Weight loss and the iPhone
Can your iPhone or iPod help you lose weight? With the new release of their "revolutionary behavior modification and weight loss tool", the makers of The Right Bite, Inc. think you can! They proudly introduced The Right Bite 1.0 on November 4th with a tag line of "How Skinny People Eat". Backing their app up with scientific research conducted at major universities, they focus on the pace you eat. According to the PrMac release announcement, "The studies conclude that slower eating generally produces less consumption with no loss of feeling satiated. By focusing on chewing thoroughly, the user gets more caloric energy out of each bite than if the same amount of food was less pulverized due to fast eating and improper chewing."

Weight loss and the iPhone: A very affordable app
Weight loss has never cost so little. The Right Bite 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD). The Right Bite will work with iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2 or later.

Weight loss and the iPhone: An app that turbo charges other

the founder of openplaces.org announced in a tweet that Apple had bought the company that produced the Maps API that his company used in their software.

Pushpin is the name of the software API that Openplaces uses and it is made by a company called Placebase.

"Apple bought PlaceBase - all hush hush. Pushpin site taken offline. Hyperlocal iPhone?"
Then, nothing for a few months. I had seen the post awhile back but couldn't find anything to back it up - the Internet drew a blank. This week, however, I revisited the information. I decided to do a background check on PlaceBase's founder and CEO, Jaron Waldman.

Turns out, he's no longer founder and CEO of PlaceBase in Los Angeles. He's now part of the "Geo Team" at Apple. -whatever that is.
The former CTO of Placebase is now an engineer at Apple as well.

Placebase.com has been pulled offline and Pushpin.com forwards to the API help pages.

Yep, Apple bought Placebase. But what are they going to do with this software?

The excitement of the iPhone finally getting multimedia messaging, is overshadowed by the Google Voice drama

After a long wait AT&T finally rolled out support for the multimedia messaging service (MMS) protocol. This means that iPhones can at last send pictures, video, and audio recordings like users of other smartphones.

IPhones have actually had MMS support built in since June when the iPhone OS v3.0 was released. AT&T, however, kept the functionality disabled for fear it would overload and break its network. Meanwhile, AT&T upgraded much of its network and built extra capacity to handle the service.

On September 22, early last week, it sent a free SMS text message to inform its customers that it would be rolling out the update on Friday. The message read, "AT&T Free Msg: Picture & video messaging (MMS) will be available for iPhone on 9/25. While we prepare your account for MMS capability, the current 'view my message' experience will be turned off but your ability to send and receive text messages will not be affected."