Mobile phone giant Nokia sues Apple over iPhone
Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, took on the iconic iPhone on Thursday by suing U.S. rival Apple for infringing 10 Nokia patents on mobile phone technology.
Source: Canada.com
Archived entries for iPhone
Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App
On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products. Today, the WolframAlpha iPhone app (iTunes link) — which was built using the new API — was released to the App Store.
Source: Mashable
Adobe Flash CS5 will compile native iPhone and touch games
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple AppStore.
Source: CS5
Top 10 social iPhone apps
We present the top 10 iPhone apps for keeping in touch with friends, and getting the views of others…
Source: The Telegraph
The iPhone App for the iT Staff
Phone apps started with the average consumer, then spread to small businesses, now they’ve hit the corporate level. Several apps are now aimed directly at the people who run computer networks for companies.
Source: BusinessWeek
Best mobile apps for iPhone and Androids
Mini-programs, with which users download a collection of favourites and store on their phone, are a billion dollar industry.
Source: Times Online
Game Console Makers Feeling the Heat from Apple
There’s a growing sense in the gaming industry that we may finally have reached “good enough” in the realm of hardware. And as the battle shifts from primarily hardware to software and great downloadable content, there is one unexpected player sitting pretty in the marketplace: Apple.
Source: Mashable
iTwinge: The Keyboard Sleeve That Turns Your iPhone Into a BlackBerry
Enter the oddly named iTwinge, an iPhone sleeve that does the trick in the simplest of fashions: it merely covers the software keys with real, physical ones. Cool, one might think for a split second: I can finally type without looking! However, a closer inspection of iTwinge reveals a number of problems.
Source: Mashable
Apple releases faster version of iPhone and MacBook Pro laptops
Apple has unveiled a speedier version of the iPhone, featuring a better camera and video capabilities and dropped its price for the current version.
Source: Times Online
Apple bans iPhone program over sex claims
Eucalyptus, a book reading application developed by Edinburgh programmer James Montgomerie, allows users to download and read thousands of classic titles from the library of Project Gutenberg, the respected website that hosts out of copyright books.
But after repeated attempts to get Eucalyptus onto the iPhone’s popular App Store, Montgomerie was told that his application was being rejected because one of Gutenberg’s books happens to be Sir Richard Burton’s 1883 translation of the famous guide to sex – Kama Sutra.
Source: The Guardian