An iPhone app, known as iDichotic, places psychological testing at your fingertips, yielding results as reliable as lab tests, says a new study. ...
06:10 PM, Feb 10, 2013
London: A new iPhone app can allow you to change channels, pause, play and even set programmes you want to record. Owners can swipe on their phone's screen to change channels, and see the programming guide for the coming week with this new Sky+ app, the Daily Mail reported. "People use their phones as a one-stop-shop to manage virtually every aspect of their lives - whether organising their diary, checking...
05:41 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Washington: An iPhone and a specially designed image analysis app can diagnose and manage the treatment of thyroid diseases, a new study has claimed. Researchers led by Randy Polson, from the University of Utah have developed a device that uses an iPhone's LED flash, digital camera with collimating lens to optimise illumination and focusing. A specially-designed app is used to collect an image of a completed Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) assays...
03:07 PM, Sep 30, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc is releasing a new version of its YouTube video app for iPhones that will for the first time feature advertising but won't have the benefit of being pre-loaded on Apple Inc's popular smartphones. The new YouTube app will be available for download at Apple's App Store beginning on Tuesday, Google said in a blog on the company website on Tuesday. Web-connected smartphones are increasingly important to...
02:28 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Get your daily dose of news and a lot more instantly on your iPhone with the new and improved IBNLive application. ...
09:53 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The popular IBNLive app for the Apple iPhone just got an upgrade. The IBNLive for iPhone version 2.0 is available for free from the Apple App Store. In its upgraded avatar the app has a refreshed user interface that is not only richer and smarter but lets users delve a lot deeper into IBNLive content. The all-new app features a detailed navigation accessible from the top left corner....
03:33 PM, May 30, 2012
London: Now your garden plants need not die of neglect, thanks to an iPhone application that tells you when they need watering. The Koubachi Wi-fi plant sensor and application costs a steep 99 pounds. It requires a sensor which sits with the plant, monitoring it and checking its vital signs against a built-in botanic encyclopedia. The app knows everything about nearly all your typical garden or house plant, from growing...
10:26 AM, May 21, 2012
Bangkok: Tired of digging through long-winded restaurant reviews to find a great meal? Next time, turn to your smartphone where personalized search engines will lead your stomach in the right direction. A newcomer in the world of personalized search, Ness Computing recently released a free iOS app that provides restaurant recommendations based on a user's personal tastes and information from friends gathered through social media sources such as Foursquare and...
07:16 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Toronto: Need some motivation to hit the gym? Perhaps some free merchandise will do the trick. At least this is the premise that Nexercise is built upon, a free iPhone app that tracks activities ranging from running and weightlifting to fencing and polo and rewards users with free and discounted merchandise in the hopes that users will adopt long-term exercise habits. "We're trying to create a lifestyle - not a...
05:42 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Beijing: China's defence ministry has launched its official iPhone app which will allow users to track the activities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), a media report said. China Daily reported that app will allow users to track what the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is doing. The application is a newsreader and it gives the latest information, pictures and videos for iPhone users. "Users will not only receive important information...
03:48 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Helsinki: Private-equity backed video technology firm Skyfire, best known for its mobile browser, has unveiled an application for watching Flash videos on Apple's iPhones. Apple has been a strong opponent of Adobe's Flash technology, criticizing its power management, among other things, and it has embraced a newer set of tools for building web applications known as HTML 5. Many Internet pages running applications using Flash technology have had to create...
07:13 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Jerusalem: Apple Inc has removed at Israel's request an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that called for a Palestinian uprising, an Israeli government statement said on Thursday. Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein wrote to Apple on Tuesday, complaining that the "ThirdIntifada" application - a reference to a future uprising - conveyed information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel. A statement issued by Edelstein's ministry on Thursday welcomed "Apple's...
01:25 PM, Jun 23, 2011
London: iPhone has developed a new application using which, one could delete messages on Facebok and Twitter that were put out when one was in a drunk state. The new iPhone application - called "Last Night Never Happened" - that can be bought for 1.19 pounds, deletes all "embarrassing" social network activity, including status updates, tweets, photos and comments, over a set period, The Sun reported. Using the application is...
02:30 PM, Mar 23, 2011
New York: It's hard enough to get your bearings when the time changes twice a year. It's all but impossible when your phone starts playing tricks on you, too. Users of Apple's iPhone peppered Twitter and blogs with complaints Sunday when their phones bungled the one-hour "spring forward" to daylight savings time that went into effect overnight Saturday. One user complained of missing church, another of almost missing yoga. One...
10:34 AM, Mar 14, 2011
New York: An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States. Confession: A Roman Catholic app, thought to be the first to be approved by a church authority, walks Catholics through the sacrament and contains what the company behind the program describes as a "personalized examination of conscience for each user"....
11:23 AM, Feb 08, 2011
San Francisco/London: Apple Inc has blocked rival Sony Corp's electronic book application from the iPhone because it would have circumvented Apple's system for buying content. The scrap is the latest in Apple's long history of tense relations with media companies. They have clashed for years over pricing and how music, movies and books are sold on Apple's mobile devices, the iPod, iPhone and iPad. The dust-up, first reported by the...
10:03 AM, Feb 02, 2011
Sydney: Massive parking fines inspired one Australian man to create an iPhone app that lets users warn each other when parking officers are spotted lurking near their cars. "The idea was pretty much born out of frustration," said Joseph Darling of "ParkPatrol," the app developed by his Sydney-based firm to help users avoid tickets that cost what he said was at least $82 Australian ($81) a shot -- and often...
05:18 PM, Jan 22, 2011
San Francisco: A new version of the free iPhone app for Skype SA will let users make and receive video calls. Users of the Internet calling and messaging service will be able to use both Wi-Fi and AT&T Inc.'s 3G cellular network. FaceTime software, which comes with iPhones, works only with Wi-Fi. The app, which is being released Thursday through Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, will let iPhone 4 and iPhone...
08:18 PM, Dec 30, 2010
Bangalore: Two separate groups of iPhone and iPad users have sued Apple Inc alleging that certain software applications were passing personal user information to third-party advertisers without consent. In the lawsuits seeking class action, filed in a federal court in California, the plaintiffs sought a ban on passing of user information without consent and monetary compensation, according to case documents. At some point, both cases may be consolidated into one...
11:18 AM, Dec 29, 2010
San Francisco: Apple has removed a WikiLeaks app from its store on the grounds that it violated the company's developer guidelines for applications for use on its iPhones and iPads, the company said Tuesday. The action places Apple among a group of major US companies who have cut ties or services to the whistle-blowing website and have subsequently been targeted by hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks. The $1.99 app was initially...
10:54 AM, Dec 22, 2010
