Apple seems to be changing its tune on VoIP apps for the iPod touch. Less than a week after it was submitted, Toktumi’s Line2 VoIP app has been approved by Apple. The $14.95 a month app turns the iPod touch into a fully-featured telephone. “Interesting was how quickly it was approved — less than a week

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps As the technology improves, voice control continues to gain popularity in everything from your iPod to alarm clocks . And whereas you expect such functionality to increase on the iPhone, you may not expect it to come via an app. But that’s what Vlingo Corporation is doing with an enhanced version of its Vlingo for iPhone App, delivering up to six voice-powered features, including email, SMS Paste, social site updates, maps and voice dial. “Over the last year, millions of iPhone users who experienced the convenience and safety of our voice-powered app have asked for more ways to use it on the go,” said Dave Grannan, president and CEO at Vlingo. “Adding email and SMS Paste were natural extensions for busy users who want to experience better, faster ways to communicate. Now, with a single app, it’s easy to send an email or text, call a friend, search the web, update Facebook or Twitter, and use Google Maps simply by speaking into your iPhone.” Vlingo for iPhone supports North American and U.K. English, and includes the following feature enhancements: EMAIL: send an email by speaking a contact, subject and message body. For example, “Email Chris, Subject Tonight, Message Running a bit late!” SMS Paste: send a text message by speaking a contact and message. Simply say, “Text Mike, Message How are you?” SEARCH: in addition to Google and Yahoo! search, Vlingo has added Bing to the mix. Just say, “Bing sushi restaurants in San Francisco,” and view results. AUTO-LISTEN: voice recognition can be set to start automatically when the iPhone is turned on.

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Filed under: Apple Apple is a pretty innovative company, and here at TUAW we receive a lot of tips about new patents that have been filed by the company. While not all of the patents make it into products, Apple is assiduous about filing for patent protection on their intellectual property. This week featured 4 patent applications from Apple that are all about keeping your devices cool. The first, titled ” Methods and Apparatus for Cooling Electronic Devices Using Flow Sensors ,” talks about using tiny sensors to determine the air velocity in a device and then adjusting fan speeds and/or computing power to keep the device cool. The second application seems so obvious it’s surprising nobody has filed it before. Titled ” Methods and Apparatus for Cooling Electronic Devices Through User Interfaces ,” the patent filing describes how to use input/output ports (FireWire, USB, and Ethernet) to increase airflow through a device. In particular, the application details how ports can be positioned to provide the best possible cooling of components. The third patent filing, ” Methods and Apparatus for Cooling Electronic Devices Using Conductive Hinge Assemblies ,” is specifically focused on notebook type devices. Here, the hinges on a notebook’s screen are effectively used as heat exchangers to cool certain heat-producing components. The last filing, ” Methods and Apparatus for Cooling Electronic Devices using Thermoelectric Cooling Components ,” describes using the Peltier Effect to actively cool components. This can be also described as “solid-state cooling.” While it’s uncertain when or if we’ll see any of these patents come to life in a future Apple product, it is great to see that they’re trying to figure out a way to keep MacBooks from being used as frying pans . [via AppleInsider ] Apple patent filings detail methods of keeping your devices cool originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Apple patent filings detail methods of keeping your devices cool originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Apple is again back in legal headlines, Tuesday suing handset maker HTC for allegedly infringing 20 unspecified iPhone patents. HTC has designed a number of smartphones powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system. The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, points to the iPhone patents covering

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Apple’s latest iPhone ad “Family Travel” follows the app-heavy formula of the most recent iteration of the campaign but adds a Mom’s gushing narration mix to make its point: the App Store is pretty neat. The premise of the app is that the iPhone works as a veritable Swiss Army Knife for traveling Moms. “It’s unbelievable

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I saw some great products at the recent Macworld expo. Here are a few items that grabbed my attention. Navigon for iPhone: The latest release of Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone has added a new panorama 3D view that uses terrain elevation data from NASA. The feature is available via in-app purchase. I also got a hands-on demo of the MyRoutes feature which will show you three different route choices to find the best combination of speed and distance for you. DJay Software with Spin Controller: The thing I love about the Djay Software with the Spin hardware controller is that it is a real DJ system for the Mac. It’s not a game like DJ Hero or something. You can spin records right from your iTunes library. You get some added digital benefits like automatic tempo matching so you can concentrate more on the music and less on the technical bits of DJ-ing. Here Karim of algoriddim (and the man behind the DJay software) demonstrates a few aspects of the controller. MacSpeech Scribe: This new product from MacSpeech lets you transcribe recordings to text.

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