Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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Google Books for Android updated with better 7-inch tablet support, +1 feature

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:18 AM PDT

Google updated its Books app for Android smartphones recently with better support for more devices and a few new features. Most notably, the updated version works better on 7-inch Android tablets. There is also the ability to search through a book and add a +1 to a selection that the reader likes. The updated Google Books for Android is free and available in the Android Market now.
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Samsung looking to ban sales of Apple iPhone 4S in Italy, France

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Not a day after the new Apple iPhone 4S was announced, Samsung filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple in Italy and France with an intent to block the sale of the new smartphone. The company also plans to file suits in other countries attempting to block sale of the iPhone 4S.
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iPhone 4S headed to Three UK

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:08 AM PDT

Three UK has announced that it will offer Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S. Three has not announced the date that it will be offered on yet, but we suspect it will be October 14, along with the rest of the providers. The iPhone 4S is Apple's newest flagship device and will offer users a zippy A5 dual-core processor, dual antennas, an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording as well as a backside illuminated CMOS for better low light snaps. The phone's battery is expected to provide up to 8 hours of talk time or 6 hours of internet browsing.
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Apple refreshes iPod touch line with white color option, new price

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:40 PM PDT

In addition to revealing the new iPhone 4S smartphone today, Apple announced a mild refresh to its popular iPod touch line. The basic hardware in the iPod touch remains the same, but customers can now opt for a white color option in addition to the black model. Apple has lowered the price of the personal media player as well, with the 8GB model costing only $199. The 32GB and 64GB versions cost $299 and $399, respectively. The new iPod touch models will be available for purchase starting on October 12.
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Apple iPhone 4S headed to international waters October 14

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:35 PM PDT

During today's iPhone press event, Apple announced it will offer its latest uberphone, the iPhone 4S, on October 14 in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia in addition to the U.S. The new iPhone 4S features a speedy dual-core A5 processor, an 8MP camera/camcorder with video image stabilization and noise reduction as well as offering a new voice control system named Siri.
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Apple unveils voice controlled assistant Siri

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Ever wonder what your phone would say if it talked? Well today we took one step closer to that reality. During its press event this afternoon, Apple took the wraps off a new voice service for its just-announced iPhone 4S smartphone that is named Siri.
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iPhone 4, 3GS hit the bargain bin to make room for the iPhone 4S

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Apple has announced that it will continue to sell the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS alongside the iPhone 4S when it is released later this month. The iPhone 4 will be available in an 8GB configuration and will cost $99 on-contract, while the 3GS will also feature 8GB of storage and be free on-contract. The 3GS was released over two years ago, so it says something about its staying power that Apple is opting to keep it in its smartphone line-up. Or, that Apple is still sitting on a ton of them and is looking for an easy way to move them. Either way, its a good option for bargain hunters.
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Apple's iPhone finally makes its way to Sprint

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:53 AM PDT

It has been a long wait for Sprint customers, but the time has finally come when they can now select the iPhone as their phone of choice on the nations' third-place carrier. With today's announcement of the new iPhone 4S, Apple revealed that the phone will be available for AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and now Sprint in the U.S. Sprint has said in the past that the number one reason that customers leave for other carriers is the iPhone, so it hopes that stocking Apple's wunderphone will stem the tide of fleeing subscribers. The iPhone 4S will be available in black or white in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions for $199, $299, and $399 respectively. It goes on sale on October 14 with pre-orders starting on October 7.
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Apple's iPhone 4S packs dual-core A5 chip , global-roaming, 8 megapixel camera

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:43 AM PDT

Apple has just unveiled the iPhone 4S, the next iteration of its ubiquitous smartphone. Although the iPhone 4S looks the same from the outside as its predecessor, the iPhone 4, inside is where Apple has made a number of improvements.
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Apple intros Find My Friends location sharing app

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Today Apple unveiled a new app for its iOS users: Find My Friends. The app will be a part of Apple's iCloud service and lets users share their locations with each other, similar to competitors Foursquare and Google Latitude. Apple has added features that allows users to make location sharing temporary, so that it is automatically disabled at the end of your family outing to a theme park, for example. Apple has also included parental restrictions and other privacy controls. We assume that Find My Friends will roll out in conjunction with iOS 5 and the new iCloud service, which are set to launch October 12.
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Apple claims over 250 million iOS devices sold to date

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:12 AM PDT

Apple has announced that it has sold over 250 million iOS devices worldwide so far. That figure includes all of the company's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models. Last year the company reported that there were 120 million such iOS devices being used, which means that the total number of iOS devices has more than doubled since that time.
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Apple iCloud available October 12

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:58 AM PDT

Today during a press conference today at its Cupertino campus, Apple finally revealed when it will take the wraps of its highly anticipated iCloud service. The company announced that iCloud will go live starting on October 12. Apple iCloud is a service platform that will keep a user's content in sync, wirelessly, without any intervention form the user. The iCloud service will keep contacts, calendars, mail, photos, and music all in sync across multiple devices. Wireless backup is also integrated.
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Apple introduces Cards app for printing, mailing cards from iPhone, iPad

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:52 AM PDT

Today during its press conference, Apple announced a new application for its iPhone and iPad devices: Cards. The Cards app will give users the ability to create greeting cards directly from their mobile iOS devices. The app will take photos from the device, and then print them and mail them directly to recipients via the U.S. Postal Service. Users will then receive a push notification confirming when the card is received. The new Card app will be available October 12 from the App Store for free, but each card will cost $2.99 for those mailed in the U.S. and $4.99 each for those sent to recipients outside of the U.S.
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Apple iOS 5 available on October 12

