Publisher and Editorial Director of the 9to5/Electrek sites. twitter-follow screenname=’llsethj’ showcount=’yes’ Seth Weintraub is an award-winning journalist and blogger who won to Neal Awards during his three plus years from –. Weintraub next covered all things amassing a thick rolodex of Google contacts and love for Silicon Valley culture. It turns out that his hobby blog was always his favorite and in 2011 he went full time adding his Fortune Google followers to and adding the commerce component gear and deals site. In 2013, Weintraub bought one of the Tesla’s first Model S EVs off the assembly line and so began his love affair with the Electric Vehicle and green energy which is now. From 1997-2007, Weintraub was a Global IT director and Web Developer for a number of companies with stints at multimedia and branding agencies in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Madrid and London before becoming a publisher/blogger. Seth recieved a bachelors degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Multimedia and Creative Technology in 1997.

In 2004, he recieved a Masters from NYU’s Tisch School of the Art’s ITP program. Hobbies: Weintraub is a licensed single engine private pilot, certified open water diver and spent over a year traveling to 60 cities in 23 countries. Whatever free time exists is now guaranteed to his lovely wife and two amazing sons.

Tips: seth@9to5mac.com, or llsethj on Wickr/AIM/Skype. Clayton Morris at Fox will launch soon, perhaps as early as next week during the iPhone event or even after the rumored October event, but he seems to think they will be available for the holidays. I’ve been hoping for an iMac update and it looks like my wish is about to come true! Multiple sources tell me that a new lineup of desktop machines from Apple is imminent. It appears that Morris changed his story from “releasing next week” but there is no mention of that on the Fox News website. Only this tweet: Sorry that Tweet should not have said next week.

It’s soon but I don’t have an exact date.— Clayton Morris (@ClaytonMorris) There has been no shortage of new iMac rumors,. We are in agreement with some of Morris’s predictions like USB 3, updated CPU/GPU and SSD options, but we are not yet on board with the outward design overhaul and loss of optical drive. A few things we can count on in the new iMacs are new Ivy Bridge processors, improved graphics chips, USB 3.0, and expanded SSD capacities. Also look for a new slimmer design with Apple finally removing the optical drive from the side.

It is possible that the iMac announcement could happen at the rumored October iPad mini announcement, but I’m not holding my breath for that. Apple has been known to update the desktops without much fanfare. Analysts have expected a new iMac for some time now, with KGI Research’s below. Nuance today, which is the latest addition to its lineup of Dictation software from Mac ( a few years ago, after MacSpeech began using Nuance’s speech engine).

With Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 speech recognition software, you can use your voice to create and edit text or interact with your favorite Mac applications. Far more than just speech-to-text, Dragon Dictate lets you create and edit documents, manage email, surf the Web, update social networks, and more – quickly, easily and accurately, all by voice. Open and close or navigate between applications, or even create your own custom voice commands to execute multiple steps with a simple word or phrase. Use your iPhone or iPod as a wireless microphone, or capture your notes on-the-go using a digital voice recorder and Dragon Dictate 3 will transcribe them for you.

With Mountain Lion now incorporating its own Speech-to-text engine (which also uses Nuance on the backend), the market would seem a lot more niche. However, there are die-hard Dragon Dictate users who will tell you nothing replaces the original. Downloads of the product will begin Sept. 13, and boxed copies will be available starting Sept. The press release follows.

Parallels version 8 of its market-leading Virtualization Mac software for existing users. As of this morning, anyone or sign up for a. Parallels also announced the availability of the Parallels Desktop 8 Switch to Mac™ edition, which includes Parallels Desktop 8 software and a set of switching tools to automatically move programs, files and browser favorites to Mac, as well as in-box video tutorials to learn about the Mac.

Details are available at. New-and-improved features in Parallels Desktop 8 include. IFun a Telekom (T-Mobile) NanoSIM, which first started arriving at the carrier this week, and the following message (translated) came along with the package: Dear partners, You will receive today a new generation of SIM cards for the latest generation of smartphones that come in the near future on the market. Sort your SIM card please first not in their cards in hand and give it not out to customers.We will inform you shortly about how to proceed.

