Apple Announces Oct. 4 Iphone Event

Apple has officially announced its iPhone event, to be held on Oct. 4 as previously reported. The event will take place at Apple's Cupertino Campus in California, beginning at 10 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern), according to press invitations issued by Apple on Tuesday.

Apple Ios5 – Brand New Features

Apple has rolled out its brand new version of its operating system, iOS 5, which will be available Fall 2011. On June 6th, Apple announced the release of the fifth upgraded version iOS5.0 beta version, during the WWDC annual event. Packed with some cool revolutionary features, not few, but around 200 brand new features to [...]

Apple iOS5 – Brand New Features

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Here's What The Apple Tv Will Be Like (aapl)

The drumbeat is growing: a lot of people think Apple is going to introduce a TV set in 2012. 

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster reiterated his call for a 2012 Apple TV, and technology grandee Jean-Louis Gassée takes a stab at figuring out what it'll be like:

Imagine a true plug-and-play experience. One set with only two wires: power and the cable TV coax. Turn it on, assert your Apple ID credentials and you’re in business. The program guide looks good and is easy to navigate; pay channels are just a click and a password away. The TV runs apps, from games to FaceTime and Skype, it “just works’’ with your other iDevices and also acts as a Wi-Fi base station using the cable provider’s Internet service.

One problem is that the Apple TV would have to support the many cable systems. The TV would have to either only support a few operators, or be complex and prone to bugs. Cable operators killed the CableCARD, which was supposed to plug into your TV and replace your set-top box, because it would be too complex to service. Apple would have to either rely on the cable guys to play nice and support it or, Gassée speculates, create its own "Apple Geek Squad" that would come to your house and fix it. 

The other problem is that people don't upgrade their TVs as often as they do their other consumer electronics. Moore's Law ensures that computers and phones quickly become obsolete, and you have a reason to spring for a new computer and phone every year or every two years. Once a family springs for a big, great TV, they won't renew so often.

But you could have made the same argument with phones: carriers have different systems, have competing requirements, and Apple worked that out over time. The phone business is commoditized, with wafer-thin margins, and Apple came up with must-have devices that allowed it to get carriers to play nice and (thanks to subsidies) sell incredibly powerful phones.

As Munster says, "Apple will do to TV manufacturers what it did to phone makers with the iPhone."

Let's just hope they don't call it an iTV → 

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With Itunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-promises And Over-delivers

As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of being tested by that community. And that means things are starting to leak out. Tonight brought perhaps the biggest surprise revelation yet: iTunes in the Cloud will support streaming as well as downloading of music. Now, before everyone works themselves into a tizzy yelling "FIRST!!!", yes, it's true that other music services have offered cloud-based streaming before — notably both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player this past summer. But neither of those is iTunes, the largest music retailer on the planet (online or "offline"). And there are plenty of other services that are streaming-only. It now seems certain that this fall, iTunes will offer both cloud downloading and cloud streaming.

With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers

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Apple Has More Cash On Hand Than The U.S. Government (AAPL)

Here's something to keep in mind as you follow this evening's congressional debate over the debt ceiling.

According to the latest daily statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion in at the end of the day yesterday.

Apple's last earnings report (PDF here) showed that the company had $76.2 billion in cash and marketable securities at the end of June.

In other words, the world's largest tech company has more cash than the world's largest sovereign government.

That's because Apple collects more money than it spends, while the U.S. government does not.

(The Atlantic and CNBC both pointed this out earlier.)

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HTC Wants To Work Out A Deal With Apple Over Their Patent Fight (AAPL)

HTC's CFO tells Bloomberg he wants "sit down" and figure out a deal with Apple over their patent disputes. 

Apple recently won a ruling from the ITC court that said HTC was violating two of Apple's patents. However, prior to that the ITC said Apple was violating two patents from S3 Graphics, a company that HTC later acquired.

Patent fights are widespread in the mobile market right now with Android and Android phone makers getting hit the worst.

HTC already pays Microsoft a reported $5 per Android handset. Would it have to pay that much to Apple, too?

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Lion Downloads Hits One Million Mark in A Day, Apple Announced

Earlier in the day, diTii reported that Apple's next generation Mac OS X Lion operating system has become the Top Paid app in Mac App Store. Now, the Cupertion company has just reported that "in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system." (emphasis added)

Lion Downloads Hits One Million Mark in A Day, Apple Announced

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Now Apple Is Talking About Buying Hulu (AAPL)

Apple is the latest company rumored to be considering a bid on Hulu, joining Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T, and a host of other technology companies.

Bloomberg reported Apple's interest a few minutes ago.

The company certainly has the cash -- more than $77 billion as of its last earnings report. And it might make sense incorporate Hulu into the iTunes store, especially if Apple can get an exclusive. It would certainly be a setback for competitors like Amazon and Google.

Also, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer hinted that Apple would have some "neat stuff coming" to the iTunes Store this quarter.

But so many companies have been rumored to be interested in Hulu, this report might only mean that Apple took a meeting with the bankers trying to sell Hulu -- just like Google did a couple weeks ago. Google would probably face serious antitrust scrutiny if it tried to buy Hulu, since it's got YouTube, which dominates online video.

Microsoft was also in on the bidding, but apparently dropped out after the first round.

Yahoo is ready to bid $2 billion for the company, but only if it comes with exclusive streaming rights for Hulu's TV shows and movies for four or five years.

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