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:43 AM PDT

Apple has just announced that the new iOS 5 update will be available as a free download on October 12. iOS 5 brings a number of new features to Apple's mobile operating system, including the new Notification Center, iMessage, improved camera, and much, much more - over 200 new features in total. It will be available for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, and third and fourth generation iPod touch media players. Check out our coverage from WWDC for more information on what iOS 5 has to offer.
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Apple iPad in 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:40 AM PDT

It appears that Apple's iPad tablet can be found everywhere; in schools, at work, and at home. Today during its press event, Apple stated that three out of four tablets sold in the U.S. today are iPads. Tim Cook, Apple's new CEO, went further with stats and reported that 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are either testing or currently using iPads in the workplace. The Cupertino giant also indicated that every state in the U.S. has an iPad deployment program either in place or in pilot for education programs.
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Apple's App Store home to 500,000 apps - 140,000 for iPad

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:29 AM PDT

Apple's Scott Forstall just announced at the company's event for the new iPhone that the iTunes App Store is now home to over 500,000 apps, with 140,000 having been specifically built for the iPad. For comparison, the last known numbers of Google's Android Market showed there to be 250,000 apps available. Eighteen billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store since its launch, and more than 1 billion are downloaded each month. Apple claims to have paid $3 billion to developers who sell apps in the App Store. Additionally, iOS makes up 61 percent of mobile browsing in the world, compared to Android's 31 percent.
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iPhone 4S spotted on Apple Japan's site, October 14 release noted

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Ahead of Apple's big announcement, an image of the iPhone 4S has appeared on Apple's Japanese website. The iPhone 4S appears to look exactly like the iPhone 4, but no specifications were noted to confirm any possible differences. A release date of October 14 was mentioned. We should know more about Apple's plans very shortly.
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Evernote for iOS updated with checkboxes, improved formatting

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:31 AM PDT

Evernote has released an update for its iOS app that brings it to parity with the options available to Android users. The new update offers a number of improvements with formatting text and includes support for checkboxes in lists. Premium users can also edit shared notebooks from the app, and the app now boast support for iOS 5. You can download the updated Evernote app for iOS from the iTunes App Store now.
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Constellation T is Vertu's first touchscreen smartphone for people with more money than brains

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:30 AM PDT

Nokia's luxury brand Vertu has been cranking out absurdly expensive phones for nearly 15 years, but it has yet to release anything that tugs at the heartstrings of a smartphone lover. That is is to change, apparently, as the Bluetooth SIG has revealed what looks to be Vertu's first smartphone device with a touchscreen, the Constellation T.
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Video: Pantech Breakout (Verizon) LTE smartphone video tour - part 1 of 2

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:19 AM PDT

The Pantech Breakout is the first 4G LTE phone to be released by Korean manufacturer Pantech. It is also the first LTE smartphone to be released by Verizon Wireless that costs less than $250 on-contract.
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UK government plans to spend cash to improve cell phone signals

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:41 AM PDT

The UK government has revealed plans to spend up to 150 million GBP (US$231 million) on cell phone network improvements that are supposed to improve reception in poor coverage areas.
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Apple's new iPhone won't feature 4G says WSJ

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:14 AM PDT

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the new iPhone from Apple, expected to be announced later today, will not feature 4G network support, contrary to earlier rumors. Instead, the next iPhone will support 3G networks, like previous versions already do.
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Sprint's IP Relay services allows smartphone use by the hearing impaired

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:53 AM PDT

Sprint has announced a new accessibility service for Android smartphones called Sprint Mobile IP Relay. Sprint Mobile IP Relay allows deaf and hard of hearing users to communicate with others through relay-facilitated calls on their Android devices.
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HTC Android smartphones getting security fix

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:34 AM PDT

HTC has responded to the allegations that the Sense user interface on its recent Android smartphones has a security issue involving sensitive user data and now promises that a fix is on the way.
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Adobe releases Flash Player 11, AIR 3 for mobile devices

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:13 AM PDT

Adobe has released Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, the latest versions of its media playback and app framework software for mobile devices. The new versions promise better performance and efficiency with hardware acceleration.
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Amazon Kindle Fire pre-orders hit 95k on first day, claims eDataSource

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:54 AM PDT

Based upon estimates put together by eDataSource, an online intelligence firm, Amazon received an estimated 95,000 pre-orders for its new Kindle Fire tablet on the day it was announced.
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Apple denies Samsung's offer in Australia

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:36 AM PDT

Apple has rejected Samsung's offer to make feature concessions on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in order to allow it to be released in Australia. Apple claims that Samsung's offer gave no basis for a settlement and that the court should rule if the Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringes upon Apple's touchscreen patents or not.
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LG's Optimus LTE pairs 4G LTE speed with HD IPS display

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Though it has been seen out and about already, LG has now officially announced the Optimus LTE smartphone, the first LTE smartphone with a 720p HD IPS display. In addition to the speedy network capabilities and crisp display, the Optimus LTE sports a smoking dual-core processor and high-capacity battery.
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Microsoft releases Hotmail app for Android smartphones

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Amidst a slew of changes announced for its Hotmail service, Microsoft also released the long-awaited Hotmail app for the Android platform. The Hotmail app for Android offers support for push email, contact and calendar sync, folder support, and the ability to access multiple Hotmail accounts. It is compatible with Android 2.1 Eclair through 2.3 Gingerbread, but it is not yet available for Android 3.0 Honeycomb-based tablets. You can download the Hotmail for Android app for free from the Android Market now.
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