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Archive for March 2008

March 9th, 2008

Safari Pad

Would you ever have guessed the iPhone began as a R&D device called Safari Pad? John Markoff from the New York Times is reporting just that.
Apple’s multitouch technology began life not as a cellphone, but as a notepad-sized skunkworks project internally dubbed Safari Pad, run by Tim Bucher, then Apple’s head of Macintosh hardware. To […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2008

Tethering on the iPhone

In the middle of last month a story leaked of the possibility of AT&T offering tethering, using a mobile devices Internet connection as an Internet connection for a computer, to iPhone customers.
The following script was leaked and allegedly meant to be read to iPhone customers.
“Mr/Mrs. Customer, I want to make you aware of an issue […]

By Matt Pippen -- 1 comment