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When you hold an iPhone in your hand, cardiac sensors, integrated into the iPhone case, are able to monitor your heart rhythm, and identify the person holding the device.

And that’s about it. No passwords that can be glimpsed or guessed, fancy gesture movements on a touchscreen, that can be easily recognized. Just pick up an iPhone, and it already knows it’s you.

Oh my, this can do us good and bad. Yea stolen phone can be located once an unidentified touch hit the iPhone or implementing an electric shock device to give a shock-of-a-life to the thief. I doubt the so-called cardiac sensors only identify me, it sounds more like exposing me. More

Apple-Google rival is heating up, Google has become a competitor to Apple since the rolling out of Nexus One and the incident where Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigns from the Apple board of directors because of  interest conflicts on Google Voice for Iphone. Soon it will become ‘Google Android OS vs Apple Iphone OS’ or ‘Micrsoft Windows OS vs Apple Mac OS  vs Google Chrome OS’ kind of world.

So what happens when two best friends become enemies? Apple joining back his long-found enemy, Microsoft. Apple has the intention to replace Google Map, Google Search and Youtube with Bing Map, Bing Search and Bing Video a.k.a MSN Video. Microsoft also agrees to give a bigger portion of revenue to Apple compare with the amount given by Google from its online advertisement. According to statistic, online advertisements are mostly view by Iphone or Ipod nowadays, so it is a HUGE profit from there.

Despite the rivalry, Iphone users may still have the choice to choose which default search engine to appear on Mobile Safari just like Mac Safari. Business Week notes that even if Google-Bing deal is sealed, it will not be a long lasting one, this is because Apple is much more interested in developing its own search engine.

Even if it’s consummated, an Apple-Bing deal may prove short-lived. The person familiar with Apple’s thinking says Apple has a “skunk works” looking at a search offering of its own, and believes that “if Apple does do a search deal with Microsoft, it’s about buying itself time.