Video: crooks clean out New Jersey Apple store in 31 impressive seconds

And you thought making off with 39 iPods in 15 seconds was something to behold. After studying said crooks in Utah, a trained team of larcenists headed over to Apple's Sagemore location in Marlton, New Jersey in order to one-up the duo by snagging even more goods in under a minute. As the surveillance shows, a single blunt object decimated the iconic glass doorway and enabled five hyped-up thieves to enter, snag 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod touches, and head for the hills -- all in just 31 seconds. Look, we aren't trying to glamorize crime or anything, but this is the stuff GTA heists are made of. Head on past the break for a look at the video, and please, don't try to replicate this at your nearest Apple store (without wearing a head-mounted camcorder and hooking us up with the footage, of course).

[Via TUAW, thanks Mike]

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Video: crooks clean out New Jersey Apple store in 31 impressive seconds originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone app tracks swine flu, other disease outbreaks

A free iPhone app called "Outbreaks Near Me" is designed to help users track and report oubreaks of swine flu and other infectious diseases.

Apple to Launch Pre-Cut Ringtones at Next Week’s Media Event?

CNET reports that Apple has obtained the rights to distribute pre-cut ringtones via iTunes and is rushing to have the feature enabled in time for next Wednesday's media event.

Owners of Apple's iPhone have long had the ability to crea...

YouTube in Discussions to Offer Movie Rentals From Major Studios

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that YouTube is in discussions with several major movie studios to bring streaming movie rentals to the service.

YouTube is talking to Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Sony Corp.,...

First Look: TIME Mobile, a slick magazine for your iPhone / iPod touch

Filed under: iPhone, App Store

Instead of sifting through the piles of TIME magazines at your doctor's office, where you don't know who's healthy or unhealthy hands have touched the pages, you now have another option to browse through TIME content on your iPhone.

The recently launched TIME Mobile [iTunes link] app provides a better browsing experience and more content than the mobile version of magazine's website. In addition, the app brings with it support for video, which is lacking on the mobile version of TIME's site and not supported for the iPhone on the full version of the site because the videos are encoded in Flash.

TIME Mobile also brings a new approach for browsing articles. Like Cover Flow view in the iPhone and iTunes, TIME Mobile's "Image Flow" provides some eye candy in front of the meat and potatoes of the article content.

One thing absent in the app is support for offline reading, a useful feature for situations where data connectivity is lacking, such as on an airplane. The USA Today app [iTunes link], which is in the same app genre as TIME Mobile, supports offline reading by tapping on the update button on each section. Perhaps such a feature could be added to TIME Mobile as a paid-for feature, or as for free to those who subscribe to the paper version of the magazine.

Powered by Polar, a mobile publishing provider that also powers BusinessWeek [iTunes link] and CNNMoney [iTunes link] iPhone apps as well as a host of other apps on a variety of mobile platforms, TIME Mobile is available as a free download in the App Store.

First Look: TIME Mobile, a slick magazine for your iPhone / iPod touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Approves Toktumi’s Line 2 iPhone App; Google Voice Coming Soon?

Sony ICF-CL75iP alarm clock / digital frame / iPod dock a surprisingly attractive assimilation

We'll be honest, it takes a whole lot to get us excited about iPhone / iPod docks or digital picture frames these days, but congratulations Sony, you've managed to pierce through our hardened hearts with the ICF-CL75iP Dream Machine. Sony Insider brings word of the actually quite handsome bedside attraction, an assimilation of those aforementioned products with an alarm clock to boot. We're looking at a 7-inch WVGA LCD screen, 1GB built-in memory, FM / AM radio, and a retractible dock -- in case you don't feel like capitalizing on the total synergistic package. Photos can be pulled directly from the Apple handheld or loaded via USB, and your wake-up options include built-in presets, a customizable 10-second voice recording, or the iPod / iPhone itself. Our only knock at this point is the minimal codec support -- MP3 and WMA for audio, and MP4, M-JPEG, and AVI for video -- but if the $149.95 price on a cached SonyStyle listing stays accurate, we can be a little forgiving. In fact, throw in Chumby widget support and we'll be downright smitten -- make it happen, Sony.

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Sony ICF-CL75iP alarm clock / digital frame / iPod dock a surprisingly attractive assimilation originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Wine Ph.D. for iPhone

A fine iPhone app should be graphically interesting, user friendly, and fast. Wine Ph.D. nails the first two qualities, but falls short when it comes to speed.

iPhone Live! Tonight 8pm ET/5pm PT - With iPhone Case Give-Away!

iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, September 2) at 8pm ET/5pm PT.

If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to address, let us know in the comments below or tweet them to @theiphoneblog.

We’ll be discussing the week’s news, and offering up a RexRegina Hamilton Case for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G give-away (for live viewers only!) so join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

Chat with you soon!

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Sony Ericsson smartphone uses Windows Mobile 6.5

Sony Ericsson has announced the Xperia X2, which will come with Windows 6.5 when it ships in the fourth quarter, it said on Wednesday.

Enigmo 2 bows for iPhone

Enigmo 2, a sequel to Pangea Software's best-selling iPhone game, is now available.

Paperless boarding passes for smartphones hit SFO

San Francisco International Airport has started using a barcode-scanning system that lets passengers with Internet-connected smartphones check-in for flights using their handheld devices.

Snow Leopard Virtual Keyboard Renews iTablet Mac Rumors

Rumors of an iTablet continue to gain steam while Apple boasts a metric ton of refinements for their new Mac OS X Snow Leopard release, including better performance and smaller footprint, then goes and adds a new virtual keyboard that just begs to be touched…

…Ah, yeah, here come the Mac OS X Snow Leopard on iTablet stories!

