Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 11:14 AM | Posted by kazouz
Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are now available on the iTunes Store in Australia and New Zealand.
The iTunes Store in Australia and New Zealand feature over 700 films for rent or purchase, with new release titles available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release, including favorites such as “National Treasure 2,” “Jumper,” “27 Dresses,” “Cloverfield,” “Vantage Point” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 09:28 PM | Posted by kazouz
A Softbank Mobile official believes that the arrival of Apple’s iPhone 3G will force Japanese cellphone makers to revamp their handsets to allow increasingly sophisticated software.
“Faced with increased competition, Japanese handset providers will have to provide more software-oriented machines like the touch-screen iPhone, said Tetsuzo Matsumoto, a senior executive vice president at Softbank Mobile,” AFP reports.
“It’s now the turning point,” said Matsumoto, whose company is the only Japanese carrier so far to have launched the iPhone 3G in Japan.
Other operators, such as NTT DoCoMo, are skeptical.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 09:10 PM | Posted by kazouz
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has upped his estimate of the number of iPhones he expects Apple to sell in its 4th quarter, from 4.1 million to 4.47 million, according to a report to clients issued early Wednesday.
In the same period last year, Apple sold 1.12 million first-generation iPhones.
Munster’s new estimate is based on Apple’s report that it sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs in the three days and on 25 hours of in-store checks across the United States conducted over the past two weeks.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 03:31 PM | Posted by kazouz
A number of iPhone 3G users are experiencing inconsistent cellular connections with the new device, according to some reports.
There is a popular discussion thread on Apple’s forums focusing on the problem. Some users are reporting frequent dropped calls on 3G networks. A 3G iPhone user named posted on the forum: “in Washington, D.C., all calls were dropped after a second or two.” But when 3G was turned off, the user said, there were “no problems.”
The connectivity problem appears to be only for iPhone on the AT&T network, Newsfactor reports. It is important to note, however, that online reports from users cannot precisely illustrate the real extent of the issue.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 12:17 AM | Posted by kazouz
A Wall Street Journal interview with Steve Jobs reveals that users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone from the App Store during its first month in operation.
While most of the applications were free, the company sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software,” Jobs said.
He said that Apple stands to collect $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store if sales stay at the current pace. “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” he added. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time.”
Thursday, August 07, 2008 at 08:08 AM | Posted by drawbob
According to Katie Marsal of AppleInsider, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes that Apple will host a special event in September to usher in new iPods and MacBooks.
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Monday, August 04, 2008 at 07:06 PM | Posted by kazouz
Apple today released a software update for the iPhone.
iPhone software 2.0.1 represents the first update since the release of iPhone 2.0. Apple lists “Bug fixes” as the only change in this version.
The update is available through iTunes.
Friday, August 01, 2008 at 10:16 AM | Posted by kazouz
Apple has released Security Update 2008-005.
Among all the fixes, this update patches a serious DNS server vulnerability that allows attackers to lead users to fake websites that steal the user’s information.
Continue reading Apple releases Security Update 2008-005.
