Articles Archive for July 2009
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Ghostbusters for iphone is a game ported over directly from its mobile version with little change but for much better hardware. Priced $4.99 Ghostbusters comes with little versions of the crew from Winston to Egon and uses the Ray Parker Jr. theme song.
Ghostbusters is a physics based puzzle game where player’s goal is to guide ghosts through mazes into waiting traps. The ghostbusters line the maze with little arrows that show you the direction they push the ghost if …
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Apple has filed arguments informing Copyright office that Jailbroken iPhones could lead to major network breakdown. In the argument Apple claims that:
“Because jailbreaking makes hacking of the BPP software much easier, jailbreaking affords an avenue for hackers to accomplish a number of undesirable things on the network”
“With access to the BBP via jailbreaking, hackers may be able to change the ECID, which in turn can enable phone calls to be made anonymously (this would be desirable …
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Apple has provided the option to see the battery power in percentage on its latest iPhone 3GS but users with iPhone 3G or first generation iPhone will not be able to use this feature. The hack provided by the smart guys will run only on jailbroken iPhones.
There are two ways to get this hack work on iPhones first is “SBSettings” and second is “asBattery”. SBSettings is preferred method to activate the power in percentage feature.
SBSettings: SBSettings is a jailbreak …
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Apple has some thing to do with Tuesdays as most of betas are launched on Tuesdays, following the trend Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1 beta on tuesday.
The iPhone OS 3.1 beta will come with features like:
You can now copy / paste videos into email like pictures, previously you could only use the share option which would compress the video to a lower resolution. I was able to copy, paste, and email a 33 second / 14.7MB …
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Bookseller Barnes & Noble announced that its customers can access free WiFi at its stores across the United States. It is worth noting that Barnes & Nobles has been offering WiFi previously but at a price of $3.95 for every two hour session.All customers visiting any of Barnes & Noble stores also will be able to download and preview more than 700,000 eBook titles, the bookseller said. Users with laptops, Wi-Fi equipped smartphones and other wireless devices can now …
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Microsoft and Yahoo the two internet giants announced a 10 year deal where two companies will together compete against Google Inc, the market leader in Web search. Combined, they would have nearly 30 percent of the U.S. search market still less than half of Google’s market share, but considerably more than the 8 percent Microsoft has now.
Under the deal announced on Wednesday, Microsoft’s Bing search engine will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search technology for Yahoo’s sites, …
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The GV Mobile app which lets Google Voice service on users iPhone has been rejected by Apple and some are speculating that Steve Jobs himself is involved in this decision. The app is currently available on Android and Blackberry phones, though the service is currently invite only.
A Google spokesperson states, “We work hard to bring Google applications to a number of mobile platforms, including the iPhone. Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago …
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Apple’s has got some serious competition from on-demand music streaming company Spotify which is full of features good enough to replace iTunes as music application. Now Spotify has developed an application for the iPhone which Apple is finding hard to approve. If Spotify app is approved by Apple then Spotify would also be available on Apple’ iPod Touch in the U.S.
The iPhone software should be available as a free download from Apple’s iPhone App Store in a few …
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Google is really serious about its mobile venture and with the launch of latest Android 2.0 it is making the developers exited. The update still isn’t ready to release, but if one can download the ROM here.
Among the key changes in Android OS 2.0 Donut are much improved speed and performance, universal search, automated backups and gesture support. There’s also full universal search across all applications, together with WPA Enterprise encryption and VPN support. According to Engadget, the release …
