Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Monday, October 6, 2008
Where Classical Music And iPhone Apps Converge - Apple's classical music growth suggests an App Store growth path
PC Mag: PCMag.com's Smartphone Superguide
Transform your iPhone into a toolbox
PC Mag: How to Debloat Your Smartphone
Hanky-Panky Distorts Obama iPhone App Results
Slowly, iPhone Is Winning Over Business People
HP preps secret iPhone rival
Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps
Why Has Apple Not Fixed Well Known iPhone Security Problems?
First Impressions of Google Android
Where Classical Music And iPhone Apps Converge - Apple's classical music growth suggests an App Store growth path
Macworld's Ben Boychuk reports:
Apple has a well-earned reputation for fulfilling customer desires on its own timetable. The disharmony around the App Store is hardly the first time Apple sounded off-key to its fans. Consider the flat note that the iTunes Music Store struck with classical music fans early on.
The parallel between classical fans and iPhone users feels apt. Classical music aficionados are a peculiar and particular breed. iPhone users are particular, too. Each has specialized needs and certain expectations. But Apple has come a long way with classical music lovers.....
Fact is, Apple has steadily improved the classical (and jazz) sections of the store. The company imposed order on the chaos, making listings more accurate. Searching and browsing is much improved. Users can browse by subgenre - contemporary, orchestral, piano, opera, etc.
Where five years ago recordings of major composers such as Beethoven and Mahler numbered in dozens, today they number in the hundreds....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135902/2008/10/itunes_classical.html
PC Mag: PCMag.com's Smartphone Superguide
Here's a look at the latest and greatest smartphones on all four major platforms: BlackBerry, Apple, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. Plus a sneak peek at the hottest handsets on the horizon.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331562,00.asp
Transform your iPhone into a toolbox
Hardmac's Lionel reports:
The number of applications available from the iTunes Store and destined for the iPod Touch and iPhone keeps growing. Among this crowd of impressive products, we found a small perl which will please both DIYers and those who just want to impress their friends with the capibilities of their phone....
You can check it out at:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-10-04/#8961
PC Mag: How to Debloat Your Smartphone
Even your cell phone isn't immune to crapware, so get rid of it all with these tips.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331587,00.asp
Hanky-Panky Distorts Obama iPhone App Results
CNET's Stephen Shankland reports:
It looks like either somebody drinks a lot of coffee and talks really fast, or somebody diddled with the results of the phone recruitment feature in the Barack Obama campaign's iPhone application.
When I tried the application before 8 a.m. PDT Thursday, only 12 calls had been made, and the top-ranked caller had made 6 of them. But 30 hours later, the top caller had made 9,648 calls, according to the application.....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/4f35dh
Slowly, iPhone Is Winning Over Business People
Bloomberg News's Connie Guglielmo reports:
Kevin Willis, a retired basketball center turned entrepreneur, has given up on the BlackBerry and now depends on an iPhone to stay in touch with buyers, suppliers and the high-profile clients who wear his custom jeans.
"It does everything I need a phone to do for me and my business," said Willis, 46, who left the National Basketball Association last year after more than two decades and now helps run the Willis & Walker clothing company in Atlanta.
That is exactly what Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, wants to hear. After more than 30 years pitching first Macintosh and then the iPod to consumers, Apple is using the iPhone to attract a new audience: business buyers.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/03/technology/apple.php
HP preps secret iPhone rival
The Register's Austin Modine reports:
Hewlett-Packard plans on keeping up with the Joneses by releasing a smartphone marketed to consumers within the next two months.
At least, according to Wall Street Journal, which cites unnamed sources briefed on HP's latest foray into the increasingly crowded smartphone market.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/hp_consumer_smartphone_report/
Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps
Appleinsider's Sam Oliver reports:
One unpublicized feature introduced by Apple's latest iPhone software updates is the ability to
save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of a native app.
Clancy, an AppleInsider reader who brought the matter to our attention, believes the undocumented feature arrived as part of the most recent iPhone Software 2.1 update. He notes that the capability is only present in Web applications specifically authored to include the full-screen code.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/3twxru
Why Has Apple Not Fixed Well Known iPhone Security Problems?
ITWire's Davey Winder says:
Nearly three months ago a security researcher did the right thing and informed Apple that he had found some serious vulnerabilities that impacted upon the security of the iPhone. Isn't it about time that Apple responded in kind by releasing a fix already?
Although Apple has just released a security fix for Apple TV it has yet to address vulnerabilities regarding the security of the iPhone that it was made aware of back in July....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20984/53/
First Impressions of Google Android
eWeek's Jeff Cogswell reports:
Google's Android mobile operating system holds a lot of promise for developers. Key features in Android include the ability for all applications to work together and to run in parallel.
The picture on the emulator Web site certainly looks intriguing. That was my first impression of Android, Google's new operating system for handheld devices. The image I saw reminded me of Windows Vista, with a clock gadget and some folder icons on it.
To give Android a test run, I installed the emulator on my Windows machine. In this case, the emulator looks like a handheld device, and it has the entire Android OS running inside this "virtual device." This is a way to actually try out the software without having a device at hand that can run Android. The emulator is a full ARM machine code emulator and an Android version of the Linux kernel, as well as supporting libraries.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/First-Impressions-of-Google-Android/
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