Mark Bridge writes:
Apple iMessage is going to kill SMS. And then, when it's killed it, it'll dance on its grave. Anticlockwise. Whilst mocking every mobile network in the world.
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As promised, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has opened the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference with a series of announcements.
The next version of the iPhone and iPad operating system - iOS 5 - will have more than 200 new features when it's released this autumn.
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Ralph Jennings of voanews.com writes:
Taiwan's massive high-tech industry has long been synonymous with building gadgets cheaply for foreign companies. But at the country's annual technology convention, locally designed tablet computers are hoping to change that image by challenging Apple's wildly popular iPad.
After decades of making PCs at a discount for more well-known foreign companies, Taiwan firms are using their manufacturing experience to design their own machines.
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Next week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will see the announcement of iOS 5, the next version of the iPad and iPhone operating system, according to a company statement.
In addition, CEO Steve Jobs will be unveiling a new 'cloud' service called iCloud.
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App store analyst company Distimo and games market research firm Newzoo are working together to provide monthly data on game sales and downloads across the Apple App Store in various markets.
Their first report shows that half of all free and paid app downloads across the USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium are games.
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