Jul 13 2008
You may not have heard, but Friday saw the release of the newest iPhone. It’s a 3G phone that sold for $199 (8 GB) and $299 (16 GB). Also released on Friday was the newest firmware for the iPhones and iTouches which made available third party applications for the first time*. Two of the third(…)
Jul 10 2008
Bookshelf is the pro creation of Zac Bedell who developed the very first ebook reader for the iPhone. It costs $9.99 and comes with a java based shelfserver which provides a fairly easy way to load ebooks onto your iPhone. There were two things missing from the old Books.app and one was an annotation function(…)
Jul 10 2008
Apple’s AppStore is live and there are a couple of free ebook readers including Fictionwise’s eReader. According to the description, eReader allows for “direct wireless transfers of your content to the device’s internal storage for offline reading.” This says to me that you’ll be able to buy from Fictionwise directly from the iPhone just like(…)
Jun 9 2008
Looking for a possible ebook reader? Apple unveiled its iPhone 2.0 today and it features almost DSL like download speeds (3G) and a price point of $199 for the 8 GB and $299 for the 16 GB. As I’ve mentioned before, the iPhone is my primary ebook reader. It’s something to think about. And yes,(…)
Jun 1 2008
I know I promised to do a piece on the history of Net Neutrality legislation and what is the current state of the governmental proposals. I still intend to do that within the next couple of weeks. Today, though, is June 1, and next Tuesday, June 9, Steve Jobs will announce the release of the(…)
May 6 2008
In my inbox I received an email stating that Fictionwise is working on making eReader compatible with the iPhone. Fictionwise bought eReader a few months agao. This is excellent news for MAC users and PC users alike. I love reading on my iPhone. eReader is not my favorite mobile reading platform but something is better(…)
Nov 8 2007
Apple is expected to release a firmware upgrade for phones tomorrow which will likely wipe out any hacking. As always, the upgrade is optional, so if you like your hacked phone (I do), then I would advise you to wait until the programmers break the new firmware open before upgrading. And if you were waiting(…)
Oct 29 2007
Apple came out with a firmware upgrade a few weeks ago which disabled the “freeing” of the iPhone. Upgrading is currently optional. I decided to wait until the hacking community came up with way to break into the iPhone in a way that was easy for me to understand. Late last night, that option appeared(…)
Oct 18 2007
Commenter Anji was the first to bring this to my attention but I did see it in the inbox (thanks guys for feeding my iPhone addiction) and all over the news when I got home from my business trip yesterday. Apple will be releasing a software development kit (SDK) so that developers will find out(…)
Oct 10 2007
Scott Adams, the creator of the venerable office cartoon, Dilbert, believes that iPhone and devices like it (which he calls the iClones) will kill the print newspaper. If you can carry the internet in your pocket, what would you want with a print newspaper even with the new soy ink that isn’t supposed to rub(…)
Oct 5 2007
Author Colleen Gleason shared a story this morning about a friend of hers who was pursued, uncomfortably, by a married man when she was on a business trip. Turns out that the man was the president of Starbucks, Jim Alling. Since Apple and Starbucks has teamed up to provide Starbucks music to iPhone users, I(…)
Sep 30 2007
First up is the Apple iPhone issue. On Thursday, Apple released an iPhone firmware update that adds several functions incluing TV out functionality (meaning you can hook up the iPhone to the TV and watch the video iPhone content on the TV) and the ability to buy music over a wifi connection from the iPhone.(…)
Sep 16 2007
Even before the iPhone was released, we were told that by Jobs it would be a closed system. A closed system prevented third party applications from being developed and installed on the device. This changed slightly as Jobs invited developers to create Safari based widgets. While it was not impossible to read an ebook on(…)
Sep 5 2007
Apple announced a new slate of IPods today including a 8 mm thick touchscreen one that looks just like the iPhone, only slimmer. The current slate of iPods/iPhones are: iPod Shuffle ($79) iPod Nano ($149, $199) iPod Classic, ($249, $349) iPod Touch, ($299, $399) iPhone ($399) – this is a two hundred dollar price drop(…)
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