The in-air mouse from Hillcrest Labs is targeted at users who connect their Mac or PC to a television set. Also, Shion home-automation software and the MAPublisher plug-in suite for Illustrator saw updates Monday.

“You won’t find a more powerful 15-inch notebook that’s this easy to carry,” reports Jeffrey L. Wilson (laptopmag.com) in his review of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro. The notebook, he says, “offers plenty of processing power and graphics muscle, as well as lengthy battery life, which makes it an outstanding system for heavy-duty content creation in the office or on the go.”

Apple today release updated versions of Java for both Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The update contains several fixes for vulnerabilities which could allow Java applets to gain increased privileges and the ability to execute malicious code.

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 - 158 MB

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and later.

This release updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_13, J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_19, and J2SE 1.4.2 to 1.4.2_21.

For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3581

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 - 80MB

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 delivers improved reliability, security and compatibility for J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and later.

This release updates J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_19 and J2SE 1.4.2 to version 1.4.2_21.

For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3593.

Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone

Update 4: I am working with an AT&T spokesperson to try to detangle the contradictory information discussed below. No results as yet, but will update when that becomes possible.

Update 5: The prepaid crackdown for iPhone applies to only some prepaid plans. PayAsYouGo GoPhone customers will be affected but not PickYourPlan GoPhone customers, who will be safe from service degradation. Brad Mays of AT&T tells TUAW that they are briefing their reps to better convey the distinction to customers.

Similar carrier restrictions are apparently not limited to the United States. TUAW reader Robin forwarded a screenshot from the UK, which directs customers to this O2 information page. Customers are being urged to change from normal prepaid plans to an authorized O2 iPhone tariff.

Update 6: Brad Mays emphasizes that PAYG customers do not have an official iPhone Data Plan and that PickYourPlan data "is necessary to make the 3.0 software work properly with their device". PAYG customers are directed to this page for more information. He added, "[O]ur reps are now fully aligned around this information."

TUAW reader Daniel B. called AT&T today and writes that he was offered a prepaid PYP option with a $30 iPhone data plan. This is the first we've heard of PYP prepaid accounts being offered, believing AT&T would no longer provide this option. I have, once again, contacted Mays to see what's going on.

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I just spent the last half hour on the phone with AT&T, and I can't quite believe what I heard.

I am an AT&T customer, and have been so since the weekend that the iPhone debuted. I am on an official iPhone GoPhone plan. I have paid monthly for two years and am up to date on said payments. After two years, AT&T now tells me that I will either begin a new contract on my existing equipment, or lose access to a reliable data plan.

My jaw is dragging the floor.

When TUAW reader Daniel Burkholder tipped us off this afternoon, I thought he was somehow misled by the text message that appeared on his iPhone. It reads:

AT&T Free MSG: A new software upgrade for iPhone will be available on 6/17. This upgrade may affect your data service. Please visit att.com/iphone or call 800-901-9878 for a representative. If you download the software and are not on an approved iPhone data plan, your data service will be interrupted.

So I called, despite the fact that I am on an approved data plan. Sure, my account is grandfathered in, and new iPhone 3G purchasers can no longer get GoPhone activation (click the "New to AT&T" link to see the relevant section), but it's never been an issue.

I was told that AT&T was asking customers to move to a contract plan as they no longer plan to support prepaid data. "This is a recommendation," the technical support person told me. "If you decide not to go, it's okay but we're informing customers that service will not be up to par."

I asked if they were deliberately cutting out GoPhone customers from full Internet access (and mind you, I asked this in several ways, at least three or four times), and was told 'Yes.' "This will affect logging onto the Internet and using your data services."

How will they detect this? According to the technical representative, their equipment will be checking the SIM and using the account information when accessing AT&T's data services. "Based on your plan, you will not receive the same quality service on your GoPhone plan, even with the same equipment. This is a technical change on AT&T's end on how we service that data plan." Gotcha -- so nothing at all to do with the 3.0 OS upgrade, but merely a convenient point of transition.

I pushed further, asking whether I could move to a postpaid plan without invoking a two-year contract as I already fully owned my equipment and had been a customer for two years on my current plan. "You will have to enter a new contract as this service change is not compatible with the iPhone prepaid. You cannot enter a postpaid contract without a two year commitment."

The technician pointed out that "the iPhone has drastically cut prices" on recent models. I responded that my 2G iPhone was working fine. He pointed out that this was an official AT&T policy and that they have decided that "all prepaid customers should transfer into a contract plan for the iPhone."

