It seems that Microsoft ultimately decided to take the decision to develop a version of its instant messenger for iPhone OS, and is filtered out the network the first screenshots of the application.

Since Windows Live Messenger to iPhone, obviously, we chat with our contacts, receive and send photos (either from our gallery or on the camera phone) and use all the features offered by the desktop version for your social network.

So far there were some third-party alternatives, such as: Nimbuzz (free application), IM + ($ 10) and Trillian ($ 5).

Via: TUAC

We were pleasantly surprised by the news and why? it simply because Apple has the "big idea" out of the way all the competition in terms of software is concerned, especially when Apple already have or own native applications that perform the same.



That's why, that the adoption of Opera Mini for iPhone, iPod Touch and IPAD has been a great surprise. Remember, Opera Mini compresses pages and allows you to navigate with your mobile much faster and with more moderate consumption data, which will be fine provided you have a data plan with some type of limit consumption.



Here's some screenshots we both like a video so you can check how it looks. By the way, in case you were wondering, is now available for download from the AppStore and is free.

The news bomb today. Twitter has reached an agreement (financial of course) with the developer Loren Brichta and implementation has integrated ecosystem Tweetie its official application form (for iPhone and iPod Touch platform.) In fact, the application name change and will be renamed Twitter For iPhone with the aim to have consistency with the nomenclature of products.

Tweetie is a program available for iPhone and iPod Touch is sold on the App Store for $ 2.99 USD but from now on will be completely free. In the coming weeks is expected that the transition is complete, by which time applications like Twittelator Pro or Echofon will vie for the market users with premium customers.

Perhaps in the near future we see the official application for the IPAD Twitter, which would be logical because the SDK shares almost all the components in the iPhone. Regarding Mac Tweetie has not said anything so will probably continue as a standalone application.

Link Twitter for iPhone

This week is taking place in Vancouver on Pwn2Own 2010, a competition in which participants compete for great prizes to exploit security problems in smathphones and web browsers.

On the first day of the event two European security experts, Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf Philipp Weinmann, exploited a known vulnerability in the iPhone with which you made the SMS database in 20 seconds, including text messages that had been previously eliminated.

While obviously not been given details of the exploit, Weinmann explained that by visiting a malicious site can capture the SMS database and sent to a remote server for checking. He also said the same bug can be exploited to extract the list of phone contacts, like emails, photos and music stored.

The expert duo won a prize of $ 15,000. And the event sponsor, TippingPoint, has become the sole owner of the rights of the vulnerability, which will be reported to Apple to be solved.

It has been reported that Random House, the largest book publisher in the world like, for one, remain outside the Apple Store iBook not enter a price war originated in the new business model that Apple imposed on the other publishers with whom they are currently working.

Random House believes that this new business will only affect the revenue of publishers. Random House CEO Markus Dohle, did not rule out reaching an agreement with Apple before 3 April, but said he had worked with "extreme caution" because of Apple's pricing policy, with which you disagree.

What we are seeing is that Apple is building its own pricing policy, instead of allowing publishers to set the price of its publications, an issue which I think would be normal. And is that 30% profit on each book to Apple, could eventually become untenable for publishers.

However, even if they already talked about this in the past, Apple supports this model, arguing that the new business that is about to undertake with the iBook Store, will be extremely successful. Apple believes that the new business will sustain itself after a few months and that ultimately will be a much better model than the present.

Even advocates argue that their system is better than Amazon, where publishers were the ones who fixed the final price of their publications, because the Amazon is not assured publishers have always profit, but losses have also been Resgistrar. They note that Apple's sustained viability during the latest years, is a proof that the business model is correct.

Months after launching a public beta called Kodiak, Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah on 24 March 2001.

Everyone knows this has been the evolution of Mac OS X since then, and if not, at TUAW have a specific gallery, and obvious that many changes and improvements made, has always maintained the spirit and basis of the original system, and that has remained unchanged even when the bowels of the Macs have changed, as when the buses were dispensed with Power PC and Intel opted for.

