Temple Run 2 reached 20 million downloads in four days

Temple Run 2, is the sequel to the popular running game that kept us glued to the screen of our smartphones or tablets for hours.

Apple iPad mini get pictured, maybe its the real thing

From some pictures posted on Twitter by Sonny Dickson, we can already see how it will look  perhaps this new tablet from Apple.

Overlapping the new iPad Mini and iPad 3 are distinctly different both in size and design.

Ipad mini should have a diagonal of 7 or 7.7 inches, with stereo speakers more in the bottom and a bit 'rough edges

Apple announces the results of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, iPad scores new Record

As planned , Apple has announced  the results of fiscal Q3 of 2012 sales and receipts revealing the third year Conference Call for AAPL shareholders. The last fiscal quarter, which began April 1 and ended on June 30, once again registers receipts and record sales, thanks largely to the New iPad launched in early quarter !

The Company posted  revenue of $ 35 billion and a net quarterly profit of  $ 8.8 billion  or $ 9.32 per diluted share. These results compare with revenues of $ 28.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $ 7.3 billion, in the same quarter last year. The  gross margin  stood at  42.8 per cent  compared to 41.7 percent in the quarter last year.International sales accounted for 62 percent of quarterly revenue. 

Apple continues to evaluate stylus integration on the iPhone and the iPad

The Cupertino company continues to explore the possibility of integrating the capacitive pen in his iDevice as evidenced by two recent patents covering specific technologies of interaction between the stylus and touch screen interface with . We underscore this timely to avoid confusion, exchanging idea really "innovative" (if it was not that it could not be patented) with an idea, that of the capacitive pen, extensively tested and integrated into products already on the market (Galaxy Note). 

INRIX Traffic: The new app for iPhone and iPad that pulls you out of traffic

INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and services for motorists, INRIX Traffic announced a new application for iPhone and iPad that helps drivers to better manage their travel and avoid traffic . The application allows, in fact, to reduce the costs caused by traffic jams thanks to the innovative features that allow a considerable saving of time. Among the main functions:

•  The faster ways of work and home: drivers can easily decide which path is the best choice to avoid the daily traffic. INRIX is only able to analyze the impact of accidents, sporting events, concerts and other events have on local traffic, providing the fastest routes and ensuring minimal delay.
• Suggested starting point and time involved: the service of INRIX Traffic Forecast Slider shows drivers with the best options to avoid annoying delays.
• Sharing times of arrival: allows you to send the scheduled arrival time to their contacts in just a few gestures.
• Personalized traffic alerts: Drivers can adjust your application to ensure they are alerted only on certain categories of accidents or events that affect the path of interest.

Apple will announce the new iPad on March 7?

There really was a great excitement on Twitter last Tuesday, after Appleannounced its participation in an event to be held March 7 in San Francisco, inviting people to participate. 

The invitation - for what is around you say, probably, the launch event for a new version of iPad - is characterized by noble image of just 10 words: "we have something that you absolutely must see. And touch ".

Like many marketers hired by Apple , Twitter users have responded in droves, catapulting the term "iPad 3" immediately on top of the topics of the moment around the world.

The new iPad may include the following: a quad-core, high-resolution retinal displays, 4G LTE connectivity 

Apple acquires Chomp app search engine to enhance App Store

Apple continues its bying spree and after having acquired Anobit , the Israeli company manufacturing flash memory, chose the search engine developed by Chompas an additional resource to improve the performance of the ecosystem services that revolve around the iDevice. It is believed that the acquisition will be finalized to improve the tools of research applications in the App Store.

Confirmed: iPad 3 Has a 2048x1536 Retina Display

In the past few weeks have been numerous rumors on the technical characteristics of the iPad 3, from those relating to the display should have a much higher resolution than the current one. This figure, apparently, has been confirmed by a recent analysis of the microscope of a display which is attributed to iPad 3. The analysis would reveal a quantity of pixels twice that of the screen of iPad 2.

