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- Review: Safari 6 a slight but sleek upgrade for Apple’s browser
- General Imaging set to launch the ipico slide on projector for iPhone and iPod touch
- GoSum for iPhone and iPad review
- Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic review
- How to restore your iPhone or iPad from an iCloud backup
- Weekly Photo Contest: Back to School
- Forums: Diary app suggestions, Help with spam mail, Audiobooks missing
- iMore show LIVE tonight at 6pm PT/9pm ET/5am BST!
- Remains of the Day: Crime and punishment
- Google Voice Search coming to iOS
- Why iOS 6 is more about Apple than new user features
- aTV Flash updated to version 4.5 for original Apple TV
- Working with Microsoft Office Documents on the iPad
- TechHive: Apps for stargazers and space buffs
- Starbucks investing in Square, bringing mobile payments to US locations
- Better Google Voice functionality coming soon to Google Search app for iPhone
- Android and iOS dominate mobile market, says IDC
- Honan hacked!
- Starbucks invests $25 million in Square payment processor
- App Guide: iOS combat games
| Review: Safari 6 a slight but sleek upgrade for Apple’s browser Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT  Under Mountain Lion, Safari is a blast to use, and its relatively few additions all prove worthwhile. | ||
| General Imaging set to launch the ipico slide on projector for iPhone and iPod touch Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:46 AM PDT
The ipico is a fully portable projector solution as it weighs in at just 3.35 ounces and is actually smaller than the iPhone it connects to; although it is slightly thicker at just over half an inch. It comes complete with a built in rechargeable battery and USB charging cable. It displays images of up tp 50-inches in qHD resolution (960 x 540) and is compatible with the iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation) and iPhone 4S, 4 and 3GS. The ipico will be available in white only, in time for the 2012 holiday shopping season. The price will be around $129; which seems like good value to me. It could come in very handy to those of us who like to share media or give a quick product presentation on the fly. Could you see yourself using a portable projector like this one? Is the price reasonable enough for it to become a popular way to share media? 
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| GoSum for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:29 PM PDT
If Words with Friends had a love affair with mathematics, the result would be GoSum. In fact, Words with Friends is to Scrabble, as GoSum is to Equate. Instead of trying to spell words on the game board, the goal of GoSum is to create valid arithmetic equations like 9 + 5 - 6 = 8. GoSum is fun, challenging, and educational. The rules of GoSum are very simple. The board is a grid of equal signs and point multipliers. DN stands for double number, DS for double sum, TN for triple number, and TS for triple sum. For each turn, you get 5 numbers and 2 operators (+, -, x, ÷). Equal signs are "free" and don't require a token. Your job is to use your 5 numbers and 2 operators to create a valid equation. The equation must be constructed in a way so that all the operators you use are on one side of the equal sign so that the other side of the equal sign only has a number.
The main thing you want to keep in mind while playing GoSum is the Order of Operations: multiplication and division must be done before addition and subtraction. For example, 5 + 16 ÷ 4 = 9 since you must do 16 ÷ 4 first. Remember this simple rule, and you'll be a great player! The only number tiles provided in GoSum are 0-9. For beginner players, this is enough, but for students who are learning or rusty with fractions, having tiles with fractions would be beneficial. The board game Equate includes fractions, so I hope GoSum mimics it and has an update that includes the ability to add fraction tiles to the game. I also feel the restriction to only allowing operators on one side of the equal sign disappointing. This limits creativity by not allowing equations such as 84 ÷ 2 = 6 x 7. There are two game modes for GoSum: Pass & Play and Multiplayer. Both modes allow up to 4 players at a time. Multiplayer is integrated with Facebook so that you can easily play against your friends. The good
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The bottom lineGoSum is a fantastic game that can be enjoying by young children and adults alike. Even people who "aren't good at math" will have fun playing GoSum as it only requires basic arithmetic skills. I do wish it included the ability to challenge friends via wifi or bluetooth as it would be great for a classroom setting. Free for iPhone - Download Now$0.99 for iPhone- Download NowFree for iPad - Download Now$2.99 for iPad - Download Now
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| Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic review Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:53 PM PDT It's summertime and what better way to enjoy the sunshine than with the portable Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic! You can carry it around in your pocket and use to lengthen the time you have to listen to your tunes, enjoy your videos, and engage in social chit-chat while outdoors! The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic has three solar cells that power a lithium-ion battery with a rated output of 1.5 to 5.5 Watts. This basically means it will charge your iPhone, but not your iPad. That's not great, but it's part of the price we pay for Apple cramming such a giant, power hungry battery into the iPad.
