Apple yesterday unveiled a new iPad with a higher resolution display and an updated version of the Apple TV box used to stream movies, TV shows and other content from the internet to TV sets.
The new iPad screen features 264 pixels per inch, providing the best display ever on a mobile device; Apple executives said during a product presentation in San Francisco broadcast live to reporters in London.
Speaking via a video link from California, the company’s CEO Tim Cook said: “It is amazing; we’re taking it to a whole new level”.
The new iPad – the third version of the touchscreen tablet computer introduced in April 2010 – also features a five-megapixel camera and high-definition video recording.
The new Apple TV box will sell for the same $99 price as the previous model.
Donovan refuses Eurovision
Jason Donovan said he “declined” the chance to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest this year.
The Australian actor and singer told Heart FM he was approached after coming third in the Strictly Come Dancing final last year.
Jason, who is co-presenting the breakfast show on the station all week, said:
“Unofficially, I was asked this year to represent the UK at Eurovision.
They actually came up to me and said would I be interested and I declined.
“Not because Eurovision is what it is, it’s more about the fact that having just come off Strictly and feeling like I was under a bit of a microscope, I didn’t really want to go through that experience again.
Veteran crooner Engelbert Humperdinck, who gave a live performance in Malta last December, was chosen by the BBC as the UK entry for the contest.
The 75-year-old star, who famously held The Beatles off number one in 1967, follows boy band Blue who finished 11th last year, behind Ireland’s Jedward.
‘Disturbing and misogynistic’
A video on a luxury lingerie website featuring women in stockings and long boots posing sexually and apparently attacking another woman has prompted complaints – claiming it was “disturbing and misogynistic”.
The advertisement on Agent Provocateur’s website featured a woman in a nightgown answering the telephone before several other women dragged the woman through a house and appeared to attack her body before she reappeared wearing similar revealing lingerie.
One viewer said she believed the advertisement, produced to support the online launch of the brand’s new Soiree 2011-2012 collection, was “disturbing and misogynistic”, the advertising watchdog said, although the luxury underwear company defended the film, saying it was “a unique take on the horror genre with a signature Agent Provocateur sensibility and eroticism”.
German squad pays respects
The Germany squad for June’s Euro 2012, to be co-hosted by Poland and the Ukraine, has been urged to visit one of those countries’ Holocaust memorials by the chairman of Germany’s Central Council for Jews.
Germany will be based in the Polish city of Gdansk for Euro 2012, which starts on June 8, and Dieter Graumann, the chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, says the team must pay their respects to the Holocaust’s victims.
Anti-Semitism recently hit the headlines after Kaiserslautern’s Israel striker Itay Shechter was the victim of a verbal attack by a group of the club’s fans ten days ago following a heavy German league defeat.
“The Shechter case made headlines in Israel,” Mr Graumann, 61, told German magazine Sport Bild.