GottaGo is really worth a note! It is the first iPhone native app for public transportation in Switzerland. First it asks you for the start location and destination. It then gives you info about the commuter trains in the next 10 to 30 minutes which you thek can take. GottaGo incorporates the CoreLocation feature to find out your current location and shows you the nearest train stations. Fantastic!!

You cam download this application in the App Store or via iTunes.

The IEEE-1394 protocol better known as Firewire or i.Link gets an update. The S1600 and S3200 specifications are now approved by the, you know, IEEE. The two specs are the logical successors of the currently used S400 and S800 specs (Firewire 400 and 800). The new specs allow speeds of up to 3.2Gbps (about 400MB per second).

The new specs will become available in October this year. A little earlier than the new USB 3.0 spec (you can read more about it here).

Source: Engadget

Say hello to the new Barbapapa Mouse and Mousepad collection from Green House. In two color flavors and the mouse with a not so usual form factor, I am almost sure, there’ll be the right one for you. Who doesn’t love Barbapapa. (^^)

Source: AkihabaraNews

Omnidea put up a new neat little app called Rulers. An extremely helpful application for graphic and web designers. And the best it’s free. 

Shortly after you start Rulers the first time, a horizontal and vertical ruler comes up as an overlay on your desktop together with a little HUD and the current cursor turns into a hair cross. The informations update as you move the hair cross around your desktop. In the app’s preferences you can change options like rulerbackground color, opacity of the rulers and so on. 

The only downside here is the hair cross. As it changes the pointer permanently as long as the app is running, I need to get used to it.

This utility is available for Windows and Macintosh.

Source: TUAW

So, the .Mac servers are down for maintenance since last night and the new .mac replacement is ready to go. Maybe just a few more hours? We’ll see.

The launch of the iPhone 3G is imminent. In the US and A we already know there they lining up since last friday or so. Now, thanks to Akihabara News we can enjoy a few pics of people queuing up in Harajuku, Tokyo. Just before the main Softbank store. See a few pictures after the break and the whole gallery on Akihabara News.

There we have it. Today Apple officially announced the next iPhone generation with 3G UMTS/HSDPA and GPS (A-GPS) support. This new version comes with a glossy black back plate, the same 3.5 inch multi-touch screen, a headphone jack mounted flush with the enclosure. The new iPhone comes in 8GB and 16GB flavors with the latter one in a special white backplate edition. 

The iPhone 3G will cost you either 199$ for the 8GB model, or 299$ for the 16GB model. It will be available to 70 countries around the world in the next serveral months.

Visit your localized Apple website for more information.

TUAW got a note, that Apple is preparing a system update for Mac OS X, namely 10.5.4. Incorporating in this update are changes to the .Mac services and integration for new hardware. What could that mean? The update is sayed to be released on June 12th. 

Source and more info: TUAW

So, Softbank the third biggest mobile phone operator besides NTT Docomo and KDDI in Japan signed an agreement with Apple to distribute the iPhone through out the country. As we all might know, Softbank operates solely on a W-CDMA network in Japan, so the iPhone Softbank is going to sell, must be a 3G UMTS/HSPA version. Softbank announced the iPhone to be available later this year.

Source: Engadget and AppleInsider

With all the fuss about a new 3G iPhone to be announced at the WWDC this year, there is a new rumor spreading that Jobs & Co. might show off a demo of the next iteration of the Mac operating system, namely OS X 10.6. With the three major tracks being announced earlier this year, of which one of the three is Developing for Mac, there could be a good chance that we see a sneak peak of the new system version.

By the way, TUAW is promising that Mac OS X 10.6 shall go Gold Master at the end of this year, and go public on January 2009.