Quickoffice announced the release of MobileFiles Pro, said to be the first application to include editable Office functionality for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The upgrade brings comprehensive editing and saving of Microsoft Office Excel files in the .xls format, Wi-Fi file transfer to ...

IGG Software announced the forthcoming release of iBank Mobile, a native iPhone counterpart to iBank 3. Capable of running on both the iPhone and iPod Touch, this new release will be available exclusively for download from the iTunes App Store in the first quarter of this year. Among t...

Transparent Language announced the release of its new Byki language-learning application for the iPhoneand iPod touch. Byki for iPhone and iPod touch sells for $9.99 per language – with an early-bird price of only $7.99 during the first 30 days of availability for each language. It c...

Best Buy announced that it is offering refreshed Apple iPhone 3Gs at store locations nationwide, claiming to be the first retailer to do so on a national scale. Three-hundred and fifty Best Buy Mobile stores have begun selling the Refreshed iPhone 3G at $149 for the 8GB model and $249 ...

iHome unveiled the details of its 2009 home audio product line, including a variety of new speaker solutions featuring a wide range of styles, price points and feature sets. iHome’s 2009 line-up includes: iP1 Speaker System for iPod/iPhone, iP71 iPhone/iPod Computer Speaker System wi...

NuageProduction released four applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch that help users customize access to thousands of international media sources. The NuageProduction solutions enable users to personalize content index from ever-expanding directories of TV networks, radio sta...

"As many of you know," Steve Jobs tells the Apple worldwide community in a heart-rendingly frank memo, "I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it need...

ShapeWriter simultaneously announced the launch of its text entry products on Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows XP/Vista with its upgrades to WritingPad 1.0 for the iPhone, now called ShapeWriter 2.0. Rather than “hunting and pecking,” ShapeWriter 2.0 allows users to produce an ...

Mobile voice and video over IP is a promising phenomenon that also presents numerous technical challenges. Network and device issues can result in inadequate voice and video quality. Developers of mobile applications need to understand how to overcome these obstacles to provide the bes...

The iPhone continues to gain steam in Japan, evidenced by Softbank's latest software announcement promoting Speeek, a voice-enabled electronic dictionary application that translates Japanese to English or Chinese. Using voice recognition technology the application can translate up to 1...

Retail behemoth Wal-Mart announced Friday that is would begin selling Apple’s popular 3G iPhone at 2,500 of its stores. Contingent on a 2-year service agreement with AT&T, the 8 GB model will sell for $197, while the black or white 16 GB model is being offered at $297. Both models wi...

On its official blog site, Citrix has been talking this week about Project Braeburn, calling it "the coolest app that doesn't work on the iPhone...yet?" Braeburn is Citrix's codename for its attempt to build a Citrix Receiver for iPhone to allow access to Windows applications.

ClairMail has announced the release of the ClairMail System including a mobile web solution optimized for the iPhone. The iPhone solution includes the comprehensive mobile banking and payments functionality found in ClairMail's traditional mobile web offering - account management, fund...

While we are obviously disappointed by Apple’s decision not to participate in Macworld 2010, we are on track for a terrific show this year, with strong attendance numbers and nearly 500 exhibitors showcasing their products at the January event. Macworld Conference & Expo has thrived ...

Pocket Cocktails, a new iPhone application, offers a fun twist to the traditional cocktail hour. Pocket Cocktails uses large, high resolution pictures, unlike other such applications which are mostly text based, and includes a "shaker" feature that selects cocktails at random. This ran...

Lightstreamer is a software product for delivering real-time textual data to any kind of application through the Internet. Banks and online-gaming companies typically use it to dispatch live updates to their Web pages or Flex applications, supporting high numbers of parallel connection...

When the economy takes a hit, so do cell phone sales. Last quarter, mobile phone sales in the U.S. dropped 15 percent to 32 million units, according to market research firm NPD Group. But in hard times, the strongest brands also take share. And that is exactly what Apple did. The 6.9 m...

Could Apple iPhone become a viable portable gaming solution (like PSP or NDS) one day? If the iPhone does as expected and takes a decent chunk of the growing smartphone market then will malware writers start to give OS X some serious attention as the overall penetration of OS X skyrock...

This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile's G1) and offer them on the Android Market.

In the 2-day iPhone Developer Summit, delegates will hear from industry experts about the impact the iPhone is having on delivery of rich content to mobile users. Technical sessions will explore a world of web development opportunities on the iPhone including building applications usin...

