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iPad Pro launched in India, price starts at Rs 67,900

Apple iPad ProApple has finally launched its iPad Pro in India. The Apple's new tablet is available on all company retail stores starting today at a price starts at Rs 67,900

The iPad Pro tablet features a 12.9-inch display with 5.6 million pixels. The tablet is powered by the new 64-bit A9X chip which is claimed to have 1.8 times the performance of the existing second generation 64-bit A8X chip, which runs on the iPad Air 2.

The new tablet also includes a detachable keyboard and stylus. The tablet has a four-speaker audio system and balances the sound automatically. The tablet will offer 10 hours of battery life, similar to what the standard iPad and iPad mini offer.

The iPad Pro Wi-Fi-only model (32GB) has been priced at Rs 67,900 while the 128GB model has been priced at Rs 79,900. The tablet's 128GB model with 4G LTE connectivity is priced at Rs 91,900.

The iPad Pro accessories such as Apple pencil, smart keyboard and iPad Pro silicon case are priced at Rs 8,600, Rs 14,900 and Rs 6,100 respectively.

Apple Launched Smart Battery Case for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S

Smart Battery CaseApple on Tuesday launched the Smart Battery Case for its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s models which comes with an integrated battery pack. Apple claims the smart battery case extends the battery life of an iPhone by up to 25 hours.

The case is available in two colours, charcoal and white, and is made of soft touch silicone and microfiber material. The soft microfiber lining on the inside helps protect your iPhone, while the soft elastomer hinge design makes it easy to put the case on and take it off again. With the Smart Battery Case on, the intelligent battery status is displayed on the iPhone Lock screen and in Notification Center, so you know exactly how much charge you have left.

The battery case supports Lightning accessories, such as the Lightning to USB Cable and works with the iPhone Lightning Dock. The case charges via Apple's standard Lightning cable. The company claims that the Smart Case would increase the battery life up to 25 hours on talk time and 18 hours on browsing over LTE.

The Smart Battery Case is engineered specifically for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 models. It is priced at $99 (approximately Rs 6,600) and is available for purchase starting Tuesday in the United States and the United Kingdom. However, the company announced no word on its Indian availability. Also, there is no word on whether the company plans to release the Smart Battery Case for other iPhone models.

Apple to remove the Home button in iPhone 7

home-buttonlesss iphoneApple is planning to change the design of its next iPhone. It has been rumoured that the next iPhone model, iPhone 7, may not have a physical home button.

The addition of 3D Touch technology may provide Apple with a way to eliminate the home button on the phone and use the additional space to make the screen bigger or make the device smaller. Eliminating the home button would allow Apple to cut out part of the bezels to make the iPhone's screen larger while keeping the design relatively small and thin.

Apple's fingerprint reader, which is used to unlock the iPhone and authenticate purchases with Apple Pay, currently resides in the home button. Apple could move the TouchID sensor to the side of the phone. Apple has also filed a patent application that describes a system in which a fingerprint sensor could be embedded in the screen itself.

Piper Jaffray’s analyst, Gene Munster, wrote in a recent note that Apple may do away with the Home button, increase the screen size, improve the battery life, and finally switch to sapphire for the screen. He also wrote “As many have speculated, the addition of 3D Touch may provide Apple with a way to eliminate the home button on the phone.” Munster added that a home-buttonless iPhone has a 50 percent chance for the iPhone 7.

Digitimes, a Taiwan-based publication reported in June that Apple is making an iPhone with a home button built into the iPhone's screen. Apple Insider reported the same citing its own sources, but also said an iPhone without a home button wouldn't launch before 2017.

Apple iPad Mini 4 launched in India

After launching the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, Apple has now brought its iPad Mini 4 to India. The Apple iPad Mini 4 comes in six variants, the cheapest of which is priced at Rs 28,900 while the costliest has a price tag of Rs 52,900. The cheapest model has 16 GB of internal memory and is a WiFi model and comes in gold colour.

This 6.1 mm sleek tablet has a 7.9 inch display that comes with 2048x1536 pixels resolution, fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating and anti-reflective coating. It has the A8 chip that is made in 64 bit architecture and is assisted by the M8 motion co-processor.The iPad Mini 4 also has an 8 megapixel iSight auto focus rear camera that has f/2.4 aperture, five element lens and hybrid IR filter. It offers panorama, burst mode, tap to focus, geo tagging and time mode features. Besides, it can record videos in full high definition resolution at 30 fps and slow motion videos at 120 fps.The Mini 4 offers a 1.2 megapixel front camera which has f/2.4 aperture and it comes with auto HDR as well as high definition video recording ability. All the models come with 19.1-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery and are based on iOS 9 operating system.

The WiFi+64 GB model is available at Rs 35,900, WiFi+ 128 GB at Rs 42,900, Cellular+16 GB model at 38,900, Cellular+64 GB at Rs 45,900 and the costliest model comes with cellular connectivity as well as 128 GB storage for Rs 52,900.

Apple's iPhone 6S and 6S Plus launched in India

Apple has launched its two new iPhone models - iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus in India today. Apple has started pre-booking for the latest iPhones with the authorized sellers in the country within the first week of October.

