The new iPad out at the store in india.(pics)

It's finally arrived in india.
Go and pic one now.

Apple sets WWDC 2012 for June 11-15

The New Ipad Already coming to the store in india.(Pics)

The New Ipad Already coming to the store in india. Its launching on 27th here.

Here are some pics and Model No:

Indian Banks having IOS Apps

Indian Banks have started making IOS Apps to give better services to their customers.
This shows how iphones have influence Indian Market
Here are some Indian Banks having IOS Apps.
HDFC Bank Mobanking

HDFC Bank Mobanking gives you access to NetBanking services on your iPhone. Now, you can perform your banking tasks in the palm of your hand, from anywhere and at anytime!
What can you do? - Pay utility bills, credit card bills, etc.
- View Account summaries and Fixed Deposit summaries
- Transfer funds ,including transfers to other bank customers
- Request statements, cheque book, stop payment And much, much more.

http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/hdfc-bank-mobanking/id515891771?mt=8
STATE BANK OF INDIA IOS APP

!!!! THIS IS THE OFFICIAL STATE BANK MOBILE BANKING APPLICATION !!!!
Away from home, balance enquiries can be made and/or money sent to the loved ones or bills can be paid anytime 24x7!!! That is what State Bank FreedoM offers - convenient, simple, secure, anytime and anywhere banking.

http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/state-bank-freedom/id503784433?mt=8
ICICI Bank iMobile

ICICI Bank iMobile is a breakthrough innovation in banking where practically all internet banking transactions can now be simply done on mobiles phones. Customers can now transfer funds to ICICI and Non ICICI Bank accounts just with the click of their mobile. The application covers Savings bank, Demat, Credit Card and Loan accounts. Customers can also pay their utility bills and insurance premium through this facility. ICICI Bank offers this facility free of charge to customers.
Some of the amazing facilities this application offers:
Balance enquiry, Funds Transfer, Cheque Book Request, Cheque Status, Stop Cheque,
View Transaction Details, View Credit Card, Demat, Loan Account Transaction details, Bill pay, Bank Locations and Prepaid Mobile Recharge.
iMobile is a rich client based application that downloads instantly onto your iPhone and functions similar to any other mobile application. With its newer features, smarter interface, quicker navigation and enhanced functionality, iMobile is as simple as ABC....

http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/icici-bank-imobile/id375276006?mt=8
Citibank IN

Manage your Citibank Accounts and Credit Cards on your iPhone! Just install the app and sign-in with your Card number and Internet Password (IPIN). Citi Mobile offers you the same level of security as Citibank Online.
Smart Banking Features
•Locate the nearest Citibank ATM, branches and retailers offering Citibank Privileges
•Transfer funds, pay your bills or recharge your mobile
•Instant money transfers to other Bank’s accounts (through IMPS)
•Request for Statement on E-mail and much more
Get started
You can login to your account with your Citibank Debit or Credit Card and your confidential IPIN (Internet PIN).
http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/citibank-in/id467987820?mt=8
Breeze India By Standard Chartered Bank

Breeze India is now available on iPhone!
You can now See, Move and Manage your finances anytime, anywhere with Breeze. Designed with you in mind, we’ve packed the application with loads of must haves like paying your bills & transferring funds and we’ve even thought of some other pretty cool features for you as well!
Here are just some of the things you can do:
- Pay your utility bills
- Transfer funds to other banks in India
- View account and credit card details on the go
- Top up a pre-paid mobile phone (across all networks)
- Find, book and pay for airline tickets (domestic)
- Choose, book and pay for movie tickets across India
- Personalize your accounts with icons and nicknames
- Find the nearest branch or ATM across India

http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/breeze-india/id460909294?mt=8



Axis Bank Mobile Application

Banking with Axis Bank is just a touch away now with Axis Mobile on IPhone. 

