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Now Apple Wants to Block iPhone Users from Filming Live Events

Alamy On the way out Apple is developing software that will sense when an iPhone user is recording a live event, and then switch off the devices camera

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KOMPAS.com - The days of filming a live concert or sporting event on your iPhone may soon be a distant memory. Apple is developing software that will sense when a smartphone user is trying to record a live event, and then switch off the device's camera.

Anybody holding up their iPhone will find it triggers infra-red sensors installed at the venue. These sensors would then automatically instruct the iPhone to shut down its camera function, preventing an footage from being recorded.

Only the iPhone's camera would be temporarily disabled; other features, such as texting and making calls, would still work. Apple filed a patent application 18 months ago in Calfornia. It has just come to light after being obtained by The Times.

Such a development would be welcomed with open arms by many concertgoers, fed up with their view being blocked by a sea of glowing mobile phone screens. However, the real reason Apple is developing the technology is to placate broadcasters upset that members of the public are posting footage of events on websites including YouTube when they have bought the exclusive rights.

Many of these firms sell their own recordings of high-profile events, including Glastonbury and Wimbledon, and dislike being pipped to the post by reams of amateur footage online.

Assisting record companies in this manner is likely to help Apple secure more favourable terms with labels when negotiating deals to place music for sale on its iTunes website. It could also potentially provide Apple with another source of revenue by charging people to film live events.

The development comes just days after iPhone users in the U.S. found out they no longer have to rely on hackers to 'unlock' their devices to switch carriers or save money when travelling.

Apple quietly started selling 'unlocked' iPhones in the U.S. for the first time on its websites and in stores, for $649 and $749 depending on how much memory they have.

The devices are identical to the versions sold for use on AT&T Inc's network, but don't require a two-year contract. The buyer will separately have to buy a Subscriber Identity Module, or SIM card, from a carrier to activate the phone.

Apart from AT&T, the only national U.S. carrier that's compatible with the phone is T-Mobile USA, and it can provide only phone calls and low data speeds.

source :http://english.kompas.com/read/2011/06/17/01313482/Now.Apple.Wants.to.Block.iPhone.Users.from.Filming.Live.Events

Three jailed over iPad 2 leaks in China

Three people charged with the leaking of trade secrets, including information about Apple's iPad 2, were reportedly sentenced to jail time by a Chinese court this week.

An iPad 2 mock-up at CES 2011, three months ahead of Apple's official unveiling.

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that Xiao Chengsong, Lin Kecheng, and Hou Pengna were found guilty by The Shenzhen Bao'an People's Court yesterday and sentenced to 18 months, 14 months, and 12 months in jail respectively. Out of the three, Kecheng is the only one to have been an employee with Foxconn at the time, according to the Journal.

Foxconn, which is part of Hon Hai Precision Industries, is the company that manufactures gadgets for Apple along with a number of other major electronics makers. The company has been closely watched since a string of worker suicides last year. More recently, the company last month suffered an explosion at one of its factories near Chengdu, China, that killed three workers and injured another 15.

A report from late April suggested that all three individuals charged for conspiring in a plot to acquire detailed information about Apple's iPad 2 ahead of its release worked for Foxconn. According to the Journal, however, that was not the case. Instead, the effort apparently centered around Chengsong, a general manager for a local accessories shop allegedly tapping Penga for information, who then proceeded to allegedly pay Kecheng to get photos of the iPad 2 hardware.

Along with the jail time, the three have reportedly been fined at varying levels. Chengsong's sentence was the highest at a little more than $23,140, according to the Journal.

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20071419-248/three-jailed-over-ipad-2-leaks-in-china/?tag=mncol

How a news junkie uses the iPad

Apple’s tablet offers lots of ways to stay up-to-date on the latest headlines

I’m a news junkie. I love remaining informed about U.S. and world news, technology news, entertainment news, you name it. I don’t subscribe to a single newspaper, though, and I don’t watch the news on television. All of my news comes from the Internet, and the vast majority of that news, I consume on my iPad.

