Date: March 31, 2012
Place: Kiev
Only the lazy are not interested in developing for iOS. No, no, yes, and pulled his hands to see what's coming from. You still did not do it? Waiting for the right moment and a sign of destiny? Or fragrant, apple word "makos" which year makes your soul trembling? Then this day for you!
By popular demand we are again going to please the minds and umischa who are eager to learn the most fresh and healthy development of the iPhone.
Noted in his March 31 on your calendar and come to the iPhoneDevCamp in Kiev, which will take place within Ciklum Mobile Saturday!
We are full of enthusiasm and new ideas and, of course, preparing a program on a bright day. If you wish, you can always join the organization of the event! How?
March 9, 2012, St. Petersburg. The largest social network in Russia and the CIS, announces the contest for the development of messenger for the iPhone. The total prize fund - five million rubles.
The contest starts on March 9, 2012 and will consist of two stages. The task of the contestants - to implement the software portion of the application for iOS using the API VKontakte. The whole structure of the application and interface design provides bidders administration VKontakte. The prize fund of $ 5 million rubles will be split between the developers who created the best customers.
Date: February 11, 2012
Place: Kharkov, Otakara Yarosha street, 18, TC Movement, office Ciklum
February 11, 2012 under Mobile Siklum work day pass and iPhoneDevCamp 2012, which all have been waiting for! Thus, this Saturday at the Kharkov office will be very busy. According to our great tradition, we are open to those who wish to speak. Thus, at the Mobile Siklum Subbotnik we invited bison mobile development, desperate fighters for the purity of the code and its most ardent Yabloko.
So, all the lucky ones who came, and came to Siklum Cleaning up "water" code, to talk about their experiences and show their know-how and hints in the mobile development will be:
A survey by 11mark titled “IT in the Toilet” aims to show that people are so addicted to their mobile phones they’ll use them anywhere, including the bathroom. And iPhone owners are not shy of admitting it either.
In fact, a high number of iPhone users said they had used their smartphone in the jon - some 77 percent of the 1,000 respondents polled by 11mark.
Android and BlackBerry users are even more attached to their devices when it comes to bathroom usage - 87 and 84 percent, respectively.
Valve has launched Steam Mobile, a portable version of their popular gaming platform for avid gamers who own an iOS device.
According to the steampowered.com site, Steam Mobile will let you connect with your buddies on the go, use the built-in chat client to communicate your thoughts, and even browse the extensive Steam library of Windows and Mac titles from your portable device.
“With the free Steam app for iOS, you can participate in the Steam community wherever you go,” say the developers. “Chat with your Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, read the latest gaming news and stay up to date on unbeatable Steam sales.”
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may have waited in line for the release of new iPhones, but he says there are ways Android has leaped ahead of iPhone.
In an interview with Dan Lyons for the Daily Beast, the Woz lamented the limitations of Apple's smartphone. "My primary phone is the iPhone," the Woz said. "I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do."
Wozniak said he prefers the GPS navigation on Android phones and he also takes issue with the battery life on the iPhone ("it just started running through the battery so fast").
Microsoft continues to expand its support for applications that will run on Apple's iOS devices. This week, the company released a new iOS version of its OneNote application. In addition to new features for the iPhone version, this new OneNote iOS app has now been fully optimized to use the large screen of both the iPad and the iPad 2.
The new 1.3 version of the iOS app also has a number of additional new features including a new tabbed user interface, table rendering an option to sync notebooks over a Wi-Fi connection and more. The new version also has new support for more languages and global markets along with improvements with signing into Windows Live.
A recent consumer survey by Nielsen found that for the second year in a row, the iPad is the most highly desired consumer electronic item on the holiday wish lists of kids ages 6-12. A whopping 44 percent of children polled hoped to find an iPad under the tree this year, which is up from 31 percent in 2010. Following close behind the iPad are the iPod Touch and iPhone in second and third place, respectively, at 30 percent and 27 percent each.
In this age bracket, computers, non-iPad tablet computers and the Nintendo 3DS were each desired by 25 percent of kids. The majority of the rest of the list is comprised of video game consoles and accessories, with Microsoft's Kinect and Nintendo's older DS iterations ranking higher than items like the Xbox 360 and Wii.
Apple has quietly introduced a Micro USB Adapter for customers living in the United Kingdom, allowing British iPhone owners to do away with the cable bundled inside the original iPhone box and charge their handset using any third-party micro-USB connection.
Apple says to “Use this adapter to connect iPhone to a micro USB cable to sync and charge, or to a micro USB charger to charge.”
In a broader description, the Mac maker reveals that the adapter allows iPhone owners “to use third-party micro USB cables and chargers to sync or charge your iPhone.”
Ever since the advent of portable media players, people have wanted to share the music they listen to with their friends and family leading to the creation of all sort of portable speakers, few of them more interesting than the Scosche boomCAN.