The curious thing is that the display screen in question is not one present or not real, but it is a display that is already sold as spare parts for the new iPad 3 from www.truesupplier.com  about $ 122.

icloud: over 100 million users!

During his appearance at a conference of investors and analysts of Technology, organized by Goldman Sachs, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke of a number of topics, but has raised some eyebrows when he said that icloud, launched in October, is now used by 100 million users.

The last time Cook had spoken numbers icloud, during the quarterly conference call on January 24, said he had little more than 85 million users.

Only after three weeks, the data indicate that enrollment in icloud is proceeding with an average of five million per week. Part of this data is of course by people who just buy new Macs or upgrade to Lion. The majority of new enrollments for free is driven by buyers IOS, thanks mainly to the period in which Apple sold one million iPhone OS devices on average every 18 hours.

Cook indicates both Siri and icloud as "profound innovations" that continue to fuel the company's strategy for the next decade or more. He also told how Steve Jobs had positioned the Mac as the "center of the digital hub" in the first decade of the 21 st century. So, icloud turns the whole idea of ​​digital pole.Once I started using icloud, "your life will be much easier", or so says Cook.

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Apple stock hit another record high, its share is worth more than $ 500!

The passing of this milestone was expected for several months and only now has become reality. On February 13, 2012 marks a historic achievement for the company's Cupertino: the achievement of the value of $ 500 for each share of the title in AAPL stock exchange Nasdaq.

The peak was reached within minutes of opening the quotations of the main U.S. stock market, with the maximum value of $ 503.83 . The capitalization remains at the highest levels , over $ 463 billion, while the reporting of cases of the company exceeds 100 billion dollars.

To take off the way Apple has certainly been the record of sales and sales of the first fiscal quarter of 2012  with the announcement (not yet official) arrival of the new iPad 3 for early March. For this year are also expected interesting products, like the mysterious iTV in the summer, an iPhone 5 completely redesigned and a new MacBook Pro Thin Air.

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iOS Web Traffic higher than Mac OS X For The First Time

According to a new report, iOS web traffic has surpassed Mac OS X for the first time in history. iOS market share has grown nearly 50% over the last 6 months, and Apple’s mobile products are now driving more web traffic while the Mac’s traffic share has declined.

Analytics and advertising firm Chitika examined web traffic across 100,000 popular websites and came to the conclusion that iOS activity is on a sharp upwards trend. This month web traffic from iOS devices reached 8.15%, and the Mac declined to 7.96%. Not a huge gap, but iOS is seeing exponential growth while Mac OS X is not.

"The data show that the market share of iPhone OS and OS X are converging since August. IOS has seen regular increases until reaching a growth of about 50% while OS X has seen its market share decline by 25% from its highest point reached last September. February is to record the first time that the two systems are operating in the reverse position: iPhone OS exceeds the Mac OS 8, 15% of all web traffic, while Mac OS is still stuck at 7.96%."

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Over 900,000 A5 iDevice jailbroken with Absinthe tools

A few days after the release of Absinthe , the tool that allows to jailbreak your iPhone and Pad, the Dev-Team back to talk to the communty, communicating the first statistics on the amount of jailbreak carried out.

More specifically, the total number of new devices jailbroken would be equal to 953,232 as follows:

• 491.325 new iPhone 
• 4308.967 new iPad
• 2152.940 iPad 2 with the previous jailbreak (with 4.x)

The statistics have been compiled through queries made to the server Saurik (Cydia hosting) of list of SHSH blobs.

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iPad: 13.5 million units sold last quarter according to analysts on Wall Street

Waiting to know the official sales data relating to the iPad, an interesting survey conducted by Fortune and addressed to the analysis of Wall Street and the independents, drew a very positive picture for the house of Cupertino. The estimates range between 11.73 and 19.47 million units sold in the last quarter of 2011 , including one that has, among other things, the Christmas period, particularly suitable for the market.

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