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Tue, Nov 17 | from Read/WriteWeb
Three iPhone application developers are cited in an online petition which asks Apple to approve their apps, all of which have been sitting in limbo for months on end. The developers are awaiting word about their new DJ applications which let users mix loops of their own iTunes tracks store...
Voices: There are a few voice modulation apps on the shelves of the App Store, but none has captured Jesus' heart like Voices: Zosh is a $3 app that allows you to sign attached documents on your iPhone. Basically, you forward the emailed document to Zosh from the iPhone's mail app, then you op...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Gizmodo
Integration is by far one of the most significant trends we are seeing in the enterprise space. It's a wave, really, marked this week by Salesforce.com and its move to turn the Force.com development platform into a service that makes all of its applications social. Sponsor
Fri, Nov 20 | from Read/WriteWeb
Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi.
Fri, Nov 20 | from Mashable!
Thu, Nov 19 | from iphone-freak (Feedburner)
Up until now, TomTom's iPhone GPS application was, well, only for the iPhone. It required iPhone OS 3.0, and for obvious reasons surrounding a physical GPS module, it wouldn't work with the iPod touch. Today, all that changes. TomTom to update its application for iPhone with major improveme...
Thu, Nov 19 | from Hot Hardware
The DLO Jam Jacket for iPhone is compatible with the iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB and the iPhone 3GS, is constructed from silicone and protects your iPhone from scratches, and still delivers access to controls, camera lens, dock connector, headphone jack, allows charging and access to the mul...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Phones Review
eldavojohn writes "If you think the iPhone app store is the only mobile game store suffering an exodus, some game publishers claim Android's app store isn't much better, for a different reason — it doesn't generate much revenue. In fact, French game developer Gameloft (which owes 13% of i...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Slashdot
Gameloft races back onto the iPhone with a follow-up to last year's arcadey Asphalt 4: Elite Racing. Asphalt 5 was developed and published by Gameloft for iPhone on November 2nd. Retails for $6.99. A copy of the game was provided by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Completed the game's ca...
Wed, Nov 18 | from Kotaku
If you are not familiar with our Apps for Less posts, they are a great way for us to point out a few good iPhone (and iPod touch) applications available in the App Store that are currently on sale, or ones that have come down permanently to a price that we feel are worth mentioning [...]This is a sto...
Fri, Nov 20 | from The iPhone
Mobile workers of the world can finally unite, as the neat augmented reality application Worksnug has just been approved by Apple for the iPhone. And you know what? Two days after its approval it is already a hit. Not only has Stephen Fry twittered about it, but it went straight in at number fi...
Fri, Nov 20 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
If you've been wondering why some people have started walked around while holding a smartphone a foot in front of their face, today's column may explain the phenomenon. My story covers something called "augmented reality." That might sound like something you experience after knocking b...
Thu, Nov 19 | from Capitalweather.com
But back to the iPhone. One of Steve Jobs’ favorite quotes is from Alan Kay — “”People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” Google bringing a first-party gPhone to the table would likely be the strongest competition yet for the iPhone. As much as Google’s And...
Wed, Nov 18 | from The iPhone
This app aims to let you send pictures with text messages to your friends' cell phones a la MMS, only without the texting charges. But Quip doesn't offer iPod touch support, and it has a number of flaws that make it a poor choice for most iPhone users.
Thu, Nov 19 | from Macworld
Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) r...
Mon, Nov 16 | from The iPhone
Gorgeous graphics make this mobile version of the sports bar classic a fun addition to your iPhone or iPod touch.
Wed, Nov 18 | from Macworld
As promised, TomTom has released an updated GPS app for the iPhone. A previously unannounced featur...
Thu, Nov 19 | from Macnn
TomTom today released an update for all versions of its turn-by-turn navigation application for the iPhone. This new version, which we reported on last week, includes quite a few improvements, including support for the original iPhone and all versions of the iPod touch.
Wed, Nov 18 | from iPhone Alley
We looked at the TomTom iPhone app a while ago and that application has just received an update to bring along a few more functions. But the elephant in the room is how you attach your iPhone to your car to use the application. Of course, the TomTom Car Kit for iPhone.
Fri, Nov 20 | from lint.com
AT&T's 3G Network Sees 2,000% Increase Since iPhone 3G Release In the wake of a big $65 million upgrade to its network here in the San Francisco Bay Area, AT&T revealed that the improvement was due to 3G usage being up 2,000% after the release of the iPhone 3G last year. That sounds li...
