Archive : Mobile

Apple’s iPad made it UK store debut this morning on Regent Street, London at 7am and it was a spectacular scene with  scores of  Apple fans  queuing all night, a  few celebrities  including Stephen Fry were spotted , and the media – more than 50 cameras at a rough count –   was out in full force. The line of fans stretched from the Apple store on Regent Street all the way [...]

Delivery date of pre-ordered Apple iPad which is launching in stores tomorrow in UK has been pushed back, the delivery of tablet device was postponed to June 7th a couple days after it started taking orders online and now it has slipped to mid-June ( no date specified), the reason Apple was forced to change the delivery date is due to the exceptionally high demand for the iPad for both Wi-Fi and [...]

Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service which has recently opened the doors wider to the free service has updated its app for Android Mobile OS, the latest version 0.4.04 went functional yesterday afternoon. Spotify’s iPhone app also was updated recently. Andres Sehr, Marketing and Communications Manager, Spotify, wrote on its website. “This update brings a [...]

Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare users who visit [...]

iPhone 4G launch has been almost confirmed by Apple’s chief Steve Jobs himself, it will be most possibly unveiled at Apple’s annual WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) which will take place next month from June 7th to 11th, at the Moscone West Centre in San Francisco. This was revealed through the emails which were personally responded by Steve Jobs to questions sent to his personal email [...]

Apple may not have thought that launching its Tablet PC iPad in UK along with its US was a good idea, Dell apparently does not agree with this as it is launching a direct competitor to iPad (if you overlook the size) , its 5-inch tablet PC labeled Streak -formerly Mini 5 – in UK in June, which will be followed by rest of Europe launch, and then hit US stores later this summer.Streak will [...]

One of the significant and useful feature of mobile Operating system Android 2.2 Froyo showcased at the Google’s Developer Conference last week which go dwarfed by the announcement of  Google TV and Android Froyo  was  the ability of  Chrome-to-Device messaging service which allows you to automatically send links from your computer to your Google Android device. Google Chrome to Phone [...]

Folks, its official. Google has formally announced Android 2.2 update named Froyo ( following Google’s alphabetized dessert naming convention, is the next one called Gateau?)  on the second day of Google Conference at the Moscone West, San Francisco. Most of the features which Sporkings.com have written about earlier does find a place,   Android Froyo will run Flash and HTML5 platforms [...]

Paypal, the electronic money transferring service which had recently launched Mobile Payments Library for iPhone has now extended it toGoogle’s Mobile OS Android, the Library lets apps developers add checkout functionality for physical goods and services to their apps online. eBay, which owns  Paypal  has also introduced a PayPal X Toolkit for Google App Engine, a platform for developing [...]

Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service has started two new services –  a paid and a free one. Last August Spotify’s  free service  was  closed  to new free listeners in the UK , and was turned into an invitation only service, and the waiting list  is supposed to be many weeks. The new service Spotify Open is definite music to Spotify’s fans ears. Spotify [...]