SkyDrive updated by Microsoft in July

Microsoft to update SkyDrive in late July, Recycle Bin feature and Android app in development. Microsoft appears to be working on several SkyDrive updates for a launch in late July. The software giant has rolled out a number of SkyDrive improvements recently, including a Windows and Mac client to support automatic file access.

Documents supplied to us this week indicate that the company is working on a Milestone 3 release of SkyDrive, due between July 23rd and July 30th. The release is said to include improvements to the company's iPad app, simple file sharing, and online web interface.

Although we're unable to immediately verify the details, the documents also reference a Milestone 4 release due later this year. This particular update to SkyDrive will focus on Android support and a new Recycle Bin feature designed as a backup option for SkyDrive users.

There's no specific timeline for the Milestone 4 release, but planning and coding is said to commence in early August. We have heard separately that Microsoft is actively testing an Android SkyDrive app, but for now third-party options are available.

Apple's Problems in Making the Product in the U.S.

Apple wants to make products in U.S., but that's not so easy. Let's make the iPhone in the good ol' U. S. of A. Who's with me? There are few Americans who don't like the idea of an all-American iPhone, iPad or MacBook. "Designed in California," sure - but why not made there, too?

During the D: All Things Digital conference this week, Apple chief executive Tim Cook suggested that he wanted his celebrated tech company to make more components, and perhaps assemble them, here in the U.S.  But it's not that easy. Cook knows it. As a longtime operations guy, there are probably few things the man knows better than a supply chain. When he says the semiconductor industry is good in the U.S., it's good. When he says there aren't high-tech manufacturing skills in the U.S., he's probably right. But actions speak louder than words, and there are good reasons why Apple no longer makes its millions upon millions of products stateside - because it just doesn't make good business sense otherwise.

We've seen this film before. Before founder Steve Jobs died, he made headlines for the same reason, as the national economy crumbled beneath Apple.

Here's an excerpt from a New York Times report in January: It isn't just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple's executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that "Made in the U.S.A." is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.

The reason: there's a very real tradeoff between what's good for workers and what's good for business. When push comes to shove, business wins - which is why Apple's American employees enjoy comparatively nice perks while employees of its supply chain partners live in 8,000-strong dormitories, ready to be woken up at midnight to start a 12-hour shift making new parts for an iPhone that received last-minute design changes from California. Imagine trying to do the same with an American worker. Unions would never stand for it, obviously, and chances are the rest of the family unit wouldn't, either.

My point is not to illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of unions, or even what's fair; rather, I'm trying to illustrate a landscape in which American companies can go overseas for greater flexibility, lower price and sheer speed.

So long as there are nations in this world willing to do work others aren't, outsourcing will exist. In the capitalist system, businesses can't win in the free market unless they exploit every advantage. There's a reason Apple, and GE, and many other well-regarded American companies keep most of their money offshore: so long as there's a cheaper alternative, it will be taken. There is no morality in money-making, even if there's still plenty to be made.

That's not to say things aren't changing. GE CEO Jeff Immelt has said that the U.S. is becoming more competitive as American firms, tired of decades of deterioration, snap to attention. Wages in the U.S. are still elevated - good for individuals but bad for business - but the skills, flexibility and speed are catching up.

The question is whether we'd really want them to. Does the U.S. really want to compete with China when human rights and quality of life standards are a bit more slippery? Manufacturing is a powerful driver of the American economy, but it's just one part of it. Whatever happened to the concept of a creative economy? (Answer: we realized we can't win on creativity alone. There needs to be some elbow grease, too.)

We focus on Apple because it's a beacon of American success and its products are made of components from all corners of the globe, but the truth is that the company can't do this alone. "Made in America" is a nice tagline, but it's a naive, unnecessarily restrictive strategy for a global company. So long as other nations are willing to outdo each other for business - Foxconn City, anyone? - corporations will follow.

