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Google Musical Service Now in iPhone and iPad

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Google allowed the access to its musical service Music Beta for the owners of mobile devices based on iOS.

In comparison with the Android devices that have their own application Music Beta, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can interact with this service via the interface of the Safari browser. The users will be able to play music and view the lists of tracks, albums and singers. The playback will continue even if you close Safari.music beta

Google presented its own musical service in May at the mobile application development conference. Till September, Music Beta had been available only for the computers and mobile devices based on the Android operating system. As it is clear from the name, Music Beta is now being used in the beta version only: the access to the service is carried out via invitations and only from the US territory.

Music Beta users can upload on Google servers up to 20,000 tracks from their own collections. One can listen to these tracks in the streaming mode from other computers and mobile devices. In comparison with Apple that has obtained the permission from the musical companies to launch such services as iCloud and iTunes Match, before starting Music beta, Google didn’t signed any agreements with the representatives of the music industry.

Although, as I have mentioned above, this service is available for the US only, mobile phone application developers will try their best and make this service available for all.

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Advertising in iPhone and iPad Went Down in Value

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

According to Bloomberg, Apple has reduced the cost of advertising in the mobile advertising system (iAd). The minimal price for participating in the iAd is now $300,000. In July 2010 when the advertising system was launched, the price was starting from $1 mln. The first discount for adverts Apple made in February having reduced the price up to $500,000.

Having reduced the price, Apple hopes to return several biggest clients that have left for the companies-competitors, informed Bloomberg, such as Citigroup and the American retail network J.C. Penney Company. The analytics interviewed by the magazine informed that apart from the high price the former iAd clients were not satisfied with the fact that adverts were seen only by the owners of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

The representative of Apple, Natalie Kerris, said that for one year of the iAd existence about one hundred advertising campaigns have been conducted in seven countries. For the last month about 20 advertisers have been used the services of iAd, including Walt Disney Company, AT&T and the insurance company Geico.

The advertising system iAd from Apple was announced in April 2010. The basis for iAd was the mobile advertising operator Quattro Wireless, which was purchased by Steve Jobs in 2010. The main competitor of iAd at the market is the advertising service Google AdMob.

With the help of iAd, advertisers can place their adverts inside iPhone, iPod touch and iPad software applications. Mobile apps developers get 60 % of the profit from advertising and 40% goes to Apple.

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Creator of Elite designed a flash-drive size computer

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The British game designer David Braben has presented the prototype of the computer whose size is equal to a USB card reader, informs BBC.

The basis of the device is the ARM chip with the clock rate of 700 MHz. Braben’s computer possesses 128 Mb of RAM and is equipped with a standard 2.0 USB port, HDMI output for connecting to a TV or monitor and a slot for SD cards. The computer runs on Ubuntu, one of the distributives of the Linux operating system with the open source code.

Within a year Braben is going to launch the mass production of his computer. According to the preliminary calculations, the production of one device will cost about 15 pounds or 25 dollars. The computer will be distributed among schools in the developing countries where it will be used for teaching computer science.

The similar aims have been put forward by the project ‘One Laptop per Child’ (OLPC). The members of OLPC want to provide every child with a personal laptop whose price won’t be more than 100 dollars. Now every software development company is thinking about creating new interesting applications for kids and schoolchildren.

By the way, now the App Store has many iPad software applications for children and most of them are free or practically free.

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Motorola announced iPad’s competitor

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

While software development companies work hard to create new applications and software, hardware development companies introduce new devices. At the exhibition in Las Vegas Motorola Mobility has announced its new tablet computer Xoom, reported Bloomberg.

The device is based on a Duo Core processor and is equipped with the 10.1-inch screen. Xoom will use the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operation system developed by Google Inc. Let’s remind that in September 2010 Samsung released the tablet Galaxy Tab that also works on the Android operation system. However, the given device will perform on the updated version of the software.

Xoom is supposed to enter thexoom-tablet-550x367 market in the first quarter of 2011. The developers haven’t specified how much the device will cost. According to the specialists, the price of Xoom shouldn’t exceed 500 dollars in order to be competitive with other similar devices – for example, with iPad from Apple.

It should be noted that on January 2, 2011 the company Motorola was divided into 2 companies – Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. The first one is specialized on mobile devices, the second one – on the telecommunication equipment. The company had been preparing for this division for the last 3 years.

No matter how many mobile devices will see the market in future, mobile application developers will design applications for all of them.

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10 bln apps downloaded in App Store

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Apple informed that by January 24, 2011, 10 bln apps for iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad have been downloaded from the App Store. Soon the company will announce who was that man who downloaded this app but Apple promised to give him a certificate for 10 000$ for buying apps in the iTunes Store.one-billion-apps-hero-20090418

Just to remind, the App Store was launched in 2008 году, by January 2010 about 3 bln apps had been downloaded and in the middle of the summer of 2010 this figure increased up to 6 bln. Half a year later in connection with the launch of iPhone 4 and iPad, Apple managed to double the number of mobile applications.

The next milestones of Apple are 15 and 20 bln apps. Let’s wait and see how quickly Appl will pass these milestones.
According to the recent tendencies when many software development companies offer various mobile development services, these marks will be passed in no time.

