New Apple ad for iPod Touch released

Apple has launched another nice looking ad. This time they wanted to promote latest iPod Touch model. The theme of the ad is: ‘Share the Fun’. iPod Touch is a device clearly designated for having fun and playing games and the add puts a heavy accent on that aspects of the device. You can see young people using Face Time, tweeting, iMessage texting, playing games and much more. Just as it is in the real life.

Brazilian iPhone’s appearing on the market

Apple is trying hard to move some of iPhone producing plants into Brazil, and now it seems that at least some small number of Brazilian made iPhones had reached the market. According to a Brazilian Mac oriented website Mac Magazine, here are some pictures of these new iPhone’s. Keep in mind that the whole story is unofficially at the time we are writing this. On the back of the device instead of the usual ‘Made in China’ designation there is a different one: ‘Brazilian industry’. The label is written in Brazilian Portuguese. Another clue confirming this is that the model number includes ‘BR’ which is abbreviation for Brazil at the end of it.

Use Siri to start your car

Could you imagine only a couple of days ago that you could start your car with Siri and your iPhone? It is hard to believe how fast is technology developing these days. It is also interesting how users are tweaking and adjusting already available technologies in creative and unsuspecting ways.

Apple becoming the largest vendor of personal computers

Apple has achieved phenomenal growth during the last couple of years. Besides ruling the market with their iOS devices including smartphones like iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, Apple is also absolutely dominant on the tablet market with their iPad tablets. Now latest reports and predictions point that Apple will soon rise above all competitors in the PC industry, including HP. These predictions came from Canalys, a well known analyst company which included tablets in the PC industry with remarks about tablet computing changing the world of PC’s. Their data shows that Apple had scored growth levels going up from 9% to 15% during the last four quarters only.

Microsoft talks about Siri

In recent interview, head of Microsoft’s research department Craig Mundie comments on Siri, new voice assistant app recently launched by Apple. He claims that Siri is not an original idea at all and that Richmond company already had such an app for Windows Phone 7 called TellMe.

With TellMe you can easily create a text messages to one of your contacts through voice to speech technology. You can also do your web searches on Microsoft’s own search engine Bing, with your voice input only. According to Mundie, TellMe is just as good as Siri and more importantly, it is available for already a year now.

Siri can find out if a plane is flying above your place

You can do an amazing list of things with your iPhone, and the list just keeps growing. Siri, the new voice assistant app for iOS has added a completely new set of capabilities to your favourite smartphone and among other things you can now do, believe it or not you can find out with Siri’s help if a plane is flying above your location.

How does it achieve this? Apparently Siri uses your iPhone GPS and Wolfram Alpha ‘Computational Knowledge Engine’ to find out the distance, altitude and speed of every airplane flying near your exact location. To find out this, you only have to ask Siri for Wolfram flights and you’ll get plenty of data about flights nearby.

Samsung ad makes fun out of Apple fan culture

South Korean electronics giant takes another jab at Apple, this time aiming at the famous Apple fan culture. Their goal is probably to undermine mystic of Apple products by representing Apple fans as lemmings waiting for a new iPhone while a better device by Samsung is available to everyone, without long waiting lines. The ad itself does not specifically name iPhone 4S as it’s target, instead it features long line of Apple fans waiting for many hours even before the store opens. You can even hear someone mentioning the battery life issue on iPhone 4S.

Subscription based iPad games now available

This is the first time Apple decided to allow subscription based games to enter into the app store. The first such pack of games added to app store were games made by Big Fish Games. All games in their pack became available at only $6.99 monthly. This subscription based mode of payment was officially available since last year but this is the first time some company has decided to take this route.

Apple delays release of iOS 5.0.2

Apple was expected to release iOS 5.0.2 as a sequel in the long quest to squash the pesky battery drain bug which appeared with iOS 5.0. But it seems that Apple’s engineering task force has yet again stumbled upon some unsuspecting bugs which will take more time to solve than previously expected. It seems that the mayor change which iOS 5.0 certainly was, was a rather hard nut to crack due to a bunch of completely new services iOS 5.0 includes like: iCloud, Siri, iTunes Match and others. To weave such a complex framework in a coherent and stable operative system, took Apple quite some time and a number of beta releases. But nonetheless, not everything was functioning flawlessly which was realized especially after the battery life bug rose its ugly head on iPhones runing on iOS 5.0.

Apple releases iPad 2 commercial: Love

A new commercial by Apple has just being launched And as with all previous commercial by Apple it is short, warm and goes straight to the point. It is all about love!