Applidium had released the VLC Media Player for iPhone and iPod Touch earlier in the week after releasing VLC Media Player for iPad a month back.
If you haven’t downloaded it already then do it quickly as it might be removed from the App Store.
Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the primary developers of the VLC Media Player has filed a formal copyright complaint to Apple regarding distribution of the VLC media player for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
Just before Apple announced the iPad back in January 2010, the only tablets that were making news were Michael Arrington's CrunchPad and Notion Inks Adam – both of which are yet to see the “proper” light of the day.
While the Crunchpad has become the JooJoo controversially, Notion Ink is still playing with internal prototypes.
Almost a year down the line, Apple has already managed to carve a niche for itself in the almost non-existent tablet market. Since its launch back in April 2010, the iPad has gone on to become the most widely used tablet ever – selling over 7.5 million units to date.
If you have been accessing Gmail using Safari on your iPhone for quite some time, have you noticed the subtle changes that has arrived of late?
Google recently announced that they have made few improvements in the way Gmail works on your iPhone.
The new features include enhancements like making the scrolling snappier and getting the option to access your toolbars from any point on the page. The scroll speed is now dependent on the speed of your swipe gesture – making navigation a lot easier.
If you’re in the Middle East and were disappointed to find out that FaceTime – the video calling feature does not work on your shiny new iPhone 4 then you should checkout jailbreak apps – FaceTime Hacktivator or MiddleWhat.
Both the hacks available on the Cydia App Store will enable FaceTime in unsupported countries like UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
There is finally some good news for iPhone users who want to unlock their iPhone.
MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has tweeted that they will be releasing Ultrasn0w for iOS 4.2, one or two days after it is released.
However, the software unlocking solution will be only available for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G users initially.
Just when we were beginning to wonder if Apple had no response to Motorola's patent infringement suit against it, Apple has responded in kind by filing two lawsuits against Motorola.
The two lawsuits allege a total of six patent infringements by Motorola related to various technologies originally used in the Apple iPhone. The lawsuits filed in a U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin claims that Motorola has infringed upon as many as six multi-touch gestures related patents used on the iPhone.
In an interview with GigaOM, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse revealed that Sprint is benefiting from the high demand of Apple's iPad even though they're not selling it in their retail stores like AT&T and Verizon.
According to Hesse, most people buy the Wi-Fi only model of the iPad and use devices like Sprint's Overdrive 3G/4G mobile hotspot for on-the-go connectivity.
Comex, iPhone developer and hacker famous for jailbreaking tools like Spirit and JailbreakMe has released a tweak called Fast Copy on Cydia App Store.
As the name suggests, the tweak makes copy and paste feature in iOS snappier.
With two major publications – Wall Street Journal and New York Times already reporting about the arrival of the CDMA iPhone on Verizon's network, rumors regarding its arrival on Verizon had gained considerable credence. A week later, it is the turn of yet another publication to talk about Verizon, Apple, the iPad's arrival on Verizon and of course, the CDMA iPhone.
Fortune has described the complex relationship that Apple and Verizon shared back in 2005 - it also discusses the kind of role Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg had to play in bringing the two back to the negotiation table – a good two years after their first run-in.
Apple has overtaken Research In Motion to become the world's fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer. This finding has been reported by IDC in its latest Mobile Phone Tracker Report where the research firm has noted that Apple registered a record sale of 14.1 million units worldwide during the study period.
This puts Apple just behind Nokia, Samsung and LG Electronics. Significantly, Sony Ericsson failed to secure a place in the top five for the first time since IDC started reporting its findings in 2004.
