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Activate Private Internet Browsing For Safari In iOS 5 [iOS Tips]

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For those of us that have something to hide you'll be happy to know that in iOS 5 Safari offers a private internet browsing mode. Once it is toggled on it prevents Safari from compiling a history of your browser activity.

By default private internet browsing is turned off, but you can quickly turn it on and leave it on from within the Settings app. Here are the steps:

Launch the Settings app. Tap on Safari. Toggle Private Browsing On by tapping the switch associated with it. [image error] You maybe prompted to select whether or not you want to keep or close all currently opened tabs in Safari. Just select the option that is best for you. [image error]

Once you complete these steps Safari is in private internet browsing mode more commonly known as 'Porn Mode! ' All your internet surfing secrets are now between you, Safari and the sites you visit.

 

 

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Apple Engineers Are Deputizing iPhone 4S Users To Get To The Bottom Of Battery Problems

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Having problems with battery life since upgrading to the iPhone 4S? Apple may be getting in touch with you to help them troubleshoot your battery problems, hopefully solving the iPhone 4S's woeful drainage issues once and for all.

According to The Guardian, Apple has reached out to at least one user who is experiencing poor battery life with his iPhone 4S:

"I then got a call from a senior [Apple] engineer who said he had read my post and was 'reaching out' to users for data and admitted this was an issue (and that they aren't close to finding a fix!) and asked lots of questions about my usage and then asked if he could install the file below and that he would call back the day after to retrieve the info. I extracted the file from my Mac after a sync and emailed it to him. He was incredibly helpful and apologetic in the typical Apple way!"

It's worth noting this particular user was seeing some obscene drain: 10% per hour even in standby mode.

There's no real word on what is causing the battery problems in the iPhone 4S, but they are definitely worse than in the iPhone 4… so much so that Apple silently bumped the standby time of the iPhone 4S down from 300 hours on the iPhone 4 to just 200 hours on the iPhone 4S. Some reports claim that location services are the culprit, while others say it all has to do with corrupted contacts.

Either way, let's hope Apple gets to the bottom of this soon. From a power management perspective, right now, the iPhone 4S is acting more like an Android phone than an Apple device.

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If You Thought Siri Has Attitude Now, Just Wait Until Next Year [Humor]

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While this illustration may be taking the point a little too far, it does have a point.  Siri may have an attitude now, but at least it's not self-aware.

Yet.

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Assassin's Creed Is Coming To The iPhone And iPad

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Great news for iOS gamers: the Assassin's Creed series is coming to iPhones and iPads. But expect a radical formula change when Assasin's Creed Recollection hits the App Store. Instead of freely exploring an ancient city in search of targets to assassinate, Assassin's Creed Recollection is a board game.

According to Ubisoft, Recollection is a "real-time board game from the Ubisoft Montreal studio that will allow players to live an entirely new experience in the world of Assassin's Creed." Players will be allows to compete in political battles "in a real-time board game with key characters and locations from the games"… namely, Enzo and compatriots from Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

Ubisoft says that players should expect a 10 hour campaign, which is decidedly beefy for an iOS game. And while the genre of Assassin's Creed Recollection seems pretty different from the open world nature of the games for the Xbox 360 and PS3, it is at least being made by the same studio, so don't expect a farmed-out cash-in: this looks like it'll be a AAA title.

[via Kotaku]

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A Siri-Powered iTV? NBC's Jack Donaghy's Already Got It Patented [Humor]

30 Rock's Jack Donaghy (with some help from Law and Order: SVU's Richard Belzer and Ice-T) makes a compelling case for why whatever Steve Jobs' "I finally cracked it!" moment was when it comes to solving the so-called television problem, it's probably not a Siri-controlled iTV.

[via iClarified]

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Apple Board Member Under SEC Fire for Avon Mistakes

Could Steve Jobs' handpicked replacement for his mentor on Apple's Board of Directors be inept? That's the question some investors are raising following news that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating board member Andrea Jung's role as CEO of Avon Products.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the probe is tarnishing Jung's reputation and leaving investors with an impression "Avon has a pattern of operational missteps." Although it's unknown what actions are at the heart of the SEC's scrutiny, the cosmetic company junked its current sales targets, calling them "unreachable." At the same time, Avon's stock fell 18 percent.

While it is unclear how the investigation will impact Apple, Jung has been deeply involved in the tech giant's corporate culture. In 2008, Steve Jobs called her a "strong CEO and marketer." Later, Jung co-led the search to replace Bill Campbell, a mentor to Jobs. She continues to serve as the head of Apple's compensation committee.

The government is investigating a member of Apple's board of directors for her role as CEO of Avon. Andrea Jung, the only woman on the tech giant's seven-member board and part of setting Apple's compensation policy, is under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Thursday report.

Jung "is fast losing her luster as a string of gaffes raises questions about her management skills," the Wall Street Journal reported. As the twin SEC investigations became public, Avon Products dropped previously set sales targets, describing them as "unreachable," according to the report. Investors seem more worried about what the Journal described as "a pattern of operational missteps" by Avon.

