Tweet The rumor going around now is that Apple will release iOS 5.02 to address battery issues iPhone 4S users have been experiencing. This rumor was started by German Mac site Macerkopf.DE earlier today. This report claims that Apple wants to be able to give 4S users 40 hours of standby and 10 hours of use. [...]
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Free iPhone/iPad Application Development Course Courtesy of Stanford
Tweet There is some great news for anyone interested in learning iOS app development from instructors at Stanford University without actually being a student at the school. Stanford is now offering their course iOS 5 focused iPhone Application Development classes on iTunes U. Throughout this course students will develop several iPhone and iPad apps that help automate tasks in [...]
iOS still tops for developers, Fire is gaining interest
Tweet Recently maker of cross-platform development tools, Appcelerator, and IDC polled 2100 developers to see which platform they preferred. iOS came out on top with 91% saying they were interested in creating apps for the iPhone and 88% interested in iPad app development. The Android OS still trails both iDevices by eight and 20 points. [...]
The first OTA update for iOS5 is here – iOS 5.0.1
Tweet Apple released iOS 5.0.1 through iTunes and then over-the-air shortly after. This is the first public OTA update Apple has done. In the past the fact that you had to use a PC to update your wireless devices was a major gripe among iOS users. While Google has always used wireless updates to keep [...]
$20k Mobile App Development Contest from Binpress
Tweet Binpress, a source-code discovery service and marketplace, is announcing a mobile development contest with over $20k in cash and prizes for best mobile development components. Binpress has partnered with several big names in mobile app development, including Amazon AWS, Tropo, Appsfire, Github and others to bring you thousands of dollars in prizes for the best submission [...]
7 Ways to Have a Top Grossing App – How 4 Apps did it
Tweet With almost half a million apps in the App Store, the Gold Rush is officially over. 90% of the revenue made on the app Store is made by 10% of the apps on the App store. What are the secrets of the 10%? They must be doing something right, after all they are not [...]
Security chief leaves Apple, US Cellular turns down iPhone and more in this week’s mobile news
Tweet Security chief leaves Apple after clumsy investigation of iPhone 4S prototype. Apple is the only mobile phone manufacturer to show positive growth since June. U.S. Cellular says no to iPhone proving they hate money. All the iPhone 5 rumors for the week in one convenient article. Apple goes after iPhone related porn domains. Joe [...]
Hitting it big on the app store is more of a gamble than gold rush
Tweet Fast Company has a great article on striking it rich on the app store. They bring up a good point about how software failures are no long major news stories like they were 20 – 30 years ago. Many people think just because you get an app on the App Store does not mean [...]
Native Gmail app for iOS devices released by Google, then pulled
Tweet A blog post was made today on the Official Gmail blog that a native app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch was released. The article listed benefits of the new app which included it being faster, more efficient and optimized for touch devices. In addition to that it is also a great reason [...]
Apple pulls Amazon Cloud music player for legal reasons
Tweet As of yesterday the popular Amazon Cloud music player ‘aMusic’ can no longer be found. This app is from the same developer of the popular Google Cloud music player ‘gMusic’, which is still on the App store…for now. The develper said that aMusic will be back, but they are not sure when: There are [...]
