Instagram bought by Facebook, Apple defends the price of their ebooks

Although not directly related to the IOS world, the news last week was undoubtedly the purchase of Instagram by Facebook , hopefully the operation will improve the popular social network photos. For if you do not it very funny that your photos into the hands of Facebook, I taught them how to export the photos to your hard drive Instagram . Also we showed a curious attachment to convert (at least apparently) your iPhone into a MacBook Air , and how Apple incorporated a useful section to talk in real time via chat with a specialist from the website of IPAD.

We watched as Adobe Reader updated to IOS , which now has support for firms and interaction, and we were surprised with the news that Apple and five major U.S. publishers were sued for the price of your ebook (what Apple defended ). Also we showed Streamd.in a curious way to see the tweets geoposicionados, and we discovered as the new iTunes 11 will feature tighter integration with icloud and support for the upcoming iPhone OS 6.

The relaunch of Currents (the “Fliboard” of Google) finally went worldwide, and we told how Apple might expand the iPhone’s screen to 4 “without making a larger device . We saw how to make a iPhone in the works of new generation of Foxconn, and found some design guidelines for the new iPad very interesting. We read in a week, enjoy it!

Apple iPhone 5: speculation by 4-inch display

The new iPad is available for a while, it is time for the next wave of rumors and speculation about iPhone. So shall the Apple phone imminent, the biggest change, namely it should get a 4-inch screen.

This page reports the ‘ Business Insider ‘, referring to the analyst Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets. White was traveling in China and Taiwan and has visited here several technology suppliers. It wants the analyst learned that Apple will change the first time since the introduction of the iPhone’s screen size. More precisely, the diagonal of the unit will be increased from 3.5 inches to 4 inches, says the report.

Even the design there will be significant adjustments, White talks about a “new, sleek look that requires a unibody chassis.” The production of components to begin in June, as a possible launch date, the analyst mentions August or September.

Speculation about a ‘Widescreen’ iPhone

The speculation about the screen size of the next iPhone has a user of the technology blogs’ The Verge picked up ‘and creates an interesting analysis of such a device. Modilwar writes that the current trend stands to large screens, especially in connection with LTE/4G-Komponenten. So their receiving antennas are larger than the one at UMTS/3G-Geräten, on the other hand need the latest communication technology, more power, so producers must now accommodate larger batteries in the mobile phones.

Apple patents a “virtual wallet” and NFC payment system

There is nothing like writing about the future of electronic payments and find out in just ten minutes apart that Apple has succeeded in getting approved for a patent that is exactly the same: a system that uses an NFC chip to make payments quickly accompanied by a virtual wallet or ‘iWallet’ as discussed in the source.

In the diagram you can see just above, and we understand that iTunes would serve as a basis to manage this system, which would be able to manage regular payments (invoices, financing) or even set up a payment restrictions if the owner of the account is a child who is using the credit card of their parents. These credit cards would be added to our account of Apple in a way very similar to what has Google Wallet in some Android, with what our iPhone could make payments by simply holding the phone to an NFC receiver. In fact, this could work even with the cards we already have in our accounts linked Apple to buy from the iTunes Store, the App Store or iBooks Store. All payments we reflect on a history within the same iTunes.

Will the iPhone of the future such a system? We have a patent, so that we can not bet on anything. It depends on the decisions made ​​in Cupertino and whether some negotiations with banks and credit card companies have come out as they should, but in reality would be an explosion of these payments helped by the sales phenomenon that causes each new generation phone Apple.

iPhone Hacks: New browser enables Flash on the iPhone

enables a new browser for the iPhone, it nearly all Web pages exactly in such a manner as known from a Dekstop computer. For CloudBrowse pages, including Flash and Java are not a problem. The discussion about Flash experiences on the iPhone by CloudBrowse a whole new twist.

Almost like a religious war of the battle seems to Flash on the iPhone. Apple and Adobe, once close allies, are on the subject as yet far apart. Instead, America has the U.S. software company AlwaysOn Technologies accepted the problem and the browser CloudBrowse own approach about Flash on the iPhone developed. With CloudBrowse are web pages with Flash content and complex Java applications on the iPhone and iPod touch is no longer a problem.

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iTunes Live: Apple announces brand protection online at iTunes

Apple could protect the brand and now iTunes Live bubbling the rumors: What’s up with iTunes Live all about? Is it possible for a music service for live concerts?

With iTunes, Apple, founded in 2003 the most successful music trading on the Internet, in so far have been more than 10 billion songs downloaded. Soon, probably will add a new section in iTunes. So far we only know for sure: Apple’s iTunes Live display the name as a brand to protect. The company from Cupertino would certainly not do so if he would not pursue a specific goal with this brand.How this strategy looks like it there are only rumors.

Perhaps iTunes Live marks the start of a special music service on the Internet, which is entirely devoted to the transmission of concerts. It is both conceivable that Apple could sell tickets to live concerts, where the listeners or viewers can follow the event live stream. On the other hand a kind of iTunes Live MTV Unplugged will be on the Internet, at a brand under the slogan special concerts, and then aligned as songs and albums will be sold. In addition to brand iTunes Live, Apple has also already secured the domain ituneslive.com. Read the rest of this entry »