The iPad isn’t quite as light as a news magazine, but it’s still pretty portable—and it’s always more current. With Safari alone, the iPad could be a great news consumption tool. Coupled with apps, it satisfies my news addiction like nothing else can.

RSS readers like Reeder make it a snap to browse through headlines from oodles of online sources.

I start my morning news consumption by catching up on my RSS subscriptions. If you’re still not on the RSS bandwagon, it’s time—instead of surfing to dozens of your favorite news sources each day, you subscribe to them. Then you just use a single newsreader app—I like Reeder— () to catch up on the latest headlines from all of those sites.

Now RSS has existed for years, and I remain a NetNewsWire devotee on the Mac. But the subscription approach feels particularly well-suited to the iPad’s form factor. There’s a visceral difference between reading long-form news on a computer screen and reading it on the iPad, and I quite like the holding—and flicking through—the news with my hands.

Reeder is a particularly brilliant newsreader; swiping through many hundreds of articles is pleasant and painless. I can drive through Reeder on my iPad with just one hand, quickly diving deeper into stories that interest me, and skimming through other, less enticing headlines with ease. And because the app integrates seamlessly with services like Readability (to pull in the full text of articles that show only summaries) and Instapaper (to save the really long pieces for reading later), it suits my needs perfectly.

Generally, once I’ve imbibed from Reeder’s morning news fire hose, I turn to Twitter. True, sometimes Twitter “news” consists of breaking headlines of the “I’m having scrambled eggs for breakfast” variety, but it’s also a great window into breaking news and stories that I may have missed. I use the official Twitter iPad app (), but there are many excellent options like Twitterrific () and Osfoora HD (). I follow some of the biggest names in news that interests me: Besides @macworld, that includes accounts like @BreakingNews, @CNNbrk, and a couple entertainment news-related accounts, too.

I even follow Twitter feeds from news sources whose RSS feeds I already subscribe to. It’s easy to miss the occasional headline with either approach; doubling up affords me extra protection from missing a story that interests me.

The Daily is an interesting option, but it too often reports on yesterday's news, instead of today's.

For a while, after feeding my kids breakfast, I would then turn to The Daily (), News Corp’s iPad newspaper. But I found the overall reading experience suboptimal, and the content a bit stale after catching up on my morning headlines elsewhere. The Daily does offer a smart mix of text and video content. But the magazine-like approach makes it too hard to efficiently read only the content I’m interested in; swiping through pages of stories I don’t care about slows me down too much.

Instead of The Daily, then, I rely on apps that are far less flashy, but far more informative.

The first is Fluent News (). It’s an app that aggregates news headlines from a variety of top-tier sources—MSNBC, ABC News, the Washington Post, and so on—and presents them in a tablet-friendly scrolling list. Since the app breaks news down by category (Top News, Entertainment, Business), it’s easy to browse through the headlines of most interest to you quickly—and with a single finger. That makes it easier to browse stories while I eat or hold my infant son.

I’m also a fan of CNN’s official iPad app (). Although its default view is a bit flashy for my taste, the more-traditional headline view provides a great way to navigate through the latest news. Again, a key for me is the ability to dive right into stories I care about, and skip the ones I don’t; Like Fluent News, CNN’s app makes that quite doable. The CNN app is also packed with video, in case that tickles your news consumption fancy; you can even watch live streaming video from the network.

It's not flashy, but the CNN app's headline view offers a great way to browse the latest news.

Both the CNN and Fluent News apps can send push notifications of breaking news. CNN’s arrive very quickly, but the Fluent News alerts come hours after stories break, so I’ve disabled them.

Rounding out the News folder on my iPad are news apps from The New York Times, Reuters, and USA Today. None of those are daily reads for me, but each can come in handy if I want another take on specific stories.

