December 01, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

India will effectively “kill” some twenty-five million Chinese cell phones beginning tomorrow, December 1st.

India’s Department of Telecommunications has given the order to operators to “block cellphones” without a valid IMEI number. The move leaves millions ofChinese using mobile phones without an IMEI number with only two options: buy a new phone with a valid IMEI number or get the number implanted in the current phone using available software through the Cellular Operators Association of India.

According to the Times of India:

It’s the end of days for those cheap Chinese mobile handsets which do not have a genuine International Mobile Equipment Identity number. From the midnight of November 30, all these will go dead.

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November 15, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Touch Arcade has the news that the long-awaited Ravensword and a number of other games built on the Unity game engine have been rejected by Apple from the App Store. The problem appears to be a number of API calls in the engine (though not specifically the game themselves, as I understand it) that allow the games to access the iPhone’s number and send it back to the developer’s servers.
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October 28, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

Apple has approved more than 100,000 applications in its App Store, according to latest figures from App Shopper, an industry tracking firm. That number of approved apps dwarfs the number of apps offered by mobile app store competitors Android Marketplace, Windows Mobile Marketplace, BlackBerry App World, and Nokia’s Ovi Store. Apple’s next closest competitor, Google’s Android Marketplace, offers a relative pittance of 10,000 mobile apps, according to App Shopper. BlackBerry App World hosts 3040 apps.

App Shopper released data Tuesday stating that Apple has approved 101,887 apps, with 93,118 actually available to download or purchase as of October 28. Apple is expected to announce the milestone officially when the actual number of applications available in the store reaches 100,000.
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September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Call Counter 3 and Counter 3 SMS are small applications available through Cydia which we can control the number of calls and their duration (Call Counter 3) or text messages received and sent messages (SMS Counter 3) through a simple pie chart.

Creating filters based on the contacts, establish a start date and end and much more. Applications can be used to make “progress report” collect statistics on people who call more, less, or to control the number of messages not to exceed a certain threshold, in case of specific promotions.

The cost of each application is $ 2.99 only available for firmware 3.0, the BigBoss repository.

Via ispazio.net