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Archive for July 2009

Get Google Voice For Your iPhone – GV Mobile on Cydia

Although Apple has once again bowed to AT&T corporate pressure and banned Google Voice and all related apps from the App Store, you can still harness the power of Google Voice for your iPhone.

Go to Cydia – a kind of “grey” app store for iPhone – and get GV Mobile. It’s free on Cydia, and it optimizes Google Voice for the iPhone. This is where I picked up my version of GV Mobile, and I’m loving Google Voice. It’s a powerful communication tool that takes advantage of the power of a smart phone.

Pay the Right Amount for What You Get

How much should you pay for web services? There are so many providers that market their services in different ways that it is difficult to know.

Generally speaking, you may pay slightly more for extra quality service and particularly good care, but you shouldn’t pay a premium price for any service, because you are likely not getting anything more than you would for a moderate price.

If a web company tries to tell you that their service provides more so they are worth more, do some careful comparisons. You’ll likely find that they don’t do anything more than their more moderately priced competitors.

What are some standard prices for web services?

Is It Coming? Windows Mobile 6.5

While tech savvy and hardware confident users have already “flashed” their smart phones with bootleg versions of Windows Mobile 6.5, the official release has been moved back several times.

The most recent news from Microsoft points toward a fall release for the upgraded system that will replace Windows Mobile 6.1.

What’s coming up with the new release?

IPhone App Development

Developing apps for the iPhone can be fun and entertaining, but more importantly, it can be profitable for your businesses.

iPhone owners are a desirable demographic for any business, but technology ones in particular. These customers like to see themselves as unique and creative, and they are generally early adopters.

If you can create a clever, functional or fun app for the iPhone, either free or paid, and connect it organically with your company and your company name or logo, then you will have a great match that will build not only your brand and brand loyalty, but will connect you to the iPhone community.

If you don’t have the expertise or understanding of development but want to reach the iPhone market, come to Webdatamation with an idea for an iPhone app, and let us take it from there.

Apple is a proprietary company, and all apps for the iPhone are sold in the Apple Apps Store. You can offer an app for free, or you can charge for it. There is no charge to you if you offer the app for free, and if you charge, then Apple keeps 30 percent of the sales price and you keep 70 percent.

There’s another possibility as well – give away a stripped down version for free, then charge a fee for a more developed, feature filled version.