It was one of the apps shown off at Apple’s WWDC Keynote speech talking about iPhone OS 3.0 back in June of this year, but Zipcar has taken its sweet time making an official appearance in the App Store. The application is finally here (iTunes link), so urbanites who’ve been waiting to make a trip [...]
How the world has changed. When my father was my age, there was nothing more cool or impressive than driving an Aston Martin, toting a Walther PPK and ordering your dry martinis shaken, not stirred. That’s what James Bond did. And Bond was seriously cool.
Bond was the debonair British secret agent who was usually pimped [...]
Oh, MobileMe, how will you deal with this latest threat to your iPhone feature dominance? First it was improved Exchange support, and now it’s push Gmail using Google Sync.
Remember Google Sync? It’s the service from Google which allows you to synchronize your contacts and calendar with your iPhone or iPod touch, in much the same [...]
At first I thought I was alone, and that my iPhone 3GS was defective, but now it looks like battery complaints relating to iPhone OS 3.1 are far from isolated incidents. Apple is officially investigating the matter, according to The iPhone Blog, which is something the company generally only does if enough people crow loud [...]
You no longer have to gaze wistfully across the Atlantic, European readers, because SlingPlayer today officially released its mobile app (iTunes link) for iPhone across 16 countries in your continent. You may, however, bemoan the lack of 3G streaming in the version that was released.
It’s been four months since the original SlingPlayer app was released [...]
Is the iPhone quietly becoming a serious mobile illustration platform? That’s the question I asked myself after seeing news this morning that yet another drawing and painting program has been released for the device. Autodesk’s Sketchbook Mobile is available now in the App Store.
Those of you who’ve done professional illustration work on a Mac will [...]
Microsoft is obviously positioning the upcoming Zune HD as a competitor to Apple’s market-dominating iPod touch media player. More evidence of that came out today, as Engadget reports that Redmond has revealed that it will support downloadable apps, including 3D games.
I’m curious about whether or not said games will play nice with their Xbox 360 [...]
iPhone users in the U.S. are eagerly anticipating AT&T’s Sept. 25 MMS activation date, but for some at least, the wait is already over. Many are already seeing the switch thrown that enables MMS on their devices, according to a thread over at HowardForums, a mobile phone message board.
AT&T is taking a staggered approach to [...]
What happens when a bunch of really smart and musically inclined PhDs who make iPhone apps team up with a popular hip-hop recording artist? You get a recording studio-quality, karaoke-style machine in your pocket, otherwise called I Am T-Pain ($2.99). It’s the latest in a string of audio-based hits from Smule, and is available in [...]
AT&T customers can finally get their multimedia messaging on come the end of September, according to a company spokesman speaking to TUAW’s Mel Martin today. The official go-live date is Sept. 25, which falls only a tad short of the company’s original late summer prediction for the service.
Spokesman Brad Mays ascribes the lateness of MMS’ [...]
Want to premiere a feature film starring some A-list Hollywood celebs? There’s an app for that. Or at least there will be, come Sept. 21. That’s the day Berlin Film Festival hit “Rage” premieres on the iPhone and iPod touch, where it will appear before satellite, DVD or online.
“Rage” is written and directed by British [...]
Apple has been receiving a lot of negative press lately due to reports of faulty iPhones literally blowing up in users’ faces. Well, in the general vicinity of their faces. The latest reports come from France, where an 18-year-old man reported that his girlfriend’s iPhone’s screen shattered, injuring his eye. At least three other similar [...]
Canadian company Research In Motion, maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, has bought software developers (and webkit aficionados) Torch Mobile, according to a report today over on Engadget.
No, I’ve never heard of Torch Mobile, either.
But according to the company’s web site, it is “excited to announce” that the company has been acquired by RIM, “one [...]
While most iPhone users are aware of unofficial unlock methods, you may be surprised to discover that it’s possible to legally unlock your device, courtesy of Apple.
The above image is the not-often-seen official unlock notification, as displayed in iTunes. The dialogue succinctly confirms that the user’s iPhone, in this case a 3G, has been unlocked [...]
Ask not what your city can do for you; ask what your iPhone can do for your city. Starting today, Pittsburgh became the first U.S. city with its very own iPhone application, iBurgh (free, iTunes link), which allows Steel City residents to use their devices to snap pictures of civic embarrassments and hazards and upload [...]
Well, it’s not the first turn-by-turn GPS navigation application in the App Store, but industry heavyweight TomTom has finally pushed out its entry. It became available late Sunday night, with versions for Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe and North America.
In my opinion, TomTom is a little over the top in its app description write-up, proclaiming, [...]
Days after the SMS vulnerability was reported, in which a single character could be used to crash or even take over an iPhone, Apple has released a single-purpose update.
The Knowledgebase Article makes it sound as potentially bad as it is.
Impact: Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary [...]
Cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner claim they can bring down your iPhone by sending it just a single “unusual” character, according to Forbes, which first published news of the exploit earlier this week.
A single square character or a series of “invisible” messages can be used to confuse an iPhone, leaving it open to [...]
It was announced alongside iPhone OS 3.0, and its absence has been a conspicuous, if minor, cause for analyst concern. Today, though, Apple finally released its official MobileMe iDisk app for download via the App Store. As was announced previously, the app allows iPhone and iPod touch users to wirelessly share and view files from [...]
If you’re getting into the cellular phone business and want to be a big fish in a very big pond, you need to crack China. Mixed metaphors aside, China is an enormous mobile market. According to eWeek, it boasts more than twice the number of active subscribers than there are people living in the U.S. [...]
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