Apple has announced today that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded three billion applications from its App Store. Thats a huge leap given the fact that 2 billion downloads were reported just three months ago. It’s usually Google’s style to steal the thunder of a rival (mostly Microsoft) by announcing way cooler products close [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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 [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
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 [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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 [...]