The heart rate monitor will allow users to track the intensity of their workout in real time on the screen and tracks data over time to show users their progress. The online hub will then share this workout data with other EA Sports Active users, as well as interacting with them and send messages to each other. New workouts and exercises can also be downloaded through a connected PS3.

EA Sports Active 2.0 is a three-phase, nine-week program, and additional mini-programs can be added on to keep users motivated. The software is due out sometime this fall, and prices have not yet been set.

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Master 10 combat arenas, each with its own unique play styles and strategies. Work your way to the top by leveling up and upgrading your weapons and armor. Exploit jet packs, berserker shields, cloaking devices and a variety of cunning power-ups. Track your progress with Plus+ enabled leader boards and awards.

Stunning 3-D characters, environments and combat visuals including normal map rendering on 3Gs devices. Intuitive “Touch Anywhere” controls deliver next generation FPS movement and combat control using the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone or iPod touch.

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In these cases, the purchasers have been told that in order to do such a change, the delivery order would have to be cancelled and a new in-store pickup order completed, but that iPad orders (which began this morning at 8:30am EST) have been “so overwhelming” that new iPad orders may not be available for in-store pickup on April 3.Apple’s online store is still reporting that customers who reserve Wi-Fi iPads will be able to pick the units up at their local Apple Store location “between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on April 3.”

Apple has yet to officially respond, though sources have noted that in two orders placed 30 minutes apart this morning, approximately 10,000 units had been sold in that time frame, suggesting a rate somewhere near 20,000 orders per hour if order numbers are issued sequentially as they appear to be.

Per Forbes, a more organized study of the numbers looks to be showing in excess of 50,000 orders in two hours, roughly in line with the earlier estimate.

“51,000 orders in two hours,” announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He’s an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member who, with the blogger-analyst who calls himself deagol, has been monitoring the spreadsheet.

The estimates of course come with several caveats such as not all of the orders being placed through Apple’s online store are for iPads, although it is likely that a very substantial portion of them are, given the excitement over Apple’s tablet device and previous launches.??Still, the data includes order numbers, not unit numbers, and it seems reasonable that some purchasers are ordering multiple iPads at the same time. Apple has restricted customers to two iPads per customer , limiting but certainly not eliminating this effect on the estimates.

With this in mind, a guess of 50,000 iPads sold in about two hours doesn’t seem that far off.
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Black Swan is the next revolution in iPhone applications. It is not tied to the App Store. It is not a web site optimized for the iPhone. It is a feature-rich weblication that enables you to view and manage your Google Voice data just like a native iPhone application. It combines the iPhone’s easy-to-use interface with the convenience of an always up-to-date web application.

Features:

- Native iPhone look and feel.
- Sync your Google Voice data.
- Automatic and immediate updates.
- Offline access to Google Voice data.1
- Listen to Google Voice messages and read transcriptions.2
- Swipe to delete calls, voicemails, or SMS conversations.
- Google Contacts import.
- Call using Google Voice or iPhone.

There are two versions of the app available; a free ad-supported version and a premium edition for $10/year. Currently the premium edition is being offered for a discounted price of $6/year.

Premium Features:
- Import contact photos
- Billing transactions
- Do Not Disturb
- Favorites
- Inbox Search
- Customer Support
- Umlimited history at once

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Per TechCrunch, the service will have a $14.95 per month base service fee, and then users will purchase games and rentals on an a la carte model on top of that. Users will be able to purchase multiple months at a time to get a discount on the service and the company is offering a special in which it will waive the service fee for three months for the first 25,000 users to pre-register here.

During the demo, Perlman showcased the service’s ability to play recent games like Crysis on a large TV, as well as on his mobile phone (because all the processing is done in the cloud, even an iPhone can handle it).
Other features such as streaming movies and Xbox Live-like community features stood out, though the company apparently still faces some latency, as a slight lag left a “twitchy” feel to first person shooter titles.

OnLive will be available for PC and Mac only upon launch and a MicroConsole TV adapter (which lets your TV hook up to the cloud service) will appear later this year.
International announcements are due later this year.

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A 9to5Mac user has found these new commands in the gestures folder of the iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK.

The files, 3Tap.plist and LongPress.plist, refer to a triple tap and a long press command; both of which are not present in the 3.1 SDK.

It’s thought that Apple may even allow developers to use these ready made APIs in the shipping version of the iPad.

