Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Apple Rolls Out 'Apps for Everything' Section to Make it Easier to Find iPhone Apps

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:43 PM PDT

You might have already seen Apple's "the iPhone has all kinds of apps" TV ads. Apple has just rolled out a new section called Apps for Everything on its website, in what seems to be a continuation of their effort to make it easier to find iPhone apps on the...


Tweetie 2.0 - New and Improved Version of Popular Twitter iPhone App Coming Soon

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 01:39 PM PDT

Tweetie has been one of the most popular iPhone apps on the App Store. Now, news is here that a big update is round the corner and Tweetie 2.0 is coming very soon. Tweetie 2.0 will require iPhone OS 3.0 and will be available for $2.99 on the App Store....


Indie Movie Releases Via iPhone App - Is This The Future?

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:40 AM PDT

Your iPhone could soon be the place where you would be watching all the latest movie releases. In a first of its kind, the new indie flick, "Rage" directed by Sally Potter and starring Jude Law and Judi Dench is being released on the mobile platform, and that too, for...


Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Apple Announces Two Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded from the App Store

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:52 PM PDT

Apple today announced a heartening milestone - two billion iPhone apps have been downloaded from the iPhone App Store as of date. This landmark comes close to one year and two months after the App Store was officially launched for iPhone and iPod touch customers. The growth in the popularity...


Apple Signs Agreement With Orange To Sell iPhones in UK - End Of O2 Exclusivity

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:02 PM PDT

Popular UK network operator, Orange, has today revealed that it has reached an agreement with Apple to sell iPhones in the country. This ends the exclusive partnership that network operator O2 enjoyed with Apple over the sale of iPhones in UK for the past two years. While the exact date...


iPhone Declared UK's Coolest Brand

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Yet another reason to proudly flaunt your iPhone. In its latest list, CoolBrands, an annual initiative to study the latest trends in 'coolness' of brands, has listed iPhone as the coolest brand in UK. With this, iPhone toppled Aston Martin from the top spot which it had held for the...


Monday, September 28, 2009

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Gmail's iPhone Web App Gets Two New Features: 'Move' & 'Enhanced Refresh'

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 05:48 PM PDT

I hope you're enjoying the Push Gmail feature that Google released earlier in the week. But that was not the only thing that Google released for iPhone users last week. If you prefer Gmail's iPhone web app over iPhone's native Mail app like I do then you might have noticed...


Intel's New Light Peak Technology Was Conceptualized By Apple

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:42 PM PDT

This past week, Intel unveiled what is touted as the future of connectivity on mobile devices. Called the Light Peak, this is an optical interconnect that can serve to replace all other connectors. Now it has come to light courtesy folks at Engadget that the concept of Light Peak was...


Popular Console Game 'Ace Combat' Coming Soon to the iPhone

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:04 AM PDT

Time to rejoice for all the gaming fans. The popular flight action game, Ace Combat could be coming soon to the iPhone. This was revealed by the developers of the game, Namco Bandai at the Tokya Games Show 2009 where a demo of the upcoming iPhone game, Ace Combat Xi...


Sunday, September 27, 2009

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China Unicom to Start Selling iPhones from October; Will Cost a Lot Cheaper?

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 04:37 AM PDT

Reports are coming in that the iPhone may be coming to the Chinese users slightly earlier than was speculated and at a price that is very much less than what customers in US pay for their iPhone. This was revealed by an "insider" at China Unicom to Xinhua News Agency,...


AT&T Customers: Is MMS Working on your iPhone?

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 01:04 PM PDT

Based on feedback from our readers, we had felt that AT&T's launch of MMS feature to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers yesterday had gone off smoothly. But folks at Boy Genius Report have just reported that AT&T might be facing an outage currently as users are reporting issues sending...


Apple Approves '0870' iPhone App After 429 Days After O2 Finally Gives Go-Ahead

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 10:34 AM PDT

An iPhone app that was submitted to the Apple App Store close to a year and a half ago for the UK iPhone users has finally been approved. It has taken 429 days to be precise for the approval to go through! And the reason - O2 and British Telecom...


