Rumors about iPad version of Microsoft Office

Who wanted to edit and create Office documents on his iPad or previously had to rely on the software offered by Apple or third-party - was a reasonable solution from Microsoft itself, it sometimes does not. The Daily reported in November about plans for an Office version for the iPhone - are now to concretize these plans: The Daily should have received an exclusive insight into the software from Microsoft to Apple's Tablet.

The layout is identical to the already available OneNote app. The Office phone next to Word and Excel files are also PowerPoint presentations can be created and edited. According to The Daily is an Android version is not yet in development - the App Store but the application should be available in the near future. Compared to the New York Times, however, Microsoft has denied any information about the IOS office. There were "unfounded speculation and rumors". How much truth is ultimately in the statements, we will see in the next few weeks.

Source: The Daily

More details on Apple's Cloud Streaming

As reported recently, there are increasing rumors and facts about Apple's so-called Cloud streaming feature with which it is possible to book online music store in the cloud and then, for example with an iPhone call to go any time. Here, a small part of the title is transferred to the device and used for synchronization with the tracks stored in the cloud. This is to local memory can be saved on the device. Well, besides the alleged name of the service, icloud, further details are known.

Asked that the entire iTunes library to be analyzed. Although not the title itself, however, transfer the information to the titles in the library. So no high data rate to transmit the information is needed. Thanks to the transfer itself should contain, the show at the local library of a low bit rate, will be replaced with high-bitrate tracks and streamed to the devices. However, as ribbed content will be treated is still unclear. The local library, however, will remain unaffected. Speculation is still on the offer of the service. It may be possible that the service will be integrated into the services of MobileMe, which has stores bookmarks, contacts, emails and calendar entries in a central cloud. This service currently costs about § 99 per year and thus it is conceivable that offered the icloud Music Store as an update of MobileMe.

 The expectation is the idea of the update at the upcoming WWDC, which will take place from 6th to 10th June in San Francisco.

Source: Engadget

Apple iPhone 3G without 3G iOS 5

Apple's operating system iOS 4 was on the iPhone 3G has no success. Due to the slow processor speed of the iPhone has suffered much. Although some minor bug fixes and updates that have improved the speed minimum, nachgeschoben of Apple, but it was still being fun to use the iPhone 3G. As then, the very first iPhone will probably now the 3G and 3G models no update to iOS 5th Continue to make a large order from Apple for more rumors on the latest iPhone model.

Eldar Murtanzin, chief editor of a Russian mobile phone blog, which has often spread rumors about mobile phones, which in retrospect were true, announced via Twitter that the 3G does not receive any update on iOS 5 - much to the chagrin of those who the available from Apple yet Have purchased 8 GB model recently. IPhone 4, however, is said to have thanks to the Apple processor A4 enough computing power for the update. This suggests that the update will be higher than assumed.
Continues to drive Apple's large order with Largan Precision for more rumors about the upcoming iPhone model. Thus, in large quantities camera lenses with a resolution of 8 megapixels, which can be used in phones ordered. Thus, in the third quarter of this year will be the 8-megapixel lens on the new standard in smartphones, partly due to the large order from Apple.

But that's not all that Apple has been purchased. In addition, you will also have given an order for several glass-cutting machine in order. Apart from this, one has also suggested some suppliers to deal with the production of curved glass. Waiting for us so an iPhone 5 / iPhone 4S with curved screen like the Google or Nexus S HP Palm Pre?

The idea of the iPhone with the new iOS 5 in the context of the WWDC, from 6 to 10 June will take place as expected. But as always, Apple has not commented on the rumors about the products and allows the voltage to the event to increase.

