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January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

MacworldiPhoneWorld Expo in San Francisco is well underway.

This year’s exo is definitely the place to see and experience the latest in iPhone software, hardware, cases, solutions and more. And of course with the Aplle iPhone SDK on the way, many companies are demoing the upcoming slew of goodness.

We will be posting more and some specifics later on, so stay tuned!

iBug Out!!

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Dec

18

newquicken.jpgIntuit Inc is looking to boost Quicken personal finance software sales by offering it as a service for $3 a month that can run on Apple Inc’s iPhone.

It hopes the product, which launches on January 8, will vastly expand Quicken’s 14 million users and boost the market penetration of a brand that already generates about 1.7 million new copies of software a year, Intuit senior vice president Rick Jensen told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

Intuit has designed the product to appeal to younger consumers, people who may have used online banking for most of their adult lives, but do not use software to track those transactions.

“Our first mission is to make sure we are solving the needs of people who are not currently using a personal finance solution,” he said.

Sales of the Quicken brand have basically been flat since peaking in 2001, but it has recently taken some business away from its only key rival, Microsoft Corp, according to market researcher NPD.

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I hope they hold off for Apple’s SDK. I would much rather have a native app that requires not internet connection, that will sync with the Mac or PC.

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Dec

18

garage.jpgApple quietly updated the iLife ‘08 program GarageBand to support creating ringtones for the iPhone on the Mac. The update 4.1.1 is available through Software Update, and works quite well. Look for ringtones to start popping up all over the place soon. TUAW has already posted a link to the CTU 24 ringtone here. Sorry no protected files, GarageBand will reject them. So get creative.

iLounge has created a Ten Step Guide here.

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Oct

17

Open letter from Steve Jobs posted on Apple’s site under Hot News.

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target.

Some companies are already taking action. Nokia, for example, is not allowing any applications to be loaded onto some of their newest phones unless they have a digital signature that can be traced back to a known developer. While this makes such a phone less than “totally open,” we believe it is a step in the right direction. We are working on an advanced system which will offer developers broad access to natively program the iPhone’s amazing software platform while at the same time protecting users from malicious programs.

We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.

Steve

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch. [Oct 17, 2007]

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Oct

14

Google is putting the final touches on a mobile-phone project, but unlike Apple’s iPhone the so-called GPhone is all about software for mobile carriers and mobile advertisers.

Google’s goal is to extend its dominance in online advertising to the emerging mobile advertising market, which is small today but expected to grow dramatically in the years ahead, according to a news report in the International Herald Tribune.

The report says Google is expected to unveil details later this year, and handsets with the software could appear in 2008. But about 30 prototype phones are reported to be ‘in the wild’ as Network World Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis discovered firsthand last week.

Apple’s iPhone revolutionized user expectations about how mobile handsets should look, feel and behave. (You can find our extensive iPhone coverage by starting on our search page). The iPhone’s success has sent manufacturers scrambling to not merely match but surpass its features.

But Google’s GPhone is an open source phone operating system. There has been a growing interest and sophistication in Linux-based software and development tools for mobile devices.

The Herald Tribune article, citing both unnamed “industry source familiar with the project” and industry executives, outlines two possible directions for Google’s ambition. One is to develop and deploy a vastly cheaper alternative to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system. The second is to loosen the grip that carriers have on the software, devices and services that can run on their closed cellular nets.

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Sep

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New Features include:

- iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
- Louder speakerphone and receiver volume
- Home Button double-click shortcut to phone favorites or music controls
- Space bar double-tap shortcut to intelligently insert period and space
- Mail attachments are viewable in portrait and landscape
- Stocks and cities in Stocks and Weather can be re-ordered
- Apple Bluetooth Headset battery status in the Status Bar
- Support for TV Out
- Preference to turn off EDGE/GPRS when roaming internationally
- New Passcode lock time intervals
- Adjustable alert volume

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“The NYTimes is running a story about an iPhone flaw that has been found and documented by researchers from Independent Security Evaluators. Attackers were able to gain full control of the iPhone either through WiFi or by visiting a website with malicious code. The exploit will be demonstrated at BlackHat on Aug. 2nd at 4:45pm. Until then, ‘details on the vulnerability, but not a step-by-step guide to hacking the phone, can be found at www.exploitingiphone.com, which the researchers said would be unveiled today.’

via Slashdot

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Jul

11

jiwire.jpgJiWire the WiFi finder site has made a easy to use section for iPhone users to search out the local Hotspots where every you are. Simply point your iPhone to http://iphone.jiwire.com it’s free and easy. Access the world’s most trusted registry of 150,000 free and paid Wi-Fi hotspots and municipal networks in 135 countries in a free and easy-to-use experience optimized for Apple’s iPhone.

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