Survey Says Huge demand for iPhone5 already

According to a recent survey from Piper Jaffray, there is already enormous demand for Apple's upcoming iPhone, even though there is no certain information on the iPhone's design, performance, name or launch date.

According to the survey of 216 mobile phone users, 29% of respondents currently own an iPhone while 64% of respondents plan to buy the iPhone as their next phone. The majority of the respondents (55%) planning to buy an iPhone are waiting for the iPhone 5 arrival. Interestingly only 6% of current iPhone users plan to switch to Droid while 42% of Android users plan to switch to iPhone.

Now this survey admits that the data comes from a small sample set in Minneapolis in "food courts, on the street, near the entrance of a baseball stadium on a game day" and so can hardly be taken as an indication of broader demand. Nonetheless, we thought it was both entertaining and a small indication of the impact that the iPhone 5 could have for Apple.

Facebook's new messaging(SMS) App for Smart phones

On Tuesday Facebook launched a new app for smartphones , allowing users to send text messages to each other from their smartphones using Facebook’s messaging system. 

Facebook’s Messenger app is also capable of group texting, letting you pick multiple Facebook contacts and send them all texts at once. If a FB user is logged into the new message app, it’ll show up there. If not, they get the message sent to them as an SMS, so long as they’ve registered their phone with Facebook. The service is mobile-focused, so it doesn’t completely integrate with Facebook Messages, which tries to route a message to a person using whatever channel Facebook thinks is most likely for you to get it fastest.

The app is already available for Android and Blackberry phones along with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad (although the app is not yet optimized for the iPad's larger screen.) 

1997 Today : Microsoft saves Apple with a $150 million investment.

The Microsoft Deal ...

On Aug. 6, 1997:  rivalry between Apple and Microsoft appeared to vanish with the announcement a new cooperative partnership that included:

Here are the three major deals Steve agreed to Microsoft. 

Vulnerabilities in Chrome OS : Black Hat conference

Google’s highly desirable operating system, ChromeOS has loopholes that can be violated to take over the system easily.

According to tech website Venture Beat, two security experts, Matt Johanson and Kyle Osborn, on Tuesday revealed to a group of people while addressing the Black Hat conference that they have already found a way into Chrome OS which was officially launched by Google Inc. a few months ago.

World Wide Web @ 20 : 20 years since first website launch

Imagine where would we be without Tim's invention?

At 2:56pm on 6 August, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee launched the very first website http://info.cern.ch/

A NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, in 1990. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web: the first web browser (which was a web editor as well); the first web server; and the first web pages, which described the project itself. On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. 

This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. The first photo on the web was uploaded by Berners-Lee in 1992, an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernettes.

alt.hypertext article on www contains :


http://groups.google.com/group/alt.hypertext/msg/395f282a67a1916c

Facebook Like button to include other gestures(dislike) and Ads in your News Feed. WSJ

 in order to better serve 3rd party developers and business users.

Present worlds largest social networking company Facebook  has engineers working on an “unfiltered” news feed where businesses and developers could obtain information that would increase the potential of showing up in the feed, according to WSJ.

Google real time search to come again live soon :Mashable

[Mashable]:Google Realtime Search is coming back soon, and it will include data from Google+ and other social sources.

BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850 comming this fall

Today Sprint  announces two new BlackBerries running BlackBerry OS 7 for Fall. Sprint gets the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850.

Both new BlackBerry are offering the new Liquid Graphics technology and run on a 1.2GHz processor, offer 5MP cameras and are World Phone capable.

The 10.5mm thin BlackBerry Bold 9930 smartphone is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone ever. It features a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen display, the widest QWERTY keyboard available on a BlackBerry smartphone and a trackpad for easy navigation.

The BlackBerry Torch 9850 smartphone will be the first full-touch  BlackBerry smartphone from Sprint. It features a new 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display, the largest ever on a BlackBerry smartphone, and trackpad for easy navigation.

The specific release dates and pricing will be announced closer to launch