The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic is compatible with a multitude of phones and other assorted gadgets. In the case of the iPhone and iPod touch, it uses a USB adapter that you plug your Apple provided Dock cable into. If you want to charge your non-Apple gear, the Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic has a number of handy, if confusing, adapters to fit myriad types of connections, and more can be bought online if the one that fits your device isn't provided.
The name has the word "Hybrid" in Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic means that you can charge up the Lithium ION battery not only with solar power, but with good old electricity before heading out if you so wish. Just use the USB cable from your laptop or AC adapter. However, if you have a steady beam of light, the charger, even when completely drained, will use the Solar panels to charge your phone. It was even able to use indoor lighting to charge my iPhone. Pretty awesome. It'll also hold a charge for up to a year. Equally awesome. The Solio Hybrid Solar Charger Classic comes with a funny looking suction cup that is reversible so that you can leave the charger on a window or on a table and not worry of it falling.
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The bottom lineI like the charger for it's convenience and portability but I certainly wish it had greater output capacity in solar mode to charge my iPad. It's also a rather old piece of technology now, and while it works, I certainly look forward to reviewing more modern and -- dare I say it? -- futuristic solar charging solutions. 
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| How to restore your iPhone or iPad from an iCloud backup Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:04 PM PDT
If you're upgrading, replacing, or restoring your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, using iCloud can get you back up and running in no time. Unlike restoring from iTunes, you don't need to plug right into the specific Mac or Windows PC that holds your iTunes library. All you need is a Wi-Fi connection and some time. We've even done it right at the Apple store, right after swapping out our iPhones and iPads. It's simple once you know how. How to set up your new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with iCloudWhen you turn on your new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you'll be greeted with a Lock screen that simply says "iPhone", "iPod" or "iPad". That's where we start.
How to restore your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad from an iCloud backupIf you have an old iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and need access to your old data quickly, or dread the idea of starting from scratch again, you have the option of simply restoring your new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from a backup of your old device.
A progress bar will show you an approximation of how long it will take to download your backup. Once it's done, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will reboot. Once your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad reboots, all your previous settings will be back in place, and you'll be asked to re-enter all your passwords (as a security measure, iCloud will not restore passwords). Once that's done, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will start re-downloading all your apps. You will need to stay on Wi-Fi for any file larger than 50MB to re-download. How to get more help with iCloudIf you still need help with setting up, backing up, restoring, or updating your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, or any other iCloud feature, head on over to our iCloud Forum and ask away! 
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| Weekly Photo Contest: Back to School Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:34 PM PDT
It's time to announce this week's photo contest -- Back to School! Summer vacation is coming to close (and already has for some students), which means it's time to get back in the classroom and hit the books. For this week's contest, we want you to take a photo that's somehow related to school whether it be a picture of your locker, a creative arrangement of all your supplies, a picture of your kid all dressed up for school, or a beautiful landscape of your campus -- we want to see it! The prize: Glif tripod mount and stand!
In addition to a thumbs up from the iMore crew and all of us yelling about how great of a photo star you are, the winner of this week's photography contest will receive a Glif tripod mount and stand! The rulesThe rules of entry are very simple. The photo must have been taken with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (we'll check the EXIF data of the original file to verify) and any edits must have been done with an iPhone or iPad app. No Photoshop CS6! If you have external lens accessories you are more than welcome to use them. You can submit as many photos as you'd like, but remember, this is a contest, so make sure you submit your best work! ResourcesNow, before you run off to take your photo, remember that it's not technical skill alone that will claim this prize. Even if you're not the best photographer (yet!), a great eye and a great subject can still get you the win. However, a little help can never hurt, so make sure you check out these articles from our iPhone photography series for some tips.
How to submitSubmitting your photos is easy. just head over to the iMore Photography Forum and post your photos to the official contest thread. Don't forget to state which apps, if any, you used to edit your photo! That's it! Now go out and shoot! 
