The Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Lab report, “Innovative Built-In Sensors Drive Enhanced Mobile Gaming Experience,” shows that mobile devices using touchscreens and accelerometers, such as the Apple iPhone, provide an enhanced mobile gaming experience.
Among the companies surveyed, Verizon Wireless and AT&T dominated business subscriptions, with AT&T slightly ahead in large enterprises (1000+), while Verizon showed greater penetration among small companies (under 100). Employees of large enterprises were also the most loyal BlackBerry users. This report also highlights that Symbian, Google Android and Apple’s iPhone are not serious contenders for US Business use.
According to BusinessWeek, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam has been speaking with Apple executives, and the iPhone rumor mills are saying that perhaps Verizon is considering becoming involved with Apple to help launch a smaller iPhone-like device currently under development.
WeatherBug, a leading provider of live, local weather information for consumer and professional users, today announced that its new Elite application for the iPhone and iPod touch is available on the Apple App Store. The new WeatherBug Elite app for iPhone and iPod touch will be free of advertising and includes: full radar animation and six additional contour layers including infrared satellite, humidity, air pressure, and wind speed.
Modulation Index and Tuner2 have chosen MPEG-4 HE-AACv2 (aka eAAC+) for its ability to deliver high quality stereo at only 32 kbit/s over 3G networks. Fully compatible with the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards for audio streaming, the Modulation Index iPhone app uses RTP streaming for a more reliable mobile listening experience. The iPhone app also supports HE-AACv1 and mp3 SHOUTcast as well as Icecast2 streams, instant song purchase, song tagging, album art, shake random station selection, station search, and e-mail/Twitter stream now playing information. Each custom iPhone app has its own dedicated directory service dynamically configurable by the radio network customer.
This post is dedicated to Mitch Kapor, Jonathan Sachs, Dan Fylstra, Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, Ben Rosen, Ev, Biz, Jack, Bijan, Fred et al. A lot of people on that list, and I have had the privilege to know most of them, and I've met all of them.
The arrival of My.tel allows .tel owners with iPhones to manage their .tel domains without having to log on to a computer. Now they can quickly update information just before boarding a plane, travelling on a road trip, or just to quickly tell their friends which bar they are in.
This is a major milestone for an outstanding iconic Platform; from a company that always gives 100%... Apple... if they go into a market… they go into win!
Of the major companies that announced their earnings yesterday, two of them, AT&T and Apple, beat Wall Street estimates largely thanks to a single product: The iPhone. We’re approaching the two year birthday of the device, and it still remains one of the hottest items out there. Ladies and gentleman, the state of the iPhone is strong.
In accordance with the subscription accounting treatment required by GAAP, the Company recognizes revenue and cost of goods sold for iPhone(TM) and Apple TV(R) over their estimated economic lives. Adjusting GAAP sales and product costs to eliminate the impact of subscription accounting, the corresponding non-GAAP measures* for the quarter are $9.06 billion of "Adjusted Sales" and $1.66 billion of "Adjusted Net Income."
Apple’s App Store is getting ever closer to hitting the 1 billion download milestone; check out http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/ (in fact it is counting up). By my calculation it should reach its goal in the next few days or so and to be sure we will hear about it in the press!
In this age of advance communication, mobile phone is a great necessity for the people and the life without it becomes quite tough to lead. The mobile phone has become so common that even children are using it. This device is not only a communication tool, but it is more than this. They are being used for different purposes like listening to music and playing games.
Gaming has proven to have huge appeal on the iPhone. Because of that, there are a thousands of games in the App Store — which is great for consumers, but it can also be overwhelming. And it can be frustrating for developers who can see their work easily lost in the sea of apps. The iPhone social platform OpenFeint is trying to alleviate some of those problems. And it has rallied some big indie iPhone game developers to the cause.
M3X Media Introduces Application that Permits Enjoying HD-Quality Movies, TV plus Music, Videos, Interactive Games on Popular Mobile Phone. This breakthrough coincides with the launch of the limited public beta test of GruvMe, the first mobile service that brings together the most popular forms of digital entertainment onto one platform, regardless of device type or service provider. iPhone users can get this capability from the iPhone-optimized site www.gruvme.com.
Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise. However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside that infinitely affect any organization.
Master, what is the best way to master iPhone Development? Grasshopper, here are my seven steps to becoming an iPhone Developer. Tread carefully and you will become a wise man... Buy an Intel Based Mac & a Device - though the iPhone/iPod Touch device isn't 100% necessary for this early stage, as the iPhone simulator that you will get with the SDK is free and more that capable for initial development. Saying that, there is no replacement ultimately for having a device.
This week Skype release their iPhone Application. Check out the BBC review here.Skype calls from the iPhone can only be made when on a Wi-Fi network, as Apple specify... not on a 3G network. Personally I've no problem with that, even though most iPhones are on some sort of unlimited plan.
Steve Wozniak is a computer engineer who founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, which has now become Apple Inc. The Woz (Wozniak has had several nicknames, including 'The Woz', 'iWoz' and the hillarious 'Wonderful Wizard of Woz') is currently a contestant on ABC's 8th season of Dancing with the Stars and has just eluded being voted off.
Don't blink because you will not see me blog too many times about games. In fact I do not know if I'm part of a large community of IT folks that are not turned on by games and never played games, but I thought I'd blog about something I saw on UK TV this week.
Web Development and SDK Development each offer distinct advantages to the iPhone Developer...So I set out over the last two months, with the aid of the LinkedIn Polls feature to gauge the trend
Following on from my earlier blog "Securing and Delivering Business Data on the iPhone", today Sybase shipped a new version of iAnywhere Mobile Office for Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users in the enterprise. The new release offers enhanced administrative, network security, deployment features and allows the extension of enterprise-class email and PIM data from Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange mobile devices. In turn this will allow the reduction of the total cost of ownership when extending email and business processes.
In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan, Senthil Krishnapillai - Sybase iAnywhere's Director of Product Management - talks about the mobile email market and Sybase iAnywhere's most recent announcements regarding Mobile Office and the iPhone 3.0.
The creation of the iPhone App Store, The Android Market, and the Palm Software Store have issued a wave of mobile applications for consumer's cell phones. With seemingly a mobile application for everything it is only right that developers began to pay it back and develop applications that offer more than farting noises or an inanimate crystal on your phone's screen. Increasing fitness trends and a constant demand to reach physical potential have led developers to create a new wave of health conscious applications that keep you on track where ever you bring your phone.
Its now been three days since the announcement of the iPhone 3.0 SDK and OS from Apple, ample time for the eager developers and users to have made their mind up. In fact I set a Linkedin Poll...
Apple has provided some key new APIs to developers, include a mapping API which gives third-party applications access to Google Maps data and allows turn-by-turn navigation. Location-based applications and services are already looming as the next big thing in mobile applications, and Apple is clearly intent on capitalizing on the buzz around them.