Google has started the rollout of a major update to the fledging Gmail app already available on iOS. The update contains several new welcomed features (not to mention ‘sought after’), including the ability to set a custom signature for messages, as well as a vacation response. Both, are available under the gear icon at the [...]
Lately, it appears as though Microsoft is really trying to steal customers away from Apple’s iOS Ecosystem through the simple method of having their name pop-up like a cryptic Windows Error box, all over the App Store. Yesterday, the tech giant released OneNote for iPad, and the week before they released My Xbox Live and [...]
Nokia has claimed that the youth of today, “are fed up with the iPhone, and baffled by Android.” In an interview with Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia EG, he explains it all: “What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones. Everyone has the iPhone,” [...]
WSJ reports this evening, that Apple isn’t seeing the success they imagined when they launched their advertising platform, dubbed “iAd”, in 2010. The company, who uses the service to deploy advertisements across their slew of iOS devices, is making some much-needed changes in hopes of attracting more developers and ad-spending in the program. First of [...]
The FBI doesn’t appear in the company’s description of its so-called “ecosystem”. Would you like to know whether or not CarrierIQ – the dialer-and-location sniffing software installed in many mobile devices – is being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for law enforcement purposes? They won’t reveal much about the controversial application to the [...]
iPhone and Android-fanboys rejoice. For you can brick a friend’s Windows Phone device if you so desire with just a simple string of text. That string has been redacted at request of WinRumors, and many Windows Phone 7 users, but hackers and those vengeful readers alike don’t fret! Google is your friend. Worse for those [...]
It seems that Apple Inc. know how the rumour mill operates. Recently, iOS 5.1 beta 1 was released to Developers for testing, and several bloggers discovered that it contained hidden references to as-yet-unreleased Apple products. Within the past 24-hours, iOS 5.1. beta 2 has been released to Developers, and Apple Inc., knowing how the rumour [...]
According to famed iOS hacker “pod2g” it is now safe to update iOS on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to 5.0.1, as his unreleased untethered exploit remains in the updated OS. According to his tweet, pod2g was successfully able to apply the jailbreak untethered to an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1, iPhone users who [...]
Akin to the iOS environment created by Apple, Microsoft’s own Windows Phone 7 mobile solution is an end-to-end ecosystem. A change for Microsoft, as in 1985 it was strongly opposed to this solution that has now made Apple the world’s most valuable company. Like iOS, each app submitted to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace undergoes [...]
Nobody is quite sure how this has occurred, but MetroRadio – the app for Windows Phone 7 that interfaces with Pandora – is returning an error message when users attempt a login. We could in theory, just fob it off as a minute issue and argue that not all software is perfect. Well, in practicality, [...]
The Macro Cell Lens Band has enabled macro awesomeness to feature prevalent in cellphone photography. Transform your photos from mediocre to professional, in a few short seconds. Perhaps it’s the most simplistic photography accessory available to buy, the Band does exactly what says on the box; it’s an elastic wrist band with a macro lens [...]
Good news, Canada! You can finally download TV episodes directly onto your Apple TV in the comfort of your own chair. Apple has of course been providing TV downloads on the Canadian iTunes Store for some time now, and luckily, this new addition isn’t one you’ll balk at. That’s right folks, these episodes are the [...]
Excuse the bad alliteration, readers. But I have news. Those of you pining after the snazzy new UI unveiled on the iPhone a few months ago inside the new Facebook app, can finally get it on your very own Android device. The update creates some uniformity across the mobile market, leaving just Windows Phone out [...]
So it’s come to my attention that the Android Marketplace has finally caught up to the age- old solution of downloading apps on the iPhone – the Apple App Store. Google is claiming the store has seen exponential growth since its inception in 2008, and statistics show the store was clocking just 1 billion total [...]