Tag: Ipad
Alfred gets clever on iPad now integrates with Facebook, to curate Group-Deals
Perhaps you remember our last post on Alfred in July. Guess what, it gets clever. Previously made available on iPhone and Android smart phones, the mobile app has now arrived on iPad with some added features. With its latest deep integration with Facebook, Alfred learns more about you via its Facebook data mining feature. So, whenever [...]
Soft Landing For IntuitionHQ
IntuitionHQ co-founder Jacob Creech got the shock of his life recently with a phone call explaining he had just won an all expenses paid trip to San Francisco. The prize was part of a competition to help web start-ups get up to Silicon Valley and get engaged in the market. IntuitionHQ offers a web [...]
Apple at its best: Huge profit after stocks drops
Just a few weeks after a slight fall in its shares, Apple has reported a huge profit for the quarter. Its earnings reached $7.79 per share, revenue totaling at $28.57 billion, and generated a net profit of $7.31 billion. 20.34 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads were sold in just last quarter. The number of [...]
BlackBerry App World downloads reaches 1 billion
Here’s what you don’t expect to hear about. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World has reached a new mark. According to the mobile company, 1 billion applications have been downloaded from its mobile marketplace. The marketplace offers application for RIM’s Blackberry smartphones and its recently-launched Playbook. It was launched in April, 2009 and now has [...]
Apple stocks drops: The big WHY
Apple Inc. hasn’t been doing very well as its shares dropped 3.5 percent this month, making it as their worst first-half of the year since 2008. Apple investors are wondering why the stock keeps dropping despite the company’s extraordinary growth rate and future prospects. The shares went down 7.6 percent from its record-breaking $363.13 [...]
Breaking the mobile market with your apps
It’s an extremely crowded market for mobile apps, the barrier to entry is low but the barrier to success is very high. If you’re planning to create an app, you could create a program for just about anything. However, if you’re actually planning to make money out of the app, you need to think real hard. [...]
Battle of the Apps Stores
Apple’s app store, its digital application distribution for the iOS, recently reached its 500,000 mark. On the 22 May, it also reached its 10 billionth App Countdown from 9.9 billion apps about 4 months back. The app store has been growing rapidly since it was introduced in July 2008. By the end of 2009, it [...]
Foxconn explosion: Ipad2 production slowdown?
The manufacturer of iPhones and iPads, Hon Hai Precision Industry (anchor company of Foxconn Technology Group), falls in Taipei trading yesterday, after the recent explosion at a factory in Chengdu, China. Bloomberg reported that the company fell by 5.2 percent. Today however the Taiex index rose 0.1 percent. Two people were killed, 3 people were seriously [...]