Source: Macnotes / apple radar

Apple vs. Samsung patent dispute goes to the next round

The dispute between the two smart phone manufacturers Samsung and Apple with time and more violent. In that accuses Apple of breach of the Korean manufacturer of numerous patents, especially those involved with the design and operation of the equipment to do. Thus, many smart phones and the new tablets from the product range Samsungs are affected. Mostly it's in the case of the Samsung products S Galaxy II, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Tab Galaxy 10.1, but also the LTE and 4G phones Infuse Droid batch. The two tablets and the Droid Charge contrast, are not even officially on the market for purchase. Nevertheless, all these devices, according to Apple iPhone along the lines of products and have been designed iPad.

 

Both would look and operate, and even the packaging of Apple products, Apple said copies. The WiFi Multimedia Player Galaxy S 4.0 and 5.0 are the iPod touch more than similar. From Samsung must now show each new device before the publication of a group of legal experts, but fortunately, no developer or agent from Apple. They may assess whether Samsung commits another patent infringement or not. The Judge Lucy Koh has decided that the equipment the experts will be presented three months before publication. This was no problem from their perspective, as Samsung suggests many details before publication of the devices. At the Google I / O developer conference were even give all participants a copy of the new Galaxy Tab 10.1.

 

Thus, the Californian manufacturer with a cult game has suffered in the patent dispute, but this could have other consequences. Samsung supplies memory chips to Apple that is also for the production of their equipment. It is still unclear whether this partnership is involved.

Source: cnet uk
 

 

 

 

Logitech provides matching accessories for iPad2 and other Tablets

This is iPad2 currently the benchmark in terms of tablets, and hardly a device has reached such a level of perfection and can score points on such a broad range of accessories, such as the device from Cupertino. Now Logitech is also making with matching accessories attention to himself and shows that you have neglected no detail.

Takes over the "Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad2" two important functions. Stowed in the pocket, it offers protection to the screen of your tablet from scratches and bumps while it weeds out in use, the only weakness of the current generation of Tablet: the missing keyboard. So one can so easily write a longer story on the Tablet without constantly focusing on the meeting of the virtual keys. Especially for the users, the blind use their normal keyboard, the Keyboard Case a perfect complement, especially since it canceled so the view on the popular new device alltet much easier. The aluminum case does iPad device vertically or horizontally on and is connected via Bluetooth with the IOS.

The second gadget is aimed not only at iPad2 users but to all tablets that support music streaming via Bluetooth. Talking about the "Logitech Wireless Speaker" that is compatible with nearly all tablets and smartphones. This audio station is also connected via Bluetooth with the player while providing a position bask for longer surf sessions. But Logitech built the device in two separate drive coils 5 cm, which should provide in its radius of 15 meters for rich sound. Thanks to a built-in battery lasts up to 10 hours of listening pleasure, and can be on three buttons easy to use and comfortable.

Source: Logitech

iTunes Cloud coming soon?

Apple's globally successful music store and music player could soon be extended by a further functionality. Accordingly, Apple has filed a patent for the possibility of cloud streaming, which describes the function, not the song you want locally, but stored online in a cloud to have any time to access them to save space on the devices. The Cloud Music Store should already have been completed, but it still lacks important licenses from major labels to provide a very large offer. With EMI and Warner Music Group had already agreed to contract for the licensing, just fill in the agreements with Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, which will follow soon.

 

 

The extract of the patent with the name "Local Storage of a portion of Streamed Media Items" shows the gross functionality of the store. A portion of the desired track is used to synchronize stored locally and then transmitted via iTunes on your device. The rest of the actual title will be synchronized using the cut-out and ultimate streamed to the device. Further details are not yet known. Also, the availability of the song, if the device does not have access to the Internet, nothing has been announced.

When the cloud music store is published, is also still unclear. It is expected, however, with an announcement at the upcoming WWDC.

iPhone 5 is to be iPhone 4S

The rumor mill is already on the boil. Supposedly the next iPhone as an iPhone 4S come on the market, so be like the iPhone 3G more an update than a truly new model. However, should the UMTS successor LTE still not be of the party, since the relevant Qualcomm chip is not ready yet. LTE but instead will come HSPA + to use, allowing even significantly higher download rates than HSDPA.

