Posts Tagged with ‘iPhone’

Top iPhone Applications: Will Any Productivity Tools Be Launched at All in the Future?

Svetlana Gladkova

December is invariably a fascinating month for many industries as everyone tries to summarize everything from the year behind us and point out some trends wherever possible. We have recently spoken about Yahoo releasing the most popular search terms of its search engine over the year where Barack Obama only managed to get to the [...]

Apple Black Friday US Deals Official as Online Store Is Back Live

Svetlana Gladkova

A few hours ago bloggers noticed that Apple’s US online store was down and the obvious conclusion was that it was to prepare for Black Friday sale. Bloggers were pretty certain about what we should expect Apple to offer for Black Friday in the US after the international online stores showed absolutely similar discounts.
Now that [...]

Apple Announces 4th Quarter Results – Too Good To Fear the Recession

Svetlana Gladkova

Today Apple has announced financial results of the 4th quarter and they are better than the Wall Street analytics predicted: with 6.9 million iPhones sold and Mac sales at all times high it could hardly be better. The revenue announced is $7.9 billion and net profit is $1.14 billion. The quarterly revenue announced today brings [...]

T-Mobile Presold 1.5 Million G1 Android Phones

Svetlana Gladkova

On September 23 T-Mobile officially presented the first phone powered with Google’s Android mobile operating system. The phone is scheduled to start shipping on October 22 and T-Mobile has invited existing subscribers to preorder the phone right after the presentation to have it delivered when it is available.
Now it looks like arranging for the preorders [...]

Is Mr. Jobs Really Sure $1,000 Is a Fair Price for iPhone?

Svetlana Gladkova

A week ago, last Friday, Russian carriers and retailers started to officially sell iPhone in Russia so Russian people have been able to officially and legally buy the much-hyped Apple’s device for a week now. But unfortunately Apple can hardly claim any significant success in Russia because of a few reasons with the most aggravating [...]

BlackBerry Officially In the Touch-screen Market

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday Research In Motion announced BlackBerry Storm that is obviously yet another direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone 3G.
The major disadvantage for BlackBerry Storm is that this phone lacks Wi-Fi support but there are other things where the new device is even stronger than iPhone, like removable battery, 3.2-megapixel camera, and cut-and-paste editing functionality.
Here I have [...]

Google Will Offer Its Own Version of iTunes for Android Phones

Svetlana Gladkova

Only yesterday in a post describing some of the best and worst parts of Apple App Store for and the distribution system Apple built for iPhone content and applications that can be used as lessons by Google for Android, I mentioned that one of the best parts is that iTunes offers a broad range of [...]

Lessons for Google’s Android Marketplace from Apple App Store

Svetlana Gladkova

There’s been quite some talk around the blogosphere and mainstream over the weekend related to Apple’s iPhone App Store - the good and the bad sides, prospects it offers to applications developers and alternative ways for developers to distribute their apps when not admitted by Apple. And since the next week will be sure to [...]

Talk Like a Pirate Day: Will The Web Audience Ever Grow Up?

Svetlana Gladkova

Sometimes I have a feeling that the entire web industry is full of hip and cool kids - no matter how old they are and how expensive their toys like iPhone and Apple MacBook Air are. Today’s example is the Talk Like A Pirate day that seems to be absolutely everywhere.
I woke up today to [...]

21st Century Pirates, Get your ayePhone on the Talk like a Pirate Day

Svetlana Gladkova

Since it looks like there’s no stopping to the pirate craziness today, I wanted to share a nice little tool for all the iPhone owners among today’s pirates - an application dubbed ayePhone. The idea is that all the lazy pirates may now avoid speaking like pirates and make their beloved Apple gadgets do the [...]