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How far will we go?
Aldous Huxley: Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. You might think that there are already applications for everything but there are not. So just how far can apps go? Certainly, there are lots of applications which look ridiculous and which raise many questions like, ‘Do we really need…
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Do we really need a 2K or even a 4K display on our smartphones?
The on screen battle for bigger and better displays As the smartphone revolution progresses, from the first phone with a screen, to the smartphone with a color screen in 2001, phone manufacturers around the world continue to innovate with screen design and quality. Apple in 2007 led the way for larger, touch screens with the…
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(jail) break the ice!
On June 11th 2013, Apple will be celebrating the first birthday of its iOS 6 operating system. Is there a better time to take a look at the numbers? What, for example, is current state of affairs between Apple and the jailbreaking community? According to Jay Freeman – a.k.a. @saurik, creator of Cydia, the main…
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Photography is dead, long live mopho!
Ten years ago Evan Nisselson wrote a short illustrated article on his blog entitled, ‘Why will wireless camera phones revolutionize the photography industry?’[1] In the article he says that mobile phone photography offers a totally different mindset, with an inbuilt communicative function of immediate sharing. It reduces the amount of equipment you need to carry…
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Apple to no longer use Google Maps.
On June 11 during the World-wide Developers Conference 2012 Apple introduced Apple Maps, the new platform of location system. Why has Apple stopped using Google Maps? It is really simple, because of the costs. With the increase in the cost of using Google Maps API, for Apple having their own platform will increase profitability, save…
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Incremental evolutions
Since the first iPhone there has not been a revolution, every successive product proposes only an incremental change and not only in Apple smartphones. The iPhone story When we look at the evolution from the first iPhone to the iPhone 4S we really become aware that Apple produces nothing else than dreams. The second iPhone, which…
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Siri, are you going to take over the world?
When Apple introduced to the world the iPhone 4S, many were amazed with the technology that brought Siri to the device, since their functionality made it seem like a personal assistant always ready for our orders on the device. To understand better how Siri works it’s important to know that a Voice User Interface (VUI) is what a person interacts with when communicating with a spoken language application. The elements…
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The patent war between Apple and Samsung
The relationship between Apple and Samsung is really representative of the complexity of the links of all the companies connected to the mobile phone sector. In recent months the two giants have both been involved in a legal battle over copyright infringement.. The 15 April a 38 page complaint was lodged by Apple reproaching Samsung…
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Prospects of the Future of Application Store
Application Store first generation was about quantitative growth focused on individuals. But, Next generation is expected to be about opening of enterprise market and qualitative enhancement of applications. Enhanced enterprise solution features of OS 4.0 is expected to expand the enterprise market. OS 4.0 solves the existing problems with highly intensified security functions and the ability to distribute…
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Why the Iphone is getting more popular among Russian customers?
Iphone is getting popular all over the world, but the entire world except Russia, has the Apple store and acceptable prices . The country where Apple has just decided to open the official store has one of the highest indexes of mobile penetration and already falls in love with Iphone, but why? What makes people…