Applelinks iPhone News Reader- Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Kit Turns iPhone Into A Business Tool
Test Your Website on Apple's iPhone Simulator
Alternative Firmware For The iPhone
Apple In No Rush For iPhone Flash, Says Analyst
Will the iPhone See More Corporate Sales?
Apple and Microsoft's Flash dance
Sun's Plan For Java On iPhone Could Hit Roadblock
Gameloft Confirms Plans to Develop For iPhone With Over 15 Titles in 2008
Kit Turns iPhone Into A Business Tool
McClatchy Newspapers' Julio Ojeda-Zapata reports:
Apple's iPhone, for all its allure, has never been a BlackBerry-like business tool for briefcase-toting corporate types.
That's about to change. Apple recently announced upcoming improvements for the much-ballyhooed touchscreen music-and movie-playing cell phone to better integrate it into workplaces, big and small. It also unveiled long-anticipated development tools that, for the first time, will allow third parties to create software for the famously computerlike handset.
This is all sweet music for Marc Jensen, technology director at the Minneapolis-based Space150 advertising agency. Workers there have embraced the iPhone, he said, but have been unable to use it properly with the firm's Microsoft- based e-mail, calendar and contact-management infrastructure. The iPhone just didn't fit, he said, the way a BlackBerry or a Windows Mobile handset does.
An alliance between Apple and Microsoft changes that, he said.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.buffalonews.com/thelink/story/301323.html
Test Your Website on Apple's iPhone Simulator
CreativeTechs says:
If you are a web designer, your clients may soon start worrying how their websites work on an iPhone. That's because after only eight months, iPhones now account for a remarkable 71% of all US Mobile Browser web traffic.....
Tucked away in Apple's free iPhone Software Development Kit is a terrific iPhone Simulator you can use to test and preview your websites. In the full version of this tip we'll show you where that iPhone Simulator application is hidden, and include a few tips on how to test various iPhone features.
For the full tutorial, click here.
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/test_your_website_on_apples_iphone_simulator.html
Alternative Firmware For The iPhone
HardMac's Lionel reports:
A new stage has been reached by hackers of iPhone. Armed with their experience gained with the various updates of the iPhone firmware, they have managed to unblock the beta of the next big evolution of the firmware to be released in June, this is the same firmware that will allow the use of the AppStore.
However they have gone further.....
You can check it out at:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-03-17/#7956
Apple In No Rush For iPhone Flash, Says Analyst
Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports:
While Microsoft and Adobe Systems made nice over Flash Monday, there's little pressure for Apple to follow suit and rush to put the technology on its iPhone, according to one analyst. And Adobe seems in no hurry to help.
"There's no doubt that Flash is important for mobile and will become even more important," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with JupiterResearch. "But for Apple, it's not urgent [for it to support flash] as Microsoft.
For the full report click here.
Will the iPhone See More Corporate Sales?
MarketWatch's Rex Crum reports:
Apple Inc.'s latest efforts to make the iPhone more attractive to business customers by adding new support for corporate e-mail and information systems has some analysts divided on how much the device will be accepted by the corporate market.
On March 6, Apple unveiled a software development kit, or SDK, for third-party developers to build applications for the iPhone, and support for Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange ActiveSync that will give the iPhone features such as push email and other capabilities.
These changes could make the device more competitive with products such as the BlackBerry from Research in Motion which is enormously popular in the enterprise market. .....
For the full report click here.
Apple and Microsoft's Flash dance
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says:
What does Microsoft see in Adobe Flash that Apple doesn't?
Two weeks after Steve Jobs signaled that Apple would not be building Flash support into the iPhone, Microsoft on Monday took the opposite stance — signing a licensing agreement with Adobe for both Flash Lite and Reader LE in its competing Windows Mobile platform.
This despite the fact that Microsoft is working on a product - Silverlight for Mobile - that is expected to compete directly with Flash Lite.
What's going on here?.....
To read more, click here.
Sun's Plan For Java On iPhone Could Hit Roadblock
InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports:
Acknowledging that conditions of Apple's iPhone SDK agreement may impede Sun's plan to put a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) on the iPhone, a Sun official held out an olive branch this week to Apple.
The JVM would enable Java applications to run on the iPhone. But blog and forum posts that have been written that questioned whether Sun could follow through on the plan, Sun said. Sun's Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing, said in a statement released this week that Sun wants to talk to Apple if there are conditions blocking Sun's intentions.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=20732
Gameloft Confirms Plans to Develop For iPhone With Over 15 Titles in 2008
SlashPhone reports:
Gameloft confirmed its intention to develop over 15 mobile games built upon Apple's iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK).
Though the SDK was recently released, games will only be available to purchase once the App Store, featuring third party applications that can be downloaded to your device via WiFi or EDGE, launches in June 2008.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.slashphone.com/64/9498.html
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