay behind
Apple intends to break ground as soon as Cupertino approves the changes (scheduled for later this year) and still plans to start occupying the space in 2015
Neighbors can fill out the postage paid response card or cupertino.org website with comments, questions, concerns.

iHome's upcoming iP76 LED Color Changing Speaker Tower with Bluetooth has 16 multicolor LED clusters that do all kinds of fun stuff. That's right, this pedestal-style iPhone/iPod speaker dock can be customized to feature your favorite color and includes such options as color fade, pulse to music, and strobe effect for the "ultimate light show."
Time to fire up Pink Floyd. I mean Bieber.
Oh, and the tower also charges your iPod or iPhone and has a component video connection so you can output video from your device to your TV with the proper cable (no mention about that cable being included, however).
The iP76, which expands on iHome's growing line of GlowTunes products, ships in July for $199.99.

today, a new update lets you connect Flipboard with SoundCloud to offer audio clips created by major news services like NPR, and audio clips created by your friends and people you follow.
You can sign into the new SoundCloud component by using a previously created SoundCloud account, by starting a new account, or by using your Facebook account. Once connected, Facebook and Twitter posts, and any story that includes audio, can be listened to with a handy player that resides on the lower left of your screen. You also can browse all the available recommended audio feeds in the new Audio category tab in the Content Guide.
Audio plays another important role in the latest update of Flipboard with added accessibility options, enabling it to read stories out loud for the visually impaired.
One feature that's new to the iPhone version specifically, is the ability to read related sections on social networks. Flipboard describes this as being able to view related sections on Twitter including Your Tweets, Your Favorites, and Tweets Mentioning You.

Facebook has just broken out another feature of their main app and released Pages Manager for the iPhone. The app appears to function just like the main Facebook app, but with all of the features dedicated to fan pages. It also features some new features like access to Facebook’s Insights for tracking analytics data, such as the number of people sharing your page and the total number of people who have been exposed to your brand through the page. Pages Manager available right now in New Zealand, and will be out in the US soon.

Research firm Gartner on Wednesday announced its latest mobile device data for the first quarter of calendar 2012. It found that Apple's 33.1 million iPhones sold accounted for 7.9 percent of the total mobile phone market.

Gartner's data represents worldwide mobile device sales to end users, not shipments. It should be noted that the 33.1 million iPhones that Gartner says Apple sold is off by two million from the 35.1 million Apple itself reported last month.

Apple's share more than doubled from the first quarter of 2011, when the company sold 16.8 million iPhones and represented 3.9 percent of all mobile device sales, Gartner's data shows.

Online task management service Remember The Milk has released a major update to its iOS app introducing a redesigned UI for iPhone and iPod touch users and Retina Display support for the iPad. Adapted from the native iPad user interface introduced last year, Remember The Milk 3.0 adds a sliding panels view with a left-hand toolbar and stacked “cards” for categories, task lists and task details and notes; left and right swipe gestures provide a natural intuitive UI to allow users to view their tasks and notes. The update also refines the task details view to display associated notes on the same screen and provides buttons for quick access to complete, postpone or delete individual tasks. Support for batch-editing multiple tasks on the iPhone and iPod touch has also been added, similar to the iPad version, allowing select multiple tasks and postpone them or edit common information such as due date, priority, list and tags. In order to adapt to the new sliding panels interface, a tap-and-hold gesture is now used to bring up the complete tasks instead of the previous swipe gesture, and users can now swipe up from this view to access a postpone button instead.

[...] App Store rules don’t allow third-party software runtimes. Yes, Chrome for the desktop is based on WebKit, but it’s Google’s own fork of WebKit, and Google’s own JavaScript engine. Chrome for iOS would have to use iOS’s system standard WebKit, and the slower non-Nitro JavaScript engine.

“It’s not like we didn’t try but — I don’t know how to say this politely — the music industry just didn’t get it. They just didn’t figure out that being dependent on Apple was bad for them. And they were so hooked on the drug of what Apple was supplying them that they couldn’t see past that to realize that they needed something else to actually drive their business. The label business, the music industry, has never recovered from that.
“If you look at business value, Apple took whatever business value was in the label business and erased it. That’s not a complaint about Apple, good for them. But they erased that, and created some new value for themselves.”

