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Flipboard just shipped a new update that introduces Flipboard Accounts, giving users the ability to sign in and personalize their favorite sections and social networks in the iPad feed reader. This feature heralds the imminent arrival of Flipboard for iPhone, which today’s announcement acknowledges is “forthcoming.”

The update also adds integration with Tumblr and photography site 500px alongside Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Google Reader and Instagram as built-in options for browsing those networks in Flipboard’s clean, magazine-style layout.

The update comes amidst a bit of a gold rush in the tablet feed reading world. CNN acquired Flipboard competitor Zite in order to have its own tablet reader in-house, and AOL released Editions to do the same. Just a few weeks ago, Yahoo launched Livestand, and Google will be launching one called Propeller soon.

But Flipboard has good technology, strong partnerships, and is already well on its way to monetizing with new full-page ads from high-profile brands. Flipboard has carefully considered its next moves, and with today’s launch of Flipboard Accounts, it acknowledges that the iPhone version is just over the horizon.

You can download Flipboard from the iTunes Store.

Which reading apps do you use?

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Some owners of Apple’s new iPhone 4S have been hit with SIM card error messages, even if they are connected to a CDMA carrier that does not use SIM cards.

One reader contacted AppleInsider on Thursday to share their frustrations with error messages that read “Invalid SIM” and “SIM Failure” on their iPhone 4S. This person said the errors began occurring after they updated to iOS 5.0.1, though other users posting on Apple’s official Support Communities website, in a thread with more than 30,000 views to date, have experienced similar problems since the iPhone 4S first went on sale in October.

“This problem can only be solved when you reboot your iPhone,” the person, who is an AT&T customer, wrote in an e-mail. “Everything else fails — restore, removal of the SIM, etc.”

When users experience a SIM-card-related error, basic functions including making phone calls, sending text messages, and using mobile data become unavailable, as the handset cannot make a connection with the wireless data provider.

The iPhone 4S is a “world phone,” which means its redesigned antenna and internal components are compatible with both CDMA and GSM carriers. Micro SIM cards placed in the iPhone 4S are only used by GSM carriers to identify a subscriber and grant them access to a carrier’s wireless network.

But while only GSM carriers, like AT&T in the U.S., use the micro SIM slot on the iPhone 4S, users on CDMA carriers, like Verizon and Sprint, have also reported experiencing SIM-card-related errors. iPhone 4S units sold through CDMA carriers come with a “roaming SIM” installed, which allows CDMA customers to roam worldwide on GSM networks.

“No service on my white 32 GB 4S on Verizon,” user ‘racyb’ wrote in October. “Did a shutdown and reboot….it went into searching mode and finally found Verizon again after 1 minute. What is going on?”

Since the release of iOS 5.0.1 earlier this month, another thread at the Apple Support Communities website features more users who say the problems began occurring after they updated their iPhone 4S. Some say their iPhone displays full signal reception, yet error messages like “Call Failed” and “Invalid SIM” continue to display.

“Same problem here in Brazil,” user ‘GuiMedrado’ wrote on Wednesday. “Bought my 4S – 32GB unlocked in Switzerland and couldnt’ make it work after upgrading to 5.0.1. Any solution?”

The iOS 5.0.1 update was released earlier this month in an attempt to address battery life issues reported by some users. But some battery-related problems have remained, and Apple has publicly said it is still working to fix those issues.

One rumor this week claimed that Apple will issue a new update, iOS 5.0.2, no later than next week in a second attempt to improve battery life with iOS 5. There was no mention of any fixes for SIM card issues or error messages.

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Το Macuser μας ενημερώνει σχετικά με την έλευση του Αpple TV στη χώρα μας:

Το Apple TV θα είναι σύντομα διαθέσιμο και στην Ελλάδα, σύμφωνα με την iSquare, τον επίσημο διανομέα των προϊόντων Apple στην Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο.

Προάγγελος της κυκλοφορίας του Apple TV υπήρξε η διάθεση των iTunes Films στην Ελλάδα τα οποία με την ύπαρξη τους δικαιολογούν και την κυκλοφορία της συσκευής στη χώρα μας.

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To Ticket to Ride ένα από τα καλύτερα board games για το iPad μεταφέρθηκε και στην μικρή οθόνη του iPhone/iPod touch με τον τίτλο Ticket to Ride Pocket.

