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iPad moves ahead of Android at corporations | Reuters

July 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The iPad is on a tear in the enterprise, and is now being activated more often than Android smartphones, according to the latest data from Good Technology. The enterprise software maker said the iPad accounted for 27.2 percent of all activations of its software in the second quarter ahead of Android phones at 24.4, the first time Apple’s tablet has pushed past Android phones.

The iPad and the iPad 2 now account for 97 percent of all tablet activations. And iPad figures have helped boost Apple’s overall share of activations to just under 80 percent, compared to just under 70 percent in the first quarter. IPhone activations are up to 66 percent, compared to 62 percent in the previous quarter. Good said iPad adoption was driven by the financial services sectors, which accounted for 46 percent of all adoption, more than triple that of any other industry.

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AT&T Vs. Verizon: Which Data Plan Is Better? – mobility Blog

June 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Last September, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said that Big Red would move to tiered data plans, in favor of the current all-you-can-eat plans they now offer, within six months. While a few months late, he is holding to his word. The changes are expected to take place on July 7.

Droid Life says that the 2-GB plan will be $30. That is just a bit more than AT&T’s $25 2-GB DataPro plan for the iPhone. T-Mobile is a bit harder to compare to, no doubt by design. It doesn’t offer pure data plans but sells most of its services in an Even More bundle. If you pick it apart, you can estimate T-Mobile’s 2-GB plan is $20 per month. That puts Verizon at the high end of the scale.

Verizon also has a 5-GB plan for $50 and 10 GB for $80. If you want to tether another device to your phone, it will cost you an extra $20 per month, but Verizon will throw in an extra 2 GB. Overages are charged at the rate of $10 per GB. If you need a lot of data, your choice is Verizon. Tethering on a 10-GB plan will cost you $100 per month but give you 12 GB. AT&T’s biggest plan is 4 GB, which includes tethering, for $45. With overage fees, 12 GB on AT&T’s network would cost $125. For reasonable monthly data consumption, AT&T is a bit cheaper, but if you chew through data, Verizon has the better rates.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Nexus S 4G added to Apple’s infringement complaint | AppleInsider

June 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Apple this week added a number of additional Samsung smartphones and tablets to its complaint against the company, expanding the number of devices it believes have copied the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad.

In making the additions to its complaint, Apple has asserted that Samsung has been “even bolder” than other competition in copying products like the iPhone and iPad. As detailed by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, Apple is attempting to convince the court that Samsung’s devices “blatantly imitate” its own.

Along with the more aggressive language included in the latest filing, Apple has singled out a number of new Samsung devices of copying the hardware and software found on the iPhone and iPad. They are:

  • Droid Charge
  • Exhibit 4G
  • Galaxy Ace
  • Galaxy Prevail
  • Galaxy S (i9000)
  • Gravity
  • Infuse 4G
  • Nexus S 4G
  • Replenish
  • Sidekick
  • Galaxy Tab 10.1
  • Galaxy S II

via AppleInsider | Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Nexus S 4G added to Apple’s infringement complaint.

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Samsung demands to see Apple’s next iPhone, iPad – Computerworld

May 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In the latest round of an ongoing patent and trademark battle, Samsung on Friday asked a federal judge to make Apple provide the Korean electronics giant with samples of its next-generation iPhone and iPad.

Samsung asked U.S. District Court Judge Koh to force Apple to give it “a sample of the final, commercial version of the next generation iPhone that Apple will release, whether that product will be known as the ‘iPhone 4S,’ ‘iPhone 5,’ or some other name,” according to a motion filed in a California federal court Friday.

The Korean company also made a similar demand for “the next generation iPad that Apple will release, whether that product will be known as the ‘iPad 3,’ ‘Third Generation iPad,’ or some other name.”

Assuming Koh agrees with Samsung, Apple would have until June 17 to hand over the iPhone and iPad samples.

via Samsung demands to see Apple’s next iPhone, iPad – Computerworld.

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Samsung demands to see Apple’s next iPhone, iPad – Computerworld

May 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In the latest round of an ongoing patent and trademark battle, Samsung on Friday asked a federal judge to make Apple provide the Korean electronics giant with samples of its next-generation iPhone and iPad.

Samsung asked U.S. District Court Judge Koh to force Apple to give it “a sample of the final, commercial version of the next generation iPhone that Apple will release, whether that product will be known as the ‘iPhone 4S,’ ‘iPhone 5,’ or some other name,” according to a motion filed in a California federal court Friday.

