Monday, November 30, 2009

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Has Apple Started Field Testing the Next Gen iPhone?

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 12:42 AM PST

Has Apple begun field testing the next generation of iPhone? Chances are likely as folks at MacRumors suggest. The website is reporting of a few iPhone apps that seem to have tracked access from iPhone models hitherto not available in the market. Conventionally, Apple assigns a device identification number to...


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Sunday, November 29, 2009

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DIY Instructions to Increase iPhone Camera Zooming

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:28 PM PST

The native camera app on the iPhone is very basic to be honest. There are a lot of iPhone apps in the App Store that let you take better pictures and those that offer a lot more functionalities not available on the native app. However, there is nothing like doing-it-yourself...


AT&T Puts Refurbished iPhones On Sale: $49 Onwards

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:24 AM PST

Are you done shopping for the holidays yet? If not, here is a chance to get an iPhone at a good deal. AT&T is now offering refurbished iPhones at a nice discounted price that is too good to resist. The refurbished iPhones on offer at the AT&T website are all...


Apple iPhone Launches In South Korea Today

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:06 AM PST

South Korea, one of the most advanced telecommunications market in the world today became the newest addition in iPhone's list of overseas markets. The launch in the country comes amidst several apprehensions about how Apple will fare in the smartphone market dominated by Samsung and LG and also on the...


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Saturday, November 28, 2009

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4iThumbs: Screen Overlay to Make Your Touch Screen Typing Easier

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 10:17 AM PST

Ever looked at a Blackberry or Palm Pre and thought how cool it would be if your iPhone had a physical keyboard too? I'm sure you never thought that way, but what if someone actually did? In that case, you could go for the iTwinge, but if that embarasses you,...


Microsoft Working with Apple to Bring Silverlight to iPhones - Should Adobe Be Concerned?

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 05:51 AM PST

Adobe has been pushing hard to bring Flash to the iPhones. We also recently noted Adobe's attempt to make people aware that it was not their fault that Flash was not working on the iPhones already. While Adobe was busy at it, Microsoft apparently seems to have been working to...


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Friday, November 27, 2009

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Multi-tasking A la Palm Pre On iPhone With Multifl0w Jailbreak App

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:33 PM PST

One of the most popular app among jailbroken iPhone users is Backgrounder - the free app that allows you to multitask; a feature almost omnipresent among smartphones but something that remains unavailable for iPhone users till date. Now here is another iPhone app that improvises on Backgrounder to create a...


Google Introduces Minor Improvements for Gmail and Google Mobile Web Apps

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:18 PM PST

If you have been using Gmail and Google Mobile web applications on your iPhone, you might have noticed a few subtle changes that Google has recently introduced on these apps. While this is just a minor alteration to the look and feel of the web app, Google says it is...


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Thursday, November 26, 2009

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New Swype Technology For Typing Text Launched For Smartphones - Will It Replace QWERTY?

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 11:52 AM PST

A lot of mobile phones today, including the iPhone, have made typing easier by providing QWERTY keyboards. But can typing on mobile handsets get much more easier than this? Swyping is an upcoming technology that strives to achieve just that. So how is it different from typing on a QWERTY...


API Glitch Breaks Facebook App For Smartphone Users

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 11:33 AM PST

When Joe Hewitt quit the Facebook app development team earlier this month, the company's VP of Communications, Elliot Schrage had said that a "great team of engineers" would be replacing Hewitt. The question of whether the team has lived up to the expectations of their VP has now risen with...


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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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New Malicious Worm Attacks Jailbroken iPhones Using Known Vulnerability

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 12:07 PM PST

After two worm attacks on jailbroken iPhones, one would have expected the vulnerable iPhone users to have reset their passwords. Unfortunately, a lot many still have had their jailbroken iPhones with the root password unchanged as a third worm attack is now being reported. And this time, it is far...


Apple Joins AT&T to Counter Verizon - Launches New Ad Campaign

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 11:51 AM PST

After weeks of onslaught from Verizon, the past one week has been time for retribution. After AT&T launched their Luke Wilson ad, now Apple too has joined its partner carrier to counter Verizon's claims - "to set the records straight", as Wilson says. The new iPhone ads which went on...


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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Apple's Phil Schiller Says App Review Staff Is Your Friend - How Can App Approval Be Made Better?

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:30 AM PST

Apple's app approval policies have been in the news quite often in recent times. While the developer community has always opposed Apple's strict and inconsistent approval policies, the noise has especially become louder after Facebook's leading iPhone app developer Joe Hewitt quit the team to make his views known against...


Sony Announces Plans To Launch Online Store On The Likes Of iTunes

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 12:42 PM PST

Sony has been a significant player in a lot of markets that Apple is into - Mobile phones, MP3 players, computers,etc. However, one major difference between the two companies has been that while Apple is dominant in both the hardware and software segments, Sony has largely been a hardware player....


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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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AT&T Reveals $65 Million Investment On 3G Infrastructure Around SF Bay Through 2009

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 02:41 PM PST

The AT&T network has seen unprecedented growth in its bandwidth consumption over the past two years, thanks majorly to the exclusive iPhone deal with Apple. While this has tremendously helped the company in its earnings, the high data consumption has also led to clogged networks and subsequently to a lot...


New Smartphone Optimized Version of Google News Launched

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 02:27 PM PST

Google News has been one of the popular news aggregators on the web, which lets you to read news relevant to your geography as well as personalize your page to read updates on subjects of interest to you. However, while a mobile optimized version of Google News was available for...


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Friday, November 20, 2009

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TomTom Version 1.2 Released - Includes Support For iPod Touch and First Gen iPhones

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:33 PM PST

TomTom, one of the navigation apps available on the iPhone has just released an updated version. The new version v1.2 of TomTom's iPhone app offers quite a lot of interesting features and one that is most interesting is its support for iPod touch and the first generation iPhones. The TomTom...


AT&T Lawsuit: Court Rules Verizon Ads May Continue, AT&T Launches Counter Ad Campaign

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:56 AM PST

Yesterday, I had a nice little rant about why Verizon's ads deserved to be pulled off air. But that was not to be, as the Federal Court declined to issue a restraining order on Verizon from airing the ads. The next hearing on this case is only on December 16....


Google Phone Coming - How Will This Affect Market Dynamics

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:22 AM PST

Just when we thought that the Droid threat was not as big as it was hyped up to be comes a rumor which will have Apple closely watching every move. TechCrunch reports a "super-high confidence" rumor that Google could soon be launching their own phone - complete with Google branding....


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Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Palm Releases WebOS 1.3.1 - No iTunes Syncing Hack This Time

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 11:07 AM PST

It was only a few months back that Palm Pre used to be counted as a potential iPhone killer. A lot of things have changed since then. However, one thing that has kept Palm in the news has been its cat and mouse game with Apple in letting Pre users...


AT&T Lawsuit: Verizon Response Calls It A Case Of Sour Grapes

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:27 AM PST

After AT&T filed a lawsuit against Verizon's ad campaigns, the latter has finally responded. And very much like the ads in question, the court filing is nothing short of scathing attacks on Ma Bell. Shooting down AT&T's remark that the ads were misleading the customers, Verizon has said that its...


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