Using Axis Mobile, you can now check your balance, mini-statements or transfer funds to Axis & Other Bank customer right from your IPhone. You can also transfer funds to any bank account instantly, 24X7 through IMPS facility. Now, pay your bills for more than 70 billers and recharge mobile instantly.


http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/axis-bank-mobile-application/id517266358?mt=8

Apple’s earnings call

Apple had another record-breaking financial quarter over the last three months. But it also hit several other high points…

• Apple now has $110 billion dollars in the bank
• iOS device sales recently crossed the 365 million mark
• There are now more than 600,000 apps in the App Store
• 200,000 of those apps are iPad-specific
• iCloud now has more than 125 million users
• Apple has 363 retail stores (not counting stores within stores)
• Retail stores saw over 85 million visitors last quarter

These numbers are particularly interesting when you consider the short amount of time in which they were achieved. For instance, iCloud has only been around since last October. And Apple’s iOS business is less than 5 years old.

Perhaps most noteworthy, however, is the fact that Apple now has $110 billion dollars in cash and assets. A year ago the company was sitting on just over $50 billion. And it’s not every day that a major corporation doubles its cash hoard in just 12 months.

Apple to Add 500 New Jobs at European Headquarters in Ireland.Apple india Reports to European Headquarter so what does it mean india?

RTÉ reports that Apple is making plans to add 500 more jobs at its European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, bringing the total headcount at the site to 3,300 as the company works to continue expansion of its business in the region. The company plans to construct a three-storey office block next to its existing plant in the city to cater for the expansion of its business in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.

Apple has been in Cork for 30 years and currently employs 2,800 people in the city. Apple expects to add the new jobs over the next 18 months, and the move appears to be on top of plans for 350 jobs in downtown Cork announced less than a year ago.

The company's main campus in Cork was in the news earlier this week after Greenpeace activists scaled a building to protest Apple's use of coal-derived power at its data centers.

Apple of course continues to expand its workforce at and around its corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California, with the company snapping up a number of leases in the area to support the growth as it works toward building a new campus for up to 13,000 workers. The company is also expanding at its other primary employment hubs, currently working with governmental authorities on a plan to add 3,600 at its administrative and support center in Austin, Texas, doubling the size of its workforce there.

Apple india Reports to European Headquarter so what does it mean india?

Indian Evolution: from Apes to Apps | OPEN Magazine

Indian Evolution: from Apes to Apps | OPEN Magazine

The portly figure of Gagandeep Singh Sapra, Open’s gadget geek, walks into this magazine’s office. Instead of technology, though, he has food on his mind. Thankfully, it barely takes the first few bites of what a food vendor across the office can rustle up for him to launch into a discussion with yours truly on Indian apps for smartphones—those neat little pieces of software that execute specific tasks on your whizbang handset, developed specifically by Indian developers and used primarily by Indian iPhone users.

Sapra schleps out his slick iPhone and iPad and lays them right next to our half-eaten rice plates. Not to be left behind, yours truly brandishes his own Jedi lightsaber—the latest iPhone 4S. Together, the two of us get down to listing the five most useful iPhone (3+) apps developed by Indians for Indians.

Earlier, the two of us had had an intense session on Twitter, with my attempt at Twittersourcing information on the best Indian-made iPhone apps for Indians in the considered opinion of the country’s Twitterati. ‘Tough question,’ replied a tweet from @AtulChitnis, former COO of Geodesic, an Indian company that provides mobile solutions (a job that includes developing apps, among other services). ‘Would be easier if you ask which are the most useful ones,’ he tweeted, proceeding to name his best five in no particular order. Next, on came Sapra—@thebiggeek—with his five. Then, all hell broke loose. There was a mini-war of tweets over which apps were developed abroad and which were desi.

In a country where an estimated 100 million apps are downloaded on smartphones every month, there are plenty of complaints about design and lazy coding. Some apps, groan several users on iTunes’ customer review section, lack backend support; the registration processes of banking apps are leading culprits on this count. And others find their apps’ utility strangled by the stuttering speeds of India’s 3G telecom networks. Siri, a voice-driven app that features a talking aunt on the iPhone, is a fine example of what streaming breaks can do—the talking app comes up with the sort of answers you’d expect of a drinking buddy eleven drinks down.

