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Apple After Rights To Stream English Premier League Football
Well, it looks like Sky have got some serious competition on their hands. The Daily Mail are reporting this morning that Apple ‘are showing interest in joining the billion pound battle for the next set of live Premier League TV rights when the tender goes out before the end of the season’. Apple see the Premier League as a crucial platform to help establish their Apple TV in the UK and of course boost their iPad sales as the iTunes subscription service is already in place. The Daily Mail reports that Sky paid £1.6 billion for their current packages and we all know that Apple have plenty of cash to…
Our App Of The Day – Skitch For iPad – It’s Here, It’s Awesome – Check Out The Video
Skitch hit the iPad App Store yesterday after its debut in the Mac App Store following the purchase spree by Evernote back in August. Skitch for iPad allows you to annotate, add arrows, shapes and text to existing images. So you can express yourself with fewer words, emails and meetings. This is an awesome app, you can pick it up here for Free and don’t forget to check out the video below.
An Autographed 4th Gen iPod Shuffle, Signed By Steve Jobs, For Sale On Ebay
Well even the biggest Appleophile is going to have to be deeply serious to purchase this iPod Shuffle. Currently now on at $10,300.00 with 5 days still to go before bidding ends. You’re going to want to know the story behind this one, here it is: The owner of the Shuffle was invited to attend an Apple event, in conjunction with the ‘innovators of tomorrow’ program, when he decided to pluck up courage and ask Steve Jobs for his signature. Apparently, he said, “I hear you’re not really one to give autographs, but I just gotta ask…. will you sign my iPod? It’s fine if you don’t want to. I’m…
Ouch – RIM Has $1.7 Million Of PlayBooks Stolen
Oh RIM come on – you don’t need this! Somehow, whilst a truck driver was catching a break last Thursday, his truck full of 22 pallets of BlackBerry PlayBooks – that’s around 5,000 units was stolen. Not only that, there was no tracking device on the vehicle so the theives just went on their merry way. This loss has been valued at $1.7 million, add this to the $485 million loss recently took a hit on with its poorly selling PlayBooks and the latest delay to their BlackBerry 10 phones and things are not looking good. Their share price has dropped 71% from the beginning of 2011. I guess things…
Explosion At Apple Supplier Plant
Reuters are reporting this morning that an Apple supplier plant, Pegatron Corp, suffered an explosion at the subsidiary’s plant in Shanghai this weekend. Sixty-one people are said to have been injured with twenty three needing hospital treatment. This latest incident of course, this throws the spotlight back onto safety concerns that have plagued factories in China. Fire Not The Cause Apparently the fire was not the cause of this explosion but details of the actual cause have also not yet emerged. The plant itself is apparently set up to produce iPad 2 back panels although rumors are emerging that perhaps this is more likely to be the iPad…
Our App Of The Day – Life 75 – 75th Anniversary Of Life Magazine
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, LIFE’s editors have drawn on its extraordinarily rich photo collection to produce the LIFE 75 App, a selection of the very best of LIFE. Offering a unique viewing experience, the LIFE 75 App features more than 200 photos and related magazine covers, along with video and audio clips that tell the story of how LIFE was made. Seventy-five years ago, TIME publisher Henry Luce launched a new weekly magazine that he called "the biggest picture show on earth." The magazine, LIFE, was an instant hit and became the gold standard for photojournalism. LIFE has covered war and celebrity, heroes and villains, nature and society, along…
Rumor – Barbarian – The Death Sword – New App – Delayed
Despite a release date announced for December 12th, new "Barbarian – The Death Sword" (final name) videogame is not available yet and will be be one week behind schedule. The new release date has now been set to December 22th, few days before Christmas, just in time to decapitate Santa Claus (or not). 😉 Keep checking back and we’ll let you know when this app is available. Features – Cross-platforms Multiplayers mode has been added. For example, iPhone players can fight iPad or PC players. Moreover, gamers can choose one of the 9 fighters availables. – A new Rage gauge has been added and allows more powerfull movements to…
Snapheal For Mac – Reportedly Appearing In The Mac App Store Tomorrow
The new Snapheal for Mac is coming to Mac App Store tomorrow, December 14, 2011. This is a new generation of image editors for Mac OS by developers MacPhun. Imaging and editing tasks are said to be simple without requiring specialist image editing skills. We’ll let you know when this app is live but for the moment, check out the video below. This app will be priced at $19.99/£12.99 but will be offered with a 50% launch discount. Snapheal Features Include Erase unwanted objects, delete skin imperfections and text Fix images with clone&stamp tool Adjust saturation, gamma, exposure, color temperature, etc Reduce noise and sharpen images Control shadows and…
Apple To Purchase Anobit for $400-$500 Million
Well we all know that Apple has plenty of cash to splash and if these latest rumors turn out to be true this would be one of their largest acquistions ever. TechCrunch are reporting that Apple are after Anobit, a fabless semiconductor company specialising in flash storage. Apparently, Apple are reliant on Anobit’s technology in the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air. Apple are intent on increasing the amount of flash memory storage in a device and improve long term reliability and Anobit looks like the company to help them do so. So, keep checking back and we’ll let you know what happens next… About Anobit Here’s a little additional information…
iDamaged – New iOS App – Reportedly Coming Soon
iDamaged is an epic action packed shooter with tons of enemies and weapons for Apple’s iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch! Control the gigantic battle mech prototype XR-1 and fight off the army of the Dark Phantom. Battle your way through 6 beautifully crafted campaigns. Utilise your full arsenal of weapons! This app should be released on December 15, 2011 Weapons Mini-guns Homing Missiles Flame Thrower Air Strikes Ion Lasers Howitzer-50cal Hybrid And more! More Features 6 Campaigns Boss battles Tons of particle effects Dynamic weather with snow and rain Configurable controls Powerups Variety of mines (proximity, timed, laser mines +more!) Multilayer parallax scrolling Cinematic music by movie/tv/games composer Mattias Holmgren cool sound…
