According to Nielsen over half of U.S. teenagers now own a smartphone

Time after the summer break, it is time to take stock and Nielsen certainly does not wait, with a small table showing which are the trends of new subscribers in the United States. We start from the first point underlined by the agency, which sees a significant number of new smartphone owners now on U.S. soil, which went from 41 to 55.5% of the population in a single year.

Rumor - The new iPhone 5 will be released this fall with 4G connectivity, NFC and 1GB of RAM

In recent days we had talked about a possible production start of the new sixth-generation iPhone  from the Japanese site Mocotakara. Today comes news totally different from front of American and more specifically from BGR  who claims to have received new information from a reliable source.

NPD - Android has 61% of U.S. smartphone market, iOS declining since the beginning of the year

NPD Group has published the latest data on the distribution of current operating systems for smartphones for the U.S. market and the report shows a system Android still in the midst of its growth at the expense of his arch rival iPhone OS since the beginning of the year shown a continuous decline, yielding market share to the Google platform.

Facebook for iOS with retinal support and many improvements

Today is an update to the official Facebook app on Apple App Store appeared, bringing along with some bug fixes, new features and support for high-resolution retinal display of the new iPad.

The version 4.1.1 is now bringing the following features and enhancements:

- You can go offline in chat

- The right profile picture appears for everyone
- Your list of friends always includes all your friends
- In sets of photos, your name is displayed correctly
- Photos of people who like Facebook Pages load correctly
- Your friend-request notification only lights up if you have a request
- You can change your language to Czech, Danish, Greek, Indonesian, Malaysian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Portuguese (Portugal) or Thai
- If you've got a new Retina iPad, you'll see a crisp, high resolution interface

The app can now be downloaded from the App Store and is free as always.

Europe's largest gaming platform Wooga recorded 11 mil downloads of Diamod Dash for iOS

Perhaps you have not heard of Wooga, but if you are social gamer certainly played some of their game. German Wooga, launched in 2009, became the most popular European gaming company, with 46 million monthly active players is the second most popular gaming platform on Facebook, behind Zynga, makers of Farmville.

One of the most popular games Wooga's Diamond Dash, whose iOS version for only four months has been downloaded over 11 million times. This game is not who knows what, is not "serious" game with great graphics, but simple logic game by connecting the diamond for 60 seconds which zabavuvuva millions ofusers who want to socialize. That's why they need the players, iOS version has the ability to synchronize points between different devices and giving the worship offriends who play the desktop version.

WhatsApp for iPhone updated to version 2.6.10

WhatsApp needs no introduction, being one of the most widespread and popular applications dedicated to instant messaging . Among its strengths include the nature of its platform that allows users to send and receive IOS messages to and from mobile devices with a different operating system. 

This cross-platform nature has allowed the application to become widespread and popular, particularly in light of its suitability to replace SMS and MMS. A crowning success in the months to WhatsApp was awarded the prize for best mobile application during the Mobile World Congress .

A few hours ago WhatsApp has issued a new update bringing the application to version 2.6.10

Apple: Notificator hits the Cydia Store

The notifications center introduced with IOS5 was one of the most appreciated feature in the new release of the IOS operating system, although, in some ways, is not exploited to its best potential from native applications. Fortunately, the independent developer community has released over time numerous tweaks that have significantly expanded the usage scenarios of the section that contains the system notifications.

A good example of how to exploit the notification center is represented by Notificator ,tweak available soon in Cydia , which has enlarged the scope of the notifications, including numerous system events. Find out how it works with a video Notificator sufficiently exhaustive.

Infographic: Android Owner Happiness Compared to that of iOS Users Based on Application Ratings

After much research and comparisons between the two platforms used in the mobile world to get a nice infographic that measures the satisfaction of users by taking into account only the ratings and comments that the same user are released in their Market after using about 140 thousand applications.

