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New iPhone Applications Revealed in New Patents?

A few new Apple patents revealed new interesting applications ready for the iPhone. The patent reveals features like object identification, face recognition and a couple of messaging tweaks. Anxious to see any of these on your future iPhone? Well let’s check them out! The iPhone will be capable of recognizing certain objects and scan various bar codes or RFID tags and then offer you more information about said objects. Facial recognition is one more important feature. How will the iPho

Apple iLife ‘09 first impressions

Kirk Paulsen, Apple's senior director of applications, juggled the new features of the latest version of Apple's iLife '09 at a London presentation this morning with the practised ease of a monkey peeling a banana. The iLife package comprises updated versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand and iWeb. Paulsen was keen to show off as many of iLife's 50 new features as he could in the one hour allocated. The headline-grabber is iPhoto's new facial recognition ability, which allows users to sort th

Apple Updates iPhoto With Facial Recognition

Each year at the MacWorld Expo, most things Apple introduces are “the future of technology.” Last year it was the MacBook Air. Earlier this decade it was the iPod. And today, Apple showed off the next generation of its suite of “Life” tools by releasing iLife ‘09. In it, iPhoto will now have facial recognition features.