August 2010 - Apple News - Techies Community

Intel to Acquire iPhone Supplier Infineon's Wireless Chip Unit

Intel today confirmed long-standing rumors by announcing that it will acquire the Wireless Solutions (WLS) unit of German firm Infineon for $1.4 billion. The move gives Intel a significant expansion into the market for smartphone chips as it... Read More...

Published 08-30-2010 3:06 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

More Claims of Smaller, Square iPod Nano Next Week, Along With Possible 3G iPod Touch and iLife

Mockup comparing possible next-generation iPod nano form factor to 2nd-generation model AppleInsider offers new claims of a significant redesign of the iPod nano scheduled for release at next week's media event, lending additional weig... Read More...

Published 08-27-2010 4:07 PM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Microsoft Co-Founder's Firm Sues Apple and Others in Patent Dispute

The Wall Street Journal reports that Interval Licensing, a patent licensing firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed to protect the intellectual property of Allen's former technology incub... Read More...

Published 08-27-2010 7:46 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Federal Trade Commission Settles Charges Over Fake App Store Reviews

According to The New York Times, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case it brought against California-based public relations firm Reverb Communications for writing paid reviews of App ... Read More...

Published 08-27-2010 4:05 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Apple Parts Ways With Engineering Consulting Firm Over Tablet Prototype

The New York Times reports that Apple has parted ways with engineering design firm SurfaceInk, severing a nearly decade-long relationship that saw SurfaceInk assist with the development of several Apple products. The move comes as SurfaceInk... Read More...

Published 08-27-2010 2:27 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

More Details on Next iPod Touch and Nano

Previously leaked touch screen part iLounge provides some more details about the upcoming iPod Touch and iPod Nano revisions coming from Apple next week. According to the site, the iPod Touch will contain a back-side camera, microphon... Read More...

Published 08-26-2010 10:13 PM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Apple Preps Yerba Buena for September 1st Media Event

Photo by @wired Apple has started prepping the Yerba Buena center for their upcoming media event next week. (via Wired / 9to5) The building-sized banner reflects the same guitar artwork that was printed on the media invitation sent ou... Read More...

Published 08-26-2010 4:05 PM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

MPEG LA Declares H.264 Standard Permanently Royalty-Free

MPEG LA, the group that oversees licensing for a number of Internet media standards, today announced that Internet broadcast content using the H.264 video coding standard will remain royalty-free for the entire life of the license, quashing f... Read...

Published 08-26-2010 9:42 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Apple Brings ePub Export to Pages With iWork 9.0.4

Apple today released iWork 9.0.4, bringing a number of fixes to Apple's productivity suite but also deploying a new feature: the ability to export Pages documents in the ePub format for compatibility with the company's iBooks application for Read...

Published 08-26-2010 9:15 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H531 Seeded to Developers

As noted by AppleInsider, Apple has seeded a third version of 10.6.5, termed Build 10H531, to developers for testing. The new build comes one week after the previous one and suggest that Apple is continu... Read More...

Published 08-26-2010 8:49 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Leaked Case Design Suggests iPod Nano May Gain Smaller Square Form Factor

Claimed next-generation iPod nano (top) and iPod touch (bottom) cases iLounge points to a Chinese site showing cases purportedly for Apple's next-generation iPod nano and iPod touch models. The cases come from Chinese case manufacture... Read More...

Published 08-26-2010 6:15 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Apple's Updated iPod Nano to Lose Click Wheel?

iPodNN reports on a new research note from Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu claiming that Apple may be preparing a significant redesign for its iPod nano that could see the device shrink in size and lose its... Read More...

Published 08-26-2010 5:15 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Apple's 'iAd for Developers' May Not Be Cost-Effective

Late last month, Apple enhanced its iAd mobile advertising platform to allow app developers to purchase ad space for simple banners that expand to display "in-app" App Store pages that allow users to read about and purchase applications without...

Published 08-26-2010 4:02 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

iTunes Store to Move to Web, Gain Increased Social Features?

All Things Digital reports that any updates to Apple's iTunes Store set to debut at next Wednesday's media event may be likely to revolve more around creating a social, Web-based environment than a true cloud-based service. Ap... Read More...

Published 08-26-2010 3:15 AM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

Netflix App Now Supports iPhone and iPod Touch

As promised, Netflix has finally updated their App Store app [iTunes Link] to support the iPhone and iPod Touch in addition to the iPad. Get Netflix on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Just download this free app and you ca... Read More...

Published 08-25-2010 9:40 PM by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors

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