According to AppShopper, a reputable iOS and Mac OS X app directory, over 400,000 apps are now available for download for iOS in Apple’s App Store (with over 500,000 being approved apps), or more precisely, 401,437. If AppShopper's statistics are accurate, this is yet another milestone for Apple and iOS platform.
Steve Jobs is one of the most private 'celebrity' CEOs in the tech industry, if not of any industry going. For a man that's so popular and so wealthy he isn't one for letting people behind the closed doors of his life, which makes it even more surprising that the man behind Apple has allowed an authorized biography to be written about him, and it's now available for pre-order.
Simon Pierro, a self-made German magician has published a demo of a preview version of iOS 5. We admit it, it's not the real iOS 5, but it's loaded with "magical" features that makes many of us wish it was real.
Fake Mail or ‘FakeMail’ is a Cydia App that lets users send anonymous email, or more specifically, email from inexistent email addresses. Useful if you want to pull a prank on your friends or just don't want to be identified on a particular email you're sending.
With Apple’s official announcement of iOS 5 just around the corner (watch this space!), concept videos for possible UI features are cropping up from all over the place. We showed four such concepts yesterday and we have another one today!
There's speculation that Apple is planning to introduce an iPad with a quad-core processor in order to remain at a competitive advantage with its competitors, which are looking to adopt quad-core technologies themselves.
When we thought Sony was finally secure, a group that calls itself "Lulz Security" broke into three well-known Sony websites: Sony Pictures, Sony Music Belgium and Sony Music Netherlands. 1,000,000 user profiles were compromised, with sensitive information include passwords, home addresses and passwords finding its way onto Internet file sharing services.
According to Apple itself, iOS 5 will allow automatic over-the-air App updates. This was confirmed by the iTunes App Update page, which alluded to the new feature.
Call of Duty Elite, Activision's recently announced subscription based stat tracking oddity has many interesting facets, but one that's not been talked about too much is the mobile applications that will give users access to the world of Call of Duty on their travels. New apps for iPhone, iPad and Android are on the horizon and promise to go some way toward making the yet unspecified subscription free worthwhile.
Remember the Welcome Back package Sony promised us by way of saying thank you for sticking by the beleaguered platform during the PSN downtime of the last few weeks? Now that the company has finally managed to bring its PSN Store back online, they've also announced just how this package works and more importantly, your free content can be downloaded right now if you can cope with the many error codes currently being thrown up by the service while it attempts to deal with a few million people hitting it at once.
