Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
Apple’s iPhone is beginning to compose headway into Southeast Asia, based on a recent announcement by the SingTel telecommunications service.
The company, along with Bharti Airtel, Globe and Optus, signed an agreement with Apple enabling them to release the phone to the territories of Singapore, India, the Philippines, and Australia later that year.
Australia’s announcement in specific confirms recent rumors stating that Optus would be handling the iPhone’s services in the area. As some of the readers may recall, Vodafone had announced similar plans final week, though their service is expected to cover 10 countries.
It’s interesting to point out that both companies have announced that they will be covering the territories of India and Australia, though no details have been announced regarding their specific arrangements for these to regions. SingTel in specific notes that more details will be arriving later on - drop by again when we get any further updates regarding that matter.
Original post by Tim Y.
Filed under: iPhone | No Comments »
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
Hey, do you guys want to invent out our AT&T impression? It’s pretty awesome. Okay, okay, here it goes: “Great news, we’re offering free WiFi to iPhone users! Wait, no we’re not. Yes we are! Oh, no, wait, cancel that.” Pretty spot-on, right? Sadly, it looks like we might need something else to rag on shortly, since an AT&T spokesman started clearing the air with the New York Times late final week. The bottom line — for the moment, besides — is that AT&T has “long planned” to offer up its WiFi hotspots as a free value-add for the iPhone and all of the other WiFi-equipped devices in its arsenal, but that the brief enabling of the feature thus far and the mention on AT&T’s site were results of human error, and the company isn’t prepared at that point to commit to an actual launch period or details on how the service will work. Hey, at least we know we’re not just suffering from some brutal hallucinations now.
[Via TUAW]
Original post by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: iPhone | No Comments »
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
Useful homebrewed applications for Apple’s iPhone mobile just keep coming and coming: Homebrew developer Markus Sintonen released iPlot, a graphing calculator that draws mathematical functions, which would prove to be very useful in classes. It can solve and find several factors, such as roots, minimum, and maximum.
This application can additionally let you do nearly everything that is expected of a graphic calculator, including basic ones such as sin(x), ln(x), and even csc(x). As for the actual interface, iPlot proves to be fairly versatile with its option to zoom in and out, and even zoom to any defined region.
Those who are interested in grabbing that application may do so by downloading and installing it directly through the iPhone’s Installer.app. Enjoy!
Original post by Sally B.
Filed under: iPhone | No Comments »
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
Not that we wouldn’t eventually expect a 2.6GHz MacBook, but Apple’s Hot News site is running that promo that references a new, upgraded model of the laptop (which right now only reaches 2.4GHz). Our take? We’re thinking typo, not premature announcement.
[Thanks, Matthew and fr]
Original post by Ryan Block
Filed under: Apple, MacBook, mac | No Comments »
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
Recently, a rumor was circulating that we would see the iPhone pre-WWDC, and that in it’s place at WWDC, we would be seeing a new, mystery device. The common consensus, is, and has been for fairly some duration now, that we would be seeing the 3G iPhone at WWDC. Furthermore, the common consensus is there is no mystery device.
It begs the question, what is that mystery device? Well, it is speculated that it could be the lengthy awaited tablet Mac that has been making its way around the rumor mill for fairly some moment now. Not much is known about that device, but there are a few bits of rumored specifications floating around. These include a 720×480 multi touch screen, and will be about 50% larger than the iPhone.
It seems, that it is entirely possible that Apple will not compose a bug deal out of the 3G iPhone launch. To us, it is a big deal, but to most it is just a product update. It happens all the instance, phones get upgraded, that is just how it works. So is Apple going to just be chill about the 3G iPhone, and give us an exciting new device? We will know soon adequate. iTablet, anyone?
[Via MacRumors]
Original post by Chase Higgins
Filed under: iPhone | No Comments »
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
Here’s a little story for you: An Apple Store employee had a party in her apartment. A couple weeks later her place was cleared out to the tune of about $5,000 worth of electronics, including her new Mac. Days later, a friend sees that she’s online and alerts the Mac’s rightful owner. Since she was running Leopard with Back to My Mac, owner-girl logged in remotely and activated Photo Booth via the screen-share function. And what do you know, it turned out that the thieves were some “friends” who were at the party a few weeks back. She took the photos to the cops and — voila — busted! The thieves, Edmon Shahikian, 23, and Ian Frias, 20, both of the Bronx, have been charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Go go crafty nerdy girl!
[Via TUAW]
Original post by Joshua Fruhlinger
Filed under: Apple, mac | No Comments »
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
Apple has been given a failing grade by Climate Counts, and was placed at the bottom of a list of 12 electronics companies additionally ranked by the organization. Climate Counts ranks companies on their practices to reduce global warming on a scale of zero to 100, and Apple was given a score of 11, some 66 points behind sector leader IBM, which scored a 77. In the moment annual Scorecard, Climate Counts evaluated 60 companies in nine different categories. The companies are rated on publicly available data in regards to their own approach, efforts and policies to reduce global warming.
Original post by Bryan Chaffin
Filed under: Apple | No Comments »
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
whether you haven’t faced MacBook Air overheating issues, you’re clearly in the minority, and regular ol’ MacBook users have been faced with plenty burnination of their own. While there are plenty of laptop coolers out there, none have been so specifically designed to address these two perennial overheaters as Moshi’s Zefyr. The aluminum heatsink setup has an “ultra-silent” USB-powered fan and is fairly minimal, just concentrating on the MacBooks’ problem spots up top. Even better for Air users: you won’t be monopolizing your lone USB plug to work it. Zefyr is available now for $75 in silver or black.
[Via Laptop Logic]
Original post by Paul Miller
Filed under: MacBook, Macintosh, iMac, mac | No Comments »
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
Oh, there are plenty of naughty Chinese iPhone knockoffs out there, but the HiPhone may be the reigning champion these days — so it kind of seemed like a matter of duration before Apple loosed the hounds on distributors of the device. We don’t have confirmation or proper human translation of the above legal notice, but it would seem Apple’s European counsel Bird & Bird has delivered at least one notice to an unnamed distributor threatening €25,000 in damages (and €15,000 in legal fees) for HiPhone sales. Hardly the case of the century, but we’ll let you know whether we construct out anything.
[Thanks, Ricardo]
Original post by Ryan Block
Filed under: iPhone | No Comments »
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
Now here’s the latest supposed proof that a 3G Apple iPhone is indeed in the works. According to a third-party iPhone developer, Chronic Productions, they managed to uncover a undoubtful setting embedded in the iPhone 2.0 Beta 5. And yes, the setting has something to do with toggling 3G off and on.
If you’re a bit skeptical, here’s the dev’s challenge in order to prove the claim, assuming that you can perform the task. “If you do not believe me, next decrypt the beta5 rootfs dmg, and see for yourself in /Applications/Preferences.app/Network.plist,” said the developer from Chronic Productions.
But a word of caution: whether you did manage to compose the 3G option seem on your Apple iPhone, be warned that your EDGE-powered iPhone will crash whether you activate 3G. You can try whether you have the essential tools needed to unlock the 3G option, but be careful.
More updates to come!
Original post by Sally B.
Filed under: iPhone | No Comments »
