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New Apple Patents: iPhone IM Chat And Auto Adjusted Volume Control

Yesterday, the US Patent & Trademark Office published some sixteen Apple patents, some through the names of their own engineers. Amongst these patents were two very cool ideas in respect to a signet based security system and a new way to control some iPhone features like voicemail through simple finger swiping motions across the backside camera.

Posted inAPP

First Look: IM+ 3.4 with Speech Recognition for iPhone

SHAPE Services has submitted version 3.4 of their popular IM client to Apple’s App Store for approval. This new version brings in Speech Recognition feature for instant messaging and tweets (first program on the iPhone to do so) to all versions of iPhone (1st Gen, 3G and 3GS), animated emoticons and several bug fixes.