The 1st IPhone 6 Concept Design

It has not been long since Apple Released its iPhone 5 and now Concepts of the iPhone 6( if that is indeed what they are gonna call it) are making their rounds.

Federico Ciccarese, an Italian designer, has come up with a series of stunning renders for the iPhone 6, which seems to resemble that of a Nokia Lumia which indicates a significant change to the phone's external design and operating system. 
Fedrico say he was inspired by a re-imagined look and feel of the operating system with a concept he calls iOSX, which is a fusion between iOS and the Mac OS X.
Since it should be several months before the next iPhone is released, there haven't been many rumors yet about how the device will look but it should increase over time. One analyst recently predicted that the next iPhone would come in more screen sizes and more colors, the latter of which is something that is already available for the iPod and iPod Nano. 

Will Apple answer the design concept or will the blow our minds with something even more intresting... only time will tell. What Do You think of This Mock-up?

Apple's Tim Cook on Steve Jobs at D10 [Video]

Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive making his debut performance at the D: All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. spoke about the companies former CEO Steven .P Jobs

Survey Says Huge demand for iPhone5 already

According to a recent survey from Piper Jaffray, there is already enormous demand for Apple's upcoming iPhone, even though there is no certain information on the iPhone's design, performance, name or launch date.

According to the survey of 216 mobile phone users, 29% of respondents currently own an iPhone while 64% of respondents plan to buy the iPhone as their next phone. The majority of the respondents (55%) planning to buy an iPhone are waiting for the iPhone 5 arrival. Interestingly only 6% of current iPhone users plan to switch to Droid while 42% of Android users plan to switch to iPhone.

Now this survey admits that the data comes from a small sample set in Minneapolis in "food courts, on the street, near the entrance of a baseball stadium on a game day" and so can hardly be taken as an indication of broader demand. Nonetheless, we thought it was both entertaining and a small indication of the impact that the iPhone 5 could have for Apple.

1997 Today : Microsoft saves Apple with a $150 million investment.

The Microsoft Deal ...

On Aug. 6, 1997:  rivalry between Apple and Microsoft appeared to vanish with the announcement a new cooperative partnership that included:

Here are the three major deals Steve agreed to Microsoft. 

Skype for iPad - Video Chat Application

 

Skype, The Online video chat service  has launched an app that works for Apple's iPad tablet.

Two-way video calling, instant messaging and SMS texting are optimised in this app.  

Apple working on ultra-thin 15-inch notebook PC : Rumor

Apple is in the late stages of testing a new ultra-thin 15-inch notebook computer that may or may not be an upcoming new addition to the MacBook Air family. MacRumors on Tuesday reports that the new ultra-thin laptop could either be a MacBook Air, which is currently offered in 11 and 13-inch sizes, or a MacBook Pro, which is currently offered in 13, 15 and 17-inch sizes.

No pricing or release timing is being reported at this point, though a launch in the near term is unlikely. Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup this past February and new MacBookAir models launched just this past week.

Facebook iPad App Is Hidden Inside Facebook’s iPhone App

  iPad App Is Hidden Inside the code of Facebook’s iPhone App

 

Facebook just released a dedicated iPad app and Facebook’s iPad app is hidden inside of their iPhone app.

Apple in talks with Hulu for acquisition

Apple Inc. is considering the acquisition of popular U.S. video portal Hulu, reports Bloomberg referring to anonymous sources.

Security holes in Apple MacBooks :Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hacks

Charlie Miller, Apple security expert with the consulting firm Accuvant, found a new way to hack into Apple's MacBook computers -- with the battery.

If exploited, Miller’s newly discovered hack could force battery overheating, or render it inoperable, transforming the computer into an expensive paperweight.

First Day :Apple reported 1M OS X downloads.

Apple in its press info announced that it had 1 million downloads of its newest operating system, Lion.

Thanks the the ease of downloading it through the App Store, this was the biggest OS launch in Apple's history.

