|
|
Apple News is a News and downloads site for the
Apple Iphone, iTouch and Ipad, We have all the latest emulators, homebrew and all the downloads on this site,
we also cover commercial gaming and console news. Part of the
DCEmu Homebrew & Gaming Network.
THE LATEST NEWS BELOW
|
January 27th, 2012, 01:54 Posted By: wraggster
If you’re going to build a giant touch screen, why not use an OS that is designed for touch interfaces, like Android? [Colin] had the same idea, so he connected his phoneto a projector and a Kinect.
Video is carried from [Colin]‘s Galaxy Nexus to the projector via an MHL connection. Getting the Kinect to work was a little more challenging, though. The Kinect is connected to a PC running Simple Kinect Touch. The PC converts the data from the Kinect into TUIO commands that are received using TUIO for Android.
In order for the TUIO commands to be recognized as user input, [Colin] had to compile his own version of Android. It was a lot of work, but using an OS designed for touch interface seems much better than all the other touch screen hacks that start from the ground up.
You can check out [Colin]‘s demo after the break. Sadly, there are no Angry Birds.
http://hackaday.com/2012/01/25/contr...or-and-kinect/
For more information and downloads, click here!
 There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here
|
|
 |
|
|
|
January 27th, 2012, 01:11 Posted By: wraggster
Back in July 2010, the United Stated government approved few exemptions in a federal law which made jailbreaking/rooting of electronic devices(iPhones and Android devices) legal. The court ruling stated that every three years, the exemptions have to be renewed considering they don't infringe any copyrighted material. The three year period is due to expire and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to get the exemptions renewed. In order to do so, they have filed a petition which aims at government to declare jailbreaking legal once again. In addition to that, EFF is also asking for a change in the original ruling to include tablet devices.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...-illegal-again
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 1 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 27th, 2012, 01:00 Posted By: wraggster
It's been a while, so here's some more speculation around a summer launch.
9to5Mac says it's spoken to a Foxconn employee who says a new iPhone is ready for production.
There are multiple design options floating about apparently, but none has been finalised. However, the story does specify that the device will have a four inch plus display and a symmetrical form factor (as opposed to teardrop-shaped).
It also asserts that the design will be different from iPhone 4/4S.
This source is the same that indicated to 9to5Mac (correctly) that the iPhone 5 was not happening last year as was widely speculated.
Does that make this accurate? God knows.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...rumours/016822
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 27th, 2012, 00:58 Posted By: wraggster
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Android is improving its presence in tablets, taking its share in Q4 to a record 39 per cent. It nearly tripled shipments from 10.5m to 27m in a year.
Good, but still some way behind iOS's 58 per cent. And don't forget, that's for just one device against dozens of Androids.
On a generic level, tablets surged spectacularly. Global shipments hit 66.9 million units in full year 2011, growing 260 per cent from 18.6 million in 2010.
However, one giant company yet to make any real impact is Microsoft, which captured a one per cent global tablet share in Q4 2011. All eyes are now on Windows 8.
Peter King, Director at Strategy Analytics, said" “Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in Q4 2011, surging 150 percent from 10.7 million in Q4 2010.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...q4-2011/016826
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 27th, 2012, 00:56 Posted By: wraggster
Soars from 30 per cent to 45 per cent per capita between February and October 2011.
New stats from Google and Ipsos reveal a global surge from feature phones to smartphones, but show that it's the Brits that have embraced the switch with the most ardour.
In the period between Jan/Feb 2011 and Sept/Oct 2011 smartphone penetration reached 45 per cent in the UK, 38 per cent in the US and France, 23 per cent in Germany and 17 per cent in Japan.
The study also said more consumers in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan use a mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone) than a computer (desktop or laptop).
Other key findings include:
* Germany saw the biggest increase with the percentage of smartphone owners using their device for daily Internet access jumping from 39 per cent to 49 per cent
* Japan had the highest percentage accessing the Internet daily on their smartphone at 88 per cent
* A little over two-thirds of smartphone users in the US and over half of smartphone users in the UK access the mobile Internet daily.
* Across all five countries approximately 75% of smartphone owners said they continued to use their computer to access the Internet daily.
