Have an iPhone? Want to quit smoking? There’s an app for that. The so called My Quitline is a free iPhone application (available in English and Spanish), which allows users to instant message and speak over the phone with trained quit-smoking counselors from the National Cancer Institute Quitline. Mentioned service (QuitLine) was recommended as an…
LongHorn Steakhouse has an iPhone app, too, compliments of Grey New York
LongHorn Steakhouse is expanding its latest “Discover the West in You” ad campaign to mobile screens. Actually, it’s the iPhone and iPod Touch screens, only, but that’s not bad for a start. Anyway, the “stereoscopic 3D application” features a steak that can be flipped up to four times, and with the aid of 3-D glasses,…
WaveSense Diabetes Manager is an electronic diabetes logbook for the iPhone/iPod Touch
AgaMatrix, the company behind the WaveSense line of blood glucose monitoring products, is ready to ride the iPhone wave. For that purpose they released the WaveSense Diabetes Manager, an electronic diabetes logbook software. From their press release, we read it’s the first such app for the iPhone, and that it has been in development and…
Civilization Available on the iPhone; Mobile Dictating Now A Reality!
Part-time world leaders take note, 2K Games has officially announced today the availability of Civilization for the iPhone / iPod Touch. In Civilization for the iPhone, you can take charge of one of 16 playable civilizations while using intuitive game mechanics tailor-made for the iPhone platform. Civilization comes in two flavors: Lite and the full…
iPhone Evo Concept Rocks Solar Power in a Big Way
In a new iPhone concept that caught my eye this morning, designer Amy Lam from Vancouver has gone ‘green’ in a big way. The device would feature solar power as an optional power source, a 7MP camera, an ‘iStylus’ to help with writing and much more. Personally, I thought the stylus went out of favor…
8GB iPhone 3GS Appears on Rogers Website
Could it be? Well, it certainly looks like it. Simon reported on this rumor a little while ago, and now some juicy details have leaked out thanks to the good folks at Rogers. An iPhone 3G vs. iPhone 3GS comparison chart on the Rogers Wireless website appears to have spilled the beans as you can…
Remember that iPhone SMS security bug? Learn more about it from the guy who found it
That iPhone SMS bug that we heard about towards the end of July, and was then patched by Apple the same day the hack was unveiled, was discovered by Charlie Miller from Independent Security Evaluators. He just had an exclusive interview with Tom’s Hardware discussing how the SMS exploit worked and even takes a few…
USAA allowing iPhone users to send in their checks with an iPhone; American banking stuck in stone age
Checks are a pain in the ass. They’re paper, they need to be deposited in person usually, there can be typos, signature verification issues, the list goes on and on. American banks still use checks, which is simply jaw dropping since checks were invented during the toga wearing times by the ancient romans. How are…
iPhone finally coming to Korea via KTF?
It seems Apple has finally found a way to sell its phone to the ever-demanding Korean mobile users through KTF. The carrier’s CFO, Kim Yeon-hak, confirmed the deal without disclosing the exact release date. Apple is still quiet about the whole thing, but it’s fair to guess they’ll go all official with it within weeks…
Playnice enables automatic Google Latitude updates on the iPhone via MobileMe
You know how Google Latitude works on your iPhone? Yap, you need to update your location manually via Safari, which is kinda, sorta sucky, considering there’s a GPS built inside your beloved 3G(S) device. Not any more, thanks to developer Nat Friedman, who made a script called Playnice that automatically updates your location using information…