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iPhone News Desk
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iPhone News Desk monitors the new world of the iPhone to present software developers and IT professionals with immediate updates on related technology advances, software and business trends, new products and standards in the iPhone and i-technology space.
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Developing AJAX
Applications for iPhone
and iPod Touch By iPhone News Desk The iPhone is
transforming the Web as
we know it and compelling
every Web designer to
consider handheld
portable devices. This
will cover various
aspects of iPhone and
iPod Touch development.
It will include tips and
tricks as well as best
practices to follow.
W... Jan. 4, 2008 05:30 PM Reads: 12,721 Replies: 1 | AJAX World's "iPhone
Developer Summit" Offers
Priceless Insight For
Just $295 By iPhone News Desk Could Apple iPhone become
a viable portable gaming
solution (like PSP or
NDS) one day? If the
iPhone does as expected
and takes a decent chunk
of the growing smartphone
market then will malware
writers start to give OS
X some serious attention
as the overall
penet... Jan. 3, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 14,239 Replies: 2 | Building Native iPhone
Applications By iPhone News Desk This session will provide
ADC member developers
with the information they
need to get started
building native iPhone
applications. This
session covers the basics
from how to set up your
development environment
to building a basic
application (not just a
simple hel... Dec. 13, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 11,066 | JAJAH v2.0 Is Out:
International Calling App
for the Apple iPhone /
iPod Touch By iPhone News Desk Recently infused with
strong investments from
Intel and Deutsche
Telekom, JAJAH today
released version 2.0 of
its calling application
for the Apple iPhone and
iPod touch. In addition
to saving on
international calls,
users will have an iPhone
style dial pad, iPhon... Dec. 7, 2007 07:45 AM Reads: 6,150 Replies: 1 | Google Leverages AJAX,
Releases New iPhone
Application By iPhone News Desk Google has announced the
release of a new iPhone
application that
integrates its multiple
services into a single
interface, making it easy
for iPhone users to find,
use and switch between
Google search, Gmail,
Calendar, Reader, and
more. To accomplish this,
Google... Dec. 6, 2007 02:00 AM Reads: 9,796 | iPhone Dev Community
Considers Open-Sourcing
AnySIM Unlocking Solution By iPhone News Desk  The iPhone Dev community,
which operates a website
dedicated to 'finding
additional uses for the
iPhone by (legitimately)
enabling its potential
capabilities,' is
considering releasing the
source code to the AnySIM
iPhone unlocking
solution. The project is
a commu... Dec. 2, 2007 04:00 AM Reads: 6,436 | An Incredible New Device
to Charge Your iPhone and
Blackberry By iPhone News Desk  Mitch Randall, the
company's founder and
Chief Technology Officer,
adds that 'With the
recent introduction of
our first products, we
made a step towards
eliminating the need for
consumers to regularly
lug around multiple bulky
chargers, adapters and
cords for ever... Nov. 30, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 8,360 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Plans to Port
Office Documents to the
Apple iPod and iPhone By iPhone News Desk  According to Microsoft's
Mac Mojo blog this week,
Office 2008 when released
will allow PowerPoint
presentations to be
converted into photos,
which in turn can then be
transferred to an iPod
through Apple's iTunes
software. Microsoft plans
to ship the Mac version
o... Nov. 30, 2007 05:00 AM Reads: 5,867 | iPhone Developer Summit
Names Kevin Hoffman
Conference Tech Chair By iPhone News Desk  iPhone Developer Summit
(www.iphonedevsummit.com)
announced today Kevin
Hoffman as the Tech Chair
of the Conference. The
letter from the Tech
Chair at the conference
Website contained the
following message:
What's the impact of the
iPhone going to be on the
d... Nov. 29, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 9,210 | AJAX World's iPhone
Developer Summit to Take
Place March 18-20, 2008
in New York City By iPhone News Desk  A highly experienced
executive from ACCESS,
the company whose browser
will be used in the
forthcoming Amazon Kindle
ebook, is the latest to
join the line-up of
industry experts to speak
at the iPhone Developer
Summit being held in New
York City in March next
year ... Nov. 29, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 10,500 | Apple iPhone Show Host
Scott Bourne Announces
Top Ten iPhone Holiday
Gift Accessories By iPhone News Desk Scott Bourne announced
the top ten accessories
that will make every
iPhone owner happy this
Holiday. With 1.4
million iPhones out there
