Tag Archives : App Store

Onswipe, news in touch screen interface

Onswipe, news in touch screen interface

    In these days of mobility, a strong trend is the increasing access to content via apps instead of surfing the web. This change may even receive a “force” of some vehicles, such as the New York Port, which blocked access to the site when it is detected using Safari iOS. The idea is to “encourage” the adoption [...]
More about iPad 2

More about iPad 2

  Steve Jobs announced the new Apple tablet. The iPad will be two 33% thinner than its predecessor, will have dual-core processor, two cameras and begins to be sold in the U.S. on March 11 with the same price as the first version. The tablet, which will be sold in black or white, received the new processor from Apple, the A5, which besides having [...]
Google unveils One Pass

Google unveils One Pass

Google unveiled on Wednesday a service that facilitates the sale of digital versions of newspapers and magazines for publishers and content producers. The launch comes one day after Apple announced a plan to the media subscriptions, sold through its App Store, which was met with controversy. Google said its new service, One Pass, allows publishers [...]
Apple offers subscriptions in its App Store

Apple offers subscriptions in its App Store

After revealing the launch of The Daily, Apple today announced the commencement of operations of its subscription service aimed at content providers in IOS applications from App Store, which can be used to simplify the process of obtain products such as newspapers and magazines by users iPads, iPhones and iPod touch. The service is the same offered [...]
Mac App Store: good, bad or ugly?

Mac App Store: good, bad or ugly?

The Mac App Store might not be a store for the major powers of software that now live in the ecosystem of OS X, but for a new generation of developers. The reason for this is simple: the popular applications that exist today outside the Mac App Store will probably remain so. Many factors will be decisive for this, such as banning private use of APIs, [...]
SKype for iPhone

SKype for iPhone

Skype updated its iPhone app with the inclusion of a feature to make video calls through 3G mobile networks. The updated app is available for download via the App Store, the company said today. The app works on the iPhone, iPad Touch and iPod, and can make or receive video calls from Skype to Skype on 3G networks and Wi-Fi For best quality, the company [...]
Windows 8 is on the way

Windows 8 is on the way

During the Sunday (24), an official blog post from Dutch Microsoft said that Windows 8 would be scheduled to be released in two years. However, the information was not correct or at least should not have ended up on the blog. Comments on Windows 8 appeared after a post for the 1st anniversary of Seven, celebrated last week. In the early hours of Monday [...]
Smartphones and tablets are the future

Smartphones and tablets are the future

It might be worth investing in that most expensive smartphone, tablet or as desired: a British research firm Deloitte showed that having a mobile device can help save money. In the study conducted with 1960U.S. users, about 42% of respondents who use applications on their mobile devices say they are less dependent on a dedicated MP3 player, while 41% [...]
Be careful with your iPhone

Be careful with your iPhone

A research shows that 14 percent of free software in the App Store can access the users contacts on their iPhones. At Black Hat conference, held this week in Las Vegas (USA), the security researcher Lookout showed has examined more than 300 000 applications available, both in the iPhone App Store, owned by Apple, as the app store Google‘s Android [...]
Jailbreak now is ok according to U.S. Government

Jailbreak now is ok according to U.S. Government

The jailbreak is a method developed by hackers to unlock the iPhone (and iPod Touch), installing unofficial apps and using it in the phone operator and the country you want. Thus, the user can escape from the official store of applications, the App Store, and use other installers, and the popular Cydia. However, the rules regarding the use made of [...]