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I’ve been waiting for Skype on iPhone for at least a year… I’m a Truphone user, but I’m not happy with it, it doesn’t work very well in terms of call quality. I hope the official version would be as good as the desktop application.

I’ve just discovered this nice Blog talking about the french island: Corsica situated in the Mediterranean Sea. The nice thing is you can see it on your iPhone, with redimensioned images while you visit the island. There is an interesting post about the Wifi you can get for free or nearly free with Fon in Corsica here.

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The show was really good, a lot of very good new features in that OS 3.0 for our preferred phone. Copy/Paste and MMS are nearly ready for us and a lot of APIs for the developers to build new very cool applications.

Also, Bluetooth will be better used by the iPhone, so it was not a hardware issue but a software problem to use stereo headset, and communicate with other devices via Bluetooth.

The only problem, we need to wait until this summer to test it.

First Episode, The Attack:

Second Episode, The Response:

According to Kevin Rose, we might finally have copy/cut and paste finally on the iPhone. It looks like we might have as well the MMS with this new firmware. All good news, but I hope to have video recording, background applications and Flash inside Safari in this release.

Let’s cross fingers and wait 5,5 hours…

Apple has announced a public event on the 17th to announce something big apparently for the iPhone… Is it the Firmware 3.0? A new iPhone? I doubt for the new device, it might be in June-July like the 3G announcement.

Let’s see on Tuesday, I can’t wait…

CBS Sports' March Madness app costs $4.99 in the iTunes store.

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On Thursday, CBS Sports Mobile released a March Madness On Demand application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tracking the NCAA's college basketball tournament, March Madness, CBS Sports' iPhone app will stream videos of the games live over Wi-Fi, and will stream audio commentary if you've got a 3G or EDGE connection.

In addition to video or audio streaming, the March Madness On Demand app will show updated scores of ongoing games, news stories, bracket information, team stats, preview segments, and video recaps of past games in a screen dedicated to highlights.

The app's video and audio streams will cover every game aired live between March 19 and April 6--including the NCAA Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, and National Championship games. CBS Sports NCAA March Madness On Demand is available for $4.99 through the iTunes App Store.

Editors' note: CBS Sports is owned by CNET's parent company, CBS.

You learned recently that the iPhone and iPod Touch are not as secure as we would like them to be.

Luckily for iPhone and iPod Touch users, third-party vendors are supplying applications that help fill some security holes. Acrylic Software makes software that fills some of these chinks. Its Mac software, Wallet 3, costs $20 CDN ($15.62 US); upgrades are priced at $5 CDN ($3.91 US) and requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard--sadly, there is no Windows version. A version of Wallet for the iPhone and iPod Touch (iTunes Link) costs $3.99 US.

Wallet for iPhone is a lightweight database application that stores your important information, such as credit card numbers, passwords, credit card data, software serial numbers, agenda, and even shopping lists. All this information is securely stored using 256-bit AES encryption, which should protect the data even from a forensics expert.

Wallet for Mac

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Wallet's nicest feature across all versions is that it lets you synchronize your encrypted Wallet database to multiple Macs, iPhones, or iPod Touches using MobileMe. All these devices share the same database, and sync setup is performed by completing a few minor configuration steps on each device. You can also sync directly between the devices and your Mac using Wi-Fi.

MobileMe Sync

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Wallet lets you do some serious customizing to meet your needs. You can complete all data entry on your iPhone and customize how your data is stored by extending group fields without any limits. You can add attachments to any record, but unfortunately only using the desktop version of Wallet. Wallet's easy search feature, which works like the one in the Apple Contacts app, finds what you're looking for quickly and easily.

Casual editing on the mobile version of Wallet will suffice, but the iPhone's lack of cut-and-paste tools makes mass editing difficult; for that, we prefer the desktop version. The desktop version also offers other powerful features not available on the mobile version, including a password generator.

If you're concerned about security on your iPhone, certainly consider Wallet, which addresses some, but not all of the iPhone's security problems. Wallet can protect your data if you entrust it with your private information, but it won't protect native Apple iPhone applications--for those, you're stuck until Apple includes encryption features in its own applications.

Reports of non-Apple-sponsored app stores have hinted at threats to Apple's own iPhone's iTunes App Store. Now, another front in the war against the iTunes App Store may be developing: a new application, currently under development, will allow users to install iPhone and iPod Touch applications onto their jailbroken devices using a USB connection.

The app, called Installer, has been around for awhile and was originally created to install applications directly from your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch desktop. Rip Dev recently upgraded that application, long popular, to version 4.1. However, a new version for the desktop might steal the show by allowing the installation of third party applications over USB straight from your desktop--almost a guarantee of new venues for jailbroken application sales.

Rip Dev explained its plans in a post on hackint0sh.org:

"We wanted to reveal something we've been working on for a while - a software for the desktop computers that will install third-party packages on your iPhone.

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"Practically, it is a desktop variant of our own Installer.app. It will allow you to view and install packages that are present in various Installer and Cydia repositories by downloading them to your computer and then synchronizing via the USB cable with your iPhone."

While the post mentions the iPhone specifically, the desktop Installer app will likely work with the iPod Touch, too. This version of Installer will work much like iTunes: applications will be stored locally on the computer, the software will send application update notifications, and will reinstall applications quickly after an iPhone restore. One improvement over iTunes will be a way to install demo versions of applications without all the hassles of giving away coupon codes.

Ultimately, Installer could be a boon for consumers who have demanded application features that Apple App Store won't allow--features such as video recording and turn-by-turn directions, both available in the jailbroken market. Both versions of the Installer application offer these features and others blocked by Apple.

This week Apple made a very small, but important tweak to the user rating system on its iTunes app store. It now shows which version of an application the user was running when they wrote the review. This has been applied retroactively, so that reviews written before the change will show which version the users had installed at the time they wrote it.

This is important on two levels, with the first being how transparent user reviews are. No longer do you have to wonder what version a user had installed when they said there was a problem, or broken feature. If you find several reviews chiding a bug that has since been fixed, it may lead you to dismiss them and make a purchase, which could end up bringing in more sales for both Apple and the developer.

It also doubles as a permanent record of application updates, that is assuming the user reviews make mentions of new or updated features. When an application is updated the developer can put out a list of what's been fixed, added, or removed, however Apple does not offer users a way to go back and review a change log. Sites like AppShopper.com have started to build an archive for this very purpose, and with this update this is the closest thing users have received.

In addition to showing you which version users had installed from the mobile version of the App Store, Apple has also built this into the latest version of iTunes. Here, as usual, iTunes users get an extra layer of depth compared to their mobile brethren in being able to sort the reviews by version number. Unfortunately, Apple does not let you skip to a specific version, it simply puts them in order, which forces you to skip through several hundred pages to get to the version you're looking for.

This is a promising sign of further changes coming to App Store reviews, but on the mobile side it's still a long ways off from offering some of the great sorting features iTunes users are able to get on the desktop.

App reviews on both iTunes and the iPhone's App Store now show which version fo the application the reviewer was running on. Click to enlarge.

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