In Tim Cook's case, that means there are few reasons to swim against the tide, aside from public opinion. All Apple can do is ensure that its supply chain partners are acting in accordance with local law. (Thus the Foxconn flareup.) But how do you take one company to task when an entire industry practices this way?

If you want Apple to manufacture in the U.S., you can't just pressure Tim Cook - you need to pressure every Samsung, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony to do the same, along with the governments in each country that manufactures products for those companies, and every supplier in between. That's a bigger hurdle than any single organization can surmount.

So if the U.S. can compete on flexibility, speed and scale - we're not a tiny country, after all - and get partially there on wages, thanks to a down economy, there's only one thing left to address: skills. If I'm Tim Cook, lord of all that is vertical, I'd wonder backing accelerated industrial development in the U.S. - starting with the creation of technical schools that could create that coveted workforce of engineers without a bachelor's degree - could help return the balance back to the U.S.

The Midwest, the Carolinas - these American manufacturing hubs already exist, but they're not geared for electronics. If the U.S. wants China's contracts, it needs to build a hub that can outduel the Shenzhen export hub.

Then again, capitalism need not be moral. At the end of the day, what's really in it for Apple? If we want Apple to manufacture its products in the U.S., we shouldn't keep asking Tim Cook about it. We'd probably need to go a bit higher up in the chain of command.

Controversy about the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K760

Logitech debuts new Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Meet the new Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K760, the successor to Logitech's first solar keyboard, the K750, which earned a CNET Editors' Choice.

For K760 design is more compact than the K750 and more closely resembles Apple's own Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard with the addition of the strip of solar cells at the top of the unit. The key feature upgrade here is something that Logitech calls "Bluetooth connectivity with easy-switching capability." What that means is you can pair multiple devices - such as a Mac, iPad, or iPhone - and quickly switch among them with the push of a button without having to reconnect.

A demo in advance of the launch and can attest to the fact that the feature works as advertised. You can pair the keyboard to as many as three devices (in the demo, we switched from using the keyboard with an iMac to an iPad).

K750 and Logitech's just-introduced Solar Keyboard Folio for iPad, you can charge this keyboard in any light whether it be lamp light or sunlight. Logitech says that fully powered the keyboard works for at least three months, even in total darkness (based on average use per day of eight hours).

$79.99 for the price tag on the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 and it should start shipping in the next couple of weeks. No word on when or if Logitech will offer a Windows version of the keyboard but it seems like a safe bet to assume that something's in the works.

New Update iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, 4,3GS, iPad 2 and 3 or iPod touch

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Get Now! GameStop pitches Android Tablet

GameStop Pitches Android Tablets to Gamers. As gamers are slowly abandoning their portable consoles in favor of smartphones and tablets, it might come as no surprise that GameStop, the top U.S. games retailer, is now turning to Android tablets to boost sales. The retailer announced a variety of tablets running on Google’s mobile OS are on sale at more than 1,600 of its U.S. stores, from manufacturers such as Acer, Asus and Toshiba.

There aren’t as many games and apps for Android tablets compared to the iPad, so GameStop will pre-load a bunch of free games with each tablet sold, including Sonic CD, Riptide, a free issue of GameStop’s gaming mag, Game Informer, and the Kongregate Arcade gaming app that GameStop acquired. GameStop’s Android tablets offer starts from $230 for a 7-inch Acer Iconia 8GB tablet, all the way up to $400 for a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 16GB and to $500 for an Asus Transformer Prime 32GB. The Toshiba Excite 10 should be available later for $450 and GameStop also stocks pre-owned iPads, starting at $300.

If you’re short on cash but have a pile of old games you’re not playing anymore, you can buy one of these tablets from GameStop with trades of games, consoles and even an old iPod, iPhone or iPad, or use the trade-ins as credit toward the purchase. Last year, GameStop president Tony Bartel said in an interview the company is considering making its own tablet if it can’t find an Android tablet that is great for gaming. Later in 2011 the company began trialing selling a limited number of Android tablets at some 200 stores, leading up to the latest push of several models across most of its stores. Is an Android tablet better at gaming than an iPad? Sound off in the comments.

