News Archive for 09/04/06

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Apple removing content amid iTunes Plus transition?

04/06, 6:40pm

Apple removes iTunes songs

Apple has reportedly removed content from the iTunes store amid the transition to the DRM-free iTunes Plus format. A tipster observed that certain previously-available items, such as Neil Young's The Bridge School Collection and the English folk compilation Scarborough Fair: The Best Of English Folk, are now missing from the store.

iPhone apps: SplashNotes Outliner, beamME CV, Papers

04/06, 4:50pm

PixMatter, Connect

SplashNotes Outliner ($5) can help users to make notes, plan projects and outline ideas. Users can build lists and attach additional notes and photos to each item for more detail. The lists can then be displayed as checklists allowing users to quickly turn an outline into a to-do list. There is also a companion desktop application that can be purchased which allows users to sync notes with any desktop computer.

Apple looking to add camera to iPod touch?

04/06, 4:20pm

Camera on iPod touch?

Apple may be planning to introduce cameras to iPod touches as well as iPhones, a recent job listing suggests. In March the company posted an opening for a "camera project manager," to work full-time in Apple's home city of Cupertino, California. While the position would nominally exist under the iPhone Engineering Group, a recent version of the description called for a "Camera Engineering Project Manager to drive the design, development and integration of camera modules across iPhone and iPod."

New iPod touches, iPhones to support 802.11n?

04/06, 9:40am

802.11n on iPhone, Touch?

Upgraded versions of the iPod touch -- and possibly the iPhone -- should add 802.11n to their stable of wireless technologies, investigation shows. Deeper penetration into the iPhone 3.0 beta firmware is said to show specifications for a Broadcom 802.11n module, hidden within resource files for a third-generation Touch. The BCM4329 chipset is also said to be low-power, thanks to special management; conserving power could an essential point in the iPhone, sometimes criticized for having a short battery life.