News Stories Tagged ‘iPod’

Is Number Portability Coming To Google Voice

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Rumors are circulating the Internet on Thursday, January 20, that Google has launched number porting to its Voice customers. The move has not been made public yet, but the search engine has said that they are conducting a test on the option today. In a statement, Google said that they constantly trying to improve their [...]

More Than One Million Download From Mac App Store In First Day

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In its first day, the Mac App Store, developed by Apple Inc, as a digital platform for Mac OS X applications reported to receive over 1 million apps downloaded from it. The Mac App Store features over a thousand apps that are both free and fee-based. The revolutionary store is an experience directly for the [...]

Polaroid Goes Gaga – Lady Gaga That Is

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On Thursday, January 6, Polaroid released their new product range at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The product range is a collaboration with Lady Gaga and is called ‘Grey Label by Haus of Gaga’. The release included the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer, GL20 Camera Glasses and GL30 Instant Digital Camera. Lady Gaga [...]

Stolen ITunes Accounts Are Sold On Chinese Auction Site

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Recently a store in China has begun selling stolen Apple accounts. The accounts are still active and are attached to active credit cards. They’re claiming that it allows the customer up to $200 on the iTunes store for less than $30. Roughly 50,000 accounts are being sold at taobao.com, prices ranging from 1 to 200 [...]

iOS 4.2 Update Is Major Milestone For Apple

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Apple have released their most significant update since the iOS 4 launch almost 5 months ago. This new update finally unites all current Apple devices under a single operating system. This means that now the iPhone, iPad, and iTouch all carry the same features. The iPad has been in serious need of an upgrade and [...]

Apple Offers "Find My iPhone" Service Now For Free

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On Monday November 22 Apple announced that the “Find My iPhone” option in MobileMe is now available without subscribing to MobileMe. It is now free to iPod, iPhone and iPad users who use the iOS 4.2 operating system. The ‘Find My’ function is now included in new iPhones, iPads and iPods. Until Monday “Find My [...]

Lend Your eBooks To Your Friends – Now Also With Amazon

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Because of the growing popularity of Kindle Books, Amazon announced recently in a public statement, that it will allow book lending from one Kindle user to another for a fourteen day period.  This is in response to the successful lending feature offered by Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader.  During the loan period, other Kindle users [...]

Apple Allows More Developers Into Apps Market By Relaxing Rules

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Apple Inc has relaxed its rules for applications built for its suite of iPhones, iPads and iPods in a move expected to free up the competition to develop such programs for the devices. The stance is expected to be welcomed by software developers who have been unhappy about Apple’s code for its gadgets. Apple is [...]

New Generation Smartphones Curb Growth In Games Consoles Sales

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Increased processing power and better graphics in smartphones is spelling trouble for games consoles as gamers increasing turn to their phones. Smartphone shipments are predicted to increase by 11.4% to 1.27 billion this year, researcher iSuppli stated last month. Sales of consoles like the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 may remain static while portable [...]

Microsoft To Provide Xbox Experience On Its Smartphone

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Cellphones running the Windows Phone 7 operating system will be able to play Xbox game titles, owners of the system Microsoft have announced. The company will be making its Xbox live service available to the phone users later this year. Among the games that will be available will be versions of the Halo series, Guitar [...]