Apple’s ready to celebrate 5th anniversary of app store

Apple Inc. is ready to celebrate 5^th anniversary of its app store that was launched in 2008 with over 500 apps in the start. The launch of app store was done with the release of the second-generation iPhone, or the iPhone 3G.

Now the app store has over 850,000 apps. To celebrate the event, Apple has sent out many promotional posters. 

Apple is planning to go green for Reno, Nevada data center

Apple Inc. is reportedly building 18-20 megawatt solar farm for its Reno, Nevada data center making it one of the greener technological centers in the world, according to GigaOm. This solar farm would cover an area of 137 acre.

According to GigaOm, the company will use a different type of technology than the Apple's two arrays in North Carolina. The company is including mirrors in the technology that would increase the concentration of sun’s rays by up to seven times thereby increasing the amount of energy generation. Moreover, the company will also provide energy to the local grid.

SunPower, Solar energy solution providing company will work on the array's engineering and construction but until the completion of these farms Apple will utilize geothermal energy generated by local plants.

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GigaOm via Engadget

Apple has sued another patent violation on Samsung

Apple has reported in federal court in California that Samsung Electronics is violating four patents of Apple including unlocking of the phone by image presentation and searching through voice command.

"We continue to assert our intellectual property rights and defend against Apple's claims to ensure our continued innovation and growth in the mobile communications business," Samsung said in a statement.

Apple and Samsung are fighting with each other in the field of patents in 10 different countries on 20 different features.

The new case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, et a 12-00630.

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SayPeople

Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.3

Final Cut Pro X (Credit: Apple)

Apple Inc. has released new version of Final Cut Pro X i.e. version 10.0.3.

It comes with more professional look and features.

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iPad app for Bloomberg and DirecTV

Bloomberg and DirecTV have launched their iPad app. It will offer free live TV coverage on iPads.

iPad 3's resolution display

iPad-3's resolution display will be a most remarkable feature among the Apple products. Apple wants it to be Retina Display-like resolution.
Retina Display-like resolution refers to a diaplay in which "pixel density is so high your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels."
iPad-3's resolution of 264 pixels per inch (PPI) display is going to be a challenge for the manufacturers.

Touch programming with iPad

Now with "Codify", visual programming is possible. It has used Lua programming language.

Siri Chief leaves Apple Inc.

Co-Founder and CEO of Siri, Personal Assistant, Dag Kittlaus, leaves the company.

Kittlaus worked as CEO of Siri since 2007 and before that he was an entrepreneur at the Stanford Research Institute and also worked for Motorola. Apple Inc. purchased Siri in April 2010 with Dag Kittlaus as the co-founder and CEO of the company.

Apple silently updated MacBook Pros today

Apple silently updated its MacBook Pro line this morning. It updated MacBook Pros with faster processors and higher specifications.

Steve Jobs' next project to transform

The next business which Steve Jobs wanted to transform was textbook business.

iPad-3 is expected to be released by March 2012

iPhone-4S is released and now the users of Apple products are waiting for iPad-3.
Macotakara reports that iPad-3 will hopefully be shifted by March 2012 and it will have a newly designed dock connector with a 30 pin connector.

Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs' first and official biography is compiled by Walter Isaacson. It is thought that this biography will achieve huge sales.

New TV ad of iPhone 4S [Video]

New ad of iPhone-4S has been released by Apple. The Ad is called as "Assistant".
This ad shows some of the best features of virtual personal assistant introduced by Apple in iPhone-4S. As everyone knows that Siri has gotten a lot of attraction from around the world and Apple is adding more taste to the eatable by releasing its audience catching ads.

New MacBook Pro going to be launched by next week

New MacBook Pro is most probable to be launched by the next week as reported by 9to5Mac.

The new MacBook Pro will have same price as the current MacBook. Moreover, based on internal part numbers, the new MacBook Pro are thought to be of the same design.

iPhone activation is at maximum by AT&T

AT&T has announced in its recent updates about the sales. This report shows that iPhone has strong sales record. AT&T has activated 2.7 million iPhones in the last quarter out of total of 4.7 million devices' activation.

Apple financial results 2011 shows all time record sales of iPad and Macs

Apple has announced the financial outcomes for 3rd calender quarter and 4th fiscal quarter of the year 2011 along with all year's financial results.
Apple has gotten $28.27 billion in Q4 revenue. Net quarterly profit margins to $6.62 billion. It has gotten $7.05 on diluted share.
Company has sold 17.1 million iPhones, 11.12 million iPads and 6.6 million iPods in Q4.

Moving tributes from fans to Steve Jobs

Moving tributes from fans are given to Steve Jobs on the email rememberingsteve@apple.com

Company wrote on http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/:

Over a million people from all over the world have shared their memories, thoughts, and feelings about Steve. One thing they all have in common — from personal friends to colleagues to owners of Apple products — is how they’ve been touched by his passion and creativity. You can view some of these messages below.

iPhone-4S retail availability reservation system

Apple has announced their iPhone-4S retail availability reservation system through its Apple retail store and the Apple Store iOS app.

Jailbreak with updated version Redsn0w 0.9.9b6

iPhone-Dev team has released an upgraded version of Redsn0w 0.9.9b6. This version has additional capability i.e. in addition to supporting Windows users, it has ability of Location services for iPhone-3GS.
This new version of Redsn0w is released just after one week of Redsn0w 0.9.9b5 for Mac users.

Houston denied to sell Dropbox to Apple

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Forbes magazine has recently showed that Steve Jobs was looking for the software developer Drew Houston. Forbes article written by Victoria Barret has following account,

Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that.