Posts Tagged ‘iphone apps’

Posted on August 31, 2009 - by admin

Spotify app approved for iPhone

Apple has approved the Spotify iPhone application, allowing users to stream music to their handsets.

The company submitted the application to Apple’s iTunes App Store for its approval in July.

The application will be free, but will require the user to have a premium Spotify subscription, which costs £10.

The Swedish music streaming service is looked on as a rival to Apple’s iTunes store because of its comprehensive, free library of millions of songs.

Read the full story at BBC News

Posted on August 25, 2009 - by admin

Latest trend: Announcing iPhone apps before they’re approved

Now that it’s a known fact that Apple rejects something in the neighborhood of 88,000 iPhone apps a year, companies are getting wise and publicizing their applications before Apple has a chance to finish reviewing them.

RealNetworks has submitted an app for its subscription music service Rhapsody to Apple for approval. The application will let subscribers access Rhapsody’s 8 million song database for streaming over EDGE/3G/Wi-Fi. Though it hasn’t passed Apple’s review yet, Real is already publicizing the app.

Read the full story at Betanews

Posted on August 18, 2009 - by admin

The 35 Best iPhone Apps Of The Year (So Far)

This guest post was written by Alex Ahlund, founder of AppVee.

We are just past of a year since the App Store launched and there are more than 60,000 applications released for the iPhone and iPod Touch. When we wrote our 2008 year-end app wrap-up, we had just surpassed the 10,000 app milestone. In early June 2009, the store reached 50,000 apps. At present, we are looking at a staggering 300 new applications being released every single day. How does the average iPhone user find the gems in this deluge?

Read the full story at The Washington Post

Posted on August 17, 2009 - by admin

Qik: Yet another brilliant service crippled on iPhone

Mobile video streaming site Qik, which was introduced last year is leading the charge into the next generation of the Web. Think of it as a real-time YouTube where a user’s mobile phone is paired with an online channel that broadcasts live video streamed from his handset camera over 3G. The service’s value for citizen journalism is undeniable.

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Posted on August 13, 2009 - by admin

SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone vies for streaming over 3G

SlingPlayer Mobile is an application for mobile devices that lets Slingbox users stream content from their television to their phone regardless of their location. Sling Media created apps for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, PalmOS, and most recently, iPhone OS. The app for iPhone and iPod Touch was released in May, costs $30, and works with Slingbox Solo, Pro, and Pro-HD set-top boxes.

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Posted on July 4, 2009 - by admin

‘GeoHot’ gets a shower, cleans up nice, reveals new iPhone 3G S jailbreak

Either puberty has been very kind to the author of the new ‘Purple Ra1n’ jailbreak tool, or George Hotz may also have some adequate Photoshop skills.

In a comically blatant display of bravado this morning, George Hotz — who gained fame last year as the first to post an unlocking utility for the new Apple iPhone — has unveiled a new utility that he claims enables iPhone 3G S users to download, install, and utilize the applications of their choice, outside of Apple’s and AT&T’s control.

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Posted on June 22, 2009 - by admin

First nav app for iPhone, but it’s not from TomTom

The first navigation app with turn-by-turn instructions has hit iPhone’s App Store and — guess what? — it’s not the TomTom app that was revealed at this year’s Apple developer’s conference to such fanfare.

Read the full story at cnet

Posted on June 20, 2009 - by admin

Steve Jobs recovers from liver transplant

Apple’s CEO has battled cancer, and will go forth with a new liver.

Now that the next iPhone launch is at least a solid year away, the truth behind CEO Steve Jobs’ six-month medical leave has finally been released to the Wall Street Journal.

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Posted on June 19, 2009 - by admin

What Apple will not be delivering on Friday with its iPhone 3G S

It’s going to be a rainy night on the East Coast for iPhone users awaiting their 3G S upgrades.

If you’re an Apple fan, you could also be a ritualistic line-waiter. Cupertino metes out the information, and the rumor mills churn like crazy, causing people to queue up, sometimes completely spontaneously, in hopes of receiving something new and brilliant from the Infinite Loop.

Tomorrow morning, all 211 US Apple Stores and more than 2,200 AT&T corporate stores will begin slinging the new iPhone 3G S to customers eagerly waiting to sink their teeth into a juicy new Apple phone. But if you aren’t one of the thousands of pre-order customers, you might want heed the pundits’ chants of “evolutionary, not revolutionary,” and sleep in your own bed tonight instead of on the sidewalk. Here’s why:

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Posted on June 18, 2009 - by admin

iPhone 3.0! iPhone 3G S! iPhone ZOMG!

Apple and AT&T are disjointedly wheeling out the updates to the iPhone’s software and hardware.

Just as the eagerly-awaited iPhone 3.0 software update became available, AT&T made an announcement that some subscribers’ upgrade eligibility would be bumped up just in time for the iPhone 3G S launch this Friday.

Read the full story at Betanews