Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Skype for the iPhone Arrives

Skype has released a client for the newest member of its mobile platforms today. The app is now available for download in Japan and will be available on Tuesday for US customers. According to early screenshots, contact management, chat, Skype-to-Skype calls, as well as Skype-to-phone calls are supported so far. A Blackberry version of Skype is expected to become available in May as well.

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Filed under News : Comments (0) : Mar 30th, 2009

Google Releases Sync Software for iPhone and Windows Mobile

Google has released an application called Google Sync that will allow users of Google Calendar and Gmail to sync their contacts and calendars directly to the native calendaring and address book applications on their iPhones and Windows Mobile devices. The company released a similar application for Blackberry users last year and is extending that functionality to more users by offering the iPhone and Windows Mobile software. They are also now supporting phones that support SyncML for two-way contact synchronization as well. The product is being released as beta, but of course, I have to add the standard joke and ask, “what free Google product isn’t?”

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Filed under News : Comments (3) : Feb 10th, 2009

So Easy a Child Can Do It

According to AppleInsider, a 9-year old boy in Singapore, Lim Ding Wen wrote an application for the iPhone called “Doodle Kids”. The app allows users to make drawings on the iPhone and he wrote it so his little sisters could draw on the phones or iPods. The boy’s father also has made an application and the two compare their stats each night. Ding Wen’s father reports that the boy is fluent in 6 programming languages already and has completed 20 programming projects since he started programming. The application has been downloaded over 4,000 times in the two weeks that it has been in the App Store, and is available for free to download.

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Filed under News : Comments (0) : Feb 7th, 2009

RIM Begins Looking for Apps for Its “App Store”

RIM has announced it is looking for software developers to create apps for its answer to the Apple App Store. RIM, the maker of Blackberry announced in October that it was going to launch a central store to buy applications for Blackberry devices similar to the Apple and Google stores which has helped the platforms’ popularity. Having the store would mean that users would have just one place to go to get new applications as well as updates for those applications. Giving developers easier access to users makes the platform much more attractive and will help embed Blackberries into businesses as well as create a more pain-free experience for consumers. Applications that are submitted will have to go through a review process, much like the Apple store.

RIM and Palm seem to have settled in to do battle with Apple over the smart phone market. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer seems to think Apple should be the one adapting its own strategies and laughed it off before it was even released. Obviously, RIM has a lot more to lose than Microsoft if they lose their share of the smart phone market place (well, they have everything to lose..), but Ballmer doesn’t even seem to be taking the iPhone seriously. Time will tell on whether or not this new store from RIM will help the Blackberry, but it certainly helped the iPhone and iPod Touch. As long as RIM can release a good SDK and keep the developers happy, RIM’s new store should help them get entrenched in the market even better than before. The store was promised to be launched in March of 2009.

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Filed under News : Comments (0) : Jan 23rd, 2009

Apple Rumored to Have $99 4GB iPhone At Walmart

According to rumors over at Engadget, Walmart is expected to start carrying a cheaper model of the iPhone 3G for only $99 with a 2-year subscription contract. The phone will be offered in a 4GB model for the lower price rather than the 8GB or 16GB offered directly from Apple and AT&T or Best Buy. Rumors about the deal flew earlier this year with a guess at a November 15 launch date at Walmart but that date has long passed. Pictures floating around of a iPhone Reference guide with AT&T and Walmart’s logos on the front inidicating that they will be training employees on activating the phones. A commentator on the Engadget article claimed to work at Sam’s Club (a sister company to Walmart) and said that the iPhone was coming just after Christmas, on December 28. It would make sense for Walmart to not release the product in their stores until after Christmas (after all, Black Friday’s already over), but the date is purely off a commenter’s word. Bringing a smaller model to Walmart could boost sales for the device and bring it to those who couldn’t afford the larger models.

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Filed under News : Comments (1) : Dec 5th, 2008

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