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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO rumored to be at Apple’s WWDC 2010

May 27th, 2010

Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer is rumored to be at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2010 happening on 7th, June.

It’s said a total of 7 minutes of Steve Jobs’ June 7 keynote have been reserved for presentation from Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant will reportedly be showing off Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools. As reported by Barron’s analyst Trip Choudhry with Global Equities research.

Choudhry reportedly believes that the presentation could be given by Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO. If not, a possible second option for allegedly planned presentation would be Bob Muglia, head of Microsoft’s server and tools business.

According to Chowdhry, the new version of Visual Studio will allow developers to write native applications for Apple’s iPhone OS, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Developers will also allegedly be able to write software for the Mac OS X operating system with Visual Studio 2010.

What you think if Visual Studio 2010 came up with the support of Objective-C? Do you think this gonna make changes in iPhone Development ecosystem?

Update: Tweet from Microsoft’s Official Account: Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding in the Belmont. Just FYI.

Well, that tweet just talked about Steve Ballmer, not Microsoft. So, there’re still a pretty chances that anybody from Microsoft might be speaking at WWDC or this rumor is just a rumor and nothing else. Let’s see..

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Firefox Home for iPhone with desktop Firefox sync, coming soon

May 27th, 2010

Firefox Home is a brilliant App from Mozilla Firefox community that will sync your bookmarks, history and session to you iPhone with your desktop Firefox. So, you really don’t need worry if you need to leave your desktop / laptop behind to carry your browsing session on iPhone.

For example, if I was browsing through Google Maps and routed my traveling path on it, and now when I’ve to leave my desktop / laptop behind and start driving my car, I really don’t need to set route on my iPhone again. All I need to do is launch Firefox Home on iPhone and click that Google Maps link which just got synced to from my desktop Firefox. iPhone will show me the route on Google Maps which was set on desktop.

Firefox Home provides the list of tabs, history and bookmarks, it’s not a browser in itself. When the user need to checkout the the link, it opens in Safari on iPhone. The unique feature of this app is, it maintains seamless syncing with your desktop firefox.

Why is this useful?

-Left work in a hurry? You can pick up where you left off with access to the list of tabs you just had open on your desktop.

-Need those directions to that restaurant you were just reading about on your desktop? The confirmation code for your flight? Just start typing in the Awesome Bar and those pages will be right at your fingertips.

-Does it drive you crazy to have to enter the full URL on your iPhone that you’ve visited several times from your desktop? You won’t need to anymore with this app.

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iPad App Store goes International great news for iPhone Developers

May 26th, 2010

iPhone Developers must be excited reading this news, that the iPad App Store is International now. Earlier we posted that iPad App Store goes International, which was actually visible in some of European countries. But now, it’s Live for all the countries around the world including India & China with a separate ‘iPad’ tab in iTunes.

Now, this hints me that the iPad gonna be shipped international in a month or two. I’m guessing that, this will be announced at WWDC 2010 by Steve Jobs. iPad is a revolutionary device, we knew it, but more than that it’s a bigger playground for all the iPhone Developers out there.

Soon, the number of apps will increase for iPad and also we’re expecting iPhone OS 4 (this fall) which will get Multitasking to iPad. iPhone developers have already started looking into Multitasking on OS 4 for iPhone which will be out to end-users later this summer and will be again demonstrated at WWDC 2010 on 7th June. Now, imagine the same Multitasking on iPad, that would probably change the way the people use their iPad, though it’s update is due this fall; we need to wait to see that happening.

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WWDC 2010 Party list for iPhone Developers

May 26th, 2010

iPhone Developers around the world are waiting for WWDC 2010 to begin on 7th June with Steve Job’s Keynote. You gonna get some great Hands-on on various new frameworks for both iPhone and Mac. But believe me, this isn’t sufficient for iPhone Developers; they usually look around for more fun after attending serious technical sessions at WWDC.

We figured out from a tweet (on Twitter) that there gonna be an iPhone Intelligence Party @ WWDC 2010 which is sponsored by various iPhone application development companies. Meet some of the leading iPhone Developers and publishers. See demos of new iPhone applications & Celebrate the success of the iPhone platform.

Although this party is free and open to public, gets will need to register to attend.

Party sponsors include Small Society, Urban Airship, Appular, and PayPal X Developer Network. Additional sponsors to be announced shortly.

Check out a video of the iPhone Intelligence Party @ Macworld 2009.

Make sure you check out the Official page: iPhone Intelligence Party @ WWDC 2010

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Wired Magazine App Arrives on the iPad, Finally!

May 26th, 2010

Wired Magazine App for iPad is available in App Store for $4.99. This App was demoed in March & brought us the new look of magazine on iPad. This is heavily loaded with interactive content, as well as slide show, video and music.

This app’s total size around 527MB, which shows that app stores enough of multimedia content but this isn’t good for downloading through 3G network instead you’d prefer downloading it through Wifi network.