This is what the Press info says :

Installing OS X 10.7 Lion

The optical disk is dead. Or at least it is for Apple fans. The company had been dropping DVD drives from its latest hardware and its new operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion, is now available in digital form only, via the Mac App Store . 

On one hand that's great — upgrading is just a matter of clicking a button and you're done, everything is handled seamlessly behind the scenes. 

However, the App Store method means you'll have to be running Snow Leopard (which is the only other OS that supports the App Store), and you'll have to download a nearly 4GB file, which can take quite a while if you haven't got a fast internet connection. 

The other problem is that the App Store install doesn't offer the opportunity to do a "clean" install — that is, wipe away your old system and install a fresh copy of Lion. To do a clean install Apple would have you wait until August, when the company will be begin shipping Lion on USB sticks for a whopping $70, more the double the $30 App Store price. 

However, despite what Apple says, there are in fact other ways to install Lion. Here's our guide to the various ways of installing Apple's newest OS on your Mac without waiting until August or paying double for the USB stick.

Downloading Lion

The simplest way to install Lion is to download it from the Mac App Store and then run the installer. If your connection is too slow to make a 4 GB download practical, head to your nearest Apple Store which will allow you to download a copy via their speedy wifi connection. It'll still take a while, but at least you can play with fancy new Macs while you wait. 

 

Don't have fast broadband or live near a Mac store? Make friends with someone who has the broadband you need, or be patient and wait several days for Lion to download. Alternately you can wait until August and pay a premium for a USB copy.

Build your own install disk

Just because Apple wants everything to be digital doesn't mean you have to oblige them. In fact it's dead simple to create your own DVD or USB Lion installer. When Lion installs it will create a hidden recovery partition on your harddrive. Should anything ever go wrong with your installation you can always hold down the option key at start up and boot from the emergency partition to re-install Lion.

Given the new hidden disk failsafe, why bother creating an installation disk? Well, you'll need it if you want to do a clean install and it's not a bad thing to have around. If your hard drive fails the hidden partition will fail with it and you'll be stuck downloading Lion again. 

Fortunately creating an install disk from the Lion installer is pretty easy. First head to your Applications folder, where you'll see the freshly downloaded Lion installer app. Right-click on the app and select "Show Package Contents." That will open the installer bundle in a new window where you'll see a folder called "SharedSupport." Inside "SharedSupport" there's a disk image called "InstallESD.dmg." The "ESD" bit stands for "Emergency Startup Disk," which is what we'll use to create a new Lion install disk, so copy "InstallESD.dmg" somewhere else.

Now insert your disk — a DVD, a USB stick or an external hard drive will all work — and launch Disk Utility . Select the drive you're using and then click the "Restore" tab. Make sure your backup drive is set as the "Destination," and then just drag and drop the "InstallESD.dmg" into the "Source" box. Click "Restore" and wait for Disk Utility to work it's magic. Once it's done, eject your disk and you're finished. Use that disk as you would any other installation disk.

Over-the-air "clean" install

If something goes catastrophically wrong with your Mac, Apple has a new hidden option in Lion that will allow you to wipe your drive and do a clean install via the internet. That's great for recovery purposes, should something go wrong with your install. 

To get to the new options, just start up your Mac holding down command-R and you'll be greeted by a menu that will allow you to restore your system to any point in time from a Time Machine backup, run Disk Utility to check, repair or partition disks and connect to Apple via Safari. That's the hidden recovery partition kicking in.

Lion's so-called Internet Recovery mode lets you start your Mac directly from Apple's Servers, as per Apple's tech note:

Note: If your Mac problem is a little less common — your hard drive has failed or you've installed a hard drive without OS X, for example — Internet Recovery takes over automatically. It downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac mini and MacBook Air.

Conclusion

As with in OS upgrade be sure to make complete bootable backups (and test them!) before you begin installing OS X Lion.

Updated MacBook Air released

Apple updated the MacBook Air with new high-speed Thunderbolt connections, a backlit keyboard, and Mac OS X Lion, the newest version of the operating system that also became available today.

