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Oliver Starr has a good read up today: He’s tracked what appears to be more evidence that Apple has a handful of personal privacy concerns buzzing around its digital lifestyle ecosystem. Apparently, the iPhone tells Apple a lot more than Oliver is comfortable with them knowing. Check it out.
Seadragon, a photography application that demonstrates the graphics acceleration of the iPhone is available now. While this puppy won’t allow you to send MMS messages with your photos, it does provide a nifty alternative to the iPhone’s already excellent photo-browsing capability. Download it from the app store.
The app was created by Microsoft’s Live Labs group, a creative research arm of the Seattle giant whose purpose has been, since 2006, to accelerate Microsoft’s development efforts online. Previous accomplishments of the group have included creating Seadragon support for Ajax, a standards-based web development technology that dominates LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development, but has yet to surface in the walled garden of Microsoft platforms.
Look for more from Microsoft on the iPhone, including advanced speech recognition technology, in 2009. Pic provided by TechFlash.
Tags: appstore, camera, microsoft, photography, seadragon, software
Making international long distance calls on your iPhone just got a whole lot cheaper, courtesy of those clever cats over at Truphone. Interestingly, while this new iPhone app does use minute-stealing to connect calls at a cheaper rate to overseas destinations, it apparently does NOT steal minutes using VoIP or 3G on the iPhone itself. Instead, calls are routed to a local phone number operated by Truphone first, and once inside Truphone’s network, are routed to the international destination using Voice over IP.
Truphone users will be prompted, at the time they dial an international number, whether or not they’d like to use Truphone to handle the call. Very clever.
A full-blown 4 GB iPhone for $99? Unlikely, our sources say. Over the weekend when rumors broke of an ultracheap iPhone for the proverbial Wal-Mart shopper, we laughed. Apple’s low-end iPod touch for three times the retail price of an iPhone? We don’t think so.
However, getting iPhones into Wal-Marts is an important strategic move for Apple, just the same. There are a lot of folks shopping at Wal-Mart who’ve never been, and will never go, to an Apple store.
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