Latest iPhone 5 rumor: October release, 8 megapixel camera

The rumors continue to indicate that the iPhone 5 will skip summer and will debut this fall instead.

It’s another week and another iPhone 5 rumor. (Better get used to it, too, looks like the trend may continue throughout the summer.) This one comes from Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities as reported by AppleInsider. The analyst issued a note today stating that Apple’s 5th generation iPhone will enter into production in September and will feature a design that only marginally differs from the current iPhone 4.

That “slight” redesign will include an A5 processor, the same found in the iPad 2, and a new 8 megapixel camera, a bump up from the 5 megapixel camera found in the iPhone 4. Apple will also reportedly redesign the phone’s antenna and adopt a Qualcomm baseband for both the GSM and CDMA models.

Kuo’s report states that the phone is slated to enter trial production in August, mass production in September and will be go on sale sometime in October.

Kuo stresses that, given the “slight modifications” in design, Apple will attempt to focus attention on the iPhone 5's operating system, presumably iOS 5, rather than hardware or design.

There’s no indication yet when Apple will announce the iPhone 5, but it’s not likely to be at this year’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC)– Apple’s traditional event for announcing its next generation phone. Apple is expected to use WWDC , which kicks off on June 6, to show off iOS 5 as well as the OS X 10.7 Lion operating system. An iPhone 5 announcement would likely come in late summer or early fall.

Kuo’s report made no mention of near-field communication (NFC) technology, which has been widely anticipated as being a key feature of the next generation iPhone.

There’s good reason to believe Kuo’s report. As AppleInsider points out, the man correctly predicted several key features of the iPad 2. He’s also indicated that Apple would finally release the white iPhone 4 this spring — one rumor that we’re still waiting on to become a reality.

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HP prepping cloud music-syncing for TouchPad launch

Hewlett-Packard is planning to launch a remote music storage feature with its upcoming TouchPad tablet, one that will locally cache music that the user is most likely to listen to.

The clouds continue to roll in. While questions still swirl as to how Apple and Google will respond to Amazon‘s recently launched Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services, details are starting to emerge about other competitors’ plans in the remote user storage arena. Today brings word that Hewlett-Packard will be using cloud servers for music storage when its webOS-powered HP TouchPad tablet arrives this summer.

The news comes from a Powerpoint presentation being sent around to HP Small & Medium Business customers previewing what’s coming up, PreCentral reports. The slideshow reveals plans for an HP Movie Store and an HP Music Store. The notes for the latter mention built-in music syncing using cloud servers to remotely store content.

It is hardly surprising at this point to hear that a tech company is embracing the cloud, but HP will offer a few features that trump what Amazon’s recently launched initiative is capable of so far. The TouchPad will use a “smart-caching” to locally store the music that the user is most likely to listen to. There will also be the option of streaming music that isn’t actually owned. The service will apparently extend to HP smartphones as well at some point, likely after they’ve all been updated to webOS 3.0 alongside the TouchPad.

As of now, Apple continues to maintain a stranglehold on the tablet space with its (deservedly) popular iPad. Cloud syncing won’t make or break the success of the TouchPad, but if recent reports of a $499 price tag and June launch are true, it will certainly arrive priced to compete, and with features and hardware specifications that trump the Apple device on several fronts.

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Xperia neo unboxing video

It is unboxing time again - how about the Xperia neo in not just one or two, but all three colors?

After the Xperia arc and the Play, the unboxing stage is neo's today. We can not only show you just one version of the Xperia neo, but all three available colors: red, silver and gradient blue. The standard content of the boxes are:

Xperia neoBattery8GB micro SD card (in the phone)Greenheart USB charger & USB cableHeadsetShort manual

As always, content may and will vary between markets and / or operators. Enjoy!

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Microsoft Office 365 enters public beta

Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 productivity applications are now available for anyone to try out - in 38 countries and 17 languages.

Microsoft has been testing its Office 365 suit of cloud-based productivity applications with partner businesses since last October, but the company is now throwing to doors open to anyone who wants to give it a whirl. The public beta of Office 365 combined Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online to provide an always-available document and communications system that’s available from anywhere users can connect to the Internet—and the public beta is available in 38 countries and 17 languages for people to try out.

“We’ve been in the cloud for years supporting large enterprises such as Shell and DuPont, but Office 365 takes that same technology power and delivers it to small businesses,” said Microsoft Office corporate VP Kirk Koenigsbauer, in a statement. “More than 70 percent of the people who signed up for the limited beta were small businesses, so it clearly strikes a chord.”

Aimed primarily at businesses, Office 365 brings together Microsoft’s suite of Office Web Apples with hosted SharePoint and Exchange services to enable collaboration and communication, all held together by Microsoft Lync, which makes sure messages and documents stay up to date and synced across services and users. Office 365 can be used for everything from creating speadsheets, word processor documents, presentations, and public Web sites to email, instant messaging, and online meetings. Microsoft is using its ForeFront security technology to make sure information and materials stored in the service remain secure from prying eyes, and promised Office 365 will have 99.9 percent uptime.

Microsoft will also be running the Office 365 Marketplace, where Microsoft partners will be able to offer supplementary programs and services for sale.

For now, the Office 365 public beta is free to use; once the service launches, Microsoft will be offering the service in two primary packages, one for businesses with 25 or fewer employees and one set of plans for larger enterprises. Small businesses will pay $6 per month per person for Office 365; larger enterprises will pay from $10 to $27 per person per month. Separate plans will be available for educational institutions.

