iPhone

FlyTunes Brings Streaming Audio, Video Podcasts To iPhone

May 16th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Internet TV, Mobile Podcasting, Podcast Distribution, Streaming Video, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide.
The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 channels [...]



WIll Apple Bring Back DRM’d Music?

May 15th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

According to the Guardian’s Tim Anderson, DRM’d music is going to stage a comeback, and Apple’s going to be the one making it happen.
The music industry wants to sell new services, like music subscriptions, and DRM’s is central to making these services viable. To succeed, though, subscription music services need to work with iPods and [...]



Twittering Costs More Using The Hubble Space Telescope

May 14th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, iPhone

Think text-messaging plans for mobile phones are a scam?
A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones costs more than sending data via the Hubble Space Telescope. He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the cost of sending [...]



iPhone Apps Going Mainstream Fast

May 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

iPhone apps are quickly going mainstream.
Payless Car Rental has announced an iPhone-formatted version of its site for the iPhone and iPod touch:

We recently launched a slimmed-down version of the Payless website for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Simply point your iPhone or iPod Touch to PaylessCarRental.com (or PaylessCar.com).
The iPhone and iPod Touch optimized website also [...]



Record Video With Your iPhone

May 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Video, iPhone

DreamCatcher has announced the release of iPhone Video Recorder, an iPhone video recorder.
iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video at a frame rate of up to 15fps to the compressed mpeg4 format.
Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused anytime and [...]



Use Flytunes To Get Streaming Internet Radio On Your iPhone

May 11th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

This is a demo video of the new FlyTunes Internet radio tuner service. FlyTunes delivers music, talk, weather, and traffic to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
The video shows the installation process and demos a few stations.



Orb Delivers Live TV on iPhone

May 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Streaming Video, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Orb Networks today announced a new service that streams live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch.
“TV on the iPhone is now real,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. “Steve Jobs may think that buying shows from iTunes is the same as watching TV, but iPhone users know better. When the NBA playoffs are [...]



AT&T Site Spills Secrets On 3G iPhone, Free WiFi Access

May 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: iPhone

Though we haven’t seen any official announcement from AT&T, its site is already touting 3G iPhone coverage and free wireless access at the company’s 17,000 hotspots.
The AT&T site now touts 3G support for the iPhone:

Data Access
In order to use data such as email, Google Maps, YouTube videos and web browsing, AT&T recommends using iPhone in [...]



Free WiFi For iPhones, Laptops

May 1st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

MacRumors reports that AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users.
Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably AT&T’s 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations are now offering iPhone users a custom portal to access free Wi-Fi. A special iPhone formatted page asks for your mobile phone number. Once entered, you can access the Wi-Fi [...]



iPhone Users 30 Times More Likely To Watch YouTube Videos

Mar 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Based on the latest stats from M:Metrics, the iPhone is delivering on its hype, radically changing what people are doing with the mobile Web.
Check out some of these figures:

The iPhone is already the most popular device for accessing news and information on the mobile Web, with 85 percent of iPhone users accessing news and information [...]