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 12, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Israeli VOIP startup fring becomes the first iPone app to ring video calling to the iPhone. However, due to the lack of a front facing camera in the iPhone, the video communication will be one way. iPhone users can only view the caller at the other end, who most probably would using a Nokia S60 [...]