iPhone Cruncher

A San Francisco officer has tracked down a man accused of swiping an Apple iPhone out of a woman’s hands and has been shocked when police found him only nine minutes later.

HOW? It turns out the phone had been tracking his every move.

The iPhone was being used to test a new, real-time GPS tracking application, and the woman holding it was an intern for the software’s maker, Mountain View-based Covia Labs.

Covia CEO David Kahn had sent the intern into the street to demonstrate the software. Police say Horatio Toure snatched it and sped away on a bicycle.Khan was watching a live map of the phone’s location on a computer and says he was immediately struck by how quickly the image began moving down the street. Police arrested Toure nine minutes later, and the intern identified him as the thief.

So for those who are so keen on getting an iPhone especially those who do it by force or cheating, you might as well think twice as to not embarrass yourself. The apple iPhone is very useful in terms of tracking and keeping tabs of peole who are exposed to violence and crime. Thieves are now being tracked through GPS which is very convenient for the users and totally inconvenient for the criminals.

Apple opened its second store in China on Saturday which drawled crowds of all ages as early as 5 am. Some people drove several hours or flew in from different provinces in china for a chance to be there on the opening of the Apple store. Many hoped to catch a glimpse of the iPhone 4 or of Steve Jobs, but were disappointed.

Bystanders were interview and said:

“I didn’t come to see a specific product. I just see it as a chance for us Apple fans to party,” said Penguin, owns a Macbook and an iPhone.

Apple’s retail stores are known to create buzz and serve as successful a marketing tool for the brand in its home market, which has left many wondering why it took so long for Apple to open more of the stores in China, the world’s second largest PC market after the U.S. According to IDC, Apple computers still make up less than 1% of PC unit shipments, and iPhones make up less than 1% of handset sales in China.

Those dints stop a total of 150fans from waiting overnight to be among the first to go into the Apple store. One 20-year-old customer from Zhejiang province took ka buss to Shanghai last night with his friends, hoping to see the iPhone 4. “I guess it may not be available in the store, but it was still worth coming. I came to experience the atmosphere and the culture!” he said.

The building is made entirely of glass, similar to Apple’s flagship New York City store on Fifth Avenue. It has a glass cube entrance that leads customers underground to a space covering some 1,500 square meters, bigger than Apple’s first store in Beijing, which opened two years ago.

Apple said it expects to open a second store in Shanghai, but an opening time has not yet been released. The company has said it plans to open 25 new Apple stores in China by the end of 2011, but gave no additional details on those stores at the opening.

While the iPad kicked off festivities at the WWDC 2010, it was the much awaited iPhone 4G that really stole the show. Led by Steve Jobs himself, the new iPhone certainly lived up to its expectations and then some. Well who wouldn’t? Considering the new iPhone 4G boasts of a 9.3mm thick frame which is 24% thinner than the previous iPhone 3GS, who wouldn’t be impressed?

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While everyone is clueless as to what the iPhone 4G would look like, some folks have gone to the extreme and came up with a potential render of the iPhone 4G in white casing.

From the looks of it, a white-rendered iPhone 4G does indeed look good, something which may not be bad if it could be applied to other iPhone 3G or 3GS models. Not a bad idea ey?

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At this point, a lot of people are eagerly awaiting the coming of the iPhone 4G. And for now, all we can rely on is the CDMA version of the iPhone 4G which is being tested by Verizon Wireless. But you don’t have to fret since by June, official specs of the much anticipated iPhone 4G will most likely be released at the WWDC conference.

And so for now, we can just imagine what the new iPhone 4G would come out with. Rumors have it that it will have awesome features that include video chat, multi-tasking and extreme downloading. This iPhone 4g could also have dual core processors and higher and powerful graphic chips that can deliver higher video resolutions and better “still” images when taking pictures.

Well these are all speculations and while we don’t want to ruin the party, just wait and see. The iPhone 4G looks promising in terms of being sleek, packed with new hardware and multi-tasking software.

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The iPhone 4G Rumors keep coming in and now word is going around the that iPhone 4G will be coming out this June 22. Of course this is far from being official for now but seeing that Apple had booked the conference at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco, the speculations keep getting crazier.

For the record, this is the same venue where the iPhone and the iPad were unveiled.

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