Apple launches iOS 5.1 beta

Apple has made the beta version of iOS 5.1 available to all certified Apple developers. This means that the next iOS is in the development phase and that we will soon have another version of Apple’s superb mobile operating system available for use. To get the beta version you should log with your Apple credentials and download the SDK (software development kit). You need to use iTunes for upgrading as this iOS update is not available through OTA (over the air upgrade).

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.

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.

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.

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!

Old documentary about Steve Jobs

There is documentary on Steve Jobs and his life made available at Next website, which shows details about Steve Jobs, his unique business ideas, methods and his overall intriguing personality. This video documentary was made for and old television show: ‘ Entrepreneurs’ by WETA. Most remarkable parts of this documentary covers Steve Jobs interacting with Joanna Hofman, which was one of the core members of his team at that time. Jobs relationship with his crew and especially his behavior regarding the shipment delays which can bee seen at 10:15, give an especially clear picture of his management approaches. You can see the whole documentary in the Youtube video bellow.

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.

iOS 5.0.2 Coming soon featuring battery bug fix and Siri upgrade

According to latest rumors, Apple is working hard to finish the next iOS upgrade, and according to this rumor it could become available already during next week. This upgrade could finally solve the infamous battery drain issue and it could also introduce a set of new upgrades for Siri, which is now a core element of iOS for new iPhones. Siri could be used as a hardware controlling system so you could take a picture or turn on your Wi-fi connection with Siri only. If this iOS upgrade really hits the market next week, it could become one of the fastest released upgrades so far. And while this is good from the standpoint that it solves some problems, a hurried release usually includes a number previously unknown bugs. Especially so since no beta version of iOS 5.0.2 was made available to Apple developers community, which is another usual procedure for Apple.