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Adding fuel to the idea of Flash on the iPhone, Adobe announced Monday that it had struck a deal with chipmaker ARM to bring both Flash and Adobe’s runtime environment AIR to devices that use the ARM-chips. The iPhone uses undisclosed ARM processors in its hardware.
Keeping track of your expenses or your time spent on a project is a valuable resource for many, such as freelancers and small business owners. The epiPhoné Coders' Guild provides a pair of useful applications for those who like to have that information at their fingertips: iSpend and PocketPunchlock. The latest version of both applications also add the ability to export your data to Google Docs or Google Spreadsheets.
Using the iPhone as a wireless modem to share Internet access with a laptop has been off limits to owners of the device so far. But Thursday, AT&T Wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega said that tethering is coming to the iPhone 3G “soon.”
They say the world just keeps getting smaller these days: Now it’s so tiny, you can fit the whole thing in your pocket. Google has released an iPhone version of their popular Google Earth application.
If you’re looking to fill your brain up with the latest information about iPhone development, then Apple’s happy to help you out. Beginning at the end of October, Apple is holding a worldwide series of free tech talks about the iPhone, giving developers a chance to interact with Apple engineers and evangelists and get their questions answered about developing for the iPhone.
If the iPhone 3G was enough impetus to get you to drop your wireless provider like it was hot, then this news probably won’t surprise you. According to figures from market-research firm NPD Group, almost one-in-three iPhone 3G customers were defectors from other mobile operators. The report also says iPhone 3G also topped sales in the smartphone category.
Google Tuesday said it plans to archive as many as 10 million photos from Life Magazine's archives dating back to the 1750s—many which have never been published before.G...
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.