The bid to be the default search engine in Safari continues, Yahoo does "eyes" to Apple

What will be the default search engine will select Apple Safari, both for iOS version to the version in OS X? As you know, since we already talked about this in November, Apple renewed the contract in 2010 with Google, which stipulated to this search engine as the default browser engine just this year 2015.

We all know the veiled war between Apple and Google, although Tim Cook obviously have a much more diplomatic character in this respect that Steve Jobs, it seems that this agreement with Google will end there. And now come into play other ... Yahoo and Bing with Microsoft are really interested in getting the contract and now Yahoo, which in a recent earnings conference has openly talked about it.

Microsoft is approaching Webkit with his new browser

Although Joe Belfiore maximum measured his words during the official presentation of Project Spartan, the new web browser that will take over Explorer in Windows 10, it is certain that the executive vice president of Microsoft operating systems can not deny the obvious: WebKit it has become the de facto standard in web rendering engines and follow tied for compatibility with earlier versions of Explorer is a drag.

"A new rendering engine that was designed to be compatible with the way the web today is written," said Belfiore quickly before moving on to the next feature, knowing full well that we might replace the last part of this sentence a word, WebKit. And tuned because we're not talking to follow the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium -W3C-.

What is "Continuity"?

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In the mission to further integrate iOS with OS X, Apple has just introduced a new system for sharing applications between iOS and OS X called Continuity at WWDC 2014. With this new system we can share what we are doing to our iOS device and transfer it to your Mac and also vice versa.

Continuity is Apple's way of calling the entire system that has been devised to share the most of our iOS devices with our Mac with OS X Yosemite. Handoff is the system that allows us to share any application on your iPhone and vice versa, for example, if you are writing an email on our iPhone, the Mac will detect it and can finish writing therefrom. The system will also work with Safari, presentations, and any application that offers support for Handoff. Also allow us to have instant Hotspot meter without any password. 

Additionally it also introduced integration of SMS and calls with OS X. If we set our iOS device, our SMS will see in iMessage as if it were a normal message. Likewise this compatibility extends to calls, allowing us to use our Mac as a handsfree for our iPhone. This utility also allows you to call people from our Mac to our contact list and call phones we find on the web via Safari, all calls going through our iPhone.

Apple has released OS X 10.9.3

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Apple has released 10.9.3 update in OS X Mavericks with improved stability, compatibility and security among which are extended with support 4K displays in the latest models of Mac Pro and MacBook Pro with Retina screen of 15 inches, and the added ability to sync contacts and calendars between a Mac and an iOS device via a USB connection. 

This new Mavericks version also includes Safari 7.0.3 with the usual update level security patches, fixes among other errors and problems with the Font Book, the reliability of VPN connections with IPSec, copy options, edit and inspect permissions on SMB servers, or stability to install configuration profiles.

As for iTunes 11.2, the update focuses on improving the exploration of podcasts with new features like the new tab "not played" access to the list of episodes to play or download more comfortably, an option to save our favorite episodes and disposal episodes automatically reproduced. Maybe dare update the Podcasts app for iOS. 

You will find both updates in the Mac App Store and if you were brave and installed public beta of OS X 10.9.3 you can be reassured to know that the final version passed without major drawbacks.

Improvements in the speed of Safari with JavaScript

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The optimization and increasing speed of JavaScript engines has become one of the main battlefields of web browsers. Google became all set to Safari, but Apple seems willing to return the throne. 

The recent changes in WebKit, the open source project maintained by Apple and on which Safari is built, give its JavaScript engine an perfomance injection making it significantly faster than Chrome in some benchmarks, particularly shining when executing code asm.js not optimized for the special subset of JavaScript developed by Mozilla to interpret C and C++ code.

The secret to this improvement is hidden in the so-called FTLJIT, a set of changes that use the LLVM compiler like JIT system and although it is still in the experimental stage, it can turn it in last Nightly Build of Safari resorting to Terminal.

Is this one of the new Apple OS X 10.10 or there is still much work ahead to the imminent presentation at WWDC 2014? With a launching, we would have to place around October, should apply themselves.

Apple released the ninth Mavericks beta of 10.9.3 to developers

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Apple launches the ninth beta, just 8 days after posting on its developer web  the previous version, the beta-eight.So quickly between the two versions could indicate that soon we will have available for the public. 

The goal is the same, focusing attention on the issues that were failing previous betas to try to post the version of OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks with the fewest problems. This from Apple developers indicate the points where they have to influence when finding faults in it.

Aspects of the system to treat are the possible problems with audio and video drivers, the Mail and Safari applications included by default in the system and also a new feature that allows you to synchronize calendar and contacts with local devices via iTunes. Another feature introduced in the latest versions of the beta is the ability to bend pixels to fit 4K monitors from other manufacturers.

An Apple's Ex-Engineer talks about the development of the first iPhone

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• Received a job offer from Apple six months before the end of his career, but decided to wait to finish it. 
• When he started, he was assigned to the team's first mobile Safari. 
• By leaving Apple, he founded a small company that sold three years at Motorola for $20 million.

