Saturday, May 28, 2011

Researchers Claim To Have Found Apple's iCloud Service In The developer’s preview of Mac OS X Lion, Codenamed 'Castle'

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According to the researchers hosting the French blog, Consomac, they have found a suspicious filed project in the latest developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which is titled as ‘Castle.’ The researchers imply that Castle is just a code name retained for Apple's much-rumored iCloud service, and they have now found evidence of that service coming in the next version of Mac OS X Lion.
Both the researchers have published a long blog post stating that they were in pursuit of finding traces of either of the services in the new Mac OS X Lion; My Mac, iCloud, and MobileMe. It was under this investigation, they claim, that they stumbled upon another service which was titled as "Castle." Owing to their investigation skills, they also asserted that they were also able to track the strings which let the option of "Complete your Castle upgrade" appear. To further support their suspicions, they also mentioned that the next dialogue box asked them to "Click OK to open System Preferences and complete your upgrade from MobileMe to Castle."

RIM Reveals New BlackBerry Bold Smartphone As It Thrives To Retain Its Lost Markets


Research In Motion has finally revealed its latest upgraded version of its BlackBerry Bold smartphone. The announcement was mande on Monday, added by the discussion on the enhancements its has brought to the BlackBerry operating system, as the company tries harder to keep its grip on the market after a profit warning. RIM claimed that its latest touch-screen cell phone will be sold worldwide this summer. It claimed that this new cell phone will even have relatively stronger processor than the Torch, and it confessed that its platform was getting old, so have overhauled too.
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RIM gave surprising news to all its investors last week, when it announced a profit warning. It lifted all the expectations only just weeks after had previously issued a dismal of outlook for its results. The sales of RIM’s BlackBerry have been declining, particularly in the areas like U.S. and Latin America, which gives more market share to giant companies like Apple and Google.

White iPhone 4 is Not Only Delayed 10months, But Also 0.2 Millimeters Thick than the Black iPhone 4


White iPhone 4 was just recently launched after a long 10 months delay of its actual date. But it was later discovered after minute examination that White model of iPhone 4 was not only late, but it has also magically grown a little thicker in those 10 months. The actual distinction between the two colors of iPhone 4 is as small as 0.2 millimeters, speaking precisely. This will merely be considered negligible except when it does not fit on the wide range of iPhone cases designed specifically for the device, than it can cause problems.
Ryan Cash was the first person ever to identify the difference and he 
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then posted a comparative photo shoot of both models on his blog. He did not exactly put up the degree of difference between the thicknesses of two models, but he stated that the difference is very much visible with even the naked eye. This was a very sharp observation, as soon after him, another blog website, the TiPb blog, took the actual measurements. The mystery was then finally solved that the matter was resolved as they concluded that the White iPhone 4 is 0.2 millimeters thicker than the black model of iPhone 4.

Verizon Announces To Stickers on Mobiles to Spread Awareness Regarding Location Data Being Tracked

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Verizon has announced that it will be fitting an additional a peel-off sticker on the face of every mobile phone it has to sell from now onwards. The sticker will actually convey the warning to each user that the Verizon or even the mobile phone manufacturer might keep record of the user's location data. Additionally it will be mentioned on the sticker, that the users should be careful while installing any third-party applications, as they also have the permission to send the user location. So in order to avoid location information being shared with third parties, they should avoid installing unknown apps.
This step has not been taken in reply to the very recent controversies involving the location-tracking which have encompassed the giant mobile phone manufacturers like, Apple of iPhone and Google for Android phones. It was mentioned that it is a separate Verizon scheme which was under process from quite some time now. However, it was also found out that this idea was first suggested in the response from Verizon to the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, which had circulated a critical letter to four mobile companies just last month, after they had discovered that a German mobile operator actually practiced the to track users' locations.
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