Archive : Mobile

If you always wanted to create your ideal Android app for yourself , but were limited by your coding skills, here is your chance. Google has unvieled a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. With App Inventor, you can build just about any app you do not need to be a developer for that. App Inventor requires zilch programming knowledge [...]

NTP Corporation has filed a lawsuit against six leading cell phone makers for infringing on its patents for delivering email to cell phones. The companies against whom cases were filed are Apple , Google , Microsoft , Motorola , HTC  and LG. NTP claims that the companies are infringing eight of NTP’s patents related to the delivery of email over a wireless network. “Use of NTP’s [...]

The rumors of an upcoming september release of the iPod touch are going strong. Apple will most likely not disappoint fans  and release a new wave of iPod models with  new hardware, a front-facing camera, and even HD video recording capabilities. It may carry  the same A4 chip that Apple loves. What backs the rumor, are the pictures circulating the Internet which are purportedly authentic [...]

ComScore, which is an Internet marketing research company has released a report, which shows key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry from February to May 2010.  According to the report, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) with 22.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, up one percentage [...]

Apple has approved the new Fring app for iOS4. In the new release, Fring has enabled cross platform video chatting that allow users to conduct two-way video conversations between smartphones with front facing cameras, that means you can have a video call between an iPhone 4 and an EVO 4G or a  Nokia  N 97.  No one was  sure whether Apple was going to approve third-party video calling apps using [...]

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 [...]

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 it to [...]

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 down.”.  Apple told [...]

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 comes on the heels of [...]

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 in e-mail messages, [...]