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Moving Birthdays Around

a while ago, i noticed that the iPhone contacts app is not smart enough to properly handle birthdays, because it always requires years and thus only supports birthdates (and not birthdays). that was an inconvenience, but at least one that... Read more →

40 Million Tracked iPhones

starting with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0, the iPhone will learn a number of new tricks, most of them software-based. one interesting area to watch are the micropayments which are supported by the new OS; it will be interesting to... Read more →

Times Reader 2.0

the first version of the New York Times' Times Reader was built on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and was pretty well-done as a proprietary one-time project; the second version of Times Reader (Times Reader 2.0, ironically lacking any of... Read more →

Flashy iPhone

while the next iPhone model may still be a couple of months away (version 3.0 of the OS was recently announced, and most people expect an updated phone version as well when the OS will be released this summer), there... Read more →

The Rise of The Micropayments

now that apple has revealed its plans for the iPhone 3.0 software, one of the exciting things about it is what apple calls In App Purchase: Allow users to purchase content or services from your application using the Store Kit... Read more →

iPhone 3.0

while i haven't touched my iPhone To Do List for quite a while, the rumors around the unveiling of the iPhone 3.0 software roadmap tomorrow made me look at the list again. even though i never updated the list for... Read more →

Mobile Platforms and Services

with the New York Times reporting about additional traction for Microsoft on LG devices, the more interesting question is how relevant smartphone OSs will be in the long run. the iPhone has definitely stirred up the marketplace, ending the unfortunate... Read more →

Location Privacy

it's only a coincidence, but it was interesting to read about a new service by Google that tracks user locations and about MySpace handing over a lot of private information in response to a subpoena. using Google's new Google Latitude... Read more →

Breaking Apps

now that the iPhone 2.1 Software Update has been released and the iPhone 3G is slowly approaching the status of actually working as a phone, i am still wondering why there were so few complaints about the fact that 2.0.2... Read more →

iPhone or AT&T?

my Could not activate Cellular Data Network post proves to be pretty popular, so i guess i am far from being the only one getting this message. the interesting questing is whether this problem is an iPhone problem, where the... Read more →