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iVIP – Exclusivity, Luxury, Privilege.
iVIP Black, The Millionaires App, is the first and only premium lifestyle application for the iPhone. iVIP Treatment is new to iVIP Version 2.0, with iVIP members receiving personalised attention and heightened experiences across the range of iVIP partners.
iVIP treatment allows iVIP members to geo-locate iVIP partner venues and receive extra-special experiences through surprise gifts, welcome packages, complimentary room upgrades, exclusive rates, priority access, and other unique privileges. For premium iVIP members iVIP treatment is available across our global range of luxury partners.



VIP Partners include Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, Virgin Limited Edition (Necker Island, The Lodge Verbier, and more.), Firmdale Hotels, and many other premium brands, venues and services around the world. iVIP covers all aspects of the luxury lifestyle including butlers, theatres, personal trainers, private jets, a concierge, casinos, personal styling... And much more.

Please note: iVIP Black is the premium version of iVIP, the first ‘Millionaire’s App’. Upon download, prospective members will be required to certify they are High Net Worth Individuals with assets and/or income in excess of £1 million. Upon completion each approved member will be eligible for a personal consultation to explore how iVIP can manage their VIP lifestyle.

Any resulting project plan, personalisation, and bespoke software/app and/or hardware development will come at additional cost.

Please note: iVIP Black membership lasts for one year, unless you customise the app - bespoke development gives you automatic lifetime membership.

iVIP members get access to everything you’d expect – and more – from the world’s first luxury lifestyle app, including:

- Be treated like a VIP across our partner venues
- Benefit from unique iVIP privilege rates with many of our partner services
- Receive complimentary room upgrades at luxurious hotels
- Take advantage of priority booking at premium restaurants
- Receive complimentary amenities at various partner venues
- Get priority access to unique events and experiences
- Access a concierge directly through iVIP
- Book private yachts, private jets, private islands, and more, directly through iVIP
- Receive invitations to exclusive iVIP evenings
- Purchase the unique, limited edition iVIP Black iPhone

Please note: These services come at additional cost.

New luxury partners will be continuously added to the iVIP stable, increasing the value of your membership. Plus, you can suggest partners you would like to see included.

You can access all of these partners and privileges directly from iVIP, bringing the VIP lifestyle to your iPhone for the first time. Many of these benefits are exclusive to iVIP and unavailable through any other routes.

And it will be - $999.99
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iOS 5 Features [Video]

Many iPhone users are waiting for iOS 5 in order to try the new amazing features NOW you can see the below awesome video that shows you what iOS 5 can do. Enjoy !!

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iOS 5 Features - Download - Release Time - Everything You Need To Know !

Starting with over 200 million iOS devices and that makes iOS the #1 mobile operating system. With more than 44% of the market... They sold 25 million iPads in 14 months. Over 130 million books downloaded. 90,000 apps made specifically for the iPad. Apple has paid out more than 2.5 billion to devs. Now lets talk about the future of iOS: iOS 5.

Features

Notifications:
They've built something better than you expected for notifications. They've built something called Notification center. It's a single place combining all your notifications. Just swipe your finger from the down up to reveal the notification center. It shows you everything, Facebook notifications, Twitter and everything you need. When you get a text message, you get a nice notification at the top there. You can dismiss it, or tap there and you can always go back later.

Newsstand:
It's all about reading news and magazines. They've added subscription lately. Some incredible titles are doing it, like national geographic. They created a single place in the app store that combines them all at one place, purchase them, and they're automaticly downloaded right on the home screen

Twitter:
They've made it more and more easier. You go to settings app, and you can just enter your credentials and all your apps will already be logged into your twitter. They added twitter to many of our apps. Like Cameras, photos. There is a new option to share: Tweet and it opens a nice sheet. YOu can get a countdown and even optionally add your location. It's that simple. In addition, you can tweet articles from safari, websites. VIdeos from youtube, and even apps

Safari:
iOS 5 is making safari even better. The first is reader. It's available up here as abutton. When you read a story, you tap that button and we extract all the info. Even if it's a multi page story. WE put it in a single scrolling story. Really convenient. Second one is reading list. It's a simple convenient way for you to save a story to roead it later. When you add something, it will add it to reading list on every iDevice. Even on the mac or Windows. When you email now too, you can have the content in the content window. It works great on iPad and iPhone. Really nice.

Tab Browsing:
This features enables you to jump on the mac or any other iOS device easily.

The Reminder Up:
It's a new revemaped system of the reminder. That's it.

