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Of course, this is not much to get excited over, just that Apple has released a new beta version of the iPad SDK and there are a few significant omissions. And as you might know — omissions are extremely important when it comes to causing rumors and telling us things without telling us.

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The GDC (Games Developer Conference) is an extremely important conference for game developers everywhere. It has a long-ish history of holding these conferences for covering every possible aspect of game development for all conceivable platforms. They usually hold two days of ‘Summits’ before the main set of keynote addresses and other things start happening. Within those summits, there is the GDC Mobile summit which discusses every mobile platform there is. This included the iPhone up until the last time. But this year they have dedicated an entire summit to the iPhone, making it clear that the platform is now a major mobile gaming platform.

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A new iPhone related patent has been unearthed and even though it is from the year 2008, it shows a feature that hasn’t been implemented in any way in on the iPhone. Hence it has sparked talks of this patent being utilized in some future version of the iPhone. The patent is about using the camera to recognize additional finger swipes. It simply means that instead of swiping their fingers only over the touchscreen, users might be swiping them over the camera at the back as well. The use of something like this? Quite a few actually and they are all very practical.

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O2 has confirmed the news that it is in talks with Apple for providing 3G access to the iPad when it launches in the UK. It seems like they were waiting for the iPad to launch in the US before starting to solidify anything around the deal. It is evident that they have been in talks since before the iPad was launched and this announcement is the first of its kind for the iPad outside the US.

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Now that the excitement around the iPad is settling down and people are passing their final verdicts before they actually get to touch one for real, there is renewed interest in what the new iPhone might bring to the fray. Whilst there are a lot of speculations as to what might be coming for us, there are certain things I believe Apple needs to do if they want to hold on to their lead in the innovation and appeal department. There are also certain things that users would like to see in the iPhone that they already see in other competing phones. So let’s dive right in.

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Now now, do not cringe like that. There are people out there who actually enjoy Bing. In fact, Bing has some really helpful things — like when you search for flights and all. But Bing replacing Google’s search behemoth almost sounds blasphemous to the ears of the dedicated web geek. However, there are reasons in this world that make people do such things and those reasons can be summed up in one word – business.

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As you know, sometimes the tech industry likes to take guesses at what is coming next based on what companies like Apple file patents for. But as we all know at the end of the day — tech company patents are more fleshed out ideas and less products being prototyped. But this newly dug up patent for the iPhone looks like one of those undeniably logical things that are just waiting to happen.

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"I lent my skin to the iPhone, don't peek okay?"

You know those crazy rumors that start floating in the air when an Apple product is imminent? Well, here’s a new one — according to a new rumor floating around on the blogosphere’s tech alleys, the next generation iPhone might actually have a surface like the Magic Mouse. So the whole phone will essentially become a touchable surface. Now riddle me this — how will that be useful? I sure see a lot of reasons why I would treat the surface just like a normal, boring old shell. I might even

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Okay, so Korea Times is claiming that  Apple will soon release a Dual-Core iPhone that will eat your phone for breakfast. Okay, so they didn’t write that part about breakfast but if the rumor is true then it will do so anyway. According to the paper, KT, the carrier who’s got the exclusive on the iPhone in Korea, has leaked this bit of information. According to Korea Times’ sources inside KT, the new 4th generation iPhones will arrive sometime in June and will be handed out to corporate executives to see how well they hold out in a demanding situation. They are calling it the litmus test for the phone.

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Happy 2010 everybody! We are entering a new decade and of course it is time to bust out all the lists. This one is about Apple. This is one company that continues to make waves across multiple industries on a fairly regular basis. They have had their duds of course (hello, Apple TV) but their main products have constantly inspired the competition to rethink their plans and catch up. Sometime they just want to copy (Vista) but soon they realize that we are not a lot of 5 year-olds hence really put some effort in (Windows 7). Over all, Apple continues to stay ahead of the pack and make great products. So let’s look at all the great things that Apple has accomplished in the past decade.

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