O'Reilly News: iPhone

You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing - An examination of the post-PC wave and its major players.

2011-10-24T13:00:00Z

Spurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like.

Developer Week in Review: Talking to your phone - Getting serious about Siri, Open Office on the rocks, and Google embraces SQL.

2011-10-21T18:30:00Z

This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform.

Four short links: 21 October 2011 - Mozilla's Projects, YouTube Insults, iPhone Ultrasound, RoR Intro

2011-10-21T10:00:00Z

What Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a...

Fighting the next mobile war - Recent moves by Apple and Google could ignite the external accessories space.

2011-09-28T14:00:00Z

While you'll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it's quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun.

Developer Week in Review: HP fires up the TouchPad production line one more time - HP's unique take on marketing, James Gosling leaves Google, and Apple continues its tavern distribution program.

2011-09-01T20:00:00Z

The TouchPad's $99 price point proves enticing for consumers and — oddly — HP itself, James Gosling leaves Google, and a possible iPhone 5 leak bears a distinct resemblance to the iPhone 4 leak.

ePayments Week: The rise of location-triggered offers - Very local deals, iPhone users ready to spend, and Androids attract crapware

2011-08-25T16:00:00Z

Placecast offers merchants a geofence to corral customers. Also, UK researcher YouGov says iPhone users are more willing to buy with their phones, and telecoms bury Androids with crapware.

Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs - PC, mobile, music, film, post-pc: Steve Jobs played an important part in disrupting them all.

2011-08-25T14:00:00Z

Apple, under Steve Jobs, has always had an unrelenting zeal to bring the consumer — and humanity — back to the center of the ring. Here, Mark Sigal argues that it's this pursuit of humanity that may actually be Jobs' greatest innovation.

ePayments Week: Is "0000" your passcode? - Bad passcodes, in-app payments for all, mainstreaming mCommerce.

2011-07-21T14:00:00Z

In the latest ePayments Week: 10 iPhone passcodes make up 15% of all those in use. Also, Google In-App spreads its wings beyond the Chrome store, Isis signs deals with major credit cards, and execs expect mCommerce to be mainstream in 4 years.

Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data control - The launch of Google+, Yahoo spins off Hadoop, and a book full of iPhone location maps

2011-06-30T19:00:00Z

Google launches Google+, saying "It's your data" and giving users better control over sharing. Yahoo spins out its Hadoop division into a separate company. And a self-published author creates a book out of his iPhone tracking maps.

Head First iPhone and iPad Development is out!

2011-06-30T18:44:59Z

Head First iPhone and iPad Development is shipping as we speak, which is very exciting! Updating Head First iPhone was a daunting task this time around, there have been lots of developments with iOS development since we printed the first...

Disastrous implications of new Apple patent for blocking cellphone video

2011-06-16T18:12:35Z

Apple has patented new technology to disable cellphone video based on external signals from public venues. Now imagine if that same technology were deployed by repressive regimes.

Developer Week in Review: Oracle sends Hudson on its way - Can Hudson and Jenkins get together now? Washington checks in on location. And why are you so stressed?

2011-05-12T15:00:00Z

Oracle casts another piece of Sun from their portfolio, Apple and Google defend themselves from big-brother accusations made by, um, Big Brother, and it turns out you probably have a pretty sweet job, after all.

Four short links: 10 May 2011 - Car Monitoring with iPhone, Multitasking, Privacy, and Cool Unix Tools

2011-05-10T11:00:00Z

ODB to iPhone Converter -- hardware to connect to your car's onboard computer and display it on an iPhone app. (via Imran Ali) Multitasking Brains (Wired) -- interesting pair of studies: old brains have trouble recovering from distractions; hardcore multitaskers have trouble focusing. (via Stormy Peters) Social Privacy -- Danah Boyd draft paper on teens' attitudes to online privacy....

Four short links: 9 May 2011 - iPhone Anonymity, Fabbed Souvenirs, Perl+Go=Campher, and Javascript Slides

2011-05-09T10:00:00Z

UDID DeAnonymization -- a developer exposed an API that connected UDID to other information such as Facebook ID. The API has been closed, but it remains true that your iPhone has a primary key and darn near every app developer has a database linking your UDID to other details about you. Apple requires this to not be public, but...

The iPhone tracking story, one week later - Apple issues a statement on location and says iOS fixes are coming soon.

2011-04-27T16:00:00Z

Apple announces fixes and sheds more light on location data. Plus, a look at some of the reporting and potential applications that have popped up.

Additional iPhone tracking research - Researchers and reporters are exploring many of the issues related to mobile location data.

2011-04-24T17:00:00Z

The iPhone tracking story led to a host of related investigations. Here's a look at some of the latest developments.

iPhone tracking: The day after - Analysis and criticism came in the wake of our iPhone tracking story.

