It ’s a supersized edition of the remains of the twenty-four hours as we harness the late rumor development in Apple ’s deal with labels and publishers over a cloud music overhaul , Google ’s possible entry into the mobile defrayal field , and Apple ’s latest patent haul . All raise for the remainders for Tuesday , May 24 , 2011 .
500,000 Apps(Chomp )
While Apple has yet to corroborate the milestone , app - discovery service Chomp has already broken out the party hat to observe the 500,000th app in the App Store . It ’s even bring a giving : a protracted infographic on the store ’s history and composition . That also go on to be a great pattern for plan the perfect best - selling app , which according to my calculation should be a game that costs $ 3.64 and deals with moronic birds that ride motorcycle , pilot planes , and shoot each other with skee balls .
Little divide Apple , euphony publishers on cloud deal(CNet )
Another sidereal day , another rumor on Apple occur to damage with record labels and publishers over a supposed cloud music service . The latest report betoken that three of the four major label have signed on ; Universal seems to be the final hold - out . Meanwhile , Steve Jobs ’s personal beta of the service — which involves pay Bob Dylan a consideration to place upright in his bread and butter room and play whatever songs Steve want to hear — is goingswimmingly .
Instagram Surpasses 4 Million Registered Users , Is Now Posting 10 Photos A Second(TechCrunch )
Photo - communion service Instagram dish up some interesting number at the TechCrunch Disrupt league on Tuesday , saying that ten drug user photos are post to the social internet every s and that it has 4.25 million users after just seven months . And that ’s only with a node usable on the iPhone ! Imagine if they put it on Android , too — they could totally get that number up to 4.26 millioneasy .
Google enunciate to contrive Mobile - Payment Service Unveiling in New York on May 26(Bloomberg )
speak of Android , Bloomberg reports that Google is poise to launch a roving - payment overhaul this week , bringing close - subject area - communication chip ( NFC ) technology to Sprint ’s Nexus S handset . Such applied science will allow masses pay with their phone by just waving it over a hard cash registry and then run out before store security can stop them .
Samsung Must Show Cell Phones to Apple(Courthouse News Service )
The conflict between Samsung and Apple continues apace , with Judge Lucy Koh find that Samsung must produce five of its as - yet - unreleased Android - based phones and tablets as part of an expedite discovery process . Apple , however , wo n’t actually get a face at the devices themselves , but that ’s not a big deal because they look just like the iPhone and iPad .
Apple Buys 200 + Patents from Freescale Semiconductor(Patently - O )
If you ’re a Mac user who live on through the PowerPC era , you may realize the name Freescale Semiconductor . in the beginning Motorola ’s processor class , Freescale was reel off in 2003 to fend for itself . Now Apple ’s received “ an assignment of assignors interest ” in more than 200 patents belong to the chip - maker , almost all of which are said to be relate to ironware for computers and wireless devices . To be bonnie , Apple has n’t read through them — it just keeps the paper copies in a dump - truck that it can back up to a court room if necessary .
mathematical product News :
BusyTodo 1.5 – BusyMac ’s to - do app for iOS updates to version 1.5 , bring financial support for the iPad , the power to filter to do items by date , priority , and calendar , and a number of nomenclature localizations . $ 10 .
Byword 1.2 – edition 1.2 of Metaclassy ’s Mac text editor add Markdown accompaniment for editing and previewing , the ability to export Markdown to HTML , a new interface design , and other advance and fixes . $ 10 .
Localscope 1.5 – The version 1.5 update to Cynapse ’s societal location - base app now integrates with MotionX GPS Drive , Waze Social GPS , and MetroView Australia & New Zealand GPS apps . There are also four extra language ( German , French , Italian , and Spanish ) , improved Facebook share-out , and a handful of bug location . $ 2 .
Opera Mini 6 – Opera has updated its iOS internet browser to version 6 , take support for the iPad , a new user interface , smoother pinch - to - zoom , support for the iPhone 4 ’s Retina display , enhanced sharing capability , the power to open a new page in a backcloth tab , and respectable support for international baptistery . Free .
MailShot 1.41 – The mathematical group e - ring mail public-service corporation for iOS recurrence to the App Store , fixing a bug introduce in 1.40 and features support for import existing name and address Good Book groups , detection of potentially obsolete e - post computer address , and the remotion of the 50 - inter-group communication - per - group demarcation in the upgraded version . Free .
Quickoffice 4.0.1 – backing for advanced editing of PowerPoint documents headline the release of the situation solutions app ’s 4.0.1 update . Users can now fine-tune fonts , colors , sizing , styles , and more , as well as tally , removing , and rearranging slideway . There ’s also a muddle for an installation military issue and more . $ 5 for received version ; $ 10 for Pro version .
