New iPhone app keeps track of MP
Want to know what your local MP is doing? There’s an app for that. Skip related content Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the world’s first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents. The free MyMP app shows users what their MP is doing, where they are, their surgery hours and location and also lets the public send messages directly to their elected representative. The Sittingbourne... [Read More...]
The Obama White House jumps on the iPhone
ABC News’ Christina Capatides reports: Hey, all you iPhone users: You have apps to check sports statistics. You even have apps that protect you from drunk dialing your colleagues. Well, now there’s an app that will help you stay up-to-date with the White House. That’s right. The tech-savvy White House has just unveiled its very own app for the iPhone and iPod Touch 2G, joining the countless other organizations that reach the American... [Read More...]
How You’ll Get Google Voice-like Features on Your iPhone
If you’re an iPhone-loving Google Voice user, you’re probably lamenting the absence of any native apps available to use the service with your device. Maybe you’re even glancing jealously upon your Android-touting bretheren, all with their own native Google Voice application. Well, covet your brothers no more, for your prayers have been answered! There’s an app that acts just like that! But, don’t go looking in Apple’s... [Read More...]
Skype fixes bugs in upgraded iPhone application
Skype has released the latest version of its application for the iPhone, adding new features and fixing a couple of annoying bugs that hung up calls. Earlier versions of Skype would hang up a VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) call made over Wi-Fi when a user received a SMS (Short Message Service) or the low-battery notification. A new feature in the 1.3 version allows the iPhone to be held in landscape mode and used for instant messages. Skype has... [Read More...]
Analyst Predicts Verizon iPhone Announcement Next Week
What if in addition to a tablet, Apple made another huge announcement at next week’s press event, like a Verizon iPhone? That’s what an analyst is predicting. “We believe there is a good chance that the ‘One more thing…’ part of next week’s presentation may include two iPhone-related announcements: namely, the release of iPhone OS 4.0 and the unveiling of iPhone 4G coming to Verizon in June,” writes Canaccord Adams’ Peter Misek in... [Read More...]
Bing May Become iPhone’s Default Search Engine
It’s no secret that Apple and Microsoft have one of the stranger relationships in tech. While Microsoft has produced software such as Office for the Macintosh platform, and Apple has opened its doors to Windows with its switch to Intel, they still are highly competitive with each other. But Cupertino’s relationship with Google is souring far faster, which is the perfect opening for Microsoft when it comes to the iPhone. Apple is apparently in... [Read More...]
What TiPb Really Wants from the iTablet
TiPb’s iTablet hopes and dreams are fairly simple — Apple, please make us a device we can give to our moms and never get another tech support call back from them in our lives. Okay, maybe never is dreaming in AMOLED color, but we’d settle for seldom at this point. And we don’t mean to pick on mom — feel free to substitute or add dad, siblings, neighbors, and everyone else to the list. Now, almost no one outside of Steve Jobs knows exactly... [Read More...]
Apple May Be Prepping iPhone OS 4.0
The special event Apple has scheduled for January 27 may be more than just a showing-off of Apple’s new tablet, according to industry sources. It also could be the launch of version 4.0 of the iPhone operating system and the Software Development Kit (SDK) to accompany it. The SDK will reportedly contain tools to assist developers in converting existing applications for the tablet. This could also make a higher-resolution iPhone possible in the future. Mac4Ever... [Read More...]
iPhone Keyboard vs. Pen, Laptop, Newton, Palm Graffiti, Treo
Phil Gyford decided to take an old fashioned pen and paper, a MacBook laptop computer, an Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 with handwriting recognition, a Palm Vx with Graffiti input, a Palm 650 with a physical keyboard, and an Apple iPhone 3G with virtual multitouch keyboard and see how long it took him to enter a well-memorized 221 word passage. The MacBook keyboard won, of course, with the iPhone second and the Treo and pen and paper a close third... [Read More...]
Palm Pre Styled browser for the iPhone now available!
After an app for Palm Pre Styled multi-tasking, a Palm Pre themed browser was always on the cards. Kudos to Omar Mashhour for coming up with a full screen, tabbed browser for the iPhone which is designed to feel as if one were browsing on the Pre. The browser has been named as ZapBrowser. It’s minimalistic design comes with a tiny menu button in the top left corner of the screen which provides the following functions. Read More →