Apple to censer the word jailbreak in itunes

Apple has censored the word jailbreak in its itunes store and ibooks store. Now the word jailbreak comes up like this “j*******k”. At the moment it has only come to the US store according the MacRumors discussion boards, but we are in no doubt it will also reach the UK store soon. 

This issue was first reported by iOS hacker Planetbeing and then by  Shoutpedia.

This will do nothing to stop jail breaking, because those who see the need to jailbreak will continue to do so as long as they can continue to gain the extra benefits from doing so. 

Facebook shares to get floated Friday

Facebook is preparing to go public Friday.  This could raise as much as $16bn (£10bn).  Bankers had to release 25% more shares due to the shear demand for them, this will push the initial public offering (IPO) stock price even higher so protentially valuing the company at $104bn after its flotation.

This will prove to be one of the biggest flotations that wall street has ever known, dwarfing Googles flotation in 2004, which raised a mere $1.9bn.

Commentators are asking whether Facebook can continue the momentum of growth it has previously enjoyed, due to a number of challenges that are emerging. The first potential problem comes from the fact that facebook is unable to make money out of mobile users who are growing day by day. Facebook also faces an increasing problem with advertisers becoming disgruntled with Facebooks restrictive policies in ways in which adverts can be displayed on Facebook, the evidence of this comes from General Motors who recently opted to pull its $10m (£6.3m) advertising contract with Facebook, who said their ad was not making enough of an impact, due to the way the is displayed on Facebook.  Its evident in order for Facebook to continue its growth in the future it needs to adapt on a number of fronts, whether it can pull it off only time will tell. 

 

iphone 5 is to get a 4 inch screen but there’s a catch

It looks likely that the iphone 5 is to get a 4 inch screen, but there’s a catch. The catch is that only the height of the screen is being increased according to iLounge, they go on to say that the height of the screen is being increased by 11mm or 0.45 inches.  This will allow for an extra row of icons being added to the screen. This will also make the iphone about 10 mms taller than the previous iphone 4s, so consequently increasing the bulk of the phone so possibly upsetting potential customers. Also if they did up the screens height it would prove to be a headache for app developers moving from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a 16:9 aspect ratio. The best thing Apple could do is increase the phone screen size diagonally up to 3.7 or 4 inches. This would keep everything proportionate so making it easier for apps developers to accommodate their apps. Adopting  a 3.7 inch screen would also avoid having to increase the dimensions of the phone, so not risking the phone becoming too bulky in size.

New price and date rumours of the ipad mini release

Price and date rumours of the ipad mini emerged again on the internet over the last few days. According to iMore ,which is a reliable source for apple rumours.  The ipad mini will be released in October and the price will be between $200 to $250’s and it will look virtually identical to the new ipad. But it will have a smaller screen with a 7 inch display, imore go on to say that the screen resolution will be slightly better than the new ipad, which is 2048×1536 resolution display with a pixel density of around 264 ppi, compared to the ipad mini which will get a 2048×1536 resolution display with a pixel density of around 326 ppi

In order to bring the price down Apple is likely to release it with only 8gb of internal memory.

If all these rumours are true it will be able to give the Amazon Kindle fire a run for its money. 

 

The EU has passed new laws to cap roaming charges by July 1

The European Parliament  has passed a new law to cap roaming charges across all EU member states,  these laws will come into effect from July 1 2012. The price of a mobile 1 minute call will drop from €0.35 to €0.29 from July. Text messages will also be reduced from €0.11 to €0.09 per message this year, dropping further to €0.06 in 2014. Mobile data users will also benefit, mobile data charges will drop to 70 cents per megabyte, then it will be reduced to €0.20 per megabyte in 2014. 

This new legislation according to European Commisioner Neelie Kroes’ Digital Agenda will benefit frequent flyers, families and business people, it could save business travellers up to 1000 Euros a year in some Eu countries. Kroes said in a statement that she is glad to have “ended the rip-off  familiar to anyone who has used a mobile phone by traveling abroad.”

 

 

iPhone 5 with LTE could prove to be very popular in the US

An iPhone 5 with LTE could prove to be very popular in the US according to a recent survey which was done in March amongst mainly Macworld readers and PC world readers.  A whopping 70% of Macworld readers said they would go and buy the next iphone with LTE and 48% said they would pre order the phone.  But 40 per cent of mobile users who read neither PCWorld nor Macworld said they would buy the LTE iPhone 5. Surprisingly only 15% of PC world readers said they would be the iphone 5. 

This survey went to to say that 41 per cent said they would go with an iphone on the AT&T network, which was top in the survey. 29 per cent said they would go with Verizon, so taking second place. 

 Source PC World

Overall this survey suggests that the notion of the iphone 5 coming with LTE will prove to be a winning combination for apple. There is a good chance we will see LTE technology in the next iphone, due to the shear demand that the consumer has for faster devices. If Apple does not introduce LTE technology, then Apple could jeopardise its market share and its image as being the company for innovation and excellence. 

The Samsung Galaxy S3 wireless charging dock delayed

Bad news for those waiting to buy the Samsung Galaxy S3 with the revolutionary wireless charging dock. A website called Mobile Fun has revealed that it will not be released until September accoring to an inside source. The article stated: “We have no further info at the moment on this – unfortunately the latest date for release is approx Sept. 2012.”
This minor hiccup will not prove to be too much of a problem for Samsung, due to the other ground breaking features that this phone will have to offer both on the hardware and software side. 

The iPhone 5 possibly going into production soon

The DigiTimes which is one of the most relaible sources for information about ios rumours claims, that Pegatron Technology who is a Chinese manufacturer has received a request to develop the iphone 5 for a September launch. This rumour could have some truth value, because this is the company that currently makes OEM parts for the iphone 4s and the new ipad. 

This report seems to appear to further validate the release dates of either September or October.  If there is any truth in this rumour which there is a good possibility of,  it would make it impossible to get the iphone ready in time for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) event in June.

The Pirate Bay warns file sharers about the rise of copycat proxy websites

The Pirate Bay has issued a warning about the rise of copycat proxy websites that enable access to TPB since a UK court ruled in favour of banning TPB.

They stated in a Pirate Bay blog that “A lot of proxies in support of TPB are popping up, which is a good thing. But not all of these proxies are nice”

” We’ve noticed at least 3 sites that are tricking users to buying access or similar. We do not condone this behaviour, The Pirate Bay is a free service, take care and don’t get tricked”. Later on in the statement they stated that ,

“We want to encourage you to look for a reliable source on where to find a good proxy that works for you.”

All this even further adds fuel to the debate whether it was worth the UK high court while issuing a ban against The Pirate Bay in the fight against illegal file sharing.

 

A Monty Python app for Apple’s ios gets released May 6

A new Monty Python app made by Heuristic called  Python Bytes is to be released on May 6 for the iPad,iphone and ipod touch. This app is a must have for any Monty Python fan, because this app has exclusively-recorded back stories of the Monty Pythons sketches from John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.You can also enjoy all the 22 classic sketches from the first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. This app will also give you the ability to move on to the next sketch by simply shaking your device. 

This app will be launched by Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam at Apple’s London Regent street store at 6.30pm. The price will be $2.99 or £1.99 at the app store.