Browsing Tag android
Apple Wants To Disable Your iPhone Camera At Concerts, Do You Agree With It?
By The Marksman at August 2, 2011 | 9:08 am | 0 Comment
Apple recently filed a patent application for a system that will disable the iPhone camera at live performances. Apparently there will be some sort of infra-red receiver in the venue somewhere, and when the iPhone camera is aimed at the performer it will be disabled. This is more than likely being done to protect the copyright of the content, and preventing the more...
The Truth Is Even Those Free Apps, Aren’t Really Free!
By The Marksman at July 27, 2011 | 3:13 pm | 0 Comment
Written By: Tiffany Haddock I can clearly remember having first discovered Pandora at work after a friend recommended the website as a way to help pass the monotonous workday with customizable streaming music stations, and the toe-tapping joy that instantly washed over me. Within a few weeks however, my employer started hating and made Pandora inaccessible from company more...
Has Microsoft Already Failed With Windows Phone 7?
By The Marksman at May 31, 2011 | 7:42 am | 0 Comment
Microsoft’s Windows 7 Phone has been on the market for several months now, and although the people who have purchased one are generally happy with it they are still far behind in market share penetration. In March 2011 the Windows Mobile/WP7 phones only account for 7% of the overall market share in the smartphone market, and is not expected to hit double digits for a more...
Pirated Fake Android App Makes Fun Of You For Being Cheap!
By The Marksman at March 31, 2011 | 2:25 pm | 0 Comment
There are many people who download pirated software; it’s nothing new it has been going since the internet started. But, people have now started pirating smart phone applications in the hopes of avoiding the $1 - $5 cost of applications. People have taken to jail breaking iPhones and downloading pirated applications from a variety of websites, but with all of more...
Five Awesome Apps For Your Android Smart Phone!
By The Marksman at February 22, 2011 | 12:28 pm | 0 Comment
When the iPhone came out people anointed it the greatest thing of all time because of “APPS”, and it was revolutionary with regard to that. But, what people did not realize was Apps are not exclusive to the phone hardware, it’s just a piece of software written to work with the phones operating system. With the explosion of Smart Phone technology APPS are more...
Google Latitude The Stalking Tool Of The Gods With Maps 5.1 For Android!
By The Marksman at February 1, 2011 | 3:27 pm | 0 Comment
Google is going to start adding a social networking hook that so many of its peers (Foursquare, Facebook, Yelp, and so on) have long embraced in their software. That social networking hook is the location-based check-in that will tell friends and family members where you are at and display it on a map for them. Coming to Google Latitude this week is Maps 5.1 for more...
Is The Sony PlayStation Phone Just A Myth?
By The Marksman at January 19, 2011 | 8:33 am | 0 Comment
You can tell that technology has come a long way, we are now in the age of the ultra-portable device that does everything. Most people are now sporting an iPhone, Android, or Windows powered device on their hip that can do a myriad of functions. Each mobile operating system has it’s own way to go about doing that, the iPhone is simplistic, while droid is geeky, more...
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Touts Android Over IOS. Wait No He Didn’t!
By The Marksman at November 18, 2010 | 3:46 pm | 1 Comments
In an interesting article Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stated that Android will end up being the dominant smartphone platform, and not Apple’s IOS. This probably comes as a bit of a surprise to the numerous fans of Apple who swear by the iPhone. One of the main people that started the company gave a straight forward and realistic opinion of the smart phone more...
Samsung Unveils The Galaxy Tab. Will It Outsell The iPad?
By The Marksman at September 7, 2010 | 11:25 am | 0 Comment
On the heels of their successful Samsung Galaxy S Android powered smart phone, Samsung has also chosen to enter the tablet market and compete with the Apple Ipad. It’s actually a tab not a tablet, and it might be because its 2 inches smaller in screen size and about 10 ounces lighter than the iPad. Let’s start with the raw specifications of this more...
The Android Passes The iPhone in Market Share, Will the Droid Soon Rise to #1?
By The Marksman at May 12, 2010 | 6:10 am | 0 Comment
For the past several years the iPhone has grown in market share and number of handsets sold, even when Apple has held back technology and slowly released it in new versions of the phone. People have complained about AT&T's network and exclusive handling of the phone, which has left many users hoping that rumored versions of the iPhone for Verizon are actually more...