After several exchanges of tweets, speaking to app developers and coders, scouring reviews on Apple’s iTunes store, and randomly picking on iPhone users on the Delhi Metro and in other public places, the two of us shortlisted five ‘useful’ Indian apps. We have left out apps for gaming, pornography, religious devotion and astrology, and we have also excluded inbuilt apps for photos, videos, messaging, social networking and managing contacts. Here is the list of five, in no particular order:

NDTV

It was tough zeroing in on this one in the news category. Smartly designed and developed by Udupi-based Robosoft Technologies for NDTV Convergence Pvt Ltd, this free app gives the Indian user plenty of choices when it comes to live news, including real-time notification of breaking news. Citizens can become news gatherers themselves and send in what they see via the app’s NDTV iWitness feature. There are other features too. The only customer complain about this app are the advertisements, which are a little too instrusive.

The other news apps that came close to being picked were IBN Live, Mint, India Today (which has video clips within text stories), and Times of India. Some app users also mention Pulse on Twitter. Developed by two Stanford graduates from India, this app is an aggregator that delivers news customised to the user’s needs.

MAPMYINDIA

The only paid app to make our list (price: $49.99 / Rs 2,490), this is a voice-guided GPS navigation system developed by Sygic AS specifically for India. The maps are packed with both graphic and voice instructions that guide you street-by-street to your destination in any of its 1,200 Indian towns and cities mapped. Once installed, this 731 MB app resides in your phone memory, so you need no net connection to use it. “This is a great example of why localised apps are the future in India,” says MapMyIndia fan Rajat Agrawal, who runs bgr.in, a popular gadgets and technology portal.

ZOMATO

Developed by Foodiebay Online Services, this is a great urban app that lets you search across 14,000 restaurants, spanning nine cities: Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Jaipur. It smartly detects your location and recommends the best restaurants around those coordinates. If you don’t like its pick, all you need do is shake your phone (as you would a jar of tambola chips), and, presto, a new suggestion pops up. For directions, it uses Google maps, and lets you surf the eatery’s menu, reviews, photos and discounts. You can feed it your own reviews and photos.

SAAVN

In the absence of live FM radio apps, this free facility developed by a firm called Saavn is the best Indian music app for your iPhone. Though it requires iOS4 or a latter edition of this Apple operating software, it has an amazing catalogue of hundreds of thousands of Indian songs that include Bollywood music, bhangra, bhajans, ghazals, and more. The app lets you create your own playlist and lets you share it real-time on Facebook Timeline.

BOOKMYSHOW

What the Indian Railways and air travel industry failed to do for domestic travellers equipped with iPhones, BookMyShow has done for movie-goers. Created by Bigtree Entertainment Pvt Ltd, this app lists movie shows, and lets users choose seats and buy them directly on their smartphone through multiple payment options. The new version of this app promises the same facility for plays, concerts and sports events.

Other apps that marginally missed the cut here were mundu TV, Tata Sky Mobile Access and, last but not least, ICICI Bank iMobile.

The new iPad launching in india on 26th April midnight

Finally the new iPad launching in india on 26th April midnight.



The official new iPad pricing: 
Wi-Fi: 16GB Rs 30,500, 32GB Rs 36,500, 64GB Rs 42,500. 
Wi-Fi+3G: 16GB Rs 38,900, 32GB Rs 44,900, 64GB Rs 50,900 

So who all are buying it on the first day ?

Some Apple Stores replacing iPhone 4 models with iPhone 4S But not in India.

9to5Mac is reporting this weekend that Apple is experiencing “atypical inventory shortages” of white 16GB iPhone 4 replacement units. As a result, it seems like [at least] some iPhone 4 users seeking hardware replacements could be in for a nice surprise.

