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Facebook App Have 44 Million Users in Stead of 100 Million

August 30th, 2010

The latest declaration of Facebook has clarified the total number of iOS Facbook app users; and this is not 100 millions but 44 millions.

The figure may be disappointing for Facebook, which has been successful to attract a magic figure of 500 million users world wide; but they are successful to attract almost 44% of the iOS device users including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. It’s worth a mention that Apple has sold around 59 millions of iPhones by June, 2010.

In their statement, Facebook has said, “There are currently 44 million monthly active users of the Facebook for iPhone app. We recently changed the definition of mobile active users to exclude those who have only liked or commented on stream stories. Instead we are counting “active” users as people who have taken explicit actions within an application.”
This has put a full stop to all the speculations in the iPhone developers community about the actual number of the users. Although the magic figure of 100 million is a myth as of now, it still indicates that the iPhone Facebook app is hugely popular in the App Store. The pace of growth of Facebook in last couple of years, and the popularity of the app in App Store clearly suggests that the iPhone app developers and other service providers can use it successfully for a more effective branding purpose.

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Tags: Facebook, iOS devices, iPhone, iPhone Facebook app, iPhone Facebook app users

Qualcomm is Looking for ‘iPhone Development Guru’ for a ‘Secret Project’

August 30th, 2010

The rumor that Apple is coming up with their CDMA model with Verizon has caught up some more fuel with a corporate engineering opening at Qualcomm. The new proposed opening has contributed in the speculation that technical preparation is going on to launch the CDMA iPHone.

Apple presently sells the iPhone 4 in US via AT&T. The experts in the iPhone development industry believe that Apple has gained enough of its users with this GSM connection, and to grow further iPhone 4 should catch up with some other carrier too. Here comes Verizon, the wireless operator popular to support the CDMA standard, a channel access technology used by various radio communications as the alternative to GSM.

Eventually, Qualcomm has built up the first ever CDMA cellular base station in the early ’90s. So definitely the company has the enough expertise to support Apple CDMA.

Qualcomm, the chip supplying giant, which also has a strong R&D house in wireless telecommunications, is going to hire an “iPhone Developer Guru” for a “secret” assignment.

“The iPhone has no secret for you? Well, that’s what you think… join us and develop the most challenging product of your life!”, the job profile in the online advertisement reads.

“You are driven by a very strict development discipline, well versed in Agile, and your passion is to bring product in the hands of consumers,” Qualcomm job posting adds.

They have specified that they are looking for someone who has been “exposed to application or game development on mobile for years”, and who has developed and deployed apps on Apple’s smarphone.

“Join us now: we are small fast moving team working in a lab 24hrs/day!”, says the posting.

The experts infer that the new member will be responsible basically with iPhone software designing and development. However, iphone application developers also think that this person’s responsibilities may not be limited to this only.

“…we expect you to be part of the team and contribute to all aspects of the product development including Android, Web development, Server side development and operation aspects,” Qualcomm adds has given enough reason to think so.

The skills and experience required for this position include:
Objective C, Xcode, C;
Multi-threaded application;
File, network & socket programming;
OO design, UI design;
Client-Server design;
J2EE, Tomcat; Jboss;
JSON; HTTP, SSL;
Test Driven Development, Unit Tests.

Finally, the academic background required says: “a Master’s is preferred, although not having one is not necessarily a problem.” Qulcomm adds, “if you’ve been programming since you’re kid and have the right experience and skills, we would like to see you.”

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Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone Development Guru, Qualcomm, Qualcomm iPhone job, Qualcomm job post

New Instant Method to Jailbreak your iPhone 4

August 23rd, 2010

Are you still struggling to jailbreak your iPhone?
If yes, you can try this!!!

This is an easy and quick method to jailbreak your iPhone 4/4G that runs iOS 4/4.0.2/4.0.3. It almost can instantly jailbreak the device quite easily, claimed by the group of hackers who have developed it. Like in any normal jailbreaking process, this also allows you to access the iOS to install an Installer app allowing you to install the other third-party apps which are not available through iTunes.

Just follow the steps below to jailbreak the iPhone instantly:

1. Use the Mobile Safari browser to go to the jailbreak website.
2. You can now find the ‘install’ button somewhere on the page, normally available at the bottom.
3. Click the ‘button’ and please wait for a while. If there is something else you need to do the site will give you the specific details.
4. The download should automatically begin and the program will be installed.
5. Now wait for the message that the installation is complete or the slide to unlock the message. But please do not do anything with the iPhone until the process is fully complete.
6. Please take a note that the Safari browser may disappear and your screen may turn black. But the iPhone will reboot.
7. After the process is completed successfully, you will get the Installer App on the home screen of your iPhone.

We suggest you to use a WiFi connection to get the best result, as EDGE may not work properly. If the process is interrupted or stopped in between, please clear the cache memory in the iPhone before attempting again.

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FaceBook Developers Blog : 100 million monthly FaceBook for iPhone users

August 23rd, 2010

Here we have another report which might encourage iPhone developers make their next application useful for social media users. FaceBook the worlds most famous social networking site has crossed 100 Million iPhone monthly users. This is phenomenal and very clearly agrees with the last Morgan Stanley Mobile report that more and more internet users will be accessing their favorite social networking sites from the comfort of a mobile device.
FaceBook-For-iPhone

The other reason the app has got so many downloads is the fact that the application is quick to load and also free to download from the app store. The huge success of facebook for iPhone gives clear message to iPhone developers to start making social media mobile apps which help people aggregate, organize and filter content.

