Friday - March 28, 2008
Even though this is has been one of the few weeks of 2008 when Apple hasn't introduced a new product, Apple-focused blog activity has hardly slowed down. Instead, it's thriving on 3G iPhone order rumors, more software developer kit talk, Karl Rove, Samsung's South Korea Anycall Haptic launch, the arrival of Photoshop Elements for Mac 6, and the notion that someday most everyone may actually hate Apple. The iPod Observer interviewed Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, who mentioned there are some 3G iPhone rumors running around Asia.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
Microsoft is hardly ignoring the iPhone. The Microsoft Mac Business Unit has the iPhone SDK and is eager to find out if there are business opportunities for Microsoft to develop iPhone software. "It's really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone," said Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft's specialized devices and applications group.
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Monday - March 17, 2008
A software development kit from Apple that will let third-party programmers design software for the iPhone means the famous little handheld is going to get a lot more fun and useful. These developers will need to submit their new programs to Apple for approval, which means no pornography, spyware or software that would unlock the iPhone and let it work on wireless cellular systems other than those favored by Apple.
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Tuesday - March 4, 2008
Microsoft is bringing its video technology to millions of smartphones in collaboration with Nokia, the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world. Microsoft's Silverlight brower plug-in first will come to handsets built on Nokia's S60 platform, and soon thereafter will be available on Nokia's S40 phones, as well as on Internet tablet devices.
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Thursday - February 28, 2008
On March 6, Apple will announce the iPhone software roadmap at a town hall-like meeting on its campus in Cupertino, Calif. It will talk about the iPhone SDK and some new enterprise features. The news has triggered wild speculation among the Apple user community: Why was the SDK release delayed? What exactly does Apple mean by "enterprise features?"
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Tuesday - February 19, 2008
iPhone owners have been eagerly awaiting the month of February -- that's when Apple has promised to release its software development kit, allowing developers everywhere to create new applications that will run natively on the smash-hit handsets. Yes, the iPhone SDK might well be the keys to the kingdom. Then again, it might just prove to be the shackles that bind your development future to Apple's fortunes.
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Thursday - January 17, 2008
If you want to judge the intensity of a given conference or trade show -- in this case, Macworld -- there are several barometers you can look at. Are the main vendors' booths madhouses? Are there still lines in front of the free video games? Do you have to fight for a seat in the press lounge? Are national news crews still clogging up floor space for their video cameras and lights?
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Thursday - October 18, 2007
After months of vehement proclamations that the iPhone would support only third-party applications over a Web browser, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Wednesday in an open letter on the Apple Web site that the company will release a software development kit to developers in February. The kit would allow software makers to create iPhone applications that would reside on the phone itself, not on the Web.
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Monday - October 15, 2007
The iPod touch, Apple's latest media gadget, has been on store shelves for less than a month. However, a hacker barely in his teens has claimed he's already cooked up a code called "iJailbreak" that will allow touch users to load their devices with third-party applications. As an added bonus, the program apparently does its job for anyone interested in freeing their media player from Apple's solitary confinement.
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Friday - October 12, 2007
Undaunted by Apple's recent firmware update for iPhone, which renders useless iPhones that were unlocked from the AT&T network, a company that sells unlocking software says its product can now restore the "bricked" devices. The company, iphonesimfree, has new software that breathes life back into iPhones that were disabled two weeks ago when Apple released firmware version 1.1.1.
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Thursday - September 27, 2007
With the iPhone and the revamped iPod line now out of the starting gates, rumors have emerged that Apple is working on a new personal digital assistant reminiscent of the early Newton. A small team of Apple engineers have been working on a reinvented version of the ill-fated Newton for 18 months, this time incorporating the company's revolutionary multitouch technology, AppleInsider reports.
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