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iPhone as a Laptop Replacement

Written on October 28, 2008 by David Appleyard and 47 people have commented

The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday highlighting how mobile phone technology is beginning to reach the stage where a laptop is no longer necessary.
For years, mobile workers have been ditching their desktop computers for laptops that they can take wherever they go. Now road warriors are starting to realize that they can get [...]

Fix Our Broken iPhones

Written on October 24, 2008 by Olly Farshi and 6 people have commented

It is indeed a wonderful little device, but you know all those little niggles we have about the iPhone? Like, the lack of landscape e-mailing, theĀ omissionĀ of Flash-support and video-recording or hiding those pesky unused apps?
Now there’s a special place for all you disgruntled folk who want a little more from your iPhone, there’s even a [...]

RF Modules Planned for Future Apple Gadgets?

Written on October 23, 2008 by David Appleyard and 3 people have commented

A new proposal from Apple, highlighted today by AppleInsider, hints at their desire to provide ubiquitous connectivity to the internet through a series of tiny RF modules. At present, the only device in Apple’s lineup capable of providing wireless connectivity anywhere is the iPhone, supporting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G and other wireless data technologies. An [...]

The Economics of Mobile Development

Written on September 18, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 1 person has commented

The very first panel at today’s Mobilize Conference was on the economics of mobile development.
The iPhone was thrown around a bit (and more specifically, the distribution format of the App Store), but the overall topic was a bit more broad.
Representatives from Microsoft, Adobe, RIM, and others were on the panel to talk about the future [...]

TAB Mobile Site Available

Written on September 01, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 5 people have commented

I hope all of you are having a glorious un-labor day and doing nothing but reading through all the past 2,100+ articles here on The Apple Blog. What? You’re not doing that? That’s unfortunate.
At any rate, if you aren’t doing that, you should definitely check out the new mobile version of The Apple Blog!
Just go [...]

Apple Buys Non-Intel Chip Maker

Written on April 23, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 1 person has commented

I don’t think this will show up in tonight’s quarterly report, but Forbes is reporting that Apple bought chip company P.A. Semi with the apparent hopes to use them to create chips for the iPhone. Unsurprisingly, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said, “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not [...]

Track your packages on your iPhone

Written on March 19, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 5 people have commented

In addition to running The Apple Blog, I also run an interactive design/development firm called Sabotage Media where we build interactive jazz for clients and ourselves.
Something that we released recently was a little web app called TrackThePack that basically lets you track the various packages you have en route to you. It has RSS feeds [...]

Missing Sync For Windows Mobile 6 in Beta

Written on June 17, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 3 people have commented

The folks at Missing Sync sent out an email over the weekend to announce some updates to their line of PDA and Smartphone syncing software. While users of Palm devices may be glad to hear that Missing Sync for Palm version 6 has been released, that wasn’t the exciting news to yours truly.
It seemed [...]

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