/asia/hotnews/ Hot News provided by Apple. en-us Copyright 2010, Apple Inc. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:29:59 PDT Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:22:38 PDT Apple In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ /asia/aperture/ Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 offers more than 200 new features including Faces, Places, and Brushes. A 30-day trial is now available for download. February 9, 2010 /asia/ipad/ Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store. At just 0.5 inches thick and 1.5 pounds, iPad is thinner and lighter than any laptop or notebook. January 27, 2010 /asia/mobileme/features/gallery.html Today, MobileMe introduced a new Gallery app for iPhone and iPod touch. The app features iPhone- and iPod touch-optimised controls and beautiful gallery displays that make browsing photos and videos easier and more interactive than ever before. The Gallery app is free for MobileMe members and available now on the App Store in iTunes. January 14, 2010 /asia/imac/ Apple today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at US$1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance. Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world’s first mouse with Multi-Touch technology. October 20, 2009 /asia/magicmouse/ Today Apple introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac and will be available as a Mac accessory at just US$69. October 20, 2009 /asia/macbook/ Apple today updated its popular MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students and new Mac users, and is available for US$999. October 20, 2009 /asia/itunes/overview/ Apple today introduced iTunes 9, the latest version of the world’s most popular software application to manage and play media, packed with innovative features such as Home Sharing and Genius Mixes, as well as a redesigned store and improved syncing. iTunes 9 makes it easier than ever to discover and enjoy your music, video, and apps for iPod touch from Apple’s revolutionary App Store. September 9, 2009 /asia/ipodnano/ The new iPod nano adds a video camera, mic and speaker to the world’s most popular music player, allowing you to shoot video wherever you are, view it on your iPod nano and use your computer to easily transfer your videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano—available today in an 8GB model for US$149 and a 16GB model for US$179—features an ultra-thin and sleek design with a larger 2.2-inch colour display and gorgeous polished aluminium and glass enclosure in nine brilliant colours. September 9, 2009 /asia/ipodtouch/ The new iPod touch, starting at just US$199, gives you a great iPod, a great pocket computer, a great game player and access to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with over 65,000 applications. iPod touch features Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a built-in accelerometer and speaker in an amazingly thin metal design that slips easily into your pocket. September 9, 2009 /asia/ipodshuffle/ The iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player and the first music player to talk to you, is available now, starting at just US$59, in five great colours. iPod shuffle’s intuitive controls are conveniently located on the headphone cord, letting you navigate and enjoy music without even looking. September 9, 2009 /asia/macosx/ Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28. Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for US$29. August 24, 2009 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320654497&mt=8?sr=hotnews If you subscribe to MobileMe, you can now use your iPhone or iPod touch to view and share Pages documents, Keynote presentations, Microsoft Office documents, PDFs and more. To view documents, simply select them. To share them with others, just tap the share icon and choose your recipients. iDisk will send them an email with a download link. Get the free MobileMe iDisk app from the App Store. July 29, 2009 /asia/finalcutstudio/ Apple today announced a significant update to Final Cut Studio, offering more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Colour, and Compressor. Final Cut Pro 7 expands Apple’s ProRes codec family to support virtually any workflow and includes Easy Export for one step output to a variety of formats. July 23, 2009 /asia/logicstudio/ The new version of Logic Studio introduced today offers major upgrades to Logic Pro and Mainstage and more than 200 new features that simplify tasks. “The new Logic Studio is ideal for professional musicians, live performers and GarageBand enthusiasts who want to take their music to the next level,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. July 23, 2009 /asia/iphone/ Apple today introduced the new iPhone 3GS, featuring improved speed and performance-up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G-longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. iPhone 3GS includes the new iPhone OS 3.0, with over 100 new features such as Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS, Spotlight Search, landscape keyboard and a new Find My iPhone feature that works together with MobileMe to help you locate a lost iPhone. June 8, 2009 /asia/macosx/ Apple today unveiled Mac OS X Snow Leopard, an even more powerful and refined version of the world%u2019s most advanced operating system that includes hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange and new accessibility features. Snow Leopard will ship as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users in September 2009 for US$29. Apple also unveiled a Developer Preview