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.

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.

Not long ago, Phil Lu of Genoco came up with an idea to bring your iPhone and a visit in Starbucks together. The idea was to get your Starbucks coffee quick and fast in ordering and paying just with your iPhone in your palm. The cool thing, Phil’s idea involved a payment solution with semacodes, which are commonly used in other countries for underground transportation and so on.

This time he shows us another design mockup called Transfer. It is about an application that holds all the features you need as a photographer in just one place, again your iPhone. This application consists of five major functions, which are: Remote, have full control over your camera via a remote connection. Trigger is also like a remote function with the ability to control your camera over the internet, anywhere you are. The Transfer function allows you to store and backup your data wirelessly over several storage locations. The Preview category let’s you preview your images in multiple ways and the Storage function lets you save your images directly on your iPhone.

What’s so special about these design mockups? Well, it’s the way Phil presents us his ideas. I like his mockups because there’re clean and clever made. It would be cool to see one of his mockups making it into a real application.

Apple today released Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows to the public. Amongst numerous bug and compatibility fixes, there is a new option available in the Safari preferences called Develop menu. When activated, there comes up a new menu bar item called Develop with features like Webinspector, Network timeline, edit CSS in place, custom user agent strings, improved snippet editor and others. A really really nice feature that I’ve waited for to be available in Safari.

Go here for the complete list of updates and bug fixes.

Safari 3.1 is available now for Macintosh and Safari.

Not long ago, they predicted it and now they showing it. Japanese notebook manufacturers are now responding to Apple’s new ultra portable notebook, the Macbook Air. Frontier lets loose the FRLN. The notebook comes packed with a 12.1 inch wide, WXGA screen (1280×800) panel, 1GB RAM, 80GB harddrive, 802.11a/b/g WIFI, 4 in 1 multicard reader, integrated speakers, ethernet and a pair of USB ports. The FRLN weighs 2.83 pounds or around 1.28 kilograms. Not bad, if it wasn’t the processor, a 800MHz Intel A110, that is not cutting the edge on this machine.

Source: Engadget