Patent wars continuation, Google gives HTC new patents

Google is silently working against Apple. This time the search engine giant has in a new round of patent litigation battles sold some important patents originating in Motorola, Palm and Openwave to Taiwanese HTC. HTC will use this as a tool against Apple and will sue Cupertino company as soon as possible on patent infringement. The future lawsuit will point to such technologies as wireless software upgrades, storage of user preferences, data communication between microprocessor and supporting chips and other as clear patent infringements commited by Apple and their products and services including, iPhone, iPad, Mac, iTunes and iCloud.

Foxconn making 150,000 iPhone 5 devices daily

According to a story published in Digi Times Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn is pushing out as many as 150,000 iPhone 5 devices daily. Such numbers are staggering and it could mean that Apple wants to get around 6 million devices in September. Other manufacturing partners of Apple are also working at full speed in order to supply Foxconn with all hardware needed for iPhone 5 assembly lines.

Facebook releases upgraded version of their iOS app

Facebook has again upgraded their own Facebook app for Apple’s iOS mobile devices. This new upgrade has introduced a lot of new features like tagging of images, sharing links and a complete redesign of the “Wall” option for Groups and Profiles.

With this app you will connect far easier with your contacts and share what is new and trendy with you friends. You can use you iPhone or iPod Touch to enjoy in Facebook chat, browse your friends photo galleries or upload your own images whenever you capture them. Facebook has finally upgraded the privacy controls for status upgrades so you can choose the group which will see your posts.

iPad apps for children: Monster Coloring Book

Here is a new app which can be very useful for your parenting efforts. Monster Coloring Book is an app containing a number of funny looking monsters which can be colored with your finger tips or simply filled by tapping on some part of the monster. You can show your kid how to use a variety of patterns, colors and brushes in most interesting ways. Of course you can also adjust the size of your brush and all creations can be saved in a single gallery. Your kids creations can be later shared, exported or printed on demand. While your kid is drawing it can also listen to some classical music which is available within this app.

Apple prepares their Apple Store staff for the launch of iOS 5 and iCloud

Most famous Cupertino company has started training their Store personel about iOS 5 and iCloud according to latest Apple rumors. The trainig is supposedly taken through their own corporate app called Retail Me.

In previous cases Apple has always connected the release of their hardware with a launch of a new iOS version. And more often than not training of their sales force was done just in time before the product launch, which in most cases meant 10 – 15 days before the official release date. If this will be same this time, then we could see the next iPhone model earlier than October as we expected previously.

No iPad killer in sight

Samsung, RIM, HP are some of the world class companies which have among others tried to create an iPad “killer”. So far none of them have made any real success, and most of them are simply struggling to capture a very small percentage of the market. According to story published in UK’s Guardian, Samsung has sold only a small number of their Galaxy S tablets, less than 1% of their manufacturing output. We’ve also seen that nobody can really undercut iPad‘s price. On the other hand Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has launched their JetStream Android tablet device which is available for $700 with an AT&T contract. And while the deal is interesting many analysts doubt that it can become a treat for Apple’s overarching dominance.

Apple’s iCloud adds Find my Friend service for their users

Apple’s iCloud system will soon add a new social network like friend finding service according to latest Apple rumors. The rumor comes from an observation of an HTML code for Mobile Me which included link to this new networking service.

The person which disclosed this has checked the code and located the reference to Find my Friends option. Code also includes other widely popular and used social networking services like followers, pending followers, status updates, following options and so on.

RedSn0w upgraded,Dev Team’s jailbreak now works on iOS 5 beta 7

iPhone Dev Team has again made our day! This time they have released an upgraded version of RedSn0w, one of the best jailbreaking apps available today which is able to easily jailbreak Apple’s latest version of iOS 5 b7. Apple is working at full speed and only a couple of days ago they have seeded iOS 5 beta 6 and now they have again upgraded iOS 5 in order to prepare everything for the final launch which should be this month.

Power outage alarm app for iPhone

Natural or man made disaster are something which has haunted our species for a long time. Be it earthquake like those in Japan, Hurricanes like the one which recently hit States, riots lke UK or anything else you will do good if you prepare yourself as much as possible. Every effort you take could mean the difference between life and death for you and your loved ones.

Amazon prepares a new tablet with a forked version of Android

Amazon has revealed their plans for a new Android tablet device. It seems that this “Kindle” tablet could be the first serious iPad competitor. One of the best moves Amazon will try out is the pricing of this new tablet. According to Tech Crunch, the price should be $250 for a 7” tablet. So far iPad competitors have tried to follow the prices setup by Apple but the demand by customers was very low.