* Tablet usage increased across all five countries with the highest penetration amongst the total population in the US at 11 per cent
* Smartphone usage among females increased in all five countries
* Smartphone ownership also rose among those aged 45+ in the US, UK and France
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...tphones/016835
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 26th, 2012, 03:24 Posted By: wraggster
Landmark reached ten years after launch of 7210.
Series 40 is the platform powering Nokia's entry-level devices. Nokia says the first Series 40 phone was the Nokia 7110, which was developed in 1999, but we think it's actually the 7210, launched in 2002.
Anyhow, S40 has evolved and is still going strong as a 'Smartphone Lite' platform powering - among others - the new Nokia Asha range targeted at emerging markets.
Series 40 phones add to the confusion around what is and what is not a smartphone. Most people would describe them as feature phones, but the new versions offer Nokia Maps, browser, web apps, Nokia Money and Nokia Life Tools.
The 1.5 billionth device was purchased from a Magazine Luiza store in São Paulo by 21-year-old Mayara Rodrigues.
Mary McDowell, EVP for mobile phones at Nokia, said: "We are incredibly proud to reach this milestone. Having 1.5 billion Series 40 devices sold is a hard-to-reach mark, let alone one attainable in a single line of products.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...-phones/016804
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 26th, 2012, 03:23 Posted By: wraggster
Tough old slog ahead for the OS despite Nokia support.
New stats from market watch Kantar Worldpanel ComTech suggest that the Microsoft OS is still struggling for mindshare among the world's smartphone consumers.
Nowhere does it have more than two per cent, and the Nokia Lumia 800 finished quarter four just outside of the top ten smartphones sold in the UK.
Elsewhere the data says Android retained the global smartphone crown, but that Apple is now growing at a faster rate
In the latest 12 weeks of sales, Android had the biggest share in most countries and even went past 60 per cent in Germany.
Apple did best in the US, where its share was at 44.9 per cent while Android took 44.8 per cent. iPhone 4S also helped Apple increase its share of the British smartphone market from 22 per cent a year ago to 34 per cent.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...country/016814
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 25th, 2012, 02:09 Posted By: wraggster
We touched on the numbers in our report on Apple's Q1 earnings, but the company's throwing out a lot of "record" figures so we thought we'd take a moment to focus on just how its hardware sales stack up. The standout number is, of course, the 37.04 million iPhones sold during the quarter, which is up 128 percent from the same quarter a year ago (and up from 17 million in the previous quarter, a jump of 117 percent). That notably puts Apple back ahead of Samsung, which sold a total of 35 million total smartphones in its most recent quarter. And as if that wasn't enough, Apple's Tim Cook also said on the company's earnings call that it could have sold even more if it had more supply.
iPad sales also set a new record with 15.43 million units sold during the quarter, which is a 111 percent jump from the 7.3 million sold a year ago, and a 39 percent increase from the 11.1 million moved in Q4 2011. Once again, however, iPods are the one category that continues to decline in the face of the growth of smartphones. Apple sold a total of 15.4 million iPods -- over half of which were iPod touches -- which represents a 21 percent decline from the 19.4 million sold a year ago. The holiday shopping season did boost sales considerably from the 6.6 million sold in the previous quarter, though.
Mac sales were also on the upswing, totaling 5.2 million units -- a 26 percent increase year-over-year. Breaking things down further, that translates to 1.48 million desktops (including iMac, Mac Mini and Mac Pro), and 3.7 million laptops (including the basic MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro). As for the company's "hobby," the Apple TV, it rang up 1.4 million in sales for the quarter, and 2.8 million for the 2011 fiscal year. Fans of charts can get their fix after the break.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/24/a...ardware-sales/
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
|
January 25th, 2012, 01:46 Posted By: wraggster
An anonymous reader writes in with one of many articles about the iBooks EULA, this time questioning whether it is even enforceable. Quoting:"The iBooks Author EULA plainly tries to create an exclusive license for Apple to be the sole distributor of any worked created with it, but under the Copyright Act an exclusive license is a 'transfer of copyright ownership,' and under 17 U.S.C. 204 such a transfer 'is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed.' When authors rebel and take their work elsewhere, Apple has, at most, a claim for breach-of-EULA — but their damages are the failure to pay $0 for the program."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/0...la-drawing-ire
For more information and downloads, click here!
There are 0 comments - Join In and Discuss Here |
|
|
|
|
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
next » |
|
|
