App Viruses | mobile software We knew this day would come. Viruses and scams for you smart phone. It seems that bad hackers can never get enough of breaking your stuff. There are already several apps for Android that supposedly protect you from viruses. Scared? Personally, I would be more scared about losing your phone. [...]
Gizmodo’s top 10 iPhone apps for the week are a bit questionable. We’ve got 1. Snowtape, a radio app with song recording; 2. SCVNGR, a scavenger hunt app (that I actually saw launch at TechCrunch); 3. Project 365, a photo per day app; 4. Prince of Persia, Chinatown Wars Lite and Phoenix Wright, all games; [...]
Hi All, I wanted to give you all a quick update on the iPhone version for Phone Halo. We’re lucky to be one of the few companies in the fantastic made for iPhone program and it’s been a blast developing for Apple. There are a lot of requirements but we’re meeting them all and the [...]
The vibe at TechCrunch Disrupt this morning was vastly different from the previous two days. Perhaps it had something to do with the after-party last night, or maybe people were just mentally exhausted from 15+ hours of panels, talks, and battles we’ve seen to date. Either way, the techies were tired, but luckily Jack Dorsey [...]
Want to show off your newest Apple product at the game? Too bad! Yahoo Sports confirmed the story of one fan who was unable to bring her iPad into a Yankee game. Apparently, it falls under the umbrella of their “no laptops” rule. That seems pretty ridiculous as it’s just a jumbo version of an [...]
En route to TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, a 3-day event in New York City. From what I gather, there’ll be a bunch of start-ups presenting their cutting edge ideas to successful executives and investors. Some of the highlights include talks from the CEO of AOL, the CEO of Yahoo!, a few Google people, the creator of [...]
What can’t droid do? Apparently, the answer to that question is not “play Everquest.” Through some clever usage of the PhoneMyPC app, the game runs pretty darn smoothly at around 30 fps and the lowest settings. Some of you may remember the decade-old Everquest as one of the first extremely popluar MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online [...]
Track Lost Phone | Prevent loss Ever notice man’s fascination with maps? Ever since the beginning of time, man has wanted to design systems to determine location and track whereabouts. Tracking a lost phone is a modern daily requirement. Consider that this was an issue of survival. Knowing where you were and the weather [...]
One of my favorite blogs, ReadWriteWeb is holding what they call an “unconference” today in Mountain View, California. The topic is mobile development trends, and it seems like they plan to cover just about every niche of the industry I can think of: geo-location services, commerce & marketing, content/publishing, mobile social networking, augmented reality, and [...]
The biggest announcement of iPhone OS 3.0 last year was the ability for the iPhone to interact with accessories. This opened up the iPhone to hardware developers. However, we have yet to see the iPhone accessory gold rush take place. I personally feel that this is a pity and that there is a world of [...]