in the wild, chances are
you know someone who owns
an iPhone. If that
someone is on your
holiday gift list, look
at this compil... Nov. 27, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 5,045 | Veteran NBC Journalist
Gary Krakow Bemoans
iPhone's Enterprise
E-mail Inadequacy By iPhone News Desk  With 34 years' experience
as a journalist - the
last 27 of them with NBC
- Gary Krakow has seen
all the best and worst
technology that's come
along. So when Krakow
writes of the iPhone that
'the cell phone part is
merely average, data
speeds are on the slow
side a... Nov. 27, 2007 06:00 AM Reads: 4,357 | Java on the iPhone? By iPhone News Desk Sun's Terrence Barr,
technical evangelist for
the Java mobile and
embedded community,
believes Apple's plans to
release an SDK for iPhone
in early 2008 may result
in the open-source
phoneME version of Java
ME winding up on iPhone. Nov. 10, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 8,180 | Bringing Macs Into Your
Enterprise with
Virtualization By iPhone News Desk This session will explore
how to leverage the speed
and stability of OS X and
the workhorse
productivity of Windows
in an enterprise
production environment,
and how to bring both to
your team via
virtualization. Topics of
discussion include: 1)
Level of integratio... Nov. 9, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 5,968 | iPhone Empowered as
Mobile Emergency Command
Device By iPhone News Desk MIR3 has announced the
availability of an
enterprise notification
and command interface for
the Apple iPhone and iPod
touch (dubbed 'iTouch' by
the media) mobile
communications platform.
These full-featured
Web-based management
applications from MIR3
run under App... Nov. 9, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 7,343 | House Hunting By iPhone By iPhone News Desk  'Our new search
capabilities for the
iPhone are relevant
enhancements that give
consumers the full power
of mobility and immediate
access to REALTOR.com in
a manner that fits
naturally into their
everyday lifestyle,' said
DeTuno, senior vice
president, product
m... Nov. 7, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 5,136 | iPhone Owners Use
Jailbreak To Run 3rd
Party Apps By iPhone News Desk  The AppSnapp 'jailbreak'
application, released
web-wide on Sunday, seems
to have struck a chord
with iPhone and iPod
Touch owners. Claiming
'No hacking required,'
the AppSnapp team
developed a one-click
method, which they
cheekily claim also fixes
Apple's TIFF bug... Nov. 2, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 11,081 Replies: 1 | iPhone Hailed By TIME
Magazine As Invention of
the Year 2007 By iPhone News Desk  Readers of TIME's
November 5 edition, which
will be on on US
newsstands tomorrow
November 2, will find
that the iPhone is TIME
Magazine's Invention of
the Year 2007. Among the
reasons cited are 'It's
touchy-feely' and 'It
will make other phones
better.' The award ... Nov. 1, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 6,621 | iPhone Makes Apple Behave
Like Google By iPhone News Desk Gee whillikers. After
hours on Monday Apple,
the PC company people
love to love, started
behaving like Google.
While its Q4 conference
call was in progress its
stock price went up
almost $13 to over $187,
a personal best, a
position it then failed
to hold. Even if... Oct. 31, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 6,708 Replies: 1 | iPhone Users Rejoice As
Gmail Embraces IMAP By iPhone News Desk  Do you use Gmail on your
iPhone through the
browser? By going to
m.gmail.com you can get
the full Gmail experience
including conversation
view, search, and more.
Best of all, from this
week, users can now sync
their inbox across
devices instantly and
automatically... Oct. 31, 2007 05:00 AM Reads: 12,065 Replies: 2 | UBS Analyst on iPhone
Future: New Version
Before Spring? By iPhone News Desk  'Apple may push iPhone
technology into other
products, including Macs'
- that is just one of a
welter of widely-quoted
predictions made recently
by Ben Reitzes, an
analyst for UBS
Investment Research. Now
he additionally claims:
'Our contacts in the
supply chain p... Oct. 30, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 18,979 Replies: 1 | iPhone Maker Apple Now
Worth More Than IBM and
Intel By iPhone News Desk  Shares of Apple Inc.
earlier this week rose
briefly to $188.00 to set
a new all-time intraday
high and take the market
value of Apple past that
of both IBM and Intel. At
$188 Apple's market cap
would be $163.8BN
compared to Intel's
$156.3BN and IBM's
$154.6BN. App... Oct. 24, 2007 04:00 AM Reads: 12,213 Replies: 2 | Apple to Open iPhone to
Known Outsiders By iPhone News Desk In a missive to the world
Wednesday Apple CEO Steve
Jobs said that the
company was working on an
SDK that will let
third-party applications
on the iPhone, ending
that particular kafuffle.
