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Tim Cook took the stage today in San Francisco and quickly worked through a number of stats, finally introducing Japanese Siri and then the new upgraded Apple TV.  However, that was not the highlight.  The iPad 3 came up on the screen, sleeker, and smoother, with Retina Display and Quad Core Graphics with the Apple 5X CPU.   The machine comes with a 5 megapixel camera and has 1080P Video Recording.   It has standard voice dictation and is  4G LTE next…

Apple’s Tim Cook has announced that Siri will be available in Japanese and will be rolling out the software within the coming weeks.  Siri allows users to control their iPhones with a series of voice commands getting information and instructions from the device.  While Apple has rolled out the typical Germanic languages and romance languages, this will be the first of the asianic languages available on the iPhone 4S.

By Bill Martens With Apple poised to introduce the Apple iPad 3 or it’s equivalent, we decided to sit down and write a short laundry list of items we figure we will see today.   Many of the rumors running the mill this week have been everything from the outlandish to the absolutely hilarious and it is time to put a bit more of a cap on it all and bring the rumors back to a bit of reality. The first…

The Apple Store has been taken offline in anticipation of updates from this morning’s Apple Event in San Francisco.  The event in which the highly anticipated iPad 3 or iPadHD as some are calling it may also feature Apple’s latest rendition of the Apple TV unit which allows users to watch iTunes Store movies on their television.   While no hard details are out yet, there are a ton of rumors swirling around with everything from a complete new television to…

Ken Gagne and Mike Maginis’s Open Apple Podcast issue #13 is now available on the Open Apple website.  This month’s issue includes a discussion with Marinetti curator Andrew Roughan.  They discuss a host of issues int he Apple ][ world including the forthcoming Kansasfest as well as Brian Fargo’s current attempt to re-create the Wasteland franchise with a kick starter project.   Other topics include the Uthernet, Lim Thye Chen’s Apple ][ programmin iBook and Kim Howe’s software reclassification. You can…

Aspyr’s latest game for the Mac is the Company of Heros Complete: Campaign edition which is now available in the Mac App Store.   The game “redefines real time strategy gaming by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Beginning with the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, players lead squads of Allied soldiers into battle against the German war machine through some of the most pivotal battles of WWII. Through a rich single player campaign, players…

Skype has released a new version of the Skype Application for the Mac.  Version 5.6 includes a number of improvements including: Automatic Updates Improved UI for group video calling New full screen mode in OS X Lion Ability to delete conversations Ability to disable Audio Gain Control They also have fixed several issues including: Category Description Conversations Chat messages aren’t shown after clearing recent conversations or closing the last one Calling Choppy audio issue with USB headset while in group…

One of the simplest and the lowest tech devices made for the iPhone is the new “Love Box” for the iPhone 4 / 4S.   The device is a grooved piece of wood with a sliding mirror allowing for both the back of the camera and the front view of the camera to be recorded at the same time, making The Love Box the first device to allow true split screen video mixing without all of the hassle. The Love Box…

Spectre Media announced that they will be introducing a new iOS based Starship Troopers game, done in cooperation with the movie house, Sony Pictures.   The game will be announced at the Game Developers Conderence going on this week in San Francisco, Ca.   The game will be released sometime later this summer with the timing of the release coinciding with the release of the new Starship Troopers movie also due out this year. This will be the dirst time the Starship…

Many in the media this morning were fooled by the Fake Phil Schiller account saying “Apple won’t be streaming the live event tomorrow”.  While it is a forgone conclusion that this would not happen anyways primarily due to Apple’s recent policy concerning such events, it is surprising that mainstream media outlets including Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, ValueWalk and AppleInsider would be fooled by a twitter account that only had 37 tweets. Fake Account: https://twitter.com/#!/pschiiler/status/177142087869935616 Real Account: https://twitter.com/#!/pschiller Update:  Just after…

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Shares were trading at a low of $516.22 USD per share in the morning session on Wall Street.  The obvious antincipation of Apple’s new offerings without any real news, weighing on the stock heavily.  However, after the morning’s losses, the stock has climbed back to the $530-531 USD per share price range with just 30 minutes left in the regular trading session.  Most analysts are still posting Apple as a Strong Buy and little change from the…

For many of us, Super Mario Brothers was one of the first Nintendo games or Famicon games we owned.  That was the epitome of the 1990’s gaming scene and had only one aspect to the game.  Now there is a new Super Mario Brothers game, Mari0 which introduces a host of elements including portal gun mechanics.   The open source game is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh and the complete source code is also available. Some of the new features…

In 2011, Apple opened a temporary Apple Store at the South By Southwest Interacive Festival, a gathering of social media, music and other media types.   The iPad 2 was released on March 2nd just as the festival was beginning and Apple made out handily.  However, Apple is confirming  that there will be  no such temporary store at this years SXSW event. This year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival is due to start on March 9th and go until March 18th. …

CouponBuzz has announced the immediate availability of Apple Inc. specific coupons on their website.   The Coupons which are available on the CouponBuzz website are specifically attuned to the special sales which the Apple Store offers. According to CouponBuzz’s Senior Director, Justin Bowen, “The Apple Store is a wonderland of information and user-friendly interfaces that will walk the customer through every aspect of their new purchase.  Shopping online at the Apple Store is a truly enjoyably experience, one that is even…

Apple has release a list of their top 25 Best selling Apps and at the top of the list is Angry Birds.  The Rovio produced game has been at the top of the list on most iPhones and iPads for a good long while now, with several renditions of the game available, however, the original still tops the list.  Rovio also holds two more slots of the top 10 with Angry Birds Seasons coming in at 5th and Angry Birds…

After a meteoric rise over the past week, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares fell from a record high of $548.21 USD per share to close today at $533.16 USD per share.  Shares had been up in expectation of the latest rendition of the Apple iPad which is due out in a scheduled Apple event on March 7th.   It is also expected that Apple will introduce the 3rd version of it’s Apple TV product at the same event.  The fall of the…

Apple Inc. has released an update to the latest release of its Mac OS.  Mac OS X 10.7.3 was released last month, however some users were reporting issues with the Time Machine backup system on the latest version of the OS.  Apple has released a Supplemental Update to the OS, version 1.0, to address that particular issue.   Whether the update addresses another known sleep issue bug or not is not yet known. The update does not require a system reboot…

Apple has finally announced that a user in China was the winner of the Apple Inc. sponsored prize for downloading the 25 billionth iTunes App.  The user, one Chunli Fu of Qungdao, China downloaded the free Disney app, “Where’s My Water” to push the download mark over the 25 billion mark.  He will receive $10,000 USD in the iTunes App Store int he form of a gift card. Currently, there are more than 550,000 apps in the iTunes App Store…

David Schmenk has released his new Proto Language ASsembler for Apple or PLASMA for short.   This latest language release is the second for the creator of Java for the Apple ][. According to the introduction on David’s website, “PLASMA is a combination of virtual machine and assembler/compiler matched closely to the 6502 architecture.  It is an attempt to satisfy a few challenges surrounding code size, efficient execution, small runtime and fast just-in-time compilation.  By architecting a unique bytecode that maps…

Apple has updated the Application Loader for iTunes Connect.   iTunes Connect allows those authors using the iBooks Author Application to publish their books in the Apple iBookstore. The Version 2.5.1 update of the Application Loader  includes the following enhancements and fixes: Improved error messaging Creating and sending In-App Purchase details for apps directly from Application Loader Send to Apple command now creates logs for troubleshooting delivery issues Updated system requirements and newly supported formats Updated server IP addresses and port…