Interestingly, most of the comments analyzed 250 000 denote a satisfaction very similar for both groups, with users IOS show a greater appreciation for the  performance and the category of games. Android fans will feel more fulfilled but the cost on the market, the available tools and app for navigation. 


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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 

Opera Mobile 12 unveiled at the MWC

After a long time, it's time again, the Opera browser for mobile devices receives an update version 12 to New features include the WebGL support and an HTML5 score of 354 points in the HTML5 test . Other new features include Android support beam (NFC), Adobe Flash support on Android 4.0.3 devices and improvements in the presentation of HTML5. Opera is obviously a lot of hope in HTML5.

As we learned at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​it is hoped that effects are different browser engines with HTML5 less important and so many pages back can be used universally. Currently there is that some websites work properly on other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, however, lead to unpredictable behavior. This is about using Opera Mobile 12 - Change - at least once in the mobile sector. In addition, this new version is once again an extreme increase in speed and not only on dual-core devices, but also on the "slower" single-cores. Evident, particularly the increase in speed in automatic text adaptation, which now goes almost without delay. 

Also new is the integration of many APIs of the operating systems (especially on Android), leading websites in HTML 5 is possible, even to sensors, such as the position sensor, and even access the camera. This allows developers and developers new possibilities for web applications. 

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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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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Angie: Another Siri competitor for Windows Phone (Video)

Several weeks ago we have seen first Siri competitor for Windows Phone  Ask Ziggy , the personal assistant that uses speech recognition to perform various operations from our terminal similar to what happens with Siri iOS5 of Apple.


Now comes a another Siri competitor ,Angie is a new application for Windows Phone still in Beta (Available only on the French marketplace,using the natural language that allows you to view information about television programs,read favorite news, access to our social network, translate words in a foreign language, find a place and much more. Besides having a detailed graphic, developers have released a development kit that allows any developer to create skills for Angie or create your own personal assistant for a specific task.




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iOSOpenDev: Tool to develop Cydia app available for download

iOSOpenDev is a tool that facilitates the development of applications to achieve the Cydia store was finally released. iOSOpenDev is aimed at developers who want to tweak to make iOS possession of a Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.

As mentioned previously, provides the user interface iOSOpenDev Xcode to build the app, and includes various templates Xocde allows you to send directly to Cydia for publication. Deb file created.

iOSOpenDev 1.0 was released on February 4 and after one day, the developer has already begun to make the first improvements in version 1.0.1. The tool is still in beta phase and is therefore to preempt the presence of some bugs.

To download the tool simply connect to this address,while for further information on installation and use may be useful to consult this page.

iSuppli: Windows Phone will become the second mobile operating system in 2015

From research conducted by the American iSuppli  new interesting forecasts have emerged, going up to 2015. 

We should expect a slow decline in growth of the IOS and Windows Phone intended to capture second place behind unstoppable Android.

Nokia is the real engine of this lift, which will start stronger, according to iSuppli, with the release of 900 Lumia.In the face of only 1.9% of the share recorded in 2011 by the Windows Phone, the highly anticipated smartphones of the Finnish should allow a considerable leap this year, bringing its market share to 9%

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Nielsen: Android sales leader in the States yet, but iPhone OS has done better in Q4

The famous American rating company Nielsen has just released the data on sales of smartphones in the period from October to December 2011.

The results are certainly positive for Android , which has exceeded 50% of the share at the expense of RIM and other systems, with only the IOS to 37% off best results, however, that obtains partial narrowing the gap.

The excellent results of IOS is most likely to be motivated because the output of ' iPhone 4Soccurred right at the beginning of the quarter in question. Apple's growth has been so important in heads-up Christmas seems to be able to compare favorably with Android that actually loses about 14% in Q4.

The excellent sales of the iPhone 4 have undoubtedly affected some sales of Android. The user has chosen Apple has not bought Android, the first competitor on the market, and the new 4s continues to be the best selling smartphone on its own. The struggle is therefore still in full and no one was defeated. What will happen in 2012?

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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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