iPhone News

IPHONE APP STORE

Nov 23, 2009

Sony Announces Plans To Launch Online Store On The Likes Of iTunes

Andy

Sony has been a significant player in a lot of markets that Apple is into - Mobile phones, MP3 players, computers,etc. However, one major difference between the two companies has been that while Apple is dominant in both the hardware and software segments, Sony has largely been a hardware player....

CARRIERS

Nov 20, 2009

AT&T Reveals $65 Million Investment On 3G Infrastructure Around SF Bay Through 2009

Andy

The AT&T network has seen unprecedented growth in its bandwidth consumption over the past two years, thanks majorly to the exclusive iPhone deal with Apple. While this has tremendously helped the company in its earnings, the high data consumption has also led to clogged networks and subsequently to a lot...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 20, 2009

New Smartphone Optimized Version of Google News Launched

Andy

Google News has been one of the popular news aggregators on the web, which lets you to read news relevant to your geography as well as personalize your page to read updates on subjects of interest to you. However, while a mobile optimized version of Google News was available for...

IPHONE ACCESSORIES

Nov 19, 2009

TomTom Version 1.2 Released – Includes Support For iPod Touch and First Gen iPhones

Andy

TomTom, one of the navigation apps available on the iPhone has just released an updated version. The new version v1.2 of TomTom's iPhone app offers quite a lot of interesting features and one that is most interesting is its support for iPod touch and the first generation iPhones. The TomTom...

CARRIERS

Nov 19, 2009

AT&T Lawsuit: Court Rules Verizon Ads May Continue, AT&T Launches Counter Ad Campaign

Andy

Yesterday, I had a nice little rant about why Verizon's ads deserved to be pulled off air. But that was not to be, as the Federal Court declined to issue a restraining order on Verizon from airing the ads. The next hearing on this case is only on December 16....

CARRIERS

Nov 19, 2009

Google Phone Coming – How Will This Affect Market Dynamics

Andy

Just when we thought that the Droid threat was not as big as it was hyped up to be comes a rumor which will have Apple closely watching every move. TechCrunch reports a "super-high confidence" rumor that Google could soon be launching their own phone - complete with Google branding....

CARRIERS

Nov 18, 2009

AT&T Lawsuit: Verizon Response Calls It A Case Of Sour Grapes

Andy

After AT&T filed a lawsuit against Verizon's ad campaigns, the latter has finally responded. And very much like the ads in question, the court filing is nothing short of scathing attacks on Ma Bell. Shooting down AT&T's remark that the ads were misleading the customers, Verizon has said that its...

IPHONE APP STORE

Nov 17, 2009

iPhone App Approval Gets Additional Automated Layer to Check Private API Usage

Andy

Despite the number of cases where iPhone apps have been wrongly either accepted or rejected, there has apparently been one segment of iPhone apps, those that use private APIs, that managed to sneak in quite a few times even though Apple expressly forbids them. That could change now. Folks at...

HACKS

Nov 17, 2009

How to Change the Carrier Name On Your iPhone

Andy

If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name? Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone. Requirements...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 17, 2009

‘Fit Or Fugly’ iPhone App Tells How Attractive You Are

Andy

Beauty is skin deep and all you need to measure it is an iPhone app. If you have always been curious to know how attractive you actually look, here is an iPhone app that might be able to finally declare whether you are attractive or not. Developed by teenage iPhone...

CARRIERS

Nov 16, 2009

Verizon Anti-iPhone Campaign Drags On – Is it Time Verizon Stopped?

Andy

"Petty tyrannies that have made their way into our cell phones. Into the very way we choose to speak to another human being" - so goes a new print ad published in Sports Illustrated by Verizon. After attacking AT&T and the iPhone in their ad campaigns, Verizon have finally taken...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 16, 2009

Apple Retracts Stance After Rejecting US Senators’ Database iPhone App

Andy

Apple's public image seems to have taken quite a beating over the past one week after two prominent iPhone app developers, Rogue Amoeba and Facebook's Joe Hewitt quit over Apple's App approval policies. Another news story that could have caused further embarassment has been doused thanks to some quick face...

IPHONE APP STORE

Nov 14, 2009

Another iPhone App Developer Quits Protesting App Store Policing

Andy

Another day and yet another app developer calls it quits in protest against Apple' App Store policies. Shortly after Joe Hewitt, the lead developer at Facebook's iPhone app development team quit, today Rogue Amoeba has announced that they are following suit. Rogue Amoeba is one of the earliest companies to...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 14, 2009

Cellphone Number Harvesting Result Of Obsolete Code – Storm8 Says Lawsuit Lacks Merit

Andy

Storm8, the game app development company that was sued earlier this month by an iPhone owner who had accused the company of illegally harvesting cellphone numbers has now publicly responded to the accusation. Storm8 is the developer of popular game apps like iMobsters and Vampires Live. In a recent post...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 13, 2009

UnderCover iPhone App Helps You Recover Stolen iPhone

Andy

For those who remember,'Find my iPhone' is a feature offered by Apple to MobileMe subscribers that lets them to recover lost or stolen iPhones. Now a Belgian based company named Orbicule has launched an iPhone app that does the same thing and much more. The 'Find My iPhone' feature lets...

