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Apple

iOS 5.0.1 Didn't Fix Battery Drain Bug, Say Some Users

After Apple updated its mobile software iOS with the new version 5.0.1 last week, some users still report having issues with the short battery life of their phones. A variety of comments on the Apple Support Forums show that the batteries of iPhone 4S are still losing charge at a fast rate. But this users could be in the minority since others reported that the update did take care of the problem.

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Mobile

Digital Image Can Dupe Android Face-based Lock

The mobile blog SoyaCincau posted a video of the Face Unlock feature tricked by someone who simply shows the Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0 a photo of the face that have been used to set up the locking mechanism. According to the blog SoyaCincau holding a digital photo of its owner that is displayed on another phone in front of the Galaxy Nexus can unlock it.

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Google

Think Insights with Google

Think Insights with Google is forward-thinking and rooted in data. You can use it as a one-stop shop for consumer trends, marketing insights and industry research. This is the place where you can explore all the Google information and resource hubs for marketers, helpful tools and studies, the latest trends and exciting videos.

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Social Networking

Facebook Faces Lawsuit

Deutsche Welle reported that the state data protection authority in Hamburg plans to sue Facebook over its facial-recognition feature. The reason for the lawsuit is the fact that the facial-recognition requires storing a comprehensive database of the biometric features of all users, reported by the organization. According to the law Facebook should have had unequivocal consent of the parties by both European and national data protection law, before introducing the new feature.


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Apple

iOS 5.0.1 Arrives with Battery Fix

Apple released the first update to the latest version of iOS 5.0.1 that should fix the bugs resulting in poor battery life on their mobile phones. The battery fix comes more than a week after the company acknowledged that some of their users really had problems with the low battery life caused by bugs in the new version of the software.

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Social Networking

Facebook Restores Chronological Setting to News Feed

Users now will have a new way of sorting the News Feed and show the most recent stories first. The other option will be to view the highlighted stories first, followed by recent stories, like it is at the moment. The updates to News Feed are expected to be seen over a few weeks.

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Adobe

Adobe to Lay Off 750 Workers

Adobe, which was famous with its Flash Player and the Adobe Creative Suite has announced its plans to eliminate 750 full-time positions in attempts to reposition itself as a leader in the digital media and marketing. The restructuring of the company's earnings per share and potential growth in the target markets was discussed at a financial analysts meeting in New York.

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Adobe

Adobe is Investing in Digital Media

Adobe announced plans to further align its business around the two growing market areas of Digital Media and Digital Marketing solutions. The company is a leader in Digital Media content authoring solutions, enabling customers to create, distribute and monetize digital content. The future plans are Adobe to become also a leader in the solutions for managing, measuring and optimizing the digital marketing and advertising.

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Adobe

Adobe Plans to Invest in HTML5

Adobe just mentioned that it was planning to invest further in HTML5 after restructuring. According to some the changes could go even further by dropping development for Flash Player on mobiles entirely.

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General

Firefox 8 Is Here

Mozilla officially released the update to Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux and Firefox for Android. In the new version of the browser for Windows, Mac and Linux Twitter is included as a search option in Firefox. You can also load tabs on demand, that will allow you to restore windows with many tabs much faster.

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