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MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is now available to AT&T customers on the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. To enable MMS, you need to update the carrier settings. This can be easily done by connecting your iPhone to iTunes and clicking on Check for Update for your device. You’ll get a message like this one below:

Click [...]

Apple has released iPhone and iPod firmware 3.1 at their “It’s Only Rock and Roll” media event. iPhone OS 3.1 is available as a free download for iPhone users and also iPod touch users who are already running iPhone OS 3.0. iPod touch users running earlier firmware versions can upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1 [...]

Silicon Alley Insider has reported that the Social Networking service Loopt, has entered a partnership with AT&T, which will permit the company to monitor a user’s location (With Permission), after installing the Loopt application on the iPhone. The application can run a process in the background, to enable the service to track your location.
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AT&T has issued a press release today announcing that MMS will become active for iPhone users on September 25.
“We’ve been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience with MMS when it launches – and that launch date is: September 25 for iPhone 3G and [...]

Facebook released version 3.0 of their iPhone application. Over the past year, it has been downloaded 12 million times making it the 2nd most popular free app on the iPhone platform in 2008 behind Pandora.
Facebook 3.0 for iPhone brings significant changes. They include:

The changes bring vast improvements and more features to the app. The [...]

Yahoo Calendar can now sync with your iPhone. However, you have be running software 3.0 or higher. Also, you will be switched to Yahoo’s new version 2 of their Calendar.
Setup is pretty simple. Here’s the run down:

Go to your iPhone settings application.
Tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”.
Tap “Add Account”.
Tap “Other” and then tap “Add CalDAV Account”.
For [...]

From a rough Google translation, as well as elements of Babelfish and other translation websites, a report from iPhoneclub.nl was deciphered, and the information was certainly quite interesting. It seems that Apple has released 4 versions of it’s Tom-Tom GPS program inside New Zealand’s App Store.
Importantly, here are the prices for the GPS application, and [...]

International Business Times has announced that the Chinese wireless service, China Unicom has purchased around 5 million reigion specific iPhones from Apple, and will release it to the public around next month.
China Unicom, the potential exclusive distributor of iPhones in China, has poured 10 billion yuan ($1.46 billion) to buy 5 million units from Apple, [...]

A 25-year old worker at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn, which produces all the iPhone models for Apple, committed suicide (confirmed by Apple) last week. It is said that he suicided because he lose his fourth-generation iPhone prototype (1 of the 16 available) in which he was responsible for.
Some articles have described illegal searches of the [...]

Google mobile upgraded their mobile search engine for iPhone and iPod Touch, now you can search also by location.

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