Apple To Launch iPhone 5 In October, Not September

We have been hearing a number of rumors over the last few weeks that the iPhone 5 would launch in September, first we heard it would launch on September the 5th, and then we heard that it would launch in the first two weeks of September.

Now according to the guys over at All Things D, we will see the iPhone 5 launch at the start of October, this follows on from a recent Gizmodo report which said it would land at the end of September after they received some information from an AT&T employee.

Your Smartphone Is A Hacker Paradise

Apple's iPhone is often touted as being more "secure" than Google's Android equivalents because it has a tightly managed ecosystem. Apple's careful not to let malicious apps into its App Store, from where they could worm their way into devices. It turns out that the update dealt with a single loophole uncovered by Trustwave Spiderlabs' Nick Percoco and team, and Apple worked fast to solve it because as holes go, it was gaping. To get a certificate, a website offering this type of security has to officially request one from a trusted certificate authority, and the certificate is crafted to have the identity of the website built into it. Percoco's team decided to test iOS devices with the same kind of hack that a malicious coder could use to break SSL.

Google Acquires I.B.M. Patents

Google made its most recent move in the ongoing great game of acquiring tech patents. The company purchased a bundle of more than a thousand patents from I.B.M., according to a report in the New York Times.

Reiterating a strategy long-espoused by the tech giant, an e-mail statement from Google said that the purchase was relevant to its "business needs," stressing, "Bad software patent litigation is a wasteful war that no one will win." In short, the idea is that preemptively buying patents will mean law suits are less likely down the line.

Alcatel-Lucent Gets $70 Million in Microsoft Patent Case

Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Microsoft $1.5 billion.

A jury in San Diego issued its verdict Friday in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of violating patents in several products including Outlook. The suit was brought by Lucent in 2003, before it merged with Alcatel.

In 2007, a jury in the same court ordered Microsoft to pay Lucent $1.5 billion for the infringement. The judge overturned that decision, saying Microsoft infringed only one of two patents at issue, and that the second patent was jointly owned by a European research institute, so the court didn't have jurisdiction to rule on it.

iPhone Case Helps Diabetics Get Blood Glucose Readings

If you're diabetic, you'll know how frustrating it can be to check your blood glucose levels (even before you get your reading!). Plus, the method of pricking your finger for a reading can lead to other nasty side effects, like possible infections. 

Fortunately, your iPhone's camera could be your way out of the finger-pricking mess, with a gadget developed by a team of university researchers. researchers at Northwestern University created an iPhone case that reads nanosensors used to measure ion and molecule concentrations. The sensors are made out of fluorescent polymer beads that take only seconds to make.

The sensor is then "tattooed" to an area of a patient's skin. With this in mind, a patient would be injected in the tattoo area with the nanomolecules-they would then attach themselves to glucose in the patient and start releasing ions. Using a special reading case strapped to the iPhone, the patient's arm is simply scanned by the phone's camera, and it gives a blood glucose measurement. 

The higher the glucose level, the more fluorescent the tattoo will appear on the skin-remember the sensors on the tattoo are fluorescent so will be visable under certain light. 

The iPhone case contains a 9-volt battery, a filter that fits over the phone's camera, and three different colored LEDs that produce the different levels of fluorescent light. The LEDs and filter react to outside light and can fade the colors, so the gadget is placed onto the patient's skin at first to prouce a more accurate reading. So, there may not be an app for that yet, but your iPhone certainly can be used for just about every aspect of your life.

Source: itsanews.com