Hotmail benefits largely from iOS 5

It seems that iOS 5 upgrade has benefited Microsoft on a large scale. It remains to be seen is this just a side effect of improving user experience, or is it a part of Apple’s plan for cutting into Google’s market. We really think that Apple isn’t particularly happy with Google and their adventures with Android OS, and if you are a frequent reader on our blog, you will remember Apple’s late founder Steve Jobs was enraged with Android OS claiming that it is only a copy of iOS. Apple has made an additional effort, making it easier for iPhone users to create and use Hotmail email accounts. It comes as a surprise that Microsoft, as the Richmond company said earlier, sees more than 100k new users daily. Most of new Hotmail users are actually iOS users running the new iOS 5 and interestingly most of them are iPhone users.

Apple’s latest wonder Siri suffers from outages

iPhone 4S, the latest iPhone model launched recently features Siri, which could be the biggest thing in tech world this year. Siri is an voice assistance app which proved as a great tool for iPhone 4S owners in many different and unsuspected areas. But it seems that now Apple has encountered some kind of problems, as the app suffers from long outages. How is this issue manifesting itself? Simply: if you ask Siri some question and receive the vague answer to try to reconnect to the network, you’ll know something is wrong. First reports came in from users on Thursday and the outage still continues at the time we wrote this.

iOS 5 beta released to fix for battery lifetime for iPhone 4S

Apple has publicly acknowledged the battery issue which appeared on many new iPhone 4S devices. They have also said that a task force of engineers is working on a permanent solution for this problem. According to their statement they have found a possible bug in IOS 5 which can shorten the battery lifetime and a solution for this will be available in the next iOS update which should be available to iOS 5 users in next couple of weeks.

Samsung counter attack: Apple to turn over source code for iPhone 4S

South Korean consumer electronics has just announced its demands to Apple to publish iPhone 4S source code and also Apple’s agreements with large Australian telecommunications companies. It seems that Samsungs lawyers intend to claim that Apple has breached a number of Samsung patents in the area of wireless technology.

Samsung legal counselor, Cynthia Cochrain said that Samsung needs the above mentioned source code and the contracts between Cupertino company and most influential Australian telecommunication companies to take further legal steps in their case against Apple.

iPhone 4S released to next 22 countries worldwide

Apple has just released its latest iPhone model, the super popular iPhone 4S. Now they have launched the device in 22 additional countries globally. Here is the list of countries which now officially have iPhone 4S as an option for smartphone users.

Here is the list of these 22 countries:

Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain,Switzerland, Czech Republic,  Finland,  Latvia, Mexico,  Norway,  Slovenia,  Sweden,  Hungary, Netherlands and Ireland.

Congratulations to Apple fans in those above mentioned countries! You’ll get the chance to enjoy in the best smartphone available on the market. And do not forget that you can jailbreak your new device if you choose to do so!

Apple working on battery life issues with iPhone 4S

Almost immediately after iPhone 4S became available to users we heard different stories and complains on battery life with iPhone 4S. If you remember, despite many iOS users being slightly disappointed with iPhone 4S it still reached unbelievably high demand reaching the status of most wanted iOS device so far. When announcing iPhone 4S, one of Apple’s highlights was its longer battery life. But after the device was released into the real world, complaints started to flow in.

Apple researching remote 3D gestures for iOS devices

It seems that Apple is continuing their restless run for new techno wonders for their superb iOS devices. Now they investigate concepts which are light years ahead of their competition. According to this news they are exploring a completely new field: hands free remote controlling for iOS devices. This could easily become a new game changer and was revealed thanks to a patent application by Cupertino, California company.

Apple patents the Slide To Unlock

US patent system is confusing, slow and often hard to understand. As a result, many inventors spend years before they are granted with legal protection for their intellectual property. No matter what the size of the company is, the system is rigid and it took long time for Apple to get a patent for their well known “slide to unlock” touchscreen unlock gesture.

Apple preparing iTunes Match for release?

Apple has notified all iOS developers about their plans for resetting all iTunes Match accounts today. Apple has announced that this measure is necessary for improvement of the quality and stability of this new service. Complete reset of iCloud data isn’t something new as Apple did this already in a number of occasions while testing and releasing iOS 5 and iCloud beta versions.

To remind you, iTunes Match was planned as an important addition to iCloud and iOS 5. This will basically become a completely new music locker service offered by Apple. In exchange for a fee of US $24.99 iTunes Match will check your iTunes library and provide you with a high quality AAC version of every song which exists in the iTunes music catalogue.

Apple releases the first TV advertisement featuring iPhone 4S and Siri

Apple has just published the first TV commercial focusing exclusively on the latest iPhone model, the iPhone 4S and Siri which is its revolutionary voice assistant app. You can see different people in add using Siri in various situations: running, listening to music, asking questions, scheduling meetings and fulfilling many other needs but all with the help of Siri.

Siri is as you probably know officially available only with iPhone 4S although there are rumors about jailbreak developers working on porting the app to previous iPhone models. Interestingly, Siri is not visually presented at the beginning of the ad, so it probably wont be clear to many people what the point of the commercial really is, besides the fact that an iPhone is a great tool.