iPhone Hacks

AT&T Reveals $65 Million Investment On 3G Infrastructure Around SF Bay Through 2009

The AT&T network has seen unprecedented growth in its bandwidth consumption over the past two years, thanks majorly to the exclusive iPhone deal with Apple. 

While this has tremendously helped the company in its earnings, the high data consumption has also led to clogged networks and subsequently to a lot of ridicule from competitors. 

New Smartphone Optimized Version of Google News Launched

Google News has been one of the popular news aggregators on the web, which lets you to read news relevant to your geography as well as personalize your page to read updates on subjects of interest to you. 

TomTom Version 1.2 Released - Includes Support For iPod Touch and First Gen iPhones

TomTom, one of the navigation apps available on the iPhone has just released an updated version. 

The new version v1.2 of TomTom's iPhone app offers quite a lot of interesting features and one that is most interesting is its support for iPod touch and the first generation iPhones. 

AT&T Lawsuit: Court Rules Verizon Ads May Continue, AT&T Launches Counter Ad Campaign

Yesterday, I had a nice little rant about why Verizon's ads deserved to be pulled off air. 

But that was not to be, as the Federal Court declined to issue a restraining order on Verizon from airing the ads. The next hearing on this case is only on December 16. 

Google Phone Coming - How Will This Affect Market Dynamics

Just when we thought that the Droid threat was not as big as it was hyped up to be comes a rumor which will have Apple closely watching every move. 

TechCrunch reports a "super-high confidence" rumor that Google could soon be launching their own phone - complete with Google branding. 

Palm Releases WebOS 1.3.1 - No iTunes Syncing Hack This Time

It was only a few months back that Palm Pre used to be counted as a potential iPhone killer. 

A lot of things have changed since then. However, one thing that has kept Palm in the news has been its cat and mouse game with Apple in letting Pre users sync their phones with iTunes. 

AT&T Lawsuit: Verizon Response Calls It A Case Of Sour Grapes

After AT&T filed a lawsuit against Verizon's ad campaigns, the latter has finally responded. 

And very much like the ads in question, the court filing is nothing short of scathing attacks on Ma Bell. 

iPhone App Approval Gets Additional Automated Layer to Check Private API Usage

Despite the number of cases where iPhone apps have been wrongly either accepted or rejected, there has apparently been one segment of iPhone apps, those that use private APIs, that managed to sneak in quite a few times even though Apple expressly forbids them. 

How to Change the Carrier Name On Your iPhone

If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name? 

Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone. 

'Fit Or Fugly' iPhone App Tells How Attractive You Are

Beauty is skin deep and all you need to measure it is an iPhone app. 

If you have always been curious to know how attractive you actually look, here is an iPhone app that might be able to finally declare whether you are attractive or not.