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Apr 20

It is truly amazing how much we love our technical gadgets! What we could not even imagine 20 years ago, most could not make it through a single day without now. The iPhone has emerged on the technological scene as an instant leader and it is just a little baby right now. The web applications for the iPhone have already reached staggering levels of sophistication, and one can only imagine how far developers can go with SDK.

On the Internet, there are loads of applications that offer to trace phone numbers free of charge. FreePhoneNumberTrace gets the job done just right straight from your iPhone. It does it in a flash and it does it accurately. When a user enters any listed landline phone number from within the United States, they will receive lightning fast information including: name, name history, state, city, and relatives. You can even opt to do background checks on the callers.

The service is courtesy of SpontaneousInsight and tracing phone numbers for free is not all that you get. The company has joined forces to support the Wireless Foundation’s Wireless AMBER Alerts™ initiative. When children are abducted, the first 3 hours are the very most critical to their recovery. Now, with the help of your iPhone, you can join 200,000,000 other wireless consumers to help law enforcement find these children.

SpontaneousInsight is the first organization to go completely mobile with this type of service. It’s just another amazing way that your iPhone can put you on top of the communications ladder. So, arm yourself against unwanted callers, callers who will not identify themselves, and even with the ability to join in search efforts for innocent children.

Download FreePhoneNumberTrace for your iPhone here & now:

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Apr 20

Ivyskin Xylo T2 Reflect Chrome iPhone Case == Touchscreen Your iPhone Through a Hard Shell

2.jpegPutting an iPhone in a case is still not something I’d do or recommend as necessary, but if you must protect your precious, here’s a case that claims to protect your touchscreen with a layer of plastic, but also allow you to finger the lcd just the same. It, of course, involves some patent-pending tech which sounds like hocus pocus to me. Here’s what Mike Wissman, VP of Ops for Ivyskin, gave me as an explanation.

The case uses a patent pending design called Surface Xylo Wave (SXW) technology passes ultrasonic waves that pass over the touch screen panel and transfer them to the iPhone’s screen without any interferences. When the panel is touched, a portion of the wave is absorbed. This change in the ultrasonic waves registers the position of the touch event and sends this information to the iPhone’s screen for processing.

Anyone care to explain that explanation to me? [Ivyskin]

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Apr 20

Blank MBP displays; Maine Apple store; new iPhone retail prep
Some MacBook Pro users applying Apple’s most recent firmware are finding themselves with blank LCD screens. Also, the Mac maker is readying its first Maine retail store; Vodafone may carry the iPhone for India; and AT&T may be planning for a new emp…

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Apr 20

Report waves caution at shadiness of would-be Mac clone maker [u x2]
A brief investigation into Psystar Corporation reveals the self-proclaimed Mac cloner maker to have no operating history prior to this week, and further suggests the company may be little more than one-man basement operation. Given the company’s c…

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Apr 20

iPhone to Become Blu-Ray Player Remote

According to NetBlender, iPhone and iPod touch users will be able to control their Blu-ray players using an application called BD Touch. The application will use the network capabilities of Blu-ray hardware and Apple’s handheld devices to transfer data, allowing you to do many different things beyond controlling movie playback. Update: we have spoken with NetBlender about BD Touch. As we imagined, it requires more than just an iPhone application:

Update:
Denny Breitenfeld, the CTO of NetBlender, told us that it’s not a standalone application but a technology for professional Blu-Ray authoring tool combined with an SDK for iPhone developers:

It’s a technology that is built into our professional Blu-Ray authoring tool that will allow studios, independent movie companies to enable BD Touch features.

These features send data in two directions from the Disc to the Iphone and vice versa. Video, Audio, text, and player commands can be sent.

So right now it seems everyone likes the “remote control” idea. However the player can control the IPhone as well. One idea is to automatically pull up IMBD of the movie you are watching right on your Iphone or send the movie information a movie database on your phone. The ideas are only limited to what people want and will use.

We are releasing an SDK for the 100k Iphone developers out there so they can take advantage of BD Touch features to build applications that easily work with all kinds of titles.

According to NetBlender:

• The iPhone application will be able to interact directly with movies, showing extra information in the iPhone.
• It will also be able to keep a database of your movie collection.
• BD Touch will also be able to get digital copies of the movies inside the Blu-ray disc, presumably already encoded for iPod touch and iPhone playback.

The only problem we see with BD Touch is the quote they gave to MacWorld UK:

The sophisticated user interface of the iPhone enables greater user interaction as well as the power to leverage the iPhone’s existing network. Search, e-commerce and advertising possibilities related to movie content abound when one imagines real-time communication between the iPhone and the content currently being displayed on a Blu-ray player.

Possibility of buying/snatching a song while I’m listening to it in the movie soundtrack? Great. Advertising popping on my iPhone while I watch a movie? I was going to say “no thanks,” but I just stopped at the “why?”

We will see how it exactly works when it gets announced this Thursday. [Netblender via MacWorld]

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Apr 20

Fring: VOIP on iPhone–live blog tryout

Filed under: iPhone

This morning, TUAW reader Matt dropped a note in our inbox saying that Fring has delivered VoIP on the iPhone. Sure enough, their blog claims integration with Skype and more. So does Fring deliver the WiFi VoIP solution for iPhone we’ve all been hoping for? This morning, I give it a try — live! Here’s our TUAW Labs liveblog. Put on your white coats and get ready to give the software a spin.

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Apr 20

Battleship Peer2Peer
The first p2p iPhone game out there, and it a classic we all know and love! http://www.teamtpfl.com/iPhone/

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Apr 20

8800 GT for 1st Mac Pros; iTunes/Starbucks giveaway; Wall St. store?
Apple has released a GeForce 8800 GT card compatible with first-generation Mac Pro workstations. Also, Apple and Starbucks are giving away free songs, voice-over-Internet calling has come to iPhone through a third-party app, and Apple is reportedly …

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Apr 20

WeBot
Stream music and photos from multiple computers over the web to your iPhone. http://webot.com

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Apr 20

Compendium
Live Search in more than ten Wikipedias and dictionaries with iPhone and iPod Touch optimized interface. Features: -Live Search -access to the ten most complexed Wikipedias and more -optimized Wikipedia view -dictionaries http://iphone.coium.com

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Apr 20

Snowballs in Hell: Microsoft May Develop Software for iPhone
Fortune is quoting Microsoft VP of Specialized Devices and Applications Group (whatever the hell that is), who indicates the software giant may be open to developing applications for iPhone. It s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone, to the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in […]

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Apr 20

O2 offers iPhone savings for UK buyers

Filed under: iPhone

On the heels of T-Mobile’s discounting of the 8GB iPhone, the UK carrier O2 is also cutting prices on the lower-capacity model by a full £100, dropping the base price of the handheld (with plan) to 169 pounds — deal good through June 1.

More portents of 3G iPhones on the way? Or just a clearing of slow-moving stock on the entry level phone? Either way, if you’re a Brit with a yearning for an iPhone, the cost of entry just got lowered.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Apr 20

Snowballs in Hell: Microsoft May Develop Software for iPhone
Fortune is quoting Microsoft VP of Specialized Devices and Applications Group (whatever the hell that is), who indicates the software giant may be open to developing applications for iPhone. It s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone, to the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in […]

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