The Cat and Mouse Game Continues: Palm Pre Syncs With iTunes Again

The Cat and Mouse Game Continues: Palm Pre Syncs With iTunes Again

It's been a week since the USB Implementors Forum chided Palm over their blatant violation of policies by letting Pre users sync their phones with iTunes using Apple's unique USB identifier for the Pre. 

Now, Palm is at it again. Today, the company has released an update to their users that has "fixed" the issue Palm Pre had syncing with iTunes. 

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Maps Application on iPhone Starts Displaying Sponsored Links Courtesy Google

Maps Application on iPhone Starts Displaying Sponsored Links Courtesy Google

Google has started showing sponsored listings on the maps application that comes installed with all iPhones. 

The display of these ads have come at a rather interesting time as we recently wrote about Apple acquiring a company called Placebase, which makes a product similar to Google Maps.   

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iPhone Game – FIFA 10 by EA Sports Available on the App Store

iPhone Game – FIFA 10 by EA Sports Available on the App Store

The much awaited iPhone Game FIFA 10 from EA Sports is finally out. Early reviews point to an app that is much better than Real Football  2010 and at least marginally better than X2 Football. 

Most of the modes from the console versions including Tournament, Manager, Penalty, Training, Be A Pro are available on the iPhone app as well. 

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PwnageTool 3.1.3 Released to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1; Adds Support for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G

PwnageTool 3.1.3 Released to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1; Adds Support for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G

PwnageTool 3.1 that iPhone Dev Team had released for iPhone OS 3.1 couple of weeks back only supported iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G.

As reported earlier, iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 3.1.3, which adds support to iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G.

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Analyst: To Double iPhone’s Market Share in US, Apple Simply Has to Unlock the iPhone

Analyst: To Double iPhone’s Market Share in US, Apple Simply Has to Unlock the iPhone

While Apple is going places to increase their global smartphone market share by launching iPhone in newer markets; the newest one coming up in China soon, it seems there is a very simple alternative to drastically up the market share just inside US – by opening up to more carriers. This is according to a study by Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty. 

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Dev Team to Soon Release PwnageTool to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1 for iPhone 3GS Users

Dev Team to Soon Release PwnageTool to Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1 for iPhone 3GS Users

We finally have some good news for iPhone 3GS users who have been patiently waiting for iPhone Dev team to release their PwnageTool that supports iPhone 3GS.

According to MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev Team, they’ve completed testing of PwnageTool for iPhone 3GS users to that they can safely upgrade to pre-jailbroken iPhone OS 3.1  and also preserve the baseband so that they can unlock their iPhone.

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Google Releases New Local Search and Personalized Suggest Feature for iPhone

Google Releases New Local Search and Personalized Suggest Feature for iPhone

Google has released new local search for iPhone that integrates with Google Maps on your computer and includes browseable categories that let you search without typing.

Google Mobile team also released the personalized suggest feature for the iPhone, which will be in sync with the searches that you do on your computer thus making it easy to repeat your past searches while on the move.

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Apple Acquired Placebase, A Google Maps Substitute Back in July

Apple Acquired Placebase, A Google Maps Substitute Back in July

With Google and Apple now starting to compete over multiple products with the advent of Android, Chrome OS, and with recent issues over the objection of Google Voice and Google Latitude iPhone apps

Apple probably thinks it best to move away from its dependency on Google as much as possible. Today, we are hearing about an Apple acquisition that possibly happened in July of this year – of the company Placebase that provides a service called PushPin which is pretty similar to Google Maps.

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Sync Files Between Your Computer And iPhone With DropBox App

Sync Files Between Your Computer And iPhone With DropBox App

Now accessing your most important files on the go is just an app away. 

DropBox, the popular and easy to use file manager that lets you sync your files across all your computers and the web has launched an iPhone app that will now let you access all your docs, pics, music and videos from your iPhone. 

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