Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, iPhone User

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 23

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was here at BusinessWeek’s offices in New York today for an extensive interview with the staff. We talked about numerous things, including his agency’s quest to begin crafting new rules around net neutrality, the matter of Apple, AT&T and Google Voice , and the Obama Administration’s efforts around using economic stimulus money to build new broadband pipes.

During the entire conversation he took the opportunity to charge his iPhone, and after we had wrapped up the interview someone asked him what his favorite app is.

For the record, the chairman’s favorite iPhone app is Vito Technology’s Star Walk, a simple astronomy application that harnesses the iPhone’s GPS capabilities to present an on-screen view of what stars and constellations should be visible on a clear night from your current location. He said he’s recently been introducing his 5-year old daughter to the pleasures of stargazing, and that the application has been useful in explaining what they’re seeing in the night sky. As you move the phone right and left or up and down, the view of the sky shown on the phone moves with you. It also contains links to Wikipedia articles about celestial bodies like planets and nebulae and it contains information on the phases of the moon. (Image below from Appcraver.)

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blogs.businessweek.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/