In short, an RSS reader, a Twitter client, and a couple news apps are all I need to remain informed about the news. I no longer subscribe to any news magazines or newspapers, because my iPad always gets the stories first. It's possible my iPad newsreading habits will change a bit once Apple formally releases iOS 5. Among its many other features, the next iteration of Apple's mobile OS includes a few features geared toward iPad newsreaders. The most prominent of those is Newsstand, which will behave a bit like a super folder; it automatically downloads the latest issues of your iOS subscriptions, and displays the current covers for each on an iBooks-style shelf. Also new in iOS 5 will be Safari's Reading List, which works a bit like Instapaper, only with a far more minimal set of features. When you surf to articles that you'd like to read later, you'll tap to add them to your Reading List. Safari will save the title and URL of those pages—as transient, syncable bookmarks—so that you can revisit them later.

I know I have fellow news junkies out there in the Macworld audience. How do you keep tabs on news that interests you? Sound off in the comments below to break the news about the best iPad apps for breaking news.

source: http://www.macworld.com/article/160499/2011/06/ipad_news_junkie.html

Apple, Nokia settle patent dispute with licensing agreement

Nokia on Tuesday announced that it had reached a settlement with Apple on the two companies’ patent licensing dispute. Under the terms of the settlement, Apple is required to make a one-time payment to Nokia, followed by ongoing royalties to be paid for the term of the agreement.

The sum of these payments and the nature of the non-financial aspects of the contract have not be disclosed by either company. Both Nokia and Apple have agreed to withdraw their respective complaints to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

In a press release put out by the company, Nokia CEO and president Stephen Elop said, “We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees. This settlement demonstrates Nokia’s industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market.”

Apple spokesman Alan Hely said the company is happy the dispute with Nokia is over, and that they can now get back to focusing on their respective businesses.

“Apple and Nokia have agreed to drop all of our current lawsuits and enter into a license covering some of each others’ patents, but not the majority of the innovations that make the iPhone unique,” Hely said.

Nokia first sued Apple in October 2009 for having violated ten of its patents by making non-licensed use of Nokia’s technologies in various aspects of the iPhone. Apple responded to Nokia’s suit a few months later, in December 2009, by launching its own countersuit against the company, alleging that the Finland-based company had violated thirteen of Apple’s patents.

Since then, the two companies had been engaged in a fierce battle before the ITC, with Nokia filing another suit against Apple in May 2010 for infringing on five more of its patents with the iPad and iPhone. It was a series of legal filings by two tech industry heavyweights that intellectual property activist Florian Mueller described as “the most bitterly contested patent dispute that this industry has seen to date,” but Nokia has finally emerged victorious.

However, Mueller goes on to suggest that this may ultimately end up being a win for both sides as Nokia, buoyed by its win against Apple—despite the latter’s formidable patent portfolio—goes on to companies like Google, possibly inflicting more serious damage to Apple’s competitors. For now though, it looks like Apple has some paying up to do.

[IDG News Service's Agam Shah contributed to this report.]

source: http://www.macworld.com/article/160518/2011/06/nokia_apple_settle.html

Review: The iPad 2

The new iPad 2.

A year ago, nobody had an iPad. Then Apple sold 15 million of them in just nine months, creating a whole new category of technology product. The iPad may have become, in the words of Steve Jobs, “the most successful consumer product ever launched.”

It turns out that a lot of people saw the iPad’s appeal: it’s a supremely portable device that’s well suited for checking your e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games, reading books and other stuff you get off the Internet, and even for getting work done. Kids and the elderly have embraced it.

It’s awfully hard to follow such a massive success, but that’s the task set out for Apple’s new iPad 2, which goes on sale Friday. At least the iPad 2 has this going for it: the original model caught the technology industry so flat-footed that only now are true competitors beginning to appear.

Those competitors will now face a new iteration of the iPad, one that’s faster, smaller, and lighter than the model introduced a year ago—all while retaining the $499 entry price that has proven all but impossible for Apple’s competitors to match. It’s almost unfair.

A game of inches (and ounces)

Meet the man who wants an Apple retail union

 

Cory Moll, an Apple retail store employee who wants to form a union.

(Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET)

Cory Moll's only been with Apple since 2007, but in that time he's seen and heard enough to make him want to change the way the company runs its retail business.

Moll is the self-appointed leader of the Apple Retail Workers Union a labor movement seeking to band together employees at Apple's retail stores to help get better wages, and in some cases, treatment for what he describes is a job he and his fellow employees love doing, minus how it's being managed from the inside.

