Apple’s September 1 Media Event - News & Rumors Roundup

Can You Watch Apple’s Live Keynote Stream? Requirements and Workarounds

It came as a surprise to everyone tonight when Apple announced that they would be live streaming video of their September media event across the web. The news, however, was somewhat dulled by the fact that Apple announced that the stream wil...

Apple Special Music Event — Watch along with TiPb!

Apple 2010 Special Music Event

Apple will be streaming this year’s special music event live, and we’ll be here to provide all the color and commentary you’ve grown to love… or to love to hate. So if you’re watching, come watch with us. The party starts at 12:45pm, EDT right here on this very post.

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Fox, ABC to offer $0.99 iTunes rentals, CBS, NBC to keep heads buried in sand?

“People familiar with the situation” (yes, them again) have told the Wall Street Journal that both Fox and ABC are good to go on $0.99 iTunes TV show rentals, and will be announced later today at Apple’s special music event. Since ABC is owned by Disney, whose largest shareholder is Steve Jobs, their getting on board isn’t a huge surprise. Likewise, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, introduced Jobs at D8 and is all up in Apple rescuing print media (like the Wall Street Journal) and TV alike.

NBC, recently sold to Comcast — whose cable empire would compete with iTunes — and CBS, who likely isn’t sure what these new fangled ‘puters and gizmos are all about anyway, is disappointing but also not surprising.

How this will mix and match with Netflix and other, similar apps already on iPad and iPhone — and rumored to be coming to a new Apple TV — is also unknown. $0.99 a pop might not be enough for myopic media companies, but compared to a far bigger Netflix pipe at $10-$15 per month, it’s likely too much for high volume consumers.

[Wall Street Journal]

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Apple Set to Debut 99-Cent iTunes TV Show Rentals From Fox and ABC

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts prepped for Apple's media event
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will launch its 99-cent TV show rentals through the iTunes Store tomorrow, with Fox and ABC set to serve as launch partners for ...

Apple: Watch Live Video Streaming Of Tomorrow’s Media Event On Your iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch

Apple To Unveil New Apple TV Tomorrow; Will Offer Netflix Streaming

Apple to Provide Live Video Stream for Media Event

Apple announced this evening that they will be broadcasting their media event live over the internet.

Apple will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on ope...

Apple to live stream September 1 special music event

Throwing caution — and bandwidth! — to the wind, Apple has just announced that tomorrow, for the first time in recent memory, they’ll be live streaming one of their keynote events:

Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.

No word on Windows, Linux, Android, webOS, or any other kind of compatibility, so have your Apple gear ready. TiPb will be following along and providing our usual commentary and color so if you plan on watching, come watch along with us.

[Apple PR]

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Videos Of Next Generation iPod Nano Touch Screen And iPod Touch Digitizer

New Apple TV with Netflix integration coming tomorrow?

Citing “two people who asked not to be identified”, Bloomberg is reporting that Apple may indeed be ready to drop an all new Apple TV (iTV?) tomorrow at their annual special music event.

Netflix would, as usual, require a monthly subscription. Whether or not the new Apple TV would run iOS as previous rumors have suggested, and whether or not Netflix would be an app, like it currently is on iPad and iPhone, or a built-in service like YouTube isn’t made clear.

Would you have a preference?

[Bloomberg]

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Review: Knight’s Rush for iPhone

Knight’s Rush is an expansive and impressive side-scrolling beat-em-up in the vein of the addictive medieval console title Castle Crashers.