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Hackers announced the tools for jailbreaking iPhone 4

Monday, October 18th, 2010

The hackers from the Chronic Dev Team announced the release of the new tool for jailbreaking smartphones iPhone 4 and other devices based on iOS 4.1, reported Redmond Pie. The procedure of jailbreaking allows installing the third party content on the smartphones not from the official Apple App Store. iPhone application developers can now develop their apps and distribute them since now using jailbreaking it’s possible to install them with no problems.

The jailbreak, developed for the latest generation of the smartphones iPhone, iPod touch players as well as the iPad tablets, was launched on October 10. It is reported that only devices based on A4 processors can undergo jailbreaking. Thus, it won’t be working on Apple smartphones and players of the older generations. jailbreak

It is reported, that the jailbreak is based on the SHAtter vulnerability, detected by the Chronic Dev Team at the beginning of September. At this, the jailbreak will be complete and won’t require the connection to the computer while switching on the device after rebooting.

The jailbreak differs from the procedure of the SIM unlock, which allows depriving the devices of the connection to the network of the certain mobile operator. It should be noted that iPhone binding to the operator is sold in some countries, for example, in the USA. In Russia iPhone 4 is sold without binding.

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Apple informed about an all-time high quarterly proceeds and profits

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

ipadApple presented its quarterly report for the third financial quarter ended at the end of June, which was so expected by specialists. As it was expected, the report turned out to be positive due to high sales of iPhone 4 smartphones and new iPad devices (at the same time, the demand for products from iPad application developers has also increased). Moreover, the company stated that PC and laptop users have started purchasing new products from Mac more actively.
In the third quarter the net profit of Apple reached 3.25 bln dollars or 3.51 dollars in comparison with 1.83 bln dollars or 2.01 dollars for a share a year before. On average the experts were expecting the net profit of Apple at the level of 3.11 bln dollars.
According to the head of the company Steve Jobs, till the end of this year Apple will concentrate on the mobile developments with low marginality in order to expand its users’ base. Jobs noted that now all key products including Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod are sold either at the expected level or a bit higher. Also the head of the company promised a few more product innovations till the end of the year.
In the reporting period the proceeds of the company increased by 61% and reached the all time high level of 15.7 bln dollars having exceeded the expectations of analytics at 14.7 bln dollars. According to Apple, the quarterly proceeds at 15.7 bln dollars are the highest result for the whole 30-year period of their presence at the market.

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Hackers have cracked iPad

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

hacked_iPadThe AT&T company has found a gap in the iPad security system. The owners of the latest Apple’s gadget have sent the corresponding notification about the leakage of e-mail addresses. The group of hackers announced that it was able to crack users’ devices connected via the authorized wireless access. AT&T claims that the given vulnerability has already been eliminated.

According to Gawker, the hackers got the personal information of 114,000 iPad owners. Among them there are dozens of managers of leading companies, show biz celebrities, politicians. In particular, according to the preliminary information, the e-mail addresses of top-managers of New York Times Company, Dow Jones, Condе Nast, Viacom, Time Warner, News Corporation, HBO, Hearst have come to the hands of the hackers. The account of Chief of the biggest helicopter squadron B-1 William Aldridge has been also cracked.

AT&T is an exclusive partner of Apple. One of the business partners had reported the vulnerability in the security system several days before the incident.

Probably, in future iPad application developers will offer in their products additional functions for protecting personal information.

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Autorotation for interfaces of iPad apps

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The majority of iPhone and iPod touch applications support portrait orientation only. Many web developers haven’t even thought about adding landscape orientation where it is really necessary. Apple isn’t an exception: it didn’t realize the support of landscape orientation in the important system programs of iPhone OS 2.x (the company has corrected its mistake in iPhone OS 3.x).

With iPad arrival the situation has changed. Apple obliged all iPad apps developers to support the both types of orientation in iPad applications. Of course, there can be exceptions, for example, games. But applications that don’t have fixed (functional) binding to the orientation must be user-friendly in any position of the device.

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There are no difficulties with simple interfaces. The necessary attribute autoresizingMask which describes the changes of the frame is assigned to the UIView class objects. This method is not applicable to complicated interfaces.

Smooth and pleasant autorotation of the application interface can be performed with the help of the layoutSubviews method. The detailed information about this method can be obtained at iPad Programming Guide.

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The world lined up in queues waiting for Apple iPad

Monday, May 31st, 2010

ipad_salesA 19-year-old boy from Tokyo (Takechiyo Yamanaka) who wanted to be one of the first iPad owners in Japan took his place before the Apple store almost 2 days before the start of sales. In the morning of the 28th of May, the about 1,2 thousand people formed a queue of 800 meters. A similar situation was usual also in other countries.

And it’s not a surprise. The previous Friday was the day when Apple started iPad sales in nine new countries. An unprecedented boom was at the flagship Apple store in Tokyo.

The price for the model that supports Wi-Fi and 16 GB embedded memory was 48,800 yen in Japan (or about $537). For comparison: the same model can be bought in the U.S. at the price of $499. According to independent experts of RBC Capital Markets, about 476 thousand of Apple iPads will be sold in Japan.

The queues in Sydney (Australia) were not as long as in Tokyo was, but their length was also impressive — about 200 meters. A 22-year-old Rahul Koduri was the first customer there. The cost of the basic device version was 629 Australian dollars, or approximately $533. Today iPad is also available for sale in Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

According to Apple representatives, iPad apps developers have created about 5 thousand applications for this tablet PC + 200 thousand of other applications for iPhone and iPod touch that are also available for iPad users.

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