13-inch Non-Retina MacBook Pro Could Be Discontinued This Year [Rumor]

13 inch Non Retina MacBook Pro Could Be Discontinued This Year [Rumor]It wasn’t too long ago that Apple introduced Retina MacBook Pros into the mix. They were basically your typical MacBook Pro, but would sport a Retina display instead, thus offering customers with a pretty damn sharp laptop screen.

However these Retina versions of the MacBook Pro were a little more expensive than their non-Retina counterparts, and now according to a report from DigiTimes, it seems that in the future if you wanted a MacBook Pro, you’d have to go Retina or perhaps go for the MacBook Air or a different brand entirely. (more…)

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    John Gruber believes that iOS 7.1 should ship any day now–because the app required to stream Apple’

    John Gruber believes that iOS 7.1 should ship any day now—because the app required to stream Apple’s SXSW iTunes Festival, which starts in a week, requires the new OS. Let’s see!

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    Corning exec belittles sapphire crystal displays

    Facing possible substantial competition in the market, a Corning Glass executive took an opportunity to share a few uninspiring facts about sapphire crystals. This material is rumored to be employed … Continue reading

    Corning Executive Names Sapphire As Expensive, Heavy And Environmentally Unfriendly

    Corning Executive Names Sapphire As Expensive, Heavy And Environmentally UnfriendlyCorning Glass executive Tony Tripeny mentioned in a conference call earlier today that there are many negative points to using sapphire crystal in a mobile device, which is a move that many deem Apple to take with the next generation iPhone. Corning executives CFO James Flaws and SVP and Corporate Controller Tripeny have weighed in on the situation, where the latter shared, “When we look at it, we see a lot of disadvantages of Sapphire versus Gorilla Glass. It’s about 10 times more expensive. It’s about 1.6 times heavier. It’s environmentally unfriendly. It takes about 100 times more energy to generate a Sapphire crystal than it does glass. It transmits less light which…means either dimmer devices or shorter battery life. It continues to break.”

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    Nanyang Girls’ High School In Singapore Uses iPad As Learning Aid

    Nanyang Girls’ High School In Singapore Uses iPad As Learning AidThe Nanyang Girls’ High School in Singapore is one top public schools in the city-state, and in the world’s most expensive city to live in, this history educational institution that is three years shy of its 100th anniversary, is a modern campus located on a nine‑acre facility that has high tech resources including technology‑equipped classrooms alongside broadband Internet access. With more than 1,700 students in the school today, it goes without saying that to churn out the next generation of leaders for the country, the educational system will need to keep up with the times, too. The school places iPads in the hands of teachers and students, helping connect classrooms to the world.

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    Ember iPhone Case Will Help Improve Your Phone’s Flash

    Ember iPhone Case Will Help Improve Your Phones FlashFlash units on our smartphones aren’t usually the best solution when it comes to lighting up subjects in low-lighting conditions, but sometimes that’s all we have to work with. Why is this? For the most part flash units on smartphones results in photos that are very harshly lit, which for the most part is very unflattering.

    So wouldn’t it be a good idea if we had a better form of flash for our phones? We’ve come across several solutions in the past, so here’s another to add to the list in the form of Ember. As you can see in the image above, Ember on the surface looks like your typical iPhone case, albeit a rather bulky one, but positioned on its back is an array of 56 LEDs that will help illuminate your subject. (more…)

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    Apple’s M7 Continues To Track Even When Battery Is Dead

    Apples M7 Continues To Track Even When Battery Is DeadWe’re sure many out there rightfully assume that once their phone is turned off, either by choice or if the battery dies, that it just stops working entirely. Well you might be interested to learn that even in the event that a phone’s battery goes flat, there is still a tiny bit of power traveling to certain components, keeping them activated.

    This is what one iPhone user found out when he discovered that the M7 co-processor in his iPhone 5s continued tracking his movements, even four days after the battery had supposedly died, due to it running out of battery as the charging cable ran into some issues that did not allow the phone to charge. (more…)

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    Apple CarPlay Demonstrated In A Ferrari

    Apple CarPlay Demonstrated In A FerrariJust the other day, Apple announced CarPlay. This feature is basically Apple’s take on a car’s infotainment system and we have seen the feature adopted by manufacturers such as Ferrari, Mercedes, and Volvo.

    Just yesterday Volvo released a short video in which they quickly walked us through some of the features of CarPlay. Well if you wanted a more comprehensive walkthrough of the CarPlay feature, you might be interested to learn that the folks at Engadget have managed to create a hands-on video for CarPlay in the Ferrari. (more…)

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    Lifesaver iPhone Case Will Attempt To Save Your Life

    When you’re in trouble, like in a car accident, or you’re experiencing some health-related emergency, chances are you will want to reach for your phone and dial 911, right? While that is a good idea, what if there are things that you are unable to tell 911 or describe to them due to a factor of reasons? What if you are lost and can’t tell them where exactly you are?

    Enter the Lifesaver iPhone case. As the name implies, this is an iPhone case that is meant to save your life, versus other iPhone cases where the priority is typically the phone itself. That being said, the case when activated will attempt to dial e911, which is an enhanced version of 911 that will be able to accept a variety of multimedia that will aid their efforts at bringing you help. (more…)

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    iOS 7.1 Release Apparently Just Around The Corner

    iOS 7.1 Release Apparently Just Around The Corner

    Its not like there already haven’t been a whole lot of rumors about iOS 7.1 release, but the latest comes from a source with a solid track record. Previously we had heard that Apple is going to release iOS 7.1 in March. Over the past few months the firmware has been going through beta stage, and it appears that all testing has finally been completed. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber suggests that the new iTunes Festival application requires iOS 7.1, the app needs to be released before next Friday as its going to be used to stream the iTunes Festival, this means that iOS 7.1 is going to be rolled out before that.

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