Weekly App Store Roundup: Oct. 11, 2008
With the iTunes App Store growing at an astonishing rate, it’s getting tough to sort the innovative wheat from the iPhone-clogging chaff. Our Weekly App Store Roundup highlights the most essential store additions, from entertaining freebies to time-saving tools and invaluable apps. This time we’re looking at Free RSS Reader, Menstrual Calendar and three freebies from Japanese game [...]
published today, 13 hours 30 minutes ago, apple-blog
iPod touch voted Gadget of the Year
Apple has, for the second time this month, won "Gadget of the Year" in a British awards competition. T3's second-annual T3 Gadget Awards ceremony was held on Thursday evening, and included awards chosen by both readers and T3. Readers cast over 54,000 votes to pick 11 of the prizes, which included the Gadget of the Year award, won by Apple's iPod touch....
published yesterday, 1 day 15 hours 46 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
iPhone app muscling into Kindle's eBook territory
Following the release of the Stanza eBook application for the iPhone, the software has been downloaded almost 400,000 times. By comparison, Amazon is only expected to sell 380,000 units of its Kindle eBook reader this year, suggesting that the iPhone may become a popular platform for those who occasionally want to do a bit of reading.Read More...
published on Sunday, the 5. October 2008, ars-technica
Amazon Kindle 2 leaked to the web
Amazon's second-generation Kindle reader has already surfaced in a new leak to BGR this evening and promises to solve many of the first-run issues with the e-book device, which was nicknamed the "iPod of reading" in its first generation. The new model appears to have a similarly sized, high visibility e-paper screen as the original but has the promised rounder styling, albeit in a slightly larger...
published on Friday, the 3. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
iTunes Store Free to Continue Dominating Digital Music Sales
We reported earlier on the possibility of a 66% raise in royalty fees for digital music distributors. Have no fear readers, the iTunes store will continue offering the generous service of providing somewhere for you to dump all that spare cash. According to CNET News, the Copyright Royalty Board informed interested parties yesterday [...]
published on Friday, the 3. October 2008, apple-blog
Sony intros new Reader with touch gestures
Sony tonight fulfilled expectations with the launch of a new, high-end Reader. The PRS-700 is one of the first and few devices to mix the use of an e-ink display with a touchscreen interface and is said to make interacting with books more natural; users make swiping gestures with their fingers to turn pages and use a stylus to select text, run a search or make notes with an on-screen keyboard. S...
published on Thursday, the 2. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
MacBook Speculation Increases While We Wait
While many readers await definitive news of a MacBook update, the void of legitimate rumors have triggered ongoing speculation about the anticipated release. For lack of any new details, a lot of speculation has focused on the "Brick"...
published on Thursday, the 2. October 2008, macrumors
Looming Royalty Decision Threatens iTunes Store, Apple Hints
eldavojohn writes "You may recall us discussing some legislation about online music. More decisions are being made that may affect how much money Apple must impart to labels and musicians. Right now, it's 9 cents a track — which adds up, when you sell 2.4 billion tracks each year. The Copyright Royalty Board is asking for 15 cents a track (66% increase) and Apple isn't going to agree." Reader scorp1us points out a similar article at CNN; both stories mention that Apple has intimated such a change might cause a complete shutdown of the iTunes Music Store.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Thursday, the 2. October 2008, apple-slashdot
Apple Drops Part of iPhone Developer NDA
ds writes "Apple, this morning, announced they are dropping the iPhone Developer NDA in respect to released software. Previously, iPhone developers were legally bound even after their software had been released." Another reader adds, "Early release software is still covered, but this should bring about increased developer interaction, as well as a slew of iPhone dev books." The complete message about the NDA change can be seen for now at Apple's iPhone Developer site, and is reproduced below.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Wednesday, the 1. October 2008, apple-slashdot
Simplifi features iPod dock, USB hub, flash reader
Griffin Technology today announced Simplifi, a desktop device that combines functions of an iPod/iPhone dock, USB hub, and media card reader. iPods can be docked, charged, and synced with the Simplifi, and two additional USB 2.0 ports are available for other devices. Various digital media cards are supported, including Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, SD, SDHC, xD, and CompactFlash....
published on Thursday, the 25. September 2008, macintosh-news-network