Tue, Nov 17 | from Gizmodo
Samsung's been showing off two new handsets of late. The S5150 Olivia is a clamshell affair with a mirrored body, an external LED, and we know that it will boast a 3 megapixel camera and a 2.2-inch QVGA display. The other - the S7070 - is an iPhone-esque job, with a crazy diamond-shaped button at...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Engadget
The elimination of the iPhone's exclusivity to Orange in France has resulted in "more than double" the sales of the device and dealt a blow to the BlackBerry, according to research notes issued recently. Estimates from Bernstein, Strategy Analytics and others report twice as many iPhon...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Electronista
App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. Finance director for the company, Alexandre de Rochefort, says that even a compan...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Gizmodo
CWmike writes "iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show. The lawsuit, which was filed in October 2007, accuses Apple and AT&T of violating antitrus...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Slashdot
Could we be getting the best of all worlds again? Apple and 100,000+ apps native on our iPhone (or Windows, Mac, *nix desktop), Google and Microsoft filling up our cloud along with their own? Yes please. This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
Fri, Nov 20 | from The iPhone
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY) is selling the Samsung Moment and the HTC Hero for $99 through December -- matching Apple's iPhone pricing for a two-year contract. That's with no rebates, either. So, the question is this: will Google's Android-powered phones start gaining...
Fri, Nov 20 | from BloggingStocks
Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhereGoogle AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precisionWikipedia, the free open-source encyclopedia, la...
Thu, Nov 19 | from Wired
A wide range of brands, from the big names like Breitling, Piaget, Van Cleef & Arpels, Dior and Bell & Ross to independents like Dewitt, have introduced iPhone applications in the past six months that highlight their watch lines. The applications, all free, are available from th...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Top Tech News
The Droid’s virtual keyboard was also very capable, and I like how it starts showing several potential word matches as you’re typing. If the right one pops up, which it frequently does, you can tap it and move on quickly. Once again much to my surprise I found myself quickly adapting to the Dro...
Sun, Nov 15 | from karmamule (WordPress)
Sure, that shimmering device in your palm is packed with Silicon Valley smarts. The influence of Steve Jobs and his happy band of engineers is present in its sleek design, ease of use, and cooler-than-thou features that now include some 100,000 apps designed solely for the iPhone.
Tue, Nov 17 | from Wired
One reason the iPhone plays back YouTube video so well is that it is automatically hardware decoded using QuickTime and the iPhone’s H.264 hardware acceleration. By supporting hardware acceleration for video, audio and animation playback, Flash can become a much better performer.
Tue, Nov 17 | from Mashable!
We've been playing with the Altec Lansing inMotion Classic iMT620 for a few days now, and before you think "man, not another iPhone stereo dock," look again. It was (mostly) love at first sight when we spotted this mini boombox -- sharp corners and minimalism are what Altec Lansing does bes...
Thu, Nov 19 | from Engadget
What do you think about the future of mobile applications and app stores in China? Let us know! Reviews: App Store Tags: app store, china, iphone What do you think about the future of mobile applications and app stores in China? Let us know! Reviews: App Store
Tue, Nov 17 | from Mashable!
Alasdair Allan is approaching the iPhone from a different direction, using it as a way for astronomers to control their telescopes remotely while "sitting in a pub." While he's seen some primitive scientific applications of the iPhone for thing such as distributed earthquake monitori...
Tue, Nov 17 | from oreilly/radar/atom (Feedburner)
While trying out Stud/Dud and Single?, two romance-themed iPhone apps, I've realized that I've got a lousy relationship history. First I discovered that several ex-boyfriends were "duds," then that one was actually married...to his grandmother. I can't look anymore!
Thu, Nov 19 | from Gizmodo
OnLive's service definitely sounds possible someday -- as Internet connections get faster and hardware gets even cheaper, it's not a stretch to think we'll eventually move the heavy processor lifting to another location, leaving much tinier consoles and PCs taking up space on our des...
Wed, Nov 18 | from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
As with the other satnav solutions for the iPhone, we would recommend you look for a windscreen cradle and a charging option as the software will eat through your phone's battery fairly quickly. Tags: Phones Mobile phone apps Car And GPS ALK Technologies CoPilot 8 for iPhone GPS iPhone app...
