If Nissan Micra has introduced keyless ignition to Indians, Volvo is all set to spoil them for choice. Volvo is introducing cars in 2012 which come with a free app for Android and iPhone to control the car. Volvo’s car app will let you control the car remotely. You can get the position of the […] Read more
UK’s pizza lovers have one more thing to love about. A completely cashless pizza eating experience. Pizza Express in UK has enabled all its 370 branches to accept money via iPhone/Paypal app. Pizza Express has teamed up with Paypal and brought in a iPhone app. The security and getting the monies is covered by Paypal […] Read more
Dropp is a new social network/iPhone app which will let you ‘dropp’ messages and pictures based on locations for someone else to pick them up. Just like Foursquare/Gowalla but more useful. Dropp is like leaving bread crumbs from the Hansel and Gretel story and the traditional treasure hunt combined. Only in this case, no one’s […] Read more
How about having the whole of wikipedia on your iPhone/iPad? Then get ready to clear some space on your iPhone and spend some money on the app. All of Wikipedia is a offline wikipedia reading which doesn’t skimp on anything – content, user experience and money. The app costs $8.99, needs 3.86 GB space (english […] Read more
Alright, you ready for this. I am sure you are. Because you have already seen a similar charade. Remember the $35 tablet PC by the Indian HRD ministry? Yeah that kind of thing is back. But this time it’s coming from Wipro. $30 iPad seems possible as per Wipro. I know surprising. But you have […] Read more
Nokia has entered into a patent license agreement with Apple. According to this both Nokia and Apple will withdraw all their complaints against each other. Apple will be paying Nokia royalties. Looks like this is the season for loyalties. HTC is already paying royalties to Microsoft for using Android, making Microsoft a big mobile winner. […] Read more
The most commonly used iPhone passcode is 1234 and 0000 is the second most commonly used iPhone passcode. This sounds crazy to start with and turns to creepy if we have to think about how this data was even collected. Don’t worry you are in safe hands of Big Brother. Of course, there would be […] Read more
M.F. Hussain has loved his iPhone. Being a painter he might have loved his iPad too. Because iPad has one more use case, this time it isn’t a music video or an educational app but it has become a nifty tool for a painter. iPad is the new favorite gadget of painters who don’t want […] Read more
Reigning in the top slot for 14 years, Nokia is all set to lose its smartphone crown to Samsung and Apple. Next quarter (2011Q2), the rankings of top smartphone makers would read Samsung, Apple and Nokia followed by LG, RIM and HTC. These are predictions right now but they aren’t entirely baseless. First off, Nokia […] Read more
You just got one more reason to buy that iPad. A thousand books from British library just went free on iPad. These books are from 19th century ranging from novels and poetry to scientific books. This offer is valid for iPad only, and there are plans for releasing this for iPad’s poorer cousins – Kindle […] Read more
iCloud communications sued Apple for using iCloud for their cloud computing services saying that it is actually my cloud Mr. Jobs. And Apple says : “Been there, done that”. That’s how these lawsuits in the high tech world are. As for Apple, it is no stranger to these lawsuits. Type in icloud in Google search […] Read more
iOS 5 is out for less than 24 hours and we already have a hack to get to it. The OS version is available for Apple’s developers and chosen few. For the rest of the folks this little hack can actually get your phone to iOS5. There are caveats. The hack is relatively straightforward. It […] Read more
Indian security agencies have just one more thing to do before they crack Blackberry and Nokia’s email server problem. An iPhone app. Tiger Text is an iPhone app which is getting Indian security agencies attention. Tiger Text is a cunning little app, the intended usage has more bad ways than good. Tiger Text can delete […] Read more
Steve Jobs is back to his presenting best and Apple is back to its ‘pushing-everyone-else-by-a-year’ best. Apple has almost caught everyone napping. Not that anyone including Google could do much about it if they weren’t napping. Apple’s iOS5 is the most relevant software upgrade in the recent history. Relevance comes from its cloud integration and […] Read more
Apple has announced, what seems to be, its biggest mobile OS revision till date. It has some of the most anticipated features like integrated notification tray, Sync over WiFi, setting up iPhone without a PC and tight integration with Twitter. All or some of these are already available in other operating systems like Android, Windows […] Read more
Apple in one fell swoop sent quite a few startups to the gallows. Apple has integrated the features of these startups into its operating system itself making these apps/startups almost redundant. Instapaper, Readitlater, Remember The Milk (RTM), Dropbox and Whatsapp are the startups in question. It’s not that these startups were depending on Apple for […] Read more
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