For outsiders, the news that Apple employees would be unhappy there might come as a surprise. Apple's retail stores, which turned 10 years old last month, remain hot places to work. Apple stores have been ranked in the top 50 best places to work by job tracker Glassdoor.com three years running, along with other accolades. Apple has even admitted that it's easier to get a job at its corporate headquarters than one of its retail stores, of which there are now more than 300 around the globe.

Last month Moll pushed the movement's site live to the Web, while informing a handful of members of the press about the effort, though it wasn't until last week that the group's identity could be affixed to anything other than an e-mail address. That changed this past Wednesday when Moll outed himself, saying the response has motivated him to become "a harbinger of change."
"I've gotten to the point where I'm not afraid of management anymore. Where I'm not afraid to step up and make this happen."
--Cory Moll, Apple Retail Workers Union

Moll, who met with CNET last week to talk about the effort, said it's still very much a work in progress. (Editor's note: the site didn't work at press time.)

"I'm not sure if I see it becoming a full global union like Industrial Workers of the World, or store-by-store like a traditional union like the UFCW or the Teamsters. That's very far off in terms of what it's going to look like," Moll said. "Initially it's just to get people talking about it, and explore ways to do away with the problems that are happening at our store."

What are those problems? Moll identified one of the largest as the disparity between part-time and full-time employees, something that he says affected him personally when attempting to get a full-time position at an Apple retail store. Getting less than a certain number of hours meant Moll, earning $14 an hour, could not make ends meet.

"I had been working full-time hours for a period of time, and usually after a certain period of time that is evaluated to see whether you become full time or not, or if a status change has to happen. As soon as I brought it up with my managers, the schedules were cut back for not just myself, but most of the people on my team to part-time hours, which are no more than 28 per week," Moll said. "That's the last time I ever brought anything to management. Because seeing what had happened, I don't need this to happen again. That solidified my motivation to see this through."

Moll says he's personally seen and heard of much worse things happening management-wise since launching a site for fellow Apple retail store employees to send in their own stories and get in touch about joining the movement. He believes, without offering evidence so far, that Apple may even be violating labor laws.
Apple employees preparing for the launch of the iPhone 4 last year at Apple's flagship store in San Francisco, the site of Moll's union efforts.

Apple employees preparing for the launch of the iPhone 4 last year at Apple's flagship store in San Francisco, the site of Moll's union efforts.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

Apple did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the union efforts.

Moll said the idea to form a union struck him two years ago. Before joining Apple he'd worked for McDonalds, Wal-Mart, and hotels like Best Western. When Apple decided to open up a retail store in Madison, Wis., Moll jumped at the chance and made it into the second batch of hires for that location. Since then he's moved to San Francisco, while continuing to work for the company, in part because he enjoys working there.

"I would be remiss if I didn't reiterate we love our jobs so much. We love getting up and doing what we do," Moll said. "Some of the commenters, they say 'oh, well then just go get another job, work somewhere else,' or 'you say you love your job, but you hate your job,' There's a misconception between liking your job and liking how you're treated on your job. That's where the issue is: it's not our job, it's that management side of things."

Union expert Jay Krupin, who's the chair of EpsteinBeckerGreen's National Labor Practice, says Moll has a long road ahead of him.

Apple employees preparing for the launch of the iPhone 4 last year at Apple's flagship store in San Francisco, the site of Moll's union efforts.

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

"You can have a union of 10 people, you can have a union of 100 people. But if he thinks that he's going to organize and revolutionize all Apple retail stores, I doubt that's really going to happen," Krupin said.

Krupin's successfully negotiated more than 350 collective bargaining agreements, and says that most unions these days are seeking to bargain over so-called "contemporary" issues like how people are treated on the job. With that said, a company like Apple presents an enormous challenge when it comes to negotiating on the "traditional" issues.

"Most sophisticated companies are well aware of what the market pays, well aware of the benefit levels, and well aware of employees needs," Krupin said. "So most of these cases come down to the treatment of your supervisor, the treatment of your manager."

