Update: As our astute commenters are pointing out, these are actually listed as 99-cent purchases, making this a far better deal entirely. We don't know if that's for real or just an error right now, though -- we're double checking and we'll let you know.
Update 2: Yep, we've confirmed that these are 99-cent purchases, making this a much better deal than Apple's rental model -- although only you can decide whether you actually need permanent streaming access to Dollhouse Season 2.
[Thanks, Stephen]
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Persistent talk of an iPhone for T-Mobile USA gained a minor assist with a rumor this morning. An unnamed Examiner contact said that there had been "problems with the carrier" but that there would now "definitely" be a version for the second-largest American GSM carrier. The unconfirmed tip had the iPhone reaching the network early in 2011....
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Microsoft today said Windows Phone 7 had been released to manufacturing. The move gives phone makers a gold build of the mobile OS and also includes some important changes since a Technical Preview just weeks ago. Facebook now has a unique feature that will filter contacts to show only truly known contacts, and the People Hub now allows for a direct Facebook "like" or wall post....
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Apple's name for its new social network, Ping, is interestingly generic. With a long association to the sport of table tennis and a computer networking utility whose function resembles it, it carries a natural association with communication, responsiveness, and so on. But like many generic terms, if you do a search for "Ping" at the trademark office's website, you'll find many, many entries. Most recent filings are from Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, which makes golf gear. Interestingly many of its filings go beyond the sticks to include computer and internet-related stuff. This mark, for example, is for goods and services concerning "Communications software for electronically exchanging data." Though filed on April 7, 2010, it's already been abandoned. I've put in a call to ask why, and whether they've had any chats with Apple. Most of the "Ping" trademark filings from Karsten, however, remain live. It also has an iPhone app....
It's a promise sounds too good to be true: free, unlimited texting to and from your iPhone. And even if a service did manage to offer it, it certainly couldn't be sustainable, could it? Pinger, a startup that launched back in 2006 as a voicemail service but has since pivoted in a big way, would beg to differ: the company has managed to become immensely popular on the iPhone by offering free text messages to users through an application called Textfree. And it's just blown past another major milestone: users have sent 3.5 billion text messages using Textfree since it launched in March 2009.
So how do the do it? The key, unsurprisingly, is ads. Textfree has gotten such massive distribution that it can now turn a profit by placing ads in the application (the company has been profitable since December). Textfree doesn't insert ads into your conversations — rather, it shows basic display ads which get 1.4 billion ad impressions a month.
Apple announces all-new iPods, including an iPod Touch with front and back cameras (lower in resolution than the iPhone 4 camera) and the "retina" display; plus new iOS versions with bug fixes and a "Ping" social network for "music discovery"; and a tiny new Apple TV that acts as a streaming client for Apple's new movie and TV rentals, as well as streaming content from your computer and from iDevices.
Chronicles of Mystery is a hidden picture mystery game that is riddled with software bugs, a complicated plot, dull character dialogue and repetitive gameplay.
Epic Games has already released an app demonstrating the graphics capabilities of the upcoming Project Sword game that was announced alongside the fourth-generation iPod touch. The tech demo, Epic Citadel, utilizes Unreal Engine 3 to render a medieval town in great detail. Users can simply tramp through streets and over bridges to enjoy the scenery, which includes flying flags, birds in the sky, and individual shadows on leaves and trees....
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Apple's new Ping social network -- introduced alongside iTunes 10 -- required a special trademark agreement to make happen, a press statement reveals. Karsten Manufacturing notes that it technically owns the Ping name for one of its sub-brands, which produces golf equipment. Apple should only be able to use the Ping name in conjunction with the social network....
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FCC officials today tossed rumors [sub. required] that they were softening plans for net neutrality regulation. An unnamed agency staffer told the WSJ that Chairman Julius Genachowski had "absolutely not" given up on the existing strategy of reclassifying some parts of Internet use to tighten regulation. A Credit Suisse investment analyst had claimed earlier in the day that the FCC was giving up and would please telecom companies by conceding to their demands....
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Apple has announced that iOS 4.2 for the iPad will be available in November when it is also released for iPhone and iPod touch. This is in line with previous rumors suggesting iOS 4.2 would unify all the versions of iOS across the i-device product lineup. This also fits into Apple saying that iOS [...]
On Wednesday, Apple announced that multiplayer games on your iPhone and iPod touch will never be the same.
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Apple will release an update to its mobile operating system next week that fixes many bugs while introducing several new features to iOS.
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Apple overhauls its iPod Touch with retina display and dual cameras on the front and back of the device.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled the next two generations of iOS, updates that will bring multiplayer gaming and high-definition photography to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches next week and wireless printing and media streaming in November.…
One of the big announcements at Apple's event today was Ping, the music social network that Apple has baked into iTunes. But it's not just on iTunes for the computer, it's also a part of iTunes on the iPhone and iPod touch. This will be a part of the new iOS 4.1 release which is going out to developers right now, and should be out for consumers next week.
In the demo area after the event, Apple had a bunch of iPod touches loaded with iOS 4.1, so we got to play around with it. It's a pretty slick experience on the device because it's so simple. Below find some pictures of how it works.
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Apple's iOS platform has managed to pass a major desktop OS for the first time in web use as it now has more share than Linux, Net Applications found today. It just took the lead in July but held and widened it in August, with iPads, iPhones and iPods taking 1.13 percent; Linux has declined to a new low at just 0.85 percent. The figure doesn't include Android, though it has far lower share at just 0.2 percent....
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Although iOS 4.1 is only set to launch next week, Apple also used today's press event to preview iOS 4.2. Critically the update will be the first version of iOS 4 to work on iPads, bringing along many advancements already on the iPhone and iPod touch, such as folders and multitasking. Universally the firmware will gain still more features, including wireless printing, which pops up a Print Center app in the Dock when a job is active. Multiple printers can be chosen from....
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For businesses and IT, Apple's fixing some iPhone bugs this month, but the bigger iPad upgrade is due in November
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