Posted by A Ocean on March 11, 2010 ·
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HP began to brag about the ability of its forthcoming tablet pc to run Adobe Flash content, a feature which the iPhone never did and iPad will not do. Though HP did not mention the iPad specifically by name, its choice of words and the specific promotion of Flash make it clear that the company is attacking Apple’s iPad and displaying what will HP’s Slate Tablet [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 10, 2010 ·
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If you were one of those in UK who got excited and happy when O2 updated their iPhone pricing lists for video calling, your excitement is short lived as a spokesperson for O2 clarified that “the UK video calls that appear in their key features table is actually a regrettable mistake” according to a technology website which was contacted by a O2 spokesperson [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 10, 2010 ·
Steve Jobs has ruled out any possibilities of iPhone-to-iPad tethering which would allow the iPad users to access the internet using iPhone’s 3G capabilities. In fact, the reply from Apple’s top boss was a point blank ‘No’ in an email reply to a query from a Swedish tech blog Slashat.se.
While there are speculations if the email reply was indeed from Steve Jobs, early forensic email [...]
Posted by A Ocean on March 8, 2010 ·
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After dragging Nokia to court for patent infringement, Apple has sued HTC over their alleged infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone user interface, architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs who is known for not mincing his words said that HTC is stealing their technology.
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about [...]
Posted by Ruk Cooray on March 5, 2010 ·
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Google Buzz – Google’s latest social networking tool is now available as an iPhone app called ‘Buzzie’. Buzzie is available for download from the Apple iTunes store.
Since Google Buzz resides within Gmail and you can access it through a web browser as well, so an obvious question to ask is ‘Why do you need an iPhone app for Buzz’? Well, Buzzie answers [...]
Posted by Ruk Cooray on March 4, 2010 ·
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Yesterday, Orange and Intel announced their strategic partnership to develop Orange multimedia services for Intel’s MeeGo platform. MeeGo is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel where both companies decided to develop a new hybrid mobile platform based on Nokia’s Maemo platform and Intel’s Mobilin platform.
The announcement from Orange gives a great boost to the future [...]
Posted by Ruk Cooray on March 3, 2010 ·
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O2 has recently announced its range of new budget-minded mobile and broadband tariff plans. The highlight of the O2 announcement is the new ‘Sim only’ plan for iPhone users which includes Visual Voicemail, unlimited text messages, data and Wi-Fi at just £15 per month for a year.
If you are prepared to spend £20 per month, you can get this deal on a rolling monthly basis [...]
Posted by Ruk Cooray on February 26, 2010 ·
Palm has just announced that its smartphone sales for 2010 are likely to fall short of the projected targets. Palm has been under severe pressure since last year and has not been able to withstand the growing competition posed by Blackberry and iPhone.
Similarly, webOS which was touted by Palm to be a game changing mobile operating system has rather fallen flat at its back when compared to iPhone [...]
Posted by Ruk Cooray on February 24, 2010 ·
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Apple has announced the availability of an updated iPhone SDK 3.2 which would enable developers to write applications for the iPad. The latest update is the 3rd beta version of the SDK.
The release of Beta 3 has been quite dramatic to say the least – First, Apple made the Beta 3 available, then shortly after the release, it decided to pull the release back. [...]
Posted by Ruk Cooray on February 19, 2010 ·
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It seems that the Apple App Store has finally pulled the plug on all sexual and porno apps. Developers behind such apps have been receiving notifications from Apple that their apps are being removed from the App Store due to a ‘new policy change’.
Many apps including ‘Wooble iBoobs’, ‘Sexy Women’ and ‘Exotic Positions’ have already faced the axe. [...]