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Solar Farm at North Carolina Data Center Designer iPhone 4 Cases
| The North Carolina Utilities Commission today officially approved (Designer iPhone 4 Cases) Apple's proposal to construct a 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in Maiden, North Carolina.
The Public Staff presented this matter to the Commission at its Regular Staff Conference on May 14, 2012. The Public Staff recommended that the Commission approve the application and issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity for construction of a 20 MW solar photovoltaic electric generating facility to be located at 6028 Startown Road, Maiden, North Carolina.
After careful consideration, the Commission finds good cause to approve the application and issue the attached certificate of public convenience and necessity for the proposed 20 MW solar photovoltaic electric generating facility. Previous filings with federal regulators have indicated that Apple Designer iPhone 4 Cases plans to have the solar farm installed by November 1, with operation to begin by December 21.
Apple signaled its intentions to build a data center at the site last October, moving to clear and grade the land as it sought approval for the project. The company publicly unveiled its plans back in February, noting that the facility will be the largest user-owned solar array in the United States. A separate 5-megawatt fuel cell facility is also under development at the site and is proceeding through a parallel regulatory approval process.
The official proposal was filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission on Designer iPhone 4 Cases 15, and was subjected to staff review of the plans, a public notice and comment period, and input from the State Clearinghouse on environmental and other issues. With that information in hand, the Commission offered its official approval this past Monday and finalized the certificate issuance today.
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Posted: 7:30 PM, 5/17/2012 |
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Nevada Casinos Watching for Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case-Toting Card Counters
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Nevada Gaming Control Board has alerted the state's casinos to the existence of card-counting programs for the Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case and iPod touch. Card counting is a strategy for card games mostly commonly applied to blackjack in which a player tracks the values of cards being played to determine when the cards remaining to be dealt are more likely to be in the player's favor, and adjusts his or her betting accordingly.
Card counting is not illegal in Nevada casinos. However, using a device to aid in the counting of cards is considered a felony under Nevada laws governing cheating, control board member Randy Sayre said.
Gamblers using the Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case card-counting program can be detained by casino operators and arrested by state gaming agents.
While the specific application described in the alert was not identified in the news article, the description of the application suggests that it may be A Blackjack Card Counter [App Store]:
The program uses four different strategies for card counting. It also operates in the "stealth mode," in which the phone's screen is shut off. The program can be run effortlessly without detection as long as the user knows where the keys are.
The Nevada gaming commission was tipped off to the existence of card-counting Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases applications by the California Bureau of Gambling Control, and although the Nevada board has not received any reports from casinos about players using the applications, they decided to alert the state's casinos in order to raise awareness of the issue. |
Posted: 8:38 PM, 4/30/2012 |
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Apple has finally caught up with iPad 2 demand
A scant 4 months after they were released, Apple has finally caught up with iPad 2 demand. The US Store now lists shipping times of 1-3 business days for the items, the same for other Apple products that aren¡¯t constrained. Apple still constrains purchases to 1-2 per order and many overseas stores still list 3-5 days or longer, however.
Fortune notes that shipping times were stuck at 1-2 weeks from mid-April to July 8, when they were cut to 3-5 days.
Earlier this week, Apple let educational affiliates know that iPads were eligible for Affiliate Development fund, an early sign that supply was caught up with demand (below)iPhone 4 Cases|iPhone 4 Covers|iPhone 5 Cases |
Posted: 10:19 PM, 7/22/2011 |
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Apple has finally caught up with iPad 2 demand
A scant 4 months after they were released, Apple has finally caught up with iPad 2 demand. The US Store now lists shipping times of 1-3 business days for the items, the same for other Apple products that aren¡¯t constrained. Apple still constrains purchases to 1-2 per order and many overseas stores still list 3-5 days or longer, however.
Fortune notes that shipping times were stuck at 1-2 weeks from mid-April to July 8, when they were cut to 3-5 days.
Earlier this week, Apple let educational affiliates know that iPads were eligible for Affiliate Development fund, an early sign that supply was caught up with demand (below)iPhone 4 Cases|iPhone 4 Covers|iPhone 5 Cases |
Posted: 10:18 PM, 7/22/2011 |
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ITC rules: HTC violated two of Apple¡¯s patents
CNET reports that the International Trade Commission has officially ruled that phone maker HTC has violated two of Apple’s patents related to iPhone technologies. This blow to HTC opens the door to a potential ban on imports of HTC products into the United States. Apple initially filed 10 patent violations against HTC, but increased that amount by five earlier this week. HTC obviously does not agree with the ITC ruling and provided the following statement:
HTC will vigorously fight these two remaining patents through an appeal before the ITC commissioners who make the final decision,” said Grace Lei, general counsel for HTC. “This is only one step of many in these legal proceedings.
