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Start your car and more from your iPhone with the Viper SmartStart System

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 27, 2009 at 07:49 AM

The Viper SmartStart System, a new Best Buy exclusive hardware and software combination only available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allows you to do a number of cool things with your iDevice and your car, such as start your car with virtually unlimited range, warm it in winter and… Continue Reading »

App it Up: Ping!

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 26, 2009 at 05:28 AM

Ping! is an iDevice to iDevice messaging application (similar to BlackBerry Messenger on Blackberry smartphones) that makes use of Apple’s Push Notification service, and is said to be a replacement for SMS or other IM clients. Ping! uses data from a 3G/EDGE or WiFi connection rather than SMS messages, and… Continue Reading »

Apple and AT&T to add new phone features to next iPhone OS update?

by Jake Gaecke on Sep 8, 2009 at 07:31 AM

Word from MacNN has it that Apple and AT&T may together add support to the iPhone for overage alerts and new Voicemail settings. These feature may find their way on to an iPhone near you as soon as iPhone OS 3.1, which we are expecting in the not too distant… Continue Reading »

iPhone 3.0 push notifications delayed? [updated]

by Ed McKell on Jun 23, 2009 at 05:42 AM

One of the most talked about and anticipated features of the new iPhone OS 3.0 is the push notification system. By using push notifications, app developers will be able to notify iPhone users when they have received new information relating to one of their registered apps that use this new… Continue Reading »

iPhone OS 3.0: Everything you need to know…so far

by Jake Gaecke on Mar 17, 2009 at 08:23 PM

Today’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview was quite the show. Apple almost outdid themselves by catching up on all standard features of regular cell phones, and then some. Amongst today’s biggest features were items such as Copy and Paste, Push Notifications, Turn by turn GPS and MMS. But that’s not all,… Continue Reading »

Why Apple can do whatever the hell they want to

by Jake Gaecke on Feb 23, 2009 at 05:37 PM

Today, I read an interesting article on MrGadget about why Apple needs to release the next generation of the iPhone soon. If they don’t, apparently Palm is going to break the deathgrip that Apple has on its growing portion of the cell phone market today. Needless to say, I wholeheartedly… Continue Reading »

Apple to start “pushing” with iPhone firmware 2.2.1?

by Jake Gaecke on Nov 30, 2008 at 10:21 AM

RussianiPhone.ru is claiming that they have not only played around with a beta version of firmware 2.2.1, but that it finally includes support for the long awaited push notifications. Their “proof” comes in the form of a screenshot (right) that displays an update badge on the Notes and Calendar apps.… Continue Reading »

iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 1 seeded to developers

by Jake Gaecke on Sep 25, 2008 at 07:52 PM

It seems Apple has fixed most of the large problems with the iPhone’s firmware with the iPhone 2.1 release, but they are by no means stopping there. Apple has seeded firmware 2.2 beta 1 to developers, but it’s unclear as to what is different. Along with the beta firmware comes… Continue Reading »

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