Author : Maggie Mills
Tag : Web Apps
Date : Nov 26th, 2008
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TiVo is hopping on the iPhone bandwagon by launching the public beta for a new web app that will let you “browse, search and discover” TV shows on any platform and in any browser.

Users can set their TiVo DVR remotely from anywhere with the app for the iPhone, and search by actor, title, director, [...]

Author : Philip King
Date : Nov 25th, 2008
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EMG Technology on Monday announced it has filed a lawsuit against Apple in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The suit claims that Apple infringes an EMG patent in the way that the iPhone navigates the Internet. This is just one in a seeming barrage of recent lawsuits against the company.

EMG’s patent, [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 25th, 2008
Comment : 2

Now that the iPhone lets us get online anywhere, the concern for data security becomes even more important. One way to secure your data connection is with an encrypted connection, such as a Virtual Private Network (VPN), but many outside of the corporate world don’t have access to this type of connection. That’s where AnchorFree’s [...]

Author : Philip King
Date : Nov 24th, 2008
Comment : 0

We’ve heard a few things about the Mobispine MMS app supposedly being developed for the iPhone, but the company’s just answered a couple of questions, and we thought we’d give you a quick update.

Interestingly, the app will utilize Apple’s announced (but several times delayed) push notification, which Mobispine says is due “soon,” though carriers may [...]

Author : Andrew Wells
Tag : Hacks
Date : Nov 24th, 2008
Comment : 0

The latest 2.2 firmware update allows Japanese iPhone owners to use Emoji icons in their emails and text messages, but for some reason, the rest of the world cannot enjoy these useless, yet funny icons…

That was until developer Steve Troughton-Smith found a simple hack to allow everyone to use Emoji icons, no matter what carrier [...]

Author : Maggie Mills
Date : Nov 24th, 2008
Comment : 1

If you’re an academic or professional that needs to give presentations, there are a few pieces of iPhone software that will fit your needs perfectly. Ever had those clumsy moments when you needed to be both next to the main screen and to click on your laptop because the clicker wouldn’t work at the last [...]

Author : Philip King
Tag : Software
Date : Nov 23rd, 2008
Comment : 2

Given that Apple obviously did a lot of work to Safari in the 2.2 update, it is surprising to see that one of the biggest 2.1 bugs did not get fixed: Links to applications in the App Store still do not work, giving an error instead of opening the App Store program. Seeing that these [...]