Jung has been involved in several internal issues within Apple. In December 2010, she co-led the company's search to replace Steve Jobs' mentor and Intuit CEO Bill Campbell. Jung also is in charge of Apple's compensation committee.

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Italian Apple Employees Strike Before iPhone 4S Launch

The iPhone 4S arrives in Italy today – along with another 22 countries – and the Italians are so into it, they are apparently standing in orderly lines to get it.*

Outside the Roma Est store in the country's capital, however, Apple employees went on strike.

The unidentified leader in this video from blog iSpazio says they have decide to "strike different" – as their banner and T-shirts say – because they have asked store management to meet a series of demands, but management met with them once and then refused to keep talking.  (The rest of the banner slogan is catchy, but lost in translation – "Noi della mela siamo andati alla frutta" – loosely translates to "Apple employees have had it.")

Checking out the union page referenced on their T-shirts, demands include asking for more sales staff due to high store traffic, a monthly fixed bonus scheme for all of €200 (about $280) since employee duties are often mixed and limiting video surveillance to safety and loss prevention instead of tracking employees.

"We're out here because we want to open up dialogue," the group leader says. "[Apple] is a company that can provide these benefits and better the work place."

Via iSpazio

*NB. I say this as an Italian citizen. Line jumping and disorderly crowding comes with the territory.

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RIM: Buy 2 PlayBook Tablets, Get Another Free

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It's never a good sign when you have to give your tablets away in order to compete with Apple's iPad. A month after cutting consumer prices on its PlayBook, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is telling businesses they'll throw in a free tablet if they buy two of the devices. The only thing missing from this desperate plea for sales is the word "please."

The deal is available until Dec. 31 for BlackBerry business customers. If they buy two PlayBook tablets of the same configuration from an authorized Value Added Reseller they get a third device free, along with some accessories. The deal would drop a $500 16GB Wi-Fi PlayBook to only $330, for instance.

In September, Canadian retailers like Best Buy and Staples began offering the $500 PlayBook for just $300. The record for deep cuts likely goes to HP, which slashed prices of its TouchPad tablet right out of the gate, eventually cutting the unit to only $89.

The most recent price reduction by RIM may be as a result of poor sales (Just 700,000 PlayBooks shipped since April) combined with unflagging demand for the iPad and multiple stumbles by the Waterloo-based firm. First, the QNX-powered PlayBook was released without support for such minor functions as email. Next, BlackBerry smartphone users suffered a wide service blackout. Although RIM offered BlackBerry users $100 in free apps, trade-ins of the device have skyrocketed by 80 percent. Its unclear what else RIM can do to move the tablets which no one seems to want to take home.

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Nokia Windows Phones 'Competitive' with the iPhone [Analyst]

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Photo: Sorosh (flickr.com/photos/sorosh)

Nokia may finally have found its answer to the iPhone, a pair of new Lumia Windows phones that one analyst tells investors is 'competitive' with the Apple smartphone.

Introduced recently as its flagship Windows phone device, the Lumia 800, with a $594 price tag "is even more competitively priced when compared to the iPhone and Galaxy SII," according to Barclays Capital. Complete with an 8-megapixel camera, 3.7-inch touch screen and 1.4 GHz single-core chip the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 "will be one notch cheaper than the iPhone 4S across all launch markets," writes analysts in New York and London.

The comments are a bit of pa back for Apple, which upon the 2007 release of the iPhone virtually destroyed the market for Symbian handsets.

The device first rolls out in November with 31 carriers in Europe, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. The new Nokia devices will reach the U.S. and China during the first half of 2012. The Lumia handsets are GSM/UMTS/HSPA compatible, meaning when the devices reach America, they initially can work only with AT&T's network. However, the Finnish cell phone maker plans says it plans to introduce CDMA or LTE versions of the units sometime in the future, opening the possibility the new Windows Phone products could be available at Verizon and Sprint, as well.

Although Barclays gives Nokia stock shares only a $10 price target, the analyst firm remarks the company's disastrous second quarter "was the bottom" and now talk will move to operating margins.

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China Telecom iPhone Delayed Until Mid-2012 [Report]

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If Apple was hoping to unveil its iPhone for customers of China's third-largest mobile carrier in the world's largest cell phone market, it may have to wait. China Telecom may have to delay introducing the handset until mid-2012, according to a Friday report citing supplier checks.

Hong Kong-based UBS analyst Wang Jinjin cites "checks with value suppliers" when telling investors the earliest China Telecom could offer the iPhone is February or March. The carrier, which would become the second in China after China Unicom to offer the Apple smartphone, refused to comment on the report, according to Bloomberg. However, local media have suggested the carrier could get the iPhone within three months.

Earlier in October, a Deutsche Bank report said China Unicom's exclusive iPhone arrangement "could come to an end early next year." In September, a report by China's official Xinhua news agency reported the iPhone could be unveiled at the end of October.

News of a delay comes as China-based Android cell phone maker ZTE unseated Apple as the world's fourth largest maker of cell phones.

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