 
Starting at $999 for the U.S. market,Students can expect to pay £730 through the Education Store, and U.S. students will find the costs to be knocked down to $949, according to the website.

Apple's quarterly revenue record growth with hot iPad, iPhone sales

Apple on Tuesday reported that revenue and profit rocketed to record highs in the recent quarter as sales of iPhones and iPads more than doubled.

Apple said it made a net profit of $7.31 billion on unprecedented revenue of $28.57 billion in the quarter ending June 25.


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Apple Wins Patent Case Against Android based HTC Phones :Google under attack

Apple wins initial ITC ruling on HTC phone

 This will be a bad news for google because Google android is most popular on HTC phones.

International Trade Commission has made an initial determination that HTC infringed two Apple patent. If this is final HTC may be banned for inporting smartphones to US.

 

AllThingsD posted those two patents relate to a

1 "system and method for performing an action on a structure in a computer"

and a 

2 "real-time signal processing                                   system for serially transmitted data"

Friday's ruling responds to one of two ITC complaints filed against HTC by Apple. HTC has also filed its own ITC complaint against Apple. 

HTC said it didn't have access yet to the full opinion, and it sought to downplay the decision.

"Apple filed suit on 10 of its patents against HTC, but based on the judge's initial decision today only prevailed on 2 of those patents. HTC will vigorously fight these two remaining patents through an appeal before the ITC Commissioners who make the final decision," Grace Lei, general counsel for HTC, said in a statement. 

"We are confident we have a strong case for the ITC appeals process and are fully prepared to defend ourselves using all means possible," she said. 

HTC also noted that the ITC has ruled that Apple infringed patents assigned to S3Graphics, a company HTC is in the process of acquiring, as part of a separate investigation.

Android is being attacked from other sources as well. Microsoft appears to have been approaching Android handset makers requesting that they license its technology, and HTC is one of the biggest vendors to have complied so far. Separately, Oracle is battling Google for allegedly infringing Oracle's Java patents and copyrights in Android. Apple has lodged complaints against other Android handset makers as well, including Samsung. 

iPhone 5 may launch in August : CNET UK

Apple's much-awaited and more speculated next-generation iPhone, iPhone 5, may launch in the second half of August, reports CNET.UK.

According to CNET, new job postings for a number of iPhone sales staff in the UK suggest a mid-August launch for Apple's next-generation iPhone.

The post seeks an "Apple iPhone sales specialist" to work for two and a half months in Apple retail stores beginning in mid-August for what recruiter Gekko calls "an exciting project". Gekko is reportedly the recruiter who posted the listings.

"Our client, Apple, one of the largest consumer electronic hardware and software companies in the world are seeking full-time iPhone Sales Staff for an exciting project to work 5 days a week (Tuesday-Saturday) for the period 16th August - 29th October within key retail stores," goes the job posting.

Though listing per se is no concrete evidence of iPhone 5 launch, it definitely shows that preparation for a new device are underway.

According to Apple Insider, Apple has also aligned three key suppliers of gallium arsenide for iPhone 5, as the company prepares to begin mass production of the handset for launch later this year.

According to a recent DigiTimes report too, the new iPhone will launch in the third quarter of calender year 2011. This means that the device could be unveiled anytime between now and the end of September. Earlier this month, it was said that Apple placed orders for 15 million iPhones from manufacturer Pegatron.

Mac OSX 10.7 codenamed 'LION' to be launched next week: Features

We know On June 6, at WWDC 2011, it was announced that the official release for Lion would be in July 2011 and that, unlike previous versions, which were released on a set of CD-ROMs or a DVD-ROM, Lion would only be available as a download from the Mac App Store for US$29.99. The only prior version of OS X that supports the Mac App Store is Snow Leopard, implying that any machines that support Lion currently running Tiger or Leopard will first have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard, as opposed to allowing a direct upgrade to Lion. The Server portion of Lion will be available as a separate download from the Mac App Store for US$49.99.

Features that we can expect :

Multi-touch gestures:

An input system already existed in iPhone and iPad.

