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Researcher: Video Calling Easily Accessible on Locked iPhone 4

Ade Barkah, the researcher that not long ago proved that the media album of a locked iPhone 4 could be easily accessed by leveraging a simple bug, returns with new findings to show that not only the device’s address book is easily accessible, but that the video call feature is as well. Without jailbreak or any...

9 February 2012
15:41 GMT

Mass Effect: Infiltrator Game and Datapad App Coming to iOS Soon

BioWare, besides getting ready to roll out Mass Effect 3 onto full-fledged platforms like the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, has just confirmed that two special apps based on the series will soon be released onto the iOS platform for the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The Mass Effect series is set to end its trilogy th...

8 February 2012
14:21 GMT

webOS Will Be Better than Android and iOS, HP Says

webOS is currently moving to open source, and should breathe new life as soon as the transition to this licensing model is completed, HP believes. In fact, the company is convinced that the OS will manage to top rival platforms such as Android and iOS, and says that it already has great advantages of them. In all fa...

4 February 2012
11:11 GMT

Steam Mobile App Now Available on iOS and Android

Valve has just released a mobile version of its Steam digital distribution program, allowing users to check out the online store, purchase games and browse their library or screenshots, while interacting with their friends. Valve’s Steam is the most popular digital distribution service on the PC and Mac platfo...

27 January 2012
15:31 GMT

Microsoft Confirms Xbox Live for Android and iOS

With the entire world becoming increasingly mobile every day, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft announced more services available for users on the go. Xbox Live is one of the services that have already been made available for mobile phone users, though only for a small number of them so far. Soon, ho...

26 January 2012
06:59 GMT

Chronic Dev: Don’t Install iOS 5.0.2 Just Yet

A note included with the official Absinthe jailbreak release says that jailbreakers should refrain themselves from downloading and installing the stock iOS 5.0.2 IPSW from Apple when it’s released. This is not the first time iOS hackers warn about the potential of losing a jailbreak by installing a new firmwar...

23 January 2012
08:08 GMT

Windows Phone to Top iOS in 2015, iSuppli Says

Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is set to become the second best mobile platform in the world in the next three years, a recent report from iSuppli suggests. The newly launched Nokia Lumia 900 is the first handset in a series that will re-establish the platform as a market leader, the firm notes. ...

20 January 2012
09:43 GMT

iOS Reels In More Paying Customers than Android, Developer Finds

Tango, a free video calling service with tens of millions of customers, recently introduced two new offerings allowing users to do voice mail and calls with animations overlaid on top. The first animation is free, and if you want unlimited use of a set, it will cost you $1.98. You can use it to make calls to any oth...

18 January 2012
08:31 GMT

iOS 5.1 May Bring Facebook Integration

A new discovery in iOS 5.1 beta 3 suggests that Apple is reconsidering to add Facebook integration in the software. References to next-generation hardware were also found.To be clear, the code strings in question aren’t exactly new. They’ve only resurfaced in the latest iOS beta seeded to developers, acco...

17 January 2012
09:48 GMT

Call of Duty Elite iOS App Now Available, Android Version Coming Next Week

Activision has confirmed that it is finally releasing mobile applications for its Call of Duty Elite online service, with a version already available on the iOS platform. The Android edition is coming next week. Call of Duty Elite was released alongside Modern Warfare 3 back in November but, while the actual game we...

10 January 2012
14:21 GMT

Download iOS 5.1 Build 9B5141a IPSW - Developer News

Apple has released a new software update for iOS developers adding fixes and improvements, including one 3G toggle, strings for a Chinese-localized Siri, and evidence of an iPad port of Siri Dictation, to name some of the key changes. According to developer reports, iOS 5.1 Beta 3 (or build 9B5141a) was served recen...

10 January 2012
02:46 GMT

Android, iOS to Get Xbox LIVE Gaming Too

One of the appealing features that Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system came to the market with back in 2010 was support for Xbox LIVE, which provided users with the possibility to enjoy great gaming on the small screen of their smartphones. The feature proved a success among Windows Phone users, and i...

9 January 2012
12:41 GMT

Ubuntu One Files App Available for iPhone

Canonical proudly unleashed yesterday, January 5th, their second iOS app, Ubuntu One Files, available for the popular Apple iPhone device. The Ubuntu One Files app for iPhone is free and lets users manage and secure their files and photos directly from the iOS device, from anywhere in the world.Ubuntu One Files is li...

