In a first of its kind, an iPhone app development firm has received a 'Cease and Desist' notice from a Hollywood talent agency who claim that the lead character in their gaming app was illegally capitalizing on the brand name of the company's CEO.
Apple reacted quickly by removing the iPhone application from the App Store.
Remember the BTStack Keyboard app? We had recently written about this application for jailbroken iPhones that lets you connect and use a physical Bluetooth keyboard to type on your iPhone.
This tutorial will walk you through all the steps in order for you to start using a Bluetooth keyboard to type on your iPhone.
Presently, non-jailbroken iPhone users cannot customize their incoming SMS alert tone. But if you have a jailbroken iPhone, you may follow these steps to customize your SMS alert tone .
Please note that you need to have OpenSSH installed on your iPhone. If you do not have it already, check out steps a-c. If you are looking for a tutorial to jailbreak your iPhone first, you may check out these tutorials for Mac and Windows users. Also, ensure to tether your iPhone to your computer before starting the process.
Controversies are not new to Apple and here's yet another one, which has the blogosphere rallying against Cupertino for what they call is an illogical move.
This is about a recent Consumerist report which vilifies the company for taking sides with a cellphone thief and not with a loyal Apple customer who was robbed.
For AT&T, 2009 has been a year of failed promises. The company promised to bring services like tethering and microcell to its subscribers this year. With the year gone by, there is still an uncomfortable hush over enabling tethering while the 3G microcell service has remained only in 'public trials' so far.
The past couple of months have not been easy for Apple. Ever since Motorola Droid arrived in the market, there has been constant debate over whether or not the Droid is better than the iPhone. To add to the challenges, Verizon launched their attack campaigns, first against AT&T and then against Apple.
After all this, one might have thought Apple might have shown signs of cracking.
It is interesting how much we can speculate from innocuous job postings.
One of our earlier job posting based speculations about Apple's ambitions for their native maps application turned out to be true as we recently learnt about the company developing their own version of Google Latitude.
With rumors about an Apple Tablet launch more or less confirmed to be true, it is only a matter of time before we actually get to hear from Steve Jobs about this. Rumors about an Apple Tablet have been floating for a long time now. Nevertheless the delay in the launch has been more due to doubts within the company about the viability of such a device rather than any production-related delays.
Is Apple building its own location aware application? A recent patent filed by the company has revealed the development of a new technology that will enable iPhone users to share their location data with their friends and family with the help of a native iPhone application.
So how does this software work?