This only happens when a company not only knows what will happen in the future, but also has very clear ideas from the start and know where target the market, and if it were the case, which goes into force that direction.

The ratio of release of all versions of Mac OS X with cat names and dates, is as follows:

• Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah: March 24, 2001.
• Mac OS X 10.1 Puma: September 25, 2001.
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar: August 24, 2002.
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: October 24, 2003.
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: April 29, 2005.
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (for Intel): 10 January 2006.
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: October 26, 2007.
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 28 August 2009.

Via TUAW

Piper Jaffray analysts assume that within a maximum of 4 years, Apple will launch its own television with internet connection.

The basis for this theory is that soon the market will be saturated with this type of equipment that by its very nature can survive in a world increasingly connected to the network. But in addition, the Cupertino company has in its product catalog Apple TV device that the company stands, but it remains, that by themselves literally a hobby. Many believe that Apple does not dare to give a final push these products because they simply are not ready market for the moment, something that the theory is about to change.

Looking back, this issue there were rumors about a year ago, and now credit is given back. In fact it is hardly surprising when you consider that apart from what was said for months that there are clear indications from Cupertino is gambling is very strong in terms of TV content, and negotiations to offer a service similar to the iTunes Music Store are an open secret.

Additionally, he has always said that the possibility of bringing iTunes everywhere via mobile devices, could also move to television content.

Surge is the first Apple-certified solar charger compatible with any iPhone / iPod. We speak of a rechargeable battery via its solar panels from 1320 mAh and 3.7 volts.

With a heavy load of two hours we can have a conversation of 30 minutes (3G) and up to 60 minutes (2G). The price of this rechargeable battery for iPhone is $ 80, while the iPod is priced at $ 70.

The AppStore is an application that allows to estimate the time that we have to charge your mobile phone so your battery never runs out. For example, if we have to make a short trip, then provide that we will use and the number of days that we were, the application daily hours will tell us we have to use the solar charger.

A few minutes and merely 8 days have released the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 for the iPad, Apple has released the next version of the SDK specifically for the iPad. The speed with which Apple has been releasing different versions of the SDK, denote the imminent appearance of the product on the market.

As you can imagine, yet no information on the new features this new version, but probably within the next few hours will be enough information. The question would be Is there a new version of the iPhone software for existing terminals or we have to wait until Apple releases the iPhone software version 4?

To me, that the current owners of an iPhone, we have to wait to present a new generation Apple iPhone with iPhone Software 4. Apparently the many fixes that need the iPhone's operating system along with new features, will have to wait several more months.

If you are an application developer for the iPad, you probably already know that you can download from the Apple iPhone Dev Center.

According to the guys from iLounge, Apple could ban the sale of protective films for the iPhone screen in all its stores from May. This decision could wipe some of the most popular accessories manufactured by third parties of their physical stores as well as their online store.

The prohibition of sale of such products could also affect those sleeves that incorporate such protective film, forcing customers to look for this type of accessory shops that have nothing to do with Apple. Also could be affected also those decorative and protective products that are specially made for devices manufactured by the Cupertino company.

The manufacturers have not received any official response, nor an explanation of the reasons for this ban. However, there are speculations that Apple wants to promote the supposed durability of the screens of their products.

It is a fact that is not the lack of popularity of these products, and a sample of this is that these protective films, accessories are the most requested by consumers in Apple stores. This type of accessory currently holds the sixth or seventh in popularity in the U.S. Apple Store.

Via iLounge

Eugene Kasperksy, leading security company with the same name, says that long ago that Apple consistently blocked attempts to create a security suite for iPhone, so something has never seen the light in the App Store.

He explains that although contacts with Cupertino extend over 2 years, the company has never allowed to use the SDK to develop a security application. The very founder of Kaspersky says that the chances of a virus to infect an iPhone are practically nil, but also notes that the app I want to develop will focus on data security at each terminal.

