Samsung releases new Apple mocking ads

Samsung has lately developing a sort of issue with Cupertino. Surprisingly or not, it seems that Samsung’s marketing department thinks mocking Apple is a good enough strategy. Do you think this is really so? The list of competitors mocking Apple and later falling apart is actually quite long. A cynic could say that latest successes by Apple’s lawyers in the ongoing patent wars had obviously hit some weak spot on the largest South Korean corporation.

Apple launches iBook for iPad, a new kind of textbooks

Apple just took another giant step into the future. This time, the relentlessly innovative fruit company from Cupertino, California is introducing iBooks textbooks to the world. This is a whole new world for education, which helps students and teachers alike to get best available and most updated textbooks from anywhere, at any time. And this is not all: besides other obvious advantages of price, mobility, adaptability, textbooks upgrading options, you can also note your textbooks, bookmark important pages and use it like never before!

Apple to announce launch of iPad 3

According to latest Apple rumors, which are originating in Japan this time, Apple could be closer to then announcement of the next iPad 3 than anybody expected. As you probably know, Tim Cook and his team, are preparing for a large media event, which interestingly falls almost at the same date as the first anniversary of iPad 2. Many analysts and iOS developers expect that this will be the time and place for Apple launching not only iPad 3 but also the next mayor iOS version 5.1.

Apple patents 3D user interface for mobile devices

According to latest news from the planet Apple, Cupertino California based company is busy working on some new, breakthrough technologies in the realm of mobile device computing. This time, engineers and designers in Tim Cook’s team are tinkering on a new interface system based on proximity sensors, which will react to gestures. The patent submission which was recently published showcases three dimensional display environment using orientation data which is detected by hardware sensors. This way, a perspective view is being shown on display to users without them actually touching the device screen.

Verizon sold more than 4.2 million iPhone contracts

More than 4.2 milion users decided for Verizon CDMA network as their choice, during the last quarter 2011. The rising demand for Verizon iPhone offer. clearly shows that Verizon is successfully attracting both new and old iOS users, onto their nation wide carrier network. Interestingly, it took them only a relatively short time to attract exceptionally high number of iPhone users.

During the third quarter of the last year,more than 2 million users decided to take an Verizon iPhone with a contract, which is a number only slighlty behind AT&T’s 2.7 million iPhone users in the same period. To remind you, AT&T is much longer in the iPhone business, as they have offered Apple’s smartphones all the way since it was launched for the first time, back in 2007.

iPhone 5,completely different according to analysts

One more prediction is circling among Apple fans: Apple’s next iPhone, iPhone 5 will be a completely redesigned device. According to analyst Shaw Wu of “Sterne Agee”, iPhone 5 will be more important for Apple than iPad 3 tablet, and much more important than Apples secretive iTV project. iPhone is the most important Apple product and their main source of revenue. Apple’s profit from iPhone can also grow rapidly in the near future, with a total addressable market as high as 1.5 billion smartphones annually.

New book “Inside Apple”, coming soon

“Inside Apple” is a new book authored by Adam Lashinsky which should hit the market end of this month. This book will delve in into Apple’s business culture and the secret of today’s most successful company in the world. It will also mention Apple University and the secretive retreat for Apple’s upper management which takes place every year. According to the book promotional material,the book will cover Apple’s way of innovative leadership and continual product and services improvement.

Apple working on iPad 3 tablet with much larger battery capacity

According to Digi Times, which is a well known Taiwanese Apple blog with good inside sources, Apple is working on a new battery for the next iPad 3 model. According to this rumor, new iPad 3 will have battery capacity twice larger than what is now possible. The same blog is also a source of the speculations about Apple releasing as much as three new tablet models, which would supposedly cater to different market segments: low, middle and high end tablets. The most expensive and best tablet could have this new battery, with significantly increased capacity.

Apple working on two new different iPad tablets?

After different rumors on a possible new 7.85” iPad tablet, we now heard another rumor mentioning at least two new models, coming with larger screens of 9.7” which will have QXGA graphic resolution and a unique light bar design. According to this rumor, which isn’t convincing in our opinion, these iPad models could be announced on 26 January already, at Apple’s annual iWorld event. Some analysts claim Apple’s strategy is based on forking out their tablet products to cover wide range of users. Essentially, Apple wants to announce different tablets which should cover entry, middle and high end market segments.

Apple releases iTunes Match introduction video

Cupertino has made available a brand new homepage for the new iTunes Match service. This new Apple website contains a wide with a short walk trough on this new, cloud based service.

This is how iTunes Match functions.