I asked him to point me to an official policy statement but he said at this time only the text messages going out are available as official communications with customers. "This is an official iPhone advisory. We are informing customers by text messages."

So this is how AT&T rewards me for two years of customer loyalty: I either have to start paying up another $20+ per month and commit to two years of additional service (without any further breaks on equipment or contract terms, if I don't choose to buy a 3G S right now), or accept that I'm going to be paying good money each month for a plan with substandard data service. Based on the fact that the data pinching will happen deliberately on AT&T's end, I'd call it a strongarm approach and a rotten way to treat customers.

It's one thing, if you're going to make a change in the terms of service for an admittedly legacy (but still perfectly usable) service plan, to clearly communicate customer options well ahead of the transition date, and to work with loyal users to find accommodations that satisfy. It's quite another thing to lower the boom with two days warning: upgrade or suffer.

Update Official statement here, which does not yet shed any further light on the matter. Developing.

Update 2 Three different AT&T reps checked my *specific* plan using my account information, which is the original iPhone GoPhone plan and said that yes, I would be affected and that no, this didn't just affect people who stuck SIMs into iPhones

Update 3 We have a query into AT&T PR that has not yet been replied to, asking why service reps are giving information that seems out of line with the statement

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Apple ha appena rilasciato un aggiornamento di Java, per Mac OS X 10.5 e 10.4, disponibile come di consueto mediante Aggiornamento Software.

L’aggiornamento, della dimensione di 158 Mb per Leopard e 80,11 per Tiger, è accompagnato dalla seguente nota:

Aggiornamento 4 di Java per Mac OS X 10.5 fornisce miglioramenti alla sicurezza e alla compatibilità di Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 e J2SE 1.4.2 in Mac OS X 10.5.7 e versioni successive. Questa release aggiorna Java SE 6 alla versione 1.6.0_13, J2SE 5.0 alla versione 1.5.0_19 e J2SE 1.4.2 alla versione 1.4.2_21.

Prima di installare l’aggiornamento, esci da tutti i browser web.

Ulteriori informazioni sull’aggiornamento sono disponibili nell’apposita pagina di supporto Apple.

[Grazie a zampo per la segnalazione]

Apple is feverishly testing final implementations of Push Notifications while developers have begun pushing out application updates which contain the ability to receive Push Notifications in iPhone OS 3.0 which is due for release Wednesday June 17th.

Last week Apple began a second round of high-volume Push Notification testing following a week testing the APNews app, Apple has now begun asking developers to test the AIM instant messaging application.

As a developer actively working with iPhone OS, we would like your help in a private tes of the Apple Push Notification service. For this test, we have selected AOL’s AIM Developer Preview for iPhone OS 3.0 to create a high-volume test environment for our servers.

To participate, we ask that you follow these steps:



1. Download AIM Developer Preview for iPhone OS 3.0 from the iTunes Store via your desktop by entering this unique redemption code in the ‘Redeem’ section of iTunes, found under the ‘Quick Links’ section:



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Note: the functionality of the application will expire in seven days.

2. Install the application on a development device running iPhone OS 3.0 GM Seed by synching it to iTunes. This application can only be installed on devices running iPhone OS 3.0 GM Seed.



3. Launch the application and accept to receive Push Notifications when prompted. You can log in with any existing AOL, AIM, .mac or MobileMe account.

4. If you do not receive notifications from the app within 48 hours after installation, let us know.

This week Tapulous released an update to Tap Tap Revenge 2 which features Push Notifications. A video of notifications has been posted on YouTube whilst anyone with iPhone OS 3.0 and the update app will see the basic infrastructure (pictured below).

iPhorest lets you grow a virtual tree on your iPhone. While there's not much to the app itself, the more important aspect is that developer iPhactory works with The Conservation Fund to plant a real tree for each version of iPhorest sold.

Apple ha rilasciato un aggiornamento software per Java disponibile per i sistemi operativi Tiger e Leopard. L’update ha un peso di 80,11 MB per Tiger e 158 MB per Leopard. Riporta la seguente nota:

“Aggiornamento 4 di Java per Mac OS X 10.5 fornisce miglioramenti alla sicurezza e alla compatibilità di Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 e J2SE 1.4.2 in Mac OS X 10.5.7 e versioni successive. Questa release aggiorna Java SE 6 alla versione 1.6.0_13, J2SE 5.0 alla versione 1.5.0_19 e J2SE 1.4.2 alla versione 1.4.2_21.

Prima di installare l’aggiornamento, esci da tutti i browser web.

Ulteriori informazioni su questo aggiornamento sono disponibili sul sito web: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3581?viewlocale=it_IT“.

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