Apple unveiled the iPhone 3 on March 7

The technology company Apple announced Tuesday the conclusion of an event in San Francisco on March 7 in which it looks like it was unveiling the new version of its popular "tablet" iPad from which the details are still unknown.

Apple sent an invitation which summoned reporters that they should come next week at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in the center of the Californian city. In the call only sees an image of an iPhone screen with the day 7 March in the calendar marked with the following message: "We really have something to do. And touch. "

The company, true to form, avoided further the contents of the presentation, but it is assumed that revolve around the device and popularly called iPad 3. Both 2010 and 2011, Apple spent his first event of the year to talk about his revolutionary "tablet" with the idea that novelty hits the market between March and April.

The U.S. media speculate that the new iPhone is equipped with the same clarity of display the latest versions of iPhone, a definition called Retina Display, best cameras for photo and video , and the possibility of 4G connection.

Apple fails to block the sale of devices in the U.S. Galaxy

Apple failed to convince a judge to block the sale of some smartphones and tablets Galaxy of Samsung Electronics in the U.S. market, depriving the manufacturer iPad and iPhone a key advantage in the global patent battle between the two companies. In a ruling issued Friday, Judge Lucy Koh district of San Jose, California, Apple denied the request for preliminary injunction against a Samsung.

Both companies are involved in a bitter legal battle that includes more than 20 cases in 10 countries , while competing for leadership in the market for tablets and smartphones .

Also Friday, an Australian court extended the embargo on sales of Samsung Galaxy last tablet in the country for at least another week, after Apple appealed to a ruling that ended the ban.

Apple sued Samsung in the U.S. in April, saying the Galaxy line of phones and tablets of the South Korean company copied the iPad and iPhone . But on Friday Koh Apple rejected the request to ban sales of three models of smartphone and the Samsung Tab 10.1. "It is clear that a mandate on Samsung devices in question to avoid irreparable harm to Apple," Koh wrote.

Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet on Friday referred to his company's previous statements about the case, saying that "the obvious copy of Samsung is wrong." There was no representative from Samsung available for comment.

Apple could still prevail in the lawsuit in its entirety, but is unable to stop sales of Galaxy in the United States share s while going through the roof in one of the consumer electronics markets fastest growing.

Apple apologizes for censorship of abortion information Siri

Apple has had to apologize after a day of excitement. The technology company has refused to take an official position on abortion after criticism raging purpose of Siri Virtual Assistant for iPhone for its inability to find clinics interrupt the pregnancy. Moreover, in some cases has led to centers for pregnant women pose to abandon the idea .

In a statement, Apple has Siri problems attributed to the fact that this is a test version of a system which continues to work. "It's not intentional omissions in order to offend anyone," said Tim Cook, CEO of the company has ensured that the assistant, which is activated by the voice on the iPhone 4S, better "in coming weeks."

One of the founders of Siri, who developed it before it was acquired by Apple, said that Syria is in beta and therefore is in the process of improvement. In any case, he says, such responses are not likely attributable to the company if not third-party suppliers with whom Apple hired to obtain local information for your virtual assistant.

Spontaneous combustion

Siri's responses are, however, the only problem with Apple's iPhone .. Two customers in Australia and Brazil, have reported a strange spontaneous combustion of your device that destroys iPhone 4 without any known cause. The origin of both incidents is totally different. In the Australian case, the spontaneous combustion occurred during a domestic flight. Sparks started the unit and the plane was filled with smoke. In the case of Brazil , the incident occurred while the owner was sleeping and the phone was charging. The room also was filled with sparks and smoke. There is still no explanation for the problem, but some media remind older model iPod Nano have been problems of self-ignition of the battery.

Apple CEO named president Arthur Levinson

The U.S. technology company Apple today named deputy president of the company to Arthur Levinson , co-director of its board of directors since 2005, the company said in a statement.

The position previously was held by Steve Jobs, the co-founder, who died on October 5 .

Also Robert Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, will be a new member of the board of directors.

Iger and Jobs became close friends since the two worked together since 2006, when Disney bought Pixar Animation Studios, the company that Jobs was CEO.

"Art has made tremendous contributions to Apple since it joined the Council in 2000," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "It was the longest person who served as co-director of the Council, and his knowledge and leadership are incredibly valued by Apple, its employees and its shareholders," he added.

Iger about the company leader said he is confident that it will be "an outstanding addition" to the Board of Directors, and said that his strategic vision in front of Disney is based on three pillars: creating the best possible creative content, enhance the innovation and the latest technologies and expand into new markets.

Cook believes that these strategies "fit" perfectly into Apple.
Just Iger announced in October that he will leave his positions as president and CEO of Disney in March 2015.

