Roqbot Is A Jukebox On Your iPhone (Source: TechCrunch) Roqbot, a unique iPhone app that allows you to pick the music playing at a bar. Like a combination Pandora and traditional jukebox, Roqbot allows you to control the tunes without getting up from where you’re sitting. The inspiration for Roqbot came when one of the [Read More]

Opera Browser Heading for iPad (Source: Mashable) The Opera browser is on its way to the iPad. Opera Software says the iPad version will show up first at the Mobile World Congress being held next week in Barcelona. Although the Opera Mini browser has been available for the iPhone since last April, we haven’t seen [Read More]

Sonos Android App Controls Wireless Music Systems (Source: Mashable) This free Android control software for Sonos wireless multi-room music systems includes unique features that aren’t available on the iPhone version. If you’re not familiar with Sonos S5 wireless speakers, you can place them in any room in your house, or pair two of them [Read More]

You Can Now Punch People On The iPhone, Congratulations Humanity (Source: TechCrunch) Oh Western culture, when will you cease to amaze me! First the fact that you can buy a Julian Assange as Che Guevara shirt in the WikiLeaks “mall” and now this … “Punch Your Friends” is an iPhone app created on a lark [Read More]

Google Continues To Embrace Native iPhone Apps As Google Translate Hits App Store (Source: TechCrunch) At one point, as tensions were rising between Google and Apple, it seemed as if the search giant would forgo native app development on the iOS platform and instead only offer service those users through HTML5-based web apps. But lately, [Read More]

iPhone App Fragmentation FUD Is Looming (Source: TechCrunch) ZDNet ran a story with a very provocative headline: Not all iPhone apps work on the Verizon iPhone — fragmentation looming? Oh no! Android was supposed to be the platform with the fragmentation problem, not the iPhone! The end must be near, right? Nah. Author James Kendrick [Read More]

Audioboo allows any iPhone app to add user voices – Signs big media partners (Source: TechCrunch) AudioBoo, the social sound sharing startup, has developed an iPhone framework that gives drag and drop audio recording functionality to any iPhone app. That means any app developer can now add Audioboo recording functionality to their app, thus [Read More]

Tango Takes Face-To-Face Video Calling Beyond The iPhone With 8 Million Downloads (Source: TechCrunch) One of the best built-in features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, the video calling feature that lets you see who you are talking to by using the cameras on both phones. But it only works over WiFi and if both [Read More]

AT&T Shows How Talk And Surf In iPhone Is Useful (Source: TechCrunch) Yesterday, Verizon launched a commercial campaign to highlight that they now have the iPhone 4 with one important feature: the ability to make calls. While they never mention their competitor (or humorously, even the iPhone itself), it’s clear who this was aimed squarely [Read More]

The Verizon Vs AT&T Ads Prove One Thing: The iPhone Is Helen Of Troy (Source: TechCrunch) The most recent Verizon and AT&T commercials are awesome because everyone loves a good slap fight — especially one that is played out in public. But they’re actually even more interesting under the surface. Because it’s a fight that [Read More]

AT&T’s Last-Minute iPhone Blitz: “Feel free to make a call while reading this email.” (Source: TechCrunch) Well, you have to give AT&T some credit. They are trying really hard to make sure they don’t succumb to a massive hemorrhage of users when the Verizon iPhone hits in a couple of days. Today, they’ve been sending [Read More]

Apple Reportedly Blocks Sony Reader App, May Foreshadow War With Amazon Kindle (Source: TechCrunch) This evening the New York Times published an article titled Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store. An alternative title, should the report prove accurate, could be, Apple Underscores The Downsides Of Its Closed Platform. Really, things look [Read More]

Bump Now Lets You Swap App Recommendations With A Tap (TechCrunch) You can tell a lot about a person from their mobile app library. Are they avid Doodle Jumpers, or do they prefer to challenge their wits with a few rounds of Civilization? Do they stretch their vocal chords to the beats of T-Pain or [Read More]

Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone And Android Apps (Source: TechCrunch) Blekko, the search engine that is fighting the good fight against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile search arena today with an Android and iPhone application double whammy. Says Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta, “In a [Read More]

L.A. man sues Apple for broken iPhone 4 glass Here we go again. A Los Angeles man named Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit against Apple because his daughter dropped an iPhone 4 that he paid for and the glass cracked. LeBuhn says Apple’s advertising is misleading and that the iPhone 4‘s glass isn’t [Read More]

AT&T Earnings: 442,000 Tablet And 4p1 Million iPhone Activations In Q4 2010 (Source: TechCrunch) Telecommunications company AT&T has announced its quarterly results, reporting consolidated revenues of $31p4 billion, up 2p1 percent or $653 million from the fourth quarter of 2009. Here are some of the things that caught my eye: AT&T [Read More]

