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
Now that we’re little more than a day from the launch of Apple’s social network Ping , reports are coming in that spammers are beginning to target the service — surprising no one. The biggest scam right now appears to be an offer for free iPhones which is popping up on many high profile Ping accounts, reports MacRumors . Even though Apple has said that it has 160 million iTunes accounts tied to credit cards, you can also easily create an account without one — which opens the doors for spammers to flood the service. Before Ping, there wasn’t much harm that a spam account could do on iTunes. But now that it has a prominent social element, spammers will quickly become an eyesore. The security software company Sophos weighed in on the issue in a blog post .
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Big surprise: Spammers find their way into Apple’s Ping social network
With a love for Alternative music including Coldplay and Linkin Park (?), Apple’s SVP of Design has joined Ping. If it is real, Pile on!
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Jony Ive joins Ping
Section: Communications , Cellphones , Email / IM , Smartphones , Mobile At yesterdays Apple event, CEO Steve Jobs revealed they are seeing 230,000 iOS devices activated per day.? Jobs made it clear that these were new activations, not upgrades.? Without saying any competitors names directly, he implied Google is off in their count. “We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers,” Steve Jobs.? “We think we are ahead of everyone.” Is Google padding their numbers of Android activations?? Earlier this year, Google announced they were activating 200,000 devices every day.? While Job’s number includes iPads and iPod touch devices, it would seem Apple is still in the lead. Google responded to Seth Weintraub, “the Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services.”? That begs the question, what phones don’t have Google services?? It would seem Android phones in China do not, but some others, such as this Commtiva T1 from Taiwan do not as well.? According to winandmac.com , phone manufacturers have to pay for the license for Google services such as Gmail apps.? Further, the site suggests users who want to check their Gmail on these devices will have to use gmail.com. We’re left to wonder how many are activated in just the US.? Other questions we have include: should all iOS devices be counted, or just iPhones?? Will Google count Android-powered tablets and the myriad of other gadgets the OS is being ported to? Read: [ Fortune ] Full Story ? | Written by JG Mason for Gadgetell . | Comment on this Article ?
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Google fends off Apple attack on Android activation counts
Facebook friend importing was a key feature of Apple’s new Ping social network, until discussions between the companies fell through, Facebook blocked Ping’s access to its data, and Apple removed the feature from Ping entirely — according to All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher . When Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off Ping at its media event yesterday, Facebook integration was clearly visible in his presentation . But when users finally got their hands on iTunes 10 and set up their Ping accounts, many were confused as to why they couldn’t import Facebook friends — instead, they were stuck with prehistoric options like searching for friends on the service, or inviting them via email
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What’s keeping you from importing Facebook friends into Apple’s Ping social network
Section: Video , Content , Video Providers As we mentioned yesterday, Amazon was expected to begin offering 99-cent television episode downloads. And it is always nice to see what was once a rumor come true. As of now—Amazon has television content from both Fox and ABC available for download—as in download and keep and be able to watch whenever you want as opposed the the 99-cent rentals that Apple is offering. As for the quality, both SD and HD is available. It seems Amazon may have one-upped Apple on that one. But hey sometimes a 99-cent rental is good enough, after all how often do you need to return to watch a rerun. Of course, I suppose if you are going to spend 99-cents either way you may as own the content.
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Amazon now offering 99-cent ABC & Fox television episode downloads
Sony, while mulling about in the shadow of Apple’s iPod and other reveals , announced its plan?to launch a cloud-based music streaming service.
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Sony again challenges Apple for music dominance with cloud-based Qriosity
Much awaited by many, Twitter released its official iPad app some hours ago. And it’s something of a gem — if you think you know what Twitter apps on touch screen devices feel like, you’re going to be in for of a treat. You can downloaded the app from Apple’s app store today for free. The first thing striking about Twitter’s iPad app is its friendliness to first-time users — whether they’re just new to the app or to Twitter itself. Instead of being hit with a login box upon initial startup as with a lot of Twitter apps, it shows you categories like Art & Design, Science and Travel on the left, and trending topics on the right, along with Sign Up, Sign In, and search boxes. Tapping any of the categories, trending topics, or making a search reveal tweets in the right panel
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Twitter’s new iPad app — smooth as butter
Included in a nice overview of Apple’s new iPods and Apple TV from Ars Technica is confirmation that users of Apple’s earlier Apple TV models will not be receiving a software upgrade to enable Netflix streaming and other software features of …
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Apple Confirms No Software Update for Original Apple TV
Amazon is promoting Apple’s new iOS products on its homepage this morning so we thought we’d give them a shout-out. They’ve got all of Apple’s new products today, which certainly still isn’t the case with the Kindle-competing iPad. However, if you live outside of Washington or New York, you’ll also save a few more bucks on taxes and what not. Shipping is free. We, as always, use our affiliate linking whenever humanly possible
