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In the Steve Jobs biography a specific mention about a smart TV is made. Steve said “It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it”.
Although we wont know for sure that Apple [AAPL] is making a smart TV, this reference from the book along with other bits of information found over the past few months is strongly hinting that Apple could be preparing to introduce the device.
The iPhone 3GS launched in various countries around the world in June 2009. Although the smartphone is over 2 years old now, AT&T has reported that it is seeing a tremendous demand for the device and that it has actually sold out because of the demand.
Here in the UK, the O2 network has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be launching in November. We have known this from other details posted previously, but now that a landing page has arrived it all seems a little more official.
Now that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich SDK is available for download, various developers around the world have started to look more in depth at what can be found in the new operating system. Last week it was revealed that ICS has stylus support built in. This week we learn that ICS has Game Controller support as standard.
Last week RIM launched the developer beta of BBX OS 2.0. What this allows developers to do is run Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook. We’ve seen demonstrations of this before that have been created by RIM, but now we see a demonstration of some Android apps running by an external person to RIM.
Several ads were run over the weekend in the UK which each revealed a quick glimpse of what is believed to be the first Nokia Windows Phone. At the moment it goes by the name of Nokia 800 although this hasn’t been confirmed yet.
The Google Nexus One, which is the original pure Android device, has now begun to taste Ice Cream Sandwich. Although it is unlikely to get the official Android 4.0, someone has managed to use the SDK to port over Ice Cream Sandwich on to the old device.
Apple [AAPL] has just refreshed the lineup of MacBook Pros. The new versions have received a bump in specs which sees CPU and storage increased on some of the models.
Netflix is bringing streaming to the UK and Ireland. In an announcement made recently, the company has said that streaming of movies will be available early 2012 in the countries mentioned.
The co-founder of Siri has left Apple [AAPL] from what we hear today. The departure from the company has been on the cards for a while and according to a report it seems that it was an amicable move.
The biography of Steve Jobs is now available to download. It is available in the iBooks store as well as on the Kindle store over at Amazon.
Currently the book is showing in the number 1 spot in the charts on the iBooks store.
Buying a Google Chromebook for education or enterprise requires that you pay a monthly subscription fee for three years. This is now changing as Google [GOOG] has announced that the Chromebook will be available for a one off price of $449 or $519 for the WiFi only and 3G models respectively.