Here again we would enter into the debate about whether Apple is following the right path when it is prohibited to use the SDK to develop very specific apps, though in this case perhaps how you would use the SDK attack Apple's policies while on the other hand, are allowed to create applications that are totally and absolutely absurd. The issue becomes more thorny when it comes to the theory that law is equal for all, we all know that this is not true, even remotely.

I personally believe that this is another example that Apple does not like to improve their products, because by extension mean that these are not entirely good.

Just a few hours after Apple pulled a lot of applications from the AppStore to include content "potentially offensive" to its customers, the company has given its decision stating that "Every time we receive complaints from our customers about content same and also there are any objections, we review in depth ". This statement was made by Trudy Miller, an Apple representative.

He continued saying that "If we find that these applications contain inappropriate material, eliminated and asked the developer to make the changes necessary to allow the application to be distributed by Apple."

These statements relate to the disposal of an application from the AppStore, as the company received many complaints about the content "highly sexual" some applications that were available in the AppStore.

That's why Apple chose to change policies and regulations of the AppStore to avoid such "misunderstandings" with their customers and eventually eliminate a significant portion of applications from the AppStore. Although these have not entirely disappeared from the store ...

Via iLounge

When it seemed that this issue was considered settled, Apple back at it again and again shows the iPad as if it were able to run Flash, as everyone knows, and the company has already secured several times that the device does not Flash runs.

In this case is again the New York Times iPad seen in the middle that appears in all detail, some of which are the same that triggered the ire of many users, who accused the company of misleading advertising to point that Apple had to show examples as seen in the iPad, ie no Flash elements. At this point, no one explains how Apple may re-emphasized with the same, after all the fuss that was mounted.

Knowing that the iPad is about to enter the market, it is likely that the reference site suffers from a device, so that we may be talking about a momentary lapse that is already being resolved. Anyway, remember that the New York Times is arguably one of the main partners of the iPad, and the fact that not shown in all their glory-as both the device could damage the newspaper more than a reputation, and is not like anyone.

Apple has imposed more restrictions on the AppStore. For a couple of days, Apple has changed the policies of the AppStore and thanks to that change, a little over 5,000 applications have disappeared forever from the AppStore.

And is that from now can be seen as applications that Apple deemed potentially offensive to users of applications in the AppStore. I asked what those applications that Apple regards as potentially offensive:

• No photographs of women and / or scantily clad men
• Do not allow images suggestive
• There will be no sexual connotations whatsoever
• Nothing that can cause sexual excitement
• No applications that may come to involve sexual content

All I can say about this is that each person is free to carry on your terminal type of content that you see fit and that, apparently, Apple has made it very clear that things are done or how they say, or rather not made. But on the other hand, we all know that there are alternatives to doing whatever we want with our terminal.

Via MobileCrunch

A few hours ago Apple announced that there are another 13 new AppStore globally, among the countries that have joined the successful application store of the company are: Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda.

Until now, there are few applications that people in these countries may find their respective AppSotres, since developers will have to update your preferences in iTunes Connect sales for its applications begin appearing in the AppStore above.

For they will have to choose "sell in new territories" (selling in the New Territories) for a few minutes later, begin to receive applications. A pretty good news for fans of iPhone and iPod touch in those countries, but especially for Apple every time it expands to store more profitable and popular applications in the world.

Via Apple iPhone Dev Center

The patent office issued U.S. patents in these days that Apple could give us a clue as will the next generation of Magic Mouse. The document describes 3 new sensors and a 3-axis gyroscope for the accessory is capable of detecting balance sheet, the inclination and the deviation of the fitting.

This means that the user could tilt the mouse to do side to produce a horizontal displacement, vertical displacement or to tilt a chart. Additionally, the mouse described would have a completely convex lower surface displacements that are simpler.

Just remember that many of the technologies that Apple patented, never fail to occur, so it is better not fool yourself.

Via TUAW