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Yahoo Mail for iPad now available

August 19th, 2010

iPad application developers and HTML5 enthusiasts would be more than happy to know that the web giant Yahoo has given a solid example of  how effectively HTML 5 can be used for developing iPad applications.  This can be regarded as a powerful vote for HTML5 and a serious vote against flash as Steve Jobs has always said.
yahoo-mail-ipad
Among the new features are local caching for offline access, improvements to searching and organization, enhanced attachment handling, and a dual pane view similar to that employed by the native iPad email application. Earlier in May Gmail launched a similar interface to fit in to the iPad. And after trying both of then I must say Yahoo mail on the iPad is better both user experience wise and feature wise.

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iPhone Application Developers Happy with the new iAds

August 16th, 2010

A recent opinion take by Los Angeles Times on iAds has revealed that many iPhone and iPad developers are very happy with the iAds Advertising network. iPhone Developers are more than just happy with the new iAds as the program offers premium Ad placement which allows increased application revenue.
iAds for iPhone developers

Not only developers but even Advertisers showed their happiness with the new iAds policy. Advertisers are pleased with iAd’s performance  noting the level of engagement for users and their willingness to revisit ads multiple times. This is a good news for both iPhone and iPad application developers as even though Apple left out third party developers out of the race its continued commitment to give something to iDevice developers is paying them off.

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Tags: iAds, iPhonedeveloper, mobileads, news

Android Surpasses iPhone Sales for Q2 2010

August 13th, 2010

A recent report from Gartner said that Android OS has surpassed iPhone sales of mobile phones for the second quarter of 2010. Cross platform Android and iPhone developers would be more than just happy to know their favorite OS competing actively. This is amazing news for Android lovers even though not an alrming one for Apple. The report mentioned that about 10.6 million phones run on Android OS which represent 17.2% 2010 market share. iPhone stood at 8.74 million iOS phones with a 14.2% 2010 market share. Once again the top 2 Mobile OS share is dominated by Symbian with 41.2% of the market and RIM with 18.2% of the market.

iPhone-Android-Sales

Analyzing the possible reasons I feel that the shortage of iPhone 4 devices and also the series of rumors spread on blogs might have limited buying to a certain extent. Also another important reason is the iPhone 4 has not yet shipped to other countries yet. Also about 20 major handsets has shipping Android OS this season which is a major cutting edge for Android in Quarter 2 2010. All I can say is better days for iPhone are coming in Q3 and Q4 when the iPhone 4 spreads like an epidemic and more and more fantastic iOS 4 compatible apps hits the market.

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iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone/iPod touch, iOS 3.2.2 updates available now

August 11th, 2010

There has been lot of talk about the failure of compatibility of iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod 2nd and 3rd generations with iOS 4. Apple has launched an update iOS 4.0.2 which is considered to be Apple’s patch to compatibility problems faced by lower versions of the OS.

Also the update is supposed to fix security vulnerability associated with viewing malicious PDF files. The other possible fix is the iproximity sensor glitch which many users were waiting for. Now even developers can be confident that iOS 4 apps can be developed keeping iPod and and iPhone 3G in mind and users who already upgraded to the iPhone need not regret in any way.

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Tawkon app shows increased Radiation levels during Death Grip

August 10th, 2010

Everyone right now might be dissing the iPhone and all those big SmartPhone companies because of the loss in reception due to the death grip. But not many except the experts at Tawkon have looked at the issue from the radiation point of view. Tawkon developers of world’s first Cellphone radiation measurement application has noted that the cellphone radiations have increased in large way when the SmartPhone was held a bit tightly.

Tawkon released a video in their blog demonstrating how radiation levels push hard when the grip of death comes in to play. The video shows how all the major smartphones increase their radiation levels when the phone is subjected to pressure.

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Frash Introduces Adobe Flash on Jailbroken iOS Devices

August 9th, 2010

Now you can get run flash on your iPhones. Users already had this option on iPad with Frash, (shortform of Adobe Flash for Android Runtime), when it was ported to iOS by the iPhone developer Comex. Now the guys at Grand Panell have made it compatible for the iPhone also.

Comex has earlier developed the Spirit iPhone jail break application and also the web based Jailbreakme tool. However it is said that the app is in the initial phase of development and only an Alpha version is available.

The iPhone app developers say that Frash has been programmed to run on the Apple devices; e.g. the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3G, and of course the iPad.

You can install Frash with few easy steps:

· First jailbreak the iPhone with JailbreakMe

· Launch Cydia from the home screen of your jailbroken iPhone

· go to Manage tab >>> go to Sources then >>> and tap Edit on the top >>> again Tap on add

· Now add this source: http://repo.benm.at/

· Once it is successfully installed, please tap on the Search tab and look for Frash.

· Tap on Frash to install it in your iPhone.

· Now Reboot the iPhone.

You’re all set! Now you can just navigate to a page in Safari browser with non-video Flash content and can tap on Flash to play it. Please note that you should take back up of all your data before starting the installation.

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Tags: Flash for iOS, Frash, Jailbroken iPads, Jailbroken iPhone