Camera:
First, it's gonna be way faster to get in and take a photo. Just hit the new iCon, and you're right there. Even if you have a passcode and you can hit the camera from the lockscreen. You can also take picture with the volume up button (remember Camera +?) You can now pinch to zoom within the camera. If you hold your camera you can lock exposure. This is a really advanced feature, and we brought it tothe iPhone. ONce that you take these photos, you can edit them right in your iPhoen or iPad. Rotate, red eye reduction.

Mail:
Mail is one of the most used applications on iOS. We're making it even better. Rich text formating, bold, underline. You can control indentation. Drag the address across fields. Also: search the entire content of your emssage on your phone and the server. It's really nice to use this. You can swipe and so on. Also, we added more support for entreprise customers. This time we're adding X-Mime. you can use certificates, and get that locked iCon that says your mail is encrypted.

New Keyboard to iPad:
Since the revolution iPhone, we revollutionzed the keyboard. They're making it even better. For those who like to type with thumbs. It's a split keyboard that moves around with your thumbs

PC-Free:
You can now setup and activate device right on the go without need to PC, yes without PC. Now you can add and delete calendars right from iOS. And surprisingly they're letting people update over-the-air.

Game Center:
You can fight for achievement points. Compare with friends, have recommended friends.

iMessage:
They're launching a new messaging system for all customers. It supports iPad, iPod and iPhone. It does everything plus it adds some new features as delivery receipts. You can always enter and go out, the content of the conversation is saved. It works 3G and Wifi. All encrypted. It allows you to send and receive messages while you're playing games.

Availability

iOS 5 will ship to all of our customers this fall. iOS 5 will be available to developers tonight. We'll of course upload the betas of iOS 5 on our servers to let our users have fun with it before it's being released.


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Here Is What Notifications Look Like In iOS 5

CultOfMac has just got some screenshots of the notifications bar in iOS 5. It could be fake and could be true but we think it's something interesting and we really loved it. Check it after the break.

It's almost here. We'll know everything in few minutes. Wait for us.

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Two Secret Banners Spotted in WWDC

Before WWDC's kick off with 1 hour, Greg Kumparak of Mobile Crunch has just spotted two secret WWDC banners, do you think that we will get a surprise.

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WWDC 2011: iOS 5 To Have Android-Like Notifications, Widgets, BlackBerry-Like Messaging

It looks like that Joshua Topolski of This is my next and the editor in chief of Engadget has got its own iOS 5 and he reveals some of its features. He says iOS 5 will sport BlackBerry-like notifications bar at the top of the screen which looks like an imaged leaked earlier today. “Messages will appear and then slide back up in a unobtrusive manner, similar to webOS”, the author writes.

Topolsky also describes a dedicated notifications window and – yes, widgets. The lock screen will also provide access to notifications “through a pulldown window which you reach by swiping at the top of the screen downward… just like Android”, Topolsky writes.

As for the BlackBerry-style messaging, the source claims that “Apple is readying it’s own MMS / SMS protocol which will be a native part of the phone” and have the ability to “automatically identify iOS users and route the message accordingly”, which is a bit murky, but that’s what the source said.

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Star Trek Video Game Announced for Summer 2012 - Kirk and Spock Headline New Co-Op Adventure

Star Trek, a brand new co-op adventure video game under development by Digital Extremes (The Darkness 2), was announced for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PCs for summer 2012. I'm showing great restraint in not leading with "set phasers for fun," but considering the game casts player as Kirk and Spock from the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, I'm very, very giddy to see it at this year's E3 2011.

According to Paramount Digital Entertainment, Star Trek will continue the adventure from the movie, with an original story and "unprecedented co-op experience." The story will revolve around Kirk and Spock working together to stop a legendary enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy. Any bets on which race? I'm going with Tribble, because that would be awesome.

"Star Trek challenges the boundaries of co-op gameplay with a galactic adventure that gamers and fans have never experienced," said Tom Lesinski, President of Paramount Digital Entertainment. "Working closely with the Star Trek filmmaking team throughout development, the game is sure to deliver AAA production values, a wide variety of gameplay and all the action you would expect from the hit franchise. This will be the definitive Star Trek gaming experience."

God of War writer and BAFTA award winner, Marianne Krawczyk, will craft the story for the game, in collaboration with Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the writer/producers of the new Star Trek movies. In a similar spirit, Digital Extremes will be working closely with Bad Robot, K/O Paper Products and Damon Lindelof to insure the game meets a higher standard of Star Trek game than say...err.. this one.

