We’ve been continuously shocked ever since Opera Mini for iPhone was accepted by Apple in it’s very own exclusive closed App Store. Here’s some piece of news to do the magic again.
Apple’s huge user base made it the Number 1 device on the hot list of Mobile phones running Opera Mini. Entering the iPhone arena was a very crucial decision indeed and the efforts payed off! And btw, Apple defeated Blackberry which was No.1 before 
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We had rumors of Opera Mini landing up on the App Store and then confirmations too. The biggest question was, will Apple ever approve a app which would give direct competition to the default web browser that comes loaded with the device, Safari?
The terms and conditions also favored the chances of the Opera app being dropped from the app store but surprisingly, it’s there to make web browsing faster six times compared to the primeval browsing app on the iPhone.
The Data Compression technologies compress data by upto 90% and this speeds up the time taken to render each page.
“We are delighted to offer iPhone and iPod touch users a great browsing experience with the Opera Mini App,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. “This app is another step toward Opera’s goal of bringing the Web to more people in more places.”
For Opera it’s celebration time as they get to serve a huge audience which were eagerly awaiting a product to rejuvenate their current browser but the only confounding thing over here is that, do Apple’s term only apply to competitive brands only and not others? Reason for making the statement is lucid, Apple states in it’s policies that Apps which duplicate any existing iPhone function will not be approved but what you see here is contrasting.
If you never tried pushing down a huge number of words down your facebook status then here is a restriction you must know if you ever thought of trying it.
If you don’t know, Facebook has some restrictions for updating its Facebook status. You cannot type in more than 420 characters as an update. Thankfully this is 3 times more than Twitter’s character limit of 140 per tweet. If you try updating more than 420 characters, you will be greeted with an error.
Thanks Keith!
Guys, here’s the break. Opera Software ASA, the company which made the browser Opera recently revealed some news that they would be submitting their Browser App for iPhone for approval to the App Store in coming weeks.
If the App ever gets approved then users would be able to experience internet six times faster than the current speed offered by iPhone’s default internet browsing tool, Safari. At SXSW (South by Southwest interactive event) Opera Spokesperson, Thomas Ford gave a glance of the app which is in development to CNN.
Ford said that the App will be submitted for approval in few weeks. Now the biggest question, will Apple ever approve this App? We had a long discussion on this same issue when a rumor had just struck that Mozilla was also making a browser app for iPhone. Readers said that Apple won’t ever approve such an application because the story would end with Apple getting a new competitor for it’s default browser, Safari on it’s device itself. We also referred to the Apple’s submission guidelines which are in favor of the Cupertino Based Company and say that no app will be accepted if it duplicates iPhone’s existing function.
Opera Mini was publicized, a “lot” and seriously a “lot” for a unapproved app. When asked why, the company said this would force Apple to have no choice but to submit to the will of consumers and approve the app, which seems unlikely to happen especially after the iPad launch which left millions of potential consumers unsatisfied and maybe if you remember the Google Voice App Case too!
Opera argues that Mini and Safari are different, saying Opera Mini is quicker at downloading regular Internet pages while Safari’s design makes it more apt for more data-intensive functions, such as editing a Google document.
Opera’s process involves running Web pages through their servers, stripping away all but the most essential data so the pages load quickly.
If Apple disapproves this App, which i think it mostly will, it will end up losing another friend and having it join the alliance of the existing enemies and to name a few, Google and Adobe 
Google has seen immense growth, poking it’s nose in each and every sector, healthcare, biotech, cleantech, software, news delivery, books and nearly everything.
Google is very hungry. It wants to capture everything that belongs to you, your entire digital life. From Email to health records online, from entertainment to books, Google wants to know everything about you. It wants to track your online activity and store it for 18 months. Google Buzz breached privacy also, Google Maps has been under a lawsuit for containing unwanted images of people vomiting and naked children.
