It’s been a long time in the making and we’re glad to hear that long-rumored Sanyo buy-out candidate Kyocera has finally sealed the deal with Sanyo. As you may recall, Sanyo’s mobile phone unit has struggled to turn a profit, and so put their cellphone-manufacturing arm on the auction block. Kyocera is said to be…
PocketGuitar lets you play the guitar on your iPhone…kind of
When it comes to menial, time-wasting games on the iPhone, Tap Tap Revolution tops our list. TTR is all about tapping the screen in sync with a particular beat – think Dance Dance Revolution for your fingers. The newest screen-tapping time-waster to hit the iPhone is PocketGuitar. With simulated, on-screen guitar frets and a strum…
US experts urge research into cellphone effects on children
We were pretty much on the money when we speculated that France’s move to warn its citizens about limiting cellphone use among youngsters would prompt other countries to do the same. Experts in the US are urging Yankee researchers to look into the possible effects of cellphone use on children and their development. Youngsters are…
Apple iPhone v1.1.3 firmware frameworks documentation
If you fancy yourself an iPhone developer, or you just want to dig around and find out what makes the new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware tick, you’ll be glad to hear that the iPhone v1.1.3 framework documentation is now live. Following on the announcement that the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware has been jailbroken (jailbreaked?), Erica Sadun from…
HOT: iPhone v1.1.3 firmware already jailbroken – full read/write access to filesystem; native third-party applications
Welp, that’s the game, folks! Just days after the third-party application-killing iPhone v1.1.3 firmware was released, the iPhone developing/hacking community has already put together a legit jailbreak solution for all iPhones and iPod Touches running v1.1.3 code. Apparently, some firmware code-digging has revealed that Apple’s codename for the v1.1.3 firmware is “LittleBear” – now that’s…
Use your iPhone to make long-distance calls at local wireless rates – RingFree allows VoIP over GSM
Now this is one intriguing method to make long-distance (international) phone calls for the price of local (domestic) wireless rates (not including any VoIP fees – which are incredibly cheap). RingFree basically allows you to call into their VoIP SIP server, pick the VoIP provider you’d like to use, and dial an international phone number…
Lotus Notes eMail coming to iPhone?
With AT&T rumored to be bringing the iPhone to its corporate and business customers, we speculated that AT&T and Apple would roll-out some enterprise-class email support. Namely, we had looked for the iPhone duo to introduce native support for Microsoft’s Exchange Server, which would open up a world of Outlook Server-tethered businesspeople. Well, we haven’t…
Brief: iPhone v1.1.3 brings native support for Gmail IMAP – new Gmail accounts automatically set to IMAP
So, there’s yet another lesser-known feature of the new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware that we overlooked previously. We have already switched our Gmail account to IMAP, and configured our iPhone’s Gmail account accordingly, so we didn’t really notice any difference. But, to any iPhone v1.1.3 users that haven’t made the switch to Gmail’s IMAP service, you…
More hard-times for Sprint – Sprint Nextel lays off 4,000 employees, closes 125 retail stores
Following on rumors that Sprint Nextel’s new CEO, Dan Hesse, was planning massive lay-offs in the name of efficiency and cost-savings, Sprint Nextel has officially announced that they’ll be “streamlin[ing] its business” at the expense of 4,000 employees. Sprint also announced that they’ll be shutting down 125, or 8%, of the No. 3 US carrier’s…
Christopher Breen and Ben Long hold iPhone Tips/Tricks Supersession at Macworld
Any lecture series entitled “iPhone Supersession” demands the attention of the iPhone-world Christopher Breen and Ben Long’s “iPhone Supersession” presentation is sure to be a good read even for the veteran iPhone-user. The “Supersession” is broken down into the following categories: Text and typing Sync or swim Smarter about playlists The portable information manager Email…