Photoshop Express for Iphone and Ipad
Are you taking lots of photos with your mobile phone?
Photoshop Express 2.0 is then an excellent app, and its free.
The app is only available for IOS machines, not for Android, a think its little weak, given Android’s growth over the past year.
The app has a wide variety of basic editing tools like, cropping, straightening, flipping and rotating. It is also possible to adjust color levels, saturation and brightness. A number of filters and special effects and a lot of frames that can be added around the pictures.Its also possible to share the edit pictures with other IOS devices.
The mobile version of Photoshop will never be a replacement for the desktop version of the software, but for a mobile app, it is incredibly impressive.
Android vs. iOS = ?
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is over for this time.
And it looks like Android will, if not they not already have go past the Apple IOS (In normal order, Apple dident have any monter on MWC)
The strongest coming mobile now is Samsung Galaxy S2 and Sony Ericsson Xperia ARC which are both equipped with the Android 2.3 Vanilla*
These phones toke lot of space in their their monters and have / will soon come on the market.
Another trend was the payment to and / for mobile phones and most new phones come with the new standard NFC (Near Field comunication) This have many other functions, click here to read more about it
“Vanilla Android” is simply an install of Android without any customizations. HTC for example, will put Sense on their phones. Motorola might put Blur on some of theirs. Vanilla is what is straight from Google and has none of those customized interfaces or apps that the carriers put on the phone. (Thanks to rkarolak for the explanation)
Android 2.4 or not?
There have been many smart phones in the first quarter of 2011 with Android 2.3.
But the operating system will get an update to 2.4. Already in April, Google is expected to finalize the next version, which claimed to have only one major function, namely to provide support for applications that are customized for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and dual-core processors.
The fact that all the information around the Android 2.4 does not come directly from Google has caused many to distrust the data. The Website DownloadSquad say they believe more that Android 2.4 will instead be 2.3.3 or 2.3.4.
Still, are not all smartphones on the market today received the Android 2.2 or 2.3. Several manufacturers of smartphones are still optimizes 2.2 for their models and some have chosen not to update at all. Sony Ericsson for example, has said that the Xperia series, will not get Android 2.2 it will jump straight to 2.3 or 2.4 with the upcoming Sony Ericsson Arc and Neo.
A problem that already exists today is that consumers do not know which models will be updated and need to chance when purchase. Generally, the more expensive models are maintained better, while the budget variations are more uncertain. The manufacturers can not guarantee future updates, but users are in great hope for the best.
iPhone for 200 dollar
One iPhone for 200 dollars. Without subscription.
Google’s success in the mobile market with Android OS have make Apple, to think again. Now will the company start to investing in the market, for sheep phones.
The figures for the fourth quarter was not much fun reading for those who are at Apple. Android almost triple its share of the global smartphone market and its have now passed Apple by a wide margin. Android have now 32.9 percent against Apple’s 16 percent.
That is one of the reason that got Apple on other thoughts, and are now planning a counterattack. According to informed sources, are Apple now working with a low-cost version of the hit iPhone, writes Bloomberg News.
The new model will be the a third size of the existing iPhone, and work on multiple wireless networks and the price is said to be around $ 200, without requiring a two-year contract as the current models in the U.S., regarding to the source.
A cheaper version of the iPhone would also put further pressure on Nokia with their Symbian-based low-cost mobile that have been a great success on the European market.
Apple is also working on a new technology, a universal SIM card, which will result in the mobile user does not need to commit to a specific operator. It is unclear if the technology is part of the new phones.
Have google steel JavaCode from Oracle?
Oracle has been submitted document to a district court in northern California. They accused Google of having copied the Java-code line for line, to their operative system Android
Google answer is, that the company neither has infringed or may be held accountable for violating Oracle’s copyright. The company also denies Oracle’s announcement that the code has been copied.
In same time Google accusing Oracle to be edited or deleted information on its copyright to a number of functions and files in the code that it refers to. Oracle requires in its atmosphere both damages and that Google, by court order to prohibit further infringement on Android.
The trial begins October 31 next year, according to a recent decision by the judge in the case, William Alsup. Prior to the case this will being discussed at a conference on 18 November.