Star Trek is coming for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PCs in summer 2012.

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iCloud replaces iTunes for iOS device syncing, doesn’t replace MobileMe?

John Gruber at Daring Fireball has published his thoughts on what’s going down tomorrow with iCloud at WWDC. In short: “Don’t think of iCloud as the new MobileMe; think of iCloud as the new iTunes.” Gruber notes that the iOS syncing process of today requires a user to USB tether their device to their computer in order to sync music, video, apps, etc. iCloud might just be the future of iOS device syncing.

The ideal concept would be that a user can upload all of their media to the cloud, sign into their iOS device, and it will be ready to go.

But in short let’s just think about the ways that iCloud might be a major, dare I say game-changing, step away from USB tethering between iOS devices and iTunes running on your Mac/PC. Consider just the new out-of-box experience. Rather than “Take this out, plug it into your Mac or PC (after first making sure your Mac/PC is running the latest version of iTunes), wait for it to sync before you actually play with it”, you might get something like “Take this out, turn it on, sign into your iTunes account, and start playing with it.”

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iOS 5 [Photo]

Just one day before WWDC and the presentation on iOS 5, the media seemingly got a hold of a possible iOS 5 SpringBoard photo and it has gone viral.

TechCrunch posted three hours ago (as of 6/5/2011 10:32 PM PST) a full-blown article and SpringBoard image that gives a little credibility to the possible iOS 5 design. With the 2 mentions of Twitter in the photo, this could be a sign that a newly designed notifications system is true and is a prominent feature in iOS 5. On top of a notifications system, other probable updates include improved voice command, Twitter integration, widgets, and much more.

Although speculation about certain features of iOS 5 have been circulating the news for quite some time, what will be more exciting are those features that have not been mentioned or "leaked" to the public. And coming from the mouth of Grant Paul (@chpwn), for those of us that jailbreak, iOS 5 when released should not hinder advancement in jailbreaking capabilities whatsoever. Depending on the changes in bootrom or userland coding, the jailbreak should be close to the initial release of iOS 5.

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New Hard-To-Detect Android Malware Threat On The Loose, Steals User Data, And More called DroidKungFu

If you’re an Android user, you better stay on the lookout for a new form of Android malware: DroidKungFu. Discovered by Assistant Professor Xuxian Jiang and Ph. D. student Yajin Zhou, both from North Carolina State University, this reflects yet another evidence that hackers are interested in this open but also largely unprotected platform.

As explained on the University’s blog, the malware takes advantage of a vulnerability present in Android 2.2 and under. When installed, it opens a backdoor that grants an attacker full access to the phone, and the data on it, essentially turning it into a "bot":

In Android versions 2.2 (Froyo) and earlier, DroidKungFu takes advantage of two vulnerabilities in the platform software to install a backdoor that gives hackers full control of your phone. Not only do they have access to all of your user data, but they can turn your phone into a bot – and basically make your smartphone do anything they want.

Users of later versions of Android are also affected, although to a lesser degree: albeit no full control is possible, some data is still accessible, such as the phone’s mobile phone device ID number, a unique number used by authorities to identify the handheld and block it, in case it gets stolen.

What sets this threat apart from other recently Android threats, like DroidDream, which we reported on last week, is the fact it can’t be detected or removed by common anti-malware software. According to the University’s blog, two leading malware removers were tested and neither of them was able to detect or remove DroidKungFu effectively. The researches at North Carolina State are currently working with anti-malware makers on a fix:

The researchers are currently discussing this problem with leading anti-virus software companies.

This malware is embedded into Android applications found in "more than eight" different Chinese App Stores. While no infected Apps have been found anywhere else, we can’t stress enough that taking standard security precautions is becoming more important than ever on mobile devices: don’t get Apps from sources you’re not familiar with and check for anything shady. Remember that if something doesn’t look right, it probably isn’t.

Even if this piece of malware isn’t detected, it’s also becoming increasingly advisable to get anti-malware software, such as Lookout or AVG Free. Some protection is always better than none.

(via The Abstract)

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Over 400,000 iOS Apps Are Now Available For Download Via Apple’s App Store

According to AppShopper, a reputable iOS and Mac OS X app directory, over 400,000 apps are now available for download for iOS in Apple’s App Store (with over 500,000 being approved apps), or more precisely, 401,437. If AppShopper’s statistics are accurate, this is yet another milestone for Apple and iOS platform.