Well, the app is available in the App Store but did you know that Conde Nast was actually in talk with Adobe during early this year to get their Wired Magazine app to various tablet platforms including iPad? Adobe has platform through which one can publish their magazine easily to various platforms. Since, Apple first announced that they’re not going to allow cross-compiled code developed through cross-compiler in the App Store, Conde Nast planned not to use Adobe’s cross-platform code and used Apple’s Objective-C, which is iPhone’s native language, to develop this app.

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Next Generation iPhone’s Commercial might demonstrate video chat.

May 25th, 2010

Television commercials for Apple’s next generation iPhone will reportedly showcase the device’s video chat abilities and will be shot by an Academy Award winning director.

Engadget confirmed through a source that Apple’s new commercials will be directed by Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for his work on “American Beauty.” The tipster said that Apple’s next-generation handset is being referred to internally as Mammoth/N90, which is basically a code name of the device.

“A trusted source has confirmed to us that the ads will feature at least one spot where a mother and daughter are having a video chat conversation using the new front-facing camera that’s been spied on the face of that iPhone floating around Vietnam and Northern California,” editor Joshua Topolsky wrote.

Engadget also discovered actors on Twitter who revealed that they are auditioning for the commercial. One actress in New York confirmed the spot will be directed by Mendes, while an actor in California said last week he was off to an audition.
This news perfectly holds in favor of the leaked iPhone news, which was covered by Jason Chen (Bolgger at Gizmodo) last month with screenshots of the device with front camera.

So, iPhone Developers get ready for the new iPhone!! What are your plans? Let u know via comments below.

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Seesmic for iPhone now Available in App Store

May 21st, 2010

Seesmic is one of the famous Twitter clients available on all the platforms. Now, for the first time they released, Seesmic on iPhone platform.

This app has four spaces on each screen. Each space could either be your Twitter Timeline, Facebook wall, Twitter Lists, Twitter Search or Twitter Trending. This makes the app more unique than any other app in AppStore and it come for free.

Seesmic for iPhone is a bit late to party but comes loaded with the best of features. Any social media enthusiast can completely rely on this one app, if he / she is on move and have no access to their PC.

Basically, spaces made difference in this app.The users can get access to Twitter search results and Lists, which are major features of Twitter right now. And yeah! you can ‘Like’ you friends status right away.

You can find more details / manual to use Seesmic for iPhone here.

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iPhone Developers Excited to find Hints of Flash & Camera in iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

May 21st, 2010

We earlier covered some great new easily visible changes in Beta 4 release of iPhone OS 4 which includes the new AT&T’s Internet Tethering setup wizard.

Since, the release of beta 4, iphone developers started digging into SDKs to discover the changes it brought to iPhone through its previous update and they found something really exciting.

There are enums setup for iPhone / iPod / iPad Flash & Camera in OS 4 Beta 4 which basically shows that what messages these devices gonna pop out based on the condition of the device.

If you look at the messages shown in the picture carefully you will see most of them are related to the use of Flash and they have separate lines for iPhone, iPod and iPad too.

Well, iPad is going to get OS 4 update during fall. So, the next update (with OS 5) for the iPad will probably the fall again, next year. I’m guessing this will continue for long. So, we gonna keep finding iPad related tweaks in iPhone OS until Apple decided to put out updates during Summer.

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Twitter for iPhone is now live on AppStore

May 19th, 2010

Twitter for iPhone has finally showed up on AppStore. It is basically Tweetie 3.

Twitter acquired the firm behind Tweetie 2 last month, to make Tweetie an official Twitter app for iPhone. Finally, it arrived as free app. Earlier, Tweetie 2 was priced at $2.99. Now, as it’s Twitter’s official app, it’s free.

Twitter for iPhone has major changes from Tweetie. The major feature is, user can “Sign Up” for new Twitter account right from within the app. This is cool!

The second important feature is the ability to use the app without Signing in using Twitter account. That gives complete new look to the app, and it’s same as you visit Twitter’s homepage. You’ll find the top tweets and the trending topics on the first screen of the app before signing in.

Once you Sign In / Sign Up you’ll see the suggest users from Twitter by catagory. You may follow people of your wish or skip that screen and head directly to your timeline which is actually a next screen.

There is one more big change and that is the ‘Search’ screen, where you can search for tweets or users from the same search bar. In this search screen of the app, you can also see the top tweets and the treading topics.

The ‘More’ screen got your profile and settings where you can add your another account and view List. This list is much better than Tweetie 2, it scrolls smooth, flawlessly.

Overall, this is the great update to Tweetie 2 and also thanks to Twitter for making it available free for end user.

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Twitter for iPhone showed up for a little while with new update details

May 19th, 2010

Twitter appeared on AppStore for a little while after hours of Tweetie 2 disappearance. There are some reports on leading Social Media sites regarding the App’s availability. Some users tried downloading it, but it popped up with alert saying: “This item is currently being modified”.

But there was details about it’s update on AppStore. Update includes the new feature and tweaks with screen shots of app. Surprisingly, the screen shots were old but the details seems to be new under “What’s new Version 3.0″.

This actually gives me the feeling that there was some problem during the item’s update process. Either with the old screen shots and new details or something like that. And it’s probable that they withdrew the App and contacted the developer of it to upgrade the screen shots or related information.

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