technologyexpert.blogspot.com - 6/3/2009
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Photos of the WWDC banners hanging at the Moscone Center in San Francisco have appeared via Flickr. The tagline for this year's event seems to be "One year later. Light-years ahead." This is obviously driven by the App Store, which premiered last year and one year later has 20,000+ ...
Nearly 1/4 of the App Store is Games
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 3/9/2009 — We knew the game category was popular at the iPhone / iPod Touch App Store, but this popular? According to iPhone app tracking site MobClix , that number now exceeds 6,000. The number, according to MobClix, is 6,276, or 23.1% of the total. Moreover, puzzle games take nearly 18% of the game ...
iPhone Pushes Its Way Into Flickr's #1 Camera Spot
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 8/18/2009 — In December, the iPhone managed to push its way into the top 5 Flickr cameras, overall. Now it seems the device has managed to push its way past the Canon Eos Rebel XTi, according to Flickr's Camera Finder . However, it doesn't appear that it maintained that lead. Since the LA Times wrote ...
iPhone Ranks in the Top 5 in Flickr Cams
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 12/24/2008 — Despite having only a 2-megapixel camera, Apple's iPhone ranks in the top 5 cameras (overall) used on Flickr, based on the site's Camera Finder (click above image to enlarge). Quite obviously, given that overall ranking, when looking only at camera ...
The App Store Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 7/11/2009 — On Friday, July 10th, the iTunes App Store turned one year old. Yes, it was only shortly over a year ago that Apple launched the iPhone 3G, an SDK, and the App Store to hold the (currently more than 50,000 apps). Naturally, when you go to iTunes, you get a promotional announcement: Light a ...
Kindle E-Reader iPhone App Earns Apple a Lawsuit
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 3/26/2009 — Earlier this month, Amazon.com released an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows those devices to read Kindle e-books. That development seems to have spurred a lawsuit; MONEC Holding Ltd. , a Swiss company, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit which claims that Apple is promoting the iPhone ...
Amazon's Kindle iPhone App Tweaked for Usability
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 5/24/2009 — Ten days after improving the experience of buying Kindle books on the iPhone with an optimized website, Amazon.com upgraded the iPhone Kindle app to version 1.1 on Wednesday, adding functionality that utilizes features on the iPhone that probably should have been in version 1.0 of the ...
Boxee iPhone Remote App Approved, Now in the App Store
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 3/16/2009 — Way back in July of 2008, it was a feature request : an iPhone "remote" app to control Boxee, the freeware media center software. And now, after weeks of App Store review (no kidding; check the submission date on the app) the Boxee remote app is live in the App Store , for the excellent price ...
Apple Celebrates First Anniversary of App Store
macrumors.com 7/7/2009 —
Apple has started celebrating the first anniversary of the App Store with a special section on iTunes [link] highlighting their favorite applications and games. While the App Store officially launched on July 11th 2008, many MacRumors reade...
Apple responds to App Store critics
bit-tech.net 8/12/2009 — Mounting criticism of Apple's opaque policies for what's allowed - and what's not - in its iPhone App Store draws a personal response from Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President.
Lenovo Pocket Yoga - a set on Flickr
flickr.com 3/16/2009 — Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. But! If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing ...
Rumor mill coughs up $99 4GB iPhone —
The Register 6/2/2009
When scuttlebutt collides With less than a week to go before Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, at which new iPhone - or iPhones - is/are widely expected to be announced, the rumor mill is heating up. And the latest buzz is about a $99 4GB ...
Hitler kicked off iPhone —
The Register 6/3/2009
Apple does irony - it's like steely Apple has pulled the plug on an iPhone application which offered an RSS feed of Electronic Frontier Foundation updates.… Whitepaper - Creating portals with Office Sharepoint: put an end to the information ...
Teens rate top tech brands —
The Register 6/4/2009
'Apple... no, yeah, but... Sony, right... no, like, Nokia' etc, etc. Teenagers are often berated for their pimply faces, indolence and bolshiness, but they’re tomorrow’s gadget buyers. And according to a recently published survey, they’re no longer ...