Year: 2010

The iPhone 3GS captured 39% of iPhone OS requests in the latest AdMob report for March, followed by the 2nd generation iPod touch (25%) and the iPhone 3G (20%). The two most recent versions of the iPhone OS generate 86% of the traffic. In March 2010, 44% of iPhone OS traffic came from devices running iPhone OS 3.1.3 and 42% from iPhone OS 3.1.2.

Most Japanese consumer electronics discount stores have halted online sales of iPods, iMacs and other Apple products, apparently at the request of US Apple, reports “MarketWatch” (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-retailers-halt-online-sales-of-apple-goods-2010-04-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp).

The criminal probe into Apple’s “misplaced” iPhone prototype is expected to broaden, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told “CNET” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003477-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20).

San Mateo County’s investigation may expand beyond Gawker Media’s Gizmodo.com, which acknowledged buying the prototype for US$5,000, and the unknown person who sold it to the gadget blog, the source said. Police obtained a warrant to search a Gizmodo editor’s home on Friday evening.

Panic has updated its Transmit FTP client (http://www.panic.com/transmit) to version 4.0, which offers a speed boost, streamlined interface and more.

With the new Transmit Disk feature, you can now mount any of your favorites in the Finder itself, even if Transmit’s not running. You can drag files to your SFTP server, save a small graphic to your Amazon S3 bucket directly from Photoshop, or roll your own iDisk-like backup volume.

Transmit 4.0 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 or later and costs US$$34. Upgrades from version 3.x are $19.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate a multi-touth related patent infringement complaint against Apple filed by Taiwain’s Elan Microelectronics.