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Apple secures exclusive license to use Liquidmetal

galvanized company logo!

Apple has secured an exclusive license to use new materials of U.S. metal specialist Liquidmetal Technologies.

The alloys of Liquidmetal distinguish from conventional metals, since they show an improvement of the material properties.

The alloys are springier, harder and more unbreakable which makes them a better material to produce casings of electronical devices. Now we all can feel confident that it will not be a problem anymore in future to drop our iPhones.

A GREAT START: WE’VE SECURED $2 MILLION IN SERIES A FUNDING FROM AN ESTEEMED GROUP OF INVESTORS

C2Call

Well, this makes it official – we’ve raised $2 million in Series A funding from Draper Investment Company, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mr. Klaus Wecken, co-founder of KHK Software AG.

Raising this sort of money from a group of such respected investors can certainly be seen not only as a vote of confidence, but also as a sign that we’re on the right track.
We’re especially excited that this fresh influx of funds will help accelerate our expansion, as we have already generated more than $2 million in revenues since April 2010 and now have more than 900,000 users, with an additional 15,000 new users a day. And our FriendCaller app is one of the most popular iPhone apps – ranking among the Top 15 free social networking apps.

Much has clearly happened since the idea for C2Call was born back when our CEO Martin Feuerhahn and CTO Michael Knecht traveled the world on projects and found that each region seemed to have its own solution. That made it impossible to communicate with partners and customers on one platform. They came up with C2Call and FriendCaller to solve that issue.

Now, even someone’s grandma can use FriendCaller because we have what we always set out to develop: a free, easy-to-use and straightforward solution. By making calls free over any Internet-ready device, and by enabling social media and other sites with integrated digital voice communication, we are just getting started.

Apple has been collecting iPhone-user locations secretly for 3 years

Apple uses the location services to improve their ads!

Apple agrees that they have collected their users locations since 2008.  It is admittedly possible to disable the location services, but after changing the configurations no application can use the service anymore. The collected data shell be used for the advertising service iAd to tailor ads to single users. More precisely to show the users ads containing shops nearby. This hits all Apple products with location service, even Mac-Computers.

Whether this way of doing  is legal will be decided in court.

American product testing company attacks Apple

Consumer Reports

The most important American testing company.

The American consumer magazine “consumer reports” denied giving the iPhone4 a recommendation to buy, since the product testers traced the connection problems to a defect of construction, which means that it deals with a hardware and not as Apple declared a software problem. Moreover the magazine recommended their readers to buy the old iPhone3G S instead of the new version, the iPhone4.

This critic will surely bring sorrow to Apple, since the magazines judgment has great influence on the Americans purchasing behavior. Furthermore “consumer reports” gave the sarcastic advise to bond the regarding part of the iPhone4 with isolating tape, because this could solve the problem.

If you are affected by the problem, keep in mind that you still have chance to use FriendCaller!

Aside from that it is the first time that an Apple iPhone does not get a recommendation to buy from the reputable magazine.

Apple comps protective covers

Steve Jobs holds the iPhone in the "right" hand!

At first the connection problems with the iPhone 4 were the users fault. Then it was a software problem and now Apple comps protective covers, which indicates a hardware problem.

Owners of an iPhone 4 have been complaining about connection difficulties for weeks. The problems appear if left-handed users cover a particular point of the smart phone with their fingers. Steve Jobs commentary on this subject is meanwhile deemed to be legendary, since he just gave the advice to hold the phone in the other hand.

After this, Apple acknowledged their fault and announced that they will develop a software update, which patches the problem.

But now Apple virtually acknowledged a hardware fault according to the Internet site Appleinsider. A New Yorker Enterprise contacted Apple with a video showing the connection problems and as a result Apple gave them protective covers as a present. This protective cover prevents the option of touching this particular point. This falsifies Apples statement that it just deals with a software problem here.

But do not worry! If you are left-handed and you still want to call you friends you can use FriendCaller to do so, because we are not just offering the iPhone App.

Moreover we supply the Webphone!

Apple apologizes to his customers

Left-handers excluded from using iPhone4?

It may be true that the iPhone 4 is a best seller, but it is also true that it brings difficulties to the user. Just after the sales start many users complained about connection problems while using their phones left-handed.

Now Apple decided to take the problems serious, instead of just advising to use the iPhone with the other hand. That can nearly be regarded as an about-face of this situation.

By the way , Apple did not just suffer from looses of its public image. Moreover angry customers sued the concern.

Nonetheless , the problem can be solved next week with an update, since the reason for it is just a false calculation of the signals strength.

Apple reveals iPhone 4

iPhone 4Apple revealed its new iPhone 4 featuring FaceTime, which makes the dream of video calling a reality, and Apple’s stunning new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in super crisp text, images and video. Furthermore, iPhone 4 is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera that has a LED flash with it. HD video recording is one of the features of iPhone 4 that will help sweeping the smartphone market with glory.

iPhone 4GiPhone 4 comes with the new Apple iOS 4. Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform. There are over 100 new features as compared to the last model, iPhone 3GS. The new iBooks app is also included in the iOS 4, and one can sync their books with bookstores, and can also read and store PDFs in iBooks. There are over 60,000 books available in the iBookstore, and since the launch of Apple’s iPad (two months ago), five million books have been downloaded.

iPhone 4 HDiPhone 4 users will be able to experience an amazing talk time of over seven hours on 3G networks, and up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi and up to six hours of web browsing on 3G. The battery life and graphic performance is enhanced due to the use of the Apple’s new A4 processor. iPhone 4 also offers 802.11 n Wi-Fi networking and adds quad-band HSUPA to provide 7.2mbps downlink and 5.8mbps uplink capability.

Apple plans to offer its iPhone 4 to customers in US, France, Germany, Japan and UK on June 24, and provides an opportunity to pre-order iPhone 4 from June 15. Also on June 24, a new iPhone 3GS 8GB model will be available, adding up to the 16GB and 32GB 3GS models stream released last year.

OS 4.0 updateiOS 4 can be downloaded after June 21 and iPhones (3GS models only), iPads, and iPod touches (3rd Generation) can be upgraded via iTunes 9.2 or later. FriendCaller has been successfully tested on the new iOS 4 and updates to the new version of FriendCaller for iOS 4 will be released shortly after the iOS availability via iTunes.