13May2012
Apple’s Siri tells users Nokia Lumia 900 is ‘best smartphone ever’
When asked to find the "best smartphone ever," the Siri personal assistant software on the iPhone 4S will tell users to check out the competing Lumia 900 smartphone made by Nokia. The issue, highlighted by The Next Web, stems from the fact that, when provided with the question, Siri returns results from WolframAlpha. Searching the same query, "What is the best smartphone ever?," directly from the service's website returns the same result. The Nokia Lumia 900 4G from AT&T, with a cyan
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ShazamTones, a useful tweak for all users Shazam – Cydia
Shazam is a well-known application which allows you to listen to music as discovering the title, artist name, and lots of other information about the song. If you have used or regularly if you use Shazam, ShazamTones is a tweak that absolutely cannot miss on your iPhone.ShazamTones is a simple tweak that adds a new button in any version of Shazam application which you can download (or buy, it depends on the type of version) from the App Store. Through this section of the application you'll be
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Developer Sees Quick Adoption of iOS 5.1 Amongst Users
With the launch of iOS 5.1 on March 7th, 2012, Smith has been tracking the adoption rate which he suspected would be faster than in the past due to the availability of over the air (OTA) iOS updates. Indeed, after only 5 days after its initial release, Smith found that 50% of his OTA-eligible customers were already at iOS 5.1. Now, after 15 days, he's found that 77% of OTA-eligible iOS customers have upgraded to the latest version. When he backs out to include all versions of iOS, including
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Facebook seeking to raise $5 billion at IPO, provides data on revenues, users
Facebook 's Initial Public Offering registration outlines that the company earned $3.7 billion in revenues last year and made $1 billion in profits. The company hopes its IPO will raise $5 billion. As a privately held company, Facebook hasn't previously had to report its figures. Now that it has filed for an IPO, it's public knowledge that the company's revenues grew by 88 percent last year while its profits were up 65 percent over 2010. The filings note that Zynga games' virtual currency and
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Future Benefits Of 4G Technology For Smartphones Users
As smartphones increase in power and capability, user demand rises also. With the world full of consumers demanding more and more out of their hand held devices, there are certain bottlenecks and limitations that are currently not advancing as everyone would wish. So prepare for 4G connection speeds.At the moment there are limitations in the capacity of data allowances and battery life. For day to day activities the battery life is an aspect of mobile technology that has fallen behind and
Read MoreLeave a Comment18Nov2011
Warner Bros. giving iTunes redemption codes to unhappy UltraViolet users
UltraViolet, an initiative by Hollywood studios to distribute digital movies independently of Apple’s iTunes, has suffered such a backlash from users that Warner Bros. has started placating users with redemption codes for iTunes instead. End users trying to access digital versions of BluRay or DVD movies via UltraViolet have been overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the system, which doesn’t work natively on Apple’s iOS devices. Amazon reviews of recent disc releases have been
Read MoreLeave a Comment18Nov2011
Users report SIM card issues with Apple’s iPhone 4S and iOS 5.0.1
Some owners of Apple’s new iPhone 4S have been hit with SIM card error messages, even if they are connected to a CDMA carrier that does not use SIM cards. One reader contacted AppleInsider on Thursday to share their frustrations with error messages that read “Invalid SIM” and “SIM Failure” on their iPhone 4S. This person said the errors began occurring after they updated to iOS 5.0.1, though other users posting on Apple’s official Support Communities website,
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Users report file syncing issues with Apple’s iCloud & iOS 5
The Documents & Data syncing feature of Apple’s new iCloud service has proven problematic for some users, who say that their files were unexpectedly deleted. Some readers have reached out to AppleInsider to share their issues experienced with the newly launched iCloud and iOS 5. In addition, users have turned to Apple’s official Support Communities website (1, 2) in an effort to address the problems. “I think Apple is having some teething issues with iCloud and
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18.8M iPhone 3GS users expected to upgrade to Apple’s iPhone 4S
A new analysis projects that 18.8 million iPhone 3GS users will upgrade to the iPhone 4S in the next year, accounting for 18 percent of Apple’s sales. Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray believes that most users who bought an iPhone 3GS before the iPhone 4 went on sale will make the upgrade in the next year. He has estimated there are 27.6 million iPhone 3GS users who are ready to upgrade their smartphone. Munster’s numbers are based on what he calls “several conservative
Read MoreLeave a Comment20Sep2011
WhatWasThere application allows iOS users a glimpse into the past
One of things I always admire about period piece movies is the way they can transport us back in time and show what big cities look like back in the thirties, forties, or other black-and-white eras. Most of the big cities that I have visited are over a hundred years old, and I often wonder what they look like back in the day. Fortunately, this iPhone app known as WhatWasThere gives iOS users precisely that. Thanks to the power of crowdsourcing, the application allows its users the chance to
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