Apple considering TSMC mobile chips?

We hope you’re ready for a heaping helping of Apple speculation, because Reuters is serving up a nice big slice of rumor pie today. According to the ever-present “source with knowledge of the matter,” Taiwanese chipmaker, TSMC is gearing up to supply Apple with its next generation mobile processors

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Line2 brings phone functionality to iPad for 10 bucks a month (video)

Remember that ridiculous Steven Slater rap video promoting Line2′s in-flight texting app? Well, the VoIP company just dusted off the point-and-shoot and hopped back over to YouTube, this time peddling a complete telephony solution for iPad . Launching July 28th, the service will let you place phone calls using a wired headset or the built-in speaker and mic, listen to voicemail, and send texts from a single HD interface.

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JailbreakMe for the iPad 2 is finally live / not live, just keep refreshing

We just mashed our refresh button about a million times to get the screenshot you see above, but it was worth it. JailbreakMe 3.0 with support for the iPad 2 is finally live, and we’re already getting word from tipsters who claim to have successfully jailbroken their iPad 2s running iOS 4.3.3, as evidenced by the pseudo-blurry jailbroken Verizon model below

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Viacom sues Cablevision over its TV-streaming Optimum for iPad app

Just as Viacom took a break from courtroom battles over Time Warner Cable’s iPad app the media giant has filed a lawsuit against Cablevision, claiming the Optimum for iPad app does not have the right to stream its channels.

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iCard ECG brings heart monitoring to the iOS device of your choice (video)

AliveCor’s iPhoneECG case was pretty sweet but, being a case, could only be strapped to an iPhone 4. Doctors content with their 3GS or patients who prefer to hug an iPad to their chest will be elated to hear the company is working on a more hardware-agnostic option for your iOS heart monitoring needs.

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Brando’s iPad 2 telescope is perfect for watching the next Apple keynote

If you’re like us, you’ve spent entirely too much time wondering how the movie Rear Window might have played out differently, had someone just handed Jimmy Stewart’s character an iPad to play with. With the introduction of the Super Gear Telescope, it seems that the plot would’ve been mostly the same, just as soon as he finished beating Angry Birds

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Sky Go consolidates live TV streaming on UK PCs and iOS devices next month

Over in the UK, Sky TV is streamlining its efforts to serve up TV channels away from the TV by launching the new Sky Go service July 6th. It combines and replaces the existing online Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV services into one offering that’s free for subscribers, and in August will open up to those who don’t have Sky TV service for between

Boxee hits London with updated iPlayer app, Blinkbox video and new Media Server

Boxee threw a meetup in London last night where it revealed the return of its BBC iPlayer app and upcoming addition of streaming movies and shows from Blinkbox. This continues a trend that has seen the addition of Headweb video on-demand for Scandinavian regions and Databazaar’s library of Bollywood flicks in the last week. Boxee had iPlayer before but it stopped working after some technical changes, while the blog post reveals Blinkbox support is expected arrive around the end of the year

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OnLive Player app for iPad and Android tablets meets the public at E3

We already got a chance to try out OnLive on the HTC Flyer early but now the company has made its plans official at E3, announcing a Player app will bring internet-streamed gaming to the iPad and Android tablets this Autumn. Just as we saw, the apps allow for tablets to be used as the screen and touch / motion controller, touch / motion controller for games on an HDTV, or screen for games being played with the new universal wireless gamepad. The fun isn’t limited to just tablets though, the app will work the same way on smaller Android and iOS mobile devices

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Notification Center for iOS 5 announced

It looks like iOS 5 has a new approach to notifications — and we like what we see so far.

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Apple camera patent could stop smartphone bootleggers in their tracks

Apple is always filing patents for strange and fantastic things that never seem to find their way into actual products.

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Alaska Airlines ditches paper flight manuals for iPads

The iPad has already gotten the go-ahead from the FAA as a replacement for paper flight charts and maps, and now Alaska Airlines has become the first major US airline to hop on board the paperless bandwagon. While it’s not quite ready to ditch paper navigation charts just yet (though that is under consideration), the airline has announced that it will be replacing its traditional flight manuals with iPads, which will be loaded up with the GoodReader app and PDFs of 41 different manuals and other materials.

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New Signal Process introduces BreakOut Stereo and Stomp for the most serious of iOS musicians

If your iPad or iPhone is set to play a starring role at your next, sold-out concert, you may want to check out two new, iOS-friendly interfaces from New Signal Process.

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Foxconn confirms third death from explosion, earlier watchdog report points at aluminum dust

Following the tragic explosion at Foxconn’s Chengdu plant on Friday, the company has now confirmed to All Things Digital the death of a third employee, with nine remaining in hospital. While investigation is still ongoing, initial findings are pointing at “an explosion of combustible dust in a duct” at one of the polishing workshops, which supports earlier rumors of dust explosion; though there’s no confirmation on what caused the ignition just yet. In related news: two weeks before the fatal accident, watchdog group SACOM released a report on the welfare of workers at the new Chengdu plant

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Apple patent application reveals an LCD with switchable, privacy-protecting viewing angles

Don’t you hate it when the guy next to you on the subway is looking over your shoulder, watching you screw up in Fruit Ninja ? Well, Apple could have predicted your discomfort — back in November 2009, before the iPad was anything more than a unicorn , the company applied for a patent on an LCD display with adjustable viewing angles, explicitly designed to “shield the display away from unintended viewers.” According to the filing, the display would include steering modules made of liquid crystal material, which aim the so-called scattering modules that sit on top of them. The top layer then redirects the light, making it possible to narrow down and alter the viewing angle

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Apple patent application reveals an LCD with switchable, privacy-protecting viewing angles

Conde Nast brings The New Yorker to iPad, seven other magazines by month’s end

Yet another print powerhouse is bringing its wares to the iPad , all lining up neatly ahead of Apple’s upcoming WWDC. First it was Time , then it was Hearst , and now Cond

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air review

What’s that, an alien egg? Nope.

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The Daily generated 800,000 downloads, $10 million loss in first quarter of operation

It’s still too early to pass judgment on News Corp’s daring venture into tablet-only newspapers, The Daily , but at least we now have an idea of how much it costs to get a project like this off the ground. Having spent $30 million developing the concept before launch, the company’s latest quarterly reports indicate another $10 million loss was incurred on the early operations of The Daily

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iOS 5 updates expected to be carried over-the-air, at least for the Verizon iPhone

Having spent a good part of our day yesterday negotiating with iTunes and downloading a whopping 666.2MB file to update our iPhone to version 4.3.3 — a version, we might add, whose sole claim to fame is the removal of things — we know well the pains of updating Apple’s mobile software. Those aches, however, may soon be coming to an end

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ColorWare takes the green from your wallet and puts it on your iPad 2 (video)

Yup, it’s here — the moment all (eight) of you have been waiting for. The Apple iPad 2 finally hit the ColorWare config tool, so you can play around with that palette and make something just as hideous as we have here. And, if you feel so inclined, you can even add the thing to your cart, hand over $910 (for the base 16GB WiFi config) and wait “about 4 weeks” for your creation to arrive in the mail

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