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News: TomTom intros separate Car Kit for iPod touch
Following the release of its updated turn-by-turn navigation app that added support for the original iPhone and iPod touch, TomTom has revealed that first-, second-, and third-generation iPod touch users wanting to purchase a TomTom-branded GPS solution will need to buy a separate c...
News: iLounge and MusicSkins announce the Ultimate Design Contest
and MusicSkins are pleased to announce the new Ultimate Design Contest. Entrants can upload their own design/imagery for the chance to be featured and distributed via MusicSkins iPod, iPhone and Macbook skins at the iLounge Pavilion within the International CES, held January 7th – 10...
Article: The Complete Guide to Using the iTunes Store
Although you can fill your iTunes library and your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV devices with content from a wide variety of sources, the iTunes Store provides an excellent one-stop shop for a huge array of content of various media types, with millions of songs and podcasts and thousands of mo...
News: Google launches Google News for iPhone, iPod touch
Google has launched a new mobile-formatted version of its Google News homepage. The new offering is optimized for display on the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as Android devices and the Palm Pre. It offers the same personalization available on the desktop, along with more stories, source...
Yesterday
News: Magellan releases RoadMate app, Car Kit coming
Magellan has released its new RoadMate 2010 North America application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Features of the turn-by-turn navigation app include a OneTouch favorites menu for fast bookmarking and retrieval of commonly-accessed places and searches, spoken street name guidan...
News: Proporta ships Antimicrobial Case for iPhone 3G, 3GS
Proporta has introduced its new Antimicrobial Silicone Case with SteriTouch for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. The Antimicrobial Silicone Case is made from rugged silicone, which has been treated with an antimicrobial coating to guard against germs and bacteria, and features a texture...
News: Incase unveils new chargers for iPod, iPhone
Incase has introduced its new Car Charger and Combo Charger for the iPod and iPhone. Both chargers feature dual high-speed USB ports for charging up to two devices at once, LED charging indicators, and an included four-foot 30-pin charging cable. The Car Charger is made solely for in-vehi...
News: AT&T suffers setback in Verizon suit, airs response ad
AT&T has suffered an initial setback in its lawsuit against Verizon Wireless over the latter’s recent TV advertisements attacking AT&T and the iPhone, but has also launched a new television commercial to counter the Verizon spots. A federal judge in Atlanta has denied an initi...
News: TomTom updates navigation app with iPod touch, iPhone 1G support
TomTom has released version 1.2 of its TomTom U.S. & Canada turn-by-turn navigation application, adding support for the iPod touch and original iPhone. The inclusion of iPod touch and iPhone support means the application can now be used on those devices when connected to third-party G...
Wednesday, Nov 18
News: China offers opportunity, challenges for app developers
The Chinese market represents a large opportunity, and perhaps an equally large challenge, for iPhone app developers, according to a Wall Street Journal report. While the country is said to have roughly two million iPhone users, the vast majority of those are jailbroken units, and are t...
News: Qualcomm in talks to supply chips for iPhone
Qualcomm has confirmed that it is in talks with Apple over the possibility of supplying telecommunications chips for future versions of the iPhone. “We continue to discuss it, but haven’t made it yet,” Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “Hopefully, in the...
News: Griffin launches new Threadless cases for iPhone
Griffin Technology, as part of its new Co-Op Initiative, has announced a partnership with community-based online apparel store Threadless to produce a new line of accessories. First in the series are the new Clouds within the Thunder and Birds of a Feather cases for the iPhone 3G and iPho...
News: China Mobile still in talks over iPhone
Following last month’s launch of the iPhone in China on rival network China Unicom, China Mobile has reaffirmed that it remains in talks with Apple to offer the iPhone on its own, more popular, network. “We really are still in talks with Apple…In our negotiations in the past, we insisted on...
News: Photo of the Week: iPhone in Berlin
This week’s featured photo is from our iPhones Around the World gallery, and shows an iPhone in front of the “Wall of Dominos,” a line of over 1,000 foam domino tiles, each over eight feet tall, created as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The domin...
Tuesday, Nov 17
Article: iPhone Gems: Brain Challenge 2, Impossible Quiz, Jeopardy, Trivia Wars + Wheel of Fortune
For this week’s edition of iPhone Gems we look at a series of brain teaser apps ranging simple trivia and quiz apps to iPhone games based on the popular Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune Game shows. Brain Challenge 2: Think Again A sequel to last year’s Brain Challenge for iPhone and iPod touch (i...
News: Dexim rolls out P-Flip Power Dock for iPhone 3G, 3GS
Dexim has introduced its new DCA132 P-Flip Foldable Power Dock for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. The P-Flip is a portable battery pack featuring a unique folding design that allows it to serve as either a cradle or video stand for the attached device, depending on whether it’s in a vertical o...
News: Tunewear ships VisualDock AV for iPod, iPhone
Tunewear has announced that it is now shipping its VisualDock AV Docking Station for the iPod and iPhone. VisualDock AV is a black iPod/iPhone dock featuring both S-Video and RCA/line outputs for connecting to a TV or home theater system, a “3D” sound processing with a button on the front t...
News: App Mix: Ravensword, Star Wars, Google Earth, Konami
Chillingo has released Ravensword: The Fallen King, its latest game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Developed by Crescent Moon Games, Ravensword is a 3D action/adventure game with role-playing elements, offering a large, open sandbox-style world in which players can take on quests to e...
