New iPhone rumoured to quadruple screen resolution
Reports from the Czech Republic suggest that the new iPhone will have a 960 x 640 resolution screen, which would mean a quadrupling of the current resolution on the Apple iPhone 3GS. The device has now been claimed to have leaked in Vietnam, San Jose, California, and the Czech Republic. According to Wired, the gadget magazine, sources close to Apple have indicated that a new iPhone will be announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference next month in San Francisco, and will go on sale in July.
The Telegraph

Facebook founder predicts personalised sites are the future
Personalised websites will be the future of the internet as people willingly share more of their information, Mark Zuckerberg predicted as he was grilled over Facebook’s approach to privacy. The 26-year-old Facebook co-founder and chief executive had sweat running down his face as he faced questioning on stage at the All Things D conference over a tide of protests about the service’s complex privacy controls and usage of its users’ private information. He said Facebook was based on a certain level of sharing and that some basic information needed to be public and available for all to see so that users could discover one another.
Times Online

38% of iPad users were outside the US in May
The iPad only went on sale outside the US on 28 May, but according to AdMob, it already has a big proportion of overseas users. The mobile advertising firm says that according to its network stats, 38% of iPads accessing its network of ads in May were outside the US. The biggest markets were Japan (5%), the UK (4%), China (4%) and Canada (3%), with three of those four getting a sharp boost in the number of iPad users over the weekend, once the device went on sale there.
Mobile Entertainment

Iridium plans major upgrades with next generation satellites
The consortium behind the Iridium global telephony system has confirmed it is to upgrade its network with an order for 81 new satellites worth $2.1bn.The contract was won by Thales Alenia Space to provide the new Iridium NEXT satellites which will replace the current network with a new system of 72 low-orbit platforms, as well as an additional nine spares to be launched in the event of a failure or, as happened last year, an unexpected crash "Today marks a great milestone in Iridium's history. We operate the world's only communications system that truly works everywhere in the world, with more than 359,000 subscribers,” said Matt Desch, chief executive of Iridium.
V3

Setting government data free will give power to the people
When the Coalition announced that the salaries of senior civil servants were to be published, it also opened the door on a vast, and far more important, set of facts and figures. In the same press release, Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, announced that he will chair a committee to develop a public right to data, meaning that it will become a legal requirement for local and national government to provide the facts and figures behind achievements, failures and ambitions. Hard data will let the people and the press come to better judgments about their elected representatives, and businesses will be able to see where innovation could be most viable.
The Telegraph

Qualcomm: Mirasol Display Promises 10 to 100X Longer Battery Life Than iPad
At the D8 conference Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs shed some more light on his company’s very promising Mirasol display technology. It boasts a full-color picture for video, web surfing, and reading electronic magazines but also the low-power benefits of eInk. How low? Jacobs said depending on the usage and where you’re using a Mirasol-powered device, users will see anywhere from a 10X to 100X increase in endurance. Another benefit is that you never have to power the display down, so you’ll be able to just pick up an eReader with a Mirasol display and start using it.
Laptop Magazine

Microsoft hits back at Google Windows ban
Microsoft has got wind of the rumoured Google Windows ban and, unsurprisingly, it’s not impressed. Microsoft PR bods have hit Twitter and the company’s official blogs to attack the claims and trumpet Windows security. Are they right to go for Google or are they just protesting too much? The whispers from within Google yesterday suggested that Windows was on the way out as a direct result of the attack on the search engine by Chinese hackers back in January.
Electric Pig

Social apps and maps driving smartphone use
Facebook was the most popular app used by smartphone owners in the US last month, although Google Maps is growing in popularity, according to research from The Nielsen Company. Its survey of 4,200 mobile users measured cross-platform app use in May and found iPhone users downloaded the most apps – 37 on average compared to the average respondent downloading 22 apps. It also found 54% of all smartphone users used social media apps in May, with Facebook standing out as the most popular platform.
New Media Age

Adobe started Flash feud: Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that his company didn't begin the long-running feud with Adobe over Flash, but only reacted after its rival "started to raise a stink." In an interview Tuesday night at the D8 Conference, Jobs told Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg that Apple didn't cast the first stone. "We didn't start off to have a war with Flash, or anything else. We just made a technical decision that we weren't gonna put the energy into getting Flash on our platform," said Jobs. "We told Adobe, if you ever have this thing running fast, let us know, which they never did."
Tech World

HP bought Palm for the OS
HP CEO Mark Hurd said that when he wrote a cheque for Palm he was not interested in its smartphone business. Speaking at a Merrill Lynch symposium, Hurd said he bought Palm for its software not its gadgets. "The WebOS is one of the two ground-up pieces of software that is built as a web operating environment... We have tens of millions of HP small form factor web-connected devices... Now imagine that being a web-connected environment where now you can get a common look and feel and a common set of services laid against that environment," he said.
The Inquirer