It is worth noting that the company had shut down its free services less than two weeks ago noting that they were moving towards a licensing business.
Quite understandably, officials from neither Apple nor Polar Rose have commented on the issue so far. However, news of this acquisition is interesting considering that Apple had
technology assists the production of instantaneous Dynamic Range Correction on standard and HDR photos. The recent acquisitions (more…)

However, some of our readers had
that Skype support had suddenly disappeared from the latest version of Fring's iPhone app. The company had acknowledged the issue in a blog post where they had noted that their networks were experiencing a strain due to the huge jump in video calling. Fring further noted that they had disabled Skype as a temporary measure to free up network capacity.
However, it now appears that Fring users looking forward (more…)

As early testers have noted, iPad's native Youtube app downscales both the standard and HD version of videos to low resolution while rendering over the 3G network. This is also the case with other apps like Netflix where videos are downsampled to pretty low resolutions.
however notes that iTunes video previews continue to be rendered at high resolution.
In what may come as further disappointment to users, iLounge also notes that some third-party
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