10 Largest IT flop in 2010
Buzz
There was no bigger buzz surrounding Google’s try to challenger Twitter. After a launch, which was lined with issues surrounding user privacy, this was never any successes.
Apple Ping
Apple succeeds with almost everything it takes for itself in recent times. Almost. The social music service, Ping, did not to success. A social network that only works in iTunes, and have not led to greater usage.
Google Wave
Google Wave was supposed to revolutionize how we communicate with each other. The service was a mix of email and chat, almost no one understood how it could be used. Google Wave was closed just three months after launch.
Privacy on Facebook
Despite Facebook’s rapid growth the company has big problems to protect user privacy. The service has also been hit by several incidents and bugs that made it possible for third parties to collect private information about users.
McAfee’s False Alarm
Security company McAfee did a smash gaffe when released an update to one of their programs, that rated as a system file in Windows as malicious. The result: thousands of Windows computers crashed and the users had serious problems getting the computer to function normally again.
Palm Pre and WebOS
Palm hoped that Palm Pre and its operating systems, WebOS, would be a worthy contender to the iPhone. Sales have unfortunately gone so bad that most analysts do not even mention Palm Pre in their reports.
Surf Boards with Android
2010 was the year when surfing on Android-plates would take over. Even so, Apple iPad dominated sales, accounting for 95 percent of the market. The only real challenger is Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Iphone 4 Antennagate
Whether antenna problems Iphone 4 are justified or not, but Apple has a snap on the nose that shows how much the company’s customers expect from its products.
White Iphone 4
After months of promises from Apple, it has still not been a white model of Iphone 4th The latest bid is that it will be released sometime this spring. It might be better to drop the plans completely and instead go for a white model of the iPhone 5
Microsoft Kin
Microsoft attempts to create a socially mobile phone was doomed from the start. The only thing you could call “socially” was that you could use facebook on the phone. Microsoft Kin was closed just six weeks after launch.
A serious security hole has been found in Android
The security company Scio Security has discovered a serious security hole in Android that makes it possible to download apps in the background, without user knowledge or consent.
To prove the concept, they created an app that claimed to be the new game courses to the popular game Angry Bird. When this app was downloaded, was also an additional three apps installed.
Apps were not harmful, Scio Security would only prove how easy it is to perform and that it is perfectly possible to use the same method to install malicious apps on Android.
Google has acted quickly to the news and remove Scio Security app from the Android Market, stock, and Google released an update to Android that close the current security hole.
The only problem is. with Android is that most operating system updates have to be updated by mobile phone manufacturer. This means that it can sometimes take several months before a bugfix reach end users.
Many vulnerabilities in the Android
Coverity have investigated the Android core and found a large number of vulnerabilities, and several of them are serious.
In cooperation with Homeland Security, have the company Coverity analyzed 61 million lines of open source in PHP, Linux, Samba and Android. And in Android have 359 flaws in the code been found, roughly a quarter of these will be of a serious nature and pose potential safety deficiencies.
The version of Android-core that have been investigated is 2.6.32 (“Froyo”), how it looks like in previous versions of Android’s is hard to say. Coverity also say that the number of lines on a lack of Android is higher than average, and considering that the proportion of “high risk” flaws are relatively high.
In a statement from Andy Chou, director of research at Coverity.
- A significant number of these are of a high risk that our customers often resolves before the products reach the market. We believe that highlighting these risks proactively provide developers and vendors the opportunity to remedy those deficiencies before they become a problem.
Iphone still bigger than Android
According to a new study leads Iphone operating system is still over Android.
The study is conducted by Chitika ad network based on figures from over 80 000 sites, mainly from the United States. The study was conducted during the first two weeks in July recorded about 9 million handsets in Ios, compared with about 7.7 million phones running Android.
Android growth is impressive given that the iPhone and Ios has been around for almost two years before Android was released. Android has the advantage that it’s on handsets from a variety of manufacturers so that it had a rapid growth.
According Chitika so run now almost exactly half of all iPhone Ios 4, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, released last month.
Among Androidtelefoner majority Android uses a 2.1 with a share of 55 percent. Android 2.2 (Froyo), released a few weeks ago running as yet only 3.3 percent of all Androidtelefoner. As 40 percent of Android-users still running on Android version 1.5 or 1.6.
