Last week, Apple released iOS 7 Beta 1 for iPhone to developers. At the same time, it released a new beta for the Apple TV as well. [embedded content] Users of the Apple TV beta have discovered at least two new features inside. AppleInsider notes that Apple built an iTunes Radio client for the Apple [...]
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Apple TV iOS 7 Beta Adds iTunes Radio and Conference Room Display Mode
Posted by Gary on June 19, 2013
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Microsoft undercuts Apple in education, selling Surface RT for $199
Posted by Gary on June 19, 2013
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Attempting to carve out a niche for its low-selling Surface RT, Microsoft took a step into Apple’s territory this week, offering the device to schools and universities for as low as $199. From June 24 to August 31, Microsoft will offer K-12 schools and universities the opportunity to purchase 32GB Surface RT tablets starting at [...]
How Apple shook up the electronic book market
Posted by Gary on June 18, 2013
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Apple didn’t try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself. “We’re not willing to lose money in any business,” Cue told the court, [...]
Apple TV gains iTunes Radio support, new feature in v5.4 beta
Posted by Gary on June 18, 2013
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Conference Room shows off increasing use of Apple TV for business Though not explicitly mentioned during the Worldwide Developer’s Conference keynote, the Apple TV will also be receiving an update to its differently-numbered iOS software in the near future — one that supports iTunes Radio and offers a few minor new features. The first beta, [...]
Court evidence: Jobs read Apple rumor sites, queried Cue on reports
Posted by Gary on June 18, 2013
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Was concerned about how self-publishing, aggregators would be handled According to a an email exchange between then-CEO Steve Jobs and Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue submitted in court earlier today as part of the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing trial, Apple’s co-founder and then-leader read Mac rumor-and-news sites such as [...]
Apple denies PRISM knowledge, insists most customer data secure
Posted by Gary on June 17, 2013
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Quiet on passive ‘backdoor’ surveillance Apple has issued a rare follow-up public statement on the ongoing crisis over the National Security Administration’s PRISM spying program. Reports revealed that the NSA is using PRISM to collect communications data from internal servers at major technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. All of the companies [...]
Editorial: What WWDC 2013 tells us about Apple
Posted by Gary on June 17, 2013
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Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Convention is now over, but the event revealed a year’s worth of insight into what the company is doing with the Macintosh, OS X, iOS and iCloud. OS X’s planned longevity Apple made it very clear that there’s no end in sight for OS X. Anyone concerned with the company “running [...]
Apple issues rare public comment on its ‘commitment to customer privacy’
Apple published a rare public comment discussing “Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy” in the wake of reports on the United States’ “Prism” surveillance program. On June 6th, just days before Apple’s weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference opened, the Washington Post published a report outlining a formerly secret government project — codename Prism — that it said [...]