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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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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Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption was a western themed 3rd person shooter that was released in early 2010 and it easily became one of the best games released that year. So it’s not surprising to hear a recent rumor Gameloft may be in the midst of developing a title that could possibly be inspired by Red Dead Redemption. Read More
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Posted by admin under Mobile News on Monday Aug 29, 2011
Samsung is set to announce the U.S. variants of its GALAXY S II smartphone on Tuesday during a press event in New York City and a recent leak gives us a peak of what we can expect to be unveiled. Read More
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Just because iOS 5 is still not available for the end users, that doesn’t mean developers can’t start making apps for the upcoming version of Apple’s mobile OS. bit.ly decided to help them [developers] out by releasing the iOS 5 compatible SDK to allow individuals and companies to make shorter URLs from their apps and take advantage of the new share-to-Twitter functionality which will be baked directly into iOS 5. Of course, bit.ly’s SDK will also keep the iOS 4 support via Twitter OAuth. Read More
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The popular iPhone app, The Moron Test, has been updated with a new section – “Skip Day,” which is said to be the funniest and most brain-busting section ever. It sees you getting on the bus and join The Moron Test’s quirky cast as they take the day off for a hilarious road trip to the beach. Included in the deal are sand castles, kites, beach balls… all the fun beach stuff without the sunburns or sand wedgies. Read More
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Nicholas Allegra aka Comex, whom we know as the man behind the JailbreakMe and Spirit tools, scored an internship position at Apple. After that and considering his impressive track record, we’re pretty confident he’ll get an actual paid job at Cupertino. It simply makes sense to keep a guy like Comex close to the home team and use his talents to make the iOS more secure. What’s more, he seems like a perfect guy to help Apple’s partners fully take advantage of the platform. The only question now is whether he likes the corporate environment at Apple.
[Via: Engadget]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The “convergence” is what he’s most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do.
In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it’s an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he’s there to try it out. He admits though, he’s still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which “sings” perfectly with the mobile PIM application.
Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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LetsTalk.com has announced that it is offering $50 off any Verizon Wireless smartphone purchase through August 31st, provided users sign up for a new two-year contract. The discount creates several compelling deals. For example, Verizon customers can pick up the Samsung DROID Charge 4G LTE phone for $49.99 with a new contract, or the HTC ThunderBolt 4G device for just $19. LetsTalk.com also confirmed with BGR that it expects to offer Verizon’s new BlackBerry Bold 9930 on August 31st and while final pricing for that phone is still unknown, it will be eligible for the $50 coupon for that day until the deal expires. Customers can take advantage of the LetsTalk.com deal by entering coupon code “bbaf0cf6?(updated) during check-out, and the offer is valid through August 31st.
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