Krupin added that even if Moll is able to successfully band together a group of employees to form a union at one store, all they'd be able to get is the ability to negotiate.

"If a union represents the Apple retail employees it just means they sit down across the table, and if Apple is doing what they're doing now, which is being a tremendously successful retailer, there's very little a union's going to be able to do," Krupin said.

Apple has its own rights on the matter. Krupin explained that the company can do campaigning of its own, letting employees know that it's against a union. "If they do a good enough job, they'll win. If there are truly issues they won't change, then they'll lose," Krupin said.

As to whether there's been a reaction from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., or from his store's management, Moll says that hasn't heard anything directly.

"I have a pretty good feeling that the folks in Cupertino have heard about it and are keeping their eye on it. If Steve (Jobs) or Ron Johnson wants to call and chat about it, I'd be more than happy to meet with them," Moll said. "I've gotten to the point where I'm not afraid of management anymore. Where I'm not afraid to step up and make this happen."

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20070919-248/meet-the-man-who-wants-an-apple-retail-union/?tag=mncol;txt

Analyst: New MacBook Air with Lion due in July

Coincidence? Apple's OS X Lion upgrade advertisement prominently displays the MacBook Air.

(Credit: Apple)

Apple's refresh of the MacBook Air should come in July packing Apple's newest OS X Lion operating system, a Deutsche Bank analyst said today.
"Our checks suggest a forthcoming MacBook Air refresh in July where we believe units could ramp to as high as 1.5M units per [quarter] or 50 percent of the MacBook business," analyst Chris Whitmore wrote in a research note distributed via e-mail.
If the MacBook Air garnered half of all of Apple's MacBook business, that would be a significant milestone, as early versions of the Air, dating back to January 2008, were not that popular compared with other MacBook offerings.
The most significant upgrade to the Air is expected to be the switch to Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors. Less certain is whether the new models get the high-speed Thunderbolt port, though it has been widely reported that they will.
Whitmore's note continued: "We also believe Lion will drive a strong upgrade cycle due to: 1) low ASP; 2) significant enhancements/feature upgrades; and 3) arrives in conjunction with MacBook Air refresh."
Whitmore also commented on OS X Lion, saying that among its 250-plus new features, the most important improvements include iCloud, multitouch gestures, "mission control," and "resume." These will "spur a large part of the 54 [million] Mac installed base to upgrade," he wrote.
OS X Lion also benefits Apple because it is available only through Apple's App store, which means no retail distribution costs for Apple, Whitmore said.

source: http://news.cnet.com/apple/?tag=mncol

World's priciest iPad costs $1.2 million

All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes it's diamonds.

(Credit: Camael Diamonds)

My iPad 2 is looking a little pale and shabby in comparison to the $1.2 million diamond-encrusted iPad from Camael Diamonds. The company calls it the world's most expensive iPad, and I'm not going to argue with that.

For do-it-yourselfers who want to bedazzle their own iPads, this only requires 1 kilo of 18 carat gold and 300 carats worth of perfect diamonds. Black diamonds grace the home button and Apple logo on the back. Just pop down to your local jeweler to pick up all the supplies you need.

Camael will happily customize your gazillion-dollar iPad with the gems of your choice. This is a smart way to go, as it would be horribly embarrassing to accidentally pick up someone else's look-alike diamond-slathered iPad at Starbucks.

Camael says it has already received inquiries about customizing its iPad offering. I'm not sure who is making those inquiries, but I don't think it's anyone I know. I'll ask around just to be sure. If it's you, please be sure to confess in the comments.

The Camael iPad joins a crowded field of luxury gadgets that includes a gold-plated Kindle, a Versace cell phone, and a diamond-covered iPhone. These may all be effective ways to flaunt your wealth in the face of tough economic times, but the diamond iPad trounces the competition when it comes to sheer garishness.

If $1.2 million is a little on the high side for your budget, you can always step down to the gold-plated iPad for just $146,000. What a bargain!

(Via Luxury Launches)

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20070553-1/worlds-priciest-ipad-costs-$1.2-million/?tag=epicStories