 

 

Besides a few more cosmetic changes there should be a new LED flash, but above all is the new Apple A5 processor used. AT & T and T-Mobile users in the U.S. would benefit from the massive expansion of HSPA + network, also will give it both a T-Mobile and a Sprint version of the iPhone 4S. How it looks in Germany is not mentioned. Due to weak network support HSPA + is still in this country rather uninteresting. The next iPhone model will then already support LTE. Remains to be seen how much truth in these rumors, Apple will probably still silent as before.

Samsung: 2,560 x 1,600 pixel 10-inch display at work

Not only that Samsung mobile phones and hard drives sold many should be known. Among other things, you also work with the partner Nouvoyance on a new display for the 10.1-inch tablet format. This WQXGA display is expected to be presented next week at SID Display Week in Los Angeles and would be with its resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels and a pixel density of 300 pixels per inch and within the defined by Steve Jobs retinal border.

Fundamentally, the display uses Samsung's PenTile RGBW technology that adds the colored sub-pixels in addition to another white, according to Samsung which are 40% less power is needed.
For the Mobile World Congress had been presented in mid-February with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 A larger tablet with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels. After having presented early March, the Apple iPad 2 of the public pulled one back but again on the grounds that parts of the tablet still "inadequate"and that they would need to be improved.

A few weeks later, then showed the final version that was thinner than minimal iPad 2 and was supplemented later by the smaller Galaxy Tab 8.9.
To the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has something to boost you to the Google I / O Developer Conference distributed 5,000 instruments, the start date is the 8th June planned.

 Such a message can of course Apple is not cold and so do rumors wide that iPad 3 not offer such a high resolution, with 2,048 x 1,536 pixels, the iPad the two but at least doubled. Apple also apparently pulls the tarp before switching technology to the PenTile version of Samsung.

Apple iPhone 4 in white at last

Believe it or not, but the 1 April is already behind us, and therefore the message is actually true: the Apple iPhone 4 is now also available in white. About the reason for arguing that one is already long, but so that no one really knows, Apple itself also supplies an opinion. Nevertheless, those who have waited long can now finally access and is probably one of the few people who own a white iPhone 4th

In the online shop of T-Mobile is available as the black version with 16 and 32 GB, the prices are also identical.

Solely on the meaning, now buy a new iPhone or 4, you're not always agree, but we gamble in many places hard on the successor. Currently it would be even possible that in early June for the Apple WWDC 2011, the new iPhone 5 / 4S with the new Apple iPhone A5 Dual Core processor is announced, but many believe an announcement in the fall more likely.
Until then, only remaining waiting and keeping track of rumors.

Apple Magic Mouse und Aluminium Keyboard

There are various types of input devices. Whether it is a graphic tablet, touch screen or the normal, well-known keyboard. But none of these devices is anywhere near as important as the computer mouse. Because that input would be today without this technology is very limited. The mouse cursor can be moved by keyboard that is, but that's probably only the last resort, a mouse is a must! Without it, we probably would not be where we are today. "At the top, directed with an eye to the future ..."

The first computer mouse was already developed in 1963 / 64 America, but published only in 1968. The fact that she found little inspiration, you could think anyway. There was simply no graphical interface and one was set to text input.
The California-based Apple has now taken on the task of designing electronics and computer operating systems and application software. It is one of the first companies to personal computers introduced and developed. Also, the first graphical user interface came from Apple in the 1980s.

Apple's first mouse came in the same year and was a relatively bulky "block"with a key. For its time this was of course pure luxury and not exactly cheap. The development remains but now times are not so improved their mouse Apple continues to get better appearance and functionality. The last multi-button mouse was the Mighty Mouse, which it gave in 2005. A one-button shell, paired with a 2-click function, plus a scroll ball and 2 side buttons. The progress at the time was already immensely to the past. But Apple has even more and showed the Magic Mouse. A mouse in which it pays to go into detail more closely. Exactly what we have done and have the small "rodents" put to the kidneys. In this context, we have the latest wired keyboard from Apple even look at you and do not deny the result.