6 January 2012
16:41 GMT

iOS 5 Time Glitch Allows Access to Images Album Even on Password Locked Device

After upgrading his iPhone to the latest iOS 5, Canadian technology consultant Ade Barkah noticed that if the device's clock is rolled back, all the images with a newer timestamp than the current one are accessible, even if the apparatus is locked with a password. The first thing Barkah noticed was that the cam...

5 January 2012
03:38 GMT

iOS 5.1 Reportedly Doesn’t Fix ‘Audiogate’

A report covering the widespread audio bug on iPhone 4S handsets suggests that developers testing Apple’s latest iOS betas have encountered the same problem.A growing thread over at Apple Support Communities hosts roughly 110 pages of complaints regarding the so-called Audiogate, and Apple is yet to respond to ...

4 January 2012
06:01 GMT

Android and iOS Gain Market Share in the US

Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS platform gained more market share in the United States subscriber segment during the past three months, a new report from comScore MobiLens service shows. The report is based on data collected during the three months ending November 2011. The company sur...

30 December 2011
18:31 GMT

Microsoft Plans More Multi-Platform Mobile Products for 2012

Microsoft mobile products are already available on a variety of mobile platforms out there, such as OneNote or Lync, and it appears that more of them should arrive as soon as next year.In a recent interview with ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley, Tom Rizzo, Senior Director of Office 365, said that the company was consider...

19 December 2011
10:01 GMT

The Purpose of iOS 5.0.1 Build 9A406

Apple did not provide a changelog for iOS 5.0.1 Build 9A406, the software update targeting iPhone 4S devices released a few hours ago. However, the purpose of the update is detailed in a Support document on the company’s web site.Technote TS4148 posted December 15th reveals that the latest iOS software update a...

16 December 2011
04:30 GMT

Slide a Palm OS App in the iTunes App Store with StyleTap

StyleTap, a Canada-based software company, has come up with a tool that allows the deployment of Palm OS application in the Apple App Store.“StyleTap iOS Wrapper SDK enables you to deploy many of the 30,000 mobile applications written for Palm OS as iOS applications that run on standard Apple iPhone, iPad or iP...

9 December 2011
13:21 GMT

Android Owns 46.3% of US Smartphone Subscribers Market, comScore Says

Google’s Android operating system is gaining more and more market share in the United States, and the latest data from comScore shows nothing different. During the three-month period ending October 2011, Google’s mobile operating system has been loaded on 46.3 percent of smartphones, the research firm ...

5 December 2011
13:31 GMT

Apple Sued Over Carrier IQ Use

Apple is targeted by a lawsuit over unprecedented breach of the digital privacy rights of 150 million cell phone many of which are iPhone owners. At the heart of the suit is the Carrier IQ tool used in mobile operating systems, including the iOS.Discovered in Google’s Android operating system and later in Apple...

5 December 2011
08:56 GMT

Apple Pledges to Remove Carrier IQ ‘Keylogger’ from iOS

Apple has responded officially to claims of collecting data via Carrier IQ, a diagnostics tools embedded in iOS 5 and previous versions of the mobile operating system, stating that any data sent back with the user’s consent did not include any personal information.In a statement provided to the WSJ-owned All Th...

2 December 2011
03:47 GMT

Windows Phone Comes to Android, iOS Devices via Demo Site

Windows Phone has just landed on a wider range of devices around the world, courtesy of a new demo website that Microsoft has put in place for those who would like to give it a try without buying a new device. Android or iOS users can now get a taste of Windows Phone by heading over to Microsoft’s website he...

30 November 2011
07:54 GMT

Big Fish Games Says Apple Pulled App from Store

Big Fish Games, one of the biggest publishers of small casual titles, has said that Apple has pulled its iOS app from the official Store without giving an official reason for the move and despite a deal earlier in the month that would allow gamers to pay a monthly subscription in order to get access to a number of ti...

25 November 2011
03:40 GMT

Apple Delays iOS 5.0.2 Release Over Memory Issues - Source

Developers testing iOS 5.0.2 internally have been scheduled to carry out more work on the software as it causes apps to drain memory without releasing resources once they’re no longer used.Macerkopf.de’s sources report that iOS 5.0.2 has been delayed to fix “address-based memory leaks” or bugs...