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Resort uses augmented reality to pair virtual girls with actual nerds

You've heard of this Love Plus thing, right? This Nintendo DS-based "dating simulator" is apparently a big deal in Japan, giving Otaku the opportunity to chat up (and kiss) girls the only way they know how: on a hand-held game console, with a stylus. To promote the latest version of the game (Love Plus +), Konami has developed an Augmented Reality iPhone app that players can take to the coastal city of Atami and use to interact with their virtual girlfriends at any of thirteen romantic spots. One can even book a a room at the Ohnoya hotel which, according to Discovery News, offers futon beds and a "barcode panel that allows the men to visualize their girlfriends in a flattering summer kimono." Over 2,000 virtual lotharios visited the resort town during the campaign, which began on July 10 and ends today. Check out the the trailer for the game (in Japanese, which doesn't diminish the enjoyment for our English readers one bit) after the break.

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Revamped Apple TV to Offer Netflix Streaming?

Bloomberg reports that Apple will be introducing a revamped Apple TV at tomorrow's media event, and that the new device will offer Netflix movie streaming. Netflix offers a subscription service allowing customers to receive DVDs and Blu-ray ...

Video of Next-Generation iPod Nano Touch Screen Surfaces

9 to 5 Mac shares a video discovered on YouTube showing a brief clip of the 3 cm x 3 cm touch screen supposedly destined for the next-generation iPod nano rumored for introduction at tomorrow's media event. While we've already seen the small touch s...

Rumor: New iPhone 4 handset at the end of September

Honestly, I don't even believe this one, but it's our responsibility as an Apple news site to keep you updated on the latest rumors, so here you go: A Mexican tech site is reporting that a Telcel executive says there will be a new version of the iPhone 4's handset released as soon as the end of September.

Marco Quatorze, Telcel's Director of Value Added Services, says that the iPhone 4 will soon go on sale in Mexico with the same hardware as everywhere else, but that as of September 30th (which is purportedly when the free case deal ends), Apple will be releasing brand new hardware for the phone that will fix the seam in the outer band that causes reception issues.

Anyone who's been paying attention to the issue knows that story's full of holes -- not only does Apple already consider the whole "Antennagate" issue solved, but it's extremely improbable that they'll update the hardware so soon and for that reason. It's much more likely that the company would just extend the free case program rather than update the hardware before the planned cycle. Plus, as we heard from Apple specificially, "Apple has not made an announcement regarding iPhone 4 pricing or availability in Mexico." Let's get the phone on sale before we start talking about updates.*

It's possible that this is just an error in translation. If you want to get a little paranoid, we might even guess that Mr. Quatorze is trying to keep Mexican customers from buying another cellphone, hinting that there are better phones coming just around the corner. Either way, we're only posting this rumor here for due diligence -- it's extremely unlikely we'll see a new iPhone 4 in just over a month.

*As noted in the comments here, on the iPhone 4 Mexico post and on Apple's own site, the iPhone 4 is available in Mexico, but Apple has yet to provide us with an actual statement to that effect.

[via MacRumors]

Rumor: New iPhone 4 handset at the end of September originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Rumor: New iPhone 4 handset at the end of September originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Audible for iPhone

At this point, this audibook app from Audible.com is more fun than it is useful. Die-hard lovers of audiobooks might want to wait for future versions before downloading the app; right now it's a work in progress.


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Apple Might Release New iPhone 4 To Fix Antenna Problem By End Of September?

In Brief: Hurricane for iPhone on sale

As the Atlantic storm season heats up and US East Coast residents warily eye Hurricane Earl's projected path, the team at Kitty Code has put their flagship iPhone app -- Hurricane 3.3 -- on sale for US$1.99 through September 5. The separate iPad version, Hurricane HD, remains priced at $3.99. We've checked out both the mini and mega versions previously.

There are scores of hurricane-related apps on the store, so if the Big Kahuna isn't to your liking you have some other options too. Stay safe!

In Brief: Hurricane for iPhone on sale originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

In Brief: Hurricane for iPhone on sale originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Next-Generation iPod Nano to Maintain Price Range, Ship Later?

3 cm x 3 cm touch screen expected to be used in new iPod nano
AppleInsider reports that it has received information claiming that Apple's next-generation iPod nano, rumored to carry a smaller form factor and touch screen, will maintain...