Apple patents the 3D Apple Store - Alice in Avatar-land

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Seems Cupertino’s been looking at Second Life for a little inspiration here, and has won a patent that suggests the company could in future create its very own 3D universe online.

Surprise: Warner admits iTunes sales slow on price hikes

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Warner Music revealed its financial results today - admitting more expensive tracks just didn’t sell as quickly. As we know, iTunes now lets labels charge more per track, if they so choose.

The effect? Warner admits digital revenue growth in the last quarter of 8 percent compared to 20 percent in the previous year's corresponding quarter.

“This is in line with an industry-wide slowdown in which year-over-year “digital track equivalent album unit growth” dropped to 5 percent in the December quarter, after being at 10 percent in the September quarter and 11 percent in the June quarter,” we’re told by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

This, according to the Byzantine logic of Big Music, equates to a “net positive” for Warner. So - selling fewer tracks by artists to fewer people is a success, so long as the profit per tune ranks high.

Apple ships Aperture 3: 64-bit, Snow Leopard/Intel only, 200 features, $199/£169 (demo available)

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Aperture 3 popped its head up and over the parapet this morning, with Apple introducing its newly announced pro photography protege as, “the next major release” of the application, bestowed with an impressive 200 added features at the same $199 price.

These new features include: Faces, Places and Brushes. Some of these build on the Faces and Places features inside iPhoto 09, and are designed to make it easier for snappers to track down the right image when rifling through large image collections.

It’s a 64-bit application for Mac OS X Snow Leopard Macs with Intel Core 2 Duo processors.

Apple Store Down. Can we has Core i7 MacBook Pros?

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Update: It isn't down any more - we got Aperture 3 (so far).

Yes it is down.  Yes we want MacBook Pros with fast processorswith built in 3G.

Apple podcasts Mac advice video clips

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Apple has unshackled at least some of its instructional Mac using videos from their velvet-lined prison on the company’s own website - at last it has set them free via iTunes.

iPhone gains, BlackBerry loses US smartphone marketshare

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Apple iPhone gained one percentage point share in the US smartphone market while BlackBerry lost a point in the last three months of 2009, said comScore.

The researchers reported Monday that BlackBerry remains the most widely used smart phone system in the US, with 41.6 percent of the market - one point less than in the previous quarter.

Apple gained 1.2 percentage points to reach 25.3 percent of the US smart phone market.

Microsoft took 18 percent of the market, followed by Palm with 6.1 percent and Google with 5.2 percent.

Motorola remained top US handset hardware maker in the quarter, with 23.5 percent market share. Its closest competitors, LG Electronics and Samsung, made 21.9 percent and 21.2 percent of all phones used in the US, followed by Nokia Corp. and RIM.

Will Apple's new Core i5 and i7 MacBook Pros have 3G?

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Ever since the MacBook Air, a machine made for 3G wireless access, was released without built-in ability to connect to mobile wireless, I've been waiting for Apple to put 3G access in their laptops.

Will my wait be over soon?

A couple of things have happened in the last month that give me a bit of hope.

Job posting suggests future iPad may soon get camera

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MacRumors found a job posting on Apple's website announcing that they are looking for a "Performance QA Engineer, iPad Media".  In the Job description, they say:

Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.

…and...

Good solid knowledge of photography, various video and audio media formats. Knowledgeable with lighting, whether artificial or ambient and how it affects image quality.

...Which seems to indicate that future iPads (or current iPads with features not yet unveiled) will have cameras and the ability to capture video and still images.

The first rule of iPad is: you do not talk about iPad

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According to Valleywag, Steve Jobs laid into The Wall St. Journal's online executive editor Alan Murray who sent out a simple tweet from his loaner iPad.  The reporter, tail between legs, deleted the tweet and gave the following statement:

I will say that Apple's general paranoia about news coverage is truly extraordinary— but that's not telling you anything you didn't already know.

True.

First iPad teardown is a nasty one.

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Relax, it is a joke.

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