According to the report, Apple has instructed some of its Apple Store Genius Bars to start replacing problematic white 16GB iPhone 4 models with compatible iPhone 4Sunits…

“This iPhone 4S would be a refurbished white iphone 4S 16GB. This situation will not affect all customers and Apple Stores, but it seems like many white iPhone 4 16GB owners seeking hardware replacements may get Siri, an A5 chip, and an eight megapixel camera out of their next Genius Bar appointment.”

It’s worth noting that this exception only applies to white 16GB iPhone 4 models that are still under their AppleCare warranties. And at this point, only Apple Stores in Canada and the United States appear to be making the exchanges.

But if you meet the above-criteria, and your iPhone 4 has been acting up, it seems like there’s a fair chance that Apple will replace it with a 4S model. Cool.

Have you received a 4S replacement for your iPhone 4?

Intel Hints Next MacBook Pros Might Have Retina Displays

Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge update are scheduled to be officially announced and made available on April 23rd, and they will most likely be immediately used to build updated, Air-like MacBook Pros including second-gen Thunderbolt controllers.

But could the next MacBook Pros also have HiDPI, Retina-ready displays? It’s conjecture at this point, but we know Apple has been interested in moving to Retina quality displays in its Mac line for quite some time, and now a recent comment from Intel VP Kirk Skaugen confirms that Ivy Bridge makes it possible for PC makers to make retina display laptops and computers, “if OEMs choose to use it.”

In other words? The next MacBook Pros might not just have slimmer footprints and ditch the optical drives, but pack four times the pixels. Swoon.

Apple’s boss Tim Cook confirmed as opening speaker at the D10 conference

Apple CEO Tim Cook will open the annual All Things Digital technology conference, which takes place from May 29-31, 2012 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Apple’s chief executive will kickstart the technology conference that celebrates its tenth year. As in years past, this year D10 will host a bunch of Silicon Valley luminaries, including Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek and Skype CEO Tony Bates…

The news has been confirmed by Kara Swisher over at the AllThingsD blog, which is run by the Wall Street Journal network that also organizes the D10 conference.

Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference.

It will be Cook’s first appearance at the D conference and his first time onstage at a non-Apple event.

Other Silicon Valley executives and VIPs have also been confirmed as speakers, including Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek, Skype CEO Tony Bates, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios president Dr. Ed Catmull, LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman, Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker, Intellectual Ventures founder and CEO Nathan Myhrvold, Visa president John Partridge and Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus.

The full line-up of speakers is available here.

Produced each year by the Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg and his sidekick Kara Swisher, the D conference “brings together the people who are shaping the way we work, play, communicate and live”.

Steve Jobs sat for a fireside chat with Swisher and Mossberg at the D8 conference in 2010 to talk Flash, iPad and Apple’s growing rivalry with Google. Here’s a quick segment where Jobs talks Apple’s war on Flash.

I think this particular segment is especially telling today as Adobe recently dropped Flash support for mobile to concentrate on HTML5. From today’s perspective, that’s exactly how Jobs hinted things would play out (he called Flash a technology in its descendancy).

The full Jobs video is available as a free iTunes podcast.

Jobs also appeared alongside Microsoft’s Bill Gates at the D5 conference in 2007 (free podcast here).

Are you “thrilled” as well that Cook will be headlining D10? Surely it’s an honor that they chose Apple’s boss to kickstart the conference.

Siri speaks Hindi with a little help from a proxy server

Last month, Apple released iOS 5.1 to the masses. The update included few new features, but it did bring Japanese Siri support. This brought the digital assistant’s number of compatible languages up to a whopping… four.

But if Siri doesn’t currently support your language, that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck. Developer Kunal Kaul took matters into his own hands and taught Siri to speak Hindi — with a little help from his proxy server…

Using proxy servers to enhance Siri’s capabilities has been a popular hack since the digital assistant debuted last October. Early on, developers used these servers to enable Siri to control lights, TVs and other appliances.

