World of Warcraft playing on the iPad through Gaikai The Apple iPad has become quite the popular little device. It’s been used to read ebooks, surf the web, and even play a few games. However, those little iPad games can still be quite shallow when compared to the fuller games you find on consoles and PC
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World of Warcraft streamed to the iPad
AdMob, which acquired AdWhirl eight months ago, says these changes will enable developers to use an unlimited number of ad networks in their mobile apps, including support for Apple’s iAd service once it’s available. Previously, developers could add only one…
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AdMob Updates Open Source AdWhirl Ad Mediation Tool
Apple has recently acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app. Siri was inspired by Darpa’s CALO – the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes – project. While Siri was initially designed to help streamline military personnel’s activities the consumer app now focuses on helping your find things like restaurants, hotels, businesses and even utilizes speech recognition tools. This app is essentially a smart search app and has people speculating about the direction that Apple might be taking. Many industry experts feel that this acquisition is leading Apple into Google territory. While the terms of the acquisition are not known Business Insider guesses the deal could be worth $100 to $200 million. A deal of that magnitude would definitely signal a commitment to this new type of technology for Apple. The technology that Siri can bring to the table for Apple’s various consumer electronics will certainly enhance the user experience of iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad users.
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Apple acquires virtual assistant search app maker Siri
Eventhough AT&T’s own Ralph de la Vega mentioned all the way back in November 2008 that you would be able to tether your iPhone to your personal computer and use it as a modem “soon” it looks like we are still quite a ways away from seeing this functionality. Even with many iPhone carriers around the world deploying this tethering feature as soon as Apple had it ready it seems that AT&T’s silence is saying more than they want it to. Tech website Engadget reached out to AT&T and received this feedback concerning iPhone tethering on the AT&T network: “We understand that there is great interest in tethering but cannot provide any details at this time.
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iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance
Google has re-constructed its image search exclusively for Android and Apple iPhone. The redesigned Google Image Search for Mobile can be accessible by iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices which can projects specialized thumbnails to display more thumbnail images. The thumbnails maximize the number of images at one one time on the screen that facilitates easy ….Click here to read complete post Related posts:Tip:How to embed Android on iPhone 2G?Google to launch its Android handsets next weekAmazing Google Mobile Application for your Smartphone Posted on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:07:29 +0000 at Guests cannot see links in the messages.
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Google Image Search for iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices
Lala Media, the startup music streaming company that Apple recently acquired, has announced that it will be ceasing operations on May 31st. This has lead to speculation suggesting that Apple will soon be launching an online streaming version of iTunes in the near future. MediaMemo’s sources think otherwise.
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Lala Music to Shut Down, Cloud Version of iTunes Not Likely for Some Time
Only a few day’s ago, Nokia officially released the Nokia Qt SDK which is a Nokia focused version of the original Qt SDK, and allows better development of applications for all Symbian, MeeGo (sorry does not support MeeGo yet but I’m sure this will come soon) and Maemo operating systems which means games, and applications can work great of all platforms. This is better for developers as it means that they are able to port their application across to a much greater number of consumers quicker, the developers in the video below stated that they have: rewritten an application from native Symbian into Qt in 3-4 weeks seen their applications available in the Ovi store a week after submitting reached customers in 178 countries in just 48 hours of launching their application Now the developers currently making Apple app store, apps have no excuse, if they make their app using Qt, they will reach probably 10 times more consumers and also have a much greater chance of seeing the light of day, without the worry of creating something which is against Apple’s many overly strict rules. So developer’s if you are reading this, start writing!!! To download the development tool, just head over to the Forum Nokia page: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Tools_Docs_and_Code/Tools/IDEs/Nokia_Qt_SDK/ Don’t worry I have not forgot about us consumers, it is a lot better for us too, now if developer’s can make app’s quicker and across more platforms, it means the number of applications in the Ovi store should multiply in no time at all, so more free apps to choose from, more premium apps which you might be willing to pay for, and more competition between developers to make better apps and for a lower price!! Qt Bounce on N900 Qt Bounce on N8 Nokia Qt SDK Beta Qt Phone Simulator Qt Speed Hero on N900 Qt Shazam on N900 Qt Accuweather on N900
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/smartphone-shipments-jump-50-in-first-quarter-2010-04-30 Apple, a late entrant into the smart phone market has managed to do really well in the past three years with its one and only smart phone the iPhone. iPhone, when launched created an entirely new breed of smart phone users, App developers and of course game developers
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Apple is Now The Third Largets Smart Phone Vendor Globally
Found another set of interesting 3.5+ games for this weekend. Give it a shot, before it goes back to its original price: Fly Control – $0.99 Free [ App Store ] Air traffic control has never been so animated. Control the flies to their stinky targets and see what happens if you cannot avoid the encounter.
