Apple Will Moves In on Your Wallet.

With the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, and iMac, Apple is the most powerful technology company in the world. It’s also the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S. and among the top sellers of online movies, too. And Now, It might become an iBank. After the great acheivement, Thanks to a technology that lets you use your mobile phone to pay for your stuffs, not just online. This tech, called near-field communication, involves a microchip that can send and receive data across very short distances, about four(4) inches. That instead of swiping a credit card, you hold your phone near a reader and let the data zip between the two devices, thats all. Research...

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CIO — Goodbye, $.99 iPhone apps.

In fact, mobile app developers are weighing seven business models, the most prevalent still being application store sales with 59 percent of respondents using this model. Other models include advertising (43 percent), in-app purchase (42 percent), brand loyalty and engagement (34 percent), mobile commerce (26 percent), subscription (26 percent), and coupons programs (10 percent). The fastest growing business model is mobile commerce. In a similar survey last year, only 14 percent of mobile app developers had mobile commerce as part of their business model mix. Today, one out of four have mobile commerce, a growth of 86 percent. Applications...

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Manufacturing of iPad 2 to begin in February(2011), iPhone 5 in May(2011)?

According to a report, Apple’s manufacturing partners overseas they are going to start their ipad, ipad2 in February which would be followed by the manufacturing of the iPhone 5 in May. China’s commercial time have reported that production of  of iPad 2 will be starting from the next month i.e. (February02-2011). The companies shipment for the second quarter of 2011 is expected to increase significantly, it is expected that iPad 2 sales will cross over the peak of sales attain by its predecessor. It is also reported that Foxconn have once again taken the lead in getting the greater share of the pie, as it remains apples biggest manufacturing...

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"The company is doing out additional ways to visualize data on iPads and iPhones, including "heat map" and calendar-style presentations and many more. Another new feature will enable in-memory data stores on mobile devices to receive new information without having to remake the whole repository. MicroStrategy's in-memory capabilities will now also be able to suck in data from multidimensional databases such as Oracle's Essbase" "A product called MicroStrategy Transaction Services like barcode reader which will allow mobile applications to talk to transactional systems back at the home office. For example, a store worker could use an iPhone...

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''French broadcaster TF1 has launched a application in the Apple App Store for both iPhone and iPad. The app gives access to streaming live content, as well as on-demand catch-up TV and ‘bonus’ content. The broadcaster has said the TF1 Vision app will offer at least 80 hours a week of fresh programming, “representing the variety and richness of TF1′s programme grid”. The application is full of free of charge. The application also offers social media integration via its TF1&Vous (TF1 and you) functionality, which connects the channel to Facebook. The broadcaster claims it is the most popular media company in Europe on Facebook with over...

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"Apple will add NFC (near-field communication) capabilities to next generation iPhone and iPad, director of the consulting firm Some Group.  NFC is a Basic form of wireless data transfer over short (up to Some-inch) distances, which could be used to make purchases with a mobile device. If Apple ties the technology with customers’ iTunes account, making purchases may become as easy as swiping your phone over a specified designed sticker or payment terminal. "Apple is thinking of starting a mobile payment service as early as mid-2011, integrating it into iTunes and adding the familiar concept of loyalty credits and points into the service.Doherty...

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