The iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Are They Just Distractions?
When the iPad was revealed in January, educators already began to dream up all kinds of possibilities. Their students could have access to every book ever written. They could download interactive lessons with videos and interactive multimedia content. Of course, they could also play Scrabble with each other over Facebook when class starts to get a little boring. They could send texts to one another instead of paying attention.
And so the...
Apple unveiled its new iPhone OS 4.0 on April 8th. The new operating system promises to introduce over 100 new features and a software development kit with over 1,500 new APIs for creating an astounding array of features. iPhone OS 4.0 finally introduces multi-tasking to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and eventually the iPad (coming this fall). This feature alone warrants a lot of excitement. Many have wanted to see some kind of multi-tasking on the iPhone for a very long time.
Although other mobile...
Apple and Verizon: A Perfect Marriage?
Rumors are still flying back and forth; nobody knows what is going to happen. Apple has been in continued talks with Verizon Wireless about potentially bringing the carrier onboard to the iPhone platform. If this were to happen, it would break the exclusivity between Apple and AT&T, offering iPhone users the ability to choose their wireless carrier.
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Apple or Google? iPhone or Nexus One?
We're already some weeks into the...
When you are creating smartphone apps with the intent to make money, you have a few options. You can either create an app, sell it for a fixed price on any one of the many app stores or you can create a free app with advertisements that will make you money whenever one of your customers uses the app and views the ads. When looking at these two options, it's pretty difficult to know right off the bat which one will net you the most money. If you go with paid apps, you might lose out on...
Rumors are still flying back and forth; nobody knows what is going to happen. Apple has been in continued talks with Verizon Wireless about potentially bringing the carrier onboard to the iPhone platform. If this were to happen, it would break the exclusivity between Apple and AT&T, offering iPhone users the ability to choose their wireless carrier. There are so many reasons why a partnership between Apple and Verizon would be both, a good and bad idea for the two companies. This has left...
Netbooks offer a cost effective and highly portable way for users to surf the web wherever they happen to be. Just as smartphone apps and smartphone application development have grown popular for the iPhone and many other smartphone devices, Intel anticipates the same will happen with NetBook. AppUp is Intel's way of capitalizing on the positively viral app phenomenon, offering a new take on the art of selling software. In many ways, AppUp is no different from the iPhone's App store,...
Real estate professionals have an entire suite of highly useful software available to them on their smartphones. Not too long ago, realtors had to take their clients into the office to show them all of their listings on the computer. They had to use expensive printed brochures and ended up wasting paper on leads that led nowhere. These days, realtors can have access to all of their listings on their smartphone using various smartphone apps along with maps, client information, twitter updates,...
Creating games for the iPhone platform can be quite a bit different from the usual game development experience. Oftentimes developers have to invent new game concepts that work better on the iPhone's screen and gesture-based user interface. Because the iPhone has so many unique inputs like its GPS system and balance sensor, iPhone game developers have a new kind of toolbox to work from when it comes to creating user experiences. No longer constrained by the standard mouse and keyboard...
When the iPhone's Software Development Kit (SDK) was released back in 2008, there were several concerns from iPhone app developers that the platform severely limits what can and cannot be done on the device. Voice over internet protocol (VOIP), for example, allows users to bypass their cellular network and make international phone calls over the internet for a considerably lower price. Any cell phone carrier will do whatever it can to stop its phone owners from accessing a VOIP service from...
Apple will be releasing its iPhone 4G shortly, and with this groundbreaking new technology, we are left wondering why they haven't bothered to at least redesign the new iPhone's casing. Wouldn't it seem logical to do something to the product to differentiate it from the previous lines of iPhones, if only to get more people to buy them out of jealousy for their colleagues who have the better version? Couldn't they increase their sales from this factor alone?
Pete Mortenson, a...