Finally… I’ll say it again… FINALLY! Mac users have been waiting and waiting, and waiting years for this day to arrive. Now, while this is not an ‘official’ launch, it’s a ‘leak’, and I know the BlackBerry users running a Mac will take anything they can get at this point. That’s right, BlackBerry Desktop Manager…
iPhone tracks Swine Flu outbreaks near you with ‘Outbreaks Near Me’
Everyone’s talking about how Swine Flu will be more intense this chilly season. No one really knows how bad it’ll get, but the outbreaks have started and they’ll probably get worse as we come into colder weather. The good news is that you might be able to do something about it. A new iPhone app…
Apple to bypass China Mobile by selling iPhone through third-party retailer?
Apple has already locked down China Unicom as their Chinese iPhone partner and is still trying to strike a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile’s massive 500-million-strong customer base. But, China Mobile recently launched OPhone smartrphone operating system and their own mobile applications store which compete directly with the iPhone OS and the…
Apple launching iPhone OS 3.1 next week?
The iPhone AppStore already boasts a handful of iPhone apps with support for augmented reality. But, Apple has yet to officially come out and support AR on the iPhone. The Paris Metro Subway and Yelp iPhone apps recently pushed updates to the AppStore that enabled AR features – these updates were presumably snuck past Apple.…
Another Day, Another AppStore Rejection – Chess Wars Edition
AppStore rejections are becoming a matter of public record. Today, another iPhone app gets rejected from the AppStore. This time, the iPhone app is a game called Chess Wars from iPhone developer Joe Stump. The latest Chess Wars app update has apparently been sitting in Apple’s app review process for six weeks, with no word…
Apple still talking to China Mobile behind China Unicom’s back
Uh oh. What do we have here? It seems that Apple isn’t satisfied with putting their hands all over China Unicom’s massive customer base. Apple is reportedly still talking to China Mobile behind China Unicom’s back. It’s obvious what Apple wants – they want to get their iPhone into as many Chinese wireless networks as…
Did AT&T get the short end of the iPhone-stick?
If you thought AT&T has been taking their Apple iPhone exclusivity deal to the bank for the past couple years, you’d be wrong. But, it’s okay, AT&T was thinking the same thing. A new WSJ article points out that AT&T may have been getting the short end of the iPhone stick all this time. Apple,…
Dell Mini 3 – iPhone’s brother from another mother?
A couple of years ago, any handset that looked like the Dell Mini 3 would have been derided as an iPhone clone or knockoff or rip(off). Today, we’re past all that iPhone look-a-like nonsense. The iPhone helped change the face of the smartphone market, and it makes sense that touchscreen slates with heavy app-emphasis look…
Apple bringing iPhone to other US carriers next summer?
iPhone hopefuls still waiting for Apple to bring the iconic smartphone to other US carriers may soon get their wish. With AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity agreement widely believed to end in 2010, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster believes that Apple will bring the iPhone to other US carriers in the summer of 2010. The move, says Munster,…
iPhone accounts for nearly all handheld WiFi hotspot access in US!
Now here’s an interesting little factoid gleaned from a new research report from JiWire. It seems that, when it comes to connecting handheld mobile devices, cafe WiFi hostpots across the US serve darn near all of their wireless bits and bytes to the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS (which runs on the iPhone and iPod…