Sites like AppShopper and 148Apps displays App Store apps, according to some, in a more efficient way. While iTunes App Store and the Mac App Store are strong at searching, these are stronger on discovery. Unlike Apple’s App Stores, they also display recent price drops as they happen, allowing users to get great deals that would otherwise be buried deep within Apple’s database. But more importantly, websites like these display somewhat accurate statistics on how many apps the App Store currently hosts, and if AppShoper’s figures are to be believed, there’s a total of 401,437 iOS apps now available for download. Some of the newest apps, according to the site, include Play Ball Escape HD, an iPad game; Tie Dye Doodle, a clothes styling application; and WorkPlace, a business data organizer.

Apple’s App Store model is believed by many to have begun by accident, when the company’s previous iPhone development model, which consisted mainly of Web-based applications, failed to gain enough traction. Around that time, there were unofficial "App Stores" that were easy to set up on jailbroken devices. For a long time, that became the only way to distribute full-fledged iPhone Apps, until Apple released its official App Store one year later. Earlier this year, Apple released an App Store for Mac OS X with an update, although the iOS counterpart remains much more popular.

Apple has reached similar milestones in the past. While the marketplace first launched in June 2008 with as few as 500 apps (although it looked like a lot more back then), it quickly reached 7,500 in October of that year, and 100,000 just over one year later. As far as downloads, Apple reached the 1-billion count in late April of 2009, and as of January 2011, it stands at over 10 billion.

As of today, all of Apple’s main competitors own some kind of App Store, the most successful of which being Android’s App Market, currently with 200,000 apps.

(via AppAdvice)

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iSteve: The Book Of Jobs – Official Biography On Steve Jobs Now Available For Pre-Order

Steve Jobs is one of the most private ‘celebrity’ CEOs in the tech industry, if not of any industry going. For a man that’s so popular and so wealthy he isn’t one for letting people behind the closed doors of his life, which makes it even more surprising that the man behind Apple has allowed an authorized biography to be written about him, and it’s now available for pre-order.

Called ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs’ and written by Walter Isaacson, the biography takes a look into the life of the Apple co-founder, both professional and private.

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

iSteve is an interesting choice for the book’s title given the book on the other half of the Apple story, Steve Wozniak is called iWoz – a book Jobs is known to not be a fan of.

You can now pre-order iSteve on the Amazon Web site in both Kindle and paper guise for $14.99 and $19.80 respectively with a listed release date of March 6th 2012. Unfortunately that’s still nine months away, so plenty of time for the book to get out of date before we get our hands on it.

This isn’t the first high-profile biography Isaacson has penned – books on Henry Kissinger, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin have all been written by the former CNN, TIME and Aspen Institute boss.

iSteve isn’t the first book to be written about Steve Jobs – others such as ‘iCon Steve Jobs’ and ‘Inside Steve’s Brain’ have been popular among Apple fans, though this is the first book to be to receive official access to the man himself as well as current Apple employees. It will be interesting to see how this insight changes the stories we’ve already heard in so many other books.

Of course, which side is the most accurate, we may never know.

(via: CultofMac)

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Live Coverage Of WWDC 2011.. Where Can You Watch It Live !

Getting ready to watch WWDC 2011 live tomorrow?? Well, it's almost here and It's one of the most anticipated events of the year for the tech community. The much waited iOS 5 will be announced tomorrow along with iCloud and more things to be announced. In case you don't have a ticket, you can watch it live below.

Here's a list of websites who're covering the event live:

• MacRumorsLive
• Engadget
• GDGT Live
• CNET
• CrunchGear
• Gizmodo
• My Twitter

For time table, we've got a one for you! Check this time table here.

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The Magical iOS 5 For iPad Preview That You Don’t Want To Miss [VIDEO]

Simon Pierro, a self-made German magician has published a demo of a preview version of iOS 5. We admit it, it’s not the real iOS 5, but it’s loaded with "magical" features that makes many of us wish it was real.

Simon, using his iPad running "iOS 5", begins by literally pulling out the home screen, ending up with a sheet of thick paper with icons on his hand. He then shows off the new Pictures app, where he turns a picture of a beach in early afternoon into a sunset by simply dragging the sun down, and into night time by dragging the sun out. He then puts the "sun" in his pocket to "keep him warm".

Among the other features he showed off, there’s a "tennis App", which supposedly allowing the iPad to be used as a tennis racket, using a provided ball that can, you guessed it, be dragged out of the device’s screen; and a new version of FaceTime, with new streaming capabilities – and by that he means streaming drinks back and forth between friends, all through a straw, which itself can can also be dragged out of the device.

