Daily Interesting iPhone News

Flipboard (free) is already many people’s go-to app for flipping through the latest news and social network updates. But today, a new update lets you connect Flipboard with SoundCloud to offer audio clips created by major news services like NPR, and audio clips created by your friends and people you follow.

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The next upgrade for Apple’s iCloud may well have the company moving into the social networking realm once again with photo sharing in the same vein as ultra-popular photo application Instagram. This report comes from the Wall Street Journal whose sources say that the upgrade will be coming in the form of an iCloud Beta release first for developers at WWDC 2012.

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Verizon Wireless plans to force customers to give up their unlimited data plans when they move to its high-speed wireless service, a top executive for parent Verizon Communications Inc. said on Wednesday.

For now, Verizon Wireless customers who move to the company’s highest-speed fourth generation (4G) network from its older network can still use the company’s unlimited wireless data plan for a flat monthly fee.

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For the past few months my friend Richard Murphy has been sending me pictures taken with his iPhone.

This isn’t anything new. Murphy, an award winning photojournalist and photo editor in Anchorage, Alaska, has been sharing photographs with me for years.

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iPhone users are used to checking into places, TV shows, books and movies with applications like Foursquare, Facebook and GetGlue with the chance to earn stickers, badges or becoming a mayor – but none let users duel to the death to become King like social gaming iPhone app City King.

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Apple has fixed a bug that caused personal assistant app Siri to declare that Nokia Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever. Last week, some users reported that Siri said ‘Lumia’ when it was questioned about the best smart phone ever, Stuff.co.nz reports.

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Greenpeace infiltrated Apple’s Cupertino campus this week, projecting messages from Twitter and Facebook users who are dismayed at Apple’s use of coal at the data centre that powers its cloud services.

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With the paint barely dry on Chrome 19, there’s word from Business Insider that Google may finally be submitting Google Chrome for iOS to the App Store. Full-on Chrome for your Apple phone? Don’t get too excited, Apple’s got rules about these things.

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A key tenet of Apple rumormongering is that Apple history repeats itself repeatedly: If Apple has done X, Y and 42 so much as twice consecutively, pundits posit that Apple will do X, Y and 42 a third time.

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App developers got a brief glimpse into the workings of the review process yesterday when photos emerged of what appeared to be the work desk of an App Store reviewer. As ReadWriteWeb discovered, the photos—posted on a test Facebook account—showed an iMac, several Apple products, and what appeared to be app review guidelines.

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Instacorder is an iPhone app that is extremely simple - push the record button, make a voice memo, and when you release the button, the memo is sent to your email inbox for safe keeping. Boost your productivity by tying it to other functions like text or Google Calendar.

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Could the iPhone raid one of RIM’s headline BlackBerry 10 features before the Canadian company’s own handsets are even near the shelves? If the iOS developer behind Octopus Keyboard has his way, it will: Mario Hros has been telling iDownloadBlog about the custom iPhone ‘board he’s been cooking up, borrowing the floating auto-prediction system RIM demonstrated at BlackBerry World and slapping the gesture-based UI onto his own iOS version.

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Apple has filed a new patent application for face-recognition technology that could be used to improve security in iPhone and iPad devices.

The patent, which is titled “3D Object Recognition”, refers to a new facial recognition technology that creates a 3D shape from a 2D representation of a 3D object (a face, for example) to recognise that object when faced with it again.

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Intel is hoping to entice Apple with its new focus on Smartphone chips, as revealed by Intel CEO Paul Otellini, during the company’s annual investor day.  Intel only entered the smartphone market last month but it plans to quickly release chips that improve performance and power efficiency on smartphones.

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In a nutshell: Postagram lets you easily choose a pic from your Instagram, Facebook or smart-phone photo library, add a short message, then publish it onto an actual postcard that’s sent to a snail-mail address of your choice.

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iHome generally isn’t known as a luxury brand when it comes to audio, but it is prolific—the company’s docks and speakers are everywhere, at least if online ads are to be believed. The iW2 is one of the company’s higher-end speakers, based around Apple’s AirPlay streaming technology. In our review, we’ll see how the iW2 holds up versus other options in terms of convenience, design, and performance.

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So you’ve spent a lot of time discovering and downloading new music, but your library’s a mess. You’re still using the same player you used five years ago, the files are in 10 different places on your hard drive and your metadata looks like a cyclone hit it. Take some time this weekend to clean up your library once and for all.

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Last week the European Commission announced that as from 1 July 2012, the European Union’s mobile roaming regulation will be extended to include price caps for data downloads which will mean significant savings for those using maps, email and social networks when travelling.

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Emoticons — those jumbles of punctuation in an email or text — might leave you scratching your head and feeling . Decoding them can be exercise in .

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CHICAGO - You wouldn’t think picking up milk at the “L” station would be a good idea. But online grocer Peapod has turned a busy Chicago train station into a virtual supermarket aisle, enabling commuters to use their smartphones to scan and buy any of 70 items on the fly.

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