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Apple Store is down: iPod price cuts on the way?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 23rd 2009 No Comments

An eagle-eyed SlashGear reader has spotted that the Apple Store has been taken down, with the usual “we are busy updating” message pinned up. The obvious conclusion is that Apple are preparing new products for release, but looking back through the recent rumors it’s tough to identify a likely change.

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Fast & Furious Blu-ray gets iPhone Profile 2.0 app

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 20th 2009 No Comments

Fast & Furious and finger-friendly? Universal Studios have revealed that the Blu-ray special edition version of the film Fast & Furious will be accompanied by an iPhone and iPod touch app that allows viewers to navigate a virtual garage on their big-screen TV. The software, which will be distributed free through the App Store, takes advantage of Blu-ray Profile 2.0.

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Apple deny App Store promo codes to 17+ titles: affects more than you’d think

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 17th 2009 No Comments

app store parental controls After suggestions earlier in the week that a significant proportion of titles in the App Store were so-called “bulk apps”, cookie-cutter templates offered as distinct programs that differ only in their text/image content (such as travel guides), now come grumbles from the Apple developer community regarding an unforeseen impact of age limitations. According to Marco Arment, an iPhone developer and lead behind the Tumblr project, Apple have decided that apps rated 17+ will not be able to use promo-codes.

Promo-codes are usually given out either to reviewers to build an audience for an application, or as rewards to users who spot bugs or errors in software. While this may not seem a significant issue to most developers, Marco points out that Apple’s guidelines for age restrictions may affect more apps than we initially thought.

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Apple App Store “Bulk Apps” misleading figures claims report

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 16th 2009 No Comments

Poor Apple. All the company wanted to do was announce some healthy download figures from their App Store and then sit back to bask in the congratulatory glow, and then along comes a report [pdf link] suggesting that many of the titles responsible for that “1.5bn downloads in one year” may in fact be cookie-cutter “bulk apps”.

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Apple see 1.5 billion App Store downloads in first year

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 14th 2009 No Comments

It took Apple nine months to hit the one billion apps mark; now the company has announced that more than 1.5 billion titles have been download from the App Store. That’s in just the space of a year, with more than 65,000 apps available and in excess of 100,000 developers registered in Apple’s official program.

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Nike+ SportBand gets update: real-time stats, better online support

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 14th 2009 No Comments

Nike have updated last year’s Nike+ SportBand, improving the display, tweaking the color scheme and throwing water-resistance into the mix too. The new Nike+ SportBand can give real-time performance stats – including distance, pace, time and calories burned – as well as funneling spoken information through an iPod nano, touch or iPhone.

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Third-gen iPod touch spotted testing the App Store?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 9th 2009 No Comments

Signs of the next-gen iPod touch have been showing up in application analytics, according to Pinch Media, with several incidences of a mysterious “iPod3,1″ listing turning up in software for the touchscreen PMP. The second-gen iPod touch, currently on sale, shows up as the “iPod2,1″, leading Pinch Media to assume this new record – which has been spotted in “the larger, more popular applications” for the platform – indicates that Apple is testing their next-gen hardware.

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Apple “massive” iPod camera order tipped; new 5G nano case emerges

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 6th 2009 No Comments

Apple have reportedly ordered a “massive number” of camera modules, similar to those found in the iPhone, which will likely find their way into the iPod touch and nano. According to TechCrunch’s sources in Asia, the size of the order – each camera costs roughly $10 – suggests that not only will the iPod touch get photography abilities (as suggested by the iPod touch 3G case on Friday) but that in fact every model bar the iPod shuffle will include one.

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iPod touch 3G with camera revealed by new case?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 3rd 2009 1 Comment

Dubious doesn’t even begin to cover it, but a listing for a silicone skin case for the “iPod touch 3G” has shown up on online store Uxsight. The anti-slip case has a large cut-out on the top left-hand corner, supposedly to accommodate the third-generation iPod touch’s integrated camera.

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Sony iPod/CD speaker-docks: WiFi DLNA streaming & LCD remote

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 30th 2009 No Comments

Remember the Sony CMT-Z100iR iPod dock from all the way back in March? Well, it’s arrived and it brought a friend: the wirelessly-enabled NAS-Z200iR, shown here. The Z100iR is a basic iPod speaker dock, with FM radio and CD player, whereas the Z200iR throws in WiFi, DLNA streaming and a remote control with a 3.5-inch LCD display.

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