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Apple Announces Pending Release of iOS 4.1, 4.2 Coming in November

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

At today’s keynote event, Steve Jobs announced the upcoming availability of iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. Jobs noted that the long running proximity sensor, Bluetooth, and iPhone 3G performance bugs that have been raised by users will be fixed in this update.

New features to iOS 4.1 include High Dynamic Range photos, HD video upload over Wi-Fi, TV show rentals, and Apple’s Game Center will make its official debut.


High Dynamic Range photos are photos created using 3 separate photos captured in quick succession at varying exposure levels. The photos are then combined using some complex algorithms to create an enhanced composite photo. Game Center, which was first introduced earlier this year, will officially be included in iOS 4.1 and allows gamers to invite others to play, post scores to online leaderboards, and more.

iOS 4.1 will be available next week for iPhone and iPod touch and will be a free update.

Jobs also revealed that iOS 4.2 will be released in November, finally bringing iOS 4.x support to the iPad. The free update will include wireless printing as well as a new feature called AirPlay, which replaces AirTunes. AirPlay will offer streaming of video, music, and photos. iOS 4.2 will be compatible with the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone.

Update: While Apple’s U.S. and many other sites simply states that iOS 4.1 is coming soon, some international sites such as the Spanish one note that will become available next Wednesday, September 8th.

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Apple Announces iOS 4.1

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

iOS 4.1 software will be available as a free download next week. It includes:

  • Game Center—Experience social gaming on your iPod touch or iPhone.
  • Support for iTunes HD TV show and movie rentals—Choose from the largest selection of HD TV shows and movies and rent them right on your iPod touch or iPhone (U.S. only).
  • iTunes Ping—New social discovery features in iTunes available on iPhone and iPod touch.
  • iOS 4 features—iOS 4.1 also includes all the great features from iOS 4: multitasking, folders, create playlists, iBooks, enhanced mail, Home screen wallpaper, gift apps, and more.

iOS 4 will be available as a free download for all iPod touch (second, third, and fourth generation), iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 owners. Not all features are compatible with all devices. For more information, visit www.apple.com/ipodtouch/software-update/or www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/.

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Apple Announces iTunes 10

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

iTunes 10 is now available for download. It features:

  • iTunes Ping—New social network devoted entirely to music.
  • iTunes HD TV show and movie rentals—Choose from the largest selection of commercial-free HD TV shows and movies available to rent and stream on demand (TV show rentals available in the U.S. only).
  • AirPlay—Stream music and videos wirelessly to Apple TV from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Coming soon.

Visit www.apple.com/itunes for an overview of iTunes features. iTunes marketing assets can be found in the iPod family channel asset kit.

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Apple Announces New Apple TV

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The new Apple TV is now available for order in the U.S. and select countries and will ship in late September. It features:

  • Streamlined design—Less than four inches square, 80 percent smaller, quieter, and more energy efficient.
  • iTunes HD TV show and movie rentals—Choose from the largest selection of commercial-free HD TV shows and movies available to rent and stream on demand to an HDTV (TV show rentals available in the U.S. only).
  • Streaming-based design—Movies, TV shows, photos, and Internet content stream wirelessly to Apple TV.
  • Netflix streaming—U.S. Netflix subscribers can access the Netflix streaming catalog.

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Apple Announces New iPod Family

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Apple’s new iPod family is now available for order and will ship next week. It features:

  • iPod shuffle—New design with clickable buttons, VoiceOver, and Genius Mixes.
  • iPod nano—New, smaller design with built-in clip, Multi-Touch display, and six bright colors.
  • iPod touch—Now with FaceTime, Retina display, HD video recording, Game Center, and iOS 4.1.

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Apple TV Reported to Retain Name, Updated Products Not Shipping Immediately?

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

According to a pair of tweets from Australian Macworld, a revised Apple TV should be introduced today with its current name rather than being rebranded as “iTV,” and none of the products set for introduction today will see immediate availability.

The first tweet offers a model number of MC572LL/A for the U.S. version of the new Apple TV and claims that it will not ship immediately.
Our sources say new Apple TV (not iTV) is coming, but not shipping yet. Product code is Apple TV – USA MC572 LL/A.