The 10 Best Upcoming Cell Phone (s) Sure, you want a new phone right now, but carriers and manufacturers have promised some truly spectacular, knock-your-socks-off phones coming to U.S. shelves between now and June. With 4G right around the corner and mobile hardware and software getting better and better, you should take a look at [Read More]

Apple’s next mobile gadgets to have dual-core chipset with 4x the graphics muscle After the reports that the iPad 2 might quadruple its predecessor’s resolution to the astounding for a tablet 2048×1536 pixels, we couldn’t help but wonder what kind of a chipset will have to power this kind of resolution. It turns out that [Read More]

Meet The Satarii Star, The Crowdfunded iPhone Accessory Of Every Blogger’s Dreams (Source:TechCrunch) Even if you look beyond gargantuan success stories like the TikTok Nano watch, you’ve still got all sorts of wonderful concepts like the PadPivot, the mBrace, and the C-Loop all taking huge steps toward production thanks to [Read More]

Apple’s First Verizon iPhone Commercial Also Touts AT&T: “Two Is Better Than One” (Source: TechCrunch) Two days ago, Verizon posted their first iPhone teaser commercial to their YouTube page. The tagline? “It begins.” Now, it looks as if Apple is ready to follow suit with its own marketing muscle. But they’re not just playing up [Read More]

mSpot lands in Europe, lets you take your music wherever you go There is one thing that music streaming startup Rdio does not do (and probably never will):  upload the music  already owned before  subscribed to their service so that one can stream it on the go (it does have an iTunes syncing feature, but [Read More]

Bought a Verizon Phone Recently, But Want The iPhone? Verizon Has A (Not Very Good) Deal For You (Source: Mobilecrunch) December. It’s a month of celebration, giving, and smart phone buying. Unfortunately, it’s also the month before January, which is when Verizon finally announced that they were getting the iPhone 4. So, what are all [Read More]

iPod Touch Now Accounts for Half of iPod Sales (Source: Mashable) iPod Touch was launched on September 5, 2007, at an event called The Beat Goes On. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line. It is the first iPod with wireless access to the iTunes Store, and also has [Read More]

Is the White iPhone 4 About to Hit Stores? (Source: Mashable) At long last, the mythical white iPhone 4 could finally be ready to reach stores. According to reports from Engadget and MacRumors, white iPhone 4 units are showing up in inventory systems at Vodafone Germany and Best Buy. Leaked screenshots of the Best Buy [Read More]

Oversized Assets Indicate 2048×1536 Resolution On iPad 2 A couple image assets included in the latest version of iBooks seem to have the same naming convention as iPhone apps have when they must accommodate both old and new iPhone displays. In other words, the images imply that the iPad 2 will undergo a similar transformation: [Read More]

Next iPhone and iPad Will Have a Dual-Core Graphics Chip (Source : Mashable.com) The next generation of the iPhone and iPad will sport a new version of Apple’s A4 chip with a dual-core graphics processing unit that should enable even higher resolutions on these devices, as well as support for HD (1080p) video playback, [Read More]

A Basic Sketch of the Next iPad (Source: Gizmodo.com) Apple is a cyclical creature, like bears, unicorns and ladyfolk. iPods in September; iPhones in June; and likely, iPads in April. April is not so far away! So, unsurprisingly, we’re starting to hear what the next iPad looks like. The brains While one generation of devices [Read More]

Verizon iPhone Launching on February 10th The Verizon iPhone launch date has been announced. Pre-orders start February 3rd and the dream phone will be available on February 10th in Apple and Verizon Stores. This does not come as a surprise as we have had rumors floating since very long. This is a welcome news for [Read More]

Apple iPhone 5 may Debut with A8 SoC Processor Apple may have contacted a few Taiwan-based suppliers for core silicon components. Apple unveiled the A4 System-on-Chip processor with the iPad launch in January last year. Later the same A4 Chip was used in the iPhone 4, fourth generation iPod touch and second generation Apple TV. [Read More]

iHealth: Track Down Your Blood Pressure Using iPhone The iPhone, for most users, is a tool for communications, entertainment and high speed web browsing. Now, with technology simplifying pretty much every human endeavor possible, the mobile phone can now be used as an instrument for knowing and monitoring your blood pressure. Sounds absurd? iPhone [Read More]

Apple’s Mac App Store is Open for Business Today, Apple has announced the grand opening of Mac App Store that brings the App Store experience on iPhone/iPad to the Mac platform. You can find great apps, purchase them or download them onto the Mac computer with just one-click.It’s just how you use the App Store [Read More]