Look, Apple, we know you’ve cornered the phone market, but it’s a just a little rude suing all and any competition to the iPhone. Apple is hereby putting out a lawsuit on HTC for apparantly breaking some very specific patents Apple created on specific features of the iPhone.. such as their Patent No. 7,479,949: “Touch [...]
Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Sony PS3 Leapyear bug resolved
Yesterday millions of Playstation Network users had to go without using their console for over 24 hours due to an unforeseen bug which resulted in the PS3 thinking that 2010 was a leapyear.
As February the 28th turned into to the 1st of March many PS3 users were experiencing issues with the “Trophies not Syncing” and [...]
Apple Removes ‘Nearly’ All Sexually Explicit Content from iPhone Apps Store
5000 iPhone apps containing adult themed content have been banned from the Apple apps store.
This ban has followed recent customer complaints from women who found the content was getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see. One customer highlighted that parental controls [...]
MWC 2010: DoCoMo reveal eye-controlled mobile phone prototype
Our friends over at DemoDone.com have sent us a video blog of their time at last week’s MWC 2010 from Barcelona.
We were all wowed by the big releases of the main mobile brands such as HTC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson but wandering around at MWC there are more than a few stands that turned our [...]
Gaming Weekly
This week sees the release of a brand-new Aliens vs. Predator game… and the last one wasn’t half bad, but will the fresh appeal of the latest titles in the franchise still wow the punters? Apparently not… many pre-release reviews have flamed the game for its lack of originality and freshness, that and the fact [...]
iPhone Jailbreaking Gets You Banned
You may have read our recent article on third party application developers being banned from the App store by Apple for the seemingly benign act of unlocking or “jailbreaking” their iPhone. The fact of the matter is that this is causing quite a bit of commotion around the internet, on various forums and blogs worldwide, people [...]
Quick Tip: Updating the software on a Nokia N97
The mobile phone industry moves fast, so fast that most of the time the mobile phone that you purchased all sealed and new, probably has an out of date software version installed. Now with that in mind, Nokia have installed a Software Updater in all of its recent Symbian devices.
So we at the Gadget Helpline [...]
Amazon Kindle App for Blackberry is Released
Amazon have just released a Kindle application for their Blackberry devices which will allow Blackberry users to access e-books without having to use an actual Kindle device.
Similar to the Kindle app for the iPhone, the Kindle app for the Blackberry will enable users to automatically sync between their mobile phone devices as well their Kindles [...]
MWC 2010: Nokia and Intel announce MeeGo operating system
Day one of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and fresh from the Nokia conference is news of its new MeeGo Operating System, created in partnership with Intel.
The announcement was a little light on details as videos and photos were not shown regarding the interface. However what we now know is that the OS is [...]