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| Forums: Diary app suggestions, Help with spam mail, Audiobooks missing Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:48 PM PDT
Found an interesting article you want to share with iMore? Have a burning question about that feature you just can't figure out? There is ALWAYS more happening just a click away in the forums. You can always head over and join in the conversation, search for answers, or lend your expertise to other members of our community. You check out some of the threads below: -Trouble with Siri If you're not already a member of the iMore Forums, register now! 
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| iMore show LIVE tonight at 6pm PT/9pm ET/5am BST! Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:50 PM PDT The greatest iPhone and iPad podcast in the 'verse returns tonight, LIVE at 6pm PT/9pm ET/5am BST! There's a ton of iOS stuff to talk about so get your snacks together and join us in the chat room for the best hour of pure Apple geekery you'll get all week. We've got a special guest tonight -- the one and only @marcedwards of Bjango. So buckle up, get your beverages, and get your spot in the chat staked out asap! Want to go full screen? Head to iMore.com/live. Want to watch via iPhone or iPad? Grab the Ustream app and search for "mobilenations"!
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| Remains of the Day: Crime and punishment Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT  Remains. | ||
| Google Voice Search coming to iOS Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:05 PM PDT  Google's Voice Search technology, which makes the company's Search app almost Siri-like in its intelligence, is making the leap from Android to iOS. | ||
| Why iOS 6 is more about Apple than new user features Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:11 PM PDT
We've talked about iOS 6 and it's unusual focus at length already, but it's been in bits and pieces, scattered across a range of articles, and tangential to other points. I think it's valuable to collect it all together, though. Unlike any full point release before it, iOS 6 is more about Apple, their platform, and its future, than it is present user attraction. And it's worth collecting that, exploring why it is, and looking at what it means for iOS users. At WWDC 2012, Apple senior vice president, Scott Forstall, introduced iOS 6 and showed off 10 of its over 200 new features. The response was decidedly mixed. Many saw it as more tick than tock -- a minor point release rather than a major new OS version that was inattentive to power-user interests, and a sign that Apple was slowing down. And it didn't help that Google's minor point release, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, shown off the very same month, seemed to pack just as much punch as Apple's major new OS version, if not more.
Sure, the low hanging fruit is gone for iOS, but a lot of higher-hanging fruit remains. Yet clearly that's not Apple's focus this year. This year, there's no iPhone OS 2.0 App Store-level feature addition for iOS. No iOS 5 PC-free/iCloud-level addition either. There's not even an iOS 4 or iPhone OS 3.0 multitasking or cut, copy, and paste-level addition. No new Home screen interfaces or fast app switcher visualizations. No actionable notifications or methods for inter-app communications. What there is, is all about Apple. Removing Google's data hooks
iOS 6 will excise the Google-powered Maps app from the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and replace it with an Apple-powered Maps app. It will remove the Google-powered YouTube app, and replace it with nothing. It won't remove Google search, but it will increase Siri's scope, and Siri's ability to intermediate and broker even more search queries away from Google. That's not a coincidence. While the exact numbers are hotly debated, it's long been said Google makes more money off iOS than they do off their own Android operating system. The reason for this is simple -- mainstream iOS users tend to use the web and apps more than mainstream Android users, and iOS is currently filled with Google services. The built-in iOS 5 Maps app is powered by Google and provides sponsored search results and a huge amount of location data to Google. The built-in iOS 5 Safari web browser defaults to Google Search, serves Google Search ads, and can provide even more varied types of data. When iOS users use those services, Google makes money and gets more data. That's Google's business. It doesn't make money when you search its index, it makes money recording your information, aggregating it, and brokering deals for it. Search isn't the product it sells. We are. If Apple steps in and makes the queries on our behalf, and returns them on Google's behalf, Google is cut out of the important parts -- the money. Apple won't be replacing YouTube with an iCloud Video app (now featuring 100 videos!) any time soon, but they will be making people go to YouTube.com or download a Google-made YouTube app from the App Store when it ships. Both require more from a user than simply seeing and tapping a built-in icon. Maps and Siri, however, are a different story... Taking control of iOS location data
