That’s about all there is to it, folks. Airtel, India’s top mobile operator, has announced that it will begin selling the iPhone 3G in just over two weeks time, on Friday 22nd August. It’s not yet known if it will…
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According to the head man himself, Mr Steve Jobs, MobileMe should not have been released when it was, and was “not up to Apple’s standards”. Not that the public has officially been told that, just Apple’s staff. MobileMe needed more testing to iron out the flaws, and it should have been rolled out slowly — as in adding new features over time. “It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store,” he says. “We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.”… 
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In the past day, Apple has rolled out a presumably minor iPhone firmware upgrade via iTunes. I say minor because the version has moved from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1, which generally isn’t considered a major release. The official word from Apple is that this contains “bug fixes” — and that’s about it… 
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Tethering your laptop and mobile phone together so that you can use the Internet over a 3G connection when you’re too cheap to buy a dedicated data card is nothing new, but for iPhone 3G users it’s a near impossibility. Unless you want to jailbreak your iPhone and use a hacker-friendly application, there’s been no way to pair the iPhone and laptop, until late last week an application called Netshare made it into the App Store — yes, Apple’s official iPhone App Store. Then it disappeared. And reappeared. And… disappeared again. It’s currently unavailable. No-one has made an official statement as to why the application has been practising its teleportation skills. Perhaps it spends most of its life as an application for jailbroken iPhones, and ten percent of it as an official app?… 
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There’s a storm brewing about sourceless rumours (aren’t they always?) from the Daily Mail, claiming that Apple will launch an iPhone Nano in time for this year’s Christmas rush. Speculation over an iPhone Nano is nothing new, but the real problem some have is that it came from the Daily Mail and not an established technology site… 
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Tests will start in the fall on a new mobile digital TV standard, according to Broadcasting and Cable in Wednesday. The goal is to create a new standard that will enable stations to broadcast video and data to mobile phones and other portable devices.
The Yankee Group has published a report on how developers should elect to choose between the iPhones and Android platforms. The key lies in understanding the ecosystem strategies.
While athletes set new world records in the pool and on the track, the 200-person team of editors, reporters, camera operators, and engineers that Television Broadcasts Limited sent to cover the Summer Games has been setting performance records of their own. Aided by their Macs and Final Cut Studio, they’re capturing, editing, and transmitting terabytes of data to audiences eager for Olympics coverage.
You may depend on Preview to read and annotate PDFs. But did you know that you can use Preview to crop, rotate, and resize photos? Using tools available in Preview, you can also adjust exposure, saturation, and sharpness. Or make Auto Levels adjustments. Preview even lets you remove backgrounds. To find out how to make easy photo edits in Preview, watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
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