The iPhone has brought the unification of the Desktop and Mobile Web, but there are still a number of challenges in bringing AJAX applications to mobile devices, including reduced bandwidth, increased latency, reduced screen size, and limited battery life. This session provides an over...

The arrival of the iPhone has heralded a new era for Internet-enabled devices; however, the device wasn't designed with the enterprise user in mind. To be successful, enterprise apps need to be optimized for the user experience and fit business requirements. In this session, Dave Carro...

The iPhone is transforming the Web as we know it and compelling every Web designer to consider handheld portable devices. This will cover various aspects of iPhone and iPod Touch development. It will include tips and tricks as well as best practices to follow. Williams will also cover ...

The iPhone is a very successful mobile device. This session shows how to use it for business: How can I access my records? Where to manage accounts? How to deal with customer requests and other employees? The session will also include development guidelines for your own enterprise mobi...

There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year. Programmers can choose to create optimized web applications using web languages or to write native programs using the iPhone SDK. Rather than seeing this as an either-or proposition...

The arrival of the iPhone has heralded a new era for Internet-enabled devices; however, the device wasn't designed with the enterprise user in mind. To be successful, enterprise apps need to be optimized for the user experience and fit business requirements. In this session, Dave Carro...

Demystify what it takes to build a web application that can scale to the millions of users in the iPhone ecosystem. Learn about the need for pre-development architecture and the requirements for the deployment and ongoing maintenance environment for the applications. In this session we...

There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year. Programmers can choose to create optimized web applications using web languages, or to write native programs using the iPhone SDK. Rather than seeing this as an either-or propositio...

Now iPhone users can run MokaFive LivePC virtual machines off their iPhone! iPhone Sentinel makes the iPhone appear as a disk drive on the user's computer, allowing them to install any software they want on it. It also includes the features of USB Sentinel.

Yahoo! announced the preview availability of Yahoo! oneConnect, the new social address book that brings together a user's circle of friends, their lives, and all the ways they communicate into one seamless, easy-to-use application. Yahoo! oneConnect is now available in the Apple iPhone...

HyperOffice is now available by download from Apple's new App Store, putting the business collaboration suite within easy reach of any iPhone user. HyperOffice transforms the iPhone into a tool for mobile business. Users connect to secure corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and...

Morph Labs has announced a web application support program designed for iPhone developers. The Morph program brings together resources for iPhone web application developers and allows them to build applications and deploy them to the Morph AppSpace service, a fully managed environment ...

"The popularity of the iPhone, along with the emergence of various applications and faster connectivity, makes it an ideal platform for developing applications that incorporate quality real-time VoIP," said Emerick Woods, CEO of Global IP Solutions (GIPS), as GIPS yesterday announced t...

Following the launch of its Breeze mobile application development and distribution platform, Cascada Mobile is officially launching Breeze Apps, an online portal for finding and downloading free applications to mobile phones. The Breeze Apps portal makes it easy for anyone with a Java-...

Lab49 announced it has begun developing applications for the Apple iPhone 2.0 platform for buy-side and sell-side financial institutions. Lab49 has seen sizable and growing demand for developing financial applications on the iPhone platform, with hedge funds seeming to adopt this techn...

"The day we launched MobileMe, we had a lot more traffic to our servers than we anticipated, with the result that access to the web versions of the MobileMe applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk — was temporarily unavailable," is how "David G." opened his inaugura...

Apple Inc. is not known for admitting mistakes, but even the consumer-electronics company realizes it can't afford to upset its rabidly loyal customers. This is evident in Apple's reaction to problems with the new MobileMe online service.

kannuu announced the availability of its iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit.) The kannuu iPhone SDK, provides developers with a rich set of tools to incorporate its indexing and lookup capabilities into high demand mobile OS X web-based and device native applications.

BillShrink launched a price comparison site dedicated to the new iPhone 3G , helping consumers decide whether the highly-anticipated device is the right purchase for their individual needs. BillShrink is a new, free online service that helps consumers save money by making continuously ...

TechInsights will analyze the Apple 3G iPhone, to be released on July 11. TechInsights' divisions, TechOnline, Portelligent, EE Times and Semiconductor Insights, will collaborate to investigate the second-generation handset to provide technical detail about the new iPhone for readers, ...