via TechCrunch:
The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning. Over the past six months, the iPhone has taken share from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. In August 2008, the iPhone made up only 10 percent of mobile Web [...]
Apple’s iPhone seems to be handily controlling the mobile web market at 66%.
Net Applications’ February results show the iPhone operating system having managed over nine times the usage of its next smartphone competitor, Windows Mobile, which had just 6.91 percent of the traffic measured across tens of thousands of sites.
Other smartphone platforms haven’t fared any [...]
I am going to download it right now.
The iPhone 2.2.1 update just hit, and it promises to fix various Safari, Mail and Camera bugs.
It applies to iPhone and iPhone 3G (no iPod Touch yet
iPod Touch’s update seems like it’s here too), and doesn’t seem like it
introduces new features. We’re installing and looking into it for [...]
According to Techcrunch:
A month after being granted U.S. patent No. 7,441,196,
a company in Los Angeles called EMG Technology is suing Apple for “the
way the iPhone navigates the Internet,” according to a press release.
The suit did not specify the damages EMG is seeking, but the company
has hired a serious gun: Stanley Gibson, one of the lead [...]
According to Macrumors:
In part, the differences stem from the fact that the 2nd Generation
iPod Touch had its processor quietly boosted to 532MHz. Meanwhile, the
iPhone 3G, Original iPhone and 1st Generation iPod Touch run at 412MHz.
However, the differences must extend beyond this simple change, as
there seem to be substantial performance differences between the
similarly-clocked models as well. [...]
From the New York Times:
NMobile and Trapster are
two mobile applications that provide up-to-date, detailed maps of
speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or
red-light cameras. After launching, each application pulls up a map
pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance. An
audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring
a speed trap.