Clearly copied. If Swiss Federal Railways wants compensation, Apple has to pay up.

[Via DF]

Looks like it’s coming soon.

Chris Herbert put together some of the changes in iOS 6.

Funny to hear HP talk about how it designs sleek computers and they look just like a MacBook Air. However, When left on their own, this is what they put out.

I don’t have a Charvel… yet.

“Steve Jobs Would Have Never Released iOS 6 Like This”

You have failed your readers when that’s the headline for your story. Remember the first version of OS X? Yeah, that was Steve. Do some actual reporting.

Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam today demonstrated how to hack Android through Near Field Communication (NFC). The 0day exploit was developed by four MWR Labs employees (two in South Africa and two in the UK) for a Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone running Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Two separate security holes were leveraged to completely takeover the device, and download all the data from it.

Perfect!

I did a live interview with BNN this morning about the iPhone 5.

Additionally, we’ve learned an updated iOS 6 version of the Google Maps.app has been submitted to Apple.

Nope.

Yes, there’s an app for that.

One of my favorite developers, David Barnard from App Cubby, just released updates for two of his apps, Launch Center Pro and Timer, adding iPhone 5 support.

Max Slater-Robins:

iOS 6 is out. Check your iOS device — as long as it’s not the iPad 1 or iPod Touch 3rd generation or lower — and download it. Except, don’t if you use Google Maps. The new Maps application, Apple Maps, is awful.

I’ve heard from a lot of people about Maps after writing my review on the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 on Wednesday. In the places I tried Maps — Cupertino and Halifax, Canada — it worked flawlessly. However, it seems not all areas, countries and users are having the same experience.

This massive increase in traffic was then sustained throughout most of the day, and actually escalated as people got home from work in the evening. This resulted in traffic from Apple’s servers yesterday being over 9 times their average traffic levels.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much traffic and data Apple pushed yesterday.

Florian Mueller:

In a case management statement filed late on Wednesday with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Samsung expressed its belief “the iPhone 5 will infringe [the eight patents that Samsung is already asserting in a California lawsuit against Apple, two of which have been declared standard-essential] in the same way as the other accused iPhone models”, and that it “plans to file a motion to amend its infringement contentions to address the iPhone 5 as soon as it has had a reasonable opportunity to analyze the device”.

We knew that was coming.

Carey Kolaja for All Things D:

No retailer will have multiple NFC boxes to take payments from different networks, and the NFC terminals shipping today do little more than just transmit the card number and transaction size. They’re not equipped to automatically accept the complex coupons and offers that make the digital wallet so exciting. On the technology side, carriers are trying one solution, phone manufacturers another, and technology companies yet another. Meanwhile, the consumer is standing at the register thinking “really, how hard is it to pull out my credit card?” Why would Apple want to step into that mess?

Kolaja has a stake in this – she’s chief of operations for global products and experience at PayPal. But she outlines in extensive detail some of NFC’s shortcomings and challenges, and creates an elegant defense of Apple’s rationale to exclude NFC support from the iPhone 5.

She doesn’t dispute that “digital wallets” are an increasingly important part of 21st century commerce, but that’s an immediate need Apple is attempting to answer with “Passbook” in iOS 6.

Chad Williams put together a nice list of lesser known features from iOS 6. Sometimes the coolest things aren’t always the most talked about.

Some great new features in the SoundCloud for iPhone app.

A more personalized inflight experience will become a reality later this year as American Airlines flight attendants begin using the sleek, new Samsung Galaxy Note® as part of American’s innovative tablet program designed to put invaluable customer data at their fingertips.

So American hates its flight attendants?

[Via BGR]

James Thomson released an update for PCalc and PCalc Lite.

There are lots of interesting things you could do with this. Have fun.

Josh Centers has some interesting thoughts on Apple’s strategy for Retina displays and which products we should expect to see them in.

This is where Apple’s market dominance becomes so important. The truth is that NFC won’t take off without Apple — at least not nearly as quickly as it would with Apple. So the critics’ “disappointment” is in fact just a sad realization that the elusive NFC promise is at least one more year away from being kept. In the meantime, Apple keeps solving real problems it knows it can solve right now.

Smart article from Matt Drance.

Wired:

Alton Brown of Food Network had strong feelings against Twitter, but an even greater aversion to Facebook. When his agent demanded he choose one, he picked what he felt was the lesser of two evils and began tweeting.To spice up his twittering, he began hand-writing notes, then posting pictures of them. Sometimes he’d doodle a message in Morse code. Or draw a sketch. Or set half of a paper message on fire, then tweet a photo of the remnants.

You gotta love Alton Brown.

Om Malik:

It is hard to imagine that it has only been five years since the smartphone revolution started in earnest. The sensor driven modern marvels are not only redefining how we interact with the world, but they are also having unintended consequences. Like helping make cheaper robots.

Something I never really considered before.