From the monthly archives:
December 2007
by Chris Davies on December 6, 2007

With the iPhone and iPod Touch both having WiFi, it's mightily confusing that Apple are yet to enable wireless synchronisation with iTunes rather than having to directly dock the gadgets with your PC or Mac. Developer francisois agrees, but rather than grumble under his breath has instead set to work with his own software, iPhone iSync, that's attempting to unlock that functionality.
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by Ken Allen on December 6, 2007

Although 1.1.3 isn't a major iPhone upgrade number such as 1.0 to 1.1, it is rumored that the iPhone may have some new features as soon as this weekend. New features may include voice recording, and a disk mode. Voice recording is something people really wanted and was made by Erica Sadun. The 1.1.3 would most likely completely void the use of Voice Notes and make people want to use ...
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by Vincent Nguyen on December 5, 2007

There is so much love and public display of affection between Google and the iPhone, they just need to get a room. Google launched the new user interface for the iPhone today – and all I can say is WOW. If you don’t have an iPhone, click play to watch the video. See what you’re missing for not owning an iPhone?
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by Ken Allen on December 5, 2007

iPhone hacker hachu developed a plugin for Mobile Safari recently that allows users to download any file off the internet. Once opening up the page, a button that says 'Download' will appear before Quicktime, or any other media has the chance to load. All downloads will be saved into /var/root/Downloads, allowing you to use the media online, or offline.
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by Chris Davies on December 4, 2007

Right now you could scrawl "ultraportable" with a sharpie on an apple in your local grocery store, and before you got to the checkout there'd be analysts, journalists and the generally hopeful clustering around begging for a super-compact notebook from Cupertino's most famous manufacturer. The rumor-mill frots its way into a greasy climax today with word that Kenmos Technology and Taiwan Nano Electro-Optical Technology (Nano-Op) have clinched deals to supply ...
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by Chris Davies on December 4, 2007

Either things aren't going to plan in Apple's product development lab, or the company's PR people are working overtime; Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. Inc, is quoted as saying that the second-generation (e.g. 3G) iPhone has been pushed back "from the March/April time frame to mid to late summer" [via MacNN]. It comes not long after AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed that Apple would be ...
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by Chris Davies on December 4, 2007

"Build it and they will come" they said, but perhaps if Apple had known "they" meant patent lawyers they might've been less impressed. Klausner Technologies Inc. has filed a $360m suit against the makers of the iPhone regarding its Visual Voicemail interface, claiming that it impinges on US patent 5,572,576 granted in 1996, which documents a system of displaying messages in a selectable-list format.
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