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Apple iPhone unveiled in OS 4.0 developments in iPhone and iPad

// April 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Apple, Apple News, Apple iAd, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone OS 4.0, Internet-Productivity, News, Advertising

Today Steve Jobs, Apple's all-powerful leader, has shown its best face, long, when they took the stage and from there to unveil the third major release of software that manages the large family of mobile devices from Apple.

Improvements in iPhone OS 4.0, it's like to be called the new operating system, are striking. Rumors that Apple would incorporate multitasking – the ability to run multiple programs simultaneously, now many smartphones use competition and – had been circulating for months.

Steve Jobs de Apple presenta 7 mejoras cruciales en sus OS

Steve Jobs unveils the 7 features of their mobile strategy - Fotos GDGT

From today, All developers can download a beta version and start using a 1.500 new programming tools. The finished product, over 100 new features for users, not be ready for installation (as a free upgrade) on iPhones and iPod touch until this summer and it will iPads this fall.

But, the variety and scope of the improvements made were the least, impresionantes. Forstall Scott, one of the young and new promises Apple, announced seven key features“tentpoles”:

1. Multitarea.

Double-clicking on the Start button, users can switch from one application to another, while the first is still running in the background. This means that the music programs like Pandora do not have to stop dreaming when we receive an e-mail, or receive Skype calls, even if the program does not run in the background. Also, Social Media programs like Loopt can position and track users throughout the day.

2. Folders.

To group applications into folders, allow users to install more than 180 applications on the iPhone. Specifically from now may contain up to 2,160 applications!

3. Mail.

Apple's new improved application that allows users to create a unified mailbox for all email accounts. It also allows multiple conversations by topic and exchange rate accounts.

4. iBooks.

This application, and filed with the iPad, iBookstore leads to iPhone and iPod touch. Includes free copy of Winnie the Pooh, a book with color illustrations showing the best possible way that Apple can do what Amazon (AMZN) the Kindle can not.

5. Enterprise.

Apple is adding a series of improvements aimed at getting departments to attract Information Technology currently closely linked to Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry, to include greater encryption and mobile device management.

6. Game Center.

Playing with the biggest advantage Apple has in terms of number of games – more 50.000 compared with 4321 for Nintendo DS 2.477 for Sony (SNOW) PSP – Apple is adding leaderboards and brokerage services to make it easy to find people on line to participate in multiplayer games.

7. hell.

Steve Jobs this novelty reserved for final. What is offering developers a way to create interactive ads that avoid, in his words, “suck” or requiring users to leave the program is running when you click on an ad. With many mobile devices from Apple and may serve more than 1 million impressions per day, we are faced with an extraordinary opportunity for both developers and Apple to generate a lot of money, and employment.

Apple Mobile Advertising as their main course iad advertising - Fotos GDGT

Before the introduction of the iPhone 4.0, be shown to have some significant figures are usually presented in such large gatherings:

450.000 iPads sold to date.
More 3,5 iPad applications million sold to date
More 600.000 downloaded books
More 185.000 applications of all varieties in the App Store
“More” 4 billion downloaded apps
More 50 million iPhones sold
About 35 million sold iPod Touch

All these event dataiPhone OS 4.0 could be followed live by Live GDGT

If while you work, surf the Internet are more productive in your work

// April 4th, 2009 // 1 How » // Facebook, Internet, Internet-Productivity, News, Social Networks

This time Changes in the Red Day by Day, return to show the relationship between Internet use at work and productivity that this fact implies. A few months ago relatavamos study which showed that the great loss of time involved the use of Facebook in the workplace to the point that it became a Facebook en un “thief of time” digital.

This time is the opposite, according to a study by University of Melbourne, Internet browsing distracted looking for leisure reading an increase in the level of concentration and increases user productivity levels.

Navegar Placenteramente mientras Trabajamos aumenta la Productividad

Pleasantly Browse increases worker productivity while

Those who surf the Internet to distract at work – for a reasonable time limit to setting quantified 20% time remaining in his job – are more productive in a 9% more than those colleagues who do not.

Dr. Brent Coker, in a study 300 workers showed that 70% of them, used the internet at work performing NPIT (Pleasant browsing the Internet while working) practical concerns such, find information about products or eg,read news online news portals. Other practices such as playing online games won fifth place and watch videos on YouTube marked the seventh.

The attraction is performing NPIT, according to Dr. Coker can be attributed to lack of concentration of people. “People need to unwind a bit to refocus again. The same applies if this actually happens in the workplace itself. Make a small “break”a bit like browsing the Internet in search of distraction helps relax the mind resulting in a total increase of net concentration level of the individual during a day's work, fact that an increase of labor productivity itself”.

That if, do not we take it at the bottom of the letter and to make NPIT can not apply to thoseusers addicted to the Internet at workwhich, according to Dr. Coker may have opposite effect. "Make NPIT is not as beneficial for this group of people – those who behave with addictive tendencies Internet have lower productivity levels to those who are not. "