Fanhattan adds popular new services

iPhone | Tuesday November 29 2011 4:20 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , ,

Fanhattan adds popular new services

Simply choose between TV Shows and Movies and you're on your way to discovery.

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TV and movie fans: one of the best streaming media and entertainment discovery apps for iOS just got better with three new content providers.

Fanhattan for iOS (download for iPhone or iPad) already let you discover and watch TV and movies on your iOS device from many popular services (more…)

Location Services Bug May Be Responsible For iPhone 4S Battery Life Issues

News | Tuesday October 25 2011 6:22 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , ,

,
, might be because of a bug in the way iOS 5 handles location services. Switching on “Setting Time Zone,” an option buried deep in the Settings app, might result in location services being called too frequently resulting in the excessive battery drainage.
Location services, as we all know, if not used efficiently can result in huge battery consumption reducing device standby time. Background location calls are even riskier, since they can keep (more…)

Redsn0w For iOS 5 Updated To Fix Location Services Issue; Also Includes Cosmetic Fix

News | Sunday October 16 2011 5:37 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , ,

 last week, Dev team had 
 for iPhone , iPad and iPod touch running iOS 5.
iPhone Dev team has just released a new version of Redsn0w – Redsn0w 0.9.9b6, which includes a fix for the locations services issue reported by iPhone 3GS users with 06.15 baseband and cosmetic fix for iOS 5 jailbreakers.
We’ve released version 0.9.9b6 of redsn0w, with both a functional fix and cosmetic fix for iOS5 jailbreakers.  For iPhone 3GS owners with the 06.15 (more…)

Apple Launches iCloud; Migration From MobileMe Services Also Goes Live

News | Thursday October 6 2011 9:04 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

As expected, Apple has just launched
. iCloud.com had gone live earlier in the day, but it was still restricted to developers. MobileMe users should now be able to migrate their accounts to iCloud after they’ve upgraded their devices to iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7.2 that were just released few minutes back.
All you need to do is enter your current login details and it will be prompt you to upgrade the MobileMe account to iCloud. As 
, the migration (more…)

Some iCloud Services Maybe Free With Mac OS X Lion

News | Wednesday May 25 2011 11:37 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , ,

– its long rumored cloud based services at WWDC 2011 Keynote next week.
Yesterday, we heard rumors that
in time for next week’s launch and was negotiating with film studios to include movies and TV shows.
reports today that according to their source, Apple will offer at least some of the services from iCloud for free to Mac OS X Lion users as an incentive to upgrade to their latest Mac .
People familiar with Apple ‘s plans indicated to (more…)

Apple Replaces Google And Skyhook Databases With In-House Database To Provide Location-Based Services

News | Saturday July 24 2010 11:14 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In June this year, Apple made a number of changes to its privacy policy that led two federal legislators to question the company's motives. While Cupertino's response to the issue itself is nothing unusual, the letter makes note of a subtle change in the use of location databases. In the communication, Apple writes:
“To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to comprehensive location-based (more…)