Both Apple and Google used to use Skyhook for Wi-Fi router location mapping, and both have now switched to in-house databases. Google used to license map tiles and has since re-mapped the world themselves. Apple has bought 3 mapping data related companies, and with iOS 6, has re-licensed map data from TomTom and created an all new, Google-free iOS Maps app. That puts Apple, and not Google or anyone else, firmly in the drivers seat when it comes to location on iOS. The current iOS 5 maps are nowhere near as good as the current Android maps. Google, reportedly, wouldn't give Apple turn-by-turn navigation unless Apple also embedded Google's location-tracking Latitude service, which Apple didn't want to do. Likewise, Apple either didn't get, want, or implement Google's better vector maps. (Not only in the built-in Maps app, but in the APIs developers use for embedded maps in App Store apps.) Update after update, Android Maps outpaced iOS Maps. Now Apple takes the mapping data from TomTom, draws their own vector maps, and supplies or brokers their own mapping services, and makes the app they want to make. Getting to iOS 6 Maps was undoubtedly non-trivial, but now Apple has control of the experience from the moment they acquire the map data to the moment the end user calls it up. Likewise, Apple reduces Google's access to iOS user location data. As explained above, data is what feeds Google, and now instead of it being the default, Google Maps will be a more involved, more conscious user-action away -- they'll have to rely on us going to a website or downloading an App Store app and independently agreeing to share our locations. Since many users simply use the defaults, that immediately cuts down the size of Google's trough. Users lose Street View and some other specific features, but gain turn-by-turn navigation and 3D Flyover mode. More importably, Apple keeps control of direct location data, and they can roll out more sophisticated data overlays and surface more user-centric features in future versions. Intermediating and brokering iOS search
Last year, after Apple announced Siri, I wrote about it's long term, potentially game-changing customer insight implications. Specifically, how Siri wasn't a voice control system, but a powerful, Pixar-coated way For Apple to both intermediate and starve their biggest rival, Google, gain invaluable business intelligence, and broker those services -- and potentially that data -- to a multitude of partners. Right now, when you search Google, Google gets that data. They know what you're searching for, maybe where you're searching from, and they may even know who you are. Multiply that by hundreds of millions of iOS users, and that lets Google aggregate, analyze, and sell ads against a lot of data. If, however, you search with Siri, some of those searches aren't even going to Google anymore -- they're going to Yelp!, Yahoo!, Wolfram|Alpha, and others. And when they do go to a provider, all that provider sees is Apple's servers making queries on your behalf. Not you, not your location, and not your identity. Sure, Siri right now still has tremendous problems to overcome, but Apple has tremendous resources to bring to bear on solving them. And because the interface is the app, Apple can replace more and more of Google's pipes whenever and wherever they want, without users even noticing or caring, as long as the quality of the answer is sufficiently good. Instead of one ginormous provider, Apple can align many best of breed providers for everything from food and entertainment to sports and local business. Which appears to be exactly what they're doing. If Apple could or would tie Siri into the Spotlight Search interface as well, they could do for text searching what they're doing for voice, further starve Google, and further capture and broker the lucrative search market. Users lose the known quantity that is Google, and put up with the growing pains that come with Siri, but they gain greater and more varied information sources for natural language search. More importantly, Apple, and not Google, becomes the gatekeeper for search on iOS, and can roll out additional providers and services in the future. Preparing for mobile payments
One of Apple's biggest advantages when launching the iPhone was iTunes -- not just the content and relationships, but the ability to handle transactions and take payments at a global scale. It's taken -- and is still taking -- years for even their biggest competitors to roll out anything approaching competitive systems, much less match Apple in terms of content available internationally and credit cards on file. Apple can sell apps and media around the world, but there's a lot more to sell in this world than just apps and media. Apple has already begun to handle direct payments at Apple Retail Stores using the Apple Store app on the iPhone -- you show up, scan your item, and walk right out. Apple likely has far greater plans for that than just a fancy tech demo. With iOS 6, Apple has also introduced Passbook, billed as way to easily aggregate and use all the vouchers and tickets collected by the various vendor apps on your iPhone, all in one place, and with all the benefits provided by first-party hooks into Apple's location-aware notification system. It can already work with the quaint QRC code system, and it's not hard to imagine that, in the future, it will work with RFID/NFC (near-field communications). Start putting all the pieces together, and the technology Apple is introducing in iOS 6 sets them up to not only start staking out territory in the multi-billion dollar mobile transaction business of the future, but to do it in the extremely friendly, completely mainstream way Apple has done everything else with the iPhone and iPad. Users get an interesting if not compelling new Passbook app today, and Apple gets to introduce the front end to what they may one day tie iTunes transactions into an entire mobile payments infrastructure. Increasing support for Chinese markets
