Archive for July, 2011

Pandora Hits 100 Million User Mark.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Pandora Internet Radio http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
The public company Pandora just announced about it’s user base hitting 100 million mark with 36 million monthly active users. Pandora lives on my phone(s) and tablets and provides me with music, when I am on a WiFi network. Also I am still grandfathered in to unlimited data from some of the [...]

iOS 5 Beta 3 Jailbreak Breaks App Store Apps!

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

iOS 5 jailbreak breaks app store apps. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
It was discovered that iOS 5 beta 3 jailbreak has problems with apps. Many are reporting the issue prompting people to halt upgrading and / or jailbreaking. It is believed to be a problem with sandbox. So if you are not savvy with iOS and it’s workings, wait [...]

Nortel Patent Sale To Consortium Approved

Monday, July 11th, 2011

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Research in Motion Ltd., EMC Corp., L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co., and Sony Corp. will be able to share the Nortel’s trove of Patents (intellectual property) in ways unknown to us.
The consortium pushed the bidding up at the bankruptcy auction to hold Google Inc., Intel Corp. and RPX Corp at bay.
Most see [...]

GetJar To Apple, Stuff Your Bullying In A Jam Jar!

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Apple a Bully and we won’t take it http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Apple among other stuff trying carve a niche, a huge niche, for itself. Bullying and suing people Big and small.
Apple wants App store for itself and want Amazon not to use the term and recently sent a cease and desist letter to GetJar to stop [...]

New Honeycomb Release Will Bring A New Mode for Apps on Large Screens

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Android Development http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Android developer blog just published that an upcoming update fro honeycomb will bring a new screen compatibility mode to make few apps that does not behave properly on larger screen tablets.
We are just getting into Honeycomb development and hope to learn more about issues like this because one of our apps did not [...]

AT&T Will Get HTC Status (The Facebook Phone), On July 17Th

Monday, July 11th, 2011

HTC Status @ ATT http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
After waiting and playing the same game, AT&T finally released news saying that HTC Status will come to it’s air waves, for $49.99 with a two year contract. As you can see the phone comes loaded with bunch of functions, specially the “f” button that will allow users to share, photos, [...]

Asus EEE Pad Transformer TF101G, A 3G Enabled Transformer On Sale In Europe.

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Asus EEE Pad Transformer TF101G, http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Asus EEE Pad Transformer TF101, my choice of Android Tablets, has got a cousin now with 3G capabilities. I am too late for the new device as many times I had wished for 3G connectivity for my transformer on the run. I had to settle for my MiFi to connect [...]

Photojojo, Mount Your Canon, Nikon Lenses On Your iPhone!

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Photojojo SLR Lens Mount For iPhone http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
I have been taking a lot of photos with my iPhone, even when I carry my Canon 7D around. (Mostly for geotagging as 7D does not have GPS capability)
But now the news from Photojojo makes me think, do I really need the 7D. Photojojo’s iPhone SLR mount allows you [...]

Reset iPhone 3GS To Factory Setting

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Reset iPhone 3GS http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
After our post “Reset Your iPhone To Factory Setting. (Low Level Format Your iPhone)” getting much attention, we have decided to add the complete iOS based iDevices to the list. So today I will start with resetting iPhone 3GS to Factory setting.
This time we are following a different but safer path. We [...]

15 Billion Apps Served By Apple App Store.

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Apple?s App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Apple has done it again! Come on Android, catch up! Apple App store has served 15 Billion app downloads, and I am responsible for at least 150 of them.
Looks like other 200 million odd owners of iPhone, iPad (100,000 apps in the store) and iPod did the [...]