Mon, Nov 16 | from lint.com
While trying out Stud/Dud and Single?, two romance-themed iPhone apps, I've realized that I've got a lousy relationship history. First I discovered that several ex-boyfriends were "duds," then that one was actually married...to his grandmother. I can't look anymore!
Thu, Nov 19 | from gizmodo/full(feeds.gawker.com)
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Thu, Nov 19 | from GigaOM
Samsung's been showing off two new handsets of late. The S5150 Olivia is a clamshell affair with a mirrored body, an external LED, and we know that it will boast a 3 megapixel camera and a 2.2-inch QVGA display. The other - the S7070 - is an iPhone-esque job, with a crazy diamond-shaped button at...
Fri, Nov 20 | from engadget.com
Qualcomm has quietly shown an example receiver that would give the iPhone and iPod touch FLO TV reception. Despite assertions that the company would use iPhone OS 3.0 support for native hardware, the demonstrator mimics the strategy used for the Softbank 1Seg tuner in Japan and pipes vide...
Fri, Nov 20 | from Electronista
As such, South Korea's own LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics are about to see their homeland assaulted by the official introduction of the iPhone for sale into that country. South Korea's KT Corp. and SK Telecom are the reported carriers for Apple's iPhone there, and although the Sou...
Fri, Nov 20 | from BloggingStocks
The iPhone app allows users to check if a certain website may be compromised, including applicable links within those sites, such as videos or podcasts. SIO To Go is also effective at spotting new malware signatures, complete with bulletins on how to handle such threats.
Fri, Nov 20 | from Mac
The PED3-AUTO has a very adjustable base that will stick to almost any surface with your choice of screws, super strong glue, or suction cups. I was able to easily modify the base to fit onto the portable piece from my Brodit PowerClip so I can move my mounted iPhone to the car and motor home eff...
Fri, Nov 20 | from palmaddict.typepad.com
The iPhone has not only changed the way people consume data on their mobile phones — thanks to its touchscreen, and the myriad of apps that make grabbing such info from the web on a small device easy — it’s changed assumptions as to which devices [...]
Thu, Nov 19 | from GigaOM
If you have been following this blog you will know that I have been in search of the one device that will be the only one I need to carry on me for all my media/browsing/phone needs. While things are looking up and some great handsets are coming out, they have all fallen short. I switched from ATT a...
Sun, Nov 15 | from fpk21 (WordPress)
I was in line for an iPhone 3GS on release day, just as excited about my new purchase as I was about getting Darth Vader on Christmas, 1982. But of all the new features that intrigued me – faster speed, voice memos for interviews and even just getting a black model instead of my white [...]
Fri, Nov 20 | from Apple Gazette
Thanks to the apps that come pre-packaged with the iPhone and the more than 100,000 third-party offerings now available in the iTunes Store, the iPhone has gained functionality that might have seemed hard to fathom under three years ago when Steve Jobs first announced the device.
Thu, Nov 19 | from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
The company in question, of course, is Apple and the issue I'm writing about is the App Store review process. How Apple lost Joe When Joe first started developing for the iPhone, he started with web applications. And his first contribution to the community was the iUI framework.
Mon, Nov 16 | from aralbalkan.com
Is the Android Marketplace a more open alternative for developers compared to the iPhone App Store, or does the growing diversity of hardware, software, and overlays make it just as frustrating in its own way? Okay, so Fake Steve is likely to be more pro-Apple than a Fake Eric would be, fai...
Tue, Nov 17 | from The iPhone
As advertised, you can have multiple applications running simultaneously, unlike Apple's offering. This way you can have things such as instant messaging or Twitter running without having to open them separately. In a direct attack on Apple and...
Tue, Nov 17 | from Top Tech News
The case is needed because the iPhone doesn't contain the necessary technology to support wireless charging. The case has a rubberised effect on what is otherwise a plastic body, which splits into two pieces. The top removes so you can slide your iPhone into the case, connecting with a dock...
Thu, Nov 19 | from lint.com
Occipital is the company behind RedLaser (iTunes link), a hugely-successful barcode scanning app for the iPhone that is one of the top-selling and highest-grossing apps on the App Store. Unfortunately, since Apple decided to reject apps built on the realtime RedLaser SDK, this user ex...
Tue, Nov 17 | from aralbalkan.com
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