Pierro isn’t the first to show off "magical" iOS 5 features. Back in summer 2007, when the iPhone first came out, there were a few Apps that allowed for a few magic tricks, such as making the then-$600-phone look like it was able to make popcorn, work as a shaver, an X-Ray machine or just an old-fashioned coffee maker. It was around that time that Marco Tempest, a well-known YouTube illusionist, published a video demonstrating some of those "features". It has received nearly 9 million views since it was posted 4 years ago.

It’s important to stress once again that this iOS 5 video was made by a magician and is not real. The real iOS 5 will be demoed on Monday at WWDC and is expected to have much more realistic features, such as widgets and a better notification system.

Who knows, maybe 100 years from now we’ll have a device with some if not all of those "magical" features. I’m certain that 100 years ago, anyone would find a computer "magical".

We’ll provide you detailed coverage of WWDC as it happens. Hopefully this didn’t cause us to set our bar way too high. After all, it’s still 2011.

(via Mashable)


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Pranksters Slap On Windows Logo On An Upcoming Apple Store In Germany [VIDEO]

A couple of pranksters pulled off a rather ballsy move by slapping on a Windows logo on an in-construction Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany yesterday.




The group calls themselves .wav collection and they did this yesterday in the middle of a populated district in broad daylight.

The Apple Store that you see under construction is in the Jungfernstieg district of Hamburg, Germany. Apple is working on expanding their retail stores there. Fact: America has more Apple Stores than the rest of Europe combined.

Microsoft has nothing to do with this, we believe. Chief reason being that the logo is actually not really the actual Windows logo. If you look closely, you’ll realize that the green and blue tiles need to be interchanged.

.wav collection uploaded this video showing their prank in action:

Your move, Apple.

I highly suggest planting the following line under the logo, “… works great on a Mac!”

(via Engadget)

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Will Apple Release Mac OS X Lion On June 14?

It is being said that Apple is planning on surprising customers by releasing Mac OS X Lion on June 14. Up till now, Apple has only given a summer release time frame of Mac OS X Lion, without any definite release date. If this rumor is true, Mac OS X Lion will be reaching us on June 14th, 2011.

On the other hand, tomorrow at WWDC 2011, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take the stage and make announcements regarding iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud.

The reason which leads us to believe that Mac OS X Lion is going to release on June 14 is because Apple will minimize software presence in its retail stores on that day, meaning that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will not be found in stores anymore, and we already know that supplies of Snow Leopard have been cut down. Nevertheless, this is just a speculation as Mac OS X Lion will be released via the Mac App Store. But there's no reason for Apple to minimize Snow Leopard supply if it doesn't plan on releasing the next generation Mac operating system.

Let's see if Steve Jobs confirms this rumor, in his keynote speech at WWDC 2011. We'll be bringing you all the updates from WWDC 2011 right here, so don't go anywhere else!

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US Army Testing iPhone For Use In War

In the next week the US Army is going to test smartphones in war like Android and iPhone where they will use it with many apps that could see troops using smartphones during battle. The iOS device will be used in many things like lie monitoring surveillance cameras or downloading “up-to-the minute information from a remote database,” according to a Wall Street Journal report

And here's the Michael McCarthy one of the US Army leaders said in a report :

We want to give people the right phones for the right reasons, not just give them another shiny thing to hang on their equipment carriers.

The iOS devices features like the GPS will make a huge advantage to the U.S Troops, and the experienced people learning the Troops how to use iPhone and Android... In my opinion I can't see anything to learn as anyone could learn how to use it :)

So what do you think about using SmartPhones in wars ?

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Five Big Questions Heading Into Apple's WWDC

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
Ok, no voice is louder than Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off early Monday morning in San Francisco, But thinking can. My thinking leads me this year's edition is no different, except for the fact that Apple has already played its hand.

Earlier this week, the company announced that CEO Steve Jobs would be taking the wraps off iCloud, a new "cloud services offering," as well as new versions of the Mac OS and iOS. By comparison Apple merely said that Jobs was keynoting last year's show.


Even with that information, there's still a some things we don't know heading into next week:

• Can Apple wow with its iCloud?
• How will iCloud fit into Apple's existing services?
• Will there be new hardware?
• When will these three things arrive?
• Can the price of Lion go lower?

