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“We did the hotspot feature [for Verizon’s iPhone] because it’s something Verizon offers, they have a system and specs for it in place,” Mr. Schiller told Ars Technica at the Verizon media event announcing the deal. “We can’t say if it will come to AT&T.” Apple doesn’t speak for AT&T in most regards, of course,…

“We want the experience to be the same for every iPhone user. So there are no special Verizon Apps preinstalled,” Mr. Schiller said. “AT&T offers customers some apps via the App Store. I’ll let Verizon comment if they are working on anything for that.”Verizon’s iPhone won’t look like thisVerizon is all but notorious for installing…

“If you don’t figure out a way to keep technology exciting and innovative for the language, kids have a choice when they get on a cell phone,” Joseph Erb, a member of the tribe’s tech division, told the AP. “If it doesn’t have Cherokee on it, they all speak English. They’ll just give up their…

BusyToDo can sync task do dates, priority, location, alarms, and associated URLs and notes. It can sort tasks by date, calendar, priority or title, and can filter tasks based on calendar. BusyCal users can also sync repeating tasks and BuysCal tags as well.BusyToDo for iPhone and iPod touchBusyToDo requires iOS 4.1 or higher, a MobileMe account,…

iAd is Apple’s mobile advertising network for iOS devices the company launched earlier in 2010. iAd ads are intended to be interactive commercials, and Apple has worked closely with advertisers to produce (and control) early iAd spots, and the company has heretofore worked only with large commercial outfits. The release of iAd Producer means that…

The news first appeared on Twitter after a soldier asked one of the hacking team if they would be able to unlock their iPhone 4 before they ship out for active duty on January 16. The response: “sure.”iPhone 4 carrier unlock could hit in JanuaryUnlocking is the process of hacking an iPhone so it can…

mSpot is a free service, and today’s app release is a free download from the App Store. It’s officially an iPhone and iPod touch app, but it will work on the iPad (iPad users can also use a browser). The company told The Mac Observer that it is working on an iPad-specific version of the…

AZiO has made wireless Bluetooth keyboards for some time, and now they have created one for the iPad and Mac. It is a full size keyboard (without  the numeric keypad) so it provides a larger typing area. By that I mean, there is more space between the keys and for those of us who touch…

Stockfish is a free chess app for iOS devices and is based on the free Stockfish engine. It can play at near grandmaster level and has most of the customary options for playing chess but lacks a few of the bells and whistles of the best paid chess apps. Main Chess board, USCF pieces on…

Jailbreak detection API: It’s gone“I’m not sure what motivated their removing that… I’ve not had anyone [at enterprise customer sites] talk to me about this API being present or being removed, said Sybase vice president of engineering Joe Owen.Enterprise-level IT teams could use the API before it was pulled to ask iOS if it had…

Notes finally includes fonts other than Marker Felt To change the font used in your Notes documents on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, do this: Tap Settings. Tap Notes. Select the font you want to use for viewing and editing notes. If you are using an newer iOS device, you can also choose which…

If the iPod app on your iPhone thinks you don’t have any music loaded after the iOS 4.2 update, just reconnect your phone to your computer so iTunes can perform a normal sync. Since your music is probably still on your iPhone and the iPod app is merely confused, the sync should go quickly because…

Birthday events start with the Birthday field in Contacts To add someone’s birthday to the Calendar app, do this: Launch the Contacts app on your iPad or iPod touch. On your iPhone, tap Phone, then Contacts. Select the contact you want to add a birthday date to, then tap Edit.Enter the date in the Birthday…

The problem that’s leading to the duplicate event issue stems from manually setting up CalDAV syncing on an iPad before upgrading to iOS 4.2 — a process that many iPad users went through after Apple updated the MobileMe Calendar service to rely on CalDAV a few weeks ago. Since iOS 4.2 includes a preference for…

Start by editing a contact To add a Text Tone to a contact, do this: Select a contact in the iPhone’s Address Book. Tap Edit. Select text tone. Choose an alert tone from Text Tone list. Tap Safe, then tap Done. Select text tone to add a custom SMS alertText Tones makes it easy to…

Printopia is a Preference Pane that’s basically a print server on your Mac. An iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (3G+) with iOS 4.2.x can then print to any printer you have connected to your Mac, independent of Mac OS Printer Sharing. It works with any printer. Printopia Install FolderPrintopia is useful because Apple removed the…

DataMan 3 for the iPhone logs your 3G and Wi-Fi data transmissions. For 3G data you can set daily, weekly and monthly thresholds, and DataMan will provide an alert at various designated levels. This is a must-have app. In addition to setting quotas to make sure you don’t overrun your AT&T billing limit, you can…

The announcement could play a role in the design of upcoming iPhone models, although it isn’t likely the new SIMS will start showing up in devices before 2012.Future iPhones could include embedded SIM cardsEmbedded SIM cards could be big news for other markets, too. “As our industry moves from connecting phones to connecting a wide…

Based on comments from iPad users running the latest developer build of iOS 4.2, Wi-Fi network connections can drop out after a few minutes. Some users are reporting Safari on the iPad fails to run, too.iOS 4.2: Not delayed yetApple showed off iOS 4.2 at a special media event this fall with the promise of…

Do you want to upgrade immediately? And even if you want to, should you? When you upgrade, what steps can you take before — and after — to best ensure a positive, successful migration? We’ve put together this guide to help you answer exactly those questions. We’ve already updated it with one batch of post-release…

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“The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade,” the company said.Skyfire for the iPhoneSkyfire lets iPhone users view Flash video by intercepting the Flash content they want to watch, re-encoding it for HTML5,…

iOS 4.2 brightness and volume controlsPreviously, iPad users had access to display brightness only via the Settings app.iOS 4.2 was first shown off during an Apple media event on September 1st with the promise of a November release. The update will bring multitasking, app folders, and other improvements in iOS 4 to the iPad, and…

“The Mac authenticates with the iPhone, which contains a lot of the information the computer needs, such as bookmarks, passwords and other data,” the site’s source said. “The system would essentially turn any Apple computer into your own — like you’re actually working on your own computer. Same settings, look, bookmarks, preferences. It would all…