Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

ezShare for remotely accessing files from the iPhone and iPod touch

ezShare for remotely accessing files from the iPhone and iPod touch

The wonders of iPhone OS 3.0 are slowly surfacing in iPhone applications. Developers are effectively tapping the capabilities of Wi-Fi, push notification and many other features that come with the latest OS to let iPhone users experience the climax of wireless fun and productivity.  ezShare from Antecea Inc. fits into this innovative and handy group of applications. ezShare makes you go totally wireless wherever you are. If you have ezShare either on your iPhone or iPod touch you can access files that you have on your home computer or the ones that you have on your office computer.  Features of this file Read More...

South Korea Telecom to replicate Apple’s App Store

South Korea Telecom to replicate Apple's App Store

App Store download is nearing a billion mark and all of us accept that Apple has done a great service to both customers and developers launching the online store. This is one stop for all to market and to purchase iPhone and iPod touch applications. The App Store concept is now being copied by many rival companies. BlackBerry App World of RIM, Microsoft has their own plan, Android application store and Palm also have the same plan to launch their own stores.  However, here is a new bold and rather strange replication, SK Telecom, one of the dominant mobile carriers in Read More...

Dev Talk: “The (iPhone) SDK is one of the main reasons for the success of the App Store:” Jim Brink

Dev Talk: "The (iPhone) SDK is one of the main reasons for the success of the App Store:" Jim Brink

Developer name: Jim Brink Company Website Company Namejbrink.net, LLC Apps at the App Store:4 Location:Chicago About Dev: About your background: what did you do before taking up iPhone development? I'm an academic-turned-software-engineer; about 6 years ago I took a leave from a Ph.D. program in Math to work at a software startup, and have never looked back! I left the startup about 3 1/2 years ago, and have been doing independent consulting work since then. I've been a big fan of Mac since the release of OS X, so it was pretty exciting when iPhone development became a possibility. I started off writing some apps that I Read More...

Long live open source. Linux ported to iPhone

Long live open source. Linux ported to iPhone

I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone. “Planetbeing” of iPhone devteam member, the person who is responsible for porting Linux over to iPhone. This version of Linux on iPhone has: 1. Framebuffer driver 2. Serial driver 3. Serial over USB driver 4. Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. What is not present: 1. Write support Read More...

iPhone Web Browsing statistic

iPhone Web Browsing statistic

Did you ever wonder how many people use their iPhone or iPod to  access internet? We have covered this earlier, this is the updated statistic. Web search using an iPhone has gone up from 0.31%, to a record high of 0.48%. With this, iPhone OS is still the fourth most popular operating system for net browsing after Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Windows retains the first position at 91. 02% followed by Mac OS and  Linux at 7.76% and 0.82% respectively. Playstation (0.04) and SunOS (0.01) comes after the iPhone. With this rate of growth, the market cap of Apple too is Read More...