For those interested, we have an in-depth tutorial on how to setup a Siri proxy server. But don’t get your hopes up about teaching the assistant to speak Hindi just yet, Kaul says there is still “lots of work to be done.”

Apple overtakes Google

At 12:26 p.m. Eastern, Apple's share price passed Google's for the first time

Source: Bullish Cross

It is said that one of the reasons Apple (AAPL) hasn't split its stock since 2005 is that Steve Jobs wanted to see his company's share price overtake Google's (GOOG). If that's true, it's a shame Jobs didn't live to see the screenshot above grabbed by Bullish Cross' Andy Zaky. It shows the moment, time stamped Thursday April 5 @12:26:35 p.m. EDT, when Apple at $633.07 first passed Google at $633. Says Zaky: "First stop, Google, next stop Priceline, final destination, Berkshire Hathaway." In terms of market value, Apple overtook all three companies years ago.

How many iPhone app developers can Microsoft buy?

A nice piece of reporting by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield landed on the front page of the New York Times Business section Friday morning, two days before the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.

When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows Phone app store wasn't enough to get reluctant developers to write software for the new device -- the first fruit of a collaboration between Microsoft (MSFT) and Nokia (NOK) -- Microsoft reportedly starting writing checks to cover some of the cost of development, which can run anywhere from $60,000 to $600,000.

Among the developers that, according to the Times, have been paid to write for the Windows Phone OS: Foursquare, creator of Foursquare

Cheezburger Network, creator of I Can Has Cheezburger? and (reading between the lines) Rovio, maker of Angry Birds By the time the Lumia 900 is released, the Times reports, the Windows Phone app store will have more than 70,000 titles, including Netflix, YouTube, the Weather Channel, Amazon Kindle and Fruit Ninjas. Still missing: Pandora, Instagram and all the Zynga games.

"We are by no means satisfied with our catalog," Casey McGee, senior marketing manager for Windows Phone, told the Times. "That's something we can get better at, and do better at, every day." At last count, Apple (AAPL) had more than 600,000 apps and Google's (GOOG) Android nearly 400,000.

Apple CEO's earnings: The New York Times gets it wrong

What part of "over 10 years" don't its editors understand?

The New York Times had a lot of fun with Tim Cooks' compensation package Sunday.

It led an article about excessive CEO pay with the rhetorical question: "Is any C.E.O. worth $1 million a day?" To which it responded: "At Apple, the answer ... is an emphatic yes." Then, dubbing Cook "The 378 Million Man," it published a graphic comparing his total compensation package, as compiled by Equilar, to various benchmarks: Number of $199 iPhones (1.9 million), number of $4.99 iPhone apps (75.8 million), number of years of employment in an iPad factory (60,919). Only trouble is, Cook doesn't make anywhere near $1 million a day.

Although the text of the article correctly reports that Cook's annual salary last year was a relatively modest (by CEO standards) $900,000, the lead sentence -- and the graphic -- make the same mistake the Associated Press and other publications made in January when Apple (AAPL) issued its 2012 proxy statement.

They confuse a bird in the bush with a bird in the hand. To collect the full 1 million shares of Apple stock (technically, restrictive stock units, or RSUs) Cook was granted in 2011, he has to stay at the company for 10 years. The proxy statement is quite clear on this: "The RSU award is intended as a long-term retention incentive for Mr. Cook, and, accordingly, should be viewed as compensation over the 10-year vesting period and not solely as compensation for 2011."

The SEC requires a company to book a share grant's value in the year it is awarded, however, which is why Equilar included the grant in Cook's "total compensation package." But Tim Cook didn't pocket a penny of it in 2011, never mind $1 million a day.

In fact, when you spread $376.2 million (the value of those 1 million RSUs the day they were granted) over 10 years, you get $103,000 a day. That's a ton of money, but it's not the $1 million dollars a day (or "$42,000 an hour. Or $700 a minute. Or $12 a second"), as the Times put it.