The launch of Chrome for iOS on the App Store could be as soon as this quarter, according to Macquarie Equities Research (via GigaOm). Its debut is seen as igniting a modern browser war on mobile devices, similar to the "Browser Wars" of the late 1990s between Internet Explorer and Netscape.

All third-party browsers for iOS must be based on WebKit, Apple's open source browser engine. The existing versions of Google Chrome, available for Mac, Windows and Android, are already based on the WebKit layout engine.

Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter said Chrome for PCs has been a "home run" for Google, as it has "significantly" reduced desktop traffic acquisition costs for the search giant.

He expects that Google will launch a major marketing campaign to hype the debut of Chrome for iOS.

Filip Radelic, developer of the Cambox application for iPhone, informed AppleInsider on Friday that his software was accepted into the App Store. The approval came after Dropbox modified its development kit with a temporary fix removing the "Make account" feature.

Dropbox also officially confirmed the changes made to its SDK in its developer forums. Brian Smith, who works on the iPhone and iPad versions of Dropbox, said the issue with Apple was resolved after "the worst game of telephone you've ever played."

Using the new SDK, applications no longer offer an option to create an account with Dropbox. If a user attempts to use an application that relies on Dropbox and the official Dropbox application is not installed on their iOS device, the SDK will open a login view for the service directly within the third-party application, rather than opening the Safari Web browser.

The issue stemmed from the fact that Dropbox offers users the ability to purchase more cloud-based storage for their files. By linking to the Dropbox website to ask users to login, they could also follow a link to register for a Dropbox account and pay for additional storage if they so chose.




Apple's official rules for App Store developers explicitly ban links to out-of-app purchases. That's because transactions made through a browser can be used to bypass the App Store and cut Apple out of its 30 percent share of transactions.

According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps program on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.

[Case-Mate] announced a special rPET (recyclable PET) case collection for the iPhone 4/4S made out of 100% recycled post-consumer PET bottles.

The company has just announced that it's reached 65 million downloads across the platform as a whole, which is just a huge amount of content delivered. And Comixology keeps locking down plans to deliver even more -- their latest deal is with Marvel, and allows Comixology to exclusively release Marvel's single issues digitally through the app. That means every single issue English comic that Marvel puts out is available digitally only through Comixology.

Fuel cell maker Lilliputian Systems today announced that Brookstone will be the first retailer to carry its portable USB power source, which will be sold under Brookstone's brand. The fuel cell device is about the size of a thick smartphone, and the lighter fluid-filled cartridges are about the same size as a cigarette lighter.
It's a big step forward both for Lilliputian Systems, a 10-year-old spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and for portable fuel cell technology in general. Several fuel cell companies have developed portable power systems, but a number have failed.
The new fuel cell will charge any device that has a USB cable.
Pricing for the Brookstone fuel cell itself was not disclosed but the cartridges themselves, which are made of plastic and hold butane, will cost a few dollars, or "about the same as coffee from Starbucks," said Mouli Ramani, vice president of business development at Lilliputian Systems.
People will be able to buy refills and fuel cells online, through Brookstone catalogs, or at stores. When the fuel cartridges are empty, they can be recycled through municipal recycling programs, Ramani said.
Lilliputian expects the first customers will be early technology adopters but then the appeal of portable power will attract more people, such as travelers, college students, and even teenagers who spend a lot of time with portable gaming machines. "Anyone who wants to be liberated from sticking a phone into a wall outlet," he said.
Unique technology inside the fuel cell allows for longer charge time than previous portable fuel cells gives, Ramani said.
The company is the first to deposit a solid oxide fuel cell membrane onto a silicon wafer, he explained. Investor Intel has retrofitted a fab in Hudson, Mass., to make specially structured silicon chips with Lilliputian's membrane imprinted on them.