2.000 RIM's workforce (11%) terminated

RIM 'to cut 2,000 jobs'. Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry phones, is preparing for a major restructuring that will see it eliminate at least 2,000 jobs worldwide from its roster of 16,500, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper says. The newspaper cited several people close to the company saying that the next round is layoffs is planned for around Friday 1 June – a day before the smartphone maker's first financial quarter ends – though some expect the announcement even earlier. One source close to the company told Reuters that the impending layoffs could hit as many as 6,000 people and affect legal, marketing, sales, operations, and HR operations.

"The strategic question is: are you accelerating into a better future or shrinking to a niche operation?" said the source.

A string of high-level employees have departed RIM recently, including global head of sales Patrick Spence, who is set to take a senior job at networked audio company Sonos. Several sources close to the company told Reuters that RIM had been letting more junior staff go for several months in what has come to be known internally as "Goodbye Thursdays", because the cuts typically occurred on that day of the week.

A RIM spokeswoman contacted by Reuters declined to comment on the report. RIM and its new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, are struggling with what looks like a perfect storm of problems.

The BBX 10 software to power a new generation of BlackBerry phones is not expected until autumn, while existing users are abandoning BlackBerry phones for models from Apple or those using Android more quickly than new ones are coming aboard. Added to that, price competition – also driven by the burgeoning number of Android smartphones – is eroding the prices that RIM can charge, putting extra pressure on its finances.

And its PlayBook tablet, launched a year ago, has sold slowly while costing the company billions first in inventory and then in writedowns. As a result, RIM's stock has plummeted so that on Thursday it touched $10.59 (£6.75) – an eight-year low. Though it recovered to $11 on Friday, the company's value has dropped steadily from $60 in February 2011

A RIM spokeswoman pointed to comments that Heins and chief financial officer Brian Bidulka made on RIM's last earnings call about plans to streamline operations and save $1bn in the financial year. RIM reported a fourth-quarter loss in March, when the new chief executive announced the initial steps in a strategic overhaul. Heins took over from longtime co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in January.

Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco, has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once – never recover their former position.

He restated the point on Sunday night on Twitter, pointing out that Motorola Mobility had become the latest to fulfil that trend after being acquired by Google. RIM has already been through one round of restructuring. Last July it announced plans to cut about 11% of its workforce, or 2,000 jobs.

Ice Cream Sandwich for Motorola Moto RAZR

Ice Cream Sandwich or Motorola Moto RAZR? We have all been waiting a long time to see how the latest version of Android, the Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, would look on the awesome Motorola Moto RAZR. But unless you have a leaked custom ROM already installed on it, you would not know. And if you have installed a leaked custom ROM, you would not know how the Motorola touch to Ice Cream Sandwich would look like on the device. But before all this, the wait for the official release of the Ice Cream Sandwich for the Motorola Droid RAZR was not scheduled to be any time soon. 

But thanks to the newly released timeline by Motorola, the smart phone is sure to get the Ice Cream Sandwich treat before the end of June for sure, that is before the end of the second quarter. If you think, even that is a lot of delay compared to other manufacturers in releasing the Ice Cream Sandwich update. But now that it is on its way, the joy for Motorola Droid RAZR owners who have not installed any custom ROM is uncontrollable. 

But how does the smart phone look after the update to Ice Cream Sandwich with the manufacturer’s Blur custom user interface on top of it? We are talking about Webtop 3.0, screenshots, the new lock screen, time lapse video, navigating around ICS, the browser, dialer, notifications, and more. Well, we seem to have got an introduction to that. The official Japanese Motorola Droid RAZR website has released a series of video on the website where it describes how the phone will function after the update to the new Ice Cream Sandwich, and also, the videos detail different features of the new operating system. A few of the videos uploaded are in Japanese, unfortunately, but a few others are in English. 

