According to Net Applications's study Global Internet Usage Market Share, iPhone is fast catching up with the internet users. Last week's data puts the iPhone as at 4th postiion behind Windows, Mac and Linux. The study states that the iPhone currently shares 0.31% of the market. Looks like touch -screen or not, the iPhone is after all doing what it pronised to and doing that very well. More worries for Blackberry, may be.
iPhone was launched in India at the stroke of midnight on 22nd August. Dramatic? Note exactly. There were no serpentine queues outside the stores, even though India is world's fastest growing mobile economy with an estimated 95 million unit sales last year. So far the sales report recorded shows only lukewarm responses. So far the most number of iPhones sales have been recorded not in the capital New Delhi, but the Eastern Indian gateway, Kolkata. Only 50 units since its midnight launch. Why? 1. A very heavy price tag. In Indian currency the 8GB is coming at Rs. 31,000 (approximately $ 715) 2. Read More...
Nearly after one and a half months after Steve Jobs pulled out the iPhone 3G from the back of his jeans at the WWDC in San Francisco, Apple has begun its much awaited second phase of 3G launches. The 22 countries that have received Apple's 3rd generation golden baby are (in alphabetical order): Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras. Hungary, India, Liechtenstein, Macau, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania Singapore, Slovakia and Uruguay. The original release included the following countries (alphabetical order) -Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Read More...
Category: Social Networking (Dev. Linkedin) Price: Free File Size: 0.7 MB Download: (iTunes link) Suppose you want to brush up your homework about the person you are just about to meet for a business deal (or even for something as mundane as an interview!). A quick browse through your professional "who-is-who"' list will be just the thing you would like to do on a hurried trip to SF. Linkedin on iPhone provides you just that. The interface for Linkedin in iPhone is neat and the app is divided into four major sections to provide information in a seamless way: Section 1: News feed. Displays new updates Read More...
If the iPhone app developers have been looking for one technogical advantage to cash in on, it had to be some way to integrate cross-platform capabilities. The Neutron middleware will soon be available for the iPhone. Exit games has announced that the beta version of the Neutron middleware for the iPhone has been released. This software can be used by game developers for license for use in their own titles. The Neutron managed sevice platform helps the developers to integrate online multiplayer and social gaming features that work across different mobile platforms (like Blackberry and Windows Mobile Handsets) as well as computers and Read More...
We're proud to report the best June quarter for both revenue and earnings in Apple's history," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. "We set a new record for Mac sales, we think we have a real winner with our new iPhone 3G, and we're busy finishing several more wonderful new products to launch in the coming months. As Apple gears up for its final quarter of 2008, it is estimated that they are going to smash all their previous Mac sales records. According to a post in the Ars Technica, 17 percent of the users who have experienced the powers (and brilliance) of an Read More...
It seems that some unidentified "source" has "leaked" news to the three premier Apple cult sites - MacRoumors, Mac Daily News and The Unofficial Apple Weblog that Apple is all set to launch a yearly $129 iTunes subscription service (to piggyback the disastrous MobileMe?). According to the rumor, under this US-only service, Apple is likely to offer unlimited access to half of its iTunes Store from October 2008. It's also rumored that the Cupertino Cabals will also be offering a combo iTunes/MobileMe deal for $179. And if you are already a MobileMe subscriber, you'll need to pay a much lesser Read More...
Readdle has announced the release of ReaddleDocs, a complete document and file management solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With ReaddleDocs anyone can transfer files from Windows, Mac or Linux computer to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices, view them on the go, send by email and more. ReaddleDocs operates through Readdle Storage, the 512MB free online file storage. This allows to support many important business functions e.g. working with emails and transferring files to iPhone without WI-FI, using EDGE or 3G. Business people can save attachments they got in the Mail or send files stored in ReaddleDocs to their Read More...
Category: Business Applications: Remote Desktop Lite (Free: Download [iTunes]) Remote Desktop ($. 5.99, Download [iTunes]) Using your iPhone, connect to a Windows Computer and see all the files, programs and resources on the Windows on your iPhone screen. An app released by Mocha Soft brings Windows to the iPhone:This is how it works: Any PC running on Windows XP professional can be accessed by this app. You will have an entirely secure access to a Windows computer through WiFi or EDGE network. The app supports standard RDP protocols, scrolling and zooming, server screen size of 600x800, 1024x768 and 1280x1924, 3 pop-key boards, 2 keyboard Read More...
Have you ever heard of an app that first releases a pretty pricy paid version and then, within three weeks of it, a free version, with significantly more features? Weird. Here are the details. Exposure is an app that comes under the "Photography" category at the app store. This app helps you manage your Flickr photos from your iPhone. It uses the iPhone's location features to find photos in Flickr that are taken near you. It enables photo tagging, photo setting and other automatic searhing of geotagged photographs. In short, a very handy app if you are a Flickr fan. The application, Exposure Read More...