Tag Archives : iPhone

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 [...]

Firefox Apple has approved  Firefox browser app for its App store.  The free application named  Firefox Home, is now available for download on iPhone or iPod Touch, iPad version is not released yet. “Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Get up and go and have exactly what you are looking for on the Web on your iPhone or [...]

Skype Mobile VOIP leader Skype and popular mobile app Fring are on the war path. The two companies have been attacking each other on their blogs today over missing Skype functionality in Fring. They both agree that Fring’s iPhone 4 two-way video calling feature, which used Skype, no longer works. Fring says Skype blocked its access to the Skype API and then threatened to sue. In a press [...]

After the initial heart rendering iPhone 4 commercial few months ago, Apple has posted four new TV commercials to entice people to buy the new iPhone 4, heavily promoting FaceTime, a feature typical to the new smartphone which allows device owners to carry out video calls over a Wi-Fi network. // The new ads are heavy on melodrama, bordering on cheesy.  Apple’s sole intention with the new ads [...]

eBay eBay seems to be working furiously on expanding its mobile applications, The ecommerce giants has announced  the release  of eBay Selling application and its eBay for iPad application. The application is now available in Germany and the UK, and the eBay for iPad application is now translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish and currently available through Apple’s 77 iTunes App [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]

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 [...]