Apple has opened a Trailer Showtimes site today that uses browser location settings both on desktop and mobile devices to deliver showtimes. You’ll be prompted to let the browser access your GPS information, whether that is your geo-located IP or your device’s dedicated GPS. This not only works on iOS devices but works on other mobile platforms as well and provides a slick way to navigate movies, especially when integrated with Apple’s high-definition trailers sites. The next step is purchasing. Apple currently sends you through to the theater’s website if they don’t have an agreement with Fandango. Otherwise, you head to Fandango’s movie site (though I did get some errors). It isn’t certain if Apple receives any financial reward for sending its visitors over to Fandango, but it certainly has the opportunity to do so.
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Apple adds GPS-enabled showtimes to iTunes Movie Trailers site
Plex.app has been a fantastic media center option for Macs for a few years and as of last week, also on iOS devices . Interestingly, Plex today announced a huge deal with LG which will have the Plex software built into future LG HDTV displays, free of charge (except LG obviously has to cover the cost of additional hardware). At some point in the future, Plex will be ported to Windows (how about that!) as well. That is an interesting option vs. Apple and GoogleTV’s especially with the Plex iOS client running around and Plex’s ability to do 1080P, Flash and non-H.264 format videos. Great news for Elan, Cayce and the guys at Plex! Press release below: PLEX TO ENABLE NEXT GENERATION OF NETCASTTM CONNECTED TVs San Francisco, CA & Berlin, Germany (IFA) – September 3, 2010 – Today, Plex ( www.plexapp.com ), a leading software provider of an open platform for media management and consumption, announced the availability of the newest version of its service.
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Plex mediacenter gets smooshed into LG HDTVs
This morning we discovered in a local Beverly Hills Newspaper (The Courier) that Apple and Steve Jobs will be honored at the Visions Awards in Beverly Hills on September 23rd.
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Steve Jobs, Apple will be honored at the Vision Awards in Beverly Hills
This one is for the Google h8rs:
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Google’s Evil -Consumer Wactchdog
In case you needed a reminder of what is ‘coming soon’ all the way in Novemeber
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Apple creates iPad 4.2 page
September 3rd, 2010
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Those new colorless iTunes icons sure do rub some people the wrong way.
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Hate the new colorless iTunes 10 icons? Hack the old ones back in
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Google is in talks with music labels and aims to introduce its own music service by Christmas, Reuters reports . The company intends offering a la carte music downloads alongside a digital song locker, the report explains. The latter feature would let song owners play their music anywhere. Negotiations have been led by Google’s Andy Rubin (Vice president of engineering)
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Google iTunes attack for Christmas
Apple’s iOS has become the third most popular platform on the internet with marketshare that’s nealry six times larger than Android. Indeed, iOS is bigger than Linux, says Net Applications . Collectively the devices that run iOS — the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad — accounted for 1.1 per cent of all hardware on the Internet last month. Windows and Mac OS were the first and second place OS’ used on the net, with 91.3 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively.
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iOS is six times bigger than Android, says NetApps
Facebook has moved to reassure people affected by last weekend’s iPhone scam hack that their account data wasn’t compromised, while Apple’s new Ping service becomes a haven for spammers, according to two separate reports. Facebook’s security team has posted a message on the walls of thousands of users who were hit by the free iPhone scam. The scam saw hackers posting images promoting a free iPhone on their pages. Was security compromised? No, says a note from the Facebook Security Team “For a few hours on Sunday, there was a spamming incident on Facebook. During this time, photos (mostly of supposedly “free” iPhones) were posted to some people’s Walls, including yours. We’ve removed the photo from your Wall and fixed the issue that allowed spammers to do this.
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Facebook, Ping hit by iPhone spam attackers
The payWall St. Journal is reporting that T-Mobile’s exclusivity contract in Gemany is ending and O2 and Vodafone are picking up the iPhone for the holiday season.
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iPhone exclusivity ending in Germany for T-Mobile