So you do not have to worry about not understanding anything at all. These videos will most probably be made in other languages as well by the time the update gets ready for seeding over the air. It is just a matter of time. So, are you excited?

Paid App for free from Apple's iTunes Promo

Apple's iTunes Promo Gives Paid Apps Away for Free. Apple may be following in the footsteps of Amazon's App store for Android by offering a paid app for free on a regular basis. Apple recently used its ongoing “App of the Week” feature to promote Cut the Rope: Experiments as a free download. Cut the Rope: Experiments is priced at 99 cents on the Amazon App store and Google Play. Apple made the announcement via the App Store Twitter account.

Typically, discounted app promotions on Apple's App Store are initiated by the app developer, not Apple, and that may be the case with Cut the Rope:Experiments. It's not clear whether Apple plans to offer a free weekly app the way Amazon promotes a daily freebie on the App store. Zepto Labs announced on Thursday a new level pack for the game. Hard Candy has 25 new levels and additional game elements, and at launch the company said the app will be available free of charge. So this may be a joint Apple-Zepto Labs promotion, or Apple may simply be using Zepto Labs' announcement to promote a great free app on the App Store.

A weekly promotion would probably be a better deal than a daily one, if Apple does plan to regularly offer paid apps for free on the App Store. Amazon first launched free daily apps when the App store for Android debuted in March 2011. The online retailer got off to a strong start by offering free downloads of Angry Birds Rio a popular new paid app at the time.

Recent free apps have included My Sketch, Alphabet Coloring, FactBook, and Fruit Sorter Extreme. All of them have 3 to 3.5 star reviews on Amazon. But Amazon has to fill its free spot every day, so they can't all be winners. Amazon's current free app is Quote Unquote a word game that mixes crossword clues with famous quotations.

USB cable accessories for your Samsung Galaxy Note or Galaxy S II

Get yourself a full size gender USB cable for your Samsung Galaxy Note or Galaxy S II, you will be happy to buy awesome accessories for your smart phone. This is because both the smart phones of the Galaxy series have really cool accessories, both genuine accessories from Samsung and third party companies.

And now that the ‘Android King of the Year’, the Samsung Galaxy S III is coming out shortly, the prices of these accessories for the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note are dropping. So it is your chance to grab hold of as many accessories as you can before they hike up again. While looking for some cool accessories myself for my Galaxy Note, I came across this awesome piece of electronics which would really change my life.

This is a very small accessory, but with very big list of applications. What you see in the image is a gender USB cable for the Samsung Galaxy Note and the Galaxy S II. This USB cable not only helps you charge your smart phone, but also lets you connect a host of USB devices to your smart phone and use them on your smart phone like you use the USB device on your laptop.

For example, connect a USB keyboard to your Galaxy Note with this USB cable and you will be able to use that keyboard to write lengthy emails and if you are a blogger, even write lengthy blog posts, just like this one. And now that the prices of accessories like this one have dropped, it is a good time to buy them. This genuine Samsung USB cable which would easily cost you £11 just a few weeks before is now available for just £4.04. Is that not a very sweet bargain? There are many other similar accessories from third party manufacturers, but they all have very bad reviews. So choose a proper one when you do, no matter how cheap the accessory may be. You can buy this one over here.

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week

Google's Motorola buy seen boosting Android in workplace. With the closing of Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week, talk of the possibilities for Android in the enterprise has spiked. While Android has taken the consumer market by storm - the OS runs 59% of smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 - IT managers remain wary that maintaining security and control of consumer Android devices devices used by workers may be difficult if not impossible, according to various surveys.

IT managers say they can't get the Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools they need to control Android devices brought into the workplace by employees, analysts have said. Gartner recently reported that it has found adoption of Android tablets and smartphones in large business has so far been "severely limited" because of the complexities of managing devices from multiple vendors running different versions of Android.

