According to a report in the NYTimes, Twitter has acquired Tweetie the popular iPhone and Mac application created by Atebits. Tweetie is by far my favorite Twitter application for the iPhone so it is no surprise that Twitter would rather acquire it than reinvent the wheel. Atebits is made up of just one employee, founder…
Read MoreToday Apple announced details about the upcoming release of iPhone OS 4.0. Steve Jobs started by rattled off some stunning numbers about the iPad launch which included the following: “250,000 iBooks on day one. 600,000 iBooks downloaded since. 3.5 million apps downloaded so far.” Pretty amazing numbers. Now on to the iPhone OS 4.0 preview,…
Read MoreOn the heels of the Apple iPad mania this past weekend, Apple has just announced that they will be giving a sneak peek of the upcoming release of the next iPhone operating system, OS 4.0. It is unclear what will be offered in the new iPhone OS 4.0 but if I had to predict I…
Read MoreThe Apple iPad is officially now for sale and I headed to the Clarendon neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C. to check out the scene. Arriving at 8:45 a.m. EST the scene was already a little ridiculous. I observed two lines forming outside of the store and down the block. I took…
Read MoreWith the much anticipated launch of the Apple iPad I think it is safe to say the curtain has risen to a new era of casual & social interactive computing. Similar to how Apple’s iPhone changed the way we interact with our mobile devices by offering a touch screen, the Apple iPad will turn your…
Read MoreWow, Steve Jobs and Apple really know how to hijack your day with the show and tell of another innovative product that starts with “i”. This time it’s the Apple iPad. Yes, that is really it’s name. I decided to live blog the event and this is how it all went down… 12:30 pm EST…
Read MoreIf you are looking to develop an iPhone application you might need to create a way to send push notifications to your users or enable them to buy things within your iPhone app. The Apple Push Notification service offers a way to do this by-passing SMS text message. Apple also offers an In App Purchase…
Read MoreThere are lots of rumors swirling about the upcoming release of a the Apple tablet device and we have covered it before here. Today the WSJ reported that Apple is looking to take on “old media” (newspapers, magazines and TV) with the release of its new tablet. There has been much speculation about the Apple…
Read MoreToday the White House announced the White House iPhone application to help connect people to real-time updates, news, photos and video via their mobile phone. This is a historic technological advancement for the U.S. government as they have never released a mobile application like this before for any platform (Blackberry, Palm, iPhone, etc). The application…
Read MoreGreetings from abroad. As I am in the future, I had to wait till Wednesday morning to see the official news of the new Google phone, the Nexus One. Obviously we have been tracking the rumors of its launch and everything that came with it, but there were a few wrinkles that made the announcement pretty…
Read MoreAppMakr recently launched to help make it a lot easier for anyone to create a mobile application. They even go as far as to say you can create an iPhone app in 27 seconds with AppMakr if you have RSS feeds. Not bad at all. That’s fast than you can brew a cup of coffee,…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article was written by Shashi Bellamkonda. He blogs at: blog.networksolutions.com and shashi.name. You can follow him on Twitter at: @shashib. Yeah! I know you are probably shocked, but the truth is that just out of coincidence and/or lethargy, I don’t use any Apple products (That’s right, not even an iPod). I love…
Read MoreImage attribution thanks to Gizmodo & gdgt. Apple has been rumored for some time to have working on a new gadget, a tablet computer, for release in the spring of 2010. The tablet-style computer device, according to TechCrunch and MacRumors will be called the Apple iSlate. It’s a slate with similar touch screen form factor…
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