Author : Philip King
Date : Jul 2nd, 2009
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Filings from Apple over the past two years reveal that the company is constantly looking to improve upon the ways in which customers interact with its multi-touch devices, the latest of which proposes methods for controlling iPods and iPhones by detecting and using a user’s fingerprints.

More specifically, the filing lodged with the United States Patent [...]

Author : Philip King
Date : Jul 2nd, 2009
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Known for thinking outside the box, Apple is now apparently working on an in-the-box concept that could provide power to iPods, iPhones and other electronics devices still inside their retail packaging, allowing them to display demo videos and receive firmware updates while hanging unopened on a shelf in a retail store.

In a new patent filing [...]

Author : Philip King
Date : Jul 2nd, 2009
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Now with the release of the 3.0 OS iPhone has basically caught up with the traditional smartphones in functionality, it may be time to look how Apple can make the next generation devices even smarter.

We’ve already seen some of the things, like integration between Mapping and Calendar app in recent Apple patent filings. Some new [...]

Author : Andrew Wells
Date : Jul 1st, 2009
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The opening copy in Apple’s two brand new TV commercials starts with what has become its summer blockbuster theme for the third consecutive year, “This is the new iPhone”. A profound sentence that’s forever changed the mobile phone industry. In the latest adverts, the company focuses all of the attention on one long overdue feature [...]

Author : Andrew Wells
Tag : Wallpaper
Date : Jul 1st, 2009
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To coincide with Imagine’s Premiere of David Hockney - A Bigger Picture on BBC, the artist is giving away as downloads three of his recent original iPhone art images available for 48 hours only. You can put these digital images onto your phone or computer.

Image © David Hockney
Renowned British artist David Hockney has discovered creating [...]

Author : Philip King
Tag : Software
Date : Jul 1st, 2009
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Although iPhone OS 3.0 is just cooling off, Apple has already given developers early access to iPhone OS 3.1 with new hooks for video support.

Seeded to developers on Tuesday night, the first beta and a matching SDK are said by those familiar with the releases to include roughly a dozen new extensions for the OpenGL [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Tag : Games
Date : Jun 30th, 2009
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John Carmack says that not one, but three Quake games are coming to the iPhone: 1, 2, and Arena, though his involvement will mostly be to “make sure certain specific things are done the way I want them to be.” Known as a perfectionist, this shouldn’t surprise anyone.

The Quake onslaught is in addition to a [...]