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WSP Offers Australian Based iPhone Application Development

WSP Online Solutions, a division of WSP Environmental, today launched its Australian based iPhone development services.  iPhone application development is somewhat of a niche market, given that Objective-C (the language used to development native iPhone applications) is not commonly used outside of the Mac community.  As a result, the Australian based iPhone development community is [...]

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iPhone 2.0.1 Firmware update causes Carrier Update 0xE8000001 Error

I’ve just updated the firmware on my iPhone to version 2.0.1 (after much buzz on the web about its speed improvements).  The update applied fine, and my phone does seem a bit more responsive - however it throws an error regarding my carrier settings update failing each time I connect the iPhone to my computer.
See [...]

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Optus announces iPhone 3G Pricing Plans

Optus has just announced iPhone plans including pre-paid and post-paid plans for those who registered on their iPhone site.
To summarise these:

$79 a month gets you an iPhone for free
Include 800MB of data per month.
Unlimited data usage in the first month applies.
Prepaid the phone costs $729 for 8GB and $849 for 16GB phone

These are pretty good, [...]

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3 Australia launch iPhone petition!

The 3 mobile network is trying to convince apple to let 3 sell the 3G iPhone in Australia.  They have launched a new website, three.com.au/iphone, which is now live and allows you to register your interest in the iPhone on 3.
If you’re a 3 customer (like me) then head there and register your interest and [...]

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Centralized storage of prototype.js with Google AJAX Libraries API

Google has just announced that it now provides a free, hosted copy of a many common AJAX Javascript libraries through Google AJAX Libraries API.  This has huge implications for speed and caching for users hitting sites which utilise these libraries:

Google automatically serves them up in Gzip format (if your browser supports this)
Caching is done by [...]

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How-To: Free MSN/Skype/Yahoo/GTalk on your mobile

I use MSN, Skype and GTalk to keep in touch with work colleagues all day everyday. I’ve always wanted to be able to do it on my mobile phone, however you usually have to pay a monthly fee to do this, and you have to run a different client for each protocol.
Now, there is [...]

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How To: Read your Gmail on your Mobile (Google Apps too!)

I use Gmail for all my email and love it.  I’ve gotten used to using the conversation based layout of Gmail and have recently moved all my email across to Google Apps, which allows me to use Gmail for my own domain.
After doing this however, I was unable to access my Gmail from my mobile [...]

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