Iger replaced in March next year to John Pepper as chief executive of the board, a position he will remain until June 2016 when its functions completely stop in front of the company.

The owner of Siri's voice heard on television that Apple had used

His name is Jon Briggs, a journalist specializing in new technologies and also the voice behind the wizard Siri intelligent voice , at least in the version for the UK. However, Briggs did not know that his voice would ring in thousands of iPhone 4S until he saw the demonstration of how the tool on television.

In fact, his story begins long before the release of the iPhone 4S. Specifically, it all began about six years ago when Briggs took a job as voice recording for the system "Daniel", which was to be used in the software Scansoft, Nuance. For three weeks, journalist 5000 recorded phrases with different intonations read. Then, Nuance was responsible for breaking down all phonetic groups so that they could recombine and the system had the ability to read any text.

From that moment, her voice began to be used in services as diverse as reading applications for the blind, paging messages at train stations or satellite navigation systems. Briggs has put his voice to the GPS from Garmin, TomTom, Jaguar , Land Rover, Audi and Porsche.

Since Apple has worked with Nuance to Siri, the voice of the journalist has done well in the new service from Apple. "You are not allowed to license the voice to make money," says Briggs, who does not claim anything Apple but wanted to tell his story. The apple company asked not to reveal the "secret", but he believes he is in his right since it has not signed any contract with the company.

Jon Briggs confessed fan of Apple and it seems that Sirius is a great idea, so is delighted to be part of something as big as this.

Siri Apple: Google's murderer?

The president of Google , Eric Schmidt, has said that the new voice recognition service from Apple, Siri, is a "competitive threat" in the Internet search industry. Even Schmidt cited two publications have claimed that Siri is a "murderer of Google."

These statements were made ​​by Schmidt during the Senate hearing on the alleged abuses of power by the search giant last September, as recorded by AppleInsider . The former CEO of Google believes that the personal assistant Siri is a "significant breakthrough" in the search and could pose a threat to their core business.

In that sense, Siri, bought by Apple in 2010, came to light in October as the main feature of the new iPhone 4S . The president noted that "Syria is a development, an important means for accessing voice-activated responses via the iPhone that shows innovation in search."

Strong competitors
Furthermore, the current president of Google said that his company has "many strong competitors," and sometimes your company fails to anticipate the threat of such competition, as it raises new methods of access to information.

In that sense, the company competes with search engines such as Bing or Yahoo! , specialized search engines such as Amazon and eBay , with social networks like Facebook and Twitter , with software companies like A pple and Microsoft, with mobile applications , among others.

Similarly, the head of Android, Andy Rubin , rejected Siri last month, it does not believe that cell "must be attending." Schmidt, meanwhile, denied in a letter that Google has a "dominant position in the smartphone market" based on a study comparing the success rate associated with buying and keyword searches, placing third.

On the other hand, the current report has shown that Android has the largest market share of smartphones, with 43.7 percent in August. The difference comes mainly from the 'tablets' of Apple, which have a market advantage against the 'tablets' Android.

Applications that make the Apple iPad a peripheral for the computer

The arrival of the iPhone paved the way for a new medium in the computer age, that of the tablets . Many have ventured to say that they will withdraw from circulation to desktops and laptops , but the fact is that this still seems remote.

Tablets and PCs can coexist, 'help' and work together. If you look, for example, the iPad , we found a number of applications that make the tablet Apple a multifunction peripheral to existing desktops and notebooks, as explained from Consumer .

As mouse and keyboard : Applications HD RC Trackpad and Remote Mouse a substitute for traditional keyboard and mouse. Both require the installation of a client program on your computer, to establish remote connection with the iPad, and have an area to handle the mouse and keyboard functions extensively. They are compatible with Mac OS X and Windows XP (32 bit), Vista and W 7. Remote Mouse The cost is 1.59 euros, while RC Trackpad HD up to 2.99 euros. The price difference is justified by the major options in the second, as well as its greater precision to the touch.

Monitor : This application is made ​​to leave in the iPhone screen tasks pending or second order control processes that do not want to leave in the background. An application for this function is Air Display , priced at 7.99 euros.

Remote Virtual Desktop : Wyse PocketCloud is the most popular application to control the computer remotely. As the only requirement, both (tablet and computer) must share the same wifi network. Otherwise, works on both Windows and Mac OS X (Lion better than previous versions) and is supported by Google's Gmail platform, so you can use the user keys in it to make the connection .

Hard Drive : Air Sharing (Universal) is an application that makes the iPhone a manager of the hard drives of all user devices connected to the same wifi network. Its price is 3.99 euros and has pretty good reviews by users.