It will take until
February to organize it,
he said, because it's
supposed t... Oct. 23, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 8,824 | 250,000 iPhone Buyers
Seek To Unlock Their
iPhones By iPhone News Desk  Of the nearly 1.4 million
iPhones sold since it was
introduced in June, an
estimated 250,000 of them
were purchased by people
trying to unlock them so
that they can use the
iPhone on a cell phone
carrier other than
Apple's dedicated
partner, AT&T. This
admission c... Oct. 23, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 8,638 Replies: 2 | Virgin Mobile USA: IPO
Priced at $15.00 Per
Share By iPhone News Desk  Virgin Mobile USA, Inc.
announced today that its
initial public offering
of 27,500,000 shares of
Class A common stock has
been priced at $15.00 per
share. The shares are
expected to begin trading
on the New York Stock
Exchange today, October
11, under the symbol
'... Oct. 11, 2007 07:15 AM Reads: 5,895 Replies: 1 | iPhone: Is Unlocking
Legal or Illegal? By iPhone News Desk  The Apple iPhone, which
has already come under
intense criticism for
failing to allow
third-party programs and
for its incompatibility
with the Flash and Java
platforms, has a new
challange to overcome in
the form of a
class-action lawsuit
filed against it by a
... Oct. 10, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 14,169 Replies: 3 | iPhone Surfing with Fast
Pages By iPhone News Desk  A vast majority of users
of Blackberry, Blackjack,
Pearl, Nokia, Treo, LG,
Motorola Q, iPhone and
all smartphones say they
now use them solely for
e-mail and text messaging
with an occasional
disappointing peak at the
web. This failure is
largely due to the hassle
... Oct. 9, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 10,963 | Dojo on the iPhone By iPhone News Desk Apple's iPhone is the
latest consumer
electronics and
technology sensation,
sparking not only what
should be significant
worldwide demand, but
also representing a
potential new world to
conquer for developers.
How can developers
leverage the Dojo Toolkit
for thi... Oct. 7, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 20,455 Replies: 2 | SoonR Announces Mobile
AJAX Support for iPhone By iPhone News Desk  The iPhone's high
resolution touch screen,
dynamic orientation
sensors, and multi-touch
features present
significant challenges to
mobile web sites. SoonR
has adapted its full
mobile AJAX interface to
include the ability to
scale fonts and pictures
for easy access... Oct. 7, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 12,954 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Vendor Etelos
Announces AJAX-Based
iPhone Support By iPhone News Desk Etelos CRM for iPhone was
designed to offer
businesses flexibility
and functionality on
their iPhone's Safari Web
Browser. Combining
powerful functionality
such as project
management, call logging,
appointment management,
in-depth reporting and
more with easily
... Oct. 7, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 19,429 Replies: 1 | Apple OS Sacrificed to
iPhone By iPhone News Desk So the rumors were right.
