iPhone 5 in the rumor mill

iPhone 5 in the rumor mill

by Matt Tinsley (RSS feed) on Oct 8th 2010 at 5:00PM

It seems like only yesterday that the iPhone 4 was released, but how time flies when you're having fun. With the whole antennagate issue mostly behind us, most folks are just settling down to getting the best out of their shiny new iPhone. After all, its only been around four months since it was released.

So, with that in mind, it's hard to believe that talk of the next iPhone is already in circulation. Believe it or not, the rumor mill is once again churning out talk of Apple's next iteration of the iPhone - the enigma that is affectionately dubbed the iPhone 5.

TechRadar has compiled a roundup of some of the hottest rumored features that we may see in the iPhone 5. Here's a brief summary of what they report, but remember, it's only speculation.

Kicking us off, the iPhone 5 release is expected to be in June / July of 2011 because that's the time cycle that other iPhone releases have followed. However, iLounge has guessed that the next iPhone could be with us as early as January of next year (even they admit this is "hard to believe."). The reason for a January 2010 release of the next iPhone, simply put, would be to resolve, with new hardware, the now mostly blown over antennagate issue.

Next up, there's been talk of the iPhone 5 being equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, essentially turning the iPhone 5 into a digital wallet (allowing you to make credit / debit card like payments with the phone). Apple has released a patent demonstrating such technology, but this was some time ago, so it's unclear as to whether Apple is planning this for deployment in the iPhone 5.

Furthermore, the next iPhone is rumored to be evolutionary as apposed to revolutionary. Similar to the design shift from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 5 will be akin to the iPhone 4, but a beefed up version. Rumored specs are of a faster processor (1.2GHz), more memory and larger storage, and a 3.7' screen (as apposed to the current 3.5' one on the iPhone 4). The iPhone 5 may also be made of a new material, perhaps some kind of alloy. Oh, and of course, a revamped antenna!

And, a big one here (note the sarcasm in my words), there's talk of the Verizon iPhone. TechRadar reports sources that have handled Verizon iPhone prototypes, though, according to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, that's not likely to happen. Verizon fans, let's hope you don't get let down again

Finally, TechRadar reports that at least one analyst believes the iPhone 5 will support LTE super fast mobile broadband (in the U.S. anyway), which will make the iPhone 5 a 4G phone.

Of course, this is all pure speculation and could amount to nothing more than a big whoosh of hot air. But then again, the next version of the iPhone is coming. Let the countdown begin.

PlayStation 3 poderá usar dados de perfil Facebook em seus jogos

PlayStation 3 poderá usar dados de perfil Facebook em seus jogos

Publicada em 06/10/2010 às 19h26m

O Globo

RIO - A mais recente atualização de hardware do PlayStation 3 - cuja versão do sistema operacional é 3.50 - incluiu novidades como a compatibilidade com filmes Blu-ray em 3D, mas uma novidade curiosa quase passou despercebida pelos usuários em geral: uma integração mais aprofundada com o Facebook.

Não se trata apenas das funcionalidades previamente disponíveis - como compartilhar na rede social qual jogo você comprou na PlayStation Store -, mas a possibilidade de puxar conteúdo de seu perfil pessoal se o usuário permitir.

Eric Lempel, vice-presidente de operações de rede da Sony Computer Entertainment, declarou à Forbes: "Abrimos praticamente toda a nossa API [interface de programação de aplicativo] do Facebook aos nossos desenvolvedores de jogos. Eles podem puxar qualquer tipo de informação do Facebook, assim como enviar informação para lá".

Com esta nova integração, o uso destas informações puxadas do Facebook fica a critério da imaginação dos game designers: usar fotos de seus amigos em cartazes dentro de jogos, usar nomes para personagens coadjuvantes, e assim por diante.

BandNews RJ retuitou minhas fotos

Top 5 Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch (via Mashable)

http://mashable.com/2010/08/19/mobile-advertising-trends/

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Discovering Ancient Pompeii with iPad

Technology helps history.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/pompeii/

Pedido Loja Apple

Fiz um pedido de Bumper Case online na Apple Store do Brasil e na hora de fazer o tracking me jogam para a loja italiana... #fail

Motorola processa Apple por violação de múltiplas patentes Leia mais: Motorola processa Apple por violação de múltiplas patentes

From  | MacMagazine

por Rafael Fischmann | 06/10/2010

Lembra do infográfico que publicamos ontem, mostrando quem está processando quem entre as gigantes de mobile? Um designer pegou os mesmos dados e transformou em algo muito mais bonito/organizado:

Pois bem, até então a Motorola não processava ninguém — só se defendia de acusações de Nokia, Research In Motion (RIM) e Microsoft. Hoje, isso mudou: a companhia acabar de anunciar a abertura de um processo gigantesco contra a Apple, acusando-a de violar múltiplas patentes de sua autoria.

