Apple [AAPL] today is expected to introduce its super-fast, voice-savvy,revolutionary fifth-generation iPhone. The company is also expected to unleash the file-sharing amnesty-like services of iCloud and iTunes Match – on a day which ironically also marks the tenth anniversary of the founding world’s first legal P2P music-sharing service, Wippit.

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Since its introduction in 2001, Apple’s [AAPL] iTunes Store has led the business, eventually becoming the world’s biggest music store. For a decade, the service has seen no great threat, but if the rumors from Facebook’s f8 conference have weight, the social network may give the iTunes hegemony its biggest scare yet.

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The Internet. Cloud-based computing. The PC. The Apple [AAPL] mobile vision. iPads and iPhones. These technologies are transforming relationships at a rapid rate. Sometimes it’s nice to slip into something historical and evocative, so here’s some solutions to steampunk your Apple kit.

First I came across the Old Time Computer iMac covers. This transforms your Apple desktop into an object that doesn’t just look like it came from another world with better designers, but another world entirely, via some wormhole in the space-time continuum.

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Apple is now selling more than one iPad every second, every minute, of every day. (An estimated 1.22 iPads per second, in fact). No one else in the space comes close, nor, in the current comptitive component supply chain fandango, is it possible to.

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Apple [AAPL] introduced Final Cut Pro X last week to a huge response — the majority of which exceedingly negative. Video pros were furious at key features missing from the software, dubbing the release ‘iMovie Pro‘. Now Apple has published a statement promising those missing features aren’t missing at all, but on the way — eventually.

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The ex-Apple [AAPL] employee network continues to extend its reach. Most recently, Apple’s iCloud product manager, John Herbold, quit Cupertino to create digital products designed to boost health. What kind of apps might he help create? READ MORE

Get set for an Apple [AAPL] revenue revolution in China, as the country goes insane for the company’s solutions while COO Tim Cook tours the state to seal the iPhone 5 on China Mobile deal. Where iPhone goes, iPads and Macs follow, and this is the beginnings of a new growth story.

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Tell your IT department the old days when they could say Apple [AAPL] products are too hard to support on your corporate network are gone. Apple continues to explode across the enterprise — and there’s a rapidly growing list of enterprise class management and secure environment tools designed to make deployment of any Apple product easy, affordable and secure.

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iPhone 5 is scheduled to show itself in September, just in time for the introduction of iOS 5. As described, the device matches up nicely with all the previous claims as to its specifics: an 8-megapixel camera alongside the A5 processor, which as we know from iPad 2 product marketing runs “twice as fast” as the A4 chip used inside iPhone 4 and iPad 1.

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Apple [AAPL] video expert, Randy Ubillos has struck again, with the introduction of true 64-bit pro-video editing super-hero, Final Cut Pro X, introducing important changes in the way the software handles, ingests, encodes and manages video production workflow. And its available only via the Mac App Store.

“The first time I saw Final Cut Pro X, back in February, this quote from the title of Stephen Ambrose’s book on the transcontinental railroad flashed into my head,” said video expert, Larry King. “Just as the transcontinental railroad permanently changed 19th century America — in a wide variety of ways — Final Cut Pro X has the same capability.”

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There’s a market segment that’s desperately needing a little slice of Apple [AAPL] product marketing magic, and it’s 3DTV. Introduced with much brouhaha as a ‘must-have’ killer new feature, the technology has rapidly been relegated to just another spec, consumers like it, don’t love it. Does Apple have an iPad plan to make the technology interesting?

Apple’s music cloud looks a lot finer than Amazon or Google’s attempts, and comes with two added extras: track bit rates will be improved, and there’s a chance the labels may get a little cash back from file-sharers — but who owns your data in the cloud?

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“All warfare is based on deception”
The Art of War

Senior Apple [AAPL] executives are in discussion with Samsung to secure supplies of Retina Display-like screens for the iPad 3, even while the two firms turn to the courts to settle some of their differences over mobile device design.

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A UK school has announced it will be Europe’s first to equip all students with Apple [AAPL] iPad 2′s, and while critics slam such moves as a waste of cash, others believe that enabling pupils to get to grips with learning while using technology they actually like will actually boost education.

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Fresh Apple [AAPL] iPhone 5 rumors: the iPhone 3GS won’t be supported by iOS 5; the fifth-generation model will be smaller, lighter and thinner, and that 8-megapixel camera seems certain, as Apple begins agreeing component supply deals for its next smartphone, expected for introduction in September.

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Executives from the CEO down want iPads on their systems, forcing corporate IT staff to drop their long-held anti-Apple prejudices. Where the iPad walks, the Mac follows, which is why the Mac is stealing the enterprise while hearts close down on Windows.

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I’m aware of the almost religious experience some enjoy when cuddling closely to their Apple devices in this silicon age, but just because our minds bestow these things with semi-divine powers doesn’t make them infallible — don’t trust your iPhone and Google Maps when you’re climbing a mountain, take a map.

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Yesterday we learned that Apple is a religious experience, now the head of one of the UK’s biggest homeless self-help organizations wants to spread the new iSalvation as he moves to create an innovative street level news organization using iPhones.

This unique move will see homeless and near homeless street newspaper sellers given iPhone (5′s) by the head of the organization with which they’ll be asked to take pictures, videos and notes of what’s happening around them in order to send them back to the news room.

That’s what’s coming to Big Issue sellers in the UK. The Big Issue is a UK institution, founded by John Bird the principle is extremely simple: homeless or near homeless people can visit the magazine’s headquarters to buy a pile of the titles to sell on the street. They get to keep a half the £2 cover price.

The organization in turn ploughs the cash it makes back in the form of a string of homeless aid and recovery projects.

Speaking about The Big Issue’s new digital strategy, Bird said: “Big Issue vendors stand on streets up and down the country come rain or shine, hence they are uniquely connected to their local area. We want them to become the eyes and ears of their neighbourhoods, offering a unique perspective and simultaneously developing the skills which will get them off the streets.”

The idea is that by using their iPhones to gather news and information, disadvantaged people will get to participate in their local communities, and will learn new skills which could be of benefit to their future lives.

For example, they’ll be encouraged to write blogs, use Twitter and Facebook and generally get involved in the digital world. The content they return to Big issue headquarters will be used on the publication’s website.

The chance to engage in wider society can’t be dismissed as trivial. The idea of the magazine is that because vendors earn cash as they sell the mags, they also gain self-reliance and — so important to anyone enduring homelessness and associated emotional distress — self-respect. Getting a conventional job is insanely difficult if you’re also dealing with homelessness.

I think this is a wonderful idea. I’m looking forward to reading the news off of the UK’s streets.

Via: ShinyShiny