WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: iPhone

H.264 Opens Up a Free & Clear Video Codec Landscape

By | August 26, 2010 | Machine Logic

Another salvo was fired in the battle for the future of Internet video today. MPEG LA is making permanent, thats forever, the royalty free use of their license portfolio for AVC/H.264 for free Internet video applications. The moratorium for payment was to be reconsidered in 2014 and recently extended to 2015 but as they say […]

Skype App Update 2.1.1 for iPhone

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature

If you missed the update of iPhone iOS to version 4 and its highly anticipated ability to multitask then you also missed the sometime downside of this ability, rapid battery consumption. With the new iOS 4 and their updated app I could continue a call or text chat and jump to another app without dropping the […]

Camera+ Dodges and Ducks but Apple Rejects

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

After initial rejection by the app approval process of the Apple App Store, TapTapTap managed to get Camera+ approved. Two months later and a reported $500,000 in their pockets, the app is yanked from the App Store for violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7. TapTapTap has been a successful iPhone app […]

Finally, WiFi Coming with New Apple iPhones in China

By | August 7, 2010 | Mobile Nature

It has been a Long March to put WiFi on the Apple  iPhones released in China, but starting next Monday, August 9, all new iPhones will be equipped with WiFi. Chinese regulators prevented WiFi abilities on mobile devices while authorities attempted to get their own WAPI standard adopted. A combination of Western patience and Chinese pragmatism […]

Research In Motion makes concessions to India & Kuwait

By | August 3, 2010 | Cultural Interface

As the Blackberry market share comes under increasing pressure by the Apple iPhone and eventually Google’s Android, the importance of international markets becomes ever more apparent. Several days ago I wrote about the failed negotiations and clash between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that to their announcement that the service would be terminated […]

Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Block Blackberry

By | August 1, 2010 | Cultural Interface

Today, the United Arab Emirates announced that it will start blocking Blackberry email, messaging and web browsing features starting on October 11. Almost immediately following this announcement, Saudi Arabian telcos were ordered to begin blocking the messenger service of Blackberry later this month. The UAE cited security concerns as the primary reason to take this […]

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