A Gartner survey in April found that only 9% of enterprises have made or plan to make Android their primary mobile platform in the next year. That compares to 58% of enterprises that use or plan to use Apple's iOS and 20% who favor Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS.

Some analysts say they are hopeful that Motorola's 2011 purchase of MDM software maker 3LM will improve IT's ability to manage and secure Android, perhaps in time for the release of the coming Jelly Bean and/or Android 5.0 versions.

Analysts say 3LM is not true MDM, but that its software includes a layer of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that could make Android work better with third-party MDM software, analysts said.

Though Google is expected to use 3LM to improve Android manageability, the company wouldn't comment on its plans for the software. Many analysts expect to gain insight into Google's plans at its Google I/O conference in late June. Today, IT shops rely mostly on Exchange ActiveSync to manage Android devices used by workers for job tasks. However, analysts have said that ActiveSync lacks the sophistication required by IT shops.

"ActiveSync is a really low-end solution for MDM," said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates.

"Now that Google owns Moto (Motorola Mobility), I expect the Moto folks to start feeding back into base Android some of the technology they have developed. This is the primary reason that Google bought Moto, in my opinion," Gold added.

Gold predicted that the addition of Motorola Mobility will provide Android with "much more capable management interfaces and APIs." While that won't help current and past Android versions, it will mean enhanced security at enterprise standards for future Android versions, he added.

"None of this helps the Android enterprise users in the short term, unless they decide to work with MDM from Enterproid and others like Good that have a 'two-persona' capability on a device," Gold said. He explained that "two-persona" refers to the ability to partition data on a smartphone or tablets so that a user's personal photos and music won't be destroyed if an IT shops wipes off sensitive corporate data from a mobile device.

For now, IT shops still need to specify makes and models for users to buy if they want to use them on the corporate network, Gold said.

"For the short term, only enterprise level adaptations of Android are safe enough for corporate use, in my opinion," Gold said. "Longer term, in one to two years, this won't be an issue."

Phillip Redman, an analyst at Gartner, was less sure that Android will become a mainstay of corporations, though IT concerns will be eased if Google decides to add MDM APIs or incorporate 3LM software broadly, he said.

"Still, the many versions of Android is an inhibitor," Redman warned.

Google is expected to begin direct sales of Nexus smartphones and tablets through a new process that provides multiple manufacturers - not just Motorola - with early access to future Android versions.

Google would sell the Nexus devices directly to consumers, partly to avoid restrictions or add-ons from carriers.

It is conceivable that Motorola, which will be operated as a separate unit within Google, could become the originator of Nexus devices so that Google could dictate the standard for other vendors to follow, said Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst.

The new Google unit's CEO, Dennis Woodside, has not publicly discussed Nexus or plans for 3LM, but did say in a statement after the deal closed that: "Our aim is simple: to focus Motorola Mobility's remarkable talent on fewer, bigger bets, and create wonderful devices that are used by people around the world."

Gold said the Nexus concept makes sense for Google, whether it's done through Motorola or not.

"Google needs to limit the fragmentation in Android that is causing the market a lot of heartburn, and even more so in the enterprise space," he said.

The Motorola acquisition means Google can use Motorola's "expertise to move into the enterprise market so as to take advantage of [the] 'Bring Your Own Device [movement]," Milanesi said.

Samsung, the biggest maker of Android devices, is already trying to sell both tablets and smartphones for workplaces, while Lenovo is doing the same with tablets, she said. Moving Android into the enterprise is "certainly key for Google, considering the growing trend of BYOD and the decreasing number of people that carry separate devices for work and play," Milanesi added.

Apple's Prepare gives up $75M in dividends

Apple CEO Tim Prepare is providing up $75 thousand in returns on limited inventory that the organization is giving to all of its employees. In a processing with the Investments and Return Commission payment on Saturday, Apple organization said that Prepare expected that his limited inventory systems not obtain returns. The returns that Apple organization employees are getting amount to $2.65 per one fourth for each limited inventory device organised. The stocks are not normally qualified to obtain returns, so Apple's choice is a advantage for its employees.

