Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

Seems the new iPod Touch has a display issue which is causing a “negative black” effect. This wouldn’t be the first time that Apple has had Quality Control issues.
We’ve had an Airport Express which died a few days past its 1 year birthday, a 23″ Apple Cinema Display which is now tinged RED around [...]

Instead of forking out $50 - $100 to get your iPhone unlocked, you now have an open source alternative. Thanks to the hard working folks over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, there is now a software solution that allows you to sim-unlock your phone.
Tutorials are still being developed but some early instructions have appeared. [...]

It’s not often we “blow our own horn” on our blog, but this is an offer we thought all you ‘Mac Heads’ might be interested in.
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Reuters is reporting on a deal between Apple and InterDigital for a seven year licensing agreement to provide wireless technology for Apple’s iPhone and future mobile devices that may be released.
“The deal covers various 2G and 3G cellular technologies encompassing bandwidth allocation, roaming and power efficiency controls, and most likely also includes some type of [...]

Look at the symbol top-right in the display.
It appears that the chip is there, but its not switched on. That’s ok Steve, we can manage that ourselves!

Apple was the best selling smartphone in July (source: iSuppli), representing 1.8% of handsets sold in the US! Based on these figures iSuppli estimates that Apple will shift 4.5M this year, and guestimates (somehow) worldwide shipments of 30M by 2011.
It should come as no suprise then (unless your name is Steve Ballmer, Microsofts CEO, who [...]

Someone visiting my site today, came from a link from another site, which mentioned an article in the Straits Times (around Jan 2006) stating that “reliable sources” have informed them of Apple’s intention to open an iTunes Store, and physical Apple Store in Singapore on a similar timetable.
Nevermind the Apple Store, ….. you can [...]

Today we get to talk about music, so let’s start with iTunes. iTunes is a pretty amazing phenomenon. Facts and figures: 600 million copies of iTunes distributed. Over 3 billion songs bought on iTunes. “We’re pretty amazed at this.” Giggles. “This is the number one music store in all 21 countries we operate in.”
“We started [...]