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The new iPhone is generally thought to be the first-and-only phone to use the and took through regulatory approval. On the right, you can see the larger MicroSIM inside a normal SIM card. Numerous leaks of the new iPhone SIM card show a Nano-SIM. Two British tabloids, the and the, reported that actor Bruce Willis was going after Apple’s iTunes to let him pass down purchased media to his heirs. It’s too good a story to pass upexcept, it is not true. It's not a true story— Emma Heming Willis (@EmmaHeming) The story of passing along iTunes media rights is an interesting story, however. You have always been able to burn music to optical and keep copies around.

In that case, retention rights are a little more straightforward. As for apps and other media, it gets more murky. Another “ (, ), as, which adds to its that an iMac refresh is forthcoming at around the time of the iPhone launch. This one notably has an unlocked Intel processor, 1333MHz RAM and runs a standard 10.8.1 build, which significantly diminishes its likelihood of being real. But there have been some recent shortages on websites and now. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo interestingly revised his estimates today on 27-inch iMacs shipping to being much further out in the year due to issues in the supply chain. However, it is not just the iMac.

Kuo is pushing all of his predictions further as we end the month of August:. The shipping gap would imply a very unorthodox Apple release of the 21-inch iMac about two months ahead of the 27-inch iMac. Also unorthodox: Kuo is calling for the 13-inch Retina Pro to be released ahead of the new iPhone and just a quarter after Apple released all-new MacBook Pros including a 15-inch Retina version. (Interestingly—Samsung a 13-inch ‘Retina’ laptop).

Also, in the wake of the recent, Kuo is pushing his iPad mini shipping estimates out a month from mid-September to late October. These figures vary widely from his estimates from just a month ago, where all of Apple’s new products were to hit the pavement by the end of September and the Touch and Nano were to ship at the end of August. Developer of the Instapaper App, found a few new devices in his logs: iPad2,5 and iPad2,6.

He did not say where these devices were geo-located, but the fact that he is now totally convinced these are new Apple products, and not an easy jailbreak-faking, leads us to believe he found them on Apple’s Cupertino network (or his logs do not record geo-location and he is taking a leap of faith). Update: Arment clarifies (or muddies?) his logging a bit: tweet It should also be said that Apple’s newest 2,4 iPad, the new die shrunk version of the iPad 2, could also be expanding to GSM+CDMA versions, which would naturally follow 2,5 and 2,6. However, ignoring that possibility and adding together the other evidence and rumors of the, let us assume these are new. The two versions mean there is likely a 3G or 4G version and a Wi-Fi version. That goes along with (right) in which some have gaps at the top where Apple traditionally uses cell radio transparent plastic in its iPads.

Arment assumes there is a 2,7 version out there somewhere that does CDMA, but he’s assuming the will use the older 3G chips and not the newer 4G LTE Qualcomm GOBI chips that do both CDMA and GSM as well as many versions of LTE. We are inclined to believe that Apple, if all of the above is indeed true about the iPad mini, will build 4G LTE chips into this device. With the iPad 3 and now the new iPhone both utilizing LTE chips, Apple will have the type of scale and cost reduction down on these devices to make them cost effective enough to put in a lower-cost Mini. So, expect a $100-ish premium for an LTE iPad Mini—perhaps $349 with 32GB of storage?

Take my money! For those of us Apple Developers and “IT Pros”, the biggest non-Apple event of the year is the in sunny LA from October 17-19 this year. They’ve announced that will be keynoting and Sandy Krasner, a Project Software System Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a member of the Mars Science Laboratory team (the people who made “Curiosity” happen) will be giving a Special Session entitled “Interplanetary Networking, Curiosity Style.” In more detail, downloading pictures from the surface of Mars is not like surfing the web. Flying through the atmosphere of Mars at 12,500 mph; wireless links 100’s of millions of miles long; orbiting satellites that can take pictures of pizza pans from orbit and serve as routers; 20 minute passes 2-4 times a day; 50 mbytes/day; working on Mars time; and even space weather shooting holes in the data stream. Come see how Curiosity returned those fantastic pictures from 166 million miles away.

Plus hear about the Interplanetary Internet of the future. Related articles. Parallels version 8 of its market-leading Virtualization software for Mac this morning. New users will be able to update Sept.

Parallels also announced the availability of Parallels Desktop 8 Switch to MacTM Edition, which includes Parallels Desktop 8 software and a set of switching tools to automatically move programs, files and browser favorites to Mac, as well as in-box video tutorials to learn about the Mac. Details are available at. The US College Athletic conference, formally known as the PAC-10, a today that allows you to stream college sports directly to your iPad wherever you are. Games that are broadcasted on TV will require a Cable television login and password, but no login will be required for long-tail events like rowing or UCLA football that do not get TV airtime. All major cable providers are on board except Comcast, of course, which has its own Xfinity iPad app. Pac-12 is working with smaller cable networks to get on board too. I am not going to beat around the bush. As a die-hard USC Football fan, who often has to run around to different local bars in New York to find the game, this might be my app of the year.