Saturday, September 26, 2009

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AdMob Report Reveals Poor Adoption of iPhone OS 3.1

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 04:11 AM PDT

It is now close to two weeks since Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1. and according to a new report published by the mobile advertising network AdMob, only 23% of iPhone users have already upgraded to the new iPhone OS 3.1 based on the ad requests coming from iPhone OS...


MMS feature is Now Live for AT&T's iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS Customers

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 11:17 AM PDT

AT&T had announced that MMS will be available to their iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers from today and they had reconfirmed this couple of days back. We have got quite a few tips from our wonderful readers that MMS has started working for them. AT&T is rolling out the...


How Much Does Apple Make From iPhone App Store? Bernstein Research Claims $440 Million

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:46 AM PDT

Apple charges a simple 30% commission on the sale of every iPhone app from its App Store. Would that make a lot of money? According to Toni Sacconaghi, analyst at Bernstein Research, the answer to the question is a "Yes" though it might significant enough if you compare it with...


Friday, September 25, 2009

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TomTom's iPhone Car Kit Shows Up Briefly on Apple's Online Store, Removed Due to Customer Complaints

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:41 PM PDT

Engadget is reporting that the much-awaited TomTom's iPhone Car Kit briefly showed up on Apple's online store in the UK with an asking price of £99.95. Though we don't have an official confirmation from Apple, it looks like it was removed from the online store due to complaints from iPhone...


FASB Approves Accounting Rule Change - Apple To Adopt Changes Soon

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 12:12 PM PDT

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the entity that is responsible for setting accounting standards in United States, voted this week on a proposal to move to a new accounting principle. The result was a thumping 5-0 verdict in favor of the change which is seen as a major boost...


Palm Pre Syncing With iTunes Violation of Policies - USB Implementors Forum

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:48 AM PDT

This is a classic case of shooting oneself on the foot. What Palm started as an offensive against Apple has backfired and Palm has turned from playing the victim to be called the culprit in just over a month. In an embarrassing turn of events for Palm, the USB Implementors...


Thursday, September 24, 2009

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AT&T Opposes FCC Chairman's Proposal For Net Neutrality

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:38 PM PDT

The recent spat between Google and Apple over the rejection of the Google Voice iPhone app and the recent statement by John Silverman, the CEO of Skype about the oneness of Internet on the wired and wireless medium have come at a very opportune time as there is a heavy...


AT&T "Extremely Nervous" About MMS Launch?

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:55 PM PDT

DSLReports is reporting that according to their source, AT&T is extremely nervous about the launch of MMS feature to their iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers scheduled for this Friday. They claim that the reason for the nervousness is the results of some early testing with some selected users caused...


AT&T Deactivates 'View My Message' Ahead of Activation of MMS for iPhone Users

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 12:10 PM PDT

MMS will finally be available to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users in a couple of days from now. In preparation for this activation, AT&T today sent out a text message to its customers that they are deactivating the 'View My Message' workaround that let MMS recipients view the message...


Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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iTunes 9.0.1 Released; Provides Important Bug Fixes

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:34 PM PDT

Apple has just released iTunes 9.0.1. As per the release notes, iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes that were reported in iTunes 9. iTunes 9 was released couple of weeks back included many new features and improvements such as Home Sharing support, allowed iPhone and iPod Touch...


Google Brings Push Gmail to iPhone Users

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Google had released Google Sync in February this year, which allowed users to sync Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with their iPhone. Google has finally announced that they're adding Gmail support to Google Sync for iPhone and iPod touch, as well as Windows Mobile devices. This is amazing news if...


Apple Approves Record 1394 iPhone Apps In One Day

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:42 PM PDT

Did a dozen new reviewers join the iPhone App Store review staff off late or are the reviewers on steroids? Last friday saw a sudden spike in the number of iPhone apps that were approved in one single day. On September 18th 1,394 new iPhone apps were approved which is...


Netflix iPhone App - Not Coming Anytime Soon

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 11:28 AM PDT

If you're crazy about movies and were expecting Netflix to come up with its own movie-streaming iPhone app, you may have to wait. In a recent interview with Reuters, Reed Hastings, the CEO at NetFlix has made it clear that while an iPhone app is definitely on the cards, it...