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The fixes take care of an issue first discovered in March that allowed a malicious website to display a custom URL that is different than a website's actual address. The spoofing technique could have been used to trick users into unknowingly handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers.

Acme Mobile Products' new MicroStylus Jack ($10) now takes the crown as the world's smallest touchscreen input device. Measuring just about 3/4" long, it's composed of a rubber capacitive tip and short aluminum stem -- that's it. The appeal here is that the shaft can be inserted into any standard 3.5mm headphone port, meaning there's a higher likelihood you'll have it on you when you need it. MicroStylus Jack comes in black or silver, and two-packs are available for $16, since you might... misplace one given its size.

As Apple gears up to shutter its MobileMe service next month, the company has extended its offer of an additional 20GB of free storage in iCloud until September 30, 2012.
Apple offered MobileMe subscribers the additional iCloud storage last year in an effort to convince customers to switch over from the sunset service. Users also received a free subscription to MobileMe until June 30, 2012, the service's last day.

Mac Otakara noted on Sunday that Apple had extended the additional storage from its original June 30 expiration to Sept. 30. A Frequently Asked Questions page on Apple's website was recently updated to reflect the extension.

In a report earlier this morning, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said China passed 1 billion total mobile phone subscribers as of March at a growing rate of 1.18-percent per month. With potentially this many people to sell smartphones to, China is definitely a region Apple needs to keep hitting hard.

Furthermore, research firm Catalyst is out with another interesting factoid about China, claiming the country has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market. China’s smartphone market has grown 81 percent year-over-year, where as the U.S. is only 5 percent. In Q1 2012, China accounted for 22 percent of worldwide smartphone shipments, where the U.S. was only 16 percent.

This rise is most likely due to the iPhone 4S’ availability on China Telecom and the carrier starting in Q1 2012. Chinese customers, who formerly had to resort to buying the device off the Internet or scalpers, finally got the phone they were after.

However, there are still a ton of customers in China that Apple isn’t taking advantage of —yet. China Mobile, the country’s largest carrier, does not have the iPhone on its network. The next iPhone is most likely going to be on China Mobile, thanks to Qualcomm’s new chip that supports TD-SCDMA, TD-LTE, LTE on FDD and TDD networks.


Interestingly, two-thirds of the smartphones that shipped in China during Q1 2012 were Android devices. However, I really think that with China Mobile, and continued work on China Telecom and China Unicom, the country will continue to pay off for Apple.

1. Launch iWeb and select the folder for the site you want to move to Dropbox.

2. In the publishing options section open the Publish to: menu and change it from MobileMe to Local Folder.

3. In the Folder Location section choose your Desktop as the folder location. You can leave the Website URL location blank for now.


Preserve the file structure of your iWeb site by saving it to a folder on your hard drive.

4. Next you’ll need to create a Dropbox account, if you don't already have one.

You can create a new account by going to Dropbox.com and clicking the Sign In link on the upper right side of the page. Just below the login fields is a link to create an account.


Open a free Dropbox account, if you don't already have one.
Once you finish creating your account, the Dropbox application will begin downloading to your computer. When the download completes, copy the app to your Applications folder, open Dropbox, and sign in using your account information.

One of the features of Dropbox that makes it easy for you to host webpages is the Dropbox Public folder. This folder is set up so that you can easily give someone a publicly available URL to share files without requiring any special configuration.


Save your iWeb site to a folder.

5. Locate the Public folder in your Dropbox folder and then move the iWeb folder on your desktop to the Public folder.

Moving files to the Public folder performs a little bit of magic on all the files you put there. For each of those files, Dropbox automatically creates a publicly available URL. (This is also possible with items outside of your Dropbox public folder, but requires some configuration.) The trick is getting a copy of that public URL so that you share it with others. Before you proceed, make sure that the Dropbox application is running. To do this, confirm that you see the Dropbox menu item in your menu bar.

6. Dropbox only provides public links for files, not folders, so you need to Control-click your website's index.html file that you want to share a link for, find the Dropbox menu item in the contextual menu that appears, then select the menu item that says Copy Public Link.


