Friday poll: your wish list for the Apple event?

So, here we are again, a week before another secret Apple day.

According to invitations to the press sent is the holding company an event called "back to the Mac" to the Mittwoch.Die invitation has a lion behind the Apple logo, which means it is a safe assumption to say part of which you can see above, Apple is the next version of OS X to introduce and dub lion.

But this Apple events have normally more than an advertisement, the rest is up in the air. This means we a few other ways that a few days back listed.

The MacBook Air is much due for an update as the MacBook 13-inch.Both could of Intel's new i3 processor profitieren.Es is the Verizon/iPad news yesterday about an enlarged partnership is possible.The new iPod touch, as the iPhone 4, FaceTime, but so far it can connect to regular Computer.FaceTime for iChat in Leuven is thus also an opportunity.

Therefore we ask in addition to Lion, which would be the following at the top of your Mac wish list for next week? and if we missed something, make sure you let us know in the comments section below.

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Apple patent would enforce parental controls on texting

Apple is trying to give more power to parents about their children using SMS messages.

A representation of how Apple's new patent would.(Credit: USPTO/Apple)

The company yesterday reportedly secured patent covering the "systems, devices and methods", 7,814,163, from the u.s. patent and Trademark Office that a user to determine what kind of text-messaging content to be sent or received by a particular device.

According to the application, either completely block messages, or the "prohibited content" "to the receiving process be removed from the message before transferring or as part of." To filter the content, Apple said that he will use certain criteria as defined by a separate parental control application.

The application closes "objective reviews criteria or a user's age or grade level" to determine what kind of words and content text messages be authorized and what not. Whenever an SMS contains inappropriate content, are the applications "warn the user, the administrator or other persons given the presence of such a text."In other words, could children try, with a unfortunate text message their parents will find alarmed by the app.

Apple filing also indicates to use the patent more than only prevention of inappropriate communication application can abet. also as "teaching tool or study help" helping children with text-based communication, such as grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.The app would allow administrators send certain messages to students and ask you to respond with the right answer.If the message is not grammatically correct, is warned for example, the parent or administrator of the tool "lack of one such text."

"These embodiments that a certain number of Spanish words per day for a child learn Spanish in E-mails will contain, for example, might require," reads the patents abstract.

Apple applied for the patent in January 2008, could be on to something with this.

Inappropriate text messages Pew became known on Vormarsch.In which fact, research practice, hatte.Die last year, 30 percent of the 17-year receive sexually explicit images from others as Sexting, is a legal question for one, but it is also the parents that their children want to be involved in such practices, not beunruhigend.Obwohl it seems that Apple's patent relates text, could the service provided another line of Defense involved at least parents with one against their children in inappropriate communication arm.

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Apple, Mac, OS X event next week hosting

Antgoo: well, that's enough shameless self-promo for a day. Okay, one more: look for me on car tech live and the Android Atlas podcast tomorrow.

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Apple appeal holds sales of iPhone lookalike

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Apple now third largest PC vendor in United States

Macs have your highest share of the PC market now ever, according to IDC.(Credit: CNET\Sarah TEW)

U.S. computer sales were rather disappointing during the past three months, unless you're talking about Macs.

IDC quarterly PC Tracker survey released today sent Apple 1.99 million Macs in the United States in the third quarter of 2010.Thats supplied according to IDC Apple's share good for 10.6 percent of 18.9 million PCs in the United States, set the highest in the United States in its history.

While the 24.3 percent and Dell's 23.1% is still far behind Hewlett-Packard's, both of these companies remained relatively last year statische.Apple broadcasts 24 percent versus the same quarter saw its programmes a year ago grow.

And it is not only the growth of HP and Dell it is besting: the entire U.S. PC market in the third quarter grew 3.8 percent from a year ago, (although it was predicted 11 percent), d. grew h. Apple shipments of Macs with eight times the rate of everyone else. It has been quite remarkable gesattelt with the label "too expensive" computer given the continuing weakness in the economy and enterprise-whether correct or not.

So why Apple is so good computer sell now?IDC analyst David Daoud says that iPad actually can be one of the reasons.

"It is very possible that the iPad's affect marketing right now [Apple's Mac] business as a halo effect, watched how we with the iPod a few years ago", he said."The dynamics went on with the iPhone, now the iPad is a similar role seems, stimulating play distribution through its product line."

Apple sold more than 3 million iPads between April and June, and it is very likely that we updated number for sales will receive in the last three months, when Apple reported their quarterly earnings results on Monday.What is interesting is the proposal that iPad helping not taking away sales of Macs, but you ist.Im unlike the iPod has a completely different use case as a Mac, it has discussion about whether the iPad in some cases can replace a laptop computer.

Best buy's CEO was last month who say that the iPad in notebook sales around as much as 50 percent had cut zitiert.Obwohl he later, he said only the 50% figure was secured from this statement a "gross exaggeration."He didn't say there was no cannibalization effect.

Either way, it's good news for the Mac business that does not get nearly the attention to, with the iPhone and iPad raking in huge amounts of revenue for the company and the clear trend in the industry towards highly mobile verwendet.Aber we know for sure that next week we more on the Mac and Mac OS hear X, hält.Hier when talking about a special event at the hardware and the next version of the Mac operating system Apple is, what we on the Mac front see might expected CNET.

Although total sales of consumers not so hot have company computer seller a decent company sold IDC sagt.Lenovo, strong and large companies in the third quarter, expected "commercial refresh" grew up 32.9% in the global Umsatz.Der long - cycle of the companies replace employee computer and IT facilities en masse-- on schedule continued.

Perennial world-wide market leader HP saw little change in volume, claimed its place no. 2 with 13 percent of shipments ausgeliefert.Acer 17.7 percent of 89.3 million computers in the third quarter reclaimed, Dell fell to third place with 12.5 percent secured, Lenovo claimed 10.3 percent of shipments and newcomer ASUS remained in the top five with 5.4 percent of shipments.

Gartner also today released its market share results and saw similar figures: HP with 17.5 percent shipments worldwide, Acer 13.1 12.2 Dell, Lenovo 10.4 and ASUS 5.4 percent.

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