Francisco Tolmasky worked on developing the original iPhone and talks about his experience 

When we hear that a young man has sold his start-up by several million dollars we always do the same question, why did not I think of that myself? We forget the countless hours dedicated to their own company, for almost certainly bad times and crossed the tremendous difficulties of raising a company from nothing and be able to a big to notice you.

But not only that, aside from the necessary luck in any walk of life, you must have knowledge, wit, ambition and take, sometimes, risky decisions. When I had been asked that question many times and knowing the stories of some successful entrepreneurs, rephrase the question to mean, I would have been able to do that?

One of those stories might be to Tolmasky Francisco, a young businessman, 29, former employee of Apple, based in San Francisco and now works independently in the development of mobile games. 

In 2007 he founded a company called 280 North that eventually created and perfected a programming language and a number of frameworks for developing rich web applications style desktop applications Mac OS X. Just three years after its foundation, Motorola took notice of her and took on 280 North for 20 million dollars.

Tolmasky made ​​decisions that surely I had never taken, as do Apple wait six months to finish his career in computers, when it proposed Cupertino work for them.

But it was not only, also decided to leave in 2007 the company on the block in the success of the original iPhone, because the work environment in which he had begun work had changed and no longer resembled the typical atmosphere of a small business.

Leaving Apple in 2007 because he did not like the atmosphere of large company

Although it is unusual for former employees of Apple talk about their relationship with the company, Tolmasky agreed with the excuse of the presentation of his latest development. The reason I went to work for the Cupertino, was to assist in the production of an Internet browser adapted to the small screen of a phone that could be handled with fingers. The first concept for mobile Safari.

The project was developed in a secluded area of ​​the campus and the team was divided into hardware and software, working separately to avoid leaks. Jobs met with them twice a week. Says that at first it was a little frustrating because he saw how the task of developing satisfactorily.

Tolmasky recalled his work in another application for the iPhone, like the keyboard. The development of this software element turned out to be a kind of race, and that Apple co-founder it not convince any solution. So I assigned all team members full time to perfect the keyboard for a few days until Apple CEO gave its approval.

The young businessman also told us of the days before the presentation of the iPhone. Jobs wanted a map application to display the new terminal, the problem was the weather. He ordered the work to a fellow Tolmasky and was working nonstop to get a functional application maps for presentation.

Finally he defined the character of Steve Jobs so:

"This ws the effect Jobs produced upon thee: this is important, it has to be done, and do it."

Marissa Mayer (Yahoo) wants iOs searches

"Recode" has published an interesting article. It commented that Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, has been developing a proposal to convince Apple and start using its search engine as the default in iOs.

This would mean that instead of Google, would be Yahoo who offer us the results if we decide otherwise. To which as you know, now we can do, we can stop using Google as a search engine and select either Yahoo or Bing. But...does anyone do it? No, we were in the great majority of cases the default.

Considering the number of iOS devices in the market imagine advertising revenue generated. If you remember, Google pays Apple billion as the default search engine. This figure is estimated because of what Google pays for each dollar earned to the published searches on iOS.

Make Yahoo the default search engine, would hit hard to Google

We will see if Yahoo is able to convince Apple possibly with iOS 8, we do know is that right now Yahoo seems to have improved and display advertising revenue increased in the first quarter of 2014.

After Google Maps do without the benefit of its own Maps service, doing so with the form would be a knock on effect. No wonder that Apple has thought of casting out iOS Google services. As said Steve Jobs, Holy War with Google.

Rumor: Primera foto del supuesto frontal del 'iPhone 6'

Fuente: Sina Weibo

Estamos ante una foto del supusto frontal del iPhone 6, donde se puede apreciar un ligero aumento en pulgadas. Esta noticia apareció en el sitio web de microblogging Sina Weibo de China hoy martes, ofreciendo lo que podría ser el primer vistazo del iPhone de próxima generación de Apple.  

La imagen no es de la mejor calidad, se puede ver a alguien sosteniendo un iPhone 5s Negro y al lado, un frontal de de mayor tamaño del supuesto iPhone 6. La foto fue enviada a Sina Weibo por el usuario jiezhixc -a través de iPhon.fr-.

Incluso si la imagen no es original, la foto sirve para reflejar la diferencia entre un iPhone de 4,7 pulgadas o un supuesto de 5,5 pulgadas.

Personalmente creo -en caso de crecer en dimensiones de pantalla-, que aumentaría el la pantalla útil  y se reducirían los márgenes para aprovechar mejor el espacio. Una pantalla útil más grande pero con unas dimensiones generales similares. He podido tener un smartphone como el Samsung S5 o el Nexus 5 y me parecen teléfonos enormes e incómodos de guardar en el bolsillo.

Si yo fuera Apple, creo más conveniente influir en dimensiones más optimizadas para la web en safari para iPhone -convertir las páginas web de internet a unas proporciones similares a las de una app. Tamaño de tipografía, textos, menús..."

¿Eres de los que prefiere un iPhone de mayor tamaño en dimensiones externas?