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Indian Police Investigating Google India’s “Mapathon” Contest

raghu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:40:59 +0000

Google India’s recently concluded “Mapathon” contest has attracted quite a lot of negative criticism from the Indian Police who says that it is investigating the mapping data and the contest conducted by Google that might expose sensitive and restricted data. Indian police claim that Google violated rules in a competition that asked users to add information [...]

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Apple’s “Slide To Unlock” Patent Deemed Invalid By German Court

raghu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:09:34 +0000

Apple and Motorola have been fighting it out in the German court to settle out various patent infringement cases against each other. In the latest development, a German Federal Patent Court ruled Apple’s “Slide To Unlock” patent as invalid. The patent under consideration was European Patent EP1964022 for “unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image”. [...]

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Apple Remains Strong In US Smartphone Market, Extends Lead Over Samsung

raghu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:32:48 +0000

Android and Samsung might be dominating globally, but US still seems to be a stronghold for Apple that Samsung is failing to break. Samsung has been spending high amount of money market its products in the US and capture the top spot last year but still failed to make it despite its efforts, there were [...]

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Facebook Home Might Not Be Up For Grabs On iOS And Might Remain Exclusive For Android

raghu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:14:11 +0000

In yesterday’s launch of Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg was quite keen on stressing about the openness of Android OS as a whole that made it possible to develop Facebook home that allows to make some deep system level customisations. When asked about the possibility of extending Facebook Home to iOS users, Zuckerberg was quite non-committal [...]

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Apple Almost Seals Deals With Record Labels For iRadio Service

raghu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:54:51 +0000

Last week we reported about the progress of Apple music streaming service, iRadio, being delayed because of pricing issues between record labels and Apple. It was reported that Apple was willing to pay a mere 6 cents per 100 songs to the record labels as compared to the industry standards of 21 cents per 100 [...]

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Apple’s Spaceship Campus To Cost 66% More Than Expected At $5 Billion

raghu — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:40:27 +0000

Initial budget estimate for Apple’s mega spaceship campus was estimated at $3 billion which is a huge budget as such, but recent reports suggest Apple to have shot the budget up by 66% to a whooping $5 billion current estimate for its project which is almost 30% higher than the World Trade Center complex currently being build [...]

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DEA Reports Suggest Apple’s iMessage Service Impossible To Intercept

raghu — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:09:36 +0000

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States, that at times would need to intercept mobile communications to gather valuable data. But recent report from CNET suggest that Apple’s iMessage service is turning out to be a big pain to crack [...]

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Apple Files For Improved Pedometer Accuracy Hinting At iWatch Use Case

raghu — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:36:32 +0000

AppleInsider reprots of three different patents filed by Apple that aim at improving the accuracy of pedometer implementation using current devices or any device supporting a gyroscope and accelerometer. Apple’s patent suggest it being keen on creating a dedicated health accessory or to implement it in their current mobile devices itself. Accessories like FitBit, Nike [...]

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Apple Files For Advanced Street View Patent Which Is A Bit Better Than Google’s

raghu — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:10:44 +0000

Apple maps is currently lagging behind Google maps in many aspects but things are getting better with Apple maps at a rapid pace and few user driven tests also confirmed it recently. One aspect where Google maps is better than Apple maps is with the provision of Street View of a location where users will [...]

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Android Tablets Will Not Be Able To Beat Apple iPad Anytime Soon

raghu — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:30:22 +0000

Researchers suggest that Apple will have a hard time to grow its marketshare percentage in smartphone segment but it can remain dominant in the tablet segment for a longer time now. The market dynamics in the smartphone segment are going in the wrong way right now in a race to capture the largest share which [...]

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Apple Adds A New Section To Display Minimum Age Recommendation For Apps On App Store

raghu — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:56:47 +0000

There have been multiple instances in the last one year where Apple’s strict app approval process was bypassed due to various unknown reasons. Apple and Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs are quite keen on avoiding adult content and other restricted content on their app store. Steve Jobs even cited that Android store support adult content [...]

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More Details Emerge About Fingerprint Scanning Technology That Apple Might Use

raghu — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:34:43 +0000

More rumours pour in about Apple’s fingerprint technology that might be included in the next version of iPhone, Apple iPhone 5S. Analyst Brian White of Topeka Capital believes to have gathered enough information in his recent trip to China and Taiwan where he had meetings with component suppliers as details given by AppleInsider. Apple might [...]

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Rovio, Maker Of Angry Birds, Report $195 Million Revenue In 2012

raghu — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:57:03 +0000

Your favourite game Angry Bird’s maker Rovio reported its annual revenue for the year of 2012 and it seems to be a great year for Rovio which reported a revenue of $195 million up by around 101% compared to the $96.9 million back in 2011. The main source of revenue for Rovio still remains paid [...]

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Mobile Safari Still Winning The Browser War

raghu — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:35:42 +0000

A month ago, back in February, there were reports looming in about the decline of Mobile Safari share and that the trend would continue to happen in the following months. But guess what? A recent statistic on NetMarketShare (reported by TheNextWeb) says that Apple’s Mobile Safari is back at 61.79% down from a previous 55.41% [...]

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Samsung Outspent Apple By 4 Times In Ad Revenue Spent In 2012

raghu — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:47:18 +0000

Asymco has made an indeep analysis into Samsung’s spendings for Sales, General and Administrative expensive (SG&A) over the last three years to analyse why Samsung’s SG&A expenses has not shown any significant change. A lot of critical information of how Samsung differs from Apple in few of its major operations were revealed in the report. [...]

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