LONDON (Reuters) – The Financial Times has pulled its iPad and iPhone apps from Apple’s App Store after losing a battle to keep control of customer data obtained through subscriptions.
Apple has recently begun to insist that subscriptions to apps that it hosts must go through its own store, giving Apple ownership of valuable data about customers from those transactions, as well as a 30 percent cut of revenues. Read More
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Posted by gracelim under iPhone Apps on Wednesday Aug 31, 2011
Find a new way to snap some snazzy photos with VivaFoto, a new app that lets you see the filters you’ll apply to your snapshots in real time before you shoot them. Follow that up with WordWit, an app that helps you expand your command of the English language. In games, have fun with dentistry (no, really!) in Monster Mouth DDS, and shoot waves of bad guys in twin-stick shooter Infinity Field. Read More
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When iOS 5 finally hits the Internet this fall, it’ll include a number of cool new services from Apple. The biggest, clearly, is iTunes in the Cloud, which takes the entirety of Apple’s iTunes software and turns it into a cloud service. One portion of that – Apple’s cloud music service – is called iTunes Match. Read More
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Software maker Openwave Systems filed a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion on Wednesday, alleging infringement of five of its patents relating to mobile Internet technology. Read More
Flipboard is reportedly looking to expand beyond social media and RSS feeds to include TV shows, movies and eventually ebooks to the mix. According to the company’s CEO Mike McCue, video content may be included at the end of the year. In the meantime, it’s good to hear that the popular personalized magazine will be released for the iPhone and iPod Touch users “in a few weeks.” Then, once the iPhone is cleared, I guess Android users will get their Flipboard fix too, though I’m just speculating. Read More
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A group of researchers at MIT and Princeton University are using the iPhone to save fuel when stopping and re-starting cars at traffic lights. The system called SignalGuru involves mounting the iPhone on the car’s dashboard, and relying on the built-in camera and GPS to tell the driver when it’s best to slow the car down in order to save fuel. Read More
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Posted by admin under Mobile News on Wednesday Aug 31, 2011
Popular news reading app/service Pulse just got better by integrating some of the Instapaper features. The all new Pulse bookmarklet lets you save some story for the later reading when you will be able to access it either from your computer, smartphone or tablet. What’s more, if you use Google Chrome, there’s a dedicated Chrome extension that does the same job and we’re pretty confident similar add-ons are in works for other popular browsers. Read More
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Posted by admin under Mobile News on Wednesday Aug 31, 2011
We just had a chance to get up close with ATT’s brand new GALAXY S II device, which was just revealed during a Samsung press event here in New York City.
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Posted by admin under Mobile News on Wednesday Aug 31, 2011
We are here at Samsung’s press event in New York City where the phone maker just took the wraps off of Sprint’s brand new GALAXY S II smartphone.
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Posted by admin under Mobile News on Wednesday Aug 31, 2011
