Amazon working on new smartphone

According to the latest rumors in smartphone industry, Jeff Bezos and his team of designers and engineers are apparently working on a smartphone device of their own. Apart from releasing an Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, Amazon wants to further tap into the mobile computing market by building their own smartphone. This device is built with assistance from Foxconn, and should become an affordable alternative to Apple’s iPhone.

Google launches Google Music

Google has today announced the release of their latest service which could become quite a useful service for Android users. Google Music will enable users on Andpoird smartphones and tablets to browse, purchase, and share their audio content.

According to their statement, this brand new service will help users to enjoy more time in listening their audio files and less in managing it. Every song you purchase will be synced automatically and therefore available on all of your devices. So you wont need to worry about hard disk space, cables or similar things. You only need to connect your device and it will sync your music files to your computers, tablets and smartphones. You can even select which songs you want to listen before you go offline, so it becomes available on your device without wasting your expensive data connection.

Netflix refreshing their iPad app with improved UI and aditional content

Netflix has finally decided to redesign their Netflix iPad app at the same time with the upgrade of the same app for Android tablets, which includes Amazons Kindle Fire tablet and Barnes and Noble Nook tablet.

According to the statement of Zal Bilimoria, who is the manager of mobile products for Netflix, they have created a completely different user experience which is now much more immersive and helps users to choose among a significantly larger offer of titles in their catalog. The new catalog which comes with the upgrade offers as many as twice more different shows and movies, than what was available before. This upgrade also features a significant improvement in using iPad specific features. So now you can easily swipe through different rows of movies and shows represented with larger and better looking icons.

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs wanted Apple to be carrier for iPhone

Apple is quite a unique company and one of their basic strategies which proved extremely successful so far was to provide customer experience from the beginning to the end. This is one of the reasons Apple is building it’s own hardware devices, developing it’s unique operative system like Mac OS and iOS and sells their products and services in their Apple Stores.

Apple store training video leaked to the public

Apple is indeed a great company with a lot of great products and services which make things better in this troubled world. Nevertheless Apple is still a company and therefore prone to failures from time to time. Here is an example of a slight but somewhat embarrassing training video for Apple store employees. We are somehow sure it wasn’t meant for the outside world but as things go, it has somehow surfaced and provided ammunition to many Apple haters out there. Here is the video so you can see for yourself.

Amazon works on a Siri competitor

Amazon obviously sees Apple as a strong competitor, which isn’t that strange after all since we see Apple turning into a strong content provider with their App Store and iTunes. Amazon has obviously recognized the fact that Siri is a changing point, perhaps as much as touch screen was only a couple of years ago. And not surprisinlgy Google is also afraid of Siri, as its former CEO Eric Schmidt admits in a recent Senate hearing.

Facebooks founder received advices from Steve Jobs

Mark Zuckerberg talked with and received advices from late Steve Jobs on Facebook and its future. Would you believe in a such statement, as it sounds quite incredibly?Tech news magazines and blogs are full of stories about the giants: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft clash against each other as they fight for the heart and minds of users around the globe. It seems that despite this Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook was wise enough to take step aside and learn from one of the greatest business leaders of our times, Steve Jobs. As he revealed in a recent interview, he wasn’t afraid or ashamed to say that he had a lot of questions for Jobs. He wanted to learn from the number one about building quality and providing best services to users, which is something Apple is well known about. He also discussed about designs, aesthetics and missions of today’s large companies.

New Apple TV screensaver

Apple is well known by superior designing capabilities and great user interfaces in their devices. And from time to time they tend to release a small but really nice feature for their products or services. Not surprisingly, this happened with their last upgrade for Apple TV too. They have added an interesting screensaver named PhotoWall. If you choose this screensaver, your Apple TV will rotate your photos in different frames sliding slowly across your TV screen. It looks quite nice, and we bet many users will agree with us.

iCloud introduces “Drop Box” like syncing for Mac users

It seems that iCloud will enable “Drop Box” like document sharing for Mobile Documents. Short exploration of / Library directory reveals that it contains a Mobile Documents folder . This folder will be probably used for syncing your documents created with iWork. Another great news is that this wont be restricted to iWorks docs anymore, especially if you need to access files only across your Mac computers.

Hulu Plus comes to Apple TV?

The app for Hulu Plus is already made and works perfectly for Apple TV. All features are working as expected and Apple has prepared everything except one important issue. It seems that now Apple is evaluating the need for this app and that some factions inside the company actually oppose the release of this app.