Posts Tagged with ‘iPhone’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Schmap Enables Any Website for iPhone Starting Today

Svetlana Gladkova

Today a new service from Schmap is out of private beta to help webmasters optimize any of their websites for iPhone almost without efforts and completely for free as well. This optimization is only intended for the contact details so it will be most helpful for local businesses, like restaurants or coffee shops. Actually the [...]

YouMail — Visual Voicemail for the iPhone-Free Masses

Triston McIntyre

I’m a texter.  I’m addicted.  I actually prefer texting to phone calls; you can talk to seven people at once as opposed to just one, and SMS messages tend to cut down on conversational fluff that saps your precious time.  Because most people aren’t addicted like me, they don’t care to shoot the breeze with [...]

Twitter on the iPhone: Which App Will Rule Them All?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

The iPhone has developed the same culture of Twitteritis that the rest of the Web has in the two-and-a-half weeks since the launch of the App Store and the iPhone 3G . Everyone wants to build the perfect Twitter application, but with so many to choose from, which one do you choose? Twitterific would seem [...]

5 Free Useless iPhone Apps All the Cool Kids Are Downloading

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Downloading iPhone apps on a budget? Don’t have money to invest in Super Monkey Ball and Texas Hold ‘Em? Still want something fun on your iPhone that will let you keep from getting bored in meetings and entertain the kids in the checkout line? Fear not; here are five completely useless iPhone apps you can [...]

Apple’s iPhone Apps Stunt Mobile Social Growth

Triston McIntyre

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a [...]

As the GOOG Turns: the Android Soap Opera

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

"Android Developers Revolt." "Android Developers Flee to iPhone Platform." The headlines on tech blogs lately are starting to read like supermarket tabloids, so I dug a little bit deeper to see if all the smoke has a fire behind it. What did I find? Yes, there is a petition asking for more information from Google. [...]