WiFi

According to a recent market research report, the UK is set to experience a "Wi-Fi boom" thanks in part to the iPhone's popularity. The report says that the high saturation of smartphones in the population is helping to spur the opening of more and more public WI-Fi hotspots. The number of hotspots increased 47% in 2009, and handheld devices like the iPhone made up 35% of the connections made to them, opposed to just 20% in 2008. It is estimated that by 2011, it will be up to nearly half.

A new web site has surfaced that allows users you watch live television via a QuickTime player in Safari. Per Macworld UK, tvcatchup.com allows both iPhone and desktop conputer users to currently watch 11 channels - BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4, Five, BBC Three, Film4, E4, More4, and 4Music.

9to5 Mac Reports that AT&T may be implementing a shiny new cutting-edge industry standard technology in the seamless Wi-Fi hotspot handoffs announced yesterday. The official statement said those with an iPhone 3G running OS 3.0 with a qualifying data plan would now have a "seamless transition from their 3G network to any one of their 20,000 Wifi wireless hotspots" whenever one was within range.