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image thumb 3D Movies Coming To iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android Devices

Say 3D once and you almost instantly feel you are talking about something cool [well at least kids in my neighborhood think so]. Cool or not good news is that all the iOS and Android powered devices will soon provide their users a great 3D experience.

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image thumb142 Another Feather In Apple’s Cap: App Store Heads Past 250,000 Apps

It doesn’t surprise me to tell that the App Store has surpassed 250,000 apps in a little over 25 months since its launch. Those apps come from over 50,300 publishers/developers and are available for your iPod Touch, iPhone and the iPad. So I guess this one is going to be an essential part of the next week music event from Apple which might also include the announcement of the fourth generation of the iPod Touch.

Coming back to the topic. Those apps include both free and paid ones ranging across a wide variety of categories. The lions’ share of this goes to Books that have 17% share, followed by games [14%] and entertainment [11%]. That’s quite high given that the over 70 % of the apps are paid compared to over 60% apps on Google’s Android Market being free.

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image thumb118 Google Mobile Gets An Update: Adds Push Notifications To Gmail And Calendar On iPhone

Google has just tweaked its Google Mobile App for the iOS with the addition of Push notifications for both the Google Calendar and the Gmail. With this, users will be able to set configurations on their iPhone to turn notifications on.

Upon receiving updates or notifications for the email and a popup alerts for your Calendar, users will be prompted on the Google Apps. The push notifications, especially for the Gmail aren’t new and have been available for almost a year now. But that required a lot of work; setting your Google account with one on Exchange ActiveSync. Even that was kept limited as users could only integrate one Google account per ActiveSync, but with the coming of the iOS, this has changed considerably and push notifications might just make a life bit easier for Gmail lovers.

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image thumb96 Israeli Firm Brings The Timeless Rummikub To Facebook

Rummikub is quite popular, at least amongst those in my family and most probably with others around the globe too. Given it sells over 3 million units globally. And I guess with the advent of social games across social networking sites like Facebook have got these timeless classics coming over to the Web. Today, an Israel based firm P-Karma have rolled out Rummikub Application for the Facebook.

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image thumb45 And After iPhone, Android Based Phones Embrace First Trojan

One of the biggest reasons why Apple gets my respect is its devices are not susceptible to being infected with viruses. We have seen loads of these in Microsoft Windows PCs and laptops but not with the Macs, the MacBooks, iMac, etc. Today that immaculate and virus free award also went to Apple iPhone, as Google’s Android phones got a taste of a first Trojan, perhaps the first for any smartphone.

It is an SMS Trojan known as SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a and is already wild on many Android phones out there. The Trojan comes as a media player app and once installed, it auto sends SMS to the contacts in your mobile device. Of course this happens without you wanting or not. Kaspersky Lab, a leading security firm reports that the Trojan is currently infecting Russian Android devices, however, given the nature of such viruses it should be noted that they will soon be roaming free across the web. Read More »

image thumb31 Google App Inventor For Android: Taking App Development Beyond Hard Core ProgrammingThe Guest Post is written by Daniel Offer who writes and is also the owner of the Facebook chat program Chit Chat for Facebook. Chit Chat is essentially a Facebook client that facilitates sending Facebook messages from ones desktop.

Google has recently launched a free service, ‘App Inventor for Android’ and it is causing a big stir. This is a program that claims to allow people with no Java programming experience to design their own apps for Android OS smart phones.

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image thumb12 Pulse Marries Posterous To Bring TechMeme Look Alike For iPad Readers

Ever heard about Techmeme? You must have if you read this blog or any other news on technology, then came Tweetmeme to aggregate tweets in a similar fashion. Today Alphonso Labs announced of coming out Pulse, an app for the iPad that provides you a nice way to read your feeds.

The team has shook hands with Posterous to make this happen, enable users to create their own individual pulses. While Tweetmeme compiles similar news under a source and Tweetmeme does the same with tweets from Twitter, Pulse turns out as Pulsememe to do the same with whatever news you share as a pulse on the application. Upon coming across Pulsememe, reading Siegler’s post at TechCrunch I gave the destination a look over and it is quite simple, though pretty skinny at the moment with barely enough content. Something which will obviously grow popular with time.

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image thumb9 Jailbreak Your iPhone From The Web With JailbreakMe

While all the news about the iPhone jail break being legalized has become old news but add more to it, you can now jail break your iPhone right within a browser by visiting JailbreakMe 2.0. JailbreakMe will let you jail break any iPhone 4, running version 4.0.1 of the iOS, or even previous ones.

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image thumb56 Lighted Mirror Transform Your iPhone 4 Into A Pocket Mirror

I guess the Snow White and the seven dwarfs were to be written in modern times and the old mean witch happened to use the iPhone, she would have gone about saying this:

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image thumb38 Create A Hook For Anything Interesting On The Map With MapHook [Location Based App]

Location, location, that is what is everywhere on the Web, although nobody gets lost online. Ah, forget it, I think it’s not appropriate to share the story behind it here and come over to MapHook, the latest entry in the location based content sharing application.

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