Can Apple wow with its iCloud? The launch of MobileMe was marked by numerous missteps, including downtime of its various services, data loss, and issues with synchronization--it's headlining feature. The internal fallout from the launch was said to be so bad it moved Jobs to hold a meeting with the entire MobileMe team to reorganize who was in charge and chide everyone for tarnishing the company's brand and letting one another down. Based on that, you can imagine how important it is for Apple to launch iCloud as something that is polished. More importantly, with iCloud, Apple needs to prove that it's offering something that can't be had elsewhere, or at least can be had better on its service versus those of competitors. One of the biggest knocks against MobileMe is that many of the things it offers users can be found in other places and free of charge. Apple added ammo to that argument when it made the "Find My iPhone" feature free as part of an iOS update. Now Apple faces a similar threat from the get go with competitors like Amazon and Google beating the company to the punch with cloud-based services that cater to media. Will customers be wowed enough to get on board?

How will iCloud fit into Apple's existing services? Unlike Lion and iOS 5, iCloud is not being positioned as a sequel. One of the biggest questions then is how it's going to fit into Apple's existing services if it's not replacing them entirely. Given the cloud storage component of the service, what happens to Apple's current cloud storage tool iDisk, which is bundled as part of MobileMe? And if there's music streaming, will it end up tied to Apple's iTunes, a piece of software that many would argue is already trying to do too many things, or will it go through the browser instead? And perhaps most importantly how much will it all cost? A report by the Los Angeles Times yesterday said Apple would offer it free at first, going to $25 a year later on down the road. By comparison, Apple's MobileMe currently costs $99 a year and bundles together a number of services like e-mail, file storage, Web hosting, and synchronization tools. If iCloud overtakes that, is Apple really giving up that subscription revenue that brings in four times as much a year?

Will there be new hardware? By positioning Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud as headliners, Apple's made it pretty clear that this show is all about the software. But that doesn't mean some existing hardware couldn't make an appearance for an update or two. Reports from earlier this week pointed to Apple having a Time Capsule update on the horizon, a move that would make sense if it brings features that are specifically tailored to work with Lion and iCloud (which signs have pointed to). A story from 9to5mac yesterday suggested Apple was working on a caching feature that would let the Wi-Fi router-meets-wireless hard drive grab software updates and sync up to Apple's iCloud. There's also the MacBook Air, which is expected to get an update to Intel's Sandybridge processors and Thunderbolt I/O technology this month. Apple could be saving that to coincide with the release of Final Cut Pro X, which is due this month and could really take advantage of the Thunderbolt port. But given that the current generation of that notebook made its debut alongside Lion back in October, it would be fitting for it to get some face time along with the OS if it's released the day of the show. Then there's the dark horse: a new iPhone. The iPhone has historically played an integral part to new releases of iOS, and last year's WWDC made for the debut of the iPhone 4. So far, all the rumors have pointed to Apple releasing the iPhone 4's follow-up in the Fall with a device that sports some incremental improvements, though nowhere near the leap that was the 3GS to the 4. So can Apple really debut a new version of iOS, without adding some hardware-specific features that only the latest and the greatest will be able to do? Based on Apple's unveiling of iOS 4 two months ahead of last year's WWDC, that certainly seems to be the case. Perhaps just like it did with FaceTime, Apple will save those secret features for a later date.

When will these three things arrive? In years past, Apple's used WWDC as the demo ground for new versions of OS X, but this year things have been turned around. The company took the wraps off Lion at a press event back in October, and since then, there have been several developer preview releases, the kind that would usually come post-WWDC, and on the way to a consumer release later this year. Apple could have fine-tuned many of the bugs by now, enough to the point that OS X is now ready to hit store shelves. The big question then is if that's happening the same day as the show. As for iOS 5, Apple has a long tradition of doing several developer betas ahead of a public release to work out any kinks. Since Monday's the first time the company is showing it off, it's safe to assume it won't be available to consumers just yet. Apple is likely to take a similar approach to what it's done with Mac OS X and previous iOS releases, giving developers a preview build or two to work on making their applications compatible with new features and updated APIs. That leaves iCloud, which is the biggest question mark and entirely more complex. Despite the problems with MobileMe, Apple launched the overhaul of .Mac the same day it was announced. Apple did a same-day launch a year later with its iWork.com office suite. Yet the the features that iCloud promises to provide may not all be there when the product is launched. As CNET colleague Greg Sandoval wrote yesterday, streaming won't be available from the get go, and any music that's stored needs to be an iTunes purchase, with other songs from a user's collection being able to be added later on in the service's lifetime.

