Online florist targets iPhone users in time for Valentine

Seems this service is targeting mobile consumers to shop for last minute Valentines Day gifts.  Online florist 1-800-Flowers.com  has launched a Mobile Gift Center, providing iPhone and iPod touch users with easy access to a variety of gift ideas. The application is updated daily and provides access to great gift ideas ...

CityMint lets iPhone user orders meal with a touchscreen tap

CityMint today launched mobile menu guide for Apple's iPhone, enabling iPhone users to order food from inside the application. It has interactive menu and ability to order with a tap of the touchscreen. With just a few taps, CityMint provides hungry foodies with thousands of restaurant menus and the ability to ...

iHound: Track your lost or stolen iPhone

Sounds like a pretty cool program. iHound Software will protect your lovely devices, helping increase your chances of recovering a lost or stolen iPhone. iHound Software is a revolutionary product that can help you find and recover a lost or stolen iPhone or iPod Touch. iHound uses the GPS and WIFI ...

Google Book Search for iPhone

It's a great idea if we could access literature's greatest works right from our iPhone, right? Thanks to Google Book Search, over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone. There's an interesting story behind this ...

Apple Surveying Apple TV Owners About Habits and Wants

Apple has begun surveying new Apple TV owners to get an idea for what customers usage habits are surrounding the digital media appliance. The email sent to some Apple TV owners reads:

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey...

Monday Humor: iPhone Attacked! Cartoon Short

Our public frenemy number one, Kevin from CrackBerry.com rubbed his nefarious hands, squealed in sinister glee, and shot off this link to a video showing all the jealous, outdated smartphones ganging up on our elegant, perfectly balanced iPhone for a little cartoon chaos. (Also: someone dubbed — poorly — some kind of Brooklyn accent on our iPhone hero: everyone knows he really speaks like a chorus of Steve Jobs).

The language is NOT appropriate for children, so stay away if you’re not old enough to play.

Also, if anyone has the UNEDITED footage, where the iPhone grabs the BlackBerry in a Wushi finger hold and Skeedoosh’s the push out of him, send that link our way ASAP.

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Monday Humor: iPhone Attacked! Cartoon Short

iPhone 4G concept!

Gizmodo points us to a new concept of the next-gen iPhone. The site also called this concept phone as "iPhone 4G". The features offered are quite interesting, but not the design. Features Sturdy Titanium and Glass Design. OLED screen. 3G Data Speed. True GPS. iChat Camera. Removable battery. 3.2 Megapixel camera. Video-capable. 32 GB capacity. Messaging Light. Size and Weight Height: 4.5 ...

Review: InchCalc+ for iPhone

Builders, contractors, and others who work with a tape measure or ruler will get a lot of use out of this construction and conversion calculator.

Google Sync Beta: Sync your Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts to your iPhone Over the Air

FlightTrack Pro app automatically uploads flight data to your iPhone

The $10 advanced version of the popular FlightTrack app works with online trip planning service TripIt to help users track flights without having to re-enter their itineraries.

TiPb Give-Away: HandDBase for iPhone Winners

Congrats to our HanDBase Give Away winners, and thanks again to HanDBase for making it happen! (Congrats also to our Slacker Plus winners on the forum from the week before!) Let us know how you enjoy your new productivity!

Winners after the break!

1. llofte
2. Allen
3. Wes
4. SHH
5. Charles
6. InspectorFox
7. Dtoo
8. Luke
9. jlc
10. Kristen

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TiPb Give-Away: HandDBase for iPhone Winners

Apple Issues Update Signaling iPhone Compatibility With AT&T’s MicroCell

Late last week, Apple issued a "carrier settings" update for iPhone users in the United States. While Apple provides few details on the contents of such updates, MobileCrunch discovered several image files in the new update package that appear to si...

Nokia may open App Store

Rumors abound that Nokia may launch an application store for its Symbian platform. And Microsoft could get into the act, too.

Behind the iPhone’s carrrier-settings update message

Getting a dialog that notes an update to your iPhone’s carrier settings? Here’s what it means.

Talks with China Mobile fail over who can sell apps

Filed under: Rumors, iPhone

Talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in the Chinese market have stalled again, according to Interfax -- this time over the fact that China Mobile wanted to sell iPhone apps directly to customers, rather than through the App Store.