22 November 2011
05:50 GMT

Gmail iOS App Resurfaces, Bugs Gone but Still Disappointing

Google has finally gotten around to re-releasing its Gmail app for iOS since the very poor launch a couple of weeks ago. Google had never offered a native Gmail app for iOS devices, the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, before. So the excitement was high when Google unveiled it two weeks ago. Unfortunately, the app was c...

17 November 2011
11:11 GMT

Apple May Bring iChat to iPhone, iPad

A developer named John Heaton has found a number of code strings in Apple’s iOS that suggests there will be new IM services coming, including the company’s own iChat.The code strings in question, displayed above, indicate a service that it similar to iChat,  according to 9to5mac. At the very least, A...

17 November 2011
10:50 GMT

iOS 5.0.2 on the Way, iOS 5.1 Soon Thereafter, Says Apple Engineer

An Apple engineer quoted by a German Mac-centric blog says iOS 5.0.2 is on its way to iCustomers next week, with iOS 5.1 following soon thereafter with a few tweaks aimed to make Siri smarter.Macerkopf reports (machine translated) that this person is working on the iOS division at Apple, and that he and his fellow so...

17 November 2011
02:52 GMT

Apple Remains Top Smartphone Maker in the US

Android is the most popular smartphone OS to go around in The States, but it’s still Apple that commands the overall smartphone market from a hardware standpoint, according to a Nielsen report.In a recent research note looking at the trends surrounding smartphone use in America, global leader in measurement and...

3 November 2011
10:21 GMT

Google Releases Gmail App for iOS, then Pulls It Due to Glaring Bugs

Google just launched its first Gmail app for iOS, available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod. That's the good news. The bad news is that it doesn't work and Google has already pulled it from the iTunes App Store.iOS users have been waiting for a native Gmail app quite literally for years, so you'd expect ...

2 November 2011
15:51 GMT

Steve Jobs: 'I Will Spend My Last Dying Breath to Destroy Android'

Excerpts from Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs bio are coming out, and one of the most interesting ones reveals that Apple’s co-founder loathed Android for stealing from iOS.According to Isaacson, who interviewed Jobs on several occasions for his biography, the Apple CEO went on an expletive-laced rant about ...

21 October 2011
03:43 GMT

LibreOffice Will Be Ported to iOS and Android

The Document Foundation proudly announced a few days ago, at the LibreOffice Conference 2011 event in Paris, that LibreOffice will be ported to the iOS and Android operating systems.As LibreOffice is an open source project, it can be easily ported to other operating systems were Java is supported, such as Android and...

17 October 2011
08:30 GMT

iOS 5 - The Full Feature Set

Apple rolled out iOS 5 this week, the latest major update to its advanced mobile operating system powering iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch players. While most of the details are out regarding iOS 5, we’re yet to post the full set of changes for those who decided to put their update on hold until Apple resolved ...

14 October 2011
16:01 GMT

Siri for Android Is Called Speaktoit, Free for Download

Presented as new and innovative capabilities, some of the features offered by the iPhone 4S are already available on other platforms such as BlackBerry or Android.A good example is Siri and its correspondent for Android devices, Speaktoit. The latter is a free personal assistant app that can do many of the things tha...

14 October 2011
09:31 GMT

Twitter Boasts About Being Included in iOS 5

One of the big, or at least, interesting features in iOS 5, is Twitter integration. Essentially, a social layer is now built into the phones and tablets, independent of any application. Granted, for a while, it looked like Facebook may have been the one chosen for integration and it may have been a better choice ...

13 October 2011
08:26 GMT

Apple Patches Tons of Vulnerabilities with iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2

After iTunes, now it's time for Safary, Apple TV, iOS and OS X Lion to get new security updates which will make sure Apple enthusiasts are better protected against potential attacks. As it turns out, a large number of vulnerabilities were present in some of their products and before any criminal mastermind wo...

13 October 2011
07:48 GMT

Meet Apple’s 'Photo Stream' iCloud Feature

Photo Stream, one of the coolest functions in iCloud, is set to debut next week as a free service.“With iCloud, when you take a photo on one device, it automatically appears on all your other devices. No syncing. No sending. Your photos are just there. Everywhere you want them,” says Apple.With Stream, yo...