of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, a full 64-bit UNIX server operating system based on open standards that is up to twice as fast as its predecessor. June 8, 2009 /asia/safari/ Today Apple released Safari 4, the world%u2019s fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3. Safari 4 makes browsing more intuitive and enjoyable with innovative features, such as Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow, and support for modern web standards like HTML 5 and advanced CSS Effects. June 8, 2009 http://www.filemaker.com/redirects/appstore.html?page=appstore&lang=SG Now you can keep your life organized—on the go. With its 25 ready-to-use templates, “Bento for iPhone and iPod touch” lets you take client information on the road, track trip expenses, create To Do lists, manage membership lists, or plan events. And since Bento for iPhone and iPod touch synchs wirelessly with Bento 2.0v4 for Mac, you can keep all your personal databases up to date.  Just US$4.99 in the App Store. May 5, 2009 /asia/xserve/ Thanks to its Intel Nehalem Xeon processors and a next generation system architecture, the updated Xserve announced today delivers up to twice the performance of the previous system. It’s available with up to two 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon processors, industry-leading storage options, and up to 3TB of internal storage. Starting at US$2,999, Xserve includes an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard. April 7, 2009 /asia/iphone/preview-iphone-os/ Apple today announced that iPhone OS 3.0 software, coming this summer, will deliver 100 new features, including cut, copy and paste; MMS; landscape view for Mail, Text and Notes; stereo Bluetooth; Notes syncing; shake to shuffle; parental controls for TV shows, movies and App Store apps; and a new Voice Memo app. Apple also released an updated SDK, with more than 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces, to registered developers. March 17, 2009 /asia/ipodshuffle/ Apple today introduced the all-new iPod shuffle. The world’s smallest music player, the 3rd-generation iPod shuffle is nearly half the size of the previous model. To control it, you use the new earphone cord. Best of all, it talks to you. Thanks to the new VoiceOver feature, iPod shuffle speaks your song titles, artists, and playlist names. Available today in silver or black, it holds up to 1,000 songs and costs just US$79. March 11, 2009 /asia/imac/ The new iMac line includes a 20-inch model for only US$1199 and the flagship 24-inch iMac which is priced more affordably than ever before. For the same US$1499 price as the previous generation 20-inch iMac, the new 24-inch iMac delivers a 30 percent larger display, twice the memory and twice the storage. It features the Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at speeds up to 3.06 GHz, 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 memory, a 640GB or 1TB Serial ATA hard drive, and several options for graphics processors. March 3, 2009 /asia/macmini/ Starting at US$599, the new Mac mini is an innovative, tiny desktop that measures just 16.51 by 16.51 by 5.08 cm. Now featuring the same groundbreaking NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processsor that comes in MacBook family computers, it delivers up to five times better graphics performance. It’s also the world’s most energy efficient desktop, drawing less than 13 watts of power when idle. March 3, 2009 /asia/macpro/ Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro. Featuring Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors running at speeds up to 2.93 GHz and a next-generation system architecture, the new Mac Pro delivers up to twice the performance of the previous generation Mac Pro. It also features the latest graphics technology and an updated interior that makes expansion even easier than before. The new Mac Pro starts at just US$2499. March 3, 2009 /asia/safari/ Apple today announced Safari 4 public beta for Mac and Windows. With its new Nitro engine, Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. And it features many innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable, including Top Sites, Full History Search, Cover Flow, Tabs on Top, and still others. Safari 4 beta is available for immediate download for the Mac and PC in English. February 24, 2009 /asia/iwork/download-trial/?sr=hotnews With all of the new features just added to iWork ’09, now’s a great time to take Apple’s great productivity suite out for a test drive. Just visit our website to download the free, 30-day trial version of iWork ’09. And as you experiment with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on your Mac, be sure to watch the tutorials and learn more about all three applications. January 8, 2009 /asia/macbookpro/ The new 17-inch MacBook Pro features a durable and beautiful aluminium unibody enclosure and a revolutionary new built-in battery delivering up to 8 hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges. It has a high resolution LED-backlit display and the same large glass Multi-Touch trackpad introduced with the new MacBook family. The new notebook also includes state-of-the-art NVIDIA graphics and the latest generation Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors, available up to 2.93 GHz. January 6, 2009 /asia/ilife/ Apple today unveiled iLife ’09, which includes major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand and an updated version of iWeb. iPhoto ’09 introduces Faces and Places, breakthrough ways to easily organize and manage photos based on who appears in them and where they were taken. In iMovie ’09, you’ll find powerful, yet