Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly. The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft. In the December quarter, Apple's iPhone business generated $24.4 billion of revenue. Microsoft's whole company, meanwhile, from Windows to Office to servers to XBox, generated $20.9 billion. Thanks businessinsider
SpotMe, a handy little tool for sharing expenses in groups, Zornitza Stefanova, the CEO of SpotMe’s maker Boomerang Digital, describes the app as “a social messenger for payments.” What that means is that the app takes over the often uncomfortable job of having to ask your friends for the money they owe – it does that for you. Going to the movies? Buying concert tickets? Planning a family gift? Or splitting the rent? SpotMe helps you manage your group's money. Aided with features like messaging and email summaries, SpotMe is now a top 10 mobile app in the finance category
Read MoreKindle Fire is a premium product, offered at a non-premium price. It brings everything Amazon has been working on for 15 years - Kindle, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon MP3, Amazon Prime, Amazon Appstore, and Amazon Web Services - together into a single, fully-integrated experience for customers. They also developed a new, faster web browser called Amazon Silk, specifically designed for Kindle Fire. It’s a split browser that lives partially on Kindle Fire and partially in the cloud, taking full advantage of Amazon Web Services’ incredible computational horsepower to accelerate web browsing - something you won’t find in iPad’s Safari browser. Kindle
Read MoreStanford’s iPad and iPhone Application Development (CS193P) course is now available for free on iTunes U. The course includes lectures and lessons focused on iOS 5 app development. It’s broken out over 11 episodes that consist of videos and slides. The prerequisites are C language and programming experience and/or general object-oriented programming and UNIX experience. Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone platform using the iPhone SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multitouch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller pattern, memory management, Objective-C programming language. iPhone APIs and tools including Xcode, Interface Builder and
Read MoreAircel has officially announced that it will bring the iPhone 4S to India on Friday 25 November 2011 and, according to a report by The Times of India, it is strongly rumoured that the other official iPhone carrier in India, Bharti Airtel, will be joining in on the festivities with a launch of its own. Customers will be able to start placing preorders on the carrier’s website from November 18 onwards. Neither Aircel nor Airtel have revealed what the prices will be but you can expect to see the iPhone 4S to be priced somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 for the
Read MoreThe iPhone 4S is now available from four U.S. carriers—AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and C Spire—but if you'd rather not be saddled with a two-year contract from these providers, Apple today officially started selling an unlocked version of the device on its Web site. Apple’s globetrotting 4S comes with some hefty price tags. As expected, - base level 16GB iPhone 4S will run customers $649, (29,205 INR) - while the 32GB will cost $749 and (33,705 INR) - 64GB variants will cost $849 (38205 INR). The unlocked iPhone 4S will take a microSIM from any GSM provider the world over, but Apple makes
Read MoreiOS 5 has an auto-correct keyboard bar waiting to be discovered. Details of the feature, which is reported by 9to5Mac, were unearthed by Australian Sonny Dickson who got it working on his iPhone 4S, as the screenshot below shows, as well as as well as his iPad 2. 9to5Mac has the set-up process for anyone looking to follow in Sonny’s footsteps: 1. Download iBackupBot 2. Backup your iPhone/iPod in iTunes 3. Open iBackupBot and find the backup, then load it. 4. Find Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboard.plist and open the file. (if your software isn’t registered you’ll have to press cancel and then it will open) 5. Add in the
Read MoreTablets are ideal for gaming, surfing, movies and any multimedia activity which you can think of but programming aaaah is not typically among them. Much like writing text, you can write code on the iPad, but it's more cumbersome without an external keyboard. Yeah you are not going to see developers ditch their laptops anytime in near future but a new breed of apps for the iPad help make the device more coding-friendly. Coders, geeks, developers welcome Codify ($7.99, iPad, iOS 4.0 or later) which lets you build simple games and simulations using a combination of hand-coding and touch-based visual
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