While it seems like the new iPad is available everywhere on the planet, there are still locations where it’s impossible to find one. Apple has announced that the newest member of the iPad family will find its way to two new locations in the Asia/Pacific market — the Philippines and Guam — on May 29, 2012
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New iPad to be released in Philippines, Guam on May 29th
It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format.
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Daily Update for May 25, 2012
If you can’t get enough of Siri’s dulcet tones, then you’ll be happy to hear that Nuance — one of the companies behind Apple’s intelligent assistant — has announced a similar type of functionality that should be coming to cars soon. Dragon Drive replicates the power of Siri so that drivers can initiate a conversation to perform common tasks rather than take their hands off the wheel. Expected sometime this summer, Dragon Drive lets drivers send text messages, check traffic information, play music, or get directions by just asking.
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Nuance announces Dragon Drive, Siri-like functionality for cars
A recent report from BGR reiterates the earlier claim from The Daily that Microsoft is working on a version of Office for the iPad. According to BGR, Microsoft is bringing the complete Office suite to both the iPad and Android tablets by November of this year.
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Microsoft Office for iPad reportedly on track for November release
We’ve heard that Apple intends to step up hiring at a new research center in Israel, and here is more evidence of that effort. Two new job listings have appeared on Apple’s site for physical design engineers in Haifa, Israel, showing that Apple is getting serious about building out its new R&D center
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Apple looking to hire engineers at Israel R&D facility
In an effort to maximize its relevancy in the mobile sphere, Yahoo!
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Free App Friday: Yahoo! TimeTraveler
America’s favorite frisking and body scanning team — the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) — is about to go Apple. NextGov is reporting that the TSA has put out a request to possibly purchase any number of Apple products to “support specific areas of TSA’s Risk Based Counter-Terrorism mission.” TSA’s Office of Acquisitions is planning to enter into several contracts over the next three years to buy Apple products and services with a maximum value of US$3 million. They’re not just looking at Macs and iPads; according to a TSA document (PDF), “The proposed procurements may include any products currently within or added to the Apple line of products to include but not limited to: Apple computers/laptops, Apple iPads, Apple iPhones, Apple iPods, Apple TV, Apple OS (sic), Apple App Store applications, Apple peripherals and accessories such as monitors, mice and keyboards, and such services as installation, software updates, extended warranty and repairs, including AppleCare, required to support the Apple product line in an enterprise/production environment.” The document goes on to describe why TSA is looking to sole-source the Apple line, stating that it “requires the hardware, software and licenses to support a greater diversity of devices and operating systems as we follow the public driven demand for more mobility.” TSA states that they’ll be issuing a separate document for “Google Android” hardware, software and services to cover another “TSA capability gap.”US TSA eyeing Macs, iOS devices to assist mission originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 25 May 2012 13:00:00 EST.
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US TSA eyeing Macs, iOS devices to assist mission
When 2012 rolled around, Andrea Santilli, a teacher atWoodlawn Beach Middle Schoolin Gulf Breeze, Florida, wanted to find a new way to challenge her 7th grade Advanced Life Science students. She wanted to help thems develop relevant lifelong skills in addition to their regular studies, so Santilli set out on a unique quest.”I wanted to give them the opportunity to be published so they could use this as part of their academic resume and to make what they learn have real meaning,” says Santilli
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Superstar 7th Graders Publish Their Own eBook to the iBookstore
If you’re a developer with an app and a dream, you would do well to pick up Pitch Perfect by TUAW’s Erica Sadun and Steve Sande. Their book lifts the veil on how app reviewers, bloggers specifically, operate. Most of the advice I give to people looking to pitch an app is in this book.
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Pitch Perfect is the perfect marketing primer for the indie developer
Sharp and Hon Hai Precision, parent company of Foxconn, are partnering to improve the LCD manufacturing process for the iPhone. A report by Reuters points to Nikkei business daily report that says Sharp is helping Foxconn outfit a new Chengdu plant with the latest LCD manufacturing technology
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Foxconn to build new plant for iPhone screens with Sharp’s help
French newspaper Le Figaro is reporting that Pascal Cagni is stepping down from his position as Apple’s vice president of Europe. Cagni was hired by Steve Jobs in 2000 and has served as Apple’s European VP for 12 years
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Apple’s VP of Europe steps down after 12 years
As noticed by The Verge, Apple has started to promote apps in the iOS and Mac App Store using an “Editors’ Choice” branding. The first apps to receive this distinction are Deus X Human Revolution and Cobook in the Mac App Store as well as Facebook Camera and Extreme Skater in the iOS App Store.
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Apple adds free App of the Week to iTunes, Editor’s Choice to Mac and iOS App Store
This is super good news for the jailbreak crowd.
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Untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch now available
I don’t really care who you are or what kind of games you like. You should go to the App Store and buy Burnout Crash for 99 cents because it’s on sale right now.
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Daily iPhone App: Burnout Crash smashes with style
Patently Apple keeps an eye on all of the patents coming out of Cupertino, California, and they’ve been seeing a lot of patents for a 3D interface for Safari. This does not mean that you’ll be wearing special glasses to do web browsing; instead, it describes a way in which existing Apple patents can be used in a GUI to overlap and stack windows and content. The website describes several uses of 3D stacking to provide a different web browsing experiences
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Patently Apple theorizes what Safari 3D would be like
Apple’s Board of Directors approved a dividend equivalent payment to employees holding restricted stock units, but this won’t apply to Tim Cook, says a report in MacRumors. These RSUs vest after a period of time and are usually given to employees to entice them to stay with the company for a length of time.
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Tim Cook declines dividends being paid to Apple employees
The iPhone and iPad are consumer devices, but they’re powerful enough to be used in a variety of industries, including the military and law enforcement. One such military tool is a new hardware and software system from Special Operations Apps that lets you attach an iOS device to military grade optics like an infrared imaging system, night vision equipment, or laser range finder. The product works with current optics and will be sold as the Operations Apps/System for Optical Attachments system, also known as [SOA]2.
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iPhone, iPad optics add night vision for covert missions
The hackers have been teasing us for weeks, but today have finally made good on a new jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, coinciding with Hack in the Box conference taking place today in Amsterdam.The Chronic-Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team (collectively known as the “Jailbreak Dream Team”) have announced the availability of Absinthe 2.0, a sequel to their earlier jailbreak effort which now promises to support almost every iOS 5.1.1 device — including the new iPad.
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Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreak Now Available for iOS 5.1.1 Devices
Apple hasn’t historically been too generous with freebies, especially when it comes to the App Store, which the company maintains with a pretty much hands-off attitude. But that may be changing, with a new “Free App of the Week” section now available.As noted by TouchArcade, Apple is now offering a “Free App of the Week” section in the iOS App Store, first announced by the official App Store Twitter account in a post on Thursday
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While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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Read more from the original source: Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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