While at first sight the boomCAN doesn't look like anything more than an ordinary soda can, on the inside the gadget includes a 35mm driver as well as a battery that can provide up to 7 hours of music playback.
The boomCAN connects to your media player, tablet or phone using a regular 3.5mm jack, but Scosche hasn't settled with offering just another external speaker and added a second audio output to connect multiple speakers.
Apple Inc. has removed a mobile app, called "Jew or Not Jew?" from its online App Store in France. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said the app did violate local law, so it was removed from the French App Store. It is still available outside France, however, and currently sells for $1.99 through Apple's US App Store.
Apple has removed numerous apps from the App Store since it launched in mid-2008 for violating myriad restrictions it imposes on developers. Take a look at other notable apps that ran afoul of the company's screening process.
Facebook is finally launching its iPad application and will be doing so at Apple’s October 4th event, rumored to be the release of the iPhone 5.
According to Mashable‘s sources, the social network may also introduce its latest iPhone app, potentially revamped in HTML5, at the same event.
The app has been long awaited. In July, iPad-wielding Facebookers were given a taste of what may come when screenshots of the app were leaked. The app has been in development for over a year and just this morning Jeff Verkoeyen, the former iPad app lead engineer, quit out of frustration.
Media publishers can now stream Flash-based video to iPhones and iPads, Adobe Systems has announced. iPad
Adobe yesterday released Flash Media Server 4.5, which introduces support for Apple's iOS mobile operating system. It does this by letting broadcasters stream Flash-based video content in an Apple-derived format, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).
However, the advent of Flash Media Server 4.5 only enables Flash video streaming to iPhones and iPads. Flash-based games, animations and advertisements will still not work on such devices.
Apple's iPhone 5 was expected to not have a massive change in its basic case design. Now there is evidence that the next version of the popular smartphone could have a bigger touch screen than first predicted. MacRumors.com is reporting that it has obtained what it claims are third party cases designed specifically for the iPhone 5. The report, which does not name the companies behind these cases, claims that after measuring them it concludes that they are for a smartphone with the dimensions of 4.7 inches by 2.6 inches.
Those case dimensions suggests that the iPhone 5's screen size could be as large as 4 inches. That is much bigger than the current iPhone 4, which has a 3.5 inch touch screen. If the iPhone 5 does indeed have a 4 inch screen, this directly contradicts a report from last week that said the phone wouldn't have a larger screen after all.
Apple Inc.'s skills at keeping its sensitive data secret just got another black eye.
Just a day after news broke out that Apple lost its prototype next-generation iPhone at a bar in San Francisco, an enthusiast site has reported that a Genius Bar technician at an Apple Store in Connecticut handed over to a customer a hard drive containing the Apple Store's internal files.
Cult of Mac said the hard drive contained a complete "Time Machine" backup of the Apple Store’s internal file server, "filed with top secret and confidential Apple Store documents."
The Dolphin Browser made a name for itself on Android, carving out a space as a zippy alternative to the default browser while rapidly building a robust feature set. Dolphin for iPhone, released today, brings most of those features to iPhone owners. The most notable one is gesture-based browsing, which makes it the only iPhone browser to support custom gestures.
Another interesting feature that Dolphin brings to the iPhone is its Webzine. It's the browser's in-house version of the streamlined, ad-free reading experiences that turn multipage stories on the web into a single vertical flow. Webzine includes works on more than 120 "channels," based on the sites' RSS feeds.
Skype Access hits fruit themed gadgets
COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE provider and recent Microsoft acquisition Skype has added WiFi connection services for the Ipad and Iphone.
The addition was announced in a blog post by the firm's Shadi Mahassel, who said that the service was also available for the Ipod Touch. The addition, which was originally called Skype Access, is available as a free download from the Apple App Store.
The newest version of Apple Inc's popular iPhone has already hit the Chinese market -- the fake market that is.
The 'hiPhone 5' is selling for as little as 200 yuan ($31) on China's top e-commerce platform Taobao, which is owned by Alibaba Group.
But one has to pay around 800 yuan for a more "genuine" one, according to some shop clerks at a mobile phone market in Shanghai.
"Look at this. It's not the same as the 300-400 yuan ones," Shanghai-based daily Metro Express quoted a clerk as saying, pointing to one originally priced at 850 yuan.
Apple reviewers are already sounding off about features and functionality in the fifth beta version of iOS 5 that was released to developers this weekend.
Apple's iOS 5, which is tied to the upcoming iCloud service, debuted at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
MacRumors says the latest update includes fixes but no major new features.
But CNET's Edward Moyer says the release includes a Hearing Aid Mode designed to improve compatibility between iOS devices and hearing aids.
Apple rumored to work on an enhanced voice command system for its future iPhones.
