Luxury London retailer Harrods is reportedly next in line to get an Apple Store in among its regular shelves, with sources at the famous toff shop saying Apple's pale wooden benches will soon be nestling in among the 1m square foot showfloor. The new section is set to be larger than the oasis of Apple currently found at Best Buy and, soon, Target, 9to5Mac reports, though will still lack a Genius Bar for technical support.
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New iPad Retina Display looking more likely from iBooks 2 icons
Further evidence of a next-gen iPad with a 2048 x 1536 "Retina Display" has been unearthed, this time from iconography and graphics included in Apple's new iBooks 2 app released yesterday. A new bookmark icon in the refreshed app - labeled "iPadx2" - was spotted after some judicious digging by MacRumors and devs Steve Troughton-Smith and Grant Paul, indicating Apple is preparing to double up on the existing resolution of the iPad for its imminent third-gen variant.
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Verizon Voice-over LTE in two city trials, full 2013 US launch tipped
Verizon is trialling Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) in two cities, with plans for a national roll-out of the 4G voice call support in early 2013, according to industry insiders. Northland Capital Markets analyst Catharine Trebnick spilled the roadmap in a note to investors, Lightreading reports, with the suggestion that a second, anonymous source had confirmed the timescale. Previously, Verizon had said it planned to launch VoLTE in the US sometime this year, having demonstrated the technology back in February 2011.
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iPad 3 reveal tipped for early Feb; iPad 2 to remain on sale
Apple will hold an iPad 3 launch event in early February, according to new rumors, where the third-gen tablet expected to debut a 9.7-inch Retina Display will be shown off for the first time. The press event next month, so Macotakara's Asian supply chain sources and "a source in the United States" claim, will precede the commercial launch of the new iPad in early March. Meanwhile, there are also indications that Apple will keep the existing iPad 2 on sale alongside its new model.
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iWork chief at helm of Apple digital textbook project
Apple's digital textbook tools, which the company is expected to unveil at an event in New York City on Thursday this week, were the handiwork of the exec credited with bringing the iWork suite to Mac, according to new rumors. VP Roger Rosner's involvement, so the WSJ's sources claim, can be taken as an indication of exactly how strongly Apple has focussed on digital education resources; Steve Jobs is also believed to have worked closely on the textbook project for several years before his death in 2011.
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Samsung “not interested” in BlackBerry buy
Samsung has denied any intention of purchasing troubled BlackBerry company RIM, with a company spokesperson insisting that "we haven't considered acquiring the firm and are not interested." Rumors of the potential acquisition broke yesterday, with unnamed sources claiming the Korean firm was a front-runner in a chase to grab RIM's assets. Not so, Samsung has fired back, Reuters reports, with a spokesperson dismissing the talk as mere rumor.
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Scott Forstall hungry for Apple top-spot claims biographer
Apple CEO Tim Cook may have to work hard to achieve that CEO bonus, with speculation that senior vice president of iOS software Scott Forstall is not only eyeing his job but already shoring up influence within the Cupertino company. Detailed in a new book by Adam Lashinsky - Inside Apple - Forstall apparently "blatantly accumulated influence in recent years" Fortune reports, even while Apple founder Steve Jobs was away on medical leave.
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Facebook Open Graph apps due Wednesday tip sources
Facebook and its partner developers are readying the first batch of Open Graph apps that will "frictionlessly" integrate third-party services into your social stream, according to sources. The initial apps will arrive at an event this Wednesday, AllThingsD's insiders claim, ahead of a mandatory switchover to Facebook Timeline that could begin as early as this week.
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RIM planning 10- and 7-inch PlayBooks for 2012 tips roadmap leak
RIM has two more BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the pipeline for 2012, according to a roadmap leak, including a 10-inch LTE-enabled model targeting late holiday sales. Despite the poor reception of the first-gen PlayBook - recently slashed to just $299 apiece - product information leaked to N4BB indicates a new 7-inch "3G+" PlayBook is expected in April, with a 10-inch LTE-equipped PlayBook due in December. There's also word on when we might expect to see the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones; more after the cut.
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Samsung Galaxy S II HD tipped for UK launch
Samsung is apparently bringing the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD to the UK, as the Galaxy S II HD, a version of its best-selling dual-core smartphone packing a 720p HD capable Super AMOLED HD display. Although not yet officially confirmed by Samsung itself, the non-LTE smartphone briefly cropped up with UK retailer MobiCity where it was spotted by MoDaCo, though no UK pricing, release date or product page are currently available.
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Samsung plans $41.1bn investment in 2012: Chips, OLED, more
Samsung sinking $1bn into its Apple chip facility is only the tip of the iceberg for the Korean company's 2012 investment plans, with a whopping $41.4bn expected to go into incubating new tech and streamlining existing production. Samsung Group will most likely pitch the biggest chunk of its fund into system chips for phones, tablets and digital cameras, Reuters reports, along with OLED displays such as the panel used in the 55-inch Super OLED Smart TV the company demonstrated at CES last week, and which is expected to go on sale by the end of the year.
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iPad 3 and Facebook crop up in iOS 5.1 beta 3
Evidence of Apple's next-gen iPad has been spotted again in iOS 5.1, with beta 3 mentioning two new "J" third-gen models along with hints of potential future Facebook integration. The J1AP and J2AP variants are believed to be the WiFi-only and WiFi + 3G iterations of the iPad 2, iMore reports, the two codenames resurfacing again after having been spotted with "Retina Display" indications back in November.
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