One look at Apple's quarterly earnings reports, and the attention given to the greater China market in the conference calls that follow, should leave no doubt as to how important China is to Apple. iOS 6 reflects that reality. Users get better Chinese text input and dictionary support, Baidu, YouKu, Tudou, and Sina Weibo support, and Siri in Mandarin and Cantonese. Apple gets a more compelling product offering for the greater Chinese market, which will be huge for their future. Outsourcing social to Facebook and Twitter
It's interesting that Apple owns the operating system with iOS and the server with iCloud, but they appear happy enough to let Twitter, starting with iOS 5, and Facebook, starting with iOS 6, own the social infrastructure. Part of it could be Apple's ill-fated attempts at social in the past, most notably the Ping social music network. Part of it could be the lack of persistence social networks have shown to date. Friendster gave way to MySpace gave way to Facebook, and Google+ is at play in there, somewhere, as well. OS X and Windows span decades. Social has been far more migratory. Apple needs social features, but they don't need to own social features. At least not yet. For now they just have to integrate with whomever has large user populations at any given time, which means Twitter and Facebook. Users get to share what they're doing, and yes, give Twitter and Facebook the same kind of data Apple doesn't seem to want to give Google, but iOS gets the social features users want without Apple having to provide them. Perhaps one day Apple will do to Twitter and Facebook what they're doing to Google now (and vice versa). But not today, and probably not for a while. The bottom lineiPhone OS 1.0 was all about delighting users with a an enthralling multitouch interface and a fresh new take on the smartphone. iPhone OS 2.0 to iOS 4 were about filling in and rounding out features and functionality, and making the iPhone, and later the iPad, an ecosystem. iOS 5 was about taking the iPhone and iPad to the iCloud. Now that's all done, and for mainstream users -- the users Apple is targeting -- iOS does what they need it to do. Meanwhile Android and its various device manufacturers are still pushing out new features fast and furiously, yet at the same time they're being forced to go back and work on user experience and consistency, something Apple nailed in iPhone OS 1. webOS has floundered, Windows Phone has yet to find a place in the market, BlackBerry won't even have a shot at a relaunch into early 2012, and the Facebooks and Amazons are still testing the waters. Apple has a unique opportunity, a unique moment in time, to fix some of the problems they themselves have been facing with iOS, and need to fix to better ensure the future of their platform. Unfortunately, that comes at the expense of user-centric, perhaps even geek-centric features. This time. In a perfect world, Apple would be able to do everything all at once. We live in the real world of opportunity costs, however, where time and money spent on one thing negates that same time and money being spent on anything else. Even a company as massive as Apple has limits on how much carefully focused software they can project at one time. Sure, there's Do Not Disturb, FaceTime over 3G, VIP mail, Safari image uploads, kiosk-mode, and a few other enhancements, but making a new Maps app was a huge amount of work for Apple, even if replacing one maps app for another doesn't seem like a huge benefit for users. Likewise positioning Siri and Passbook for what comes next. So iOS 6 is more about Apple and the future of the platform than it is about revolutionary user-facing features today. And that's fine, because a strong platform means more user-facing features for tomorrow... 
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| aTV Flash updated to version 4.5 for original Apple TV Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:56 PM PDT
FireCore's popular aTV Flash software for jailbroken Apple TV's has just been updated to add even more features for first generation Apple TV users. If you have a jailbroken Apple TV, aTV Flash is definitely an add-on package you'll want to check out. For those not familiar with FireCore or aTV Flash, it's basically a software suite that will run on a jailbroken Apple TV and add a ton of additional functionality such as playing movie formats other than iTunes, surfing the web, creating playlists and more. While this update is specific to the original Apple TV, there is also software available for newer Apple TV models as well. The 4.5 update in particular brings with it Mountain Lion support and more.
