Iphone Rush

The Washington Post published a piece titled “Apple’s Siri threatens to damage cellphone service for all” yesterday, which held Siri responsible for excessive load on mobile networks, because of its frequent communication with Apple’s servers.

The Washington Post’sPaul Farhi claims: Continue reading “Siri Isn’t The Bandwidth Guzzler That is Ruining Mobile Networks” »

Grant Paul a.k.a chpwn – iOS developer and hacker, who has released jailbreak apps such as Spire – the legal Siri port to non-iPhone 4S had released a jailbreak tweak called Zephyr, which brought some cool multitasking gestures to the iPhone and iPod touch to access multitasking tray or to switch between apps.

chpwn has just released a new version of Zephyr, which includes the following changes: Continue reading “Zephyr For iPhone Updated; Now Allows You to Close an App With a Swipe” »

Earlier in the month, LiveSide had spotted a job posting, which indicated that Microsoft is planning to bringing their Xbox Live games to iOS and other mobile platforms rather than making them exclusively for Windows Phone.

According to the job posting, Microsoft was looking for developers with experience in Windows Phone, iOS, or Android development“to bring the latest and greatest gaming and entertainment experience to mobile platforms including Windows Phone, iOS and other mobile platforms.” Continue reading “Microsoft to Bring Xbox Live Games to iOS” »

In a patent filing, titled “Interfacing portable media devices and sports equipment,” Appledescribes a system wherein fitness equipment and sports accessories communicate with a portable media player. This, in turn, would allow users across the globe to engage in real-time, head-to-head workout competitions. Continue reading “Apple Patent Hints At Real-Time, Head-To-Head Workout Competitions Using iOS Devices” »

Few hours back Japanese blog Macatokara claimed that Apple may be holding an usual event in February, followed by a special event in March to unveil the highly anticipated iPad 3.

Jim Dalrymple of The Loop – who has an impeccable record when it comes to Apple related news has just said that Apple will not be holding any event in February, according to his sources.

He writes: Continue reading “Apple Unlikely to Hold An ‘Unusual’ Event in February” »

Have you missed an important call because you forgot to turn on the ringer on your iPhone? Wouldn’t it have been nice if you could have set the duration for which you want the ringer to be turned on, at time of turning on the mute switch?

The good news is that a new jailbreak tweakcalled Ringer X VIP developer by@_Yllier_ allows you to do just that and lots more. It allows you to customize ringing and vibration behavior for calls and text messages.

Here are some of the things you can do with this jailbreak tweak: Continue reading “RingerX VIP Allows You Customize Ringing & Vibration Behavior For Calls & Messages” »

CloudOn – Silicon Valley based startup that had briefly released a free app in the App Store thatbrought Microsoft Office functionality to the iPad, but had to voluntarily remove their app due to a surge in traffic, has released the app again the App Store.

CloudOn for iPad allows you to create, view, and edit files directly in Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint in your workspace using Dropbox account.

CloudOn app allows you to do the following: Continue reading “CloudOn App That Brings Microsoft Office Functionality to iPad For Free is Available in The App Store (Again)” »

Samsung has just released ChatON – a messenger app in the App Store for iPhone.

Samsung is calling ChatON their Global Mobile Communication Service.

ChatON is a multi-platform messenger service that is also available for Android, Bada – Samsung’s own mobile platform.

The ChatON messenger includes the following features: Continue reading “Samsung Releases ChatON Messenger App in The App Store” »

Apple is rumored to be working on smartphones and peripheral devices that you can wear, just like the iPod Nano watch. These devices would let you view data, send data back to your phone, and prevent you having to stare at your phone’s screen constantly.

Wearable technology isn’t exactly new – there were devices even before the iPod Nanowatch – but it is much more useful than it used to be. People have theorized and even developed wearable bracelets and watches that vibrate and display your incoming call, or send your heart rate to your smartphone for logging. The two problems that cropped up are range of communication, which the ubiquity of smartphones has helped to solve, and battery life. With Apple using Bluetooth 4.0, there are quite a few possibilities now that battery life isn’t completely compromised. Continue reading “Apple Working on Siri-Enabled Wearable Devices?” »

Apple has announced that more than 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year.

In the press release, Apple has also revealed that more 1 billion apps are downloaded every month and so far users have downloaded more than 18 billion apps from the App Store, which has more than 500,000 apps.

Here’s the full press release: Continue reading “Mac App Store Hits 100 Million Downloads” »