The choice comes two months after Apple organization presented a frequent results and certified a $10-billion inventory buyback system to start providing some of its cashback to investors. It was a shift that former CEO Bob Tasks long opposed. After his loss of life last year, Apple's control has signaled that it's been considering alternatives for the money, which came to nearly $100 million. Even without the results, Prepare, 51, continues to be one of the highest-paid CEOs in The united states. His pay system was respected at $378 thousand when he became Apple's primary in Aug. That was almost entirely in inventory prizes, some of which won't be redeemable until 2021, so the value could change considerably.

Assuming Apple organization will pay monthly returns of $2.65 over the vesting period of Chef's stocks, the organization said he will give up about $75 thousand in value. Shares of Apple organization dropped $3.03 to $562.29 Saturday.

'Cisco' Requires Its Mounds, Keeps Creating Movie Conference Tools

Cisco Techniques possessed up to some miscalculations in its video cooperation technique but revealed off some ensuring upcoming abilities in a briefing with press this weeks time. The organization's video meeting company is best known for its TelePresence Conference Techniques, especially the high-profile three-screen meeting locations offering Cisco-designed fixtures and price tons of money. But 'cisco' is now looking beyond those trendy conditions toward cellular phones that can carry video events to members wherever they are.

One foundation developed as aspect of that technique, the organization's Android-based Cius product, has been cut from upcoming growth programs, said Robert O'Sullivan, mature v. p. and gm of the Collaboration Technological innovation Team, during the briefing at 'cisco' on Friday mid-day. 'cisco' mentioned the shift in a short article later on Friday. The Cius will still be available for organizations that particularly want a program released and firmly managed by the IT division, but 'cisco' won't be developing more type aspects for the foundation, O'Sullivan said.

Cisco now recognizes most organizations let workers carry their own pills to perform, stating its own study that said 95 % of organizations have a BYOD (bring your own device) plan.

"When we discuss to them about the Cius product, they say, we really like the cooperation encounter on Cius, but can you please take that program and put it on other devices?" O'Sullivan said.

"Our way of the long run is all about program," O'Sullivan said.

The next section in that force is a new customer for Jabber, Cisco's speech, video, instant-messaging and existence foundation, arriving September. Jabber customers are already available for Apple company iOS and for Analysis In Motion's BlackBerry foundation, as well as Microsoft windows PCs, and will soon come out for common Operating program pills, he said.

The new Jabber customer will allow customers to take video calling on PCs, pills and 'cisco' TelePresence systems and exchange the calling from one foundation to another. 'cisco' APIs (application coding interfaces) allow Jabber features to be incorporated into Ms Perspective so customers can discover associates and begin Jabber calling from Perspective, and this incorporation will be extended in the new editions.

At the briefing, 'cisco' confirmed Jabber classes being shifted among different systems. It also revealed customers of third-party video conferencing systems, such as Ms Lync and a Polycom HDX program, becoming complete members in a 'cisco' TelePresence meeting. Cisco's addition of industry requirements such as SIP (Session Start Protocol), H.323 and H.264 create this possible, the organization said.

The full-scale TelePresence foundation is still walking ahead despite the new focus on providing in different customers. And real-time interpretation of telepresence events is returning on Cisco's map. In overdue 2008, 'cisco' video primary Marthin De Alcohol said that he predicted that function to go available with 20 dialects in the second 50 % of 2009. But a season later, 'cisco' said the body precision wasn't great enough and the organization didn't even have a prediction for when it would go available.

Cisco is still operating on it, said De Alcohol, now mature v. p. of Cisco's Movie and Collaboration Team.

"It's arriving along. It's not quite real-time yet," De Alcohol said. "It's a little bit too costly still to do that and the technology's not ... mastered enough." But De Alcohol once again desires the function to be over the counter available within a season or two. 'cisco' does provide interpretation of a registered meeting within a few moments, he said.