The Korean company also made a similar demand for “the next generation iPad that Apple will release, whether that product will be known as the ‘iPad 3,’ ‘Third Generation iPad,’ or some other name.”

Assuming Koh agrees with Samsung, Apple would have until June 17 to hand over the iPhone and iPad samples.

via Samsung demands to see Apple’s next iPhone, iPad – Computerworld.

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TweetDeck Releases Version 2.0 for iPhone

April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As social media dashboards go, the main benefit is often in the added functionality over the stock interface or application. TweetDeck (news, site), for one, is known for its flexible use of columns to help sort, manage and organize Twitter feeds. TweetDeck has recently launched version 2.0 of its iPhone app, with a handful of new, useful features and UI improvements.

A Re-Imagining of TweetDeck

TweetDeck’s creators say the 2.0 update is a re-imagining of the original TweetDeck iOS application, as the interface has been redesigned from ground up. TweetDeck 2.0 is touted as faster and more user-friendly than the original release, and features custom columns, support for new touch gestures, improved performance and support for long tweets with Deck.ly, among others.

Our team took the original iPhone app and distilled the essence of what made it so popular into a series of guiding principles. They then embarked on creating a brand new app from scratch, making use of all the latest technologies and design approaches, but all the while with an eye on those fundamental principles from the original.”

via TweetDeck Releases Version 2.0 for iPhone.

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What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic

April 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I plugged my phone into my computer and opened an application called Lantern, a forensics program for investigating iPhones and iPads. Ten minutes later, I’m staring at everything my iPhone knows about me. About 14,000 text messages, 1,350 words in my personal dictionary, 1,450 Facebook contacts, tens of thousands of locations pings, every website I’ve ever visited, what locations I’ve mapped, my emails going back a month, my photos with geolocation data attached and how many times I checked my email on March 24 or any day for that matter. Want to reconstruct a night? Lantern has a time line that combines all my communications and photos in one neat interface. While most of it is invisible during normal operations, there is a record of every single thing I’ve done with this phone, which also happens to form a pretty good record of my life.

Figuring that I’ve got nothing to hide or steal, I’d always privileged convenience over any privacy and security protocols. Not anymore. Immediately after trying out Lantern, I enabled the iPhone’s passcode and set it to erase all data on the phone after 10 failed attempts. This thing remembers more about where I’ve been and what I’ve said than I do, and I’m damn sure I don’t want it falling into anyone’s hands.

via What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic.

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iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go | Technology | guardian.co.uk

April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronised.

The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone’s recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner’s movements using a simple program.

For some phones, there could be almost a year’s worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple’s iOS 4 update to the phone’s operating system, released in June 2010.

“Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you’ve been,” said Pete Warden, one of the researchers.

Only the iPhone records the user’s location in this way, say Warden and Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are presenting their findings at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. “Alasdair has looked for similar tracking code in [Google's] Android phones and couldn’t find any,” said Warden. “We haven’t come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this.”

via iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

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Credit Card Squares: Square Releases a Credit Card Reader for the iPhone – iSmashPhone iPhone Blog

April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The iPhone has made a major step forward to interacting with customers financially, and credit cards have another step towards use in even the most casual of situations.

Square, Inc. has just released an iPhone app / Hardware combination that allows you to read credit cards right on your iPhone.  The ability to use your iPhone as a credit card reader has been discussed for years, and now it has been made practical on the consumer level for average users.

via Credit Card Squares: Square Releases a Credit Card Reader for the iPhone – iSmashPhone iPhone Blog.

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Apple Patent Application Shows Second Display – NYTimes.com

April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

An Apple patent application that surfaced online Thursday indicates that Apple could add a secondary display on the exterior of a future iPhone.

According to the patent application, which was discovered by the blog Patently Apple, this new display could potentially be used to highlight additional ways a user could interact with the phone beyond just touching the traditional front-facing screen.

The application states that Apple could use the secondary exterior display to highlight virtual buttons around the phone’s edge that could “morph into various controls” on an application-per-application basis.

This would also allow developers to create new buttons to appear alongside iPhone features. One example of this would be controls for a game that would sit at the edge of the phone, instead of taking up valuable real estate on the main display.

The secondary display could improve the way users interact with the iPhone in a number of ways. For example, some games on the current versions of the iPhone place the controllers on the main display, obscuring some gameplay. The screens could also offer additional controls for the phon

via Apple Patent Application Shows Second Display – NYTimes.com.

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