If you cannot be without your instant messaging fix while you’re away from your computer and only have your iPhone along, you can now stay in touch with all those abbreviations with the new Meebo iPhone app.
In the alternate universe inhabited by elite iPhone hackers and software pirates, this has got to be like becoming an Eagle Scout. Or, perhaps more appropriately, like the authors of ’60s and ’70s trashy grocery store novels getting a publicity boost by being banned in Boston.
Once again, the iPhone is the 600-pound gorilla in a room in Barcelona. Though Apple did not take their handset to the Mobile World Congress in Spain, it is still managing to be the star of the show.
Rumors continue to fly from all directions about the iPhone search franchise, including a $100 million a year deal with Google, an even better possible deal with Microsoft, and a brand-new search engine from Apple.
The folks that brought us the Opera browser for the PC are now saying that they will demonstrate their truly different smartphone browser on the iPhone next week, and that they would like Apple to approve it as an app.
Although talk of the iPad is still hot and heavy, some folks are now turning their attention to Apple’s next-generation smartphone and there’s fresh info, as well as a repurposed rumor from last month to mull over.
The Nexus One smartphone, also known as the Google Phone, has been billed repeatedly as an iPhone killer, but its sales numbers in the real world are not anywhere near living up to that promise yet.
Most industry analysts have said that AT&T exclusive deal on the iPhone will end some time around the middle of this year, but at least one well-known financial firm’s analysts disagree.
One of the few remaining items on über geeks must-have iPhone apps is about to get real. With this one now scratched off the list, can we know look forward to tethering — perhaps that just too much to ask for?
Apple has issued an update for the iPhone / Touch operating systems to close five security flaws, four of which were sufficiently serious that they would have allowed an exploiter to execute software on the target device.
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