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Apple is beefing up its security prowess with the purchase of AuthenTec, a small security company focused on fingerprint sensors and identity management. On Friday, AuthenTec indicated in an 8-K regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that they agreed to be acquired by Apple for $356 million. Apple’s $8-a-share offer is a 58 percent premium over the stock’s Thursday closing price of $5.07. Why would Apple want AuthenTec?  ZDNet’s Larry Dignan provided two reasons. First, Apple is increasingly focused on iPhones and iPads being adopted in the enterprise. Improving the security of their devices is seen as key to this process. Second, AuthenTec licenses its technology to several smartphone and computer manufactures, such as Samsung, Lenovo, Nokia, and Motorola. Apple may not have wanted a rival to buy the company. Image taken from U.S. Patent Publication US 2010/0321158 A1 - Digitized by Google Regardless of Apple’s...

Apple’s next generation iPhone and its so-called “iPad mini” will debut at two separate events this fall, rather than a single one as has been widely speculated, according to several sources. First comes the latest iteration of the tech giant’s hugely popular smartphone, which will be unveiled at an as yet unannounced event on September 12. Only after the next-generation iPhone is out the door and on sale will Apple announce the smaller iPad it’s been working on. That device, which is expected to have a display of less than eight inches, will be uncrated at a second special event, which sources said is currently scheduled for October. Some have already speculated that Apple would likely separate these two iOS device announcements, particularly since both are likely to be blockbuster events. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber recently posited that reports suggesting Apple would debut the new iPhone and iPad mini at a single event were off-base. His theory: The...

The D-day in the patent war between Apple and Samsung has finally arrived. The trial which brought out some of the biggest secrets of both the companies comes to close today after they were not able to come to a settlement. The jury in the federal court of San Jose, California has allotted each party two hours to present closing arguments. If you have missed out of the 3 week long battle, then here are 20 things you must read. 20. Apple Files First It all started back in April 2011, when Apple sued Samsung saying that the Korean electronics maker “made a deliberate decision to copy Apple’s iPhone and iPad…The intellectual property that Apple has asserted against Samsung goes to the heart of the extraordinary success of the iPhone and the iPad.” 19. Apple’s Design, Utility Patents Apple’s claim is that Samsung infringed four industrial design patents which cover the look and feel of the devices. Also three utility pa...

With September 12 th , 2012 around the corner and the rumors of the ‘rumored iPad Mini’ being unveiled along with the iPhone 5 on the same day, it’s time to round up all that we know about the Mini via rumors and come up with a list of features that might feature in the tablet. So far we are familiar with the rumors of the tablet being smaller and cheaper. Here are some more features about the iPad Mini. 1. Would It Look It Like iPhone or iPod Touch! Ever since the rumors of iPad Mini came out, more rumors about its features and looks started doing the rounds. It is believed that the Mini will not look like the other iPad but instead look like either the iPod Touch or iPhone. It is being said that the new iPad will be 7.2mm thick which makes it much slimmer than the 9.4 mm thick iPad. The headphone jack might just be located near the dock which will immediately mean a thinner tablet. The volume buttons of the upcoming device are also said to be separated, rat...

Tablets have finally made it through the struggles of childhood and are now entering their rambunctious teenage years. We’ve weeded out the “me too” products and are left with three major players in the tablet market: Apple, Google, and a resurgent Microsoft. The products from the former two are reaching a state of maturity, where they can reliably serve enterprise computing functions, while Microsoft is gearing up for a major push into the market it once owned. With the market maturing, how might tablets evolve and be serving the enterprise in the coming three years? Personalized, schizophrenic Just as mobile phones and laptops have increasingly become tools of personal expression, tablets have continued the trend. This has created a difficult task for CIOs, who are now asked to allow any and all devices into the corporate network while simultaneously maintaining security. I believe users will win out in terms of bringing their personal tablets to work, but we’ll in...

Apple’s earnings, which were recently released, had an interesting subtext beneath numbers that generally disappointed investors. As Apple’s flagship iPhone and iPad sales had another brisk quarter, Macintosh sales slowed, and desktops fell 13%. With the iPad eclipsing overall Mac sales, is the tablet finally poised to banish the desktop to the annals of technology history? The dawn of the specialized processor One of the major factors that might spell the end of the desktop as we know it has been the rise of specialized processors. In the traditional end-user computing market, upgrading processing power was largely a question of adding more transistors. Need more number crunching, video processing, or data manipulation power? Add more transistors. Computer graphics largely led the transition of specialized processors in the end-user space, with everyone from gamers to graphics professionals quickly discovering that a commodity video expansion card, optimized for mo...

Bangalore: The new Apple operating system iOS 6 is still in the pipeline and is giving surprises to the industry everyday announcing features like Siri, a new share screen, etc. But the latest one to stun the world is the news that there will be no YouTube app in iOS 6 . This came after Apple announced the replacement of Google Maps with its own Maps application, a couple of months ago. The effect of this change would be to the users who now will be forced to watch YouTube videos from within the browser. It is clear that Apple wants to keep Google out of its operating system and hence from its devices. Here are the reasons why. 1. They are Competitors It is not very surprising that Apple wants to keep Google away from its devices. They have been the archrivals for a few years. Where iPhone is one of the largest selling Smartphone powered by Apple ’s own iOS 6 , Google powers more than half of the world’s Smartphones with its Android . And now wi...

Bangalore: Apple, by going to a jury trial to defend the patents of its most prized products, is allowing its competitors and the public to see inside one of the most secretive companies in the world. By showing the public how it designs products that have changed the electronics industry twice, Apple has risked losing some of its secrecy. During the patent trial with South Korean mobile maker Samsung, Apple's senior vice president, Scott Forstall, has recently revealed the secret behind the iOS user interface. He disclosed the hard work and innovation that went into developing it. "The goal of an operating system is to run the entire machine, to drive the machine. We wanted an operating system that could last for another 20 years. The strategy was a modern operating system", he said. Forstall, who is with Apple since 1997, revealed how Apple decided to start on the iPhone project. Forstall and his colleagues had thought, "I remember sitt...

iPhone Dev team has just released Redsn0w  that includes support for untethered iOS 5.1.1 for iPhone 4S,  iPhone 4 , iPhone 3GS , iPad 3, iPad 2,  iPad 1 , iPod touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G.   In this article, we will take you through the step-by-step procedure to jailbreak your iPod touch on iOS 5.1.1 using Redsn0w for both Mac and Windows users. Here are some important points to note before you proceed. This guide is meant for iPod touch users . iPad users can check out this guide . Redsn0w 0.9.12b2 supports untethered jailbreak. Redsn0w 0.9.12b2 supports iPod touch 4G, iPod touch 3G running on iOS 5.1.1. Please ensure your iPod touch is on iOS 5.1.1 (Settings --> General --> About --> Version should be 5.1.1) before proceeding. Please note that  jailbreaking your iPod touch  may void your warranty and hence proceed with  caution  and at your own risk. Please do not forget to backup your iPod...