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If you’re one of those people with hundreds of gigabytes of music on their computer and you’re getting sick of swapping over tracks on your iPhone, then maybe it’s time to take a look at a service like Dot.Tunes.  It’s a web server that publishes your entire iTunes library online, so that anybody with the right password (I’m assuming for legal reasons that would be you and only you!) can access them from wherever there’s internet access.  Give them twenty bucks and you can have a custom iPhone interface making searches, playback and playlist management easy.

Apple has released (via iTunes) is iPhone Software 1.0.1. Apple simply describes the update as containing “bug fixes”, and does not indicate any additional functionality at this time.

Speaking to analysts for RBC Capital Markets this week, Apple’s Vice President of iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, said the first software update for his company’s iPhone handset is due to arrive shortly.

“Management expressed excitement at plans to increase iPhone value over time via new software features, citing ‘the sky is the limit’ for iPhone software,” analyst Mike Abramsky told clients in a research note Tuesday. “An iPhone update patch is expected shortly.”

The iPhone software updates include:

• new widgets
• peer-to-peer applications (chat, picture messaging, social networking)
• location-based services
• MMS support
• home networking
• integration with Mac OS X Leopard

I will keep you posted on the release.

Ron Paul, Republican Congressman and 2008 Presidential hopeful, announced today that he had successful modified an off-the-shelf iPhone (AAPL) to run Ubuntu, an open source Linux distribution popular with technology aficionados worldwide. With the aplomb of a hacker, Paul described in broad strokes the steps he took to alter the popular phone’s operating system in an hour-long press conference in the nation’s capital. Paul challenged Rudy Giuliani to read his report on his campaign website. I wonder if Rudy was interested?

After hearing about the disappointment in financial results stated by Apple, they announced that they sold 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours of iPhone sales. Philip Michaels from MacWorld argues that the only thing the iPhone failed to do in its opening weekend was live up to some fairly ridiculous sales forecasts. I personally don’t believe Apple is fretting over the financial figures seeing that a core of its business deals with Macs.

AT&T posted their 2nd Quarter earnings today and revealed some numbers on early iPhone sales.

Sales of the Apple iPhone have been robust. The June 29 launch allowed for less than two days of sales and activations before the end of the quarter. In that time, AT&T activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers, more than 40 percent of them new subscribers. Sales of the iPhone continue to be strong in July with store traffic above historical levels.

The 2nd Quarter only includes two days of iPhone sales so only reflects activations in those two days (June 29, June 30). While there were some activation issues for some early adopters, these delays reportedly only affected 2% of users.

A few additional notes: 40% of iPhone activations were new AT&T subscribers and since the iPhone went on sale at 6pm, activation numbers reflect less than two full days of sales.

Apple’s 2nd Quarter earnings are expected on July 25th.

With a population of 600, New Denver, a peaceful Canadian town has told Telus to take there cell phone tower and shove it. According to Rueters, Bill Roberts of the Slocan Valley Economic Development Commission says:

“The fact that we’re without cellphone service means that we’re able to enjoy life without the incessant sound of ringtones, immediately followed by someone’s shouted conversation.”

Sounds like a majority are retirement bound. Bill did mention that there will be a citywide Wi-Fi network soon. Is this a good idea or a bad idea? Sounds like a proposal that will never occur. Many are concerned with Wi-Fi because it tends to make phone calls blurry. In the future, VoIP will be an option in many smartphones such as iPhone.

It looks like many people in Canada are angered by Rogers data plan for the Apple iPhone. Increasing numbers of users have paid several hundred, and in some cases more than $1000, during one month for data usage that would have not been charged extra on any other North American carrier on their best data plan. I am not a native resident of Canada but from looking at the petition, it seems to me reasonable data plans do not exist from Rogers. If you live in Canada, please sign the petition here: Rogers Data Petition

Wirelessinfo.com has completed a survey on the suspected iPhone battery bug. Over 60% of those who responded told us that their battery indicator did not show a fully charged battery. Apple was contacted about this issue and they replied - “Your battery is fully charged, but the UI (User Interface) is just not correctly reflecting this. We expect to fix this in a software update.”

It is yet to be determined when this software update will be available. We will keep you posted.