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Maybe best app of all time. Even better, since Ooyala is helping with the App, fans can into their blogs and websites.

The app will also feature recaps and interviews that are not broadcast. I got a chance to talk with PAC-12 a little bit about the creation of this app and the services behind it. Ooyala received a lot of help from Apple (which, I am told, has a lot of PAC-12 Alumni itching for this service) getting this product up and running. “Pac-12 Now is game changer in our ability to deliver our content to millions of fans,” said Pac-12 Enterprises President Gary Stevenson. “Today we are one step closer to achieving our goal of connecting fans with our live programming and feature content when and where they choose to access it.” To cater viewing to each individual, Ooyala created a graphic interactive programming guide (IPG) that is more like a map of what is important to the viewer rather than a traditional grid-formatted guide.

In addition to prioritizing teams and sports preferred by the viewer, as indicated during set-up, future versions of the IPG will highlight events that are currently live, games that are tied or nearing a close finish, and games trending in a viewer’s social graph. Additionally, fans can chat and share their viewing experience with friends through Facebook and Twitter feeds optionally presented adjacent to the video display. “The result of our work with the Pac-12 Networks is a multi-screen fan experience that changes the way sports are watched,” said Ooyala Chief Executive Officer Jay Fulcher. “The web and iPad experiences blur the line between broadband and traditional broadcasts, and are hallmarks of a new way of distributing entertainment – in this case sports – reaching digital consumers on their schedule, on their preferred screen and with a more engaging experience. The result is a win for everyone involved – the fans, the Pac-12 and their participating broadcast affiliates.” The full press release is below. Motorola Mobility agreed to license its standards-essential patents in Germany to Apple, according to a filing on Monday (via ).

In the deal, which chiefly includes cellular standard-essential patents, Apple agreed that it is legally responsible for past damages in connection to the patents. The timeframe for the treaty’s conception is unknown at the moment, with both firms also neglecting to reveal royalty rates in the paperwork.

However, the courts in Germany could determine those rates based on FRAND policies. The, explained: In a filing made late on Monday (August 27, 2012) with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, the Google subsidiary has now confirmed the recent conclusion of a standard-essential patent license agreement with Apple. Under the agreement, Apple is now licensed to use some if not all of Motorola’s standard-essential patents in Germany, though the parties have not yet agreed on a FRAND royalty rate, which will ultimately have to be set by German courts unless they agree on a rate prior to its judicial determination.

” to the “nope” from on NFC (yes, it can get confusing!). Given the primarily metal backside of the new iPhone, it’s highly unlikely that NFC is in the cards for this generation. In fact, given the very little space at top and bottom dedicated to those glass RF windows, you can almost entirely rule it out. NFC operates on the 13.56MHz ISM band, which has a relatively large wavelength, at 22.1 m. Making a traditional dipole antenna that radiates at all given the constraints of a smartphone package is thus a big challenge, considering that smartphones are maybe 5-inches tall at maximum, to say nothing of the supposed upcoming iPhone’s longest linear dimension. Darlymple often gets directives from Apple, which seem aimed at tempering expectations for upcoming products without an official announcement.

The post is in response to an in which a mystery chip was speculated to carry NFC. Coincidentally, another new this morning that shows an NFC reader right at the top of the iPhone (44). Apple has clearly been investigating NFC hardware for a while. The Wall Street Journal hinted last month that Apple was dropping the NFC idea.

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Jason Statham battles a gigantic, 75-foot-long shark in the first trailer for New Line Cinema’s “The Meg.” In the trailer, a creature called Megalodon, previously believed to be extinct, attacks an undersea observation program, causing the crew to be trapped at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Statham) must race against the clock to save the crew, as well as everyone else that comes in the way of “The Meg.” Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Robert Taylor, Ruby Rose and Winston Chao also star in the science fiction action thriller directed by “Last Vegas” director Jon Turteltaub. Also Read: Honestly, the Meg puts Bruce from “Jaws” to shame in every way possible. This one seems bigger, more vicious, and more out for blood.