Archive for November, 2008
I won’t belabor the point, but the new transit planning feature added to Maps in the iPhone 2.2 update kinda sucks.
The route and stop options it offers are often, um, distinctly suboptimal.
Today Apple released a big update for the iPhone, the v2.2 firmware brings a lot of new features, including Google Street View to the Map app. The map app gets other improvements, including transit information, reverse geocoding, email location sharing.
There are also other enhancements, like the ability to download podcasts over WiFi and the cellular [...]
Users of a variety of smart phones have been able to “tether” them to their laptops in order to allow the laptop to make use of the phone’s internet connection, but this feature has been conspicuously absent from the iPhone.
Nullriver tried to fill this gap with NetShare, but Apple bounced it from the App Store [...]
Today AT&T announced that it was acquiring Wayport in order to expand its WiFi offering. Wayport offers service in a number of hotel chains, and adds to the reach of AT&Ts existing networking, which is available in Starbucks and aiports, among other locations.
This is great news for iPhone owners, since it was just over a [...]