Office 365 is Microsoft’s effort to compete with Google in the cloud-based apps space, and while Microsoft may indeed have been in the cloud “for years” with its larger enterprise customers, Google has been in the cloud-based application service even longer—and has had more time to refine and tool their application offerings without the legacy weight of Microsoft Office. That said, Microsoft Office’s ubiquity in business and corporate environments should be a huge leg up for Microsoft as it tries to convince businesses to subscribe to Office 365—after all, if your business already relies on Microsoft productivity applications, it may not be hard to convince people cloud capabilities will be a good thing.

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Jesse Jackson Jr. targets iPad, Apple in anti-technology rant

Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. blames technological advances for the high unemployment rate and attacks Apple's outsourced iPad manufacturing for contributing to lost job opportunities in the United States.

People in government say silly things sometimes. Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. certainly did in a recent presentation he brought before Congress. He, like so many others, takes issue with the level of unemployment in our country and the outsourcing of jobs to foreign nations. While he makes some valid points on the latter in his speech, he builds the entire argument out of a misguided attack on the iPad, Apple and the forward march of technology.

Jackson, who recently purchased an iPad himself, claims that the tablet is “responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs.” He said that this is due in part to Apple’s outsourcing of manufacturing duties to Chinese company Foxconn, and he blames the system that allows such a move to occur. While this does indeed speak to the larger issues influencing the U.S. job market — Apple is hardly the sole offender here — Jackson also gets into an anti-technology rant in which he rails against the idea of continuing advances in technology making jobs obsolete.

“Now Borders is closing stores because, why do you need to go to Borders anymore? Why do you need to go to Barnes & Noble? Buy an iPad and download your book. Download your newspaper. Download your magazine,” he said, going on to criticize a Chicago State University plan to establish a “textbook-less campus” within the next four years.

“What becomes of publishing companies then? And publishing company jobs? What becomes of bookstores and librarians and all of the jobs associated with paper? Well, in the not-too-distant future, such jobs will not exist.”

Publishing companies aren’t going anywhere, Mr. Jackson. Some are expanding to meet the demands of the increasingly popular media portal that the tablet PC offers, and the rest will almost certainly follow suit before too long. Those that don’t, and fail as a result, only have their own short-sightedness to blame. Librarians, same deal. Maybe paper books are becoming less popular, but libraries aren’t going to go away. They’ll change, and some job requirements might change with them, but that’s really just the way of things. As time passes, technology advances and the world simply adjusts to it.

Some brick-and-mortar stores will certainly close, and in some cases already have closed. Blame the Internet and the rise of online shopping. Why should a retailer maintain a physical store location when all of that overhead can be cut out by moving to the web? It all comes back to the system that allows for such a scenario; not so much that it’s wrong, simply outdated.

Jackson’s misguided rant is a product of the confusion, particularly among lawmakers, that the global online community has created. The Internet has forever changed the way we can and will do business, and it’s a much larger issue than one company’s outsourcing activities or even the job market as a whole adjusting to the march of technology.

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Battlefield 3 complete Fault Line video

Trailer: EA and DICE have released the complete 12-minute Battlefield 3 Fault Line video that debuted as three separate clips.

Using only gameplay footage entirely taken from the gameplay of the upcoming Battlefield 3, EA and DICE have been trying to get your attention for nearly two months now. They want you to check out the stellar graphics using the new Frostbite 2 Engine. They expect that you will make suitably impressed sounds when the damage physics are displayed. They hope you will be further impressed to see that everything you are watching is still pre-alpha. If after watching the entire Fault Line series you aren’t at least a little impressed, then please let us know what games you are playing, because they must look spectacular.

The video below will be familiar to those that have followed the news coming from the game. It combines the three previous videos, the last of which was released on March 30. All three episodes debuted under the Fault Line moniker, and all three show off the early levels in the game.

Battlefield 3 is set in the very near future, and takes you through Paris, Tehran, New York and the fan favorite—Sulaymaniyah (it is in Iraqi Kurdistan). In the video below, you can see that insurgents have mounted a sizeable attack, which is then trumped by the Earth deciding that it has had enough of us puny meatbags, and fights back with an earthquake.

Battlefield 3 is expected to enter beta soon. Those that bought the Limited Edition and Tier 1 Medal of Honor games will have first access, although no release date for the beta has been given. The game itself though, will be released on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on November 2.

[Warning: The following trailer may not be suitable for all ages]

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Keds for Steven Alan sneakers coming in June

Keds for Steven Alan sneakers coming in June

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Keds and designer Steven Alan collaborate on new versions of the classic tennis shoe, including a chukka-inspired style.

High-end designer Steven Alan seems to be a fan of collaborations. His brand has created designer sneakers with the guys at Nike and is now partnering with Keds to bring a small, but significant, update to the classic tennis shoe. After getting a peek at the line’s offerings for spring and summer, we like the looks of the offerings. The shoes will be available in a classic low-top as well as a mid-top chukka-inspired boot style. The sneakers have classic white rubber outsoles and will come in several different colors and fabric choices. Contrasting leather laces and printed lining fabrics give these a different twist and an upscale spin. They are a step up from your typical Converse but not too far off the map of classic styles. We have no official word on price or release date, but expect these to hit Steven Alan stores in June. Now you just have to figure out a snappy summer outfit to go with your new kicks.

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