Apple, iPad, The Daily, TRVL and publishing, too
COMPUTERWORLD: Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper The Daily launches next week while some claim iPad publishing isn’t the gold rush they’d expected – some big name titles are failing to achieve numbers much beyond newstand sales! ...
Leaks confirm CDMA iPhone for China and beyond
As expected, Apple intends making a version of its CDMA iPhone available for sale in Japan, South Koreaa, China, India and other countries, leaks from within its supply chain have confirmed. Apple also expectds to sell several milloin of these new devices in the first quarter 2011. Apple component suppliers are joyous at the news,...
OpenJDK code lands as Mac Port Project springs to life
November saw Apple and Oracle confirm the loss of built-in Java in future Macs in favor of a jointly developed open source Java implementation, to be maintained by the OpenJDK project. Now the first code under the deal has landed. “We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the growing OpenJDK community,”...
iPad display maker prepares for iPad 2.0
Have no doubt, for any supplier lucky enough to achieve it, landing a component supply order within the Apple product value chain is big, bug business — now Apple’s iPad and iPhone screen supplier, Wintek, is making a $13 million investment in new land to build new touch panel production facilities. Wintek has purchased new...
FCC Verizon iPhone permissions published
Well it has been announced and isn’t on sale yet but, oh look, the US FCC has published its approval of the new CDMA iPhone 4 for Verizon, there’s even a letter which provesAAPL asked nicely if publication could be made following the event. Model A1349 (AT&T’s GSM version us the A1332) has the test...
Verizon iPhone 4, inside the FAQ
Alright folks, the waiting is over and it has been confirmed — the iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon — the result of a two-year strategic consultation between the firms. It will be available on pre-order (online only) to existing Verizon customers from February 3. Everyone else will be able to pick one up from...
Collected: stray data on Verizon iPhone
Disparate reports this morning shed a little more light on the Verizon iPhone deal we expect to hear about at 11am (Eastern). It seems the deal may cost Verzon as much as $5 billion in subsidies in year one — but is also set to steal share from AT&T while flatlining Android device sales. John...
What we think we know about the Verizon iPhone
COMPUTERWORLD: After a CES no-show, Verizon is teasing us with an iPhone-generated Tweet today on the eve of its press event where it is expected Verizon will at last introduce the iPhone, meaning US customers will now enjoy some choice of which network carries their iPhone. The move should also boost Apple in its battle...
Top film director makes short movie entirely on an iPhone 4
Park Chan-wook is one of South Korea’s best directors, and he’s generated a huge story with the revalation that his latest short film was shot entirely on an iPhone 4. Winner of a Cannes Grand Prix award, Park Chan-wook screened his new film, a half-hour short called “Paranmanjang” (Korean for “ups and downs”) in South...
CES: AirPlay systems are heading for prime time
More news from Apple’s AirPlay partner, BridgeCo, the company which manufactures the silicon used in AirPlay devices. AirPlay devices weren’t so apparent at CES this year, though iHome, B&W and Klipsch all showed solutions implementing the standard, which enables users to stream audio from an iOS 4 device to an enabled speaker system. BridgeCo’s VP...
Android 2.3 Gingerbread now runs on an iPhone 3G
Hackers have finally managed to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread working on a jailbroken iPhone 3G — based on the iDroid project, you should be able to keep both iOS and Android in dual-boot configuration on your iPhone. more on this and a video (Flash, so we didn’t embed it here) over at Redmond Pie. (Sony...