Google wants to know everything about you. But why? 97% of Google’s revenue is sourced from Advertising and Google wants to know more about you so that it can target you with right types of ads and get more conversions and high numbers on it’s yearly revenue score cards.
Bit.ly, Is.gd, Tr.im, Hop.im and a lot more. Goo.gl too. Now? It’s Finally Twitter! Twitter, the massive microblogging platform the popularized the whole concept of URL shortening starting with TinyUrl.com because people wanted to share URLs which were well above 140 Characters and so they needed something to shrink it and they also need some space to describe it, so this gave birth to URL Shrinking revolution.
But this recently has taken a turn and as been contributing to a lot of Spam and phishing taking place on Twitter via Direct Messages because the biggest advantage of having a shortened URL is that you can hide the destination location of the url so people can be fooled easily by describing the link with some text giving a misinterpretation of what it would lead to while, it leads to some poker or a warez website which is a scam or something.
From now, all the direct messages and Email Notifications from Twitter will have links shortened from Twt.tl and this will help Twitter monitor URLs and prevent such fishing attacks. Here’s a excerpt from their blog post,
Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we’ll be able keep that user safe.
It surely points that in no time, we will have all replies with twt.tl links too, who knows?
Everyone’s frowning over Apple’s decision to not add camera, multitasking etc.. to the iPad. But you know there’s one man somewhere smiling, in the dark and the reason is because everything is going just as he wished.
It’s not a joke that humans more than the capabilities look over disabilities first but finally, whatever it is they have to accept it and if you ask me, then Apple has added a lot of features to the iPad and it has focused a lot on not what is currently existing but what is going to be there with you, in your hands in the future and you will desire for it.
If we fly back to 2001, when iPod was first released people said that it was called a big fat storage device for “fat” people to store their huge libraries. The first review from Slashgear also highlighted all the negative points about the iPod which convinced people quite well. Lastly, ask me who won? Selling over 240,000,000 pieces from 2001 till last month, Apple clearly did and they know quite well that they will.
If we see Apple’s iPad is the perfect for everything it does. iPad’s large screen size made it to be called as an oversized iPod by everyone, including me, said that but well it did take me sometime to realize it’s potential. a 9.7 inch is capable of doing things which you did earlier on other devices too, but there is something impressive and un-noticed about it unless you actually start using it. I have often desired the iPod and iPhone screens to be larger while i was watching videos and something less heavy and more portable than my laptop and television. Here’s where the iPad steps in. Guess what else? It does nearly most of what all the devices do, sort of.
iPhone and iPod touch OS being used on iPad was lamented all over by all experts as people wanted innovation. Well, iPhone OS itself was a innovation but it’s true that it has grown 3 years old but it’s always evolving. Amidst all this, one most not forget that whenever something new enters the market, you need to teach your consumers how to use it and the iPhone was as simple, a 12 year old kid or a 70 year old man could just unlock and start using it easily and i couldn’t have imagined for anything much simpler than this for the iPad. It’s a real smart move.
Next on the track. Where’s the camera? I know if i say that not adding a camera was a brilliant move by Apple, there will be people waiting to kill me. Wait, read the rest of this. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad at the keynote he showed you a picture. He said that he wanted to introduce something, a new product line which was between the MacBook and the iPod, iPhones and not a replacement for the rest of the products. Get that right, it’s not a replacement.
That will surely answer all of your questions. Steve Jobs is a shrewd businessman. He knows what to sell, when and most importantly he knows what not to sell. Just imagine, if iPad had multitasking and a camera, people would think twice before going for a iPhone. Also the larger screen gives it a huge advantage over the iPod touch, so if it had additional features, would people buy iPod Touch’s?
If iPad had a OS somewhat similar to the MacBook’s and MAC OS X do you think the Mac sales will continue to be as they were? Obviously not. They would see some amount of sales drop and those people will be the one’s the buy iMacs.