The resulting public link provides complete access to your iWeb site.
7. Paste this link into your Web browser and, voilá your iWeb website is now being hosted by Dropbox!


Website as published via dropbox.
Because each self contained Web folder has its own index.html file, you can use this technique with multiple websites using the same Dropbox account—as long as you have enought space in Dropbox to hold everything.

The puzzling stunt was initially ascribed to Samsung, which is planning to release a new Galaxy smartphone -- until an Aussie Mac blog noticed that some code on the "countdown" page advertised by the "wake up" campaign may have come from the BlackBerry maker. This put RIM in the embarrassing position of having to come out and say, "um, actually, it was us." Arguably, this sort of undercuts the point of "guerrilla" marketing.



Moreover, video blogger Nate Burr -- you remember "Blunty," the guy who was just playing with his new boom mic when he happened to catch this weird protest thing outside the Apple store? -- admitted that he'd been in on the stunt from the outset, as part of a rambling 11-minute response video slamming journalists and bloggers for their disingenuous and misleading reporting on the incident.

The second video can be found here. Both the description and the vid itself are fantastic examples of the pot calling the kettle black at the top of its lungs. Both Burr and RIM categorically state that no money changed hands as part of the deal.



While the company may have hoped to "provoke conversation on what 'being in business' means to Australians," as the official release has it, it seems a lot more likely that RIM has succeeded only in further highlighting its own apparent haplessness.

While the two big smartphone vendors, Apple and Samsung, are battling it out in the courtrooms, they're still in total control of operating profits. Horace Dediu of Asymco has just published his analysis of operating profits for the top eight mobile phone vendors and found that Apple and Samsung together pulled in 99 percent of the profits in the first quarter of 2012.
Apple had the largest share of that total, with a full 73 percent of the profits made by the top mobile phone vendors. Only Apple, Samsung, and HTC made a profit in the first quarter of 2012, and HTC's share was a tiny 1 percent. The other companies on the list -- Motorola, Nokia, RIM, LG, and Sony Ericsson -- all had losses for their handset businesses.
Apple and Samsung are reaping the benefits of being the top vendors in the lucrative and growing smartphone business. Profits from the eight top vendors detailed in Dediu's report have gone from US$5.3 billion to $14.4 billion, primarily from carrier subsidies on pricey smartphones.

The foundry has made a new demonstration of its know-how and expertise by producing A9 chips (from which Apple's A5 was developed) using a 28 nm process (The A5 is manufactured using a 45 to 32 nm process). Thanks to that thinner process, TSMC was able to make it reach 3.1 GHz, 3 times faster than Apple's A5.
For now, TSMC probably doesn't have any customer for that chip that certainly needs way to much power to power a tablet or a smartphone. It is therefore only a demonstration in an attempt to attract new customers.

After a number of developers using the Dropbox SDK reported that Apple was rejecting their iOS apps from the App Store because of links to an external purchase option, the cloud storage provider has confirmed that is working with Apple to address the issue.

Developers recently took to the Dropbox forums to discuss the rejections, as highlighted by The Next Web. Apple had taken issue with a new version of the Dropbox SDK that included a link to the "Desktop version" of its website on the page for creating accounts that could allow users to purchase additional space outside of the app.

Dropbox, which has more than 50 million users across 250 million different devices, released a statement about the issue to AppleInsider on Tuesday.

"Apple is rejecting apps that use the Dropbox SDK because we allow users to create accounts. We're working with Apple to come up with a solution that still provides an elegant user experience," the statement read.

A Dropbox employee appeared to have issued a temporary solution on the company's forums with a new version of the SDK that removed the offending link. The employee promised to share next week information about a "better solution."

What Instagram does is to upload the image as soon as the user selects the filter and hits the green tick, entering the sharing screen – regardless of if you post it or not. The app makes “two requests, two round-trips”, sending the data as soon as part of it is ready to go, matching up the rest of the data later.

Instagram’s Krieger stated in his presentation in December that it is “worth it, even if you throw out the data on cancel.”

