Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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New Verizon Ad Directly Attacks AT&T Coverage, Claims 5 Times Better 3G Coverage

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:44 PM PDT

Verizon Wireless launched a new ad campaign yesterday during the big Monday Night Football game which directly attacks the "spotty 3G coverage" of AT&T. With a catchline, 'There's a map for that', the ad also takes a potshot at the now famous 'There's an app for that' iPhone ad. The...


AT&T Allows VoIP iPhone Apps to Work Over 3G Network

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:22 PM PDT

As you might know, until now AT&T had restricted iPhone apps like Skype, Vonage (which was released yesterday) to work only over Wi-Fi and not over the 3G mobile network as they had concerns that such apps could cause significant network congestion. That's History! AT&T has just announced that they...


Geohot Planning to Release Tool to Jailbreak Any iPhone and iPod Touch Running Any Version of iPhone OS?

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:35 PM PDT

George Hotz (aka Geohot) who was the first to release a software called Purplera1n to jailbreak iPhone 3GS is at it again. He has dropped a hint that he plans to release a tool that will allow users to jailbreak any iPhone and iPod Touch running any version of iPhone...


Rogers' Monopoly Comes to an End - Bell and Telus To Sell iPhones in Canada

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 10:21 AM PDT

After the network monopoly for iPhones came to an end in UK , it is now the turn for Canada to be in the limelight. After serving as the sole network carrier for the iPhones in Canada for over a year, Rogers Communications, the largest Communications company in the country...


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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Get Ready for Larger Google Ads On Your iPhone

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:42 AM PDT

The sale of iPhones and other smartphones have soared in the past couple of years and Gartner predicts that this high growth trend is only likely to continue. The mobile internet experience on the smartphones is so much better than on the feature phones that Google has today announced an...


Adobe Makes it Possible to Create iPhone Apps using Flash Technology

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:03 PM PDT

As reported earlier, Adobe has announced the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which will support almost all the available smartphone platforms - Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, WebOS except for Apple's iPhone. But they have also surprised us by announcing that forthcoming beta release of Flash Professional CS5 will enable...


Vonage VoIP App for iPhone Released; Works Over Wi-Fi and Cellular Network

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 12:58 PM PDT

Vonage, one of the leading VoIP and SIP companies have finally released their iPhone app that will now let callers use Vonage's VoIP network to make cheap international voice calls. The Vonage iPhone app was approved by Apple early last month though its availability to the public was held back...


Adobe to Announce New Flash Player That Works On All Smartphones Except iPhone

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:22 AM PDT

At the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona last February, Adobe promised to showcase a full blown Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones. That they will finally do today at the MAX Conference at Los Angeles. The new Flash Player 10.1 will serve as a one-piece software that will work across smartphones,...


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Monday, October 5, 2009

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Two Augmented Reality Apps for iPhone You Don't Want To Miss

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:41 AM PDT

Augmented reality - where virtual data meets the real world is slowly becoming a reality on the iPhone. We had written about Yelp's iPhone app a couple of months in which they had sneaked in the Augmented Reality feature through an Easter Egg. But here are two iPhone apps that...


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Sunday, October 4, 2009

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O2 "Not Decided" On Letting Customers Unlock their iPhone After Contracts End

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 03:38 AM PDT

The happiness of the early iPhone adopters from the UK over the end of O2 exclusivity that was announced last month in their country could be short lived. In a statement released by O2, the company is yet to decide whether or not to let their iPhone customers unlock their...


Step By Step Guide to Upgrade Jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iPhone OS 3.1 Using PwnageTool 3.1.3

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:03 PM PDT

iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.3 for iPhone OS 3.1, which added support for iPhone 3GS so that users can upgrade their jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iPhone OS 3.1 and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone. This step-by-step guide will show you how to...


The Cat and Mouse Game Continues: Palm Pre Syncs With iTunes Again

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 02:15 PM PDT

It's been a week since the USB Implementors Forum chided Palm over their blatant violation of policies by letting Pre users sync their phones with iTunes using Apple's unique USB identifier for the Pre. Now, Palm is at it again. Today, the company has released an update to their users...


