Earlier today Google published a post on the company’s official Mobile Blog, announcing the availability of push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar in the latest version of Google Mobile App for iPhone.
Google Mobile App Update Available: Retina Graphics and Push Notifications
Acer: “iPad Market Share Will Drop from 100% to 20%”
He’s Acer chairman JT Wang, speaking with the Economic Daily News about the iPad market share, and how it will drop from the current 100% (or so) to 20% / 30% because of its “closed” nature and other “open” products that will be released starting this fall.
iMac Touch Finally Shows Up in Patent - And It Runs Both OS X and iOS
There’s this iMac Touch rumor that has been floating around on the internet for quite a while now: back in January Digitimes reported that Apple was working on a 22-inch touch-enabled Mac in addition to the iMac line, then 2 months ago LoopRumors claimed that Apple was developing a touchscreen iMac running iOS. I called that rumor “absurd”, and you know why? Because a desktop computer running only iOS doesn’t make sense.
But a desktop computer capable of transitioning from OS X to iOS depending on the device’s orientation? Now that’s interesting.
iPaintings: A Community for Artists Using iPhones and iPads
In the past few months we’ve posted some of the finest and most impressive portraits / paintings drawn on the iPad and iPhone using apps such as Brushes or Sketchbook Pro. The Beyoncè portrait, Toy Stoy 3 + iPad, David Newman’s works or David Jon Kassan’s exceptional speed painting.
Now we can say that there’s a website for that.
DIY: iPhone 4 Guitar Cam [Video]
Apple Facing Problems with iPhone’s Moisture Sensors, Again
Back in April a Californian woman sued Apple over “false-positive readings” on the iPhone’s moisture sensors. Those sensors that usually get triggered when the iPhone is subjected to water damage.
Latest Shaw Wu Report on CDMA iPhone: 2012?
For American users, the long-rumored Verizon CDMA iPhone is starting to look like the famous unicorn. Or the white iPhone. Or anything else that Apple never shipped. And indeed, reports from well-known Wall Street “analysts” don’t help, either.
Shaw Wu, a guy who has a history for being wrong about Apple (see here and here), is now claiming that Apple is indeed working on a CDMA iPhone with Verizon (oh really?) but that the whole project might slide to 2012 if Apple decided to team up with Sprint and T-Mobile instead. Oh, but they could also wait for LTE to become a more used technology and skip the whole CDMA thing. Oh, but they’re also in talks with Verizon about a SVDO iPhone (voice and data at the same time). This note has been issued to investors. To me, he sounds pretty confused.
Prizmo: Beautiful OCR for iPhone
In my attempt of achieving the perfect paperless office, I tried a large number of OCR (optical character recognition) apps for Mac over time. For those of you not familiar with OCR, it’s a technology that scans any kind of document starting from a good-quality photo and extracts text from it. Text you can edit and save, no matter the language or characters used in the document. On the Mac, I settled with Prizmo, an amazingly powerful and good-looking app by Creaceed which can scan and organize your documents.
Last week Creaceed released the first iPhone version of Prizmo, which sports the same beautiful UI as the Mac counterpart and aims at becoming the ultimate OCR solution for iPhone users. I tested the app, and threw some documents in its database. Has the paperless office really gone mobile? Read more below to find out.
Guess What: Macs Growing Fast in Enterprises
Mac computers have a very small share of the worldwide PC market: around 3.5%. Those are small numbers if you look at the big picture, but very important sources of revenue when it comes to Apple, which doesn’t license OSes but sells computers. You know the drill.
Now, what’s interesting to notice is that, according to Needham’s Charlie Wolf, the Mac is doing pretty good and growing fast in large enterprises.