The 'cisco' TelePresence systems already set up in organizations are being used about six time per day on regular, De Alcohol said. But new cellular video alternatives may be injuring another company 'cisco' once marketed as a big prospective industry, of video conferencing packages for lease in resorts and air-ports, he said.

"It is being used. It has not gone persistent, it has not gone big," De Alcohol said. "We've marketed probably a large number of systems in that area." The Marriott resort cycle has set up packages in several of its places, he said. But the accommodations, which in some situations were costing 100's of money hourly, may not be necessary down the line. "Now that video becomes persistent on your iPad, on your mobile phone and your PC, maybe that use situation will actually reduce," De Alcohol said.

IBM Restrictions Siri Over Protection Concerns

IBM has triggered a mix by prohibiting Siri from personnel iPhones. The organization statements that it is worried that Siri will flow private details and has incapable it on personnel iPhones. The purpose for IBM's issue is the way that Siri performs. The iPhone 4S's voice-recognition function performs by producing your speech and submitting it to a hosting server that thinks what you've said and profits simply textual content. Siri actually becomes better at converting because it successfully crowd-sources 'languages', studying from other individuals who are using the assistance.

It's the truth that this producing of what you said is sent to Apple's hosting server that IBM isn't satisfied about. The concept that Apple company could be gathering details about IBM tricks seems a bit farfetched, however, it is believed that Siri may lately have knowledgeable a burglar violation. United states discuss display coordinator Hurry Limbaugh described a specialized issue with his iPhone and Apple's Siri speech associate, knowledgeable on his generate to perform, there is some controversy as to whether this was individual mistake, or if Siri was compromised.

IBM is an recommend of BYOD (bring your own device) - a pattern that recognizes organizations enabling their personnel to use their own Apples, PCs, cellular phones, and pills at perform. According to analysis, BYOD has already been accepted by 69% of UK organizations.

The Siri ban is just one of a variety of demanding safety actions applied by IBM on gadgets purchased into the organization by workers. According to Conspiracy of Mac, IBM harnesses the cellular phone control (MDM) structure designed into iOS to eliminate Siri on every iPhone 4S.

Samsung Galaxy S III comes beginning for some

Samsung’s Galaxy S III is not predicted to begin to show up with willing new customers until almost through next weeks time at the first, but it looks like some suppliers have hopped the gun. A SlashGear audience in Japan handled to catch not one but two Galaxy S III mobile phones, and distributed a few images of his new toys and games that he took using the Samsung’s 8-megapixel photographic camera itself.

As guaranteed, part of the Galaxy S III installation process contains getting a Dropbox account with a substantial slice of no cost storage: 48GB no cost, on top of the 2GB the reasoning store service contains as conventional. That is incorporated through Samsung’s personalized Ice Lotion Food develop, though as opposed to the Galaxy Nexus the Galaxy S III does have a microSD card position for including extra local storage space.

Announced at the top end of the 30 days, the Galaxy S III has already seen pre-orders calculating in the “thousands” according to New Samsung. Sales will begin in European countries first, with the US gadgets – operating a Qualcomm dual-core processor with LTE rather than the Exynos quadcore combined with the HSPA+ editions – predicted to fall over summer time season.

Apple organization primary Tim Prepare chooses out of $75m dividend

Apple us president Tim Prepare has determined to abandon the $75m (£48m) results expenses that he was set to generate on the 1m stocks he has obtained from the organization. Cook, who took over from Apple's overdue co-founder Bob Tasks in Aug last year, was granted 1m limited inventory systems (RSUs) for operating the organization during Jobs' medical results in.

Apple said in a processing with the US Investments and Return Commission transaction on Friday night that Prepare had requested the organization to be omitted from a program through which workers could acquire returns on their RSUs that were still vesting. With Apple's inventory price at more than $565 a discuss, Chef's stocks are worth more than $500m. Half of these stocks will jacket in 2016 and the relax in 2021.

