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Planner S, a social diary application for iOS from Akaon makes its English debut soon. Originally conceived for a Korean language audience, Planner S has proven popular and well-suited to expansion. The application is a full featured calendar and planner, but Planner S goes beyond most scheduling utilities. With fully integrated social networking capabilities through [...]

Tekton Technologies releases an enhanced version of MakeMyMusic 2.0, after tremendous positive responses from our users. MakeMyMusic creates automatic personalized music play lists from your entire library so that you can listen to the tracks the way you like them, without having to manage play lists. Its is an innovative way of creating personalized music [...]

GP Cubed, LLC, an exciting new mobile application developer, has today announced the release of a newly updated version of SUP! For the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. An engaging new social connection app, SUP! Helps users quickly and easily find times and events where they can meet up with friends and family in person. [...]

When you press the wireless remote Siri will chime and you can tell the phone what you want to do. The mic is supposed to be sensitive enough to work from across the room. The attached dock and mic will also allow you to make hands free phone calls as well. Iris has an embedded [...]

Tekton Technologies today is pleased to announce the enhanced release and immediate availability of System Monitor with Battery Max 1.5, their all-in-one comprehensive and artistic, health check meter for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. System Monitor with Battery Max is a comprehensive Free Memory and Battery app along with a System Monitor utility, that [...]

Our sister-site TouchArcade notes that Chillingo's excellent physics puzzler Feed Me Oil is free today for both the iPhone and iPad. It's normally $0.99 for iPhone and $1.99 for iPad. Feed Me Oil is something of a mix between World of Goo and Where's My Water?.

Every level features two things: A spigot where oil shoots from, and an area (usually designed as a mouth of a strange creature) where you've got to get the oil to. Completing each level involves getting the oil from the spigot to the goal area utilizing widgets you can drag into the game area. For instance, oil flows off simple platforms, it can be curved by magnets, and even blown in a different direction by fans.

Feed Me Oil was shockingly popular when it first hit last summer, so there's a decent chance you already have it. If this is the first you've heard of it though, make sure you don't miss this freebie.

Feed Me Oil is available free for today for iPhone and as an HD version for iPad. [Direct Link: iPhone/iPad]

Several years ago, Comcast began instituting bandwidth caps of 250GB per month on its residential customers. In 2008, this was plenty for most customers, but with the advent of streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, WatchESPN and others, some users have been concerned about whether the 250GB cap was sufficient for their needs.

Today, Comcast has announced it is revamping its cap system, instituting larger caps with the ability for customers to purchase additional gigabytes in blocks.

The first new approach will offer multi-tier usage allowances that incrementally increase usage allotments for each tier of high-speed data service from the current threshold. Thus, we'd start with a 300 GB usage allotment for our Internet Essentials, Economy, and Performance Tiers, and then we would have increasing data allotments for each successive tier of high speed data service (e.g., Blast and Extreme). The very few customers who use more data at each tier can buy additional gigabytes in increments/blocks (e.g., $10 for 50 GB).

The second new approach will increase our data usage thresholds for all tiers to 300 GB per month and also offer additional gigabytes in increments/blocks (e.g., $10 per 50 GB).

In both approaches, we'll be increasing the initial data usage threshold for our customers from today's 250 GB per month to at least 300 GB per month.

In its blog post, Comcast notes that it is continuing to "consider other ways to ensure that all of our customers are treated fairly and have a consistent and superior experience while using our residential high speed Internet service in the way in which it is intended."

Reuters reports that China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua has once again publicly stated that the world's largest mobile phone carrier is engaged in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone to its customers.

"We've been actively talking to Apple on how we can cooperate," China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua, who assumed the post in March, told a shareholders meeting. "I can't give you too many details, but I'd like to repeat that both sides do hope to boost our cooperation," Xi added after the meeting.

China Unicom was Apple's launch partner for the iPhone in China, and availability expanded to China Telecom earlier this year. Compatibility with China Mobile's network has, however, been hampered by the carrier's custom technology that would require specialized iPhone hardware to operate on the network. But with future wireless modem chips adding compatibility for China Mobile's network, it is possible that the next-generation iPhone could be directly compatible with China Mobile's network, eliminating the need for custom hardware to suit the carrier.


China Mobile already has 15 million iPhone customers on its network, even though those customers are limited to the carrier's 2G network due to the differences in standards for 3G networks. The carrier has even taken to officially supporting those customers with a SIM-cutting service and other resources.

Xi's predecessor, Wang Jianzhou, stated several times that China Mobile was in talks with Apple about the iPhone, so it is unclear whether Xi's statements indicate that progress is being made or if there is simply an ongoing dialog between the two companies that has yet to lead to a firm relationship.

Apple has filed a motion to dismiss in a case filed by customers over alleged misleading advertising depicting the Siri technology in the iPhone 4S. The lawsuit, filed in March, alleges that Apple's advertising of Siri doesn't reflect real-world usage. When asked for directions or to locate a store, "Siri either did not understand what Plaintiff was asking, or, after a very long wait time, responded with the wrong answer."


In a motion to dismiss (via Scribd), Apple attempts to shoot down the Plaintiff's arguments, reports the Wall Street Journal:

They offer only general descriptions of Apple?s advertisements, incomplete summaries of Apple?s website materials, and vague descriptions of their alleged?and highly individualized?disappointment with Siri. Tellingly, although Plaintiffs claim they became dissatisfied with Siri?s performance ?soon after? purchasing their iPhones, they made no attempt to avail themselves of Apple?s 30-day return policy or one-year warranty?which remains in effect. Instead, they seek to take an alleged personal grievance about the purported performance of a popular product and turn it into a nationwide class action under California?s consumer protection statutes. The Complaint does not come close to meeting the heavy burden necessary to sustain such claims.

