Apple has opened a Trailer Showtimes site today that uses browser location settings both on desktop and mobile devices to deliver showtimes. You’ll be prompted to let the browser access your GPS information, whether that is your geo-located IP or your device’s dedicated GPS.
This morning we discovered in a local Beverly Hills Newspaper (The Courier) that Apple and Steve Jobs will be honored at the Visions Awards in Beverly Hills on September 23rd. For the 40th anniversary of this awards ceremony, Apple’s co-founder will be honored with the “Lifetime Achievement in Technology.”
As you can see in the article’s snapshot above, the event will be taking place at the Beverly Hills Hilton. We’ll be following this story closely for additional details. Read more
Plex.app has been a fantastic media center option for Macs for a few years and as of last week, also on iOS devices.
Interestingly, Plex today announced a huge deal with LG which will have the Plex software built into future LG HDTV displays, free of charge (except LG obviously has to cover the cost of additional hardware). At some point in the future, Plex will be ported to Windows (how about that!) as well.
That is an interesting option vs. Apple and GoogleTV’s especially with the Plex iOS client running around and Plex’s ability to do 1080P, Flash and non-H.264 format videos.
Great news for Elan, Cayce and the guys at Plex!
Press release below: Read more
Facebook has moved to reassure people affected by last weekend’s iPhone scam hack that their account data wasn’t compromised, while Apple’s new Ping service becomes a haven for spammers, according to two separate reports. Read more
Apple’s iOS has become the third most popular platform on the Internet with marketshare that’s nealry six times larger than Android. Indeed, iOS is bigger than Linux, says Net Applications.
Collectively the devices that run iOS — the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad — accounted for 1.1 per cent of all hardware on the Internet last month. Windows and Mac OS were the first and second place OS’ used on the net, with 91.3 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively.
Google is in talks with music labels and aims to introduce its own music service by Christmas, Reuters reports.
The company intends offering a la carte music downloads alongside a digital song locker, the report explains. The latter feature would let song owners play their music anywhere. Negotiations have been led by Google’s Andy Rubin (Vice president of engineering). Read more
Those new colorless iTunes icons sure do rub some people the wrong way. Not to worry, there is a ‘fix’ out there. You simply download a new iTunes.rsrc file and shut down iTunes and replace it with the one you’ve just downloaded. When you restart, its like you’ve never updated (except Ping is still there).
We haven’t tried this (we are in the ‘who cares’ camp) so use at your own risk. via OPM
PS. Bonus tip from the comments: If you want the normal stoplight buttons back, Close your iTunes, open Terminal and paste in this “defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1″, hit enter. Boom. Open you iTunes. Fixed. Read more
The payWall St. Journal is reporting that T-Mobile’s exclusivity contract in Gemany is ending and O2 and Vodafone are picking up the iPhone for the holiday season.
Must be nice… Read more
In case you needed a reminder of what is ‘coming soon’ all the way in Novemeber
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