In April, Apple organization declared its objective to use some of its approximated $100bn money heap, produced by powerful sales of the iPhone and iPad, to pay investors a results of $2.65 a discuss.

It is the first time since the technological innovation massive converted its prospects around after Jobs' come back in 1997 that Apple organization has released a results. Apple is one of few organizations on the Market that pay a results. Shareholders of United states technological innovation organizations typically accept companies not shelling out returns, which allows them to pay intensely in research and growth and finance big products.

Despite the transaction of the results, Apple organization looks set to sustain its money hill at $100bn as new products such as the iPad keep offer so well, which describes why the panel has determined to pay a investors results now.

Best Buy Canada release of the Galaxy S III

Jitters have persisted that the Canadian release of the Galaxy S III might face the customary weeks-long delays that those north of the border are used to. If we go by what looks to be an escaped Best Buy Canada flyer graphic, Samsung's Android 4.0 beast should be going up for pre-orders soon - MobileSyrup hears May 30th - with launches on at least Bell, Rogers, Telus and a Bell-owned Virgin Mobile around June 20th. We know that Samsung has publicly promised a US release in June, so there's a real chance that we could be seeing a simultaneous North American appearance that brings everyone together in TouchWiz harmony. 

There's still some big questions left open even if we're seeing an accurate snapshot, such as when Mobilicity, Wind and other LTE-less carriers will get their units as well as whether or not the LTE versions use Snapdragons instead of the Exynos 4 Quad.

Look Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

When Samsung announced that some of their devices will not be getting the much awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, they announced that those devices will instead be getting a “Value Pack” upgrade instead. The “Value Pack” upgrade will bring owners of the devices some features of Android 4.0 while not actually being a full Android 4.0 update but we guess something is better than nothing, right? Not to mention with the strong Android community out there, it shouldn’t be too hard to find Android 4.0 ROMs for the affected devices.

In any case one of Samsung’s tablets that will not receive the Android 3.2 or Android 4.0 update is the original 7” Galaxy Tab. The tablet is currently running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Value Pack is expected to bring features such as Face Unlock, a Photo Editor app along with the ability to snap photos while recording video. At the moment the Value Pack upgrade is headed for Galaxy Tab devices in Korea but we expect the international version to be made available soon.

Samsung Canada has finished porting Ice Cream Sandwich to a whole bunch of devices, which in Samsung press release parlance means they are "eligible" for an upgrade. Does that mean you can hit that "update" button today and start downloading ICS? Well, that's complicated.

First though, the list of devices:

1. GALAXY S II
2. GALAXY S II LTE
3. GALAXY S II LTE HD
4. GALAXY S II X
5. GALAXY Note
6. GALAXY Tab 7.0
7. GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus
8. GALAXY Tab 8.9
9. GALAXY Tab 10.1

Now, for the caveats: Sammy says "The upgrade will be available today on select devices in Canada and will continue rolling out to devices and carriers throughout the quarter." and "The availability of the software upgrade and specific models upgradable to Android 4.0 will vary by market and wireless carriers' requirements.

It seems that Samsung Electronics is partnering up with Kia Motors to equip the new vehicle K9 with the Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The two companies intend to provide a special edition of the Tab for those that pre-order the soon to be released K9 sedan by June.

Essentially, the Tab will play a role that allows it to be used as a quick guide to the vehicle’s functions and, presumably, will integrate into features such as the multimedia component of the new vehicle model. This synergy between mobile devices, like the tab, and today’s automobiles is clearly just the beginning of a wider trend. It is only a matter of time before every car that comes out has extended features and guides provided through syncing up your favorite tablet device, I’d wager. This joint synergy between smart cars and smart devices like tablets will likely also bleed into improved interfaces in the car of the future. It’s interesting to see Samsung and Kia working together, and I’m sure this is just the beginning of big things to come.