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Apple is Now Accepting iPad Apps for iPad App Store

Hans — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:23:19 +0000

Developers, listen up! The iPad will be shipping soon (on April 3 to be exact) and Apple is now accepting iPad apps for the iPad App Store. You have until Saturday, March 27 to submit your iPad app for review. You must build and test your apps using iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5. Once you’ve submitted your iPad app through iTunes Connect, the App Review Team will review it and you will receive additional information for submitting your app for final review.

Apple already supports most iPhone apps on the iPad, but they’ve also created a separate section for apps made specifcally for the iPad and named it the iPad App Store. The iPad App Store will have it’s grand opening on April 3, when the iPad is officially released. Right now is the best time for serious developers to submit their apps to the iPad App Store.

Google has over 30,000 Android Apps in Android Market

Hans — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:23:07 +0000

Google recently told MobileCrunch that they have a total of 30,000 Android applications available in the Android Market. This is a good number, but it is still 5 times less than the number of apps currently available in Apple’s App Store.

Apple announced in a recent press release that the App Store has over 150,000 apps, most of which will also work with their upcoming iPad device. Apple will also be creating a separate App Store for just books which will be available to iPad users on April 3.

Will Google’s Android Market ever be able to catch up to Apple’s App Store? I don’t see this happening any time soon because Apple has made a very good easy to use SDK for developers, and the iPhone OS is still more popular than Google’s Android operating system.

‘Professional’ thieves steal $26,000 of MacBooks from NJ Best Buy

Hans — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:40:48 +0000

On Wednesday morning an unknown number of thieves managed to break in to a Best Buy in South Brunswick, New Jersey and steal 20 notebooks valued at $26,000. For the record, these were all MacBooks so no Windows computers were stolen (phew!). These thieves were clever because they were able to avoid cameras, motion sensors, and alarms.

Police believe the thieves broke in to the Best Buy by cutting a hole through the roof using a saw, and slicing a 3-foot wide square in the metal roof. Detective James Ryan said that there was a “high level of sophistication” involved in this robbery since the thieves didn’t set off any alarms or motion detectors, and were also able to avoid cameras. John Harris, a security expert said “I would say they were a professional crew”, and “At least I’ve never dealt with anything like this. From time to time, people break in, but not usually through the roof.” Police are still investigating, and they think that at least 2 or 3 people were involved in this roberry and they may have hit other locations before as well. Anyone with additional information on this incident should call Penney at (732) 329-4646.

[via NJ.com]

Police are still investigating, and they think that at least 2 or 3 people were involved in this roberry and they may have hit other locations before as well.

23 Macbook Pros, 14 iPhones, 9 iPod Touches – Gone in 31 seconds!

Apple starts Patent war with HTC

Hans — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:12:16 +0000

Today Apple sent a press release announcing that they’ve filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing 20 of Apple’s patents related to iPhone interface and the underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed with U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.

“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

Apple is specifically going after HTC’s phones that are running Google’s Android software rather than the phones that are running Windows Mobile. By suing HTC for using Android’s operating system, is Apple trying to scare other manufacturers from using Google’s Android operating systems on their future devices? This is what it looks like to me. Going through the boring list of patents Apple listed in their complaint, I noticed that one of the patents they complained about was the “Swipe to unlock” feature. I find it ridiculous that a company can patent these types of simple features, and hope that Apple looses this case. If you are bored you can see a list of all the patents here.

[via Apple Press Release]

Watch Apple iPad video from keynote

Hans — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:25:57 +0000

If you were one of the many that were not invited to the Apple event today, you can now watch the Apple iPad video from the keynote in HD at this link. You must have QuickTime installed in order to watch this video. You may also want to check out the following iPad pages:

iPad price

Hans — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:00:54 +0000

Apple has announced pricing information for the iPad on their website. The above chart shows the prices. The iPad will be available in 16GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB and have a WiFi model and a WiFi and 3G model.

iPad pricing details:

iPad 16 GB with WiFi: $499, with 3G: $629
iPad 32 GB with WiFi: $599, with 3G: $729
iPad 64 GB with WiFi: $699, with 3G: $829

You can see iPad specs here.

Does the Apple iPad support Flash?

Hans — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:14:22 +0000

In case you didn’t notice, Apple recently announced the iPad tablet in Yerba Buena. They are still demoing different features on it, but while they loaded the National Geographic website it appeared to have loaded a flash ad. The iPad may support flash! If this is true then that means the iPhone and iPod touch will get flash too since they are also running on the iPhone OS.

You can check out the iPad specs that have been released so far here.

iPad Specs

Hans — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:44:08 +0000

Apple announced the new iPad in their live event today. The iPad specs that have been revealed so far are below.

iPad specs

Display: 9.7 inch IPS
Weight: 1.5 lbs
0.5 inches thin
Battery life: 10 hours
Accelerometer and Compass
Speaker, Microphone, and 30 pin connector
WiFi 802.11n
Processor: 1GHz Apple A4 chip
Storage: 16-64GB Flash
Full capacative multi-touch

We will update this post as more specs are revealed. Steve Jobs is still demonstrating the Apple Tablet and the live event and no pricing and other information has been announced as of this post.

Apple Come See Our Latest Creation Live Event!

Hans — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:33:46 +0000

Today, January 27,2010 Apple will be announcing the Apple tablet and possibly a Verizon iPhone 4G at their Come See Our Latest Creation event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 1:00 PM Est/ 10:00 AM Pacific time.

We will be covering this event live here at QuickPWN.com. To follow this event live, download our iPhone user bar by following the steps below:

1. Click here to download iPhone userbar (must be using Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari).

2. Click the Watch Apple Live Event button to see the latest live updates.

Apple may announce Verizon iPhone 4G on January 27

Hans — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:17:10 +0000

Apple is holding an event on January 27, at 10 AM Pacific time/1 PM Eastern time in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. I don’t know what this will be about, but it may be about the upcoming rumored Verizon iPhone 4G smartphone. This image above was sent to people who were invited to the event (Note: I added the Verizon iPhone picture on top of it). WSJ and other sites are predicting that Apple is launching a tablet called the iSlate.

Want to know if Apple ends up releasing an iPhone on January 27? Download iPhone Userbar (works on Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari) and you’ll receive an alert.