Apple Store for iPod Touch Now Available

You can buy iPod Touch Accessories, iPhone 4, Mini Mac all via your iPod Touch! Apple released Apple Store application which allows you to do that all.

Checkout what else allows you to do and also at the bottom of the screen there is direct link, in case you have hard time finding it.

With the Apple Store app, you can:

• See new and featured products from Apple.
• Shop the full selection of products available from the Apple Online Store.
• Find the latest accessories and software.
• Read customer reviews and get answers to product questions.
• Buy or reserve a new iPhone with just a few taps.
• Locate any Apple Retail Store in the world, instantly.
• Make Personal Shopping, Genius Bar, and One to One appointments.
• Sign up for workshops and events at your favorite Apple Retail Store.

 

 

 

 

Download via iTunes

 

Thanks for screenshot and description to AppShopper.com

Why iPod Touch Has No Flash? Steve Jobs Answers All

Today Steve Jobs announced why iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad don’t support Adobe Flash. I must give him some credit on few key points, but not all. Anyway here it is:

Thoughts on Flash

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

First, there’s “Open”.

Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.

Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.

Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers.

Second, there’s the “full web”.

Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.

Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.

Third, there’s reliability, security and performance.

Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.

In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?

Fourth, there’s battery life.

To achieve long battery life when playing video, mobile devices must decode the video in hardware; decoding it in software uses too much power. Many of the chips used in modern mobile devices contain a decoder called H.264 – an industry standard that is used in every Blu-ray DVD player and has been adopted by Apple, Google (YouTube), Vimeo, Netflix and many other companies.

Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software. The difference is striking: on an iPhone, for example, H.264 videos play for up to 10 hours, while videos decoded in software play for less than 5 hours before the battery is fully drained.

When websites re-encode their videos using H.264, they can offer them without using Flash at all. They play perfectly in browsers like Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome without any plugins whatsoever, and look great on iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Fifth, there’s Touch.

Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?

Even if iPhones, iPods and iPads ran Flash, it would not solve the problem that most Flash websites need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices.

Sixth, the most important reason.

Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.

We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.

This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.

Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.

Our motivation is simple – we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform.

Conclusions.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

 

Steve Jobs
April, 2010

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iPod Touch 4.0 Coming Soon?

It is amazing that just suddenly iPhone 4.0 was leaked by Gizmodo. What about iPod Touch 4.0 when is the release date? Is it Coming Soon?

Well here is my thought but I would like to have your input too.

When Gen 1 iPhone was released iPod Touch 1.0 was released at the same time and that was, what ? 3 Years ago. Since then each Apple product pretty much had it's own event. iPhone got updated iPod touch just got new firmware and bit more storage, right?

Well iPhone 4.0 as you could see recently, looks totally different, and release date is estimated somewhere end of June. Most likely due to new design iPod Touch will not be featured at the same event but will be released in October if not even November 19th. Apple loves to release devices on Fridays and Saturdays and iPod's especially before Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So dear iPod Touch fans, what do you think new iPod will look like? When will it be released? Same time as iPhone or not?

iPod Touch After Christmas Sale Ruled This Year

Does any of you still have iPod Touch Gen 1 8GB and bought it for $300? Well this year for $270 you could of get 32GB iPod Touch Gen 3 after Christmas Sale at many online stores like: Apple.com, Walmart.com, BestBuy.com, MacMall.com and many more.

Yep that’s right this year iPod Touch really dominated the Christmas and I can tell you that is so true, because I notice almost twice more traffic on Dec 25th and Dec 26th than any other day in that week.

Well if you are new owner of iPod Touch this is the place to read all about iPod Touch tips and Tricks.