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Apple Online Store Down; New MacBook Pros Expected
The Apple Online store is down this morning, which likely means one thing: new MacBook Pros will be available very soon. A refresh of the MacBook Pro line has been expected for several months now and gained more momentum after a capture of the Microcenter inventory system was posted to Reddit on Saturday. While we won't know what the new MacBooks have until the store is back online, it is highly speculated that the new systems will feature Intel's Core i5 and i7 mobile processors.
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Opera Mini for iPhone Approved by Apple
We cannot confirm reports that Hell has frozen over, however we are able to confirm that Apple has approved the Opera Mini iPhone app. In a press release by Opera Software, the company announced the app's approval and that it would be available in Apple's App Store within 24 hours.
Opera first submitted the app to the app store on March 29 and it took 20 days, 8 hours, and 31 minutes for the app to get approved. Many believed that Apple would reject the app due to Apple's restrictions on third party browsers that are not based on WebKit. Did Apple approve the app because of the huge media spectacular that Opera made of the app's submission to the app store, fear of the inevitable lawsuit that would have come from rejecting the app, or are we seeing a softer gentler side of Apple? The world may never know.
The apps approval could not come at a better time for Opera, who earlier today announced that there are 50 millions unique users of Opera Mini across multiple mobile platforms. Apple has sold more than 85 million touch based devices all of which could now potentially run Opera Mini.
Update: The app has made its way into the App Store [iTunes Link].
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Microsoft Announces Two New Phones
What once was a rumor is now official - Microsoft has announced two new phones that tie in with it's Pink line. The Pink line of handsets is aimed at the teenage/early twenties market by having phones designed for social networking. The two phones that got unveiled today are the Kin One and Kin Two. The Kin One is a curved square slider that has a full QWERTY keyboard, a QVGA display, 4GB of internal storage, and a 5 megapixel camera. The camera has an LED flash so your subjects will be lit quite nicely. The Kin Two is a more traditionally shaped slider that also packs a full QWERTY keyboard, a nicer HVGA display, 8GB of internal storage, and an 8 megapixel camera. The Kin Two sounds like the better equipped phone, though both of them have a capacitive touchscreen with multitouch support and built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Microsoft is stressing that the interal storage is more than enough because the phones will sync with an online storage that is promised to be infinite. You can browse all the content on the online server at any time you wish on the phone via thumbnails, then if you wish to have it on the phone, simply download it. Both phones use an online experience that is based on Microsoft's Silverlight which looks pretty nice. The phones will also use a new user interface that is based on blocky text and zoomed-in pictures. There are also two elements to the UI, one being called "Loop" and the other "Spot." Loop is basically the phone's home screen which will show all your social networking friends and any updates they post - you can customize it to show only the people you follow closely. With Spot, you can drag any content you wish to a green dot on the screen and then it gets shared with your contacts. So if you happen to watch a funny video, just drag it to that dot and all your contacts can see it.
The Kin phones will also have full support for Zune music and video, but not games. The UI for the Zune part is very similar to the one on the music player itself so for those that have it, you will feel right at home. There will also be a music player compatible with Macs and iTunes, just you cannot browse for music like you will with the Zune portion.
The Kin One and Kin Two will be launching on Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and will be on Vodafone in Europe. The phones will launch in the U.S. in May with Europe getting them this fall. No information on price is available currently.
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Netflix Now Available on the Nintendo Wii
If you are a Netflix subscriber and a Nintendo Wii owner, you can now stream Netflix's "Watch Instantly" catalogue to your Wii. Hang on before you run off to your Wii to look for it on the Wii Shop, in order to use Netflix on the Wii, just like the Sony PlayStation 3, you'll need a special disk. To get your FREE Netflix for Wii disk visit netflix.com/Wii and it'll be on it's way like any other DVD.
Also worth mentioning, Netflix for Wii is limited to standard definition video. If you want high definition streaming from Netflix you'll want to look at the PS3, Xbox 360, or one of the many other Netflix enabled devices.
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Movies Included With Seagate FreeAgent Go
Paramount and Seagate have teamed up together to try and boost the sales of Seagate’s FreeAgent Go 500GB hard drives, and in working together, have decided to include movies with the product. The movies, which come to a total of about twenty-one, will obviously be all Paramount film features, but there will be a catch in how users can access them. Star Trek will be the only movie that is actually free on the drive for viewing, and all of the other titles will have to be unlocked with a key, which has to be purchased. The keys will sell anywhere from $9.99 to $14.99 a movie, and with all of the movies unlocked, will take up roughly ten percent of the total hard drive space on the FreeAgent Go. It’s an odd way to try and boost sales, since consumers have to pay for the movies included if they want them anyway, but it might be possible for Paramount to help Seagate in some way if this is able to catch on.
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