Can the price of Lion go lower? he price of Apple's Mac OS took a dramatic drop in the most recent version, with Snow Leopard coming in as a $29 upgrade to users of 10.5 "Leopard." Leopard itself cost $129 for Tiger upgraders. Some argue that price tag was so low because Snow Leopard was housekeeping update of sorts, adding a handful of new features, but leaving most of the major upgrades behind the scenes. In some ways, Lion has been positioned in the same way, with a number of tweaks to the Mac OS X visual style, along with existing features including app juggling, file security, system back-up and restore. One thing that could affect the price is how it's distributed. A report from Apple Insider last month said that Apple planned to offer the software as a direct download through the Mac App Store, a place where Apple's put software it's sold on discs at a much lower price. Proof of that is Aperture, the company's pro photo editing software. If you want to buy it on a disc, you can pay Apple $199. Or you can fire up the Mac App Store and pay $79.99 for the digital download. Would Apple do something like that for a full-fledged system software update? The fact that the company's been delivering previews of the software to developers through the Mac App Store is certainly a good sign. It's also a very sneaky, but smart way to get people to start making purchases through Apple's digital software store, a door buster that could pay dividends down the line.

Source: cnet.com.


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iPad 3 To Sport Quad-Core Processor?

There’s speculation that Apple is planning to introduce an iPad with a quad-core processor in order to remain at a competitive advantage with its competitors, which are looking to adopt quad-core technologies themselves.

While the A6 will most likely find its way into the next iPad, the article cautions that it likely won’t be the case with the 2012 iPhone, possibly the iPhone 5, since such a powerful processor would run the risk of overheating inside the smaller iPhone case. Instead, the future iPhone would use the A5, possibly an enhanced version of it, until Apple develops a more efficient quad-core chip:

that chip will likely be too hot and too large to run in an iPhone, he surmises. That might mean Apple has to use a different chip for the 2012 version of the iPhone, perhaps a shrink of the A5 chip.

Apple’s competitors are trying to further their game with better and faster chips. Just recently, NVIDIA introduced Kal-El, a quad-core mobile processor capable of displaying incredibly realistic graphics. It’s expected for it to be all over Android tablets as soon as it becomes available.

Meanwhile, iPad 2 sales remain strong, with 4.69 million devices sold last quarter. In total, the company sold 90 million iOS devices last year and is projected to sell as many as 146 million this year. Following Apple’s traditional release timeline, a next-generation iPad isn’t expected to come out before the first quarter of next year.

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Sony PSN Still Not Safe And It Should Be Kept Offline [Report]

From the last few weeks Sony's PSN get's hacked many times from hackers and it still not safe, after Sony celebrating with opening PSN Store online again across the world again, but we have got some news from one industry expert it's name is Gregory Evans who works as an online security expert

and also he is an author he wrote a few books, the best thing I like it that he was a hacker from his young and he spent a lot of time in a federal prison, and he had to pay $10 millions dollar after he found that he is guilty of hacking a host of companies.

When IndustryGamers got hold of Gregory Evans, the obvious question was just waiting to be asked: Do you believe PlayStation Network and Qriocity are hacker-proof now? he answered no while that is the long answer :

No. And it’s not just Sony gamers that are at risk. It’s anyone who has any online gaming console like Xbox or Wii. Nothing’s 100 percent secure. Even if Sony had never been hacked, when anybody goes online to do anything, play games, search the Internet… you’re always taking a risk that somebody might get your information. When you’re connected to your Wi-Fi and you’re playing online games it’s opening up hundreds of ports. Each one of those ports is like a door that a hacker can use to bypass your firewall and get into your computer. In the gaming community, most people don’t even know this is happening. They just think I’m going online to play games and everything’s fine. They may not think about security because they have a firewall on their Linksys or DLink router that they bought at Radio Shack for $30 or $40. Well, if it was that easy then Sony shouldn’t have been hacked. They should have gone over to Radio Shack and grabbed a $40 DLink router and everything would be fine.

So What do you think should Sony's PSN kept offline due to a future attacks from the hackers or not ?

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iOS 5 Concept - Dynamic Icons [Video]

Two days before WWDC 2011, Jan-Michael is continuing his prediction series regarding iOS 5 which will be announced for the first time on WWDC 2011 by June 6. He demonstrates the dynamic icon concept. Let's check out the video after the jump.

Users have the option of turning on these "dynamic icons" by going to the Settings. Icons are granted the ability to change their appearance given a variety of push notifications. In turn, once the notification badge is pushed, a new icon file is displayed. These icons can have text (albeit small, but legible text due to the Retina Display), images, a mixture of the two, or something constantly changing (but based on an internal source, not using cellular data — a la Clock app that displays time).

