Apple continues to evaluate stylus integration on the iPhone and the iPad

The Cupertino company continues to explore the possibility of integrating the capacitive pen in his iDevice as evidenced by two recent patents covering specific technologies of interaction between the stylus and touch screen interface with . We underscore this timely to avoid confusion, exchanging idea really "innovative" (if it was not that it could not be patented) with an idea, that of the capacitive pen, extensively tested and integrated into products already on the market (Galaxy Note). 

USTPO today has granted  two patents to Apple in the U.S.  : one concerns the optical stylus, the other one with haptic support feedback.

The optical version (see picture at the opening), as the name suggests, has a room located at the tip that "reads" the touch screen by detecting pixels with a particular format or other types of markers are invisible to the naked eye.

The second type of stylus patented is equipped with an actuator which generates the vibration and a receiver that receives the commands related to the vibration from the transmitter located in the frame of iPad:

Applications for recognition of the just mentioned patent dates back to 2010, while the publication of the documentation that confirms the assignment of patents occurred in the day today.

Obviously the fact that Apple wants to protect some projects related to the use of the stylus does not confirm that will soon be marketed with the iPhone and iPad accessories described.It is true that the use of the stylus, after a long militancy with old PDA with resistive touch screens, recently returned to the spotlight thanks to convincing revisiting the accessory made by Samsung with the Galaxy Note before and HTC Flyer. Understandable that Apple can control the integration of an accessory in some usage scenarios it may prove very useful.

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INRIX Traffic: The new app for iPhone and iPad that pulls you out of traffic

INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and services for motorists, INRIX Traffic announced a new application for iPhone and iPad that helps drivers to better manage their travel and avoid traffic . The application allows, in fact, to reduce the costs caused by traffic jams thanks to the innovative features that allow a considerable saving of time. Among the main functions:

•  The faster ways of work and home: drivers can easily decide which path is the best choice to avoid the daily traffic. INRIX is only able to analyze the impact of accidents, sporting events, concerts and other events have on local traffic, providing the fastest routes and ensuring minimal delay.
• Suggested starting point and time involved: the service of INRIX Traffic Forecast Slider shows drivers with the best options to avoid annoying delays.
• Sharing times of arrival: allows you to send the scheduled arrival time to their contacts in just a few gestures.
• Personalized traffic alerts: Drivers can adjust your application to ensure they are alerted only on certain categories of accidents or events that affect the path of interest.

"With this new application enclose, in the palm of one hand, more than 100 million sources of traffic," said Kevin Foreman, INRIX vice president of Consumer Applications. "With this latest release drivers will never be late."

For the provision of information, INRIX Traffic takes advantage of the same company used by major car manufacturers including Audi, Ford and Toyota. Compared to any other provision of the traffic service, INRIX is able to monitor a larger number of roads and providing the user with more accurate insights useful for saving time and fuel on over one million kilometers of roads, motorways, ring roads and streets towns throughout Europe. INRIX combines Finally, in a unique point of view of the world's largest automotive community with over 100 million drivers a day and hundreds of other sources, succeeds in providing accurate within 3 miles per hour in all driving conditions, 24 24 hours, 7 days on 7 ² .

INRIX Traffic The new application is available now for  iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch on  Apple App Store. To learn more about INRIX Traffic, visit www.inrixtraffic.com.

The new iPad ready to land in 30 more countries around the world

Currently the new iPad is sold in over 50 countries in the world and after opening the markets in Lithuania, Colombia and 12 other countries , now the chain of countries  after one month is even bigger and goes to 30 more countries where the new iPad will be sold.

The launch will take place on Friday May 11 with 23 countries (Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Curacao, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Malta, Martinique, Mauritius , Morocco, Peru, Taiwan, Tunisia, Vietnam)  and then continue the following Saturday 12 in the remaining 7 countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates).

Apple, by the end of this week, will start selling its new product in 90 countries around the world, a goal that is certainly important to understand how the company's products are popular in all corners of the planet.

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Apple announced the sale of over 3 million new iPad's in just 4 days

Apple has announced a few hours a new sales record achieved, this time, the new iPadthird generation, within 4 days, has reached and surpassed the three million units sold .Once again, a figure beyond the expectations and forecasts, which is unequaled in the industry.

With a official press Apple announced more than three million new iPad sold in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the U.S. Virgin Islands in just four days on Friday 16 Saturday 17, Sunday 18 and Monday, March 19. The new iPad brings interesting new features, such as the new Retina display, the chip A5X GPU quad-core, and a 5 megapixel iSight video to 1080p and support for 4G LTE networks in the United States and Canada.

These are the words of Philip Schiller, senior vice president of International Marketing Company:

"The iPad is a new blockbuster from 3 million in sales - the biggest ever launch of iPad. Buyers are appreciating the new iPad features, like the great screen Retina, and we look forward to offering it in the hands of many more customers around the world by next Friday."

After the record of pre-orders recorded by the product, analysts had predicted 66 million units sold in 2012 and 1 million in first weekend . The results can be compared, compared with sales of the first two generations of iPad: 300,000 for the first iPad first day of sales in U.S. and one million  estimated for the iPad 2 in the first weekend. In particular: the first iPad took 80 days to reach a height of 3 million in sales . Sales of the iPhone 4S approach those that scored 4 million in 3 days !