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Apple announced that they had been ready to accept international orders for iPad Wi-Fi and 3G. Unfortunately, there are only a few European countries that could do local reservations. UK, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and Italy have now been able to make an iPad reservation at the local Apple online store. According to AppleInsider, Japan and Canada will follow on May 28.
But, the announcements made via their online store turns out a day early than planned. Previously, Apple will begin taking orders on May 10 before the launch date on 28 May. Meanwhile, due to the iPad demand explosion in the U.S., Apple was forced to delay the international launch in late April. Apple also announced that bookings per person limited to two devices. Read the rest of this entry »
Last June 7, 2010, Apple has launched iPhone 4 features with FaceTime, which makes video calling a reality, a new species named Retina-screen display, which provides the highest resolution on a phone.
In addition to the iPhone 4 also has a 5mp camera with LED Flash, 720p HD video recording feature, the Apple A4processor, 3 axis gyro (motion detection device), and the talk time is 40% longer than the previous. iPhone 4 also uses the IOS (the name of the new iPhone OS 4.0), which promises 100 new features and new APIs for developers in 1500. IOS offers multitasking, Folders, Mail is better, better Enterprise support and iAd mobile advertising platform. iPhone will be available in the U.S., UK, France, Germany, on June 24, in the U.S. with prices start at $ 199 (with contract). Read the rest of this entry »
Apple has reportedly bought a company that is responsible for the design of the processor used on the iPad. Intrinsity based in Austin, Texas did not make direct microprocessor but specializes in designing and licensing high-performance processor for mobile devices.
Its main product is a collection even called Fast14 design tool that implements the algorithms and techniques to improve the efficiency of the CPU based on a variety of architectures including ARM family residing at the core of Apple products.
As usual, Apple has just announced the purchase of this Intrinsity although some employees have been replacing their status in the business networking site LinkedIn some time ago in accordance with their new positions in the company’s Cupertino giant.
Apple has not specifying the amount paid to purchase Intrinsity or what their plans against the company. Apple spokesman told the New York Times that the Apple from time to time, buy a smaller company. NY Times quoted industry experts who claimed that the purchases were worth $ 121 million, a small amount for a company that just announced the second quarter with $ 41.7 billion in cash and investments. As information, in 2008 Apple bought PA Semi chip designer worth $ 287 million.
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