Yesterday Starhub (Singapore) released a short statement on their web site, saying they have reached an agreement with Apple to bring iPhone to Starhub later this year. Starhub became the only operator in Singapore not selling iPhone when M1 announced they will be selling iPhone soon last month.  However, with this announcement, Singapore consumers are free to choose the any of the operators when they want to own an iPhone. The questions is, both Starhub [...]

Despite the problems of App Store’s apps acceptance, Apple App Store had managed to get 100,000 apps into the store. App Store continues to grow and it has hit 2 billions download mark recently.  It is a big challenge for the new comers like, Microsoft’s Marketplace, Android’s Market, and Palm’s App Catalog who are working hard to get apps into their stores. It is hard not to salute Apple, for still being strong and market [...]

Apple continues to annoy people of its inconsistancy way of accepting applications into App Store.  Macworld Editor-in-Chief Jason Snell just had his iPhone book rejected – for using the word “iPhone” in the title. We understand that Apple may not like any application to have the word “iPhone” as the name of applications.  However, in this case, what title could Jason Snell use as it is a guide for the iPhone?  And apparrently, there are [...]

One of the most wanted feature by many power iPhone users is the multitasking capability for third party applications.  If you imagine Apple uses its own cover flow interface and borrow the card concept from WebOS, the iPhone will have a fantastic multitasking interface and this will certainly attracts a lot of the power users coming to iPhone boat. Enjoy viewing!

Finally, M1 has reached an agreement with Apple to sell iPhone by end of this year, ending Singtel 2 year-long monopoly in Singapore market.  By end of the year, Starhub, the Singapore’s number 2 operator, will be the only one who doesn’t carry the popular device. Early Tuesday morning, M1 sent a brief statement to break the news.  However, it is unclear now what price and tariff the device is going to get.  M1 will [...]

What a number! 2 billion downloads.  It took the App Store to have 1 billion apps to 1.5 billion apps in 3 months.  And now, 1.5 billion to 2 billion in just 2 months plus. According to the press, Apple has now over 85,000 apps in the App Store.  Apple owns the number one web store at the moment.  Palm, Microsoft, Google and others still have a long way to go to beat the numbers. [...]

Novell, the owner of mono project, has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft’s .Net Framework.  At the moment, developers who wish to develop applications for iPhone has to use the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The MonoTouch SDK uses Novell’s Mono runtime, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#. “What’s important here is that C# and .Net [...]

Apple had just released an OS update for iPhone and iPod users. The new iPhone OS version 3.1 is free for download for all iPhone and iPod users. According to the Apple’s web site, the highlighted features for the release include: Genius Recommendations for Apps – Get recommendations for apps you might like based on apps you’ve already downloaded. Genius Mixes – Have iTunes create up to 12 playlists based on what’s already in your [...]

Manomio‘s Commodore 64 emulator [USD4.99] has finally been approved by Apple.  It was first reported on the project back in June, after Manomio had received their first rejection from Apple. The rejection was particularly disappointing considering the efforts that Manomio had made in making sure their emulator fully licensed and legal. Read more with video link.