Forget Android, iOS and the rest of the mobile operating systems. Sometimes you don't need to spend weeks building the sleekest mobile apps for native environments. And depending on your business, something a little bit more quick and simple can do the job just fine. That 's the theory behind Widgetbox Mobile, a new offering from the team behind ClickTurn ads, which will theoretically allow businesses to build and manage mobile web apps in minutes. "There's a new category of users who view the app store as not the best option for them, " says Widgetbox's CEO Will Price.
Here is a wallpaper for all the Android users. Android is much better than Apple!
Android can eat the Apple, but the Apple can't eat Android.
They've just announced the new
AP1201 case for the iPhone 4, an attractive option for those looking to protect their iPhones whilst simultaneously charging them wirelessly. The case itself is sleek and without bulk, and contains a small external battery that will add
to your iPhone 4s battery life. It comes with two charging options: one is a high speed charging mode which charges the phone first, then the case, while the other option provides simultaneous pass-through charging. Overall, Energizer says that the case will double the battery life of your iPhone.
Bad news for iPhone users hoping to get a connection faster than 3G in the next year. The iPhone won 't be getting a 4G-equipped version at any point in the next 14 months.
Today, Google announced that its Goggles image search feature is immediately available in the App Store for Apple's iPhone smartphone. The new feature,
which will be bundled into the Google Mobile App, will support iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 devices running iOS 4 or higher.
"Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is still a Labs product. It works well for things such as landmarks, logos and the covers of books, DVDs and
games. However, it doesn't yet work for some things you might want to try like animals, plants or food," explains Google.
Slap on those Goggles and get
Googling.
US high-tech giant Apple has sold out of the iPhone 4 in China less than a week after launching the trendy smartphone on the
mainland US high-tech giant Apple has sold out of the iPhone 4 in China less than a week after
launching the trendy smartphone on the mainland, creating a flourishing market for scalpers, state media reported.
More than 200,000 iPhone 4s were snapped up within days of going on sale while waiting lists stretch to the end of October, the China Daily
newspaper reported Wednesday, citing Apple's mobile operator partner China Unicom. Apple was forced to temporarily close one of
its stores in Beijing on the same day after arguments reportedly broke out between scalpers and Apple store customers frustrated
at missing out on the handsets.
Earlier in the week, scalpers were scooping up several iPhone 4s at a time, suggesting Apple's restrictions of two smartphones per person were not being enforced, the China Economic Daily reported on its website Thursday.
Scalpers outside Apple's two stores in the capital were then offering the iPhone 4s to desperate customers for 300-600 yuan (45-90
dollars) more than the official price, the report said. One scalper, who had bought six iPhone 4s, told
the newspaper he was selling the 16-gigabyte version, which has wireless Internet capability, for 5,600 yuan compared with the official price of 4,999 yuan.
The 32-gigabyte smartphone sells for 5,999 yuan, Apple has said.
The phone made its debut in China on September 25, just a week after Apple officially launched the iPad in the country, with some customers queuing for several days to get their hands on the tablet computer. Both products have been available for several months on China's grey market, which has been booming thanks to great demand for Apple
goods.
The earlier version of the iPhone only officially went on sale in China in October -- more than two years after its US launch. China has at least 420 million web users and is
also the world's largest mobile market with more than 800 million subscribers as of the end of June, according to official data.
Don't worry, this isn't another search app you'll never use actually, Ask.com isn't a search
engine per se. Originally conceived as the place to ask complex questions and get relevant answers, Ask.com returned to these roots earlier this year after its owner IAC realized there 's no point in battling search behemoths like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their own turf. Their upcoming iOS program aptly named Ask iPhone specializes in getting the right
answers for your typed in or spoken questions in a way traditional search cannot handle
efficiently.
The app draws its power from Ask.com's database of half a billion matching answers from high-quality sources like Q&A sites, FAQ
pages, and other relevant sites. Like on the web, you can tap crowd knowledge by hitting the "Ask the Community" button or ask your
friends on social networks to help you out. Version 2.0 of this question-answering engine
will deliver geo-targeted answers based on your location. According to reports, you 'll be able to route complex questions to the knowledgeable people who opted-in to the beta program, crowd-source answers relevant to your locations, see questions asked nearby, and so forth. Those features will be available under the
" Nearby Answers" tab of Ask iPhone version 2.0. What's best, you'll be able to set the asking
radius from less than a mile to fifty miles and thus narrow down your question to the right people or places. Here 's how it's supposed to
work. The app will present you with a list of places around you. You simply pick a nearby restaurant and ask if they serve pasta. Or,
choose a movie theater and ask if the line for the latest Twilight movie is too long. If all of this sounds familiar, then you may have
already tried intelligent search assistant Siri, acquired by Apple earlier this year. That said,
Ask.com does much more than parse complex search queries to perform keyword searches –
it delivers answers to your questions. It'll be all seamless and magical – that's crowd-sourced,
decision-based searching for you.
Ask iPhone will be submitted to Apple soon and hopefully approved without a hiccup.