Of course, those 1 million shares are worth a good deal more now -- $633.68 million, to be precise, as of last week's close. But given that Cook was running Apple when the value of its stock took off, you could argue that when he collects his reward -- should he live that long -- he will have earned it.

Inside Apple HQ

Insiders call it the Mothership. It’s Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, and to Apple fans, it’s a place thought of with romance and wonder. Only the privileged elect have ever been deep within its most secretive recesses, but after an extensive search, I turned up more than 30 inside pictures that Apple probably doesn’t want you to see.

It’s the Chocolate Factory for tech nerds. The one super-secret place we all want to see — and the one place none of us ever will.

Search the web for “Apple HQ,” and most of the results you get will be pictures of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters — from the outside. Usually with some fanboy standing next to the “1 Infinite Loop” sign. But what we really want to see is what’s inside ultra-top-secret place where all our favorite gizmos are dreamed up.

This discussion will be moot a few years down the road when Apple opens its gigantic new wheel-shaped campus. But for now, this is the ultimate Nerdvana, and here are the only known photos you’re likely to ever see of it.

When you first walk inside Apple HQ, you’re greeted by the welcome/reception desk, which is situated inside the massive atrium with its bright natural light and suspended walkways.

Reception Desk

Apple HQ atrium

Apple HQ atrium

Apple HQ atrium

Apple HQ atrium

The one and only place inside the Apple campus that’s open to the public is the Company Store. It’s the only place where you won’t get accosted by security for taking pictures, and the only place in the world where you can buy Apple logo merchandise, like shirts and hats (though they also sell iPods and other Apple products).

Apple Company Store

Apple Company Store

Apple Company Store

As you wander the halls of Apple HQ (which isn’t allowed, actually, unless you’re a senior staff member), you’ll see sights like these.

Inside Apple HQ

Inside Apple HQ

Inside Apple HQ

Inside Apple HQ

Inside Apple HQ

Inside Apple HQ

If you need to make a pit stop, you might see restroom signs that look like this.

Men's Room sign at Apple HQ

Women's Room sign at Apple HQ

Hungry? Head over to the campus cafeteria. The food’s not free — not even for employees — but it’s inexpensive and very healthy.

Apple Cafeteria

Apple Cafeteria

When staff members need a break, they can head over to the break room/rec room. (I have no idea what they call it.) Or they can go outside and play some basketball on the on-campus court.

Apple HQ rec room

Apple HQ rec room

Apple HQ outdoor basketball court

There’s also an on-campus fitness room, filled with exercise equipment.

Apple HQ fitness center

That stuff’s all well and good, but what about where the… you know, the actual work gets done? If you’re hoping to get a glimpse inside Tim Cook’s office, you can dream on. It’s probably one of the most off-limits areas on the entire campus. But some photogs have managed to snap images of meeting rooms. You might even recognize a few faces in these not-terribly-recent photos.

Apple HQ meeting room

Apple HQ meeting room

When Apple calls one of its trademark “keynote” press conferences, it usually takes place at a public facility in San Francisco. But occasionally, for a more intimate setting, Apple brings the press to it’s own theater, which it calls the Apple Town Hall. A number of events have been held here over the years, including the infamous “Antennagate” event.

Apple Town Hall

Apple Town Hall

Speaking of Antennagate, that was the event where Apple, for the first time ever, opened up some of its most private doors for the press to see. Namely, the state-of-the-art Wireless Testing Lab, where they put their latest iPhone models through their paces, testing things like signal strength and user interference.

Apple's Wireless Testing Lab

Apple's Wireless Testing Lab

Apple's Wireless Testing Lab

One of the true “holy grail” locations deep inside Apple’s headquarters — seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was underground — is senior designer Jonathan Ive’s Design Facility. I was surprised to find even this small glimpse inside the Design Facility, given how jealously Apple guards its secrets. So it’s not much, but it’s all there is. And ladies, you even get some Ive-y eye candy. Behind his biceps, you’ll see some pretty hardcore industrial machinery.

Apple's Design Facility

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