Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, agreed to buy Infineon’s Wireless Solutions (WLS) business for about $1.4 billion, gaining a foothold in the mobile- phone business it has struggled to crack for more than a decade. A definitive agreement to transfer Infineon’s Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel has been entered in a cash transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion.
Infineon, Europe’s second-biggest semiconductor maker, expects the all-cash transaction to close in the first quarter of 2011, according to a statement today. The business makes third-generation, or 3G, chips for devices like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S.
WLS, a leading provider of cellular platforms to top tier global phone makers, will operate as a standalone business serving its existing customers. WLS will also contribute to Intel’s strategy to make connected computing ubiquitous from smartphones to laptops to embedded computing.
All humans experience uncertainty from time to time and worrying is a normal response to uncertainty. If you are overly affected by too much worrying, the good news is that, there is now an iPhone app that can help you to manage worries better. The iWorry app is a worry journal app that helps users to handle their worries and problems better than a normal notepad. The iWorry app is developed by a Malaysian-based company, Pringgle Media. Pringgle Media is focused on developing intuitive and easy-to-use applications to the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. The iPhoneMalaysiaBlog team has the opportunity to interview the Founder and Chief Software Engineer of Pringgle Media, Mr Waihon Yew recently. Below are some of the information that we have gathered about the iWorry App from him.
The iWorry app can enable users to jot down their worries in a worry list the moment they occur in order to get them out of their head quickly. While doing so, they can also assign a tag to a worry for easy retrieval and filtering later on. Users can also schedule a worry time. Only at the appointed time that they can view their worry list. “This serves to discipline users to worry only at a specific time.” said Waihon Yew, founder of Pringgle Media.
Apple released the iOS 4 in June 2010. i have heard some of my friends who were using the iPhone 3G complaining about the iOS4 after the upgrade. There were also quite a number of blogs and forums with complaints about the iOS4 for users of iPhone 3G as well.
Although Apple claimed that the mobile operating system would work on both the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G, users have not been very unsatisfied with the performance that they recieved after the upgrade. In addition to that, there are people who indicated that the operating system causes reduction in the battery performance of the iPhone.
Other low performance indicators include a drop in the responsiveness of the smartphone, and the lagging of many applications. It seems that the recent iOS 4.0.1 update did little to alleviate the probelms faced by users.
Following the recent spate of problems with regards to mobile connectivity in the iPhone 4, Apple is taking this new series of complaints very seriously. The iOS4 offers over a hundred enhanced features for the iPhone, and the new software release causing problems is regrettable.
So, if you are currently using the iPhone 3G and plan to update your software to the IOS4, i would strongly recommend that you hold that back for now until a more stable version of the iOS4 software is out.
Below is a youtube video which highlights some of the issues on the iPhone 3G which has been upgraded to iOS4:-
i came across an interesting article about “Smartphone apps could be sharing your private data” from NYDailyNews.com that i believe i should also post it in here for the benefits of my website visitors. The reason i am posting this is more for awareness purpose and not to cause any stir among users of smartphones. The end of the article also mentions that “Apple and Goggle are doing a great job trying to keep these platforms secure,” Hering told Technology Review, “but that does not mean anything if the developers are introducing vulnerabilities using third-party development kits.” So, if your iPhone is jailbroken, it may have a slightly higher risk compared to non-jailbroken iPhones.
Below is the article written by Sherry Mazzocchi from NYDailyNews.com:-
Smartphone apps could be sharing your private data
You might not give out your phone number to strangers, but the free app you downloaded on your phone might be doing just that.
Technology Review reported that apps downloaded on mobile devices can collect users’ sensitive data – such as phone number, location and contact lists – catching users as well as application developers unaware.
This blog is dedicated to provide the latest updates on the happenings around the iPhone in Malaysia as well as to provide useful information on how to make the full use of the coolest gadget on earth, i.e. the iPhone.
Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, agreed to buy Infineon’s Wireless Solutions (WLS) business for about $1.4 billion, gaining a foothold in the mobile- phone business it has struggled to crack for more than a decade. A definitive agreement to transfer Infineon’s Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel has been entered in a cash transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion.
