Apple’s strategy of a “walled garden” now seems to be inspected by U.S. antitrust authorities. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are overhauling Apple’s latest license change for the iPhone OS SDK 4.0. Although the process is at a preliminary stage, the interest of antitrust authorities show [...]
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[iPhone] U.S. Antitrust Authorities Overhauling iPhone OS SDK Licence 4.0
May 4th, 2010 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
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Tags: Adobe, Advertisment, America, Antitrust, Apple, Authorities, beta, Developer, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Google, iAd, iPhone OS 4.0, JD, Justice Department, Kartell, License, license agreement, SDK, Steve Jobs, USA 
No Comments »[iPhone] Google Android Running On iPhone
April 22nd, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Notorious Planetbeing – member of the famous iPhone Dev Team – just released a vid showing he managed to install Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone 2G. In the video below Android is demonstrated on an iPhone 2G; however, it should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will [...]
Posted in News Tags: Android, Google, Hack, iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone DevTeam, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, operating system, PlanetBeing, Unlock 1 Comment »[Bing] Microsoft Bing Maps As The Real Second Life
February 16th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Microsoft seems to be putting lots of money into their geo mapping services. They are not only integrating 3D views, that can be zoomed fluently into, they are integrating real time recordings and historical pictures as long as they contain geo data. If that is not enuff for you: they also integrated the view on [...]
Posted in News Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Fight, Geo Data, Geo Location, Geography, Google, Internet, Linden Research, Location, Maps, Microsoft, Photosynth, Real Time, Second Life, War No Comments »[Windows] Google Chrome without Spyware = Iron (update)
September 24th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN [Update] Feb 2nd, 2011 It seems Iron is no serious project and only follows the intention to allure people visiting the SRWare Iron website in order to make money from Google’s adsense. More information to be found here: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html What it is The “Iron” browser is based on the “Google Chromium” source code, but “Iron” [...]
Posted in News Tags: Chrome, Codeweaver, Codeweavers, Collecting, CrossOver Games, Crossover Mac, Crossover Office, Google, Google Chromium, Google Update, Google Updater, malware, Privacy, Source Code, Spyware, unasked, unwanted, User Data 11 Comments »[Android] First Google Android Cellphone: HTC G1 (update)
September 23rd, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Today T-Mobile US, HTC and Google presented the first cellphone running with the Android operating system by Google. The HTC manufactured device will be called “G1 with Google” and will be available from october 22nd, 2008 for 180US$. The phone will be net-locked to the T-Mobile US network. T-Mobile’s tariff T-Mobile’s plan includes a data [...]
Posted in News Tags: Android, G1, Google, HTC, iPhone, T-Mobile, T-Mobile US, T-Mobile USA 1 Comment »[Windows] Google Chrome – The New Operating System?
September 3rd, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN [Update] Sept 26th, 2008: Added the SRWare Iron browser under Downloads The Next Browser War The next Browser War has begun yesterday night, when Google released their new view on the Web. A new Browser called “Chrome“. Chrome is the most powerful weapon, when it comes to the question: how to connect services locally stored [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple Safari, beta, Browser War, Browser Wars, browserwar, browserwars, Chrome, Google, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera 1 Comment »[e-Biz] Google’s Android Market feels like Apple’s AppStore
August 31st, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN It looks like Google learned from Apple in the question how to distribute content and useful applications to the customer. Google will introduce a marketplace, that is quite similiar to what Apple already introduces as AppStore. As Google puts it: “We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have [...]
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android Market, Apple, AppStore, Board of Directors, CEO, competition, Eric Schmidt, Google, iPhone, Steve Jobs No Comments »[e-Biz] Nokia strikes back
June 25th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Nokia – the market leader in cell phone industry – is about to challenge Google. Wait a sec? Google? Yes, Google. The keyword is “mobile internet”. It is expected that in the near future more people will go online using their mobile devices than using a computer at home. Google therefore heavily pushes their cell [...]
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apple, Google, Handelsblatt, Nokia, Ovi, Symbian, Symbian OS No Comments »