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Apple ’s Tuesday pressure consequence may have focused on the iPhone , but the company found a little time to talk about venial changes to its iPod lineup , foreground largely by price cuts for the nano and contact models . Apple ’s Phil Schiller talks about the young iPod nano . “ We started the iPod because we love euphony , and that has n’t barricade , ” said Phil Schiller , Apple ’s senior frailty president of worldwide mathematical product selling , as he declare the modification to the iPod nano and touch offerings ....

Eddy Cue , Apple ’s senior frailty president of internet software and services , unveiled the divine service after Scott Forstall ’s presentation on iOS 5 , also schedule to ship on October 12 . iCloud is contain of several constituent : seamless sync and stand-in for iOS gimmick ; a server that fight your contact , calendar , chain mail , notes , and monitor to all your devices ; and outback entree to all your iTunes purchase ....

iOS 5 , the next looping of Apple ’s engage system for the iPhone , iPad , and iPod touching , will be released on October 12 . The company harbinger the ship date during a press event Tuesday at its Cupertino headquarters . Apple first unveiled iOS 5at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2011 , so attentive fan locomote into Tuesday ’s eventalready knowing plenty about the update ....

With its Napster acquisition this calendar week , Rhapsody , the august U.S.-only digital euphony subscription serving , is in conflict mode as rivalSpotifyattempts to bear its strong impulse in Europe to America . The deal between Rhapsody and Best Buy was an all - Malcolm stock deal . A Rhapsody spokeswoman say the company is n’t reveal the note value of the minority interest it gave up to Best Buy in substitution for Napster ....

Tim Cook need to the level for the first clip as Apple ’s chief operating officer , welcoming the crowd to the company ’s home office in Cupertino with an overview of Apple ’s recent history , work , and growth . Some notable stats admit : The Mac outgrow the personal computer grocery store by almost six prison term ( in the last four quarters ) ; more than 6 million copies of Lion have been downloaded ; the iPhone is experience 125 - pct growth vs 74 - pct for smartphones ; and three out of four tablets sold are the iPad ....

Apple unveiled a Modern iPhone Tuesday where the most significant changes — include new voice ascendence feature of speech — are all on the smartphone ’s at bottom . The iPhone 4S play up a press effect where Apple also declare release dates for iOS 5 and its iCloud on-line memory board and sync Robert William Service as well as a unexampled identity card plan app for Io devices ....

Adobe Creative Cloud , announced this week at theAdobe Max 2011 yearly league , is a swarm - base software opening move designed to redefine the process of subject conception , repositing , and communion , and as a major ingredient of the company ’s shift . originative Cloud is further grounds — in case any more was take — of Adobe ’s recognition that the mobile marketplace is the current and future cornerstone of artwork and design and is the fellowship ’s future ....

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict While there are raft of full - featured image - redaction programme out there , including Adobe Photoshop , there are times when you want an app that does just one thing , and does it incredibly well . For selective desaturation — withdraw color from specific division of a exposure while leaving the remainder untouched — that program is MacPhun’sColor Splash Studio(Mac App Store connectedness ) ....

A couple of recent customer - service snafus by Netflix push many users to look for an alternative way to bask telecasting service . First Netflix hike its prices by 60 percent , and afterwards it split its service into two different companies . Of course , most people have been using Netflix alone for a retentive time , and do n’t know anything about the alternatives . Who can tell me the difference between Blockbuster On Demand and iTunes rentals ?...

Yes , Tuesday ’s Apple upshot will almost for sure center around iOS 5 and the iPhone , asboth rumor and facthave intimated . But what about Apple’sotherplanned fall unveiling , iCloud ? At this summer ’s Worldwide Developers Conference , Apple show thatiCloud — its young on-line storehouse and sync religious service — would be arrive in the fall , presumably alongside iOS 5 . And , as iOS ’s developer betas have progress , so has iCloud : There ’s little dubiousness that the servicing will be formally unveiled at Tuesday ’s event , with an prescribed debut date near to — or the same as — Io 5 ’s ....

Reader Mike Kohler seek to update his troubleshooting kit now that he ’s moved to Lion . He writes : I set up Lion last calendar week on my year - former iMac . I like to be prepare for disaster but with Lion I ’m not sure what tools I should have . Can you help ? I do n’t blame you for being a small hazy on this ....

This week encounter an end to our long - running biz , “ Is It Competition Yet ? ” , as we receive the Amazon Kindle Fire ! Then we turn our gaze to Wall Street , where it ’s like a bell sounded and a hundred monkeys rushed to their keyboard to type idiotic naysaying piece about Apple ( one of Pavlov ’s lesser - known experimentation ) . You have sex , there ’s against the food grain and then there ’s against the psyche ....

Verizon Communications has file a lawsuit attempt to overturn the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ’s net disinterest rules , the caller said Friday . The FCC ’s net disinterest rules , approved by the mission in December , are illegal because they would alter Verizon ’s be spectrum licenses without the society ’s favourable reception , the caller said in its notice of appeal , filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ....