iOS 5 available for all iPhone users October 12 with over 200 new features
Update: iOS 5 is now available for download.
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Apple announced today its latest mobile operating system update, iOS 5, will be available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners to download on October 12.
Today’s Apple event had little by way of new features available in iOS 5, but did recap what we can expect next Wednesday when we all plug into iTunes.
According to Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president of iOS … Continue Reading
iPhone OS 4.2 lands: Brings multitasking to iPad, free Find My iPhone service
It’s time to get updating: Apple today rolled out iPhone OS (iOS) 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, bringing with it some long-awaited new features like multitasking support on the iPad, and a surprise reveal that its “Find My iPhone” device location service is now free.
While recent iPhone and iPod Touch models have featured multitasking support since the iOS 4.0 update earlier this year, this update marks the first time the feature … Continue Reading
OpenFeint finds a way to co-exist with Apple's Game Center for the iPhone
When Apple launched its Game Center social platform for iPhone games, it looked like a supporting tool such as the OpenFeint platform was doomed. That’s because OpenFeint, a social game platform built by the startup formerly known as Aurora Feint and now called OpenFeint, did much of the same thing as Game Center, socializing games so that users would make friends and play more.
But it turns out that iPhone game developers have not only … Continue Reading
Apple launches Game Center social hub for iPhone with 4.1 update
Apple released the 4.1 update for its mobile operating system today, activating features such as the Game Center social hub for multiplayer game fans.
The highlight of the update is Game Center, which is a social network for gamers much like Ping on iTunes is a social network for music fans. With Game Center, you can send and receive friend requests. You can invite friends to join multiplayer games over the internet. And you can … Continue Reading
iPod Touch accounts for 38 percent of iPhone-compatible devices
Using a bit of clever math, app maker and market analyst firm Asymco has determined that about 38 percent of all 120 million reported iOS device sales are iPod Touches.
The company got the value by subtracting the 59.6 million iPhones and 3.2 million iPads sold through June (figures presented in Apple’s SEC filings) and the estimated July and August iPad and iPhone sales of 12 million — a combined 74.8M iPads and iPhones sold … Continue Reading
How Apple could undermine console gaming with TV app games
Apple’s Steve Jobs is an expert at disrupting other companies’ businesses. Just look at what the iPhone did to Nokia and Motorola, two leaders of the cell phone business who are now trying to chase Apple.
What would happen if Jobs turned his eye to console gaming? More disruption, most likely. Apple has already disrupted portable gaming on the Nintendo DS and the Sony PlayStation Portable. The iPhone and iPod Touch have hurt those businesses … Continue Reading
Scoreloop to provide social platform for mobile games on Taiwanese carrier
Scoreloop has scored an interesting deal for its social platform for mobile games. The Munich-based company is announcing today that it will provide a social gaming hub to Taiwanese phone carrier Chunghwa Telecom. That will help Scoreloop’s mobile social game platform reach millions of users in the fast-growing Asian mobile game market.
The deal with Chungwha’s Spring House Entertainment division is the first where Scoreloop is licensing its platform to a mobile carrier, which wants … Continue Reading
Social-game platform makers: "Welcome, Apple. Seriously."
Scoreloop has scored an interesting deal for its social platform for mobile games. The Munich-based company is announcing today that it will provide a social gaming hub to Taiwanese phone carrier Chunghwa Telecom. That will help Scoreloop’s mobile social game platform reach millions of users in the fast-growing Asian mobile game market.
The deal with Chungwha’s Spring House Entertainment division is the first where Scoreloop is licensing its platform to a mobile carrier, which wants … Continue Reading
Apple's Game Center for the iPhone/iPad adds a social network for gamers
Scoreloop has scored an interesting deal for its social platform for mobile games. The Munich-based company is announcing today that it will provide a social gaming hub to Taiwanese phone carrier Chunghwa Telecom. That will help Scoreloop’s mobile social game platform reach millions of users in the fast-growing Asian mobile game market.
The deal with Chungwha’s Spring House Entertainment division is the first where Scoreloop is licensing its platform to a mobile carrier, which wants … Continue Reading
