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Just tag yourself and win!

After Germany won against England (4:1) and Argentina achieved victory against Mexico (3:1) , many soccer fans regard the upcoming quarter final as an early final. This is why the 6th round of our amazing prize competition deals with this game. It’s your job to take a stab at this important game by tagging yourself on a final score till Germany will compete with Argentina on Saturday, 3rd of July. Show us that you got skills, since we wanna make this game even more exciting for you! Furthermore every winner will get a voucher of terrific 20 dollars! That means up to 1000 awesome international free minutes on FriendCaller! We hope that you’ll have fun participating and wish you the best of luck!

Apple's iAd

Apple changed its general business terms to allow independent third-parties to advertise on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. This sounds a little bit unlikely, because Apple formerly banned third-parties services with reference to their users security.

Even so, a small passage illegalizes Google’s AdMob, which is one of the world’s largest mobile advertising platforms and claims to serve more than 7.1 billion mobile banner and text ads per month across mobile Web sites and handset applications.

In paragraph 3.3.9 Apple specifies that just advertising services , which core business is offering mobile advertising are licit. According to this, firms like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft are excluded. AdMob does not only see a suspect regulation of the market in this development. Moreover they regard this as bad news for all app-developers, since they do not have a free supplier choice anymore.

No matter how nice Apple’s plans to allow third parties to advertise look at first glance , there arises the question whether Apple just tries to give its new advertisement service iAd a cutting edge. IAd wants to start its service on the 1^st of july,but till this happens the FTD will instigate investigations.

Apple's new firmware.

Yesterday Apple released its new firmware iOS4, which enables recent functions. But the most important innovations are the Multitasking and the Folders function.

Multitasking allows us to run apps and switch between them instantly without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily. Authorized for multitasking are for example navigation-applications as well as audio streaming services or VoIP-Clients. But currently this is slightly problematic due to most producers have not updated their applications yet.

A folder in iOS 4 is a group of apps you access by tapping a single icon on your iPhone’s Home screen. When you tap a folder, which sports an icon that includes miniature versions of the icons of the apps inside, along with a name intended to describe the folder’s contents the dock fades and slides down, and the main Home-screen area fades and slides up to make room for a view of the folder’s contents. This view shows the name and full-size icon of each app. Tap on any app to launch it, or tap anywhere outside the folder area to close the folder and return to the Home screen.

Other notable new features are Spell Checking, a built-in dictionary, which automatically suggests words and corrects spelling. IBooks, a great ebook reader, which is also a place to browse and shop for books. And finally the possibility to create a playlists right on your iPhone.

But you should also know that many users claim that they met with several problems updating their software. Most of them complain about crashes when opening the photo album or apps. Moreover they had problems to backup their data. Nevertheless the free software update for the iPhone or iPod Touch can be found and installed on iTunes.

Tagging yourself it's worth it!

The third round of our gorgeous prize competition ended today and the incredible high prizes were send to our winners! It gives us pleasure announcing our first prize winner Amer Abu Nasr, who won up to 5000 elusive minutes of free international calls! We also mustn’t forget the 2^nd and 3^rd winners Pieter Rhijnsburger and Keane Owen who got phenomenal vouchers of 60 and 40 dollars! You see tagging yourself on the picture pays. Keep in mind, the 4th round of our amazing prize competition started today!

Just tag yourself and win!

This time it’s your job to take a stab at one of the most interesting games so far. On Friday, 25th of June Brazil will compete with Portugal and we wanna make this game even more exciting for you! This is why we want you to tag yourself on a final score! Every winner will get a voucher of terrific 10 dollars! That means up to 500 awesome international free minutes on FriendCaller! Just to recall, you can use FriendCaller on your iPhone. iPad or iPod touch as well as in your web-browser!

The second round of our prize competition closed today. But unfortunately without a winner, since nobody of you guys assumed Uruguay to be the team scoring the most goals.But you don’t have to be sad, because now we doubled the prizes of our current competition.This means that the first winner will get a 100 dollar voucher, second a 60 dollar voucher and third a  40 dollar voucher. Isn’t that unbelievable? That connotes up to 5000 min of free international calls on FriendCaller. You can use those minutes over the FaceBook-Application , as well as over the browser or the Iphone.Just tag yourself on the picture and wait till the 21^st of June. We hope you’ll make it under the Top 3!Best of Luck!