Performance Apple to regain market share, have started to give stunning results in the fourth quarter of 2011. According to data disclosed by Nielsen, the leap Apple is also thanks to the presence of the ‘new kid’ iPhone 4S in October.

44.5 percent of smartphone buyers purchased an iPhone more than Android-based phones in the last quarter of last year. Compared to before the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple could reap only 25.1 percent market share.

While Android’s market share still holds a major position in the market the United States (U.S.), with 46.3 percent. But it seems that Apple does not want to miss too much, with the latest operating system IOS 5, proved to successfully close the gap last year.

So with the above data, you could say Android’s market share in October during the last quarter of 2011, down 61.6 percent compared to the previous. Decline in market share is, of course thanks to the presence of Apple’s latest phone, the iPhone 4S.

While the iPhone looks continues to grow, varies inversely with the BlackBerry growth of 7.7 percent in October to 4.5 percent in 2 months later.

Technology giant apple logo reveals a new application called iBook Author. This application enables anyone to create a rich variety of visual books.

The book that was created through the application iBook can display an image gallery, videos, interactive images, and 3D images, directly above the text. The new application is free and works on computers running Mac OS X.

Application users can import images directly from other applications, such as Microsoft Word. It also can add complementary elements using web programming languages​​, like HTML. Such software will automatically break up the text and convert it into a book format.

Steve Jobs described the textbooks as “$ 8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction.”

Before his death, Jobs also said to have talked with publishers large print books, such as Pearson. There is also another newspaper which said in a statement that the latest Apple software textbook may be made ​​based on the blueprint created by Jobs.