Apple may bring the voice control system to its iO5 coming later this year, says AppleInsider. The enthusiast site noted the groundwork for Apple's voice command overhaul may have started when Apple acquired Siri, an iPhone personal assistant application heavily dependent on voice commands.
The proposed solution looks to cut down on the verbosity or "wordiness" of audio feedback systems, so they would not overwhelm the user. AppleInsider said the first application, entitled Adaptive Audio Feedback System and Method, streamlines systems that may contain a large amount of information.
Its code was found within an iPhone app update, and looks to be better-looking and easier to navigate than the iPhone version
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month announced the release of new chat features, including Skype video calling, and mentioned that many more launches would appear in the coming weeks. Now, a Canadian engineering student has found one of the most anticipated launches ahead of its actual release -- the Facebook iPad app.
Marvin Bernal, a Canadian engineering student and iOS enthusiast, discovered the iPad app hidden within the code of Facebook's iPhone app after Facebook released an update to its iPhone app. Version 3.4.4 had some fixes, but Bernal noticed the iPad app code almost immediately and tweeted it for everyone to see.
Google has released the official Google+ app for the Apple iPhone. You can download it now directly from the Apple App Store.
Make sure that the version you grab is 1.0.1.1809 or later. Google mistakenly released a previous test version of the app which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version has. To check the version number, click on the gear icon on the top left of your app's homescreen and look right above the Help button.
Also, it's important to note that this app is just for the iPhone, not iOS in general. Google says that iOS5 is unsupported at this point and that iPad device support is coming soon. The search giant did not give details on timing for either though.
Google's official description of the app is as follows:
The move makes Google a stronger rival to Apple, which offers iPhone and iPad users similar services via the iTunes and iBooks apps.
Google's update also improves the design of Android Market on handsets, cutting out clutter and offering more options to help users find new apps.
The new books and movies service is only available to US users to begin with, with "selected countries outside the US" to be added at an unspecified later date. It follows the trend for "cloud" services, with purchases linked to users' Google accounts and accessible on their mobile phone, tablet or computer.
Google claimed the service means "no more waiting for downloads, syncing, or worrying about storage space".
If you own an iPhone 4 but know that Apple's smartphone can only connect to 3G-based wireless networks, you can considered yourself to be more enlightened than many other iPhone 4 users. According to a new study conducted by Retrevo, 34 percent of iPhone 4 users believe they own a 4G-based smartphone. In fact we may have to wait until at least 2012 for Apple to provide a phone that will use the LTE wireless networks from Verizon and AT&T.
In addition 24 percent of Blackberry owners also believe they have a 4G-based smartphone. The study states, "If nothing else this large number of 'misinformed' phone owners serves to emphasize the fact that consumers are quite confused about 4G." Indeed AT&T refers to its HSPA + service as a 4G network even as it prepares to launch its much faster LTE based network in select cities sometime this summer.
There have been many rumors about the iPhone 4S lately, and now there's a rumor about the next iPad. Rumor now has it that Apple will be releasing a new member to the iPad lineup. Sources say that this is a revision to the iPad 2. One has to wonder if this is what Steve Jobs meant when he said 2011 would be the year of the iPad 2.
Sources for This is My Next say that the new device will be dubbed the iPad HD. It will have a screen resolution of 2048 x 1536. As hard as the idea of this tablet is to swallow, it is said to be aimed at folks who work in video and photo production. The tablet could even be released alongside a iPad version of Final Cut or Aperture. The device is said specifically to not be an iPad 3, meaning it is complimentary to the lineup. Think MacBook and MacBook Pro.
Date: July 7, 2011
Place: Simferopol
We invite all developers to the mini-conference on the development of iPhone to listen to interesting presentations, discuss the concerns expressed, to meet with colleagues and a pleasant evening of the day.
Free entry, wi-fi and snacks. No hunting.
Yahoo has an app to help you find the right app for your smartphone.
The company unveiled a new tool this evening it promises will be a "fun, fast way to search and discover" the hundreds of thousands of available iPhone and Android apps.
iPhone 4S should have gone on sale in late July, but the next version of the smartphone, iPhone, 5 should be expected not earlier than in spring 2012
According to the resource Digitimes, the new version of the iPhone, called iPhone 4S, will be similar to the iPhone 4. The only difference is in the stuffing: Qualcomm chipset with an ARM Cortex-A9. The source stressed that currently there is no confirmation of what will be the processor - possibly a dual core.
New applications ABBYY allow you to extract text from printed materials to identify the address of objects and display their location on the map
ABBYY Mobile OCR Utilities
Company ABBYY, a software developer and service provider in the field of linguistics, document recognition and data capture, announced two new applications in the lineup ABBYY Mobile OCR Utilities, intended for users of iPhone. ABBYY TextGrabber extracts text from printed materials that can be edited directly or send a message. ABBYY StreetGrabber recognize addresses from printed texts and find them on maps.
