SkyFire, an App for the iPhone which allows users to view Flash videos has managed to make a nice $1 Million in its first weekend of being on sale in the US.
The SkyFire App costs $2.99 on the American App Store, however is not officially available in the UK yet but this hasn’t stop UK users with Jailbroken iPhones getting there hands on the App.

So after Apple’s 30% cut from the $1 Million, the developers of the SkyFire app walk away with about $700,000… not bad for a weekends work eh

So the reason this App has become so popular is obviously down to the fact that the iPhone does not have Flash support, something iPhone users have been wanting ever since the launch of the device.

SkyFire should be available on the UK App Store very soon…

As of this morning, if you’re lucky and/or wealthy enough to live in America, you can now buy a Windows Phone 7 device online from the Microsoft Store, Amazon or Dell, on condition that you must accept an AT&T or T-Mobile service plan.

From a quick browse, the lowest price seems to be $99 for the HTC Surround on Amazon, with an AT&T service plan (it looks like it’s already on backorder!) I’m assuming you can also pick up a phone from your local AT&T and T-Mobile retail store, too. There’s no sign of SIM-free, network-unlocked phone at the moment.

Her Majesty the Queen today joined the ever-popular social networking site Facebook, already used by all her royal grandchildren.

However the Queen will only be using her Facebook to reveal official news and engagements unlike her grandchildren who revealed some of their private moments online. Read more »

Rumours circulating the web are suggestion that we could be seeing the highly anticipated update to Android, update 2.3 Gingerbread sometime within the next week.

As with prior Google campus tradition, a statue has been put on the lawn showing off what the next flavour of Android will be. Read more »

Google has announced the launch of it’s super speedy web searching technology, Google instant, to both Android 2.2 devices and the iPhone in the US.

Unlike the social recluse that I am, many people update their Facebook or Twitter almost hourly and therefore it’s inevitable that they might end up making the mistake of posting while drunk. However, a new browser extension called Social Media Sobriety Test tries to prevent this from ever happening. How does it work? Well, while you’re at your computer and using Firefox or Chrome, it makes you take a series of tests before your status update can be sent.

You can set the hours during which the test will affect you, as well as which social media sites it will block. All the usuals (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Tumblr and even the graveyard of Myspace are included by default), but you can also add a custom URL (i.e., in case you perhaps want to avoid posting drunken comments on your favourite tech blog, like this very site!). The tests themselves are quite interesting and based on real roadside sobriety tests – Follow the finger with your cursor or you can’t post, and then Social Media Sobriety test will post for you, telling everyone you’re too intoxicated to post right now (which is part of the process I find a little counter-productive).

It’s a real extension, but intented as a stunt by computer security firm Webroot, who created it to make the point that “we protect you from everything, even yourself.” It ain’t half bad!

Rumours circulating the internet are suggesting that Apple will be releasing the next update to iOS possibly as early as next week.

The update will fix bug issues with the iPhone and iPod Touch, one of which being the “alarmgate” bug which is causing all timezones to adjust to the European daylight saving time, as a result causing some people’s alarms to go off an hour later than they wanted. Read more »

A Free to play version of the MMO game The Lord Of The Rings Online has hit the UK after being available in the US for sometime.

This MMO has been around since 2007 but users could only play if they payed a monthly subscription, not really giving users the chance to give the game a go before having to pay. Read more »

A new update to the Xbox 360 dashboard is being rolled out throughout today and will bring an enhanced UI which should make selecting and browsing the dashboard easier using Kinect and variety of other new features.

Major nelson released the rest of the features on his blog that will come along with the improved UI, which are Read more »

Earlier this morning Microsoft announced that an Amazon Kindle App will be launch on their Windows Phone 7 operating system later this year.

The Kindle App which is already available on the iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry will be the first dedicated e-book reader for Windows Phone 7.

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