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It looks like Apple employees have already got their hands on shiny white iPhone 4's as seen in the video below from a Maroon 5 concert at Apple's headquarters. Hey at least we know Apple employees get treated very well.
Source 9to5Mac
Another Apple leak! But this time, a tiny touchscreen! Nobody knows what it is or what it could be, but the Taiwanese site Apple.pro just posted up some photos of a tiny touchscreen panel covered in Apple labels. The panel measures 3cm (1.18 inches) square. Apple.pro is the website that leaked the white iPhone 4 enclosure and the Macbook Pro Unibody enclosure, so given it's track record, I'm starting to think that this is a genuine Apple product.
So what could this be? Well there are talks of the next Apple TV remote, new iPod nano or iPod Shuffle and the one that I hope it is, the iWatch!
Source Apple.pro
Yes, it is a burnt iPhone 4! According to BGR, the brand new iPhone 4 caught on fire while plugged into to a computer using the USB cable! And when the customer brought the phone into the Apple store to try and get it fixe, but it is clear that it cannot be repaired. Apple says that the cause was defective USB port and not some a user error. BGR's source said that the phone became very hot and burned their hand. As you can see from the picture, the USB cord was very badly melted, but the iPhone wasn't as bad. Hopefully this is the first and the last case of an iPhone 4 catching fire.
Source BGR
Nobody knew if Apple was going to approve 3rd-party apps that use the front facing camera for video calls on the iPhone 4, but now we do. As Fring, just updated it's iPhone app to support video calling! But the great thing about this is that it that it works over 3G. It is a bit more complicated than Apple's Facetime service, which requires WiFi to work but is very simple and intuitive. But it Fring does work over 3G, which is a Plus.
Download the app Here
Source Fring
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products
Ever talk for hours and hours about Apple? You friends tell you to get a life? Well, no Apple has had the Genius idea (No pun intended) to offer a new bar at the Apple Stores, called Friend Bar. All you need to talk about Apple all day is the AppleCare warranty and then the employees trained to handle all your Apple needs.
Source ONN
Over the weekend, we reported that iTunes was hacked (read here) by a rogue iPhone developer had managed to make his apps 42 of the top 50 places in the Books category in the App Store. So we've finally gotten a press release from Apple about the subject and it says that "the developer in question, called Thuat Nguyen has been kicked out of the app store. However, the do not say clearly that fraud had happened, but if you are concrerned at all about this matter, they say to contact your bank and stop your card if any of your info was stolen... which implies that something did actually happen.
The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns.
Developers do not receive any iTunes confidential customer data when an app is downloaded.
If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately. For more information on best practices for password security visit http://www.apple.com/support/itunes.
So, Steve's walled garden has a hole in it, but it seems like only a very small amount of people have been affected by the problem. Long live iTunes!
Source Engadget
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