A source in the Interfax story said that China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou said that buying extras for mobile phones is different for Chinese customers, since many are accustomed to using prepaid credits rather than a credit card. Wang said that China Mobile would have to play some part in providing apps to customers, if only to fulfill this payment scheme.

China Mobile's "application shop," announced in November, would have sold apps for not only iPhones, but for Symbian- and Linux-based phones, too. Apple obviously wanted to sell iPhone apps through iTunes, as it does now all over the world.

Wang declared to Apple that "China Mobile should operate the application store itself in order to maintain its advantage."

It's unclear what this means for the future of the iPhone in China. China has other carriers, like China Unicom, and the lengths that Apple has gone to to please China Mobile might be reason enough to look for another partner. Rumors last year suggested China Mobile demanded an iPhone with a reduced feature set that some analysts later predicted could be the iPhone nano.

[Via MacDailyNews.]

Talks with China Mobile fail over who can sell apps originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Jaadu Remote Desktop for iPhone

Jaadu RDP is an exceptionally well-built and polished app that stands out among the other remote desktop apps out there, particularly if you’ve got a PC to control.

Google adds over-the-air contact, calendar sync for iPhone

Google announced a beta version of its Sync application on Monday, which allows wireless syncing of contacts and calendars to the iPhone and other mobile devices.

Google beta of Sync for mobile contacts & calendar is live

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch

That thudding sound you're hearing is the head-to-keyboard collision of everyone who, for the purposes of wireless PIM sync to an iPhone, renewed a MobileMe subscription last week. Google announced today that the beta Google Sync for Mobile capability, long a feature on the Blackberry, has now been extended to iPhones (via Microsoft's ActiveSync), and also to other devices that support the SyncML standard. You can sync your Google-side calendar and contacts to your device of choice, free, bidirectionally, starting today.

There are a few caveats with this beta, as one might expect: the main one is that you cannot use the sync capability if you already synchronize with an Exchange account, as there can be only one ActiveSync config on the iPhone or iPod touch at any time. Setting up sync with Google will also nuke your local contacts and calendar on the device, so back up before you proceed. Still, this represents a big step forward in the delicate dance of Google services in cooperation with Apple's mobile gear.

If you configure sync for your device, let us know how it goes! Early comments note that the lack of multiple calendar support is a showstopper -- if that applies to you, check out the NuevaSync option. Update: You can apparently sync up to five calendars to the phone, see here for details.

[via Engadget]

Google beta of Sync for mobile contacts & calendar is live originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Announces Google Sync for iPhone - Exchangify your Google Data

Here’s a welcome surprise for you: Google has now created Google Sync for iPhone so that you can sync up your Google Contacts and Google Calendar. They are doing it by making their data look like an Exchange server — meaning that if you’re not already using Exchange on your iPhone for work, you can point it at Google’s servers (see full instructions here) to get your contacts and calendars pushed out to you. Nice? Nice.

Of course, if you’re already using Exchange for work but still want to get your Google data on your iPhone, you’d going to need to get a solution to sync your Google data down to your desktop and then get it from your desktop to your iPhone either via USB tether or via MobileMe. You can learn more about how the two work together in Rene’s excellent article on that very subject.

Now, Google, just get Gmail to look like Exchange and we’ll be happy campers. Actually, you know what, just fix IMAP, that’ll be enough.

Quick Update: As I just noted over at WMExperts, Google licensed Exchange Active Sync (EAS) from Microsoft, which is a shot at RIM but also, maybe, a shot at Apple. Rene just pointed out to me that given all of Google’s recent moves with the CalDAV/iCal system, they might have kept on pushing to make the stuff that Mac uses the industry standard. Instead, Google and Microsoft are suddenly working together on using EAS.

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Google Announces Google Sync for iPhone - Exchangify your Google Data

Google Sync debuts for iPhone, Windows Mobile and SyncML devices

Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. For iPhone and Windows Mobile devices Google is using Exchange ActiveSync with some limitations due to the beta nature of the service, but it'll also work on many other devices that support SyncML (a vendor list is here). Google Sync works automatically, and replaces all existing contact and calendar information on the device, so sync-er beware -- we wouldn't let Google get close to our contacts without some serious preflight cleanup and maintenance. Google Apps users can enable the service per domain. There's an explanatory video after the break.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Google Sync debuts for iPhone, Windows Mobile and SyncML devices originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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