As we know, Apple and Samsung (and Motorola too) are currently in a similar situation with Apple claiming multiple patent violations against the company. The twist in the Apple and Samsung case is that Samsung is counter-suing by claiming that Apple is violating Samsung’s patents.
There are only a few possibile endings if Apple wins HTC case. Either the two companies settle (with Apple taking home some more of HTC’s money – Microsoft already takes $5/phone and Oracle is looking for some more) or HTC stops selling Android devices. In all likelihood, if the ITC does not agree with HTC’s appeal, the two technology heavy weights will work out some settlement. Cha Ching!
More on the patents below:
MacRumors follows with specific information on the patents:
These are the two patents the judge feels are being infringed:
- U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a “system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data.”
- U.S. Patent No. 6,343,263 on a “data transmission system having a real-time data engine for processing isochronous streams of data includes an interface device that provides a physical and logical connection of a computer to any one or more of a variety of different types of data networks.”
Both of these patents are at issue in the lawsuits between Apple and Motorola as well.iPhone 5 Covers|Designer iPhone 4 Cases |Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|LV iPhone 4 Cases |
Posted: 10:10 PM, 7/22/2011 |
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Apple begins test production of A6 processor with TSMC, a blow to Samsung
According to Reuters, Apple and Taiwan-based manufacturer TSMC have begun a test production run of A6 processors for future Apple devices. TSMC is yet to be confirmed as the producer of Apple¡¯s A6 chip when it ships sometime in the future, but the decision is said to be ¡°authorized.¡± The only thing holding back the deal is the potential yield rate of the manufacturing.
Besides Apple already testing production of their next-generation processor, the most interesting part is that Apple will apparently move their custom chip production away from Samsung. Samsung is the company behind the manufacturing of the A5 dual-core processor that is found in the iPad 2. This A5 chip will also likely power the fifth-generation iPhone that is due in September of this year.
Apple¡¯s A6 processor will likely debut in 2012 alongside a 3rd generation iPad. Apple¡¯s past history has shown that the iPad is the first device to feature a new-generation of custom processors. The iPhone and iPod touch typically follow up months later with the same chip, usually custom designed for the smaller, more mobile form factor. Another possibility is that Apple will beef up the processor in the iPad, with the rumored ¡®iPad HD¡¯ in September.Gucci iPhone 4 Cases|Chanel iPhone 4 Cases|Burberry iPhone 4 Cases |
Posted: 10:09 PM, 7/22/2011 |
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Rumor: iPhone 5 not arriving soon because the A5 chip is overheating?
We¡¯re taking this one with a healthy dose of skepticism (and so should you) and purely for the sake of the discussion. Straight from Chinese-language site Sohu.com comes a story of an iPhone 5 delay blamed on the A5 chip overheating. If machine translation is to be believed, that¡¯s why Apple pushed back the next iPhone launch from the usual June-July timeframe into the late August-early September timeframe. The story has it that Apple¡¯s silicon team is facing difficulties keeping the dual-core A5 chip cool in the iPhone¡¯s tiny enclosure where space and battery are at premium.
This has led the company to postpone the iPhone 5 launch for an unspecified period of time, but quite possibly into 2012. And there you have it, the iPhone 5 ¨C described as a major, ¡°revolutionary¡± upgrade ¨C won¡¯t arrive ¡°soon¡±. The story also mentions that Apple will be transitioning to a 28-nanometer manufacturing process with the A6 chip, apparently due next year. The A5 chip that goes into iPad 2 is manufactured on Samsung¡¯s 45-nanometer process and is almost twice the size of the iPhone 4¡äs A4 processor. If there¡¯s any substance to this story, what then (if anything) will Apple release come this Fall?
The author speculates that the venerable iPhone 4S ¨C a modest upgrade from iPhone 4 ¨C will keep fans busy until Apple¡¯s engineers find a solution to overheating woes. Insiders mentioned in the story re-iterate many of the iPhone 4S specs the blogosphere has already chewed upon, such as an eight-megapixel camera, a Gorilla glass display, likely a dual-core chip (could this be a dual-core variant of the iPhone 4¡äs A4?) and ¡°4G network¡± support. Now, the claim of the A6 production on a 28-nanometer process in 2012 somewhat jive with an EETimes report from March. Per that piece, Apple was abandoning Samsung and moving silicon manufacturing to rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and their 28-nanometer process. It is interesting to note that Samsung¡¯s disappointing earnings guidance and losses at their LCD panel and manufacturing divisions could indicate that Apple may have been sourcing parts from alternative suppliers for weeks, if not months. Summing up, we here at 9to5Mac are unsure about how reputable this report is and without it being in native tongue, it is difficult to get a sense of how credible it is.Louis Vuitton iPad 2 Cases|Gucci iPad 2 Cases|Chanel iPad 2 Cases |
Posted: 9:56 PM, 7/22/2011 |
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