Judge waives Apple, AT&T objections to antitrust case vs. iPhone
A US federal judge has shut down some attempts by Apple and AT&T to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the two of violating antitrust law with their iPhone exclusivity agreement, pushing the complaint closer to a possible trial.
Boggle games for iPhone
Two programs stand out from the crowd when it comes to iPhone games inspired by the classic word-dice game Boggle.
iPhone the most popular ebook reader
Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch
Forbes is reporting that the iPhone has become the country’s top eBook reader. The claim is based upon the number of downloads of Stanza [App Store link], an ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod touch (395,000 and counting), versus the number of projected US Kindle sales (380,000).
For those unfamiliar with Stanza, it’s a free application that lets users download books over the air, as does the Kindle. All of Stanza’s offerings are free works in the public domain, and flipping pages is a breeze with the touch screen.
Of course, it’s silly to compare an iPhone to a Kindle. The screen is very tiny and I wouldn’t want to read anything longer than an email message with it. However, many people will, some of whom do it just because they can. I can remember reading a Stephen King book on my old Palm ///e simply because I thought it was neat.
Still, combine the 395,000 downloads of Stanza with nearly 380,000 Kindles sold (plus the Sony eBook reader figures), and it seems that many people enjoy reading very tiny type.
[Via MacDailyNews]
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MacRumors: Fring Enables VoIP Calls Over Wi-Fi for iPhone with Skype Support
Fring has released the iPhone version of their service today as a free download in the App Store.
Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, and ICQ…
Run App Store Apps in Background (Jailbreak Required)
A new tool called iPhone Backgrounder is now available for jailbroken phones which allows you to run official App Store apps in the background. The timely release comes just as Apple’s missed the September deadline for background push notifications. …
Flash Player coming to the iPhone perhaps
Adobe tells conference attendees that it’s working on a version of Flash for the iPhone.
Return of the Web Apps?
Is it possible that web apps can return from the dead? It seems to me that the 2.0 firmware pretty much buried the poor web apps six feet under. Even if they are not used nearly as often since we have 3rd party apps along with the App store, it seems as if […]
AppShopper.com: Find New iPhone Apps and Price Drops
digg_url = ‘http://appshopper.com’;With the removal of “All iPhone Apps” link from the iTunes App Store, it’s become harder to find the newest App Releases. To fill the void, readers can use AppShopper.com, a new site (of mine) that tracks New Apps…
Got Camera Problems with iPhone 2.1?
Since upgrading to iPhone firmware 2.1, from time to time my camera preview — and the pictures themselves — have taken to breaking apart and re-arranging themselves into something pretty much unusable (though likely to fetch a pretty penny at the snootier, more vacuous galleries, no doubt). The above picture was of a plain surface, now […]
Ballmer channels 1985, suggests Apple split iPhone hardware and OS
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, iPhone
Steve Ballmer is imitating his CEO predecessor by suggesting that Apple separate its iPhone hardware from OS X, according to Ars Technica.
Nokia leads the smartphone market today with about a 30 percent share, he said. “If you want to reach more than that, you have to separate the hardware and software in the platform,” he said in an discussion forum with the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley business and technology group.
In 1985, Bill Gates approached Apple (and its then-CEO, John Sculley) with prospects in hand to convince it to license Mac OS to third-party vendors. As we all know, that didn’t happen (at least not with Microsoft as a partner), keeping the bond tight between Apple hardware and software. Microsoft wound up doing it themselves with Windows.
The idea that Ballmer thinks other companies should be more like Microsoft isn’t shocking at all; in fact, what else was the man supposed to say? Like Jobs with Apple, Ballmer’s talks and interviews wield a great deal of influence on Microsoft’s stock price. If he said anything other than what he did, MSFT would have taken a hit. As CEO, that’s unconscionable.
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