Posterous Releases Official iPhone App

Posterous, the popular free blogging platform that’s been called many times in the past the “real alternative to Tumblr”, just got an official iPhone client. The app, simply called Posterous and free in the App Store, allows you to send posts with any kind of text and media in it to your Posterous powered blog. The app is meant to be running on devices with iOS 4 multitasking: you can select material to upload to your blog, close the app and open another one, the upload will continue in the background. Read more

Twitter Curation: On The Web and iPad, My Weapon Is Curated.by

Last week I reviewed an application called “Tweet Library” which lets you archive and organize tweets in collections directly from your iPad. It’s a well-designed piece of software that’s surely the best (and only, I assume) way to “curate” content from Twitter on the tablet. Like I also wrote in my review, though, there’s this neat and invite-only online service that I’ve been using for quite some time now to aggregate great material from Twitter and give it proper context for future reference: Curated.by.

Curated.by is still in the closed beta stage, so I’m not going to spoil all the details here. If you happen to have an account, feel free to follow me as viticci. I just wanted to give you a brief insight into Curated.by, which - yes - is a great online platform that plugs into Twitter but also comes with a dedicated iPad web view. Of course the iPad webapp isn’t as polished and “native” as an App Store app would be, but I’m not afraid to say it’s one of the best looking, most powerful webapps I’ve seen on the iPad so far. Read more

The WSJ Reports About CDMA iPhone Again: This Time, In India

The WSJ is back with more CDMA iPhone rumors: less than a week after the latest “scoop” about Apple and Verizon getting ready to release a CDMA-enabled model of the iPhone, the WSJ is now reporting that India’s Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices have been in talks with Apple for five months about a CDMA iPhone.

The talks with Reliance Communications Ltd. and Tata Teleservices Ltd. –which offer mobile phone services based on CDMA technology–come soon after news that Apple is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year in the U.S. Verizon Wireless offers mobile phone services based on CDMA technology.

“Tata has been in talks with them [Apple] for four to five months now,” said one person familiar with the negotiations.

“This [talks] has been going on as India is a big market for CDMA. It [any launch] should benefit both parties,” the second person said.

It is unclear though when any launch may take place, these people said. Read more

iPad In South Korea: Still Pending Approval

The iPad is a mainstream success but Apple still hasn’t managed to sell it in South Korea. In fact, as the AFP agency reports, Apple has requested permission again and the Korea Communications Commission confirmed in a statement that the decision will be made in five days since Apple’s request. Local distributors of Apple’s products (namely the iPhone) seem to hope in a November release date. Read more

Bug Discovered in Condè Nast iPad Apps Lets You Download Issues for Free

Huge story reported by The Huffington Post: there’s a security flaw in the Condè Nast iPad applications (Wired, The New Yorker, etc) that will let you download paid issues of the magazines for free. The bug was apparently discovered by Italian “hacking research group” Dark Apples, which tested the “method” on Italian newspaper apps such Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta della Sport (published by RCS) as well. Read more