software

Siri to work fully on iPod touch and iPhone 4

Published on: 9th November, 2011

Steve Troughton-Smith, mobile application write, and Grant Paul, Cydia developer, created a completely functional implementation of Siri, which works on the fourth-generation iPod touch and on the iPhone 4 as well. Files and a validation token obtained from a jailbroken iPhone 4S are used to trick the voice recognition system and make it work as [...]

Only 319K applications live out of 500K on Android

Published on: 8th November, 2011

A recent analysis of research2guidance showed over 500K Android applications, but also revealed some troubles it had to sustain them the way Apple does with its iOS App Store. The 500K milestone was hit in September, but only 319,161 applications were still alive on Android’s store. Out of them, about 37 percent have been pulled [...]

Google Voice coming back with iOS 5 crash bug fixed

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Google recently posted the promised update of Google Voice for iOS 5. The App Store release is expected to fix an important crash bug that often prevented user from actions like logging in or launching the application. This fix is the only update known. Google claimed to have sent an updated version of the application [...]

Nokia Ovi Store at five million downloads per day

Published on: 18th April, 2011

Nokia recently celebrated a daily rate of five million downloads on its Ovi Store. It has grown about eight times compared to the past year as offerings downloaded from the online storefront by owners of Symbian-powered smartphones. This milestone is important for the company, as it more than doubled the November three million downloads per [...]

Photoshop for iPad presented by Adobe, real layer support

Published on: 8th April, 2011

At the Photoshop World conference, Adobe presented a version of Photoshop running on the iPad, which could provide the tablet with real Photoshop image editing capabilities. Unlike the largely filter-based Photoshop Express, the new version allows users to add, or switch to, or edit layers in an isometric view in order to display the different [...]

EU: formal complaint filed by Microsoft over Google dominance

Published on: 4th April, 2011

A few days ago, Microsoft filed a complaint to the European Union, incriminating Google for unfair competition. The document is backing earlier complaints, partly generated by a Microsoft subsidiary and maintains that Google had excluded competition systematically. Many complaints were centered on YouTube, deliberately excluded from results of search for rivals, for example Bing. Access [...]

Amazon Cloud Player and Cloud Drive made official

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Rumors of a digital locker at Amazon have been confirmed by the online retail company which unveiled its new services, Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. They are available in the United States only so far and let users to save up to 5GB of music for future use. Amazon’s servers are used for [...]

Amazon to have a cloud media locker in a few days

Published on: 28th March, 2011

According to insiders, Amazon might pip both Google and Apple to presenting a cloud media locker very soon. The company is supposed to have negotiated with music labels as well as movie studios to store music, videos and books on servers to allow users to access them from anywhere. Its plans might be unveiled this [...]

RIM to back cross-platform application emulation by buying tinyHippos

Published on: 28th March, 2011

RIM has recently announced the acquisition of tinyHippos. This smaller company has been chosen for its expertise in cross-platform emulation environments and will soon add the BlackBerry to Ripple, which is tinyHippos’ tool for testing mobile HTML5 applications. TinyHippos said that it would continue making Ripple available for everyone and getting support in the future. [...]

Apple – video streaming brought to AirPlay standard?

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Apple seems to be currently considering some changes to the AirPlay standard; this could be updated with video streaming support. Anonymous sources familiar with this matter have declared for Bloomberg that Apple will continue expanding licensing agreements with hardware makers, who will have the possibility to take advantage of TV shows, streaming movies and even [...]

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