Scanner : DOCSCAN HD is an application that optimizes the iPhone camera to use as scanning paper documents, such as receipts or invoices, which then moves to a different digital file formats, including PDF and JPEG. It is a free application.

Webcam : The combination of IP Cam and iCam can give us a system of remote viewing webcam. With the first we can use the iPhone as a webcam and iCam, conversely, we can turn the iPhone on a monitor and control the different webcam manager that we are on. There is another option to monitor a remote area effectively. FaceTime is the function that allows establishing a secure videoconference between different Apple devices through a WiFi connection.

Graphics tablet : iGraphicPad (2.39 euros) and Mega Draw (4.99 euros) allow the use of the touch screen as the computer image manipulation to draw on them, so that it remains in a trace file that is stored on the hard drive and synchronized between devices. Most programs support editing, illustration and design market. There is a free trial for both, but it is actually very limited.

A Valencian company wins in court to Apple

The holder of the court of First Instance and Instruction No. 1 Quart de Poblet (Valencia) has agreed to the provisional dismissal of the complaint filed by the company against a company Apple In Valencia - New Technologies and Energy Catalá SL '- to which accused of copying its iPhone, as recorded in a car.

A pple introduced in November 2010 a complaint for an offense against intellectual property against this company - represented by counsel in the firm Rocabert Bar & Grau, Salvador Silvestre - after ordering the shutdown of its 'tablets' in Customs Valencia were on the ground that a copy of your iPad. This prevented the Valencian commercial marketing their product.

Specifically, the complaint, retaining specified in Valencia Customs various items from China and destined for commercial Valencia, understanding of the company, "reproduced on the device itself and / or packaging registered Community designs, which shall belong exclusively to Apple, he noted.

So he added in his letter that the manufacture or use of products covered by these rights by a third party without permission from Apple was in violation of intellectual property rights of the company, since the designs held devices - added - were exclusive right to use the American company.

Against this, Silvestre - who has clarified that software used by your client ( Android ) was totally different from iPad - has indicated that Apple's goal with the complaint was to prevent the entry of 'tablets' and let the suspected breach of industrial property rights 'drowned in the courts' any commercial activity of the company in Valencia.

In fact, the judge in Quart de Poblet, after studying all the documentation provided, has decided to terminate the proceedings and to agree with the Valencian company does not appear to consider that 'substantiated' commission of the offense in this case.

Before the Competition Commission
Parallel to this action, and after the stay in the Customs 'tablets' of this company, Sylvester filed a complaint against Apple with the National Competition Commission of this fact, that there is still no resolution . The commercial has always maintained that their devices do not even use the same software as the iPad. In that complaint, Silvester asked the Competition Commission that an investigation into this matter and to perform all those acts necessary to ascertain the facts and establish responsibilities.

According to the lawyer picked up on this complaint, Apple released in 2010 a 'tablet' - laptop with which you can interact via a touch screen or multi - which he called iPad commercially. This dominates the commercial market for these devices and has a dominant position. Moreover, the complainant company - 'New Energy Technologies and Catalá SL' - is dedicated to the purchase and sale of electronic and computer equipment. Among others, sells a type of 'tablet' that has nothing to do with the Apple iPad and sold under the brand NTK.

In November 2010, Apple , 'abusing its dominant position', as specified in the complaint, paralyzed 'tablets' of this company in the Customs' with a clear intention to close the market and prevent entry to potential competitors '.

Apple's flagship product in 2012 could be a TV

Perhaps Steve Jobs died with a 'thorn', disposing of another ambitious project: to reinvent the way the TV. An idea that is gaining weight in recent days with the arrival of the biography of the recently deceased founder of Apple.

Walter Isaacson , author of the biography of Steve Jobs , Jobs wrote that he had found a way to develop a TV "really useful", published this week by CNN . A wireless device with a new interface, which is synchronized with other Apple devices .

Also this week, the analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities, issued a report entitled A Full Blown Apple TV is on the Way ... It states that in China and have developed the first prototypes of which might be called the 'Smart Apple TV. "

Shuffled in late 2012 or early 2013 launch date. "It would be a new path for growth in sales of Apple and play with the ecosystem created with other technology products," White told.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg cited three anonymous sources ensuring that Jeff Robbin , the creator of iTunes, is in charge of developing the television set.

Do not have anything to do, have, with Apple TV , which since its arrival in 2007, has failed to approach the success of the iPhone or iPad . In fact, it also ensures that the updates planned for this product, looking at the end of 2011 and early 2012, have been suppressed.