Maps Application on iPhone Starts Displaying Sponsored Links Courtesy Google

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:04 AM PDT

Google has started showing sponsored listings on the maps application that comes installed with all iPhones. The display of these ads have come at a rather interesting time as we recently wrote about Apple acquiring a company called Placebase, which makes a product similar to Google Maps. These sponsored listings...


iPhone Game - FIFA 10 by EA Sports Available on the App Store

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 07:20 AM PDT

The much awaited iPhone Game FIFA 10 from EA Sports is finally out. Early reviews point to an app that is much better than Real Football 2010 and at least marginally better than X2 Football. Most of the modes from the console versions including Tournament, Manager, Penalty, Training, Be A...


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Saturday, October 3, 2009

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PwnageTool 3.1.3 Released to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1; Adds Support for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:57 PM PDT

PwnageTool 3.1 that iPhone Dev Team had released for iPhone OS 3.1 couple of weeks back only supported iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G. As reported earlier, iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 3.1.3, which adds support to iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G. PwnageTool 3.1.3 will not support OOTB (out...


To Double iPhone's Market Share in US, Apple Simply Has to Unlock the iPhone

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:32 PM PDT

While Apple is going places to increase their global smartphone market share by launching iPhone in newer markets; the newest one coming up in China soon, it seems there is a very simple alternative to drastically up the market share just inside US - by opening up to more carriers....


Dev Team to Soon Release PwnageTool to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1 for iPhone 3GS Users

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:07 AM PDT

We finally have some good news for iPhone 3GS users who have been patiently waiting for iPhone Dev team to release their PwnageTool that supports iPhone 3GS. According to MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev Team, they've completed testing of PwnageTool for iPhone 3GS users to that they can safely...


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Friday, October 2, 2009

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Google Releases New Local Search and Personalized Suggest Feature for iPhone

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:44 PM PDT

Google has released new local search for iPhone that integrates with Google Maps on your computer and includes browseable categories that let you search without typing. Google Mobile team also released the personalized suggest feature for the iPhone, which will be in sync with the searches that you do on...


Apple Acquired Placebase, A Google Maps Substitute Back in July

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 12:51 PM PDT

With Google and Apple now starting to compete over multiple products with the advent of Android, Chrome OS, and with recent issues over the objection of Google Voice and Google Latitude iPhone apps, Apple probably thinks it best to move away from its dependency on Google as much as possible....


Sync Files Between Your Computer And iPhone With DropBox App

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:39 AM PDT

Now accessing your most important files on the go is just an app away. DropBox, the popular and easy to use file manager that lets you sync your files across all your computers and the web has launched an iPhone app that will now let you access all your docs,...


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Thursday, October 1, 2009

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QuickScroll - Jailbreak iPhone App Allows you to Scroll through Anything Quickly

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:31 PM PDT

If you have jailbroken your iPhone and looking for a faster way to scroll through a web page or PDF document or iPhone home screens then there is an iPhone app for that. It's aptly called QuickScroll 2 and it is available on Cydia for users who have jailbroken their...


iPhone's Call Drop Rate of 30% is Considered Normal on AT&T Network in NYC

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:37 PM PDT

If you are one of those iPhone users from New York City, our sympathies. Gizmodo in a post yesterday writes of an iPhone user who had his handset checked at the Apple Genius Bar since he was having problems in connecting to the network, only to be told that his...


iPhone App Violates Privacy Policy And Compromises Users' Mobile Numbers

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 12:41 PM PDT

Did it ever happen to you that you download a free iPhone app from the App Store and there on you are bombarded with dozens of telemarketing calls? A French website, Mac4Ever is reporting that a free Swiss traffic app has done exactly that and the mobile number of a...


Now Vodafone Also Announces Partnership To Sell iPhones in UK

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:44 PM PDT

We had just written about the end of O2 exclusivity in the UK with Orange entering into a partnership with Apple to sell iPhones in the country from sometime later this year. Soon after comes the announcement from Vodafone that their agreement with Apple is also through and the Newbury,...


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