Archive for February, 2009

AT&T unveils plans to roll-out 4G network by 2011

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

AT&T has recently announced roll-out plans for their next-generation network. This should come as good news for any AT&T customer who is wanting more speed while on the go. The upgrade calls for AT&T to have the 4G (Long-Term Evolution or LTE) network in place by 2011

Skype And Mozilla Support EFF’s Exemption

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Now that Apple has officially pleaded its case against the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s exemption request for the jailbreaking of mobile devices, it’s about time for someone else to speak up. The Mozilla Corporation and Skype Communications have filed their own documents in support of EFF, not Apple. The Mozilla Corporation argues in their three page statement that users should be able to acquire and use software on jailbroken devices

CastRoller announces RssPlayer app intergration

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

One of my favorite iPhone apps is RssPlayer and now thanks to some recently announced integration with CastRoller, finding and subscribing to new podcasts may become a little easier. The integration was announced over on the CastRoller blog and is currently in place.

Newly released GeoTweeter app combines Twitter and your location

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

A new Twitter application has entered the App Store, and this one seems to be worthy of a download. The app is called GeoTweeter and comes courtesy of Schmap, who you may already know from schmap.me. The app is being referred to as “the iPhone app that puts the ‘where’ in your tweets” and catchy

iPhone app turns your device into an aquarium

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Aquarium is an application that will turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an “aquarium” of sorts. It’s interesting mainly because they’ve managed to run this (almost) as a background app that does not affect the performance of the phone itself. It’s available through Cydia for free. When you install the app, it will be added

Native AMBER Alert app coming soon to the App Store

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

One of the reasons why I love the App Store so much is the wide variety of available apps, we see everything from the silly and childish, to the super useful and even at times helpful. It is very true, that there is an app for just about anything

Ten One Design intro’s the SoundClip passive sound enhancer for the iPhone 3G

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The makers of the Pogo Stylus have returned with another simple product that is designed to enhance your iPhone use. The latest is the SoundClip, which is noted as being a “passive sound enhancer” for the iPhone 3G

Dataviz Documents to Go for the iPhone gets shown off at Mobile World Congress

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

It seems that the Dataviz team has recently been showing off the (hopefully) soon to be released Documents to Go for the iPhone. If you remember back, we first saw the announcement for this come last September, and since we have not heard anything, so needless to say this comes as pretty good news. For those

$99 refurbished iPhone 3G’s once again available with AT&T

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

As we have seen in the past, AT&T currently has a supply of refurbished iPhone 3G’s available. The model that is currently available is the 8GB model in black. Similar to the regular priced iPhone 3G’s, these refurbished deals also require you to sign a two-year agreement. Also, just as a nice extra little perk,

Succont releases Tasty, a full-featured delicious app for the iPhone

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Those who currently use delicious for their online bookmarking needs may be happy to see this latest app become available in the App Store — Tasty. The app, aside from a having a name that plays well with the delicious name, seems to be very feature rich. Tasty appears to offer what most iPhone-carrying-delicious-users would