I thought of another alternative to the widgets as well. This time, it's called "App Preview", or just "Preview". Double tap anywhere in the grid pattern that is not an icon (one handed), or pinch-to-zoom (two handed), and the icons immediately expand as if your icon grid is 2x2. The same information and interaction typical of a widget is found on the app icon itself — the App Preview comes with the app download. No need to download anything more.

*And importantly, no need to manage these separately (as you must with widgets) The Preview is coded within every app.



You can swipe in any direction in Preview where there are icons in the normal view. If you're lost, the "home screen pages" reflects which App Preview screen you're in. To exit, double tap the empty space or hit the home button.

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Automatic Download Option For Over-The-Air App Updates Coming To iOS 5

According to Apple itself, iOS 5 will allow automatic over-the-air App updates. This was confirmed by the iTunes App Update page, which alluded to the new feature.




If you own an iOS device and have apps installed on it, you’re probably familiar with this page. You’re redirected to it whenever you select "Check For Updates" on the iTunes App section. As of a few hours ago, it had this bit of extra text:

Or if your device has Automatic Download enabled for apps, your updates will download to your device without having to sync.

Currently, over-the-air updates are possible, although not automatically, requiring users to launch the App Store in order to get updates, which can be extremely time-consuming on slow networks. Automatic updating would make the update process essentially invisible to the user and still provide the same results. It’s unclear whether over-the-air updates would only apply to apps or to iOS itself as well, much like Android, Google’s competitor to Apple’s iOS.

While the reference to this feature has since been removed from iTunes, that didn’t happen before screenshots were all over Twitter, and later confirmed by credible people. There’s a very slight chance that we won’t see this announced next week, now that Apple openly disclosed it, although not intentionally.

This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen an Apple product being unveiled ahead of time by accident. In 2003, the specs of the then-unreleased PowerMac G5 were accidentally posted on the PowerMac G4′s page; and in 2006, references to iWeb, also rumored and unreleased at the time, were found on Apple’s support page. Both of those products were officially announced days later.

Last week, Apple confirmed it would be unveiling iOS 5, as well as Mac OS X Snow Leopard and iCloud, a new internet service at WWDC. While we don’t yet know any official details about those products, rumors of both iOS 5 and iCloud have been ongoing for months. It’s predicted that Apple’s new mobile operating system will include a new, less intrusive notification system, enhancements to multi-tasking and widgets, much like Google’s Android. Yesterday, we reported on a new artist’s mockup of what the new version of iOS should look like, based on the most popular rumors.

WWDC, Apple’s yearly developer conference, will kick off on June 6th. Although much of its focus will be to inform and train developers on the company’s newest software advancements, consumer products are often announced there as well.

(via MacRumors)

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Apple to launch iPad 3 this year?

After just a bit of time from the release of Apple’s iPad 2, rumors have started to spread out about its successor called iPad 3.

According to the guys at The WSJ Blogs, Apple is expected to release a second iPad this year by adding it a bit LTE 4G taste. This is what they had to say:

“While most vendors appear fixated on matching the specs and features of iPad2, our checks suggest Apple will release iPad3 in time for the holiday season, sporting a better display and LTE capabilities.”

There has been strange news about iPad 3 around the globe lately, first we had a bit of speculation from TiPb where they had reported Apple expected to launch iPad 3 in september 2011. John Gruber at Daring Fireball had guessed that there might be one soon while TechCrunch had claimed that an iPad 3 is confirmed:

Daring Fireball:

How could Apple release a third-generation iPad just six months or so after the second one? Maybe it won’t be an actual next generation model. Maybe it’s more like an iPad 2.5, or iPad 2 Pro — a new higher-end model that sits atop the iPad product family, not a replacement for the iPad 2 models (which, of course, haven’t even been released yet).

Or: an iPad 2 HD. What if that’s the source of the conflicting reports of a retina display next-gen iPad? I am nearly dead certain the iPad 2 is going to have the same display resolution and size as the current iPad. I am not so sure at all, though, that there won’t be a double-resolution 2048 × 1536 iPad in 2011.

TechCrunch:

We’ve now heard that this “fall surprise” is related to this would-be iPad 3. We don’t have any more concrete information beyond that. But, as of right now, the plan is apparently to release one iteration of the iPad in the next few weeks. And then blow the doors open with another new version in the fall.

The only way to currently know whether this speculation about iPad 3 is correct, we will have to wait for WWDC 2011. Stay tuned to catch more news on iPad 3.

[via :WSJ Blogs, TiPb ]

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