Android – Iphone – Applications

So long MobileMe, it wasn’t nice knowing ya.

You were overpriced, you didn’t do much, and there were many other cloud services that simply did it better. Good riddance.

If you’re feeling like I’m feeling, then the revelation that Amazon has halted orders of MobileMe sales is music to your ears.

Speaking of music, the worst kept secret in the industry will likely be replacing MobileMe as an all in one service that does music, document sharing, and more. Yep, I’m talking about iCloud…(…)
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written by coetzjoh \\ tags: amazon, amazon-halts, cloud, facebook, industry, mobileme, phone-download, sales, sales-halted

A recent survey by Ericsson revealed that about 1/3 of Android and iPhone users launch at least one application before getting out of bed. Are you surprised? Probably not, especially if you’re like me.

Tina and I have a rule: no iPad or TV in the bedroom. Although I’ve tried to implement the no iPhone rule in the room as well, it’s been hard to enforce for 2 reasons: first, we need our iPhones as we use them as alarm clocks, and second, because we’re freaking addicted to it… (…)
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written by coetzjoh \\ tags: alarm-clocks, bedroom, before-getting, download, facebook, iphone news, iphones, launch-at-least, owners, phone-download, phone-owners, read-the-rest, room-as-well, survey, users-launch

We’ve heard iPhone 5, 4G, 4GS, and 4S as possible names for Apple’s next gen iPhone. Recently, select develepors started receiving iPhone ’4S’ prototypes for testing purposes. There’s even been some leaked images of what is an alleged iPhone 4S with a slightly larger screen than the iPhone 4.

Following other hints that the next iPhone will be called the “4S,” an industry analyst from Jefferies has reported that Apple will indeed call the device the iPhone 4S.(…)
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written by yinchristian2 \\ tags: call-the-device, device, facebook, hspa, iphone 4g, iphone 4s, iphone 5, iphone news, leaked-images, possible-names, rumors, slightly-larger

Google just announced a new feature for Google News for mobile devices such as the iPhone. When pointing your iPhone to news.google.com via Safari, Google News will ask you if it can use your location. If you agree, it will serve you news that happened around you.

I really like the idea of news near me, the problem is I can’t get this thing to work. Yes, my Location Services are turned on, I rebooted, etc, but it just won’t work. Oh well, I guess I will have to remain ignorant of what’s happening around me… (…)
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written by coetzjoh \\ tags: google-news, location, mobile, phone-download, problem, read-the-rest, remain-ignorant, safari, web apps

When devices that supported AirPlay started showing up at CES this year it left Sonos at a bit of a disadvantage. Airplay requires special hardware for it to be supported in a consumer device and the Sonos devices didn’t have that chip. But that’s not the end of the story.

The engineers at Sonos put their heads together to find a way to make AirPlay work on Sonos devices like the S5 which we looked and loved at last year. It’s a bit of software and a bit of hardware. But if you have an Apple AirPort the you have all the hardware you need.

To make AirPlay work on the Sonos, you connect an AirPort Express directly to your Sonos S5, both the Ethernet and audio cable. Once connected and configured properly, when you play something on the AirPort via AirPlay, the Sonos will pick it up and switch to play the audio from that device automatically. Boom, instant AirPlay.

Ok, it’s a bit of a kludge, but damn, it works great.

[ Sonos Does AirPlay Their Own Way is a post from 148Apps ]

written by Mz.MaLi \\ tags: airplay, airport, airport express, apple, consumer-device, ethernet, play-something, play-the-audio, sonos-does, year-it-left