6 October 2011
12:41 GMT

Infinity Blade II Announced for iOS, Infinity Blade ebook Also Confirmed

Epic Games and Chair Entertainment have confirmed that Infinity Blade II will be released on December 1 for the iOS platform, with specific features for the new and improved iOS 5 and the recently announced iPhone 4S.Apple confirmed yesterday that it's going to deploy a more powerful iPhone 4S, alongside the alr...

5 October 2011
17:21 GMT

First Screenshots of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Android Spotted in the Wild

Although rumors about the possible release of a BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application for Android devices leaked more than six months ago, no confirmation has been received from Research in Motion.However, the first screenshots of the BBM app for Android devices just leaked, courtesy to the guys over at TechRadar.Th...

3 October 2011
07:44 GMT

Latest uTorrent Release Has Android, iOS, PS3 and Xbox Support

The company behind uTorrent released an alpha version for its upcoming 3.1 version, premiering the new tools its been advertising the past months. The most notable: integration support for Android, iOS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox devices.The upcoming stable release of uTorrent 3.1 will mark a cornerstone in BitTorrent In...

23 September 2011
13:19 GMT

Notebook Makers Think iOS Will Stomp Ice Cream Sandwich

Companies may have started out on the tablet front with high hopes, but it looks like the optimism has mostly gone away, according to reports that see iOS as too great an obstacle for the upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich from Google. The Ice Cream Sandwich is the upcoming version of Google's Android opera...

22 September 2011
05:23 GMT

Google Music App Moves in on Apple Turf

Music by Google Beta may not have impressed too many people at launch and, while it doesn't have that many advantages over competitors, it's a solid service and definitely worth your attention. Even more so now that an iOS app is available. Unfortunately, and this may have something to do with Apple'...

9 September 2011
10:01 GMT

Edit and Publish Your Posts on the Go with the New Blogger iOS App

Blogger has been with Google for a long time now and it has remained one of the biggest websites on the planet. It didn't get a huge amount of attention for quite a while, but Google seems to be a lot more interested in its blogging platform lately. It's gotten a fresh new dashboard, with plenty of impro...

9 September 2011
07:30 GMT

Android on 40% of Smartphones in the US, Says Nielsen

More and more mobile phone users in the United States that are over 18 years of age own a smartphone, and most of them chose devices powered by Google's Android OS, the latest data from Nielsen show. Over 40 percent of these users had a smartphone in July, the report shows, explaining that 40 percent of all sma...

1 September 2011
13:41 GMT

Android Remains Top OS in Usage, Millennial Media Says

During July, the mobile operating system market was dominated by Google's Android platform, a recent report from Millennial Media reads. Apparently, the platform continued to increase its market share when it came to usage on the company's network and remained the leading platform on their network for the ...

24 August 2011
11:26 GMT

iPhone 5 at AT&T in Early October, VP Confirms

Apple's next iPhone model should arrive on the market in the United States in a little over five weeks, AT&T Vice President has just confirmed. The leading wireless carrier expects to have the new mobile device, none other than the long-rumored iPhone 5, it seems, available in about 35-50 days, sources familiar...

19 August 2011
17:31 GMT

Android Tops iOS in Australia

For the first time ever, Google's Android operating system managed to take the crown from Apple's iOS platform on the Australian market. The mobile platform has seen an impressive growth the past few years, and is expected to continue on this ascendant route for the next few years as well. In Australia, th...

18 August 2011
05:22 GMT

Ten-Year-Old Girl Finds Vulnerabilities in iOS and Android Games

A 10-year-old girl revealed a new class of vulnerabilities in mobile games at DEFCON Kids, a hacker conference for children between the age of 8 and 16.The young girl who uses the hacker handle CyFi, keeps her true identity secret because it has already been stolen twice until now.According to the DEFCON Kids website...

8 August 2011
12:15 GMT

Find a Good iPhone App - There’s an App for That

Mobilewalla, a search and discovery platform that rates and scores apps with an independent scoring system, has launched its own iOS application in the App Store. Developed by Wordster Inc., the free Mobilewalla app allows iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to browse for their favorite apps in 21 categories listed ...

28 July 2011
10:56 GMT

Nokia Maps Goes Official on Android and iOS

Recently, Nokia's Maps service was said to be working on devices that run under other mobile operating systems than Symbian, and coming from other handset vendors than Nokia, and today the move was made official. In addition to Symbian, the Nokia Maps can be accessed from Android and iOS devices as well, th...

22 July 2011
08:45 GMT


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