Posted by A Ocean on July 21, 2010 ·
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Apple has announced profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 a share ( Nasdaq), for the last quarter, thanks to runaway sales of iPhones and iPads — as well as a surprise surge of Macintosh computer sales — gave Apple record-breaking revenues for its third quarter..
In a quarter in which Apple introduced both the new iPhone 4 as well as the iPad, it notched a 61 [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 17, 2010 ·
Nexus One
Google has announced that it will close its Web store once the latest shipment of Nexus One phones are sold out. this may be the end of Google’s attempt to sell phones itself, and weaken the control phone carriers have over the distribution of mobile phones. If you’ve ever wanted to get the Nexus One directly , then this is your last chance.
Google says Nexus One will [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 17, 2010 ·
iPhone 4
In the hastily summoned press conference on Friday Steve Jobs offered no apologies for the iPhone 4’s reception issues and blamed the media for exaggerating , “blown so out of proportion, it’s incredible” he said. Jobs singled out reports from Bloomberg and Gizmodo ( Gizmodo bought an iPhone 4 which was lost by an Apple Engineer in a bar, and now faces legal [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 15, 2010 ·
The update which all ya iPhone 4 customers and fans have been waiting for is here. The 4.1 update of the iPhone’s iOS 4 is now available in a beta release for the developers who have signed up for Apple’s iPhone Developers Program. Programmers will be able to apply the update to the iPhone 4, 3G, 3GS and 2nd generation iPod Touch models however, as far as we can tell, there’s [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
Google
Google and China has always been at loggerheads, however, here is a piece of positive news , China has renewed Google’s licence in a move that allows the web giant to continue operating in China. Google has confirmed that Beijing has renewed its ICP license — the rights one needs to host a site on its own domain in China. Without that Google would certainly be on the outs, but [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
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 [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
Fring
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 [...]
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 [...]