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The kit is not meant for submitting titles to the App Store, but rather for pre-release work on iPad-compatible apps. Apple has relatively little time left to complete the software, as the first Wi-Fi iPads will launch on April 3rd, to be followed by 3G versions later in the month. All iPads should ship with iPhone 3.2 firmware by default.

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VanillaSurf is a free mobile web-browser app for the iPhone that rivals the native Mobile Safari app. The app is built-in on the same web browser engine as Safari but it offers some excellent functionality that is not currently available with the Mobile Safari app.

As you launch VanillaSurf for the first time, you should notice its interface is very similar to that of the built-in browser. You have an address line with a search icon at the top and number of icons at the bottom that lets you: surf back and forward, set your options, download, actions, bookmarks, tabs and full screen.

So, you can see what functions quickly set this app apart from the Mobile Safari: download, actions and full screen.

With VanillaSurf, you can download anything from the web, as you normally do on your computer’s web browser. Once you have download the file, you can view the file within the internal browser. Or you can transfer it back to your computer via a web interface. Simply follow the on-screen instruction and you should know to how do the transfer. The process is very straightforward.

The actions tab offers the following: New Bookmark (which I will assume all understand), Send URL, Screenshot, Open in Safari and Lock Rotation. The Send URL will send the URL of the current page you are to the email and embed the link into your email. That’s pretty useful. The Screenshot does just as it states, it takes a picture of the screen and places it in your camera roll (note: it is just a screenshot, not the entire page, just what you can see on the screen). The Open in Safari option opens the current page you are on in the mobile Safari app. Finally, the Lock Rotation sets the web browser to either landscape or portrait mode and disable the auto-rotation of iPhone. That’s handy feature especially you surf while lying in bed.

VanillaSurf offers an option tab to further customize its settings. In the options tab, you can turn “load images” on or off, “Ad-blocker” on or off and enable private surfing, if you wish. There are two different themes you can choose: Classic and Black. Also, you can clear your history and cookies. The options you can set for your tabs are many, everything from how new windows are opened to how they open for the same or different domain.

You can easily import bookmarks with the import/export bookmarks tab. Again, you use the built-in transfer function that allows you to link and authenticate with your computer.

The “tabs” window lists all the current open tabs that are available that you can tap on to view.

The full screen button hides the address bar and bottom icon buttons, but it leaves a little (+) button that, when you press, gives you your bottom icons as a see-through set of buttons. If you press (+) again it returns back to the regular screen view.

Performance-wise, it is as fast as Safari. All in all, VanillaSurf can be a great alternative for Safari browser. It may not replace your mobile Safari, but it will be very useful when you need to download a file.

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Phone OS 4.0 will include lots of new features, just like you would expect to see from Apple. However, It doesn’t make sense for Apple to unify the two operating systems for 4.0 with the timeline they are working with.

Rather, I expect Apple to release OS 4.1 in September or October. It will not only address issues with the 4.0 release, but also unify the operating systems.

iPhone 4.0 would presumably hit with the 4th generation iPhone (not to be confused with an iPhone 4G for LTE which is likely 2012). For the last two years, new iPhone software has been released as beta at SDK preview events in March while new iPhone hardware has been debuted at WWDC in June. New iPod touch hardware has followed in September, typically with updated software.
If Apple sticks to this pattern, the above does indeed make sense as getting as many users — iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch alike — on the same version of the OS is better for Apple, better for developers, and better for users.

For us, we’ll take it one step at a time and wait for that iPhone 4.0 sneak preview…
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A listed Ted Kennedy memoir, “True Compass”, retailed for $14.95 for the iPad version (the hardcover goes for $23 while the black and white Kindle version sells for $19.25

Per Cult of Mac, other titles that demonstrated a price difference included the iBookstore version of James Patterson’s “I, Alex Cross” and $7.99 iBookstore version of “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World…One Child at a Time” by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin were higher than Amazon: $9.99 and $7.19, respectively. Per the commercial, Apple looks to store documents on the iPad in a “My Documents” folder in iWork touch. This was touched on briefly after the launch event but it is interesting that Apple chose this nomenclature.

Finally, for the conspiracy theory types, there appears to be either a smudge, an infrared sensor or a hidden camera on the iPad approximately three seconds into the commercial. Call it what you will.

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