Inverted scrolling. As you'd imagine, slightly tricky to get used to, but makes a lot of sense 15 minutes in. The mental switch has already happened and Snow Leopard now feels wrong.

Full screen applications

Expand any application so that it fills the screen - meaning no distraction from others.

Mission control

This brings together full-screen apps, Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces in a new feature that gives you a bird's-eye view of everything on your system.

New Mac app store

Already available but it is Now more closely integrated into the system, and becoming a major source of apps for download. You can still get apps by downloading from the web, though.

Launchpad

Launchpad is a new, full-screen home for all the apps on your machine, brought up by clicking an icon in the Dock: open windows fade away, to be replaced by a full-screen display of all your apps.

Resume

A feature that start the machine back at exactly the same place that you turned it off - preserving the state of the documents.

Autosave and Versions

Using this feature documents created by certain apps will be saved automatically at set periods. You can revert to an earlier version or compare it.

Airdrop

Airdrop is a on-the-fly peer-to-peer wireless networking between any two Macs.

Developer viewpoint: "Have been unable to test this yet."

Mail

Mail has been redesigned with a three-pane interface borrowed from the iPad. Also has enhanced search and conversation threading. 

Bye bye scroll bars

Bye bye scroll bars is a radical change to the interface. (You can also resize windows from any part of the side, as Windows has offered for years.)

Security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system Exposed

This wednesday hakers have explited a flaw in the iOS operating system which is being used on all apple products.

www.jailbreakme.com released code that Apple customers can use to modify the iOS operating system through a process known as "jail breaking."

Some Apple customers choose to jail break their devices so they can download and run applications that are not approved by Apple or use iPhone phones on networks of carriers that are not approved by Apple.

Security experts warned that criminal hackers could download that code, reverse engineer it to identify a hole in iOS security and build a piece of malicious software within a few days.

"If you are a malicious attacker, it is fairly doable," said Patrik Runald, a senior researcher with the Internet security firm Websense.

Apple has yet to release an update to iOS that protects customers against malicious software that exploits the flaw.

Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said the company was aware of the problem.

"We are developing a fix that will be available to customers in an upcoming software update," Muller said.

Apple has long been vocal against jail breaking, which if done voids the warranty on its devices.

Any security flaw in iOS software -- which runs Apple's iPhone, iPad tablet andiPod Touch -- has the potential to affect millions of devices that are at the core of Apple's business.

Apple has sold 25 million iPads since it launched last year. The company sold over 18 million of its popular iPhones in just the first three months of the year.

Hackers can exploit the iOS vulnerability by creating a malicious PDF document file. It would infect Apple devices when users attempt to open that document, according to Runald.

Once the device is infected, hackers could "do anything they want," Runald said. That includes stealing passwords, documents and emails.

Comex, a 19-year-old hacker from New York State who developed the jail-breaking tool, said that Apple might be able to patch the software before criminal hackers develop software that exploits the bug.

Last time he put out a version of his jailbreaking software, Apple was able to issue a patch before anybody exploited the bug for malicious purposes.

He said that Apple might not be able to move quickly enough this time.

"It's not that hard to reverse engineer," he said via telephone.

New MacBook Air with 400 mbps flash storage

     New MacBook Air to hit lightning speeds with 400 mbps flash storage.

It looks like Apple's expected Macbook Air refresh could put its ultra-thin laptops at the top of the charts when it comes to speed. 

According to Macotakara.jp, parts manufacturers for the new Airs are using 400 mbps NAND flash storage chips. So what exactly does this mean? Well the chips are soldered straight onto the Airs' motherboard, doing away with any connection whatsoever and bringing with it a possible 100 times performance increase over past models. This coupled with the possible i5 and i7 update could mean the new Apple lightweights are no longer disappointing in the specs department. 

A MacBook Air refresh is expected to arrive alongside the mid-July release of OSX Lion. The new ultra-thin laptops are rumoured to sport the high speed Thunderbolt port, Sandy Bridge processors and the same design as current generation MacBook Airs. 

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