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Leaked Document Shows AppGratis Was Charging Huge Prices for App Store Push
Apr 17th
AppGratis was pulled out recently from the Apple App Store due to several reasons. One of the main reasons is that a document leaked by Business Insider shows that the company charges App developers to have their Apps put on to the top five most downloaded Apps on the Apple App Store. Read More
Manage Your Healthcare Expenses With Simplee for iOS
Apr 15th
Simplee for iOS allows you to take control of your healthcare expenses right from the convenience of your iPhone. You can instantly add your insurance plan or your healthcare fund (HSA, FSA…) and Simplee will provided an elegant user interface using which you can manage your heathcare expenses and stay on top of all the actions taking place under your account. Read More
Apple Bicycle Program: Discreet, Just Like Any Other Apple Operation
Apr 15th
Apple, just like other tech companies, launched its own Apple Bicycle Program in 2011. Unlike Google who use multi colored bikes which employees park around their buildings, the Apple bikes are discreetly stored indoors and an employee would need an employee pass to use one. Apple also had all the bikes custom painted grey (the same grey as the MacBook), light blue, and silver, and comes without any of the manufacturer’s logo and other decals. The bikes, sources say are M3 Mixte bikes from Public Bikes. Read More
Four of the Five Top Paid Execs Work for Apple
Apr 15th
After the 2012 compensation figures for the top earners was filed with the Security and Exchange Commission, Standard and Poor’s Top 500 identified five of the highest paid executives and they are not all CEOs. Four of the five top paid execs are Apple’s top brass. For all four executives, the base pay is a modest $805,400 for the fiscal year with the remaining balance paid in Apple stock options. Read More
Live Streaming Added to YouTube for iOS With New Update
Apr 15th
The YouTube App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been updated today by Google. The App is now at v1.3 and the update adds new feature like live streaming accessibility, the ability to queue up videos for watching on TV and more. Read More
Last Match For iOS – Good Enough To Light Up Your Phone Screens?
Apr 15th
Last Match is described as “a simple folk game” by its developer Maxim Makarenko and unfortunately that’s exactly what it is – simple. There are three rows with three, five and seven matchsticks respectively. A player can remove any number of matches from one row. To win you have to leave just one match for your opponent. Initially, you may feel that the game is hard, but after only a few times you realise that there are one or two arrangements of the matches which would allow you to win every time. Also, like noughts-and-crosses, after just two or three moves it’s evident whether you are going to win or lose a particular game. Read More
Facebook Home Getting Mixed Reviews from Google Play Users, Mostly Negative Than Positive
Apr 12th
Just hours ago, Facebook Home was made available on the Google Play network and only users with eligible devices can download and install the App. While the App got a lot of praise from the general media, a high percentage of users are not liking the App and at the time of this writing, there are over 689 one star ratings. The average rating of the App is at 2.5/5. Read More
Relativity Wars for iOS and Android – A Brilliant New RTS Game
Apr 12th
After its success on Xbox, Relativity Wars has launched on iOS and Android. It’s a great new RTS (Real-time strategy) game which obeys Einstein’s theories of relativity. The universe is laid out as a grid which curves around planets and stars, warped by their gravitational force. Battleships have to fly at the speed of light to avoid being pulled in by the planets and to make sure that their passengers don’t age and die before they reach their destination. Space/Time Waves are used as weapons to send a shock wave through the galaxy, destroying everything in its path. And you get to play God. Read More
As Apple-Samsung Relationship Deteriorates, Apple Switches Parts Supplier Starting with the A7 Chip
Apr 10th
Although Apple designs and markets iOS devices, they don’t take part in the actual production. The parts come from various semiconductor companies in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea mostly. They are then assembled into the finished product by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm, in their China plant. Samsung is one of the major suppliers of iOS device parts, they produce the flash memory chips, the working memory chips and the main processors like the A6 on the iPhone 5 and A6X with Retina display on the iPad. As the Apple-Samsung relationship continues break down the companies face a set of problems. Read More
Scan Business Cards And Make Them Into A Contact With Contact Snapper for iOS
Apr 10th
We all know how tedious it can be to add contacts from business cards to your phone’s address book. First there is all the typing. Then you keep double-checking that you haven’t missed a digit from all the phone numbers. Then you ask yourself, do I really need to add the fax numbers? By the time you get to the end of the pile you lose the will to live. If this sounds familiar then you need to download Contact Snapper – the new business card reader app for iOS. Read More
