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to hopefully change Africa’s Telecom Landscape.

All details in AllAfrica.com

http://allafrica.com/stories/200906260694.html

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iphone30After yesterday’s Apple event announcing iPhone OS v.3.0, I guess the 30 millions of iPhone & iTouch are happy, as they will get this summer what most of them were waiting for.

New iPhone OS 3.0 new features

  • Copy/Paste
  • Multimedia Message System (MMS) – iPhone only
  • Landscape format for Mail, SMS, Notepad
  • Voice Memo
  • Notes synchronization with Mac & PC
  • Automatic connection to Wireless Hot-Spots (if you have an account)
  • Spotlight allows  to search across the entire information contained in the device
  • Search in Mail, Calendar, and iPod.
  • Push notification for email
  • 3G Tethering permits to connect a laptop to the Internet using the iPhone as a modem.
  • Bluetooth stereo support
  • Automatic login in Safari
  • Safari Anti-Phishing protection
  • “Shake to Shuffle”

    and lots more features which will certainly gives Developers plenty opportunities to come with some great applications.

Update will be free for all iPhone users and 9.95 USD for iTouch ones.

Now we have to wait till this summer, or try the beta available here

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Internet is 20 years old… according to Microsoft, in 10 years, what we today call “Internet” will be like this…

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most likely, the concept of being “on line” or “off line” will disappear and objects, not only computers, will communicate independantely to each other.

That could be true for highly developped areas, but for these who, still today, have hard time to get access to drinkable water and haven’t seen electricity yet, this future by MS is definitively science-fiction.

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