The new iPhones will be retailed by Apple's four main iPhone distributors across 12,000 retail outlets, including large format retail chains such as Croma, Reliance Digital and Jumbo, besides the e-commerce websites such as Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon.

Apple's iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are the strongest and fastest smartphones ever released by the company. These smartphones are practically indestructible, and as far as the water and ten feet free fall tests are concerned, Apple iPhone 6S and 6S Plus made a great stand against them with no scratch or a malfunction of the speaker, display or any other component in the device.

The main features of these smartphones are A9 chip with 64-bit architecture, 12-megapixel iSight camera with 1.22ยต pixels, 4K video recording, 5-megapixel front facing camera, Fingerprint sensor, Assisted GPS and GLONASS and the latest version Siri. Both the smartphones work on latest iOS9.

The phones feature a new 3D Touch display technology, which allows the screen panel to differentiate between types of touches and taps in preloaded apps as well as on the homescreen.

The iPhone 6S delivers up to 14 hours talk time on 3G and up to 10 days standby time. The 6S Plus offers up to 24 hours talk time on 3G and up to 16 days standby time. The new iPhones feature faster-second-generation TouchID sensor and are made of tough aircraft grade aluminium.

The price of the new iPhones in India is slightly higher than the price in the other countries where it launched earlier. The iPhone 6S is available in 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage options priced at Rs 62,000, Rs 72,000 and Rs 82,000 respectively. The iPhone 6S Plus also comes in three variants- 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage options priced at Rs 72,000, Rs 82,000 and Rs 92,000 respectively.

Vodafone India to offer free data for six months with Apple's iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus

Apple is all set to launch it's latest iPhone editions, iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S plus, in India on October 16. It will be available in the e-commerce websites.

Vodafone India today said that it will offer the latest iPhone 6S and 6S plus from October 16 wherein customers can avail free data and voice benefits worth Rs 8,885 for six months.

“Existing or new Vodafone customers can buy a new iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus and get a fully built Vodafone RED 1,299 worry-free plan free for six months from the time of purchase,” the company said in a statement. The plan includes 3 GB mobile Internet, 4,000 free local and STD minutes and 1,500 local and national SMS.

Vodafone India also announced that the charges above plan limits will be 50p/MB for data usage, 50p/SMS and 50p/min for voice calls. Roaming, international calling and VAS charges will be extra as applicable.

The price of the new iPhones in India is slightly higher than the price in the other countries where it launched earlier. The iPhone 6S is available in 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage options priced at Rs 62,000, Rs 72,000 and Rs 82,000 respectively. The iPhone 6S Plus also comes in three variants- 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage options priced at Rs 72,000, Rs 82,000 and Rs 92,000 respectively.

Apple and Google top Interbrand's Best Global Brands ranking

In the Interbrand's annual ranking of the world's most valuable brands, Apple and Google have topped once again. In the Interbrand's 2015 edition of the Best Global Brands more than half of the top ten spots are represented by companies operating in technology industry.

Companies are valuated by a calculation based on the company's financial performance, ability to influence customer purchases, and the extent to which it can support premium pricing. According to this evaluation, Apple's brand is valued at $170 billion and Google's brand is valued at $120 billion. Apple's brand value has got an increase of 43 percent while Google got an increase of 12 percent.

Microsoft traded places with IBM to take fourth place. Interbrand classifies IBM as a business brand. Amazon comes into tenth place from last year's fifteenth in retail category. Samsung stands same in the seventh slot. The other brands in the top ten are Coca-Cola, Toyota, General Electric, and McDonald's. Lenovo and PayPal are the new entries on the list where Lenovo managed to secure the 100th position and PayPal made its debut at 97th place. However, Nokia and Nintendo dropped out of the rankings.

Apple CEO gets Make in India Invite from PM Narendra Modi

In his meeting with Apple CEO, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Apple to set up a manufacturing base in India. Apple's CEO Tim Cook responded it positively. According to the informations, Foxconn, which is Apple's largest manufactures, has decided to set up a manufacturing base in India.

Ministry of external affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said "Cook responded positively. I think India does fits into his long term plans. He particularly was interested in the whole App development economy, which he said could be a very very important factor for entrepreneurship where individual app developers can just become part of the app universe,"

Prime Minister Modi has been mentioning that there is the public sector, there is the private sector and there is the personal sector. Personal sector he has been talking about people who can be self-made entrepreneurs, Vikas Swarup noted. Tim Cook said, by using the app development tools people can really become part of this huge industry. He gave the example of China where they have created 1.5 million jobs.

Indian Ambassador to the US Arun K Singh said that during the meeting there was a sense that a lot of design innovation is happening in India. He also said that there will be more opportunities for app development related to the apple platforms if Apple expands its presence in India including a manufacturing presence.

There was also some discussion on Apple Pay, how this can be part of Jan Dhan Yojana for instance and other such initiatives, Swarup said. During the meeting, Cook said India has a very special place in the heart of every Apple employee for the simple reason that its co-founder Steve Jobs went to India when he was a young man for inspiration. It was what he saw in India that inspired him to launch Apple.

