Faithful to its standard, Apple world continues to surprise people all over the world with news in telecommunications technology. This week three new announcements were released to the public by representatives from Apple. They also talked about some issues regarding some of their products.

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After a long arduous research road, Apple has announced the upcoming two new iPhone patent applications, related to the improvement of multi-touch devices. The first one has to deal with changes in the device´s surface by means of vibration, enabling the user to master the device without even having to look at it. You will be able to use your iPhone from the pocket without having to take it out.

The second patent is even more impressive, since it enables the device to identify fingerprints from each user´s fingers. Thus, depending on the finger a person uses, the device will perform different tasks or actions.

In other news, Apples talked about vulnerability issues with the device. Charles Miller explained that one of the security components suffers from a security issue when sending and receiving SMS, and it allows the attacker to obtain certain user information, whereas a user can´t even tell when someone retrieves data from them.

To put an end to this vulnerability issue, Apple plans to release an update that prevents the device from sending binary code at the moment of the delivery. This case is very similar to an issue that came up a few years ago when Apple devices were equally vulnerable due to issues in the web browser´s device.

This vulnerability is not the only problem Apple is facing. A few weeks ago, several differences arose between the Fruit Company and nVidia -the world leading video card and chipset company- which provides Apple with video cards. It seems the difference cannot be left aside, and the new 4 year contract is now in danger. As a consequence, Apple will have to review the agreement with nVidia or else turn to its video cards competitor: ATI.

These are some of the news in the revolutionary, yet shaky, world of Apple. The only thing left is wait for the security issue to get fixed soon as soon as possible so users can send and receive messages.

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