Apple has delayed the
launch of Leopard, its
next-generation Mac OS X,
a competitor of Microsoft
Windows, until October,
four months past its June
11 due date. In a
statement issued late
Thursday after the market
closed Apple blamed it on
the iPhone. Oct. 7, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 13,866 Replies: 1 | AJAX-Based Contact App
for iPhone Released By iPhone News Desk Funambol, the mobile open
source software company,
will begin inviting
consumers to join the new
myFUNAMBOL portal to
access free mobile
e-mail, contacts, and
calendars on everyday
cell phones. myFUNAMBOL
also provides the first
over-the-air mobile
contacts applic... Oct. 7, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 16,309 | Vodaphone To Present
iPhone Developer Session
at AJAXWorld By iPhone News Desk This mobile AJAX session
covers some of the work
being done with the W3C
Mobile Web Initiative and
other, related groups. It
also features a video
demonstration of an SVGt
1.2 application that was
recently launched in
Germany. The session will
finish with a discussi... Oct. 7, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 25,363 Replies: 1 | Synchronoss and AT&T to
Support Innovative
Activation Experience for
iPhone By iPhone News Desk Synchronoss Technologies,
Inc., a provider of
on-demand transaction
management software to
Tier One communications
service providers (CSPs),
has announced a
multi-year contract with
AT&T to support the
launch and ongoing
operational support of
the Apple iPhone. Oct. 7, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 9,613 | Zoho Releases AJAX-Based
iZoho for iPhone By iPhone News Desk Zoho went live with
iZoho, which provides
iPhone-optimized access
to Zoho's online office
applications. iPhone
users who visit
www.izoho.com can view
Zoho Writer documents,
Zoho Sheet spreadsheets,
and Zoho Show
presentations - and edit
Zoho Writer documents -
from the Safari browser. Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 15,073 | iWork, iPhone, iMac -
Apple's Ready To Go Back
to School By iPhone News Desk  Apple has got itself a
couple of pretty, sexily
anorexic, redesigned
aluminum and glass 20-
and 24-inch all-in-one
iMac desktops available
with a wireless keyboard.
They're easier to recycle
and priced competitively
at $1,199 and $1,799 to
start, $200-$300 cheaper
... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 16,094 Replies: 3 | Building an iPhone
Application with Adobe
AIR By iPhone News Desk A study of the iPhone UI
and rebuilding it in AIR
(Adobe Integrated
Runtime) using Adobe Flex
3. AIR (Adobe Integrated
Runtime) is a
cross-operating system
runtime that allows
developers to use their
existing web development
skills to build and
deploy Rich Interne... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 17,905 Replies: 1 | iPhone Watch By iPhone News Desk Wireless carriers O2 in
the UK, Orange in France
and T-Mobile in Germany
are going to handle the
iPhone in Europe under
unusual 10%
revenue-sharing
arrangements with Apple,
according to a story in
the German edition of the
Financial Times. Paris
Match then waded q... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 5,607 Replies: 1 | What Does Sun Think of
How the iPhone Can't Run
Java? By iPhone News Desk Asked at the end of his
keynote address on Day
Three of AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
West at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in
California yesterday what
he thought of the fact
that Java doesn't run on
the Apple iPhone, Robert
Brewin - Sun's CTO and VP
of So... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 11,197 | How to Develop a Web
Service for the iPhone By iPhone News Desk The introduction of the
iPhone was marked by huge
publicity and the
scrambling of all sorts
of web services to roll
out support for the
unique features of the
iPhone. The breakthrough
browser in the iPhone
provides the best mobile
browsing experience to
date. Not ... Oct. 7, 2007 08:15 AM Reads: 9,602 Replies: 1 |
TODAY'S TOP 10 LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON! YOUR FEEDBACK  | What Does the Future Hold
for the Java Language? By Joe Winchester Tommy wrote: I simply do
not agree on many parts:
- .NET has a lot of
traction
- you can
certainly know well (and
master) more than one
language. If you cannot
master more than one
language, this could
potentially be one of
your limits.
- Java is not a perfect
language
- It is ea... |  | i-Technology Opinion: Why
Use Extreme Programming? By Troy Holmes James Nwaba wrote: This
is a nice article - very
straight froward, easy to
understand.However, there
was no mention of any
organization that have
implemented XP.
The author said, "Many of
the concepts found in
this lightweight method
of development have been
implemented into the ... |  | iPhone Office: 100 Ways
to Turn Your Device into
the Ultimate Productivity
Tool By Jessica Merritt QueZZtion wrote: Can the
iPhone really work as a
multimedia remote for
iTunes or even a desktop? |  | DoJa in NTT DoCoMo Phones By Zev Blut Venkat wrote: Excellent
explanation. It will be
helpful if it was in
pictorial form ie with
the emulator images. Can
u please send me the
I-mode to I appli
communication and a brief
explanatioj about the
architecture.Thanks in
advance. |  | i-Technology Opinion:
Outsourcing...to Students By Yakov Fain Robert Dobbs wrote:
Timothy, this video will
get you started in the
right direction:
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