What you see as the user is a super-quick upload as soon as you hit ‘Done’, but behind the scenes the app works to process your data, as you enter it. It’s just one of the small things that helped the app reach 50 million users on just two platforms, leading to a $1 billion acquisition by Facebook.

Amazon just launched its Cloud Drive app for Mac and Windows.
The Amazon Cloud service unveiled last year, but now users can play with the desktop app counterpart, rather than their browser, to manage files in the cloud. Folders and files can transfer in the background, but the service does not support syncing or a native desktop browsing client like Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, and SugarSync.
Cloud Drive offers all customers 5GB of free online storage with unlimited access from any computer. Additional storage plans start at 20GB and extend to 1,000 GB. Unlimited music space is currently available with any paid Cloud Drive storage plan for the duration of an existing plan term.

Available for preorder right now, the PoP Video project from Micron Technology is a $99 pico projector with built-in 30-pin dock connector for your iPhone or iPod. The device works with iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and 3rd and 4th gen iPod touch, provides two hours of playback at 960 x 540 pixel resolution [and with a] Built-in Lithium-ion rechargeable battery
Playtime: Up to two hours with full battery charge

Kanex just released an AirPlay mirroring adapter for VGA projectors that streams content wirelessly from computers and iOS devices to TVs and projectors through Apple TV.
The Kanex ATV Pro is geared toward legacy projectors lacking HDMI ports. The new tech connects to Apple TV’s HDMI output port, as well as other device’s HDMI ports, and offers a mini D-sub 15-pin VGA port and 3.5mm stereo minijack audio connection for aging projectors and sound systems. It is also power plug free and supports up to 1080p with vertical refresh rate range of 50 Hz to 60 Hz.
The result allows teachers and presenters with an iOS device to stream or mirror content directly to a VGA projector through an Apple TV without additional equipment, power, or infrastructure. [...] The ATV Pro is available now for $59. 

Developed to hit an attractive price point, IK Multimedia's iRig MIX ($100) is a small, portable mixing console built for regular consumers rather than DJs, but offers enough app-assisted hardware functionality to appeal to both crowds. A crossfader, cues, EQ and volume controls are all built in, along with microphone/guitar inputs, stereo inputs and outputs; IK Multimedia promises that the mixed output is "pristine" rather than consumer-grade, with fine headphone quality for previewing of audio. iRig MIX includes a wall power adapter, RCA to 3.5mm audio cable, and twin 3.5mm cables so that you can connect your iOS devices, wall power, and other audio hardware straight out of the box; it can also be run off of self-supplied battery power using a micro-USB connector. Four free apps are included, as well.

Angry Birds Space is the fastest-selling mobile app ever.
Angry Birds Space has broken a new record: it's the first app to hit 50 million downloads in just 35 days, which is two weeks faster than the previous record-holder, Draw Something.
According to game developer Rovio, Angry Birds Space reached 10 million downloads in the first three days. As of Monday afternoon, people are still furiously downloading the game--it's #1 on iTunes and #2 on Google Play.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) was behind the ‘Wake Up’ flashmob at the Sydney Apple Store last week, as part of a campaign for its upcoming BlackBerry 10, it has been confirmed.

Previously believed to be a stunt by Samsung for the launch of the Galaxy SIII, the flashmob saw protesters arriving in a black coach, holding signs and chanting “wake up” outside the Australian Apple Store.

“We can confirm that the Australian ‘Wake Up’ campaign, which involves a series of experiential activities taking place across Sydney and Melbourne, was created by RIM Australia,” RIM has said, according to a report from The Age.

Samsung had already denied the accusations that it was behind the protest before RIM admitted its involvement: “As a market leader in smartphones we think Australians have already woken up to the multitude of choices available, but kudos to whoever is behind the campaign,” said the Galaxy SIII maker.



The ‘Wake Up’ website’s countdown timer is now believed to reach Zero on 7 May, the day that RIM says a ‘reveal’ will take place. It is expected that RIM will use the event to launch the BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system.

RIM is currently holding its BlackBerry world conference in Florida.