If you don't already have aTV Flash, you can purchase it for a one time fee of $39.95. If you've already got it you can update straight from your Apple TV by choosing Maintenance and then going to the manage plugins menu. Hit the link below to find out more and to purchase aTV Flash. Source: FireCore 
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| Working with Microsoft Office Documents on the iPad Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:16 PM PDT
For many people, any conversation about productivity on the iPad has to touch on Microsoft Office documents and the ability to work with them on Apple's tablet. There have been persistent rumors that Microsoft will be bringing Office to the iPad, perhaps as soon as this year, but so far nothing official has been announced. In the meantime, there are a number of good options for working with MS Office documents on the iPad. In addition to a number of good remote access apps that allow you to connect to a company Office setup, there are a number of good iPad apps for working with Office docs. Here are some of the best apps for this purpose:
Quick Office Pro HD, Documents To Go Premium Both of these apps have been leaders in this area for many years on just about every major mobile platform. Both offer support for managing and syncing your files via leading cloud services Dropbox, Google Docs, Box.net and more. Documents To Go Premium also has a free desktop companion app for Windows and Mac. Quickoffice Pro also offers support for opening, editing, and saving SharePoint files. Each of these apps has a strong feature set and you'll want to look at these to see which may be the best match for your needs. Quickoffice Pro HD is priced at $19.99. Documents To Go is priced at $16,99 and is a universal app designed for both iPad and iPhone. (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| TechHive: Apps for stargazers and space buffs Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:30 PM PDT  For those who are enthralled with the Curiosity rover, or just love gazing at the summer night sky, there are plenty of iOS apps that'll encourage and inform your inner astronomer. | ||
| Starbucks investing in Square, bringing mobile payments to US locations Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT
Square, the trend-setting mobile payment system, has announced that they've been picked up by Starbucks. This fall, Starbucks will beging accepting mobile payments using Square throughout their 7,000 locations in the U.S. As noted on the Square blog:
In addition to that news, Square and Starbucks have also confirmed that Starbucks will invest $25 Million to help with Squares latest round of funding. Something that will surely help Square gain some advantage over competing companies that are now arising to take on mobile payment solutions. For the past couple of years now Square has slowly been making it into the mainstream. Going full steam in 2010, they eventually launched their Square POS application for iOS with hopes to replace a traditional POS (point of sale) cash register with an iPad. Overall, this new agreement between the two companies is a resounding nod of confidence in Square and their future in the mobile payments space while placing Starbucks at the forefront of that technology. Source: Square 
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| Better Google Voice functionality coming soon to Google Search app for iPhone Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:34 PM PDT
Google has announced they're updating their voice-powered Google Search app for iPhone and iPad with functionality that sounds like it's much more competitive with Apple's own voice-powered service, Siri.
While Google's original iOS apps were disappointing native wrappers around web views, they've really stepped up their game lately with the new Google+ app and improvements to the still middling Gmail app. Google is also reportedly working on an iOS YouTube app to replace the built-in YouTube app that's been removed in iOS 6 beta 4, and it's widely expected they be making a Google Maps app for iOS, or refreshed Google Earth app, since Apple is replacing the Google-powered built-in Maps app with a new, Apple and TomTom-powered iOS 6 Maps app. Making Google Search competitive with Siri will be important for Google as Apple continues to remove them from the built-in systems, and intermediate and broker search traffic -- and the all-important user data that comes with it -- away from Google. Since most users stick to defaults and built-in functionality, and App Store apps require users to learn about them and go to the trouble of downloading and manually launching them each time they want to use them, even an improved Google Search isn't on equal footing with Siri, but at this point, Google's business model needs every iOS user they can hold on to. The only way to do that is by providing compelling apps and services that make users seek them out. Sadly, the App Store doesn't provide the the type of system-level access Google would need to build something on the level of Google Now for iOS -- something that proactively, almost pseudo-precognitively finds out information for you, but what they're doing on Android should certainly keep Apple on their toes. Look for the new Google Search app on the App Store soon. Meanwhile, here's a link for the current version, and a video of what's to come... Free - Download Now
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| Android and iOS dominate mobile market, says IDC Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT  Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them—more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined. | ||
| Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT  Macworld's Lex Friedman and Dan Moren are joined by Wired's Mat Honan to discuss how Honan's Apple, Amazon, Google, and Twitter accounts were hacked. | ||
| Starbucks invests $25 million in Square payment processor Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:15 AM PDT  Starbucks is investing $25 million in mobile payment venture Square, and will allow customers to use a Pay with Square smartphone application to buy coffee. | ||
| Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT  If you're fixing for a fight, these iPhone and iPad games can help you enjoy the sting of battle. |
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