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Jun 5, 2011
Bill Simmons

New iOS incorporates App Store app Updates and Automatic Download

A latest discovery made by MacRumors shows that there is a new add on to the iTunes App Store’s update page in the shape of a sentence which hits of an upcoming feature termed Automatic Download. However the greater meaning of this Automatic Download is not entirely clear yet but as it seems Apple will be giving new iOS users the option to set their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to automatically download and install updates from the App Store. There is also a hint that this may be an option which means that Apple could be planning for an update for iOS.

Jun 1, 2011
Wheeler Megan

Is The Mystery Solved Regarding The White iPhone 4 Camera?

This speculation included questions surrounding what was the exact problem leading to the delay in release of the phone, and now many are wondering if the camera in the newly released phone is actually altogether a different phone?

Much buzz has surrounded the release of the white iPhone, this could be getting fueled from the fact that Apple has never released publicly, exactly what the issue was that caused the lengthy delay. One of the more generally accepted, and logical, explanations have to do with the white iPhone 4’s cover. Due to the white glass case, this allowed light to shine through the camera sensor producing overexposed photos. The question that has arisen: did Apple just go ahead and replace the camera, to deal with this issue?

May 30, 2011
Bill Simmons

Will Google Maps be a part of the latest iOS5 release?

Apple has been hinting that Google Maps wouldn’t be with it for very long primarily because it purchased two mapping companies over the past few years i.e. Placebase and Poly9. When iOS5 was announced many people assumed that Apple would finally be making its switch to something which was more ‘Apple like’ so to speak. This speculation was then later backed up by a number of job posts on Apple’s official website, plus an Apple executive promised a few under the hoot tweaks to its maps system for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad.

May 28, 2011
Wheeler Megan

Apple Aims For Even Bigger Market Share!


Photo Credit Wisetechie.com

On Friday May 27th , both iPhone and Samsung, two fierce competitors, will launch into a huge market, India, with over 1.2 billion people. This launch will provide the two competitors with an opportunity to go head to head to try and win the business of a new group of consumers. Indian carrier Aircel will be carrying the iPhone, with a big-ticket price of 34,500 Indian rupees, which translates into approximately $760 US dollars for the 16G model. The 32G model commands an even higher price tag, 40,900 rupees or $900.00 US. Aircel will be offering the opportunity for customers to receive 100% of the purchase price back in monthly airtime credits. This incentive will make the iPhone somewhat more accessible for the greater population in India, where nearly half (42%) of the population lives below the international poverty level of $1.25 dollars a day.

May 26, 2011
Rodney Potter

Apple’s iPhone testing security measures

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According to latest rumors Verizon staff received a number of CDMA iPhones only two weeks before its launch on the network. The security was so tight that the personal which received the device for testing purposes weren’t allowed to call it iPhone, instead they were instructed to use a code name: ACME device. Even more, Apple’s security protocols required that the position of every single device was known in every moment during the day all the time during these tests.

May 25, 2011
Wheeler Megan

New iPhone App Makes Cash Registers Obsolete?

Are the days of cash registers and debit card machines one App away from going the way of the typewriter? According to the CEO of ‘Tech startup Square’ that may be the case, as the company recently announced their new ‘point of sale’ iPad app, which they hope will forever change the way transactions take place at the retail level. The company, led by one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has created the new iPad app, named Square Register, a new free app, that is intended to speed up the retail check-out process, with an aim to improve communication methods between business owners and customers by offering dynamic features that make the retail experience more interactive.

May 24, 2011
Rodney Potter

Telecom France reveals: new iPhone to be smaller and thinner

In a recent interview Stephane Richard CEO of France Telecom had with a web portal AllThingsD which is owned by Wall Street Journal has said that the next iPhone will be smaller in size and thinner than the previous models of the popular iPhone. Mr Richard also said that his company is working closely with the Cupertino California company to promote new industry standards for smaller SIM cards. The new Sim card should be even smaller than current iPhone 4 micro Sim card.

May 22, 2011
Rodney Potter

iPhone 4 White 64GB rumor

 

Would you like to get yourself such a beauty? We certainly would like to do so! And now again a rumor is giving us some hope that this will become true. We have recently seen the iPhone 4 white appearing on a Vietnamese tech blog which had what appeared as a beta testing version of iOS with some interesting new features available. In addition, a regular black iPhone 4 with the same beta iOS was demoed on this website.

May 21, 2011
Rodney Potter

Apple headquarters warns their support to refuse help to Mac owners with “Mac Defender” trojan

It seems that Apple isn’t quite happy with the latests problem they have with an malicious software called “Mac Defender” and according to latest inside leak they are even actively suppressing the informations and denying help to Mac users with this problem. They ask their support stuff to withold any informations and to withheld from giving any assistance with this issue. Of course this isn’t the first time a big IT company is refusing to help their customers any help with malicious software, like it was case with Microsoft Windows for example. But this is the first mayor virus appearing in the Mac OS X world so far. No official statement has been issued so far by Cupertino company. Here is the full memo as it was leaked.

May 16, 2011
Rodney Potter

Apple patents innovative new keyboard

It is incredible how much innovation can be created by a single company. Why is this so it is hard to say, but Apple is this day working so hard on so many projects that is even hard to mention all of them: iCloud, iOS upgrades, location tracking (project, bug or something else?) iPhone 5, iOS 5 etc. The list is really long and fascinating. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that Apple has also a list of small incremental innovations which they want to protect with different patents. One such example is a new and unique type of keyboard. This keyboard should be of low profile and what is most interesting is that its individual key tops will be perforated with tiny little holes so the user will feel a physical feedback coming from the air in the keyboard.