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Samsung has recently released emails sent back and forth between Steve Jobs and Jony Ive and Apple designer Bas Ording. The email shows Steve Jobs writing "This maybe our answer" in response to a forwarded blog post by Engadget that reviewed Samsung's fashion phone, SGH-E910.

Samsung's Fashion phone that apparently inspired Steve and his team.

iPods were popular in 2005 and iPhone hadn't surfaced yet. But Steve and other executives at were thinking of turning iPod into a mobile phone. From what we can see in the email messages, this fashion phone by Samsung inspired Steve and his team to put numbers around the click wheel of an iPod turning it into a mobile phone.


However, that iPod plus Phone concept never shone that much as Apple worked for a full touchscreen mobile phone and finally came up with 2007 iPhone. But Samsung showed it that Apple isn't always the most innovative. They too copied design idea from other companies including Samsung, with whom they are in legal dispute.

Source: The Verge.

Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs (left) and new CEO Tim Cook (right).

Some shocking news for anyone just signing in to the web. Steve Jobs, the most seen person on the Internet who was the CEO of Apple Inc. has just resigned from his position. According to Reuters, he has submitted his resignation letter to the Board of Directors.

For the first time in Australia, figures showed that sales of Android-run devices have jumped over iPhones.



42.9 percent of smartphones sold in the country run on Android operating system while Apple iPhone has 37.2 percent share. The boost in Android sales may have been caused by brand new smartphones from Samsung and HTC including Galaxy S II, Desire S, Desire Z etc.

The report of just last four weeks show that 54% of smartphones sold in the country are Android while another 29% of smartphones are iPhone.

If you use a mac, and if you have been missing games on your system, there's something for you to be happy. Rockstar Games has recently released Grand Theft Auto 3 : Liberty City on Mac App Store. It's available for download only at $14.99.

Mac users are constantly deprived of the most modern games available for Windows system today. However, the scene appears to be changing. GTA 3 was first released in 2001 and became one of the most popular and best seller game that year. The series followed other games including GTA Vice City, San Andreas and GTA 4 that topped the video game industry repeatedly.

Rockstar Games said that the sequel to GTA 3 called Vice City will also be released on Mac App Store this August 24. On September 1st, GTA San Andreas will also be available for purchase and download.

With these high profile games being available and compatible with Mac, we can imagine that the future of Macintosh computers may just have more games on it.

 Apple has recently announced a special version of iMac specifically designed (and priced) for schools and educational institutes. This specific version of iMac costs $200 less than regular price.

Skype has recently released an upgrade to its Mac version that enables users High Definition video calling and works perfectly well on Mac OS X Lion.



Mac users have long been missing HD Video calling on Skype although the feature has been available to Windows users for quite some time. Now with the upgrade, Skype supports HD video calling with iMac or MacBook Pro's built-in HD camera or an external video camera. For placing HD video call, Skype's recommended upload and download speed is 1.5 Mbps.

Along with HD Video calling enabled, the upgrade enables users on a Mac OS X Lion to enjoy Skype's full compatibility. For those still using Snow Leopard, upgrading to the newest version won't harm. It works on older Macs, too.

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 If you're a Mac user, and if you have been long waiting for Apple's cloud-based services, your waiting period has finally come to an end. Apple launched its cloud-based services, called iCloud, in beta version.

All users with an Apple ID can now access iCloud Beta by visiting iCloud.com. Just like Google's web-based productivity suite, iCloud has web version of Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Find my iPhone and obviously iWork. iCloud is also an online music streaming service apart from being a web-based productivity suite.

In order to store Music online, from where you can stream anytime later, you will have to purchase space in iCloud. The first 5 GB is totally free of cost. Add 10 GB more and you'll have to pay $20. Also, $40 for 20 GB and $100 for 50 GB of additional space for storing music on iCloud.

Update
As of now, Apple has enabled only developers with an Apple ID to log in to iCloud Beta. The company says that the service will be available in this fall.

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Rumors about iPhone are endless. But the latest rumor about iPhone's next edition coming this September has been proved wrong by an undisclosed source.  According to All Things D, a believable source close to the matter said that the next generation of iPhone will not be displayed anytime in this September.

When asked about a hard launch date, the source only said the next iPhone will be out this October where other 'sources' said that it would be late October when iPhone arrives in the market.

The source also said that AT&T may have canceled all employee vacation since past two weeks but it's not for an iPhone launch this September. Whenever the gadget is out, it will be in October.

If you're one of those iPhone fans that are waiting with cash to get an iPhone 5, or 4G, or whatever it takes to be the next generation of iPhone, start counting down now. October is barely two months away!

Bad news for those who don't like Steve Jobs' monopoly with all his market products. New analytics have shown that Apple is world's top smartphone vendor. Along with that, its balance is significantly more than that of US government, according to financial post.

Apple, as smartphone vendor, has 18 percent market share right above Samsung which as 17 percent market share in the smartphone market.