Roundup of the weeks tech news 3rd of august

Looking through other tech blogs and something caught my eye, facebook are introducing a save for later function basically an instapaper copy but with status's. My question is what the hell is this, why are people going to use this function, if they see a status and they find it interesting, they will like or comment on it not save it for later, sure if they've a found a status that's contrevisial that's about them for example somebody slagging off work on facebook you can easily relate back to it but i find it just to print screen it or highlight copy and paste it into a text document.

Well while I was thinking of the save for later feature, facebook have become more news friendly. Facebook apps like the guardian are becoming a better way for them to get more market for their article and maybe you are surfing facebook during the night and you're not in a good enough to read it all, you can save it for the morning using the save for later functionailty. This is the only reason I can think of where the save for later feature would come in handy.

The new mac operating system has hit the shelves and they aren't just hitting the shelves they are coming straight back off too. Now that's just a metaphor, the mountain lion OS has sold over 3 million times in 4 days, i've not been able to get my hands on the new OS since the mac that i've got has no power supply with it so it renders it useless. Tomorrow hopefully i'll have a the power supply and i'll probably be, be doing a blog about the transittion from windows to mac. Notification, reminders and making iOS and mac more of a unified experience.

As you probably know by now, the app store has seen an amazing amount of applications over 650,000 apps on the app store but I found this quite interesting over 400,000 apps are zombie apps and this means that these apps are either been unrated by a person in the public or just hidden from site, making it very very hard for people like you and me to find those applications.

This could closely be the death of the blackberry platform, we all saw it with webos. I've all talked about how rim has decided to push back bb10 and how it's going to kill them and cause them to go into bankrupcty. The new york times a massive company that loads of other companies looks up to. The new york times has always been in the news as the company for world wide news. Well the reason i'm talking about the new york times is because they've decided to cut future plans to the blackberry platform and I was exactly saying, this must be the end of rim and their devices and that other company will follow suit.

Make a date for september 12, this could be the date for the iPhone 5 announcement with either phil schiller on stage or tim cook. There's not much that can be blogged about this that hasn't been blogged before, by me and other tech news websites. You can check mine out, it's conviently called iPhone 5.

I've purchased a galaxy s i9000, it was previously my sisters andd she gave to me with a broken screen and she was just wondering if i'd like to get it fixed and use it or sell it on. Today i've decided to get the phone replace the screen and start using it and i've got to say android 2.2 for the galaxy s is amazing. Obviously it's not stock android it's got samsung android skin 'touchwiz', I might be falling in love with previous 2.3. I've had a very high hatred towards 2.2 and below, i've always thought they aren't up to scraps and now I think it's time to retract that comment.

iOS 6 features all the new features that we are all looking forward to, see how robust they are in iPhone 5. Well one of the little neat features is that you will not require a password for downloading free apps and you will not require an account to download free apps too. So apple are basically pushing free apps right to the people that don't have credit cards.

Thanks for reading the roundup of tech news of 3rd of august 2012

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