What I have learnt from history, it shows that Apple always wants to sell most of it’s products to one customer at a time, like iPhone and Macs have real tight integration via iTunes and so does iPad. It’s like a family and without any member it cannot survive so Apple is trying to do something like that.
Apple is reknowned for the simplicity of it’s products and I have never seen any gadget made by Apple crammed with all features. The art of segregating is very well known by those at Apple and they know what is important for the product and not.
The last thing that i have always noticed is that Apple would not add anything to it’s army till it’s competitors force it to, like the Video Recording feature to the iPhone. It’s this simple game that Apple always plays and wins, either you accept it or not. Overall Apple is seriously a marketing genius!
Then there is this saying,
If your product is great, it doesn’t need to be good.
You use it everyday for everything. You can’t spend a minute without it. It’s everywhere, on your phone, on your laptop, iPods, Televisions, you bedroom, toilet, everywhere! It’s the internet. But, if you’ve ever thought how it reaches you scroll down to pictures to know how huge chunks of internet data are transferred millions of kilometers here and there, in just seconds.
Not everything is wireless, most of it’s still under water and under ground even though we are growing fast. Have a look.
Truly, amazing isn’t it?
Picture credits: FunOnTheNet
Yahoo!, the so called internet giant which is losing its vigor due to immense competition from Google and Bing. If you were following the recent news, you might know that Twitter made few bucks signing a deal with Google and Bing, allowing them to index the tweets.
Lately, we also came across the fact that even Yahoo was indexing tweets from twitter, but there was no such deal. Yahoo! was just using the most famous – publicly accessible API (Application Programming Interface).
Here’s what the news is. Twitter confirmed that they have partnered with Yahoo on their blog.
According to this deal, Yahoo will index the public timeline from Twitter, second by second from all over the globe and will show relevant tweets in all their searches and portals. What more? Yahoo will make clients for twitter to make tweets directly from anywhere on the Yahoo! network. It’s no surprise that Yahoo still has 600 Million users which is no small figure.
So are you confused to choose the social network that suits you the best? No problem. We are here to help you. Its very difficult to select between Facebook, Twitter and Google’s latest product Buzz.
Facebook, Twitter and is chosen because they are the top 2 social networking service. Buzz is chosen because it is the latest product and people might think is this good or bad?
The other services might have been listed here. MySpace is probably on a decline. Linkedin is a business tool and the other services don’t give a global platform with all the features.
1. Facebook
This network is the best of all. Well organized and has all the features you will need. The best way is to connect to a person is just become friends. A recent survey done shows that people who use Facebook are most addicted to it.
Another interesting feature of facebook is that you have messages same like mails and direct chat with your friends. This means that you use less of your mail and more of Facebook.
And one of the important feature of FB is that it gives you an advertising platform where you can advertise your products.
The main drawback of Facebook is that the chat and messaging feature takes a lot of time to load and mostly connectivity is bad.
2. Twitter
What makes people attract towards Twitter is its simplicity. It is a place for you to microblog with just 140 characters. Its the right place for you to share your views or even earn money from tweeting.
The friendship method is not followed in this. Twitter has followers. Making friends means following people.
This platform is for sharing tweets for all people who follow you but it won’t reach to a particular person. Even if you type @….. it will mention that person but others will be able to view your tweet. It has messaging system where its up to useless. If you follow people and they follow you, you just receive junk of spams in your mail box.
But twitter to has its worth. You can promote anything you want and it wil reach audience.
3. Google Buzz
This network is too soon to be explained. This doomed into the INTERNET with a heavy promotion from Google. This one interestingly automatically comes with your Google Account. All those who you have in your contacts automatically will become your followers.
With Google promoting it, Buzz has skyrocketed. This is because it has been included in GMail. Buzz has integration with other medias like Flickr, Picasa and even the Twitter.
It has easy use and simple interface. People can just send their messages privately or even publicly. But Google Buzz is only up to Gmail. You cannot find friends and follow them if they are not on the contact list. The features are surely not like other social networking site but has some content in it.
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