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Where were you when Nothing Happened today?

Cisco — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:55:06 +0000

Unbelievable; Apple hyped an iTunes announcement targeting today for the past few days.

Beatles On iTunes. Really?????

Everyone was hoping for ITunes in the Cloud. But what do we get instead?

You can buy the Beatles Music Catalog on iTunes. Yawn.

The Beatles simply aren’t relevant anymore. So what if a few people who are living in the past want to download this music from iTunes. It’s ridiculous.

Most likely these people will have bought these albums in all of the prior formats including:

45’s
LP’s
8 Track
Audio Cassette
Laser Disk
Mini Compact Disk
Compact Disk or CDs

Now the last one is the kicker.

Why not just stick your Beatle Music CDs into the CD Rom slot in your Mac or PC and Import your Beatles Albums into iTunes. Then you can sync to your iPod, iPad or iPhone. Why spend more money to download this from iTunes. It’s insane.

This is just being hyped because the only one who will really benefit is Apple.

They have had a long running intellectual property battle with the Beatles Related company of Apple Corps Ltd. And being able to bring all of that to and end while potentially making even more money, is big news for Apple Inc.

It’s in Apple’s best interest to get the News Press excited with Hype like “Where were you when you heard…” that we were going to make more money today?

iOS 4.1 released

Cisco — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:54:14 +0000

Apple’s recently released iOS 4.1. It has a number of bug fixes and some significant additions.

Those fixes include remedies for the proximity sensor issue which some iPhone 4 users have experienced.

There are also some fixes for Bluetooth, and iPhone 3G performance.

There are also brand new features like High Dynamic Range photos, a feature to insure that you don’t get washed out images from your iPhone 4 camera.

HD video uploads over WiFi allows you to upload your videos to your YouTube account with a new ‘Send to YouTube’ button.

You can rent TV shows through iTunes.

And last but not least is Game Center. it adds new capabilities for multiplayer gaming including the ability to challenge friends, keep track of scores and achievements, and the ability to find new games by looking at what your friends are playing.

Apple’s recently released iOS 4.1. It has a number of bug fixes and some significant additions. Those fixes include remedies for the proximity sensor issue which some iPhone 4 users have experienced.
There are also some fixes for Bluetooth, and iPhone 3G performance.
There are also brand new features like High Dynamic Range photos, a feature to insure that you don’t get washed out images from your iPhone 4 camera.HD video uploads over WiFi allows you to upload your videos to your YouTube account with a new ‘Send to YouTube’ button.
You can rent TV shows through iTunes.
And last but not least is Game Center. it adds new capabilities for multiplayer gaming including the ability to challenge friends, keep track of scores and achievements, and the ability to find new games by looking at what your friends are playing.

iOS 4.1 released

Apple Music Event announcements

Cisco — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:21:38 +0000

At Apple’s September music event, the company announced iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch and also previewed iOS 4.2 for iPad.

iTunes 10 and Ping were announced.

Ping is a social network for iTunes users to replace the need for Google Buzz and Twitter in our lives. It may also be a Pandora rival in that you can see music recommendations based on your listening and buying habits.

They announced the following hardware updates:

iPod Nano

iPod Touch

iPod Shuffle

Apple TV

iOS 4.1

All bugs have been fixed!

That includes the proximity sensor on the iPhone 4, Bluetooth bugs across the iPod touch and iPhone, and lastly the much talked about iPhone 3G performance issues have been fixed.

HDR

iOS 4.1 also provides a new feature called High Dynamic Range Photos (HDR).

HDR is a new camera-based feature where the device camera improves the colour range of the photos you take..

HD Video & Game Center

iOS 4.1 will give us HD video uploading over WiFi to YouTube for example and also the new Game Center.

Apple’s Game Center is like Microsoft’s Xbox Live where users can play multiplayer games and be matched against anyone of similar skill in a particular game.

Availability

iOS 4.1 is available for iPhone and iPod touch as a free download next week.

iOS 4.2

During this morning’s event Apple also provided a sneak peek of iOS 4.2! There seems to be a trend there where the X.2 version is releaseed for the iPad.

iOS 4.2 is available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad but the real focus is for iPad. Essentially, iOS 4.2 is bringing every single feature of iOS 4.1, such as folders and multitasking, to the iPad.

Printing

iOS 4.2 is also bringing wireless printing to the iPad in the form of Print Center. We’ll be able to view print jobs, cancel them, and reprioritize them right from the iPad.

AirPlay

For all three iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, iOS 4.2 is bringing a feature called AirPlay which is a renamed AirTunes feature but can now stream photos and videos along with audio to your AppleTV from any iOS device via WiFi.

Availability

iOS 4.2 is available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad as a free download in November 2010.

The new iPods can be pre-ordered today and will ship next week.

Apple Music Event with Live Streaming 01 Sep. 2010

Cisco — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:23:52 +0000

Apple Music Event Sept 1 2010

Apple has announced it will be holding a “special Music event” in San Francisco on September 1 2010, and although the company has not preannounced the agenda, for the last several years the company has used late-summer/early-autumn events to introduce additions to its iTunes application and service as well as new iPods in time for the end-of-year holiday buying season.

Rumoured release items include:

Longer Song/Video Previews with iTunes Music Store
Syncing iTunes over the air or in the clouds (Apple is building a $1 Billion data center to handle this)
New iPod touch with front and back facing camera and LED Flash that is facetime capable
New Apple TV
New iPod Nano

You can follow the announcements via a live stream feed available at http://apple.com at 10 AM PST Sept. 01 2010. They usually keep the broadcast and make it available in iTunes University after that.