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Games4Free: Fly Control, Froggy Jump and Cell Splat
Ever since cell phones first appeared on the scene decades ago, Motorola has dominated the American market. It was the first company to sell a commercial cell phone (as far as I know), but how the mighty have fallen. In fact, Motorola isn’t even the biggest American cell phone maker anymore.
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Apple takes throne as biggest American phone company
The guys over at bbleaks.com are convinced that RIM are currently working on a BlackBerry pad. Apparently they have inside information and if past history is anything to go on then they may well be right. The word on the street is that RIM have ordered 8.9″ display screens from Hon Hai
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Are RIM working on a BlackBerry Pad?
Smartphones have surged by 50% globally from a year ago. It grew from 35.9 million units in the year ago quarter to 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010, the strongest growth rate in several years, reports AppleInsider . MarketWatch said smartphones now make up 18% of all mobile phone sales.
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Apple is now the 3rd largest seller globally in the Smartphone space
Forbs while reporting on Motorola’s Profits brought to light that Apple is now the US largest Mobile Phone Manufacture. Motorola sold a total of 8.5 million phones in the quarter, while Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones. Four years ago, when the Razr was still popular, Motorola sold 46.1 million phones in the first quarter
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Apple Becomes US Largest Mobile Phone Manufacturer
The Viper SmartStart system is one of the cooler apps on the market for the iPhone . Viper SmartStart, the automobile security system company, has recently become famous for their iPhone app that allows you to unlock, lock and start your car from anywhere in the world. You also have the ability to pop the trunk and hit the panic button all from your iPhone. All of these features can be added to your car for a mere $500. However, up until this point you only had the ability to talk to your car and give it commands via the iPhone on whether to open the doors or start the car. Now your car can essentially talk back to you. Viper just released an update for the iPhone that now includes push notifications. When your car alarm goes off you will be able to receive a message from the Viper SmartStart system alerting you that your alarm has been activated. While all of this technology may see a bit over the line and unnecessary it is still a pretty cool feature to include. If you live in a cold winter state the ability to remotely start your car to heat it up from your iPhone might just sound too good to be true. Likewise if you are constantly worried about the safety of your vehicle and any potential items you may have inside knowing that your car as the ability to alert you when the alarm is set off could be worth the $500 and $30 a year fee for iPhone users to have that peace of mind. All in all I think the Viper SmartStart system and corresponding iPhone app are some of the most interesting pieces of technology on the market today.
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Viper SmartStart for iPhone gets push notifications
Mapple Mobile has released its full 3D navigation map application that designed for iPhone in Korea market, named Mapple 3Di . It offers 3D geographical information using Augmented Reality(AR) technology, can share location information between users and update safe driving information every 2 weeks. It has cost 54.99(USD).
Apple has already been facing a lot of criticism for not including Adobe’s Flash on their iPhone platform. As a result, many popular flash-dependent games and applications are not available for the iPhone
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Steve Jobs : Thoughts On Adobe Flash – It Is Past And Dead!
Apple beat Microsoft a few days back to become the 2nd biggest corporation in the US in terms of market-capitalization and now Apple has become the biggest phone maker in the US. AppleInsider just covered this news, “Motorola announced sales of 8.5 million phones in its spring quarter, dropping it below Apple’s record sales of 8.8 million iPhones and vaulting the Mac maker into position as America’s top phone manufacturer.” Motorola sold 14.7 million phones in the year ago quarter, but this year its earnings were only down by 9%, due the fact that the company is now successfully working to sell more sophisticated smartphones rather than large numbers of cheap phones, according to a report published by Forbes . [via - AppleInsider ] Tags: Motorola Related posts Gizmodo covers 5 Assclowns who laughed at iPhone in 2007 (0)
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Apple is now the biggest US phone maker – beats Motorola
If there are three things in life without which many of us can’t live (besides for food and air) – it would be the three M’s Mobile, Money and Music! Nokia seems to have a large market share when the first M is concerned i.e. Mobile but it seems its not too far behind with the other M’s too
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Nokia’s Mobile Money & Music To Do The Rounds In India Soon
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has released an open letter entitled “Thoughts on Flash” wherein he attempts to answer some of the questions surrounding the company’s stance regarding Adobe’s Flash platform. Specifically, Apple’s relationship with Adobe and why Apple has not allowed Flash on iPhone OS devices
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Steve Jobs Gives his ‘Thoughts on Flash’
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple may be charging as much as $1 million for interested companies to place their ads on Apple’s forthcoming i Ad mobile advertising network. Companies looking for ad spots at launch could be paying up to $10 million.
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Apple Charging $1 Million for iAd Placements?