Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr has done things the hard way on the iPhone. That is to say, for browsing photos they’ve made you go through their optimized website, and for uploading you had to do it through email. Both worked fine, but were not as [...]

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Flickr Officially Comes to the iPhone

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, but Flickr () hasn’t really returned the love to iPhone users…until now. Because, you know, having your website optimized for the iPhone is one thing, and having a full fledged, native application for the platform is another. The official Flickr iPhone app is finally here and it [...]

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New AT&T specific features rumored for future iPhone update

Sep 07, 2009 No Comments

Apple and its exclusive US wireless provider AT&T could soon deliver new carrier-specific features to iPhone users through a future software update in a bid to increase customer satisfaction…

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Apple To Kill Off iPod Classic, Double Down On Touch, iPhone Developer Predicts

Sep 06, 2009 No Comments

Apple’s annual iPod/iTunes product event will take place this Wednesday in San Francisco. In addition to announcing new iTunes features, Apple will almost certainly introduce an updated version of the iPod touch, and perhaps the iPod nano; rumors suggest they’ll both get cameras. (Video cameras, ideally.)…

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iPhone 3G and 3G S officially getting MMS on September 25

Sep 03, 2009 No Comments

After months of speculation (and frustration) MMS for the iPhone 3G and 3G S is officially arriving on September 25, AT&T has confirmed. This is a full 3 days after summer officially ends (AT&T’s original deadline was “late summer”) as our own MG pointed out earlier today, but like a lot of things with Apple/AT&T, [...]

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Sales of iPhone in China Set Under 3-Year Accord

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced a deal with Apple Inc. to sell iPhones in China starting later this year, bringing the popular device to the world’s largest mobile market for the first time…

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Google Voice Warms Up For iPhone, Cuts Off Calls After 15 Minutes

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

Google Voice users have been complaining the last couple of days that calls using the service are unceremoniously terminated after 15 minutes. The service is still in beta, but as we’ve written before, users expect perfection when it comes to voice calls. Problems like this make it hard for people to trust the service…

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Apple, AT&T face yet another iPhone MMS lawsuit

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

For at least the third time this month, Apple and AT&T are being sued by a consumer complaining of being duped into believing that multimedia messaging, or MMS, was already available on the iPhone. Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT&T misled [...]

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Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store

Aug 29, 2009 No Comments

Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook’s totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app’s developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now here. The store currently shows that the app is version 2.5, but if you click the Download button anyway you’ll get the [...]

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From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App Store

Aug 25, 2009 No Comments

The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start. It’s gotten so bad that Apple VP Phil Schiller has been doing damage control. Now an important figure has entered the debate: the developer [...]

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Smartphones drive language learning innovation

Aug 23, 2009 No Comments

HONG KONG (AFP) – The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple’s iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge. Tens of thousands of “apps” — individual programmes that can be downloaded to the phone and do everything from recognising [...]

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