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Will Bing be the new default search engine for the iPhone? The new rumours are that Bing will be integrated in firmware OS4.0 as the new default  search engine. Does this mean thatGoogle will be removed as the default search engine?

Apple is planning to stop doing business with Google, because Google recently begun competing in several markets “including the mobile market”. At least that are the last rumours according to businessweek. If this is really the case this means that Google Maps also will be removed and Apple will create there own Maps.

“Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine on its iPhone, according to two people familiar with the matter. The talks have been under way for weeks, say the people, who asked not to be named because the details have not been made public.”

Of all the people that used mobile search engines, 86% of the people used Google, Only 11% of the people used Bing “Stats Of November”. If Bing will be the default search engine on the iPhone, microsoft will definitely reach a lot bigger audience than it does now. I mean just think of it. To of the biggest companies in tech teaming up against Google.

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iPhone Apps Saves Haiti Earthquake Victim!

Post taken from The iPhone Blog:

Yes the title is true an iPhone app actually saved someone in Haiti after the earthquake happened. Dan Woolley  found himself trapped in rubble when the Haitian earthquake struck, injuring his head and leg. All he had was his iPhone which had a unknown first-aid medical app.

The app helped him diagnose his broken foot, make a tourniquet for his leg, and described the best way to bandage his head to stop the bleeding. He even set the alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes to make sure he stayed awake and alert.

65 hours later he was rescued.

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Average User Spends $10 On Apps a Month

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Gigaom
created a nice Apple App Store Economy Visualization. They say there are 133,979 iPhone applications, made by over 28,000 developers, who wait an average of 4.78 days for their app’s approval. The app store users downloaded an average of 3.7 apps each in december. And each iPhone user spends an average of $10 on apps every month. for full details check gigaom. How much do you spend a month in the app store?

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iPhone Tops best Screen Reponse!

In the video above is a demonstration between an iPhone and two Droids. Well, personally, when I compare all touch screen phones, they never make up to the iPhone.

DIY Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

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Google Launches Real Time Search

Google is introducing a new service called “real-time search,” hoping to get in on a growing online movement toward services such as Twitter, where users post notes about events as they happen.

On the usual search results page, Google will now also list real-time results as the Google engine picks them up, in the process updating the results page in real-time. The real-time results will include traditional web pages as well as posts from Twitter users.

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Apple Rejecting Intel Morrestown?

Rumors are circulating that Apple has rejected Intel’s Moorestown chips as unsuitable for their mobile device range, after Cupertino engineers decided that the Intel CPUs demanded far too much power.  According to Fudzilla, Apple have informed Intel that Moorestown needs to have one-tenth the idle power consumption it manages currently before it’ll be suitable for any of Apple’s devices.

The rejection will come as a blow for Intel, whose Atom range has been a mainstay of PC netbooks over the past eighteen months.  A win with Apple for mobile or lower-power devices would have opened up a whole new market; Intel have previously suggested that Moorestown would be ideal for high-end smartphones.

Moorestown is also expected to find a place in MIDs, and it’s feasible that Intel might have been hoping to see the platform inside Apple’s much-rumored tablet.  Instead, it’s likely that any mobile device from Apple in the near future will use a PA Semiconductor chip, the handiwork of a company Apple themselves own.

 

Why Apple Isn't Making iTunes Available for the Palm Pre?

The Palm Pre was favorably reviewed relative to the iPhone. But the iPhone has all those great Apps but the Pre does not. And your iTunes account ties you to the iPhone too unless your phone runs it too. And that was what the Pre did till Apple upgraded iTunes and it was no longer compatible with the Pre. Palm is upset and is trying to get Apple to open up iTunes.

Does Apple’s strategy make sense? Allowing Pre to use iTunes increases sales of music but reduces sales of the iPhone. Where do the two effects line up? It seems iPhone margins are almost 60% as AT&T is giving Apple a huge subsidy. And the iTunes profit margin is around 10%. Not sure what the sales figures are but you’d have to see a huge number of songs to counterbalance profits from iPhone sales.

If it’s worried about iPhone sales, Apple is making the right call on making iTunes incompatible with the Pre.

 

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