With more iPhone rumours, more woe for Google+ and more cheap HP TouchPads.
iPhone 4S shows up in AT&T inventory Rumours that Apple plans to launch a second tier iPhone gained a little more credence this weekend, when an "iPhone 4s White" model showed up in US network AT&T's inventory. The 4S will reportedly be Apple's attempt to get in on the pre-pay market with a handset likely to be a similar to the existing iPhone 4. Link: AppleInsider
Not even Larry Page is bothered about Google+ anymore The swarm of negativity that has surrounded Google+ this week continued into the weekend with reports that Google CEO Larry Page hasn't posted on the social network in over a month. Google+ racked up 25m users in its first month, but reports last week claimed that posts per user, per day are down 41 per cent. Link: DailyMail
Apple to merge user IDs ahead of iCloud launch Apple has resolved to consolidate users with multiple Apple IDs before the company launches its iCloud storage solution in the coming weeks. Currently, users with multiple Apple IDs will struggle to sync content across multiple devices. That means, for example, that many users will not be able to access their iTunes purchases from the cloud. Link: Wired
More HP TouchPads coming, employees get first dibs HP is to release a final batch of TouchPad tablets, but the company's loyal workforce will have the chance to buy one before they're released into the wild. The final production run, before HP shuts down webOS gadget-building for good will only be available in the US. Link: TechCrunch
1996 Steve Jobs interview reveals his plan to bring Apple back to glory When Steve Jobs returned to the Apple hot-seat after a long time away, the company and its stock was in the toilet. The resurrection job is the stuff of legend, but in an intriguing 1996 interview El Jobs revealed how he was going to do it. He said: "I think the way out is not to slash and burn, it's to innovate. That's how Apple got to its glory, and that's how Apple could return to it." Check out the interview below. Link:Fortune
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Purge yourself and gain happiness with Angry Birds
We've heard of shady Chinese business folk knocking off Apple products and, yes, even whole Apple Stores, but now it appears even the humble app developer isn't safe from opportunistic bootleggers. In Changsha, China, local knock-off artists have taken Rovio's phenomenally popular Angry Birds app and made it flesh - well, made it fur and wood.
The results look rubbish. People load Angry Birds stuffed toys into a big wooden slingshot, take aim and fire them toward houses made of supposedly destructible blocks. Most of the time, they miss, with the birds either massively overshooting the target or, this being the real 3D world, flying off either side of their intended landing zones. When the birds do collide with the blocks, they bounce off harmlessly, leaving the structure wholly unaffected. We'd give it no stars.
"This (Angry Birds park) serves as a method for people to purge themselves and to gain happiness" a spokesperson for the park told website Gamersky.com. We're not sure the folks at Rovio will be seeing things quite the same way. Check out the video below for a look at what visitors to the park get up to.
Unofficial Angry Birds theme park in China
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The legal tiff between Apple and Samsung grinds on, with Samsung striking back at Apple with its own lawsuit claiming that Apple is in violation of a number of its wireless technology patents.
According to Samsung, Apple's designers have pilfered Samsung know-how for use in its iPhone and iPad 2. "To defend our intellectual property, Samsung filed a cross claim for Apple's violation of Samsung's wireless technology patents," said Nam Ki-Yung, a spokesman for Samsung Electronics.
This latest chapter in the daytime courtroom drama that is Apple's relationship with Samsung comes after a first shot from Apple saw Samsung's flagship tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, banned from sale in Europe on the grounds that it had copied the iPad. The sales ban, which has since been lifted everywhere except Germany, was defended by Apple which said that the similarity in form factor between the iPad and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was "no coincidence" and that Samsung had engaged in "blatant copying."
What will the end result of all this legal tussling be? Probably nothing more exciting than an agreement to license the technology in question to the other party. But you never know: perhaps this time next year we'll be living in a world with no tablets at all.
New iPhone 5 rumour suggests two handsets launching this year
Apple iPhone 5 rumours are everywhere these days, as we get ever closer to that rumoured October release date. But now the rumblings on the interweb are suggesting that come October all we'll be treated to is a slightly spruced up iPhone 4, with the iPhone 5 proper delayed until later in the year. You read that right: two iPhone handsets by the end of the year.
This latest iPhone 5 rumour comes courtesy of the bods at 9to5mac, who claim that while the updated iPhone 4 (the iPhone 4S, perhaps?) is already rolling off production lines in its millions, the true next-generation iPhone (being developed in tandem with the 4S) is suffering from production shortages. Their sources claim that the iPhone 5 (with its enlarged screen, 8MP camera and rounded shell) will get its own launch at a later date, but that shortages may run into 2012.
We've been wading through speculation on the iPhone 5 for the past couple of months, with various iPhone 5 case makers dropping the ball and giving us an (alleged) glimpse of what Apple's next-gen iPhone might look like, Orange CEO Stephan Richard letting slip an October 15th iPhone 5 release date, and an accidental Vodafone website listing seemingly confirming black and white iPhone 5 models at launch. But two iPhones launching at the same time? We'll have to wait to October to find out.
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