Registrada na International Trade Commission (ITC) dos Estados Unidos, a ação da Motorola envolve o iPad, o iPhone, o iPod touch (citado como "iTouch", erroneamente) e até alguns Macs como supostos infratores de suas invenções. A Motorola Mobility também entrou com reclamações de violação de patentes em dois diferentes distritos norte-americanos.
As três ações da Motorola, juntas, compreendem 18 patentes. Entre os serviços da Apple envolvidos no processo, estão o MobileMe e a App Store. As patentes da Motorola também incluem tecnologias de comunicação sem fio, design de antenas e outras funcionalidades/recursos como troca de emails pelo ar, sensores de proximidade, gerenciamento de softwares, serviços baseados em geolocalização e sincronização de múltiplos dispositivos. Quase tudo, digamos assim. :-)
Apesar de não determinar que tipo de ressarcimento monetário vislumbra, a Motorola quer uma "Ordem de Exclusão" que impeça a importação de produtos da Apple citados no processo para os Estados Unidos, bem como proíba as vendas de unidades que já tenham sido importadas. Mais que isso: a fabricante de celulares demanda a interrupção imediata de quaisquer ações de marketing/comunicação que envolvam o iPhone e gadgets relacionados no país.
Isso vai dar é pano pra manga…

Brasil - Bumper Case para iPhone 4

Apple Brasil começa a vender Bumper Case para iPhone 4 - 99,00 na loja online - http://store.apple.com/br

Facebook lets users form groups and download data

do Yahoo! News

by Glenn Chapman – 34 mins ago

PALO ALTO, California (AFP) – Facebook is letting users form cozy cliques as part of a move to give people more control of their information at the world's most popular online social network.

A "Groups" feature that lets Facebook members set up private online havens for clusters of family, co-workers, teammates, or others was unveiled Wednesday at the firm's headquarters in the Californian city of Palo Alto.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg said that the "biggest problem" in online social networking is that people tend to divide their friends into separate circles that they interact with differently, such as co-workers or former school chums.

"Now, people can map out all the real world groups they have in a graph," Zuckerberg said, referring to "Groups."

"If we can do this, we can unlock a huge amount of sharing people want to do that they don't do now because it's too annoying or the privacy," he said.

Groups are shared spaces in which people can communicate with tools including email lists and "group chat that is pretty killer," he added.

"We think that what we have out of the box, version one, blows away everything else," Zuckerberg said, referring to "groups" services offered by Internet stalwarts such as Yahoo! and Google.

Facebook also began rolling out a feature that will let people download all pictures, video, comments and other digital information they have uploaded to the social networking service.

"Download is really so you can have a copy of all your information," Zuckerberg said. "You own your information. You should have control over it. You should be able to do whatever you want with it."

A new "dashboard" feature to be rolled out in the coming days will let Facebook users see and manage what information in their accounts is accessed by third-party applications.

Explaining the new features, Forrester social computing analyst Augie Ray said "the dialogue during the past year that popped up over privacy issues may have caused people in Facebook to get nervous.

"What we are seeing today is a genuine desire to stop those concerns while at the same time really give people better control," Ray said.

The new features are part of a drive to build Facebook into a "social platform" where people share and connect across the gamut of applications used to swap pictures, messages, videos and more online, according to Zuckerberg.

"We think social can be like the PC (personal computer) platform, giving people control of their information in different contexts," he said.

"Groups" was built with the help of Hot Potato, a young New York City Internet firm that Facebook bought in August.

Hot Potato about nine months ago launched a social networking service that lets smartphone users "check-in" to let friends know what they are thinking, watching, playing, attending, listening to, or otherwise doing.

"Groups are about how we are living our lives today," said Hot Potato founder and Facebook Groups leader Justin Shaffer. "We think this is going to change, fundamentally, how you use Facebook today."

People forming Facebook Groups can make them open, closed, or secret.

Membership and content of open groups is public, while the content of closed groups can only be seen by members. Secret groups hide their membership and contents.

Analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley doubted that features Facebook started rolling out Wednesday would do much to ameliorate concerns about how safe personal data is in the online community.

"They are approaching a trust issue like you would a technology problem and patching the product," Enderle said.

"They are turning people into mini data managers," he continued. "But, if you don't trust Facebook in the first place, why would you believe your Group is a contained area that Facebook won't mine?"

iTunes needs a facelift

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/26/the-networker-john-naughton-itunes-apple

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