iPhone Orchestra

It had to happen. Using the iPhone as a musical instrument is not new. A graduate course and orchestra, that’s new.

The University of Michigan’s “iPhone Orchestra” will debut next week, via 9to5Mac (h/t to Gizmodo):
Given that the iPhone offers more processing power than the original iMac, this next story had to [...]

iTablet: Saving Newspapers

A couple of weeks ago, the Sydney Morning Herald ran a story on Apple’s upcoming new product, the iTablet:
Apple has sent specifications of the device to Australian media companies in an effort to sound out whether they would be interested in delivering their content to the tablet. None would speak about the device on the [...]

Coolest iPhone App

Here’s a great app from DishPointer, released in August:
Very surreal, this is the next generation satellite finder: Point your iPhone anywhere towards the sky and see all the satellites lined up, on the live video screen! At a glance, you’ll see where the satellite is and whether any trees or buildings are blocking the line [...]

Crunch

Interesting. CNET is reporting people will never buy computers without keyboards (iPhone, XBox, PS3, Kindle). And Silicon Alley Insider is judging the Crunchpad will fail:
The device has no local storage, and does not appear to have a slot for add-on storage like a SD card. That means you must have Internet access to do anything [...]

A Million iPhones

Apple said they sold over a million over the weekend:
Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.
“Customers are voting and [...]

$2.99 Minimum for BlackBerry Apps

Research in Motion is not about to give up its hold on the corporate market. Charge them for apps — no freebies for you corporate types.  Released just in time for the CTIA Wireless show. The scoop, via Crackberry:
It seems RIM has decided the minimum price for paid apps will be $2.99. Potentially good news [...]

Betty Crocker App

You can be the wonderful woman who dreams up the nicest new treats! Use our good cake mixes, so the routine work’s all done. You add the special touches that matter.

You don’t see good ad copy like that often. Does this mean she’s gone? Where’s your Better Crocker now?
On your iPhone.
Say you’re travelling and [...]

iPhone on Verizon

Open up the floodgates: Apple is working on a deal with Verizon Wireless:

Apple has been scouting out EVDO and CDMA Engineers for months in their online iPhone job postings (here, here, here and here).  Yes, some of these skills overlap with UTMS and CDMA can also refer to the broad swath of 3G Technologies…but come [...]

Amazing Kids

Kids today are amazing — our parents probably said the same about us, back in the day.

So I read about this 9-year-old whose iPhone app was downloaded 4,000 times since it went up on 1 February 2009:
Like his father, Lim Ding Wen enjoys writing iPhone apps in his spare time. His application, called Doodle Kids, [...]