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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Take it Google Voice. Apple Gonna Buy VoIP Provider iCall

The Business Insider reports that Apple is planning to acquire the VOIP provider iCall. Even though Apple was adamant not to allow VOIP apps like Google Voice in the iPhone appstore, the news is not quite surprising. Blogosphere is buzzing for the past few weeks about the rumored Google Phone, which makes calls ONLY via [...]

AT&T Outage in San Francisco

Not much of a surprise. AT&T has splendidly failed over a lot of areas in San Francisco. MG Siegler notes that the failure could be because its raining in San Francisco. I just can’t wait till Verizon comes up with a hilarious ad. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega made the following comment few days [...]

Apple Gonna Buy Lala.com: iPhone To Get Cloud Music Streaming?

Apple is said to be in “very advanced” stages of negotiations to acquire the online music streaming startup, Lala.com. Lala allows users to listen songs free online for the first time and also offers Web Albums on the cheap. Web albums are songs that are hosted in Lala’s servers and can be streamed online via [...]

Verizon Loses It: Calls iPhone a Pretty Princess

Just when AT& T dropped its lawsuits against Verizon over the 3G map ads, Verizon has stepped on Apple’s toe with a bully tv spot. The TV ad promotes that Droid is fast like “A race horse tied to a scud missile”. A horse tied to a scud missile cannot be more useless, just like [...]

.App/Ads – Open Ad Management Platform For iPhone Developers

iPhone app developers got a powerful and completely open ad management plaform from.app/ads. .app/ads open platform helps iphone app developers to manage their ad inventory efficiently. App developers can choose the ad network or exchange that can run ads at any given time. Also, developers can choose to integrate the ad code they need from [...]

AT&T offers voicemail transcription to iPhone Users for $9.99

Competing head to head with Google’s free voicemail transcription sevce, AT&T today announced that it will offer transcription services for a low montly fee of $9.99. iPhone users who were holding out from using Google free service due to privacy concerns will sure jump the AT&T bandwagon. AT&T’s plan offers the following features: Receive your [...]

Rumor: Apple gonna launch iPhone Point of Sale accessory?

We all know that Apple replaced its Windows CE based Point of Sale (POS) machines with its proprietary iPod Touch POS add on. ifoAppleStore is reporting that Apple retail executives have asked the retail store business specialists to collect contact information of those who inquire about the iPod touch POS system. This move indicates that [...]

Super Monkey Ball 2 for iPhone is here. World Rejoices.

One of the earliest and immensely successful iPhone game app, Super Monkey Ball got a sequel today. Super Monkey Ball 2 comes with a much awaited multiplayer feature. The new version of Super Monkey Ball boasts of 115 stages, and will let the iPhone user to play against up to 3 other players on a [...]

Love Johnny Cash? There is an app for that!

A graphic novel-cum App complete with a soundtrack is now available for all the Johnny Cash lovers at iPhone appstore. The app on the seventeen time grammy winner follows the storyline of the print comic book of the same, with additional animated transitions. There is a catch with regards to the soundtracks though. The app [...]

Did Steve Jobs himself approved a live video app?

According to Ars Technica, Steve Jobs appears to have personally approved a video streaming application for the iPhone. The app called Knocking Live Video lets an iPhone user watch what another iPhone camera is shooting. The USP is that an iPhone user with the app can “knock” another user with a push  notification to view [...]