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Google Android Tethering Allowed Now
Author: +866.com7 Apr
While Google did a mass sweep of the tethering applications on its Android Market a few days ago, it looks like the Internet giant has felt the pressure from various parties and has loosened up a bit. Instead of banning the app for everybody under the sun, they plan to make those applications available for “users outside the T-Mobile US network”. While this shows that Google has a system to filter apps based on what carrier you’re on, it’s unconfirmed whether such a feature is good or bad. The good news is that developers are free to come up with software, even if it goes against some carriers’ Terms of Service (ToS); the bad news is that if the carriers don’t like your app, it’s not going to get very much exposure. Do you think such a move is good from Google? A statement from Google (to the developer) reads:
“We inadvertently unpublished your application for all mobile providers; if you like, we can restore your app so that all Android Market users outside the T-Mobile US network will have access to your application”
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Zippo App For Your iPhone
Author: +866.com30 Mar
Zippo and Moderati have announced that their free Virtual Zippo Lighter app for the iPhone has been downloaded over 3 million times since it was first released back in October, making it one of the most popular and prevalent branded applications in the App Store. It’s a simple app, but certainly one that you’ll probably download as soon as you get your hands on your iPhone. The average of 100,000 new downloads a week can’t be that far wrong, right?
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Growing Panel
Author: +866.com23 Mar
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Panels is certainly an interesting concept, but you generally don’t see too many innovations on it, unlike the seemingly unlimited number of iPhone applications. The Growing Panel for the Xperia is certainly one of the rare innovations for the Panels interface, and an interesting one at that. Instead of using the boring old icons to notify you, it has an interactive garden on your Panel, which uses different methods to notify you. For example, the flowers in the center of the panel would represent, emails, text messages and phone calls. The bloomed flower indicates that you have a missed on. The single stem plant on the left indicates the battery life, and when the phone is plugged in, there will be a glow at the bottom of said plan. There are a few other different notifications, so it certainly looks interesting. It looks like something that everybody would happily download and try out.
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Work On Newber To Be Discontinued
Author: +866.com23 Mar
If you’ve been reading the news of late, you certainly won’t be surprised to hear of more complaints regarding Apple’s approval process for the App Store, and more specifically, the time it takes to approve applications that are submitted to them. The next victim of such treatment is FreedomVoice, who are the people behind the Newber application, which can transfer calls between the iPhone and other phones. The application was submitted to Apple for approval over 6 months ago, but the company hasn’t gotten any response from Apple yet, and as such, it’s going to discontinue work on Newber, despite spending some $600,000 on it so far, which is seriously very sad news. Hopefully Apple will make some serious effort to speed up the approval process for apps that are submitted to the App Store in the future, so as to prevent this kind of incidents from happening.
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Windows Marketplace For Mobile Detailed
Author: +866.com15 Mar
Some official details on Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace (WMM) for Mobile have surfaced. It’s no surprise to see that it’s actually quite similar to Apple’s App Store. Microsoft will give developers 70 percent of the profit from app sales and will allow them to choose their own prices. Developers will have to fork out $99 annually to submit their applications to the Windows Marketplace. The first year’s payment will include the cost of submitting up to 5 applications to WMM, and it will be an additional $99 per program after that. Students have it a little easier as they’re allowed to submit applications for free through the Microsoft DreamSpark program.
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Android Market Blocking Merchants
Author: +866.com15 Mar
Google hasn’t been offering paid applications on its Android Market for too long, but already problems are starting to surface. Developers who want to sell their software on the Market are required to register for a Google Checkout merchant account before they’re allowed to submit their applications with a price tagged to it. The problem is that users are reporting problems linking their merchant accounts with their Android developer accounts. The error message stating “Sorry, we could not setup your merchant account. Please try again later” has surfaced many times over the past 24 to 48 hours, which is certainly frustrating for developers (and end users).
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Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace details
Author: +866.com15 Mar
Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft’s own app store, was announced during MWC 2009, but with little details about how software developers would be able to create and sell applications.
Today, Microsoft has come up with more info about Windows Marketplace, unveiling the fact that developers will get to keep 70% of the sales revenues.
However, for submitting apps, you need to pay a $99 annual tax, which allows you to submit up to five apps per year. An extra of $99 is required for each app you want to submit in addition to the five ones included in the annual tax.
The Redmond company also said it wants to provide “transparency throughout the certification process”, as well as “guidance and support from the stage of development to the final sale to the consumer.”
If you know your way around Windows Mobile apps, you can go to Microsoft’s website and get the needed tools to start developing.
Initially, Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be available in 29 countries. It will most probably be activated at the same time with the release of the first Windows Mobile 6.5 devices.
Via Press release
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Get The HTC Touch Diamond2 Applications
Author: +866.com11 Mar
Want some of those cool programs that are on the HTC Touch Diamond2 but don’t want to buy the phone? Well, there is some good news for you as some tech savvy user has seen fit to rip the programs from the upcoming Touch Diamond2 and post all the relevant cab files online. These cab files can be installed on the HTC Touch Diamond, which should save you quite a bit of money, especially since you won’t have to buy a new phone.
Programs that have been ripped include:
HTC Calculator 1.0.1822.4128
HTC Album 2.5.1820.4127 w/ Social Networking (Thanks to herg at XDA)
Opera v9.5 build 15613
Diamond 2 Sensor with apps regedit (Thanks to herg at XDA for additional apps)
Diamond 2 QuickGPS 1.0.1911.1733
Diamond 2 Keyboard With Arrows (Thanks to savage25rcracer)
Diamond 2 Keyboard Without Arrows (Thanks to savage25rcracer)
Diamond 2 Keyboard With Arrows in Landscape Only (Thanks to savage25rcracer)
Diamond 2 Email Wizard
Diamond 2 Volume Control 2.1.1911.2331
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RIM Quietly Updates IM Applications
Author: +866.com6 Mar
It might not be significant to you, but if you’re an IM (instant messaging) junkie, then you’ll be fairly interested to hear that version 2.1.42 of the IM clients for its devices has been released. This seems to be a little quick, seeing that version 2.1.41 was released just a few weeks ago. So far there hasn’t been too much information as to what has changed, but do let us know if you find anything new.
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RIM
Author: +866.com6 Mar
When we first heard about Research in Motion’s own app store, we thought it would be named BlackBerry Application Storefront. In fact, this was the name presented by RIM itself.
Apparently, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer changed its mind, as now we hear the app store is in fact officially called BlackBerry App World – and that’s actually a good name.
It looks like BlackBerry App World will go live in a couple of hours, at 10 PM Eastern Time, and it will be accessible at this address (for the moment, there’s nothing there, of course).
No details yet about the applications that RIM allows in its App World, but we’ll surely hear more about this pretty soon.
Via BlackBerry Cool