2011-04-22T02:00:00Z

The iPhone tracking story published here a few days ago struck an unexpected nerve. Here's a selection of the most interesting immediate reactions.

Hints of iPhone envy in China - An informal poll finds 43% of Chinese phone owners who don't have an iPhone wish they had one.

2011-04-13T13:00:00Z

A survey of Chinese phone owners conducted through the Sina micro-blog service finds that iPhones are a prized possession, while Android interest is tepid and things aren't looking good for Nokia.

Developer Week in Review - iPhone gets cracked, Twitter gets picky, and Internet connectivity gets disrupted.

2011-03-16T19:15:00Z

In the latest Developer Week in Review: the iPhone fell to attackers, Twitter shunned their developers, and the Internet proved not to be as robust as one might hope.

Google Translate in the Wild - How to sell in Mexico when you don't speak Spanish

2011-03-08T14:44:03Z

I always remember a scene from Saving Private Ryan, in the lull between the action on the beaches and the finale, where US Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) needs to communicate with some German soldiers. Despite not speaking of word of...

Why the Droid line caught on - Author Preston Gralla on the things smartphone consumers really care about.

2011-02-15T14:00:00Z

Preston Gralla, author of "Droid 2: The Missing Manual" and "Droid X: The Missing Manual," discusses the disconnect between consumer concerns (does it work?) and tech world worries (is Android too fragmented?).

In Google's "glass house," a battle with Bing looms - Commentary: Copy or theft? How Google set themselves up to get Bing’d.

2011-02-03T16:30:00Z

Is Google's recent war of words with Microsoft a case of calling a thief out by name, or a matter of pot calling kettle black?

Developer Week in Review - iOS and Android kick out new SDKs, Microsoft head count decreases by one, and the Today Show struggles with the @ symbol

2011-02-02T16:30:00Z

Snowed in, we look at new mobile SDKs, old Microsoft employees, and really old video about the Internet.

Developer Week in Review - Unix IP on the block, AT&T can't keep a secret, and take one tablet and call me in the morning

2011-01-12T19:00:00Z

This week, Unix was for sale, then it wasn't, then it was again. AT&T announced the most poorly kept secret in the history of secrets. And the tablet was all the rage at CES.

Four short links: 12 January 2011 - Zork Pen, Clever Web Design, iPhone Library, and Text Layout

2011-01-12T11:00:00Z

Zork and Tic-Tac-Toe on a LiveScribe Pen (YouTube) -- this guy totally ported the Z-Machine so he can play Zork on his pen. My favourite bit is the comment from Infocom founder Scott Cutler: As the implementer who wrote the first Z-machine for the TRS-80 some 30 years ago and one of the founders of Infocom, I was thrilled...

Four short links: 2 November 2010 - Participation, iPhone Games Programming, Mobile Keypad Magic, and Web App Security

2010-11-02T10:00:00Z

Lessons from the Johnny Cash Project -- When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. (via Courtney Johnston) Doom iPhone Review -- fascinating explanation of how the iPhone works for programmers, and how the Doom source code works around some of the...

Developer Week in Review - Ozzie architects a departure, Apple earnings and rumors, the BSA meddles, and C++ is 25.

2010-10-20T13:00:00Z

This week, Microsoft loses their chief architect, Apple continues to own the news cycle, the BSA tries to put the kibosh on open standards, and a well-known language reaches a milestone.

Four short links: 18 October 2010 - Expiring Copyrights, Network Fail, The Book of Jobs, and Android FTW

2010-10-18T10:30:00Z

Which Works Enter the Public Domain in 2011 (OKFN) -- slowly we're getting recognizable artists in some jurisdictions (e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Klee) but it's slow going. This is a great reminder about how slow the law works: most people appropriate small bits of modern works when they need something, rather than seeking out or caring about...

Nearly 800 O'Reilly and Microsoft Press titles now available in iBookstore

2010-10-12T10:30:46Z

Ebooks are already a big part of our publishing business, and we know many of those ebooks are read on iOS devices. Having those ebooks available for sale in the iBookstore makes it even easier to find, buy, and read hundreds of O'Reilly and Microsoft Press titles on iOS devices.

Four short links: 6 October 2010 - Poetry Translation, Smartphone Sales, Freedom for Machines to Read Information, and Free jQuery Book

2010-10-06T10:30:00Z

“Poetic” Statistical Machine Translation: Rhyme and Meter (PDF) -- Google Research paper on how to machine translate text into poetry. This is the best paper I've read in a long time: clever premise, straightforward implementation, and magnificent results. There's a very workable translation of Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" into a different meter, which you'll know isn't easy...