iPhone Techie

Apple has just released iOS 4.3 Beta for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and the second-gen Apple TV.

New Apple iOS 4.3 Beta includes new Multi-Touch gestures for iPad, improved AirPlay capabilities, iAd full screen banners, and HTTP Live Streaming statistics.

It was only yesterday when Verizon introduced the new CDMA iPhone 4 with a different version of iOS 4.2.5 on it, reports started coming in about a new Apple iOS 4.3 update with new features such as Personal HotSpot and some other thing for ALL iPhones out there (GSM and CDMA)

Only members enrolled in the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program can access these bits by signing into iOS Dev Center (aka Apple Developer Connection).

The Firmware build is 8F5148b and the new Modem Firmware (Basebands) will be 04.08.00 . According to a recent BGR (Boy Genius Report) this iOS 4.3 should arrive to general public / iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV users in March of 2011. Read more…

Apple has announced that it will begin using a more secure 2048-bit TLS/SSL certificate for push notifications starting December 22, 2010.

On December 22, 2010, the production Apple Push Notification service will begin to use a 2048-bit TLS/SSL certificate that provides a more secure connection between your provider server and the Apple Push Notification service.

To ensure you can continue to validate your server’s connection to the Apple Push Notification service, you will need to update your Read more…

Apple has informed developers that iTunes Connect will be temporarily closed from December 23rd to December 28th.

I’m sure it will piss off a lot of developers, but I guess thats one of the drawbacks of being an Apple developer, you are on Apple’s leash at all times and have to do what they say.

I think the bad thing about this closing is the fact that developers will not be able to make any changes to their apps while the iTunes Connect is down so if something goes wrong with one of their apps, the developer will have to wait until December 28th to fix any issues.

This does not affect app consumers in anyway but as I stated above, since the iTunes Connect service will be unavailable  it will not allow developers to make changes to or submit any new apps during that time frame. Read more…