Η Days of Wonder, η εταιρεία πίσω από την ανάπτυξη του παιχνιδιού, ναι μεν φρόντισε ώστε τα τελευταία χαρακτηριστικά που προστέθηκαν στην έκδοση για iPad να μην λείψουν από την έκδοση για iPhone/iPod touch (βλ. pass-n-play mode), ωστόσο προχώρησε σε μερικές περικοπές που θα στεναχωρήσουν τους χρήστες:

• A SOLO and PASS-and-PLAY version of the US map that made the original Ticket to Ride board game so compelling and popular (2 million copies and counting…)
• LOCAL play support over a same Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network, making it perfect for a game-on-the-go between friends
• 20 uniquely fun Game Achievements you can win while playing SOLO!
• Distinct leader boards showing your highest scores in 2-3 and 4-5 player modes and on Game Center
• Four distinct AI personalities to compete against
• A new under 2 minute Tutorial video, custom-shot for the iPhone & iPod Touch

Η μεγαλύτερη ίσως απώλεια από την μετάβαση στην iPhone version είναι η  απουσία του online multiplayer mode. Η εταιρεία δικαιολογεί την κίνηση της με το σκεπτικό πως η online εμπειρία διακόπτεται συχνά στο κινητό λόγο εισερχομένων κλήσεων αλλά και προβλημάτων συνδεσιμότητας με το δίκτυο που ενδεχομένως να οδηγήσουν σε μία φτωχή εμπειρία χρήσης:

We purposefully kept Online play out of Ticket to Ride Pocket to focus exclusively on a great SOLO and LOCAL network play implementation. We care deeply about the Ticket to Ride Online player experience, and are unwilling to compromise it with the issues inherent to mobile play (impromptu phone calls, spotty cellular coverage, etc.)

Εκτός της απουσίας του online multiplayer mode η έκδοση για iPhone/iPod touch δεν περιέχει τους χάρτες της Ευρώπης και της Ελβετίας καθώς οι επιπλέον λεπτομέρειες των χαρτών δεν μπορούσαν να αποδοθούν στην μικρότερη οθόνη των συσκευών:

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References discovered in the underlying code of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system suggest that some cross-platform features of Mac OS X iChat could make their way to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Though the code discovered by developer John Heaton, and highlighted by TUAW, doesn’t specifically mention iChat, it does include strings related to outside services AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber. The iMessage application found in iOS 5 allows text messaging, but does not currently connect to third-party chat services like AIM.

But the iChat software built into Mac OS X does connect to services like AIM, Jabber and others, like Yahoo Messenger. The code references discovered by Heaton suggest that Apple was at one point testing similar functionality in iMessage for iOS 5.

Also interesting is the fact that the “IMService” code in iOS 5 mentions both the iMessage and FaceTime services. Currently, iMessage and FaceTime are separate applications in iOS 5, with the iPhone handing off FaceTime duties to the handset’s native “Phone” application, and the iPad and iPod touch featuring a separate application specifically for FaceTime. The code might suggest that FaceTime could eventually become integrated in iMessage.

Even on the Mac, FaceTime and iChat are different applications without integration. And there is currently no support for iMessage in Mac OS X, though there has been evidence that Apple could bring iMessage support to iChat in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

iMessage is Apple’s new proprietary chat client that debuted with the launch of iOS 5 in October. For iPhone users, it handles text messaging responsibilities, but it also allows for free messaging between iPhone users, as well as iPad and iPod touch users, in a manner similar to Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Messenger.

The iMessage software is based on the same push technology that Apple developed for use in iOS application notifications, push e-mail and contacts.

Like iMessage, FaceTime originally debuted on the iPhone and was not available on Macs. But earlier this year, Apple released a dedicated FaceTime application on the Mac App Store for 99 cents.

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Σύμφωνα με δημοσίευμα της Digitimes και αν η Apple πρόκειται να ανακοινώσει το iPad επόμενης γενιάς στις αρχές του χρόνου, όπως έκανε και με τα προηγούμενα iPad, οι προμηθευτές θα πρέπει να έχουν αρχίσει να στέλνουν τα parts για τη νέα συσκευή μέχρι τώρα.

Η αναφορά της Digitimes σήμερα μας ενημερώνει ότι η Apple άρχισε να δέχεται  iPad 3 panels από τη Samsung και τη Sharp. Αναφορά στο CNet τον προηγούμενο μήνα δείχνει ότι το iPad 3 υπάρχει η πιθανότητα να έχει Retina display με ανάλυση 2048×1536, εάν μπορούνε να παράγουν η Samsung ή η LG σε τεράστιες ποσότητες. Η Apple κάνει έρευνες για να τοποθετήσει οθόνες dual-LED στο iPad 3, οι οποίες θα διατηρήσουν και θα δυναμώσουν την φωτεινότητα των panel υψηλής ανάλυσης.

Θα πρέπει να σημειώσουμε εδώ, ότι οι πληροφορίες της Digitimes δεν είναι πάντα αξιόπιστες και μάλιστα ότι πέρυσι  αναφέρει ότι πρόκειται να κυκλοφορήσουν δύο iPad μέσα στο 2011, ένα στις αρχές της χρονιάς και ένα προς το τέλος της.

[ 9to5Mac ]

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