News: Apple airs two new iPhone 3GS commercials
Apple has begun to air two new television commercials for the iPhone 3GS. As with past iPhone 3GS ads, these two continue Apple’s recent end of highlighting different apps on an iPhone set against a white background, and show a wide variety of applications. “Gift” mentions the application...
Thursday, Oct 29
Patch: News: Apple updates Remote for iPhone, iPod touch to 1.3.2
Apple has released an update to its Remote application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Remote allows iPhone and iPod touch users to control their iTunes installations or Apple TVs directly from their devices. New in version 1.3.2 is compatibility with iTunes 9 and Apple TV 3.0, as well as unspec...
Thursday, Oct 8
Patch: News: AT&T updates carrier settings for U.S. iPhones
Following Apple’s release of iPhone OS 3.1.2, AT&T has released a carrier settings update for its U.S. iPhone customers. Listed as AT&T 5.6, it is unclear what improvements the new settings file may offer; the last carrier settings update activated MMS service for U.S. iPhone customer...
Patch: News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.2, fixes sleep issue
Apple has released iPhone OS 3.1.2, its first major update to the iPhone’s software since the launch of version 3.1 on September 9. According to Apple’s release notes, the update “[r]esolves [a] sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep,” as well as an “intermittent issue th...
Thursday, Sep 10
Patch: Article: Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iPhone 3.1
Yesterday Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1 update for iPhone and iPod touch devices. This release builds on the new features added in the major 3.0 update in June by adding a few small refinements and compatibility with iTunes 9, which was also released yesterday. The iPhone 3.1 update lists a n...
Friday, Aug 28
Patch: News: App Mix: Facebook, DSLR Remote, Gluten-free, PlaySafe
Facebook has released version 3.0 of its application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The updated app sports a redesigned interface and several new capabilities, including the ability to write notes and read friends’ notes, upload photos to any album and manage a photo collection, zoom pho...
Friday, Jul 31
Patch: News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0.1, fixes SMS vulnerability
Apple has released the iPhone OS 3.0.1 Software Update for the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS. According to the release notes, the new update fixes the SMS vulnerability publicized yesterday by cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Colin Mulliner which would allow a series of m...
News: O2: SMS iPhone patch coming Saturday
A patch to fix the SMS vulnerability publicized yesterday by cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Colin Mulliner is to be patched in an update that will be released on Saturday, according to an O2 spokesperson. “We will be communicating to customers both through the website and...
Tuesday, Jul 14
Patch: News: iPhone SDK, OS 3.1 beta updates available
Apple has released the second beta versions of both the iPhone SDK 3.1 and iPhone OS 3.1 to registered iPhone developers. Notes for the new beta of iPhone OS 3.1 do not show any apparent changes from the first beta release, which included non-destructive video editing, support for Voice Contr...
Wednesday, Jul 1
Patch: News: Apple posts iPhone OS 3.1, SDK 3.1 beta
Apple has released its first beta version of iPhone OS 3.1 to registered iPhone developers, along with an updated SDK. Listed as build 7C97d, the new beta OS appears to include non-destructive video editing, support for Voice Control over Bluetooth, and new modem firmware and AT&T pr...
Wednesday, Jun 17
First Looks: Blackmagic Design Video Recorder with H.264 Encoding
Just another video recording solution for Mac users? Not at all: Blackmagic Design's Video Recorder ($149) actually offers something that's not so common, namely component video inputs so that you can record video from non-composite sources. Bundled with a custom software package th...
Patch: News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone, iPod touch
Apple has officially released its iPhone Software Upgrade 3.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The second major update to the iPhone OS brings with it a host of new features, including Copy & Paste, widespread landscape keyboard support, in-app and Spotlight search, a new Voice Memos ap...
Tuesday, Jun 9
Patch: Article: The Complete Guide to iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touch
In March 2009, Apple officially announced iPhone OS 3.0, the upcoming operating system update to the 2.2.1 software currently running on iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod touch, and second-generation iPod touch hardware. A beta version of iPhone OS 3.0 was released soon thereafter, showing off many...
Tuesday, Jun 2
Patch: Article: Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iTunes 8.2
Yesterday Apple released iTunes 8.2, an update required to bring compatibility with the upcoming iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 software update, which is expected to be announced next week at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Apple’s release notes indicate that “iTunes 8.2 now support...
Wednesday, Sep 10
Patch: News: Apple releases iPhone 2.1 Software Update for iPod touch
Apple has released its iPhone 2.1 Software Update for the iPod touch. Pre-installed on all second-generation iPod touch units, the software offers Genius playlist creation, dramatically faster backups, improved email reliability, ...
Friday, Aug 22
News: Apple aggressively pushes iPhone Software 2.0.2 update
Apple has today taken active steps to promote version 2.0.2 iPhone Software, posting a new web page dedicated to the recent iPhone Software 2.0.2 update, an iTunes Store link, and a SMS text message to notify users of the release. ...
Friday, Dec 14
News: Apple posts iPhone custom ringtone how-to
Apple has posted a new support document, ”How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1,” that describes how to make iPhone-compatible ringtones using the audio editing program. The document states “With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio record...
