Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Apple released beta5 of the iPhone SDK and quietly opened iPhone Developer registration to the public so that everyone can load their code onto their iPhones and give them a go. The updates SDK is winging it's way to me at 1495K/sec right now which means I'll be able to ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Twinkle is the first iPhone product I'm looking forward to. Though it's Twitter-based and could be opened to being a blogging client, it has the essentials -
support for the camera
support for conversations
support for locations!
Looking forward to June!
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Let's say you're a developer producing applications. Your livelihood depends on applications sold and you really want to get the best penetration for them.
How much would you pay for:
a) no need to set up a web shopping cart
b) no need to pay for bandwidth and hosting
c) greatly reduced need for ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
For years it's been a pain getting Macs to talk to Exchange servers because more often than not the Exchange servers are managed by some pencilneck IT guy with a pressed shirt and a lifetime subscription to "Ballmer - Candid Photos of Everyone's Favourite Microsoft Exec". As a result ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
At some point last night, Apple's development servers fell over and died. These servers can hold 40 000+ concurrent download streams but there were so many people downloading the new iPhone SDK that the whole server became unresponsive. After several hours of trying, I finally got a connection at 11 ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
SKy Broadband at home are sufficiently reliable most of the time but when the connection drops, then you know it's just bad juju on their end. Last night the connection dropped while I was out (in fact it usually drops while I'm out) and it came back some time in ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
According to Macrumors, the iPhone SDK will be announced on March 6th.
"Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters.
Are we to assume Apple has licensed ActiveSync?
Are we going to see ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Abilene Christian University is investing in mobile learning.
What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
From TUAW:
Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday's sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone 'in the coming weeks.'
iPlayer is a mixed bag. ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Britannica Mobile - iPhone Edition
In order to ensure the best experience, we've specifically optimized this site for the iPhone. Please visit http://i.eb.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
If you don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch handy, you can still access plenty of great Britannica content from your desktop. Come ...
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