Apple continues to heavily advertise Siri and the iPhone 4S. The two latest ads for the product feature celebrities Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel using Siri to plan date night and to get tomato soup delivered.

The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) today released its latest rankings of customer satisfaction in the United States for mobile phones and a number of products and services, with the new mobile phone rankings being expanded to include Apple, Research in Motion, LG, and HTC for the first time.


In its first appearance in the rankings, Apple easily topped the list with a score of 83, outdistancing Nokia, LG, and HTC in a tie for second place at 75. Apple's performance marks the first time a mobile phone company scored above 77 in any of the group's surveys dating back to 2004.

For many users, the advent of smartphone technology has dramatically changed what they look for in a cell phone device. Two smartphones makers, Apple and Research in Motion (RIM), enter the ACSI with very different results. At 83, Apple (iPhone) leads the field by a long shot, while RIM (Blackberry) lags behind as the least satisfying at 69. [...]

At 83, Apple?s iPhone is a game changer when it comes to customer satisfaction. No other cell phone company has ever broken into the 80s. Apple?s nearest competitors this year are three companies tied at 75: Nokia (+3%) and ACSI newcomers LG and HTC.

Apple has routinely topped ACSI surveys for personal computers, and with its new inclusion in the mobile phone category it is now leading that market as well.

On the carrier front, AT&T experienced a significant jump in customer satisfaction this year as other carriers saw drops, significantly tightened the field. Among the four major carriers, Sprint led with a score of 71, followed by Verizon at 70 and T-Mobile and AT&T at 69. All of those major carriers were beat out by the "All Others" category, which garnered a score of 76.

The craze surrounding the new Apple iPhone is certainly not unwarranted; there is really nothing to dislike about the internet-enabled smartphone, which harbors all of the usual features of a regular mobile phone, along with the conveniences found on multimedia players and cameras. The entire philosophy of the iPhone is a mix between minimalistic and [...]

The internet has opened up the world of marketing and allowed it to enter avenues and gateways that, only a few years ago, were not even dreamed of. Using mobile phones (and the iPhone in particular) is one such way to get your message out and promote your products and services that would be unthinkable [...]

If you aren’t too familiar with the mobile web, it is time that you started to learn more about how it works. All mobile devices connect to the Internet wirelessly. This simply means that your mobile phone will be able to access websites through 4G, WiFi, or a wireless hotspot. These connections are only as [...]

Although there are hundreds of thousands of iPhone apps currently available for download, you might have your own idea for a great program. If you are not an IT expert, you may be under the assumption that it will be impossible for you to have an iPhone app developed for a reasonable amount of money. [...]

Although technology experts may award new mobile phones with awards and accolades, finding the best mobile phone is a completely subjective experience. The iPhone 4 may be extremely popular among students and professionals, but it might be too complicated for your personal tastes. By contrast, the Blackberry Touch might not be appealing for those that [...]

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Looks like the good ship iPhone is ready to take to the high seas again, with reports coming in from South Korea that manufacturing of the smartphone's A5 processor chips has gone into overdrive. Sources are saying that chip makers...

What a week for Andy Gray and Richard Keys! First the Sky Sports pundits get the boot from their long-time posts for repeated acts of sexist behaviour, and now they're the stars of their own iPhone app! The Andy Gray...

With the smartphone tide turning in favour of dual-core chips, rumours are hotting up that the next wave of iPhones will jump onto the multi-core bandwagon. AppleInsider are now reporting that the aging 3GS graphics cores that are also present...

Today Joystiq posted a gameplay trailer for Epic Game's newest game that continues their series of stunning dungeon crawlers. 'Infinity Blade Dungeons' is the next game in store by the gaming outfit that brought you the two acclaimed predecessors: Infinity Blade and Infinity Blade 2.

While it's not a new offering, FreeAppDaily has thus far been my number one stop for getting paid applications absolutely free - it's legal, it's easy and it supports app developers.

Europress, a leading producer of family-orientated video games, launched their third iOS endeavor onto the App Store. Compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Doodle Tales allows children to unleash their imaginations. Best of all, it's completely [mostly] free.

Eventually, all typical screen films either get grubby and nasty, begin to peel in the corners or have ugly spots and scratches. In the case of Spigen SGP's GLAS.t screen protecting solutions for the iPhone 4S, however, the aforementioned is completely avoidable.

Apple's patented slide to unlock method for unlocking an iOS device has received a decent revamp via a designer on Dribbble.

Steve Jobs had a lot of input into the design of the upcoming the iPhone, according to a report.

The Apple co-founder and former CEO "worked closely on the redesigned phone before his death in October," according to a report from Bloomberg, which did not identify the source.

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• Apple orders 4-inch iPhone screens, says report

The new Phone's design was in the works before the release of the iPhone 4S, giving Jobs plenty of opportunity to contribute, the report added.

Apple's next iteration of the iPhone, with a rumored 4-inch screen is due by October, according to various analysts.

Other key features of the next iPhone are expected to include 4G LTE and thinner/stronger Gorilla Glass 2.

An updated Apple A series processor is also likely but don't count on the A5X used in the third-generation iPad. A quad-core graphics chip just isn't necessary for the smaller screen, even with Retina resolution.

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