All Things iPhone

Google Voice Mobile is now available for free. It used to cost $2.99 on the App Store, the only problem is where and how to install Google Voice Mobile when it is no longer available on the App Store.

The solution? In order to grab GV Mobile, launch Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone and search for GV Mobile. Yes, you need to jail break your iPhone.

Update – Neal from the comments pointed this out:

You can use Google Voice without Jailbreaking – http://www.intoyourheadpodcast.com/blogpressexperiment/?p=478

[via Gecko And Fly]

Last week Google released a version of Latitude for the iPhone. Unfortunately it’s a web page that you have to visit every time you want to update your location.

In my opinion, it would be nicer to have my iPhone automatically update my location in the background without having to visit google.com/latitude every time I want to let my friends know that I’ve moved.

So this weekend I wrote a script that does just that.

I call it playnice. Run it in cron to keep Latitude apprised of your iPhone’s location.

It works by scraping the iPhone location from MobileMe’s Find My iPhone feature, using the code from Tyler Hall’s sosumi project. When you enable Find My iPhone, your iPhone will regularly send its location to MobileMe.

Google doesn’t provide an API to update Latitude yet, so there is some scraping involved on that end too.  Thanks to Jack Catchpoole for his help with the Google scraping.

Of course, you need a MobileMe subscription for this to work.

With all the scraping, playnice could be fragile and subject to any minor changes Google and Apple might make.

It would be nice if Google and Apple would offer APIs for these services in the future.

But at least for now, it works.

[via Nat]

Apple PR has just announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and member of the Apple board of directors since August 2006, is resigning that position.

“Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple’s Board.”

This comes on the heels of Schmidt announcing he would “talk with Apple people”, and on the controversial rejection of Google Voice and Google Latitude applications from the App Store, both now constrained to WebApp status on the iPhone and iPod touch.

[via The iPhone Blog]

The FCC asks Apple specifically if any approved VoIP apps are allowed to be used over AT&T’s 3G network, and more generally what are the “standards for considering and approving iPhone applications” and more details into the approval process. It also asks for the contact information of all developers of rejected Google Voice apps, presumably for further investigation. In the Google letter, it seems to be asking if Voice will be able to be utilized in any capacity over the web, without inclusion in the iTunes store. Unsurprisingly, a number of questions to Apple and AT&T concern the carrier’s involvement in which apps or types of apps get rejected. All companies have until August 21st to respond and can request confidentiality on all or portions of their response.

[via Engadget]

Google Voice

Google Voice is a pretty amazing service, but it comes with a number of minor annoyances, including the way in handles outgoing calls and SMS messages. Fortunately, Google has recently come out with a number of smartphone apps for BlackBerry and Android that obviate the need for any extra steps, making Google Voice a natural replacement for your phone’s native dialer. The iPhone still lacks an official client, but that hasn’t stopped a handful of third party developers from releasing their own apps, which have been available on the App Store for the last few months. Today, however, it sounds like Apple has made the decision to crack down on these: Sean Kovacs, the developer behind the popular app GV Mobile, has written on his blog that Apple is going to be removing his application, citing the fact that it “duplicates features that come with the iPhone”.

From Kovac’s blog:

Richard Chipman from Apple just called – he told me they’re removing GV Mobile from the App Store due to it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc). He didn’t actually specify which features, although I assume the whole app in general. He wouldn’t send a confirmation email either – too scared I would post it. I’ll see what I can do to get it back up there gang…

[via Tech Crunch]

At Google, we want to make searching the world around you as easy and informative as searching the web. That’s why we’re introducing Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. Now if I want to know which jazz clubs are near me, I don’t have to specify a location – I just search for “jazz clubs”.

As always, your privacy is one of our top concerns. Google won’t use your location in search unless you explicitly opt in. And you can always disable the feature from Preferences at the bottom of the homepage.

As always, your privacy is one of our top concerns. Google won’t use your location in search unless you explicitly opt in. And you can always disable the feature from Preferences at the bottom of the homepage.

Search with My Location from Safari is available in English in the US and UK. Look for other country and language combinations soon. You can also search with My Location using Google Mobile App, available from the iPhone App Store.

Google Search - Location

I know it’s important to developers so they can obtain extra revenues, so I thought I would share this with everyone.

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