Apple new patent – Charge your iPhone wirelessly

According to a new wireless charging patent filed by Apple, users may be able to charge their iOS devices include iPhone and iPad wirelessly using their MAC PC (iMac or MacBook). The patent, titled “Wireless power utilization in a local computing environment” come up with a new technology called Near Field Magnetic Resonance (NFMR in [...]

Apple says location data are used for better service

Apple said on Tuesday at a Senate hearing that they are collecting location data of cell sites and WiFi access points to improve their location services, not tracking user location. Apple emphasized again that the data recorded and sent back to their server are all anonymous. This is the latest progress since Apple released iOS [...]

Find My iPhone helps recover iPhone fell from airplane

According to ilounge.com, a U.S. Air Force Combat Controller called Ron Walker said his cell phone – iPhone 4 slipped out of a Velcro pocket on his jumpsuit when he stuck his body out of the plane door to look for landmarks. At that point, the plane was traveling at 150 m.p.h at an altitude [...]

Google latitude for iOS adds check-in

Google Finally decided to add the long-awaited check-in capability to its latest iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 4.0 or later) version 2.1 a while ago. From App Store people can see the new version is available, once download and install it, people will see a big Check in button. Tap the Check [...]

10 Augmented Reality apps for iPhone

We must have heard at lot about AR (Augmented Reality), it combines the virtual and real world around us which is to change our lives. Today we will give a brief introduction to 10 AR apps for iPhone/iPad, you can find all of them on App Store, and do not forget, most of them are [...]

Ask.com to release location based IM app for iPhone

Location based service is becoming very hot right now, the latest news is that the world’s largest online question answering website ask.com is about to release a location based IM (Instant Messaging) app for iPhone in a week – Ask Around. This cool yet tiny app use a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi and cell tower [...]