Apple, RIM winners in shrinking smartphone market
The latest smartphone sales figures show how quickly the iPhone has caught on, as Apple is now number three in sales and the iPhone OS passed Windows Mobile in market share during the third quarter of 2008. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion was the other big winner, while Nokia suffered.Read More...
published today, 1 hour 55 minutes ago, ars-technica
RIM warns of lower subs despite Storm
Research in Motion late Tuesday warned that it expects the number of new subscribers to its BlackBerry push e-mail service to fall significantly below its original estimates. The Canadian smartphone company now expects to add just 2.6 million users instead of the originally predicted 2.9 million and also expects its earnings per share and gross margins to drop as a result. The company blames the...
published yesterday, 1 day 4 hours 18 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Apple notes the top albums/singles of 2008 from iTunes Store
Apple and the online music world have forked over some numbers for the top-selling albums and singles of the year. Although the iTunes Store isn't quite the online equivalent of the back pages of Billboard, it's certainly coming close. Read More...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, ars-technica
How to do important, useful, and fun stuff with iPhone
Did you know that you can tell iPhone not to display your phone number when you call someone? That you can send a photo from your iPhone directly to a friend?s cellphone? Or that you can easily capture a screen shot on iPhone? Scott Kelby and Terry White explain how to do all of the above ? and much more ? in the 2nd edition of The iPhone Book, a great stocking stuffer now available on the Apple Online Store.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, apple-hot-news
Acrylic software launches Wallet 3 for Mac, iPhone
Acrylic Software on Monday launched Wallet 3, a personal information management application for the iPhone and Mac platforms; the software is designed to store important pieces of personal information. Using 256-bit advanced encryption standard to secure the database, Wallet 3 allows users to input serial numbers, web passwords, credit card numbers and screen. The app allows information to be plac...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
FileMaker's Bento 2.0v3 offers bug fixes
FileMaker has released Bento 2.0v3, the latest version of its database software. The update addresses a number of user-reported bugs, including issues related to the vertical spacing between checkbox fields, text-box editing on imported templates, and exporting of non-ISO date formats. Problems with deleting static labels and XML references, upgrading large databases, and partially downloaded e-ma...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Sync Facebook photos and birthdays to Address Book
If you use Facebook, you might be interested in syncing your friends' profile images and birthdays into your OS X address book. After trying a number of programs, none met my needs. So I created AddressBookSync, a free Facebook/OS X tool which matches Facebook friends to contacts in Address Book, and is able to sync their profile picture and birthday information. This utility is probably most useful for people who sync their phones (such as an iPhone) with their OS X Address Book for contact information. This way, they can keep their contacts' pictures updated with their latest and greatest Facebook profile picture, which will show up when they call. AddressBookSync does not and will not support the synchronization of phone numbers or email addresses as Facebook does not allow this by their Terms of Service. [robg adds: I haven't tested this utility. Note that this hint was submitted by the program's author...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macosxhints
App Store Almost Reaches 10,000 Apps
While several sites have reported that 10,000 iPhone Apps have been released into the App Store, the actual number of active iPhone apps that can be downloaded is about 9,676 as of today's count. The discrepancy comes from the fact that many apps ha...
published on Saturday, the 29. November 2008, macrumors
Black Friday deals at Amazon
Retailer Amazon.com has reduced the prices on a number of electronics, computer accessories, software applications and more for Black Friday. First up is VMware Fusion 2 priced at $39.99, down $40 off the list price of $79.99. The Altec Lansing iM207 Orbit-MP3 for iPod has been reduced from $39.95 to $14.99. The price on a Hi Fidelity speaker system and charger docking station for iPods has bee...
published on Friday, the 28. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
ZOS launches Zhiing 1.1 for iPhone
ZOS communications on Tuesday launched Zhiing 1.1, the latest update to its location-based messaging application for the iPhone. Users can now send one message to multiple people. Recipients will also receive names instead of numbers, while the general speed and stability have been enhanced. The program combines browser plug-ins with SMS, allowing users to send directions from the browser to a mob...
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macintosh-news-network