Posted by A Ocean on July 7, 2010 ·
AppStore HQ developers directory which claims to have a complete listing of all 50,000 plus developers whose apps are currently available in the Apple App Store or Android Market,shows that 43, 185 coders have apps on Apple store ,and 10,199 develop for Google’s Android Market with 1412 of those develop for both the platforms.
It’s apparent that single-platform development is the [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 7, 2010 ·
The Holiday Match Maker from Halifax. It’s one of those rare things, a Facebook application that is genuinely useful and entertaining at the same time. It’s also pretty clever. By analysing the content of your profile, it will ’calculate’ what your ideal holiday destination is, where you should stay, what you should do, what the weather’s like at the moment and how many plastic Eiffel Towers [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 5, 2010 ·
App Store
Forty one different books on the “Top Books Paid Software” listing of Apple’s online store were created by a publisher named “mycompany/Thuat Nguyen.” and for many of these titles there are no ratings or reviews. If reports are to be believed a app developer hacked iTunes users accounts and has purchased their own apps using those accounts – making [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 4, 2010 ·
Steve Jobs at the WWDC
Central to the issue of Steve Jobs and Apple’s snub at users reporting iPhone 4’s signal issues were the reports published by the gadget rumor site Boy Genius Report (BGR) who posted email exchange between Steve Jobs and a iPhone 4 user , in which Jobs told an angry iPhone 4 customer complaining about the iPhone 4’s antenna problems to “calm [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
Earlier Nokia handsets
Ansii Vanjokki, Nokia’s new chief of Mobile Solutions candidly wrote on Nokia Conversations that Nokia is “under no illusions” that the job to ensure Nokia occupies its premier position in the future is no small task. He has promised that Nokia is on its way to simplify the way it functions and the results would be seen in the months to come. This [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
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The reported emails sent by Steve Jobs to some iPhone 4 users have attracted a lot of criticism on Internet and spilled over to the extent of customers filling lawsuits against Apple and AT &T. An Apple spokesman has now said that the entire e-mail exchange being attributed to the CEO did not actually take place the way it has been reported.
Supposedly [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
Nokia might have had a laugh at Apple expense for iPhone 4’s “death grip” woes, nevertheless, as it was pointed out in the same article Nokia phones are not immune to the issue and various videos and pictures have been circulating supporting the claim, a report from Consumer Report further strengthens the claim.
In a study carried out by Consumer Report, it has been pointed [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 3, 2010 ·
iPhone
Couple of days after the lawsuits started trickling in, Apple has given a press release stating that iPhone 4 reception problem is a software issue, until now Apple had indirectly blamed the user for holding the device in a particular fashion which interfered with the cellular signal. Apple will be releasing the software fix in few days.
The issue according to Apple is that the device [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 2, 2010 ·
Groupola announced that its newsletter subscribers has the possibility to get a £99 iPhone 4 today morning without a mention of how many units would be available for these ‘lucky’ subscribers.
For this too good to be true offer, Groupola’s website immediately crashed under the strain of the high-volume web traffic, and blogosphere including tweets and Groupola’s own Facebook [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 1, 2010 ·
Apple
Apple is used to getting acclaim and accolades for all the iPhone series launches since Apple iPhone debuted in 2007, this time around Apple and its mobile carrier in U.S. AT & T is in for a rude shock. Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc faces a number of lawsuits over reports of reception and signal problems found in the iPhone 4’s new wraparound antenna, with consumers accusing [...]