9to5Mac leads this latest charge with the keyboard while Cult of Mac points also to the new Dock Expose, and all new, all-touchable Stacks grid. (See Apple’s feature overview).

So, could Apple be making a Mac OS X iTablet, or is your money still on an iPhone OS X iTablet? Or could they really be making both?

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Snow Leopard Virtual Keyboard Renews iTablet Mac Rumors

The Competition: Microsoft Discontinues Previous Zunes, Marketing Exec

On the eve of Microsoft releasing its new Zune HD platform (the one targeted at competing with the iPod touch), Windows Super-siter, Paul Thurrott is reporting that the still nascent plain vanilla Zune platform (the one targeted at competing with the iPod touch and classic) is being abandoned. (Shades of PlaysForSure?)

Likewise, the Wall Street Journal breaks word that Microsoft’s general manager of Zune marketing, Chris Stephenson is also being discontinued, leaving to take a position at Universal’s Interscope Geffen A&M Records.

The Zune HD admittedly looks like a more-than-compelling competitor to the 2007 iPod touch (the 2009 model, well have to see), and has bloggers strangely enthused, but it’s curious Microsoft is cutting support for previous players at the same time. Though Apple also believes them to be a dwindling market, rumor has it we’ll see camera-sporting iPod nano and classic come next Wednesday.

Could this actually be a sign of Microsoft gaining some much-needed focus? And will the logical, and still denied, ZunePhone be next? (And what would that mean for current Windows Mobile ODMs?)

(We’re still hoping for an XboxPhone instead!)

[Via Daring Fireball]

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The Competition: Microsoft Discontinues Previous Zunes, Marketing Exec

No Apple TV Refresh at Next Week’s Media Event?

The Loop reports that "very reliable sources" are claiming that there will be no update to the Apple TV at next Wednesday's media event in San Francisco.

The Loop has learned through very reliable sources that an updated Apple TV will...

Snow Leopard’s ‘Keyboard Viewer’ Sparks Renewed Speculation Regarding Mac OS X-Based Tablet

9 to 5 Mac observed at the launch of Snow Leopard that the Keyboard Viewer feature found in earlier versions of Mac OS X has seen several changes that spark speculation that Snow Leopard may be showing hints of utility for touchscreen hardware such a...

Digital Trends Podcast: Talking iPhone and Snow Leopard

Leif Iverson was kind enough to invite me back onto the Digital Trends Podcast to talk iPhone and Snow Leopard:

editor Rene Richie from the iPhone Blog gives us tips on the best way to upgrade, and what programs make best use of Snow Leopard’s smaller OS footprint. Rene also talks about known bugs with some popular applications in Snow Leopard, and how the new OS could optimize mobile computing in sync with Apple’s rumored tablet Mac. Read more about Snow Leopard in our complete guide.

5 days and almost as many installs later, and I’m more excited about Snow Leopard than any previous release, both what it is now and what it portents for the future of Mac and iPhone OS X. Anyone doubting that, strap on your geek and check out Siracusa’s massive Ars Technica review, especially the parts about LLVM, Blocks, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL, and QuickTime X.

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Apple rejects µTorrent controller iPhone app

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store, Jailbreak/pwnage

We've talked before about ways to control a BitTorrent client from the iPhone, and some unofficial developers have gotten it working in a jailbroken way. But apparently that's as far as we'll get -- µMonitor, a little iPhone app to control µTorrent (a popular BitTorrent app that I use pretty often) was recently submitted to the App Store, and Torrentfreak reports that it's been rejected out of hand. This isn't the first time something like this has come up: Drivetrain, another torrent remote control tool, was also rejected back in May.

Apparently Apple tells the developer that they are disallowing all types of BitTorrent-related apps "because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights." Often does not equal always, but technically that's another point: it's Apple's App Store, and they can take their ball and go home if they want. Torrentfreak claims that the myNZB app technically does the same thing (it basically controls a newsreader that can be used to download large numbers of files, possibly in violation of copyright), but it's the word "torrent" that Apple (and, likely, their content partners) have an issue with. Sure enough, a search of "torrent" on the App Store doesn't bring up anything related to the BitTorrent technology.

You can still run µTorrent on your iPhone, although you'll have to jailbreak it and dive into the Cydia repository, where it's listed under "Utilities." As for Apple's stance, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for things to change on this one -- µTorrent isn't even an app that enables BitTorrent downloading; it just makes it easier (by accessing a client that's doing the work elsewhere), and if they aren't willing to pay heed to these distinctions now, it's not likely they'll bother in the future, either.

Apple rejects µTorrent controller iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Competition: Nokia N900 Hands-On

Nokia’s latest latest and greatest, the N900, is being shown off at Nokia World, and it again has our own NokiaExpert, Matt Miller, all shades of excited.

While some have complained about it’s meager 3 rows of keys (3 rows too many for me, but I know many others like physical keyboards…) most are really excited about it’s Maemo (Linux-based) operating system, and it’s new user interface.

In fact, antonioj, who sent the link our way, thinks it might be enough to pressure Apple into refreshing the 2007-era iPhone UI…

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The Competition: Nokia N900 Hands-On

AT&T Announces 850 MHz 3G Coverage Improvements in New York City and Other Markets

AT&T's 3G coverage, which has been the subject of criticism from a number of iPhone users, has seen a boost in several markets recently, as noted by a handful of press releases from the company. The most notable market seeing improvements announced ...