Nexus One witnesses a drop in sales

On 03/11/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

As forecasted Nexus one didn’t cater to its performance, instead it witnessed a dip of nearly 70 per cent in sales. According to the reports of ZDNet, it was estimated that the Google’s super phone would be a hit and would gather a sale of at least 3.5 million units in 2010. But the phone [...]

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Apple Airs Its First iPad Commercial During The Oscars (Update: Now With Video)

On 03/08/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

Apple took advantage of the Academy Awards Ceremony tonight to air its very first iPad commercial, a very smart move knowing their intention to make it mainstream. It’s not their first move of the sort, since as you probably remember, they already had Colbert make some promotion at the Grammys last month. In short, it’s a 30-second [...]

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Will the iPad tether to the iPhone ?

On 03/08/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

After chiming in on Steve Job’s keynote for the Apple iPad, a long time Swedish Apple fan going by the name of Jezper Söderlund sent Apple’s biggest genius a question. Aside from just flat out asking whether the Wi-Fi only version of the iPad will support tethering through the iPhone, Jezper didn’t waste much words [...]

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HTC Denies Apple’s Accusations, Google Supports !!

On 03/08/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

HTC has issued an official statement denying all allegations that were slapped on its face by Apple’s patents infringement suit. HTC’s official statement appeared on the Taiwan Stock Exchange website but has been pulled off now. The company stated, “We will closely cooperate with US justice system in the case to protect our own innovative [...]

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Google To Launch Cheaper, Stripped Down Nexus One in India

On 03/08/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

Google may launch a more affordable version of its Nexus One smartphone with less features to attract users from emerging economies like India and Russia. After an short interview (or editorial meeting) with the Managing Director of Google India, Shailesh Rao and Gaurav Bhaskar, Global Communications & Public Affairs Manager at Google India, Ankit Vengurlekar, [...]

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BlackBerry’s maker has revealed a new browser for their devices !

On 03/08/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

Research in Motion, BlackBerry’s maker, has revealed that a new browser for their devices is on its way. The new browser is known to run on WebKit, the same rendering engine that is behind Apple’s browser i.e. Safari. The New BlackBerry browser is being rumored to be very easy to use and faster than Safari [...]

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Launching Android Business App Market?

On 03/08/2010, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

There’s been a lot of buzz this past week on whether or not Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is going to be launching a business market for Android. When pressed about it spokesmen from Google have been somewhat coy and haven’t confirmed or denied it, but have rather simply said they have nothing to talk in reference to [...]

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HTC Desire – The next Superphone ??

On 03/07/2010, in Announcements, New and Notable, News, by Arjun Komath

HTC has just announced their new smartphone named HTC Desire. HTC calls the HTC Desire a superphone rather than a smartphone, just like Google calls their Nexus One a superphone as well. This phone will run on Android 2.1 and have the beautiful HTC Sense UI just like HTC’s other phones. The HTC Desire has [...]

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Apple Makes IPhone Developer News Available via RSS

On 12/10/2009, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

In the past, news and announcements for developers about iPhone development and the App Store has been restricted to a small pane on Apple’s iPhone Dev Center site. But Apple on Wednesday turned that little pane into a full-fledged RSS feed. While it’s a more convenient way to get iPhone developer news, and it’s far [...]

 

After long wait, Trillian finally comes to iPhone

On 11/20/2009, in Announcements, by Arjun Komath

It took a few months, but finally, Trillian IM is available to iPhone and iPod Touch users through Apple’s App Store. The application costs $4.99. Cerulean Studios, the company that created Trillian, said that Trillian for iPhone sports several features users will already find on the company’s desktop software. The app displays contacts, grouped and [...]