Cybersecurity firm offers $1 million for Apple hack

Computer security firm Zerodium on Tuesday offered a $1 million (890,000 euros) bounty to hackers who can find a way to breach Apple's latest iOS 9 mobile operating system.

Zerodium, launched early this year in the United States by French online security expert Chaouki Bekrar, said it would pay out $1 million each to as many as three people or teams who manage to break into iPhones or iPads equipped with the iOS 9 software.

To win the money, hackers must use a web page or text message to remotely bypass the iOS 9 security and discretely install an application on the iPhone or iPad by October 31, the company said in an online statement.

Apple's iOS App Store Suffers First Major Attack

Apple Inc said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet. The company disclosed the effort after several cyber-security firms reported finding a malicious program dubbed XcodeGhost that was embedded in hundreds of legitimate apps. It is the first reported case of large numbers of malicious software programs making their way past Apple's stringent app review process. Prior to this attack, a total of just five malicious apps had ever been found in the App Store. Apple said that the hackers embedded the malicious code in these apps by convincing developers of legitimate software to use a tainted, counterfeit version of Apple's software for creating iOS and Mac apps, which is known as Xcode.

"We've removed the apps from the App Store that we know have been created with this counterfeit software. We are working with the developers to make sure they're using the proper version of Xcode to rebuild their apps", Apple spokeswoman Christine Monaghan said in an email. She did not say what steps iPhone and iPad users could take to determine whether their devices were infected.

Palo Alto Networks Director of Threat Intelligence Ryan Olson said the malware had limited functionality and his firm had uncovered no examples of data theft or other harm as a result of the attack. This attack showed that the App Store could be compromised if hackers infected machines of software developers writing legitimate apps. Other attackers may copy that approach, which is hard to defend against, he said. "Developers are now a huge target," he said.

Researchers said infected apps included Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular mobile chat app WeChat, car-hailing app Didi Kuaidi and a music app from Internet portal NetEase Inc. Ryan Olson said that the tainted version of Xcode was downloaded from a server in China that developers may have used because it allowed for faster downloads than using Apple's U.S. servers. Chinese security firm Qihoo360 Technology Co said on its blog that it had uncovered 344 apps tainted with XcodeGhost.

Tencent said on its official WeChat blog that the security flaw affects WeChat 6.2.5, an old version of its popular chatting app, and that newer versions were unaffected. A preliminary investigation showed there had been no data theft or leakage of user information, the company said. Apple declined to say how many apps it had uncovered.

Apple TV adds Plex and VLC apps


The VLC developers announced that while it's still early days, they've achieved video playback. The Plex co-founder was also quoted as saying, "There is no question, we will be able to offer Plex on the platform. We are now evaluating the best path for Plex and will begin work in earnest once we have evaluated the options."A tvOS version of Plex is in development. Currently, Plex works with set-top boxes like the Chromecast and the Fire TV, and it is a popular choice with jailbroken Apple TVs, but it is not available to Apple TV users in any official capacity. Plex is designed to organize personal media libraries consisting of video and music files, allowing them to be easily streamed to TVs and other devices, either locally or remotely.


 The new Apple TV announced last week has been overhauled with Siri search and its own App Store. Apple's latest fourth-generation Apple TV includes a dedicated App Store, which will allow users to access many apps and features that were not previously available on the older Apple TV. Popular media streaming apps Plex and VLC are both coming to the Apple TV, with tvOS versions already in the works. 

These were predictable developments, but are still hugely important news; these apps allow you to stream your local content to the Apple TV from different devices, and free you up from depending only on the online streaming services that the Apple TV supported up until now. This is particularly relevant in a country like India, where the absence of services like Netflix takes away the usability of something like the Apple TV, or the Amazon Fire TV.

 It's worth pointing out that these apps have been available on most Android set-top boxes for a while now. And in India at least, they're a very big part of the typical usage. One Android set-top box manufacturer recently told that the most used app on its device is YouTube, but that's immediately followed by a number of different video playback services, including Plex, XBMC, and VLC. The user pattern in India is going to be different from that in the US, or Europe, but it's a good sign for Apple, particularly as the company starts to focus more on markets like India and China.

Apple announced its 15-inch MacBook Pro

Apple has announced a new 15-inch MackBook Pro with Retina Display. Apple’s premium Pro notebooks get the Force Touch trackpad that was showcased earlier this spring on its new MacBook laptop. Its battery life is improved with an extra hour of battery life bringing to about nine hours. The machines start at $1,999.

The Force Touch trackpad is so named because of its haptic feedback. The trackpad can detect the amount of pressure you apply to the surface, leading to different outcomes. Pressing hard on a word a webpage, for example, may let you quickly summon a definition or synonym for that word. Pressing down hard on an address may open a map.

The top of the line $2,499 15-inch MacBook Pro also gets discrete graphics that Apple says will be about 80% faster than before. The flash storage on the new MacBook Pros are also two-and-a-half times faster than the previous generation.

Separately, Apple added a new $1999 configuration to its 27-inch iMac lineup with a Retina 5K display, which replaces what had been the top non-Retina iMac. Apple also lowered the price of the top-end iMac with Retina 5K to $2,299.
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