Posts Tagged ‘news’

Apple appoints John Browett as New Senior Vice President of Retail

Apple announced earlier today that John Browett will be joining the company as their new Senior Vice President of Retail. Browett will be leaving his current position as CEO of Dixons Retail. According to the Press Release: Apple today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett comes to Apple from European technology retailer Dixons Retail, where he has been CEO since 2007. Beginning in April, he will be responsible for Apple’s retail strategy and the continued expansion of Apple retail stores around the world

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A5 jailbreak ‘Absinthe’ lands on almost 1M iDevices in the first 3 days

Wow this must really give Apple something to think about, perhaps it is time to listen to the jailbreak community and start implementing their ideas in the next iOS update. according to 9to5Mac.com just three days after the release of   “Absinthe,”  the much anticipated free unteathered jailbreak tool for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, the site announced that 1 million people jailbroke their A5 device in under three days. Those numbers are pretty amazing, the reason why the Chronic-Dev team can pinpoint the exact numbers is that Cydia, the app marketplace that comes with the jailbreak offers some pretty neat statistical data. According to the team the jailbreak was installed 491,325 on an iPhone 4S; 308,967 on an iPad 2; and, 152,940 on an iPad 2 that had been previously jailbroken (iOS 4). Like always, the Chronic-Dev team reminds you not upgrade off of 5.0.1 if you intend to keep the jailbreak

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3 Billion Apps downloaded on iPad App Store

For those who develop apps for the iPad these numbers are amazing, since the launch of the iPad in 2010 there have been more than 3 BILLION downloads of apps developed specifically for the iPad. According to an ABI Research press release, they have estimated that more than 3 billion apps have been cumulatively downloaded since the iPad first launched in 2010, this is an estimated 19% of all iOS App Store downloads, or almost a fifth of all downloads despite the fact that the iPad was released two years after the iOS App Store opened. According to the numbers released by ABI an estimated 120,000 applications have been developed specifically for the iPad as of the third quarter of 2011. The growth rate of the iPad-specific apps is similar to the explosive start that the iPhone saw when the App Store first opened. It took under 18 months for the iPhone and iPod touch application downloads to 3 billion.

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Newsstand in iOS 5 helps magazines grow subscriber base

With the introduction of iOS 5 Apple introduced what was to be the savior of Newspapers and Magazines, by giving publishers their own virtual shelf space in a highly visible app. Several other publications have already touted their success stories with Newsstand, and now Popular Science is joining the chorus. Popular Science is probably most popular among the tech crowd recently the company released their cumulative subscription numbers. As you can see from the table below and as reported by AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka the magazine not only saw a leap in subscriptions the second week of October, when newsstand was released, but has at the same time seen a constant increase in subscribers

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App Store Now Worth More Than All of RIM

As if RIM wasn’t in enough trouble already these numbers really won’t make them feel better, according to writer and smartphone market analyst Brian S. Hall Apple’s App Store alone is worth more than all of Research In Motion, the guys behind BlackBerry devices. That’s pretty interesting.

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Outstanding Feature Of Iphone 3GS

The third generation iPhone was released in United States in 2007. According to Apple, the current iPhone 3Gs is much faster and has a more powerful features than its predecessor, iPhone 3G. Although the two smart phones have…

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Nintendo unveils next-gen game console with iPad-like controller

Nintendo on Tuesday revealed its Wii U next-generation game console, which features a 6-inch touchscreen controller that has drawn comparisons to Apple's iPad.

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Slimmer, Thin and Seamless iPhone 5

Stephane Richard, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of France Telecom and one of the renowned member of the worldwide Orange network in an exclusive interview with one of the media companies, discussed about the future for RIM, the…

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Square Cash Registers: Great Revolution in Financial Sector

There is a great revolution taking place in the financial sector in the modern world today concerning how payments are sent and received. Square, a firm established by Twitter co-founder and co-director Jack Dorsey, is one such companies…

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Inside iOS 5: Notification Center, banner alerts

Apple has revamped notifications in iOS 5, adding a pull-down Notification Center, banner alerts at the top of the screen and more detailed lock screen notifications.

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