27/06(2036 hrs IST):Voice Over Internet site Skype will soon have its Apple’s iPad App. A report in TUAW, "the unofficial Apple Blog", Skype’s App is expected to be approved very soon. The company already has a popular iPhone app that allows for video chatting using the iPhone
4’s forward-facing camera over both Wi-Fi and 3G Internet connections.
Calls can be made to computers as well as other smartphones. Now, Skype has finally developed an App specifically for the iPad.
26/06(1836 hrs IST):If you had owned an Apple Mac in the mid-1990s, you would be familiar with a Game called Marathon, a sci-fi shooter. According to a report on GameSpot Blog, Game developerBungie has confirmed that Marathon is coming back to a new Apple platform--the iPad. That too for free.
First released in 1994 for the Mac, Marathon is set during 2794 on board starship Marathon, which is off to colonize far-off worlds. Players assume the role of a security officer on board
the ship who must repel an invasion by races of hostile aliens known as
the S'pht & the Pfhor. The defense is complicated when Durandal,
one of the artificial intelligences on board the ship, becomes "rampant," prompting him to take increasingly unstable--and homicidal--actions.
24/06(1941 hrs IST): Hulu has rolled out its Application for the Android market. The App is only available on 6 Android phones initially: Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Motorola Droid X, & the Motorola Atrix, with “additional device announcements” due later this year.
16/06(0636 hrs IST):For those lovers of Gmail out there, (& the iPhone & iPad) here's some cheer. The email provider has gone and added 3 new features on the iPhone. These are:
Users will now be able to "search on server" for emails that aren't present on their iPhones. Before, they could only search locally for emails.
Further, Google Calendar now integrates with iOS so users can "Accept," "Maybe," or "Decline" Google Calendar events/meetings.
The last is that the iOS Mail App now respects the "send as" alias settings users have set up in Gmail so you can send emails from other email addresses you have linked to Gmail.
Application platform scoops up US $5 million in Series A funding
04/06(0710 hrs IST):It helps make Applications for all touch-enabled devices
for the "technologically challenged." OnSwipe has announced that it has raised US $5 million as funding, the investors being Yuri Milner, Lerer
Ventures, Betaworks, & SV Angel.
TheNew York-based OnSwipe guys claim that their stuff
is so easy to do, it allows publishers to create an
App in under three minutes. In fact, online analysts are watching this
still in Beta service provider as many feel it has "potential". The
company is being seen as a potential competitor for Apple, a charge
which the OnSwipe management has often denied. "We are into making Apps, Apple is into making iPads," is their oft-quoted line.
Features in Smartphone version of Windows 8 positioned for tablet users: Report
03/06(1320 hrs IST): Software king Microsoft recently launched its latest version of OS, the Windows 8. But while analysts debate its pros & cos, Win 8's smartphone version is already started to bring in positive reviews.
Here's what a story in TechWorld
had to say: ....a press event at the Computex Show in Taiwan confirms
that the company has already given the next version of the world’s most
ubiquitous operating system a bold new smartphone interface.
In the first of a series of videos released to the media, Microsoft’s director of Windows
User Experience team Jensen Harris, has underlined the extent to which
the new OS will look like and probably integrate with Windows 7 Phone. Microsoft also offered further details in its Computex press event."
The report goes on to give details of the smartphone interface. Gone is the ‘Start’ button and 'Menu' in favour of a mosaic composed of tiled applications and service icons lifted wholesale from the smartphone world. Because Windows 8 will feature a touch interface, swiping to the right one or more times brings up successive screens full of the same icons.
As with a smartphone or tablet, clicking on an App makes it
fullscreen while swiping on the left side of the screen brings up other
apps that are running, one by one. Each application can be resized on
the screen in a variety fo ways.
The report states that it is clear from the new user interface, this is clearly aimed at tablet computers, "a sector Microsoft clearly sees as at least as important as the laptops & desktop PCs.