The second tweet claims confirmation that a revised iPod touch will debut today but that none of the new products are expected to ship immediately.
The source also said that it doesn’t look like anything will be shipping immediately, and 4th gen touches are definitely coming too.

No word on when Apple plans to begin shipping the new products is given, although the company has been known to pre-announce products by anywhere from a few days to several weeks or more.

Australian Macworld correctly predicted the date of the most recent MacBook Pro refresh in April. A month later, the site also shared information from the same source offering a model number for an expected MacBook Air refresh, although the site hedged a bit on firm identification of the product associated with the model number by suggesting that it could be an LCD display. While the source’s model number information did turn out to be correct, it was in fact a revised MacBook that was released the following week.

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Apple Set to Debut 99-Cent iTunes TV Show Rentals From Fox and ABC

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts prepped for Apple’s media event

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will launch its 99-cent TV show rentals through the iTunes Store tomorrow, with Fox and ABC set to serve as launch partners for delivering content. A report earlier today had indicated that Walt Disney (which owns ABC) was on board with that plan and that News Corp. (which owns Fox) was undecided but leaning toward participating.
As part of the Apple event Wednesday, News Corp.’s Fox and Walt Disney’s ABC networks are slated to be announced as offering 99-cent rentals of television shows through the iTunes store, according to people familiar with the matter.

According to the report, Fox’s participation will be limited in duration, at least to start, and will be limited to shows such as Glee, Bones, and Lie to Me for which it owns both the production and broadcasting rights.

Echoing the report from earlier today, the new article claims that a number of News Corp. executives are uneasy about Apple’s plan, fearing a disruption of the traditional television business. The company ultimately agreed to go along with Apple, however, as an experiment in alternative means for delivering content to consumers and in order to win goodwill with Apple to set stage for partnerships in other digital content ventures.

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Apple to Provide Live Video Stream for Media Event

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Satellite broadcasting truck outside Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Apple announced this evening that they will be broadcasting their media event live over the internet.
Apple will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard, an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.

This is the first time for many years that Apple has decided to offer a live video stream of their media events.

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Apple TV to become iTV, gain apps?

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Apple is indeed making some major overhauls to the Apple TV, a source claimed this afternoon. One of the most significant is simply a name change, to the iTV. More important, though, is the addition of apps, Engadget said. Unmentioned is whether iPad or iPhone apps will be compatible with the new device, or even if iTV titles will be distributed through the App Store.

The source adds however that the iTV will still be limited to 720p video, despite 1080p now being the de facto HD standard. The restriction is allegedly a matter of “much internal debate” at Apple, but based on the technical limits of the A4 processor, which may be too slow to handle the resolution. The iPad and iPhone 4 are also stuck at 720p.

The iTV is otherwise expected to fall in line with earlier rumors. These have called for an iPhone 4-sized device, costing $99. It could have as little as 16GB of flash storage, but this would be compensated for by the introduction of iTunes streaming, in theory providing competition for services like Netflix. An announcement of the iTV is predicted for sometime this fall.

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Apple releases iOS 4.0.2, 3.2.2 with fix for PDF exploit

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Apple on Wednesday patched a PDF exploit found in its mobile devices with iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch, and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad.

The updates address a security hole used by hackers to “jailbreak” the iPhone, iPod touch. The PDF exploit could also be used by hackers to gain remote control over an iOS device.

iOS 4.0.2 is available for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and second- and third-generation iPod touch models. iOS 3.2.2 is for the iPad and iPad 3G.

Earlier this month, users released a browser-based hack that took advantage of a PDF exploit in Mobile Safari. The hack could allow users to run unauthorized code on their iOS devices through a process known as jailbreaking.

The jailbreak takes advantage of a PDF exploit that one prominent security expert called “scary.” By tricking a user into simply visiting a website and loading corrupted PDFs through the iOS browser, a hacker could take control of an iOS device.

Apple quickly responded after the hack was made public, and said that it had already developed a fix for the issue. It said the PDF exploit would be plugged with a forthcoming update, which was released Wednesday in the form of iOS 4.0.2 and iOS 3.2.2.

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