News Results For Is iPhone the Magic Phone?

1. Mozilla Gets Touchy and Feely With Firefox ‘Fennec’ Mobile (Mashable)
   Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:25:39 GMT Mozilla first spoke about development of a mobile edition of its Firefox browser last October . And just this week we saw a first-run alpha make its way to the developer testing stage in the form of a program called “ Fennec .” There’s of course ample reason to be excited about this ultra-soft launch. Add-ons are part and parcel of the Firefox experience since way back when, and they are ...



2. Help Twitter Find a Revenue Model (ReadWriteWeb)
   Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:10:05 GMT Twitter is the poster child for the 'scale first, don't even think about revenue at launch, monetize much, much later' model of startup. In the current climate, ventures like that probably won't get funded. Which is a shame. Twitter is addictive and fun and even occasionally useful. If anybody can pull this business model off, it will be Twitter. It has scale, seem to be moving mainstream ...



3. iPhone to get Android's Google Street View magic (TG Daily)
   Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:45:07 GMT Developers sifting through the beta files of the iPhone 2.2 software have come across three new end-user features. The most significant is Google Street View for the Maps application that taps the accelerometer sensor so that the view changes as you change the direction of the phone. It also appears that Apple bowed to public pressure an integrated a preference option to turn off the ...



4. 8 MILLION STORIES: HE’S A MAGIC MAN (New York Press)
   Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:00:30 GMT Last week, many people were fraught with grief and disillusionment when they learned that real fake non-magic—the magic of real things happening in a fake-seeming way (read on to understand more)—sometimes fails to be real.



5. Charlie's Angles: Don't look for magic fixes for computers (Guardian Unlimited)
   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:41:33 GMT The phrase "voodoo economics" is now part of the language, though many people may have forgotten who actually threw it at whom: in fact George HW Bush (the incumbent's father), as a would-be Republican nominee, used it to deride rival would-be nominee Ronald Reagan's "supply-side" plans, where you'd remove regulation and promote a free-for-all in any market you could see. Reagan's broad ...



6. Article: iPhone Gems: Top Photography and Image Manipulation Apps (iLounge)
   Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:01:06 GMT Many long-time users of PDAs and smart phones have become accustomed to the idea of carrying around personal information on their mobile devices, including data that normally requires a higher degree of security: passwords, credit card numbers, and other financial information. For these users, the lack of a secure personal information storage application—aka a “wallet app”—was a serious ...



7. The Meltdown Could Be Good for Garmin (The Motley Fool)
   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:41:53 GMT Reality checks can be good from time to time.



8. Third-party BlackBerry Software Development a Learning Process for RIM (Brighthand)
   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:11:11 GMT As RIM tries to build a thriving third-party application ecosystem for the BlackBerry, the company and its independent software vendor partners are learning some hard lessons about working together.



9. Search Month: September 2008 Search News, In Review (Search Engine Land)
   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:26:27 GMT Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It’s also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from September 2008, then a major story for various search topics along with other [...]



10. Web 2.0 Expo CFP Extended One-Day; Now Closes 10/9 (O'Reilly Media)
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:31:44 GMT Because of the emails, IMs, and phone calls asking about late submissions to Web 2.0 Expo SF we've decided to leave the CFP open an extra day. So if you wish to speak you'll be glad to know that the CFP for Web 2.0 Expo SF will be open until October 9th. We use this Call For Participation to...