To some, the iPhone is but a fantastic device. But there is no such thing as a perfect phone, not even the iPhone. Well, what may seem perfect to Apple and its designers may not be perfect to some of its users. People have different preferences and different people have different uses for it too. […]
The new 1.1.4 firmware is now available, check your iTunes…
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LinkedIn has launched a mobile version with a specific iPhone version. You can now manage your business social profile on the go with your iPhone.
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Since Napster revolutionized the file sharing industry in 1999, peer to peer services have been popping up all over. Movie sharing services were soon to follow with services such as Bittorrent as broadband capabilities spread. With the recent introduction of the iPhone, many iPhone peer to peer networks have come about. The question lingering in […]
We joked about it at State of the Map (before the iphone was released) and now Mikel and Andrew hacked the iphone to display openstreetmap tiles! Cool! Turns out, the phone helpfully caches map tiles in a sqllite database on the phone.
AccuWeather was smart enough to develop a Firefox plugin and capitalized on that traffic to rival weather.com. For the second time they made the leap, this time producing an iPhone widget for the iPhone. It’s available here. While definitely a noble effort, I personally had some problems getting it off the […]
PriceCanada.com has launched an iPhone Web Application to compare the prices on your iPhone. It could be very useful while in a shop to see if the price is good or not:
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We are only just getting to know Apple iPhone firmware 1.1.3 and already there is talks of version 1.1.4 coming out. The iPhone software developer kit (SDK) is said to be coming available very soon, and many are speculating that firmware version 1.1.4 will accompany it. Here is what iPhone News has learned so far:
The iPhone application devleoper, Tiny Code, who makes numerous applicatiosn available with the Installer.app said this in regards to their current iPhone software development and their future with Apple Inc:
Tiny Code no longer produces fixes or applications for firmware 1.1.3. We can’t say much, but we are working with Apple and with their SDK for the next firmware release and SDK applications and we shouldn’t be missed for long. We will no longer update our Installer.app repo for legality reasons and you should see us soon on iTunes.
This sounds to me like Apple has teamed up with Tiny Code to develop iPhone applications… (more…)
“Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset”
You can see the full article here.
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Rogers Communications (Canada’s GSM cell carrier) has announced a new wrieless essentials package that you cna add on to your cell plan. Some past plans included $5 for 5MB of data; but today they unleashed a new plan “Unlimited On-Device Mobile Browsing Plan“.
The details of the plan are as follows, direct form the Rogers website:
- Unlimited on-device mobile Internet access to your favourite social communities like Facebook & MySpace, news, sports and entertainment sites all on the go for one flat monthly fee!
- Access to search the mobile Internet with Yahoo! Search and Google, plus access sites like Yahoo! Canada, Canada.com, Windows Live, The Weather Network, Lavalife Mobile and more!
- Protection against high pay-per-use data charges while surfing the mobile Internet and using community-based services like Facebook.
This is, of course, great news for Canadians. This means surfing sites liek facebook can be done form mobile devices for relatively low costs compared to what we used to pay. We are also now one step closer to having a data plan in Canada that would suitable for the iPhone. (more…)