easy-to-use new features that let you create a movie quickly or add refinements and special effects if you have more time. And GarageBand ’09 now offers a fun new way to learn to play piano and guitar with Basic Lessons, which teach fundamentals, and Artist Lessons (sold separately), in which original artists teach you how to play the songs they made famous. January 6, 2009 /asia/iwork/ Available today, iWork ’09 adds powerful new features to each of its popular productivity applications. Keynote ’09 introduces Magic Move, which offers an easy way to automatically animate any image, graphic or text repeated on consecutive slides. In Pages ’09, a new Full Screen view lets you focus solely on your writing while the new outline mode lets you organize your thoughts. And Numbers ’09 introduces a quick way to group and summarize data and a dramatically simplified way to create complex formulas. Apple also introduced the public beta of iWork.com, a new service for sharing documents online. January 6, 2009 /asia/ipodnano/ Available in nine vibrant colours, the new fourth generation iPod nano — the thinnest iPod ever — features a sleek new design with a curved aluminium and glass enclosure. It also incorporates Genius technology and features a built-in accelerometer that automatically switches to Cover Flow when rotated and automatically goes into Shuffle mode when lightly shaken. iPod nano (4th generation) comes in 8GB and 16GB models, starting at just US$149. Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:00:00 PDT /asia/ipodtouch/ Perfect for music, movies, and games, the new iPod touch features an amazingly thin contoured metal design, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi wireless networking, integrated volume control buttons, a built-in speaker for casual listening, a built-in accelerometer and other advanced sensors, and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch interface. Available now in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB models, iPod touch starts at just US$229. Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:00:00 PDT /asia/itunes/whatsnew/ Apple today unveiled iTunes 8, which includes breakthrough Genius technology that, with a single click, lets you automatically create playlists from songs in your music library. iTunes 8 also features new ways of viewing your music and video libraries, and it adds television programs in stunning high definition for sale on the iTunes Store. Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:00:00 PDT /asia/iphone/appstore/ Since the launch of the App Store on July 11, iPhone and iPod touch owners have downloaded more than 100 million applications, Apple today announced. Customers can currently find more than 3,000 applications on the groundbreaking store with over 90 percent priced at less than US$10 and more than 600 offered for free. Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20080822-83590.html IT HAS arrived. After a long wait, the iPhone 3G is here. At 12.01am today, SingTel launched arguably the world’s most-coveted consumer device. At 10.50pm yesterday, there were at least 300 people queuing at SingTel’s Comcentre in Exeter Road. SingTel - the first carrier of the iPhone 3G here - said it already had ‘tens of thousands’ of reservations on its iPhone website as of Sunday. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20080822-83588.html HE CALLS himself an Apple convert and it isn’t hard to see why. He owns an iMac desktop and three iPod music players which he names iPanema, iLyena and iNara. But 27-year-old Joel Pan was not satisfied with his collection - at least until 12.01am today. Barely past Thursday midnight, the manager became the first official Apple iPhone 3G user in Singapore. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_270721.html MR JOEL Pan used to dislike Apple’s electronic gadgets. But yesterday, he spent nearly 12 hours queuing up to ensure that he was the first in line when the Apple iPhone was launched for sale here at midnight last night. Mr Pan, 27, who admits to a ‘geek passion’, said his initial disdain had given way to enthusiasm. Over time, he has been won over by the sleek designs and functionality of Apple products, he said. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20080821-83544.html HE USED to hate Apple products. But over time, 27-year-old Joel Pan was won over by the sleek designs and functionality, and he has since bought an iMac desktop and three iPod music players. At the stroke of midnight, Mr Pan, who calls himself ‘kinda’ an Apple fan, will also be Singapore’s first ‘official’ iPhone user, having queued nearly a whole day for the privilege. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://asia.cnet.com/photogallery/0,3800005208,62045177,00.htm Some lucky Singaporeans will be getting the coveted iPhone 3G tonight and our intrepid reporter is onsite to bring you pictures of the event. Remember the Apple Store at Fifth Avenue in New York? This is Singapore’s version of the glass house nicely wrapped with ribbons for the inaugural launch of iPhone 3G at the stroke of midnight. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=21id=2645pg=1 “Texas Hold’em - The first thing that had us in shock mode was the visually stunning graphics and then the addictive gameplay which has us as amateurs hooked on to the game for hours. PhoneSaber - Relive your favorite Star Wars moment, get a friend to install the same application and go crazy iPhoning each other. Complete with sound-effect. Cost of being a Jedi-Geek: Free.” App Store review by Sutlej Soin. Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:00:00 PDT