IPHONE APP STORE

Nov 13, 2009

Facebook Clarifies App Developer’s Decision Does Not Mirror Official Position

Andy

If there were any speculations regarding Facebook's stand on Apple's app review procedures after its lead iPhone app developer quit citing Apple's approval policies, they were cleared today when the company clarified that Joe Hewitt's decision did not in any way mirror the company's official position. In a message sent...

IPHONE APP STORE

Nov 12, 2009

Apple Introduces New Feature for Developers to Track Status of their iPhone Apps

Andy

Remember the iPhone app named 0870? The iPhone app made news earlier this year when Apple finally approved it after a record 429 days. Though this was an aberration, most iPhone app developers find themselves in similar situations when their iPhone apps take weeks or sometimes months to get approved....

IPHONE APP STORE

Nov 12, 2009

Facebook iPhone App Developer Quits To Protest Apple App Approval Procedures

Andy

The iPhone App Store has been ridiculed quite a bit in the past over their draconian as well as inconsistent approval policies. These policies of Apple claimed another victim today when Joe Hewitt, the brain behind Facebook's iPhone app announced that he was quitting the project. In a message sent...

HACKS

Nov 12, 2009

Yet Another Worm Exploit On Jailbroken iPhones That Steals Personal Data

Andy

Close on the heels of the iKee virus attack that rickrolled jailbroken iPhone users earlier this week comes yet another worm that exploits the same security hole - just that this one is much more dangerous. A Mac Security software development company, Intego has revealed that the worm called iPhone/Privacy.A...

IPHONE APPS

Nov 11, 2009

Want to Diagnose a Cough? There’s An App for That

Andy

The next time you have a persistent cough, you can simply diagnose your illness by coughing into your iPhone! That is simply what a team of American and Australian scientists are working on. STAR analytics services, the firm that has been carrying out the research says that coughing is one...

CARRIERS

Nov 11, 2009

New AT&T Ad Educates Customers About Verizon’s Misleading Ads

Andy

Verizon's audacious marketing campaign will only get aggressive as we move towards the holiday season and lawsuits might not help AT&T in time to compete fairly against Verizon this season. Probably realizing just this, AT&T has launched a counter campaign to educate their customers about the misleading Verizon ad campaign....

CARRIERS

Nov 11, 2009

Estimated 100,000 Droid Handsets Sold In The First Weekend

Andy

The first weekend sales estimate for Motorola Droid are out. As Bloomberg reports, while the number is absolutely commendable, they come nowhere near the opening weekend sales of any of the iPhone models launched in the past. Verizon reportedly sold close to 100,000 Droid handsets the past weekend. The corresponding...

HACKS

Nov 10, 2009

Identity of iKee Hacker Who Rickrolled Jailbroken iPhones Revealed

Andy

The identity of the Australian hacker who had 'rickrolled' jailbroken iPhones with the 'iKee' virus is now revealed. It is 21 year old Ashley Towns from Wollongong, Australia. Ashley, who is a student at TAFE, says he had created the virus merely as a prank and to make people aware...

IPHONE 3GS

Nov 10, 2009

Apple’s Patent For ‘Grab and Go’ System to Make Syncing More Efficient

Andy

If you thought syncing your iPhone was easy, think again. This is because Apple is working on a system that strives to make cross-platform syncing much more simple and quicker. Folks at AppleInsider have unearthed a patent filed by Apple in September last year where the company talks of a...

IPHONE 3G

Nov 10, 2009

Apple and Orange To Sell iPhones in UK from Today; O2 will Allow Customers to Unlock their iPhones

Andy

After two years of exclusively owning the carrier rights in the UK, O2 finally made way for Orange to join them in the UK iPhone market today. This follows an agreement that was signed between Apple and Orange late September bringing an end to O2's exclusivity. O2 has had a...

IPHONE ADS

Nov 9, 2009

Verizon Attacks AT&T 3G Coverage On Its Ads One More Time

Andy

Looks like Verizon is on a mission to make people aware of AT&T's "inferior" 3G coverage. Just days after Ma Bell filed a lawsuit against Verizon for its 'There's a map for that' ad campaign, the latter has launched a new series of ads attacking AT&T's 3G network one more...

IPHONE NEWS

Nov 9, 2009

One Year After Announcement, Tethering Yet To Come To AT&T Customers

Andy

If the CEO of a company is not reliable enough a source for future service announcements, then who really is? Harry from Technologizer stirs up some nostalgia when he notes that it is now over a year since AT&T Mobility CEO promised tethering. Back then, we had enthusiastically written "However,...

HACKS

Nov 9, 2009

Jailbroken iPhones Hit With ‘RickRoll’ Worm

Andy

If you are one of those users who had jailbroken their iPhones but did not care to change the default password after installing SSH, you might want to do it now. A new worm has been infecting those jailbroken iPhones that still carry the same default 'alpine' password. As such,...

IPHONE NEWS

Nov 8, 2009

Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS Update for iPhone Syncing Problem

Andy

A few days back, we had written about a problem faced by some users who had trouble syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9 on Windows 7. We are now hearing that a solution to the problem has been found, at least for some of the users. Gigabyte Technology has released...

IPHONE 3GS

Nov 7, 2009

Verizon Calling: Apple Rumored To Bring UMTS/CDMA Hybrid iPhone in 2010

Andy

Late last month, Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon Communications had expressed